A lot have been said, heard and written on the crack down on protesters in Syria and Yemen. Every day, we are bombarded with the gory images of hapless civilians killed, maimed, imprisoned and so on, by the so-called military agents of these two ruthless leaders of the two nations. But I cannot come to terms with is the rationale behind this barbaric acts. Do they think killing, maiming, indiscriminately arresting and beating can soften people’s hearts? If they think so, then they are not students of history. The apartheid regime in South Africa fell to the peoples’ resistance and many more like that.
History has shown, time without number that the leader that fails to listen to the wishes of his people is doomed to perish. Where are the Mubaraks and Ben Alis of yesterday? The crackdown might elongate their hold on power for a short while; it cannot keep them there forever. It will also strengthen the cause of the revolution and harden the protesters’ minds and make them more resolute.
The international community should do more than sanctioning these ruthless leaders, or how can sanction be felt when they are sitting on billions of dollars of oil wealth, when they can have practically everything they want at the snap of fingers? Please we should not forget so soon that ‘Defending Democracy and Human Right was America’s reason for the invasion of Panama, also allegation of possession of WMD was enough for Iraqi invasion, and so many like that. But none of these nations carried out what I like to call annihilation of its own people on a daily basis like Yemen and Syria, and yet the international community is sitting back and allowing this insanity to go on.
What more do we need before we take decisive actions. What justification do we need for UN invasion on these nations that are crushing their people with armoured tanks and machine guns?
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