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In a very real way, by tolerating injustice, the people of the world, not just the Russians, the Koreans, and the Brazilians, have become increasingly unfit to survive. By tolerating injustice mankind nurtures an army of conspirators against its very existence. Terrorism, promoted by the imperial machine, has gown to be a monster that is now hitting almost every nation on the planet, and so is politically oriented violence of gang warfare against governments. The battle in Nicaragua may be over, but new ones begin at an ever increasing rate.
On September 8, 1997 a journalist from Algeria was interviewed on CBC Canada radio network. He had fled Algeria after four fellow journalists had been murdered in front of their home. But he didn't say much about that. He spoke about something much worse. A great massacre had occurred, in which 300 people were butchered to death. He couldn't comprehend how it was possible that the world didn't care. Hardly anything was reported about it in the world press. He talked about a photograph he had previously published in his own paper back home, that showed three hundred dead bodies - some had their throat cut, some lay disemboweled, even pregnant women. He indicated that there was so little reaction to this tragedy from anywhere in the world, that the silence was revolting.
Perhaps, in the larger sense, compared to the murder of millions elsewhere in Africa, the massacre of three hundred is insignificant. Indeed, when the spiral of injustice widens, the incredible becomes common place, and justice, soon, becomes totally denied.
Still, one cannot help to make comparisons between the public's grief over the death of Lady Diana of the British royalty, whose funeral had become a global event, and the dead silence that was maintained about the unspeakable atrocities that had been committed against those 300 people who were massacred at nearly the same time. The contrast is glaring.
I am not saying that the death of Lady Diana wasn't a great tragedy. Whenever a human being is killed a tragic loss has occurred. There is a difference, however, of circumstances. At least superficially there is. According to the official version of events, published in the world press, the death of Lady Diana was the result of her own choices, the result of criminal stupidity.
According to official reports her chauffeur was totally drunk, was on prescription drugs, and was drawn into a high speed race in order to escape a group of press photographers who were in pursuit on motorcycles. It must be noted that it was certainly within the princesses power to refuse the services of a chauffeur who is obviously drunk. It was also within her power to disallow her chauffeur, especially in such a condition, to violate all safety standards and become engaged into a high speed race in the middle of a city. The resulting crash, which took her life, was therefore the end result of several counts of severe criminal negligence, or criminal stupidity, or both. The structural pillar that finally ended their high speed race might have been a child standing innocently at a road side, or a mother, or the provider for a family, or any other human being. One might say: luckily the race ended before a larger tragedy occurred in which innocent people lost their life. This is the official story.
While the complete details surrounding her death will probably never be known, it appears that, unless the accident was a carefully staged assassination, it was essentially self-inflicted. The same cannot be said, however, about the deaths of those 300 people who were massacred in Africa. They were barbarically murdered with deliberate intend and for no fault of their own, by assailants whom they never knew. Nor did the public shed any tears for these victims of tragedy. Most probably not a single flower graced their graves, provided there were graves at all. The tragedy of their death was wrapped in silence.
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