I watched it last night on Youtube and was shocked.
On the upside, the Internet is changing the world for the better; twenty years ago, the Iranian government would have found it much easier to prevent us knowing about human rights abuses and oppression in their country. Now, it's virtually impossible. The whole world watches and listens. Within minutes of a young lady being brutally shot, the scene is up on the 'net for hundreds of millions to see.
.............In part Derek that is quite a reasonable statement, however the internet can also be the messenger of many things evil, so we have to be careful before lavishing praise on this very influential medium.
I have witnessed many such situations during my time, long before the repository of information and availability of immediate news that we now recognise as convienient aspects of the internet, there were few to feel the full effects of such tragic circumstances.
The close family, those unfortunate civilians who happened to be there at the time and those like me, whose duty it was to pick up the pieces.
No widespread dissemination of the tragic news apart from a brief mention on the broadcast news bulletins and a few column inches, sometimes on the front page but more than often than not, on the inner pages of the print media.
Those reports could not convey the true horror of the occurrence however. The confusion, noise, smell, grief and the absolute dead-weight of lifeless bodies can never replicated in anything but reality - nor the expression of anxiety on the faces of those survivors or on the faces of loved ones hoping that their
own were not among the casualties.
No, the witnesses to the full effects of such circumstances were few and far between. Had there been the facility at the time to make many more people aware of just how bestial it can be to perpetrate such outrages, perhaps there would have been a greater effort in society at large to raise its collective objection to it.
When I see such things I am taken back many years to remember things which for me and many like me, are as real today as they were at the time.
It is of the utmost importance therefore that news of such events, however upsetting, is distributed with swiftness and surety, so others may raise their objections to it and confront those who would claim to act for a popular purpose, but in reality act only for their own immoral and perverted ends.
Violence is
not and
never will be the answer and for those who advocate for its use, only time will show them how wrong they were.
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