How can 141 students be killed in Peshawar? How can
147 students be killed in Kenya? How can 219 school girls disappear in the
middle of the night in Nigeria? How can the governments and the rest of the
world allow this to happen?
Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the disappearance
of 219 girls who were abducted from their boarding school dormitories in
Chibok, northeastern Nigeria by the Islamic Jihadist and terrorist organization Boko Haram.They are still missing. Although the Nigerian government
made many promises about the girls being returned back to home after being
pressurized by the international community to look into this matter, after a
year the girls are still missing. So where the girls, and what is the
international community doing about the hollow promises made by the government?
The hope of the girls returning is kept alive by a handful of #BringBackOurGirls
campaigners in Nigeria.
Where is the global outrage? Why is it that in the
early days of a crisis the international community stands in solidarity and as
days pass by without an inconclusive result, there is no news coverage and
nobody pays heed to the crisis? Why is it that these numbers fail to become
meaningful? What does the future for all of us?
For this very reason we all need to be shameful. We
all are to blame for what happens to the children and to young girls in this
world. We need to feel shameful because whenever such a ghastly incident
occurs, the span of our collective solidarity is ephemeral.
In the words of Martin Luther King: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Our humanity should compel us to do the right thing, to correct our wrongs, to stand up against the injustices. What does the future hold for us if we don’t stand united against this inhumanity?
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