View Full Version : What is this madness ? - Slaughter in Russia.
Using children's lives as a barganing tool is the peak of mountain of evil. I can't imagine anyway that anybody can do something more worthy of disgust and unanimous condemnation.
Annabel
03-09-04, 09:24 PM
Absolutely couldnt agree more -P-, what those kids have gone through makes my blood run cold...absolutely awful, is there no depths to which some people will sink in order to try and get what they want...words fail me...
It's totally hideous. I am not kidding, I was in tears when I saw the pictures of the poor people , kids, with no clothes on gulping down water as they fled. And the blood everywhere, just what have the poor things been subjected to? (of course, they are the ''lucky'' ones :sad: )
I am aghast at how truly evil some 'people' can be - and where did it get them...?
:(
I was crying too over it this morning watched a big part of it on sky news, they seemed to have the most consistent reports, every other news channel was saying differnt things, by the time I had got to work the body count had gone up by 100 :(
some of those kids were attending school for the very first time, they will never want to be able to go to school again, the tramua they have suffered is going to effect them for ever.
I felt sick to the stomach :(
:cry: I saw some of the pictures on TV, quite horrendous, how could these people do this? :angry: They used those kids to bargain for a casue that was nothing to do with the children, the school, the families etc, but they also, in effect starved and tortured them. :badmood: What is the world coming too??
I had to turn the tv off last night.I saw a soldier crying as he cradled a dead little girl.I felt sick.
My eldest daughteer who is only 9 cannot grasp why ( neither can I actually) and she is a little scared that this may happen to her school.
fuj
Domestic Goddess
04-09-04, 08:42 AM
I'm absolutely appalled. Man's ability to callously harm his fellow man is staggering. 250 dead and what was achieved? What's to stop it happening here? Natural disasters are dreadful, but there's something about deliberate, planned atrocities that just turns the stomach. I can't get my head around it.
And yet there is also such kindness and compassion in the world.
At this school there were evil people willing to murder children to enforce their demands being met, but there were also people willing to lay their lives on the line to help those in danger.
The whole thing is just so sad and so needless, my heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones.
It's all so tragic...words just can't sum it up.
I have just seen I think it was vanessa redgarve on bbc, she is a supporter of the human rights movement in checnya (spl?)
I was amazed listening to her, she waffled along saying, really waffling, looked like she had lost the flow of the topic herself, and when she was pushed for a response she said.... well although it was sad you can see how they came to do it!!! :o
NO I CANT!!
no one can say that is the correct way of doing things, I am disgusted at her, yes I support the work for example amm inter does but this is ridiculous, no one can justify the lives of 250 children, parnets and teachers and soliders for that
yes human rights are important all around the world, and terrible things have happened in some countries, and yes its sad that checnya had war and they are fighting with Russia
BUT,.....
its like saying 9/11 was justified
NI was justified
bl**dy sunday was justified
Iraq was justified
I am sickened by this
Hey Beth, I was just watching a bit of that and I thought it was just ME that thought she was talking out of her **** .
Her manner was appaling, I couldn't stand listening to it any more . Just what on Earth was the BBC thinking of??? :rant:
Domestic Goddess
04-09-04, 10:29 AM
People DO suffer terrible things on this planet, but NOTHING, NOTHING justifies terrorism.
I know that the people of Checnya ( I also have no idea who to spell it) have been put through Hell, but this does not justify what happened in that school. If anything it may only serve to lower sympathy others have for their plight. There are peaceful ways of protesting and drawing attention to the situation. I'm sorry, but I don't see there is any excuse for what has happened at that school. I'm still disgusted.
If anyones has Sky digital, there's a news Channel on it called Euronews...
Euronews has a feature called 'No Comment' where they simply braodcast pictures exactly how they happened, but without the commentary, but you hear the 'natural' sounds and noises on the scene.
Usually it lasts for about 5 mins or so, but with this, they have been broadcasting long slots and I am not exaggerating, it is totally heart rending and stomach churning...
I seriously have had to stop watching it, it's just too much to bear sometimes (sounds pathetic, but true and I have never had this reaction to anything in my life before) .
what gets me the most is that the people waiting to hear news are just standing there, so docile, as if used to being treated like cattle or worthless souls.
And has anyone else noticed that everything appears to be broken? Ambulance doors dropping off, fire hoses, hospital bedside cabinets...
Just mind boggling, they are just not coping and it's adding to the suffering all round :sad:
I just heard on the news (latest count) that over 350 people lost their lives and over 700 injured. :(