Hundreds Killed in Iraq Yesterday
Hundreds die, yet headline pushed back to page 2.
Yesterday will go down as a day of infamy for Iraqis who are repeatedly told by the US that their security is improving. Almost 200 people were killed on one of the bloodiest days of the four-year-old war, when car bombs ripped through four neighbourhoods across Baghdad, exposing the failure of the two-month-old US security plan.
In the aftermath of the blasts, American and Iraqi soldiers who rushed to the scene of the explosions were pelted with stones by angry crowds shouting: “Where is the security plan? We are not protected by this plan.”
Billowing clouds of oily black smoke rose into the sky over the Iraqi capital after four bombs tore through crowded markets and streets leaving the ground covered in charred bodies and severed limbs. “I saw dozens of dead bodies,” said a witness in Sadriyah, a mixed Shia-Kurdish neighbourhood in west Baghdad where 140 people died and 150 were injured. ” Some people were burned alive inside minibuses. Nobody could reach them after the explosion. There were pieces of flesh all over the place. Women were screaming and shouting for their loved ones who died.”
This is even more of a reason for Mari to silence her blog on 30 April.
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18 April 2007, 23:20
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That’s what I don’t like about the news. More sympathetic articles get pushed to the front yet so many people are dying each day elsewhere.
As for the VTech… it makes sense why it hits the country harder than it should: schools are considered as a safe environment, a haven from the violence out there and to see it tarnished is quite shocking.
Just imagine this : A little kid seeing his parents burning inside a bus it gives me some chills. How can, in a world like today that is suposed to be more civilized, some people die like this ?
See and it’s that article that incensed me. Americans are boohooing over the rampage at VT, and while it is a tragedy, it’s not the sole horrendous thing to happen. yet I don’t see anyone making a day of silence for the victims of starvation, poverty, genocide what have you, around the world. It irks me that Americans can be so self-centered and see only their tragedies and the worst of the worst. *shakes head*
I made a big ol rant of this at my other blog, news.nanashi-inc.net, so I’ll refrain from going on and on about it here
But seriously, that is horrible that so many innocent people were senselessly killed like that. It sickens me that people can justify crap like this.
@Maria
True, people do consider schools a safe haven. That makes sense.
@Jonathan
Because no matter how much humanity may try to be different, all humans are still animals. Humans are all too ready to throw logic out the window at the chance to behave in a way harmful to others and themeselves.
@Joana
Exactly. There are people who die every day in this world. For no reason. People who starve to death. People who die of easily-curable diseases. People who die needlessly because of a conflict they are just innocent bystanders in. If the American media wants to let their heart bleed, let it bleed for all, not just their own countrymen.