Monday, August 07, 2006

What if...

What would you do if you were a Tamil in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in the 1980s when 200-300 thousand Tamils were massacred by the Sinhalese Govt. ? What would you do if you were a Kashmiri who could not give a damn whether his land goes to India or Pakistan, but just wants to live freely and peacefully? Wants to love, be loved, go to work normally and take his kids on a 'Shikara'... What would you do if you were one of those on the execution list after the Revolution in Cuba and Iran? What if you were a dark-skinned Sudanese being hunted by the Janjaweed for the sake of ethnic cleansing? What if you you were born in Rwanda? Ahhh! What would you do...?????

A) Flight-- If possible, flee abroad and start over again (For ex, doctors take up jobs as sweepers, cleaners, domestic help etc. and SO MANY of these refugees are mistreated again by the new locals)
B) Fight-- Pick up arms... but eventually these rebels acquire the characteristics of the oppressors themselves (eg. LTTE, the Fidel Castro/Che Guevara regime)... I always get haunted by the phrase "You become what you chase"
C) Freeze-- Await the consequences, and in the meantime, escape inwardly

Whhhyyyy??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What would you do? For God's sake, we must do something... We MUST...

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