Aylan Kurdi calls for Humanity!

“Syrian Crisis” was one of the topics I started to do research in 2012 & once I finished the same with no end to the story, I totally kept it out of my mid. Though I am so keen on current affairs both local & international, I wasn’t focusing much on that topic. As a usual practice, I logged in to my social media sites last Friday morning & the first post I saw took my breath away & made me speechless for minutes & brought unstoppable tears to my eyes at office! It was graphic photograph of Aylan Kurdi, 3 year old boy that was drowned to death & washed up on the Turkish shores! He was dressed beautifully with my favorite colors to wear red t-shirt with a blue jean! Before reading the post I thought it was kind of a modern photo shoot that parents wanted to do on their kinds! A beautifully dressed toddler lay face down at the edge of the surf, sleeping peacefully! But it wasn’t a photo shoot. It made me think & re-think that “Life is but a dream for the dead.” And you never know what time you wake up!

t wasn’t only me, Kurdi woke up the whole world & reminded about the Syrian refugee crisis. However the crisis is not new! One of the worst Humanitarian catastrophes of all time, Syria’s Civil war has displaced more than 11 million people so far. With all the explanations & justifications come with complexity, there is a simple fact remaining – Millions of Syrians need our help! This image won’t stop the war or even the European & US policies towards migrants & refugees. But, it might make the entire human race to understand the modern world's failure to observe the humanity.

As a part of Arab-spring, the anti-government movements in Syria started in March 2011. It didn’t take a long time to transfer these peaceful movements in to violence where the government & the rebel’s confrontations continue. More than 4 years after this, over 220,000 people were killed. UN estimates indicate early 7.6million people are internally displaced ( IDPs), whereas millions are seeking for flee.





Thousands of Syrians flee their country every day & this keep continuing as they see the bombing & killing of their own people. There is no safer way to escape. The risk of the journey to escape as high as staying on their lands! Some walk for miles through the night to avoid being shot or being caught by soldiers who will kidnap young men to fight for the regime.

How many people have fled their homes, leaving everything they earned during their life? How many people lost their loved ones? Answers can be estimated & numbered, but replies to those hearts are not even acceptable. What are their greatest needs?

After he lost his family, Mr. Abdullah stayed 3 hrs in the sea b4 getting rescued by Greek coast guard. He's devastated. #AylanKurdi @akhbar
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa)

This tragedy calls for Humanity! At least this made “everyone to become a human “as there was the outpouring of emotions shared across the world, at least for a moment! The hashtag “KiyiyaVuranInsanlik” — “humanity washed ashore” — became the top trending topic on Twitter. Aylan lost his life & had no chance to survive! After all, how often do we get second chance in life? Take a minute, think about it!

Tragedy in the History : Commemorating 70 years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings

Marking the 70 years since the United States attacked the Japanese cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki with atomic bombs in a deal to cease the Second World War, Japan commemorates this tragic event where thousands of people gather at the peace Memorial Park to participate the interfaith religious services. 

The Britain- Allied bombings were a desperate attempt to put an end to hostilities with Japan in August 1945. 6^th of August marks the bombing on Hiroshima which killed approximately 70,000 people by an uranium atomic bomb nicknamed little boy. This was the first time a nuclear bomb has been used in warfare. 3 days later, on the 9^th August another bomber plane attacked Nagasaki with a plutonium bomb, named Fat Man killing up to 80,000 people. This can be taken as the world’s most catastrophic calamity, which was committed after a short period of 3 weeks following the world's first nuclear bomb test done on the 16^th July by the United States.

In addition to those who were killed in immediate aftermath of the two bombings & those who dead months after are believes to be as high as 246,000. Many more suffered from the burnings & the effects of radiation illnesses. Even today many others suffer with cancers and birth defects. These deaths continue to this day. Like most of the cities bombed in World War II, the majority of the inhabitants were women, children and the elderly.

Before the wars begin, bombing cities & targeting civilians for mass destruction were considered as acts of barbarism. However, this norm was abolished as world wars begin & all parties engage in targeting the massacres of civilians. As the cold war followed the world wars, the Soviet Union tested their first nuclear bomb 3 years after this devastation, while In October 1952 the UK became the third country to test a nuclear weapon 

MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) During the 1960s superpowers developed massive nuclear arsenals & the Non-Proliferation treaty was signed to limit the existing nuclear powers in order to commit for disarmament

By the time these bombs landed Japan, nearly another 50 million people had already died in World War II.  Killings of civilians had occurred so many times as a usual act. This great tragedy led the cold war & the nuclear arms race & followed today energy to religious wars today.

When you see the pictures of the tragedy of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, you can see that there is a good chance that a nuclear weapon may now be targeted on your own city and home. And never forget that the modern nuclear weapons are generally 8 to 50 times more powerful than the first atomic bombs. 

 

And today…

There are some 4,100 active nuclear warheads and some 17,300 total nuclear warheads in the world by today, of which about 1,800 US and Russian warheads are on high alert, ready for use on short notice. Total of nine countries are believed to hold nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel.

“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima”.