and it all seems to keep on happening again and again.......
Yesterday I received an email that showed some gruesome images of people shot and left to die on the streets of Karachi. Most of those dead were lying on Malir road. Tears of frustration and anguish sprang to my eyes, but mostly I cried because I was angry. Angry at the fact that why is it always the poor and pathetic who find themselves in dire straits every time there is unrest in the country. I remember reading something on the lines of “All revolutions need Blood”; I have one amendment to make to this, according to what I believe now “All revolutions need Blood of the poor”. It angers me to think that when there is peace the rich stay in their homes enjoying all the comforts of their accumulated wealth while the poor are wanting for every little thing imaginable. On the opposite side if there is ever turmoil in the country we see the rich still in their home contemplating how to save that extra buck they have here or there, while where are the poor? Well they are in the streets, fallen prey to the words of petty politicians, frustrated beyond console and desperately wanting to vent their anger.
These fellow country members have reached the point of no return and we see vultures hovering above them in the form of government and our political parties. Feeding them lies and deception, these vultures bring them to the streets. The rich snigger at their actions, are they crazy what good will burning a few trucks or cars do. We call them illiterate and delinquents; my submission is that they are not the aggressors but the victims. We all know this but we hardly stop and think about it before condemning them to the gallows, they deserve it, that’s what we say. What we do not realize is that we by not raising a word against the injustices around us, using our resources to bypass them rather than fixing them have brought the poor to this point. It is not their fault that they are beyond the point of caring, they have nothing to loose unlike us. We God forbid cannot be a part of a movement or a rally can we, what about our families, I have responsibilities, but what of all the money I have worked so hard for, who can bear that heat, are some of the thoughts that spring up in our brains. We say we are not emotional or fools to be led by the false promises of the ooh so many manipulators. A comment on similar lines motivated me to write this. The poor to their non-functional brains are foolish but what they never stop to think is that the person out in the streets burning cars, raising slogans and carrying the flags of this party or that is not foolish but desperate. He is at the brink of emotional, physical and mental breakdown, at that point he doesn’t care about lies or deceptions, and all he cares for is to give an outlet to his anger. Can you blame him if he goes around creating havoc on the streets?
Coming back to where I started from, the grotesque images of dead bodies lying on malir road shook me up and I thought why is it that it is always the poor who end up giving their blood for this country when they hardly get anything in return. The clerisy or the cream of the country never has and never will pay with blood for this country that is so used to soaking the blood of poor.
These fellow country members have reached the point of no return and we see vultures hovering above them in the form of government and our political parties. Feeding them lies and deception, these vultures bring them to the streets. The rich snigger at their actions, are they crazy what good will burning a few trucks or cars do. We call them illiterate and delinquents; my submission is that they are not the aggressors but the victims. We all know this but we hardly stop and think about it before condemning them to the gallows, they deserve it, that’s what we say. What we do not realize is that we by not raising a word against the injustices around us, using our resources to bypass them rather than fixing them have brought the poor to this point. It is not their fault that they are beyond the point of caring, they have nothing to loose unlike us. We God forbid cannot be a part of a movement or a rally can we, what about our families, I have responsibilities, but what of all the money I have worked so hard for, who can bear that heat, are some of the thoughts that spring up in our brains. We say we are not emotional or fools to be led by the false promises of the ooh so many manipulators. A comment on similar lines motivated me to write this. The poor to their non-functional brains are foolish but what they never stop to think is that the person out in the streets burning cars, raising slogans and carrying the flags of this party or that is not foolish but desperate. He is at the brink of emotional, physical and mental breakdown, at that point he doesn’t care about lies or deceptions, and all he cares for is to give an outlet to his anger. Can you blame him if he goes around creating havoc on the streets?
Coming back to where I started from, the grotesque images of dead bodies lying on malir road shook me up and I thought why is it that it is always the poor who end up giving their blood for this country when they hardly get anything in return. The clerisy or the cream of the country never has and never will pay with blood for this country that is so used to soaking the blood of poor.
We cannot now do much for those who lay dead on the streets of Karachi but what we can do is ensure that their deaths do not go in vain. I hear some half hearted apologies made from the party’s representatives responsible for all the bloodshed in Karachi on Saturday, without taking the blame or facing the repercussions for their actions. All I ask from anyone in the right position is to make sure we do not accept those verbal apologies but make an example of those responsible for the tragedy that befell Karachi on Saturday, the day our Chief Justice was supposed to visit the city in a peaceful manner. I for one want to see some heads rolling, lets not shed only the blood of poor but mix it with the blood of the ones in authority that day.
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