A Thought On War
It’s sad to have even children join in war as reported in “Time” June 1990 “Child Warriors”. How they’re instructed to use the guns, educated how to kill the enemy and convince them why they should fight, kill. How they suffer, face losing an arm or feet or an eye, even life.
Does it then make any difference when not children but grown ups are involved, are sacrificed?
Suppose it doesn’t happen far away in another country, or not just as shown on TV or in a film, a book or as is reported in a paper, but suppose it is really hitting you hard as losing your father, mother, sister, … your feet, … What a loss, what an ocean of sorrow, of suffering.
What’s a drop of consolation to be called a hero, granted the Cross of Honor. And with regard to a hero, isn’t it him, who is so brave to disobey commands, duties to shoot, cannon, bomb, send missiles like raining fireworks to kill, destroy his neighbors and brothers in war?
“If no one obeys, there won’t be any war. Well, let him fight, invade, raid, commit the atrocities, and justify himself and not instigate, involve so many innocent people in a war to win a dispute with a large army to force, realize his ambitions. Ha, ha, ha.” So said si upik.
From Bisnis Indonesia June 26, 1990
March 2011
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