South Africa urges diplomacy amid tensions involving Iran, calling for UN-led peaceful resolution of global conflicts.
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THE world’s conflict zones are witnessing destruction unprecedented since World War 2.
Waves of fiery destruction in 3D, graphically exposing man’s inhumanity.
Every conflict area is synonymous with slaughter, and helplessness, and lives snuffed out in a moment, and all the endless misery of brutal war.
The battle for control is a cruel war of vicious atrition, where every inch of rubble was paid for in spilt blood and smashed bones and wasted lives. Man remains impotent as brutal wars decimate humanity every minute. World leaders will be severely and harshly judged as the brutal slaughter of men, women and children continues unabated in many parts of our strife torn planet.
The abject failure of The United Nations in halting these 21st century holocaust has cast a dark shadow over humanity. The whole of mankind has turned a blind eye to the human tragedy unfolding in the world’s conflict areas, by choosing not to respond to their plight and not to relieve their solitude by offering aid and refuge, is to exile them from our collective memory, in denying them their humanity, we have betrayed our own.
The world should be ashamed of its flight from moral responsibility and a retreat from its own standard of humanitarianism. We are all guilty of grave sins by remaining aloof. We are witnessing crimes against humanity, war crimes on a massive scale, blatant violations of the Geneva Conventions, deliberate acts of mindless violence ever engineered by faceless powers, which has come to stain the hands of not only the perpetrators, but the bystanders as well. Despite the widespread publicity the outside world has not come to grips with a global tragedy of such an unprecedented nature.
Many find them impossible to believe, so monstrous that the so-called civilized
world recoils in incredulous before them. Millions of innocent people in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, have perished in the most shocking way. Current war zones are sliding into lawless barbarism and mindless slaughter.
Man is living on borrowed time, as military insanity propels humankind into extinction. It is our solemn obligation to protect every human being from the ravages of war, regardless of race, religion or country of origin.
FAROUK ARAIE
Benoni