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Why so much violence?
In an article written especially to BBC London, Afzal Ashraf, Royal United Services Institute consultant in the UK, analyzed in the end of 2014 the issue of violence and terrorism and its visible expansion in our world. For those unaware, we inform that the writer was part of the senior Air Force of the United Kingdom and has worked as a strategist on anti-terrorism to the United States. He is not, therefore, a neophyte in the subject addressed by it. (1)
It is initially reminded in the article the kidnapping of 276 girls by the extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, the beheadings of journalists and volunteers of humanitarian aid by the self-titled militant group Islamic State and the cold-blooded execution of more than 130 children in a school in Peshawar (Pakistan) by Taliban, those were some of the acts of terrorism that marked the year 2014.
It happens that such groups did not emerge in 2014 or became suddenly bloodthirsty organizations. "What it has changed - says the writer – it is that now the Western world has become aware of the horrors committed by them."
The promoted beheadings by those who today form in the ranks of the Islamic State were common in 2004, without no one in the world paying attention to the fact.
Taliban has been killing in Pakistan for many years. In the history of the group was found bombings in markets, mosques and homes where there were innocent men, women and children. Such attacks have occurred almost every week in the last decade.
Boko Haram, which haunts Nigerians, was born in 2002. Seven years later, the organization had already killed more than 5000 people, mostly civilians, but it was only classified as a terrorist in 2013, months before the kidnapping of Nigerian girls, which, as is known, were subjected to sexual violence, forced marriages and many to death.
What to do with so many atrocities?
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In the above lines we have spoken about the violence that occurs in Asia and Africa, in areas of culture, religion and different purchasing power of what we see in Europe, in America and in particular in Brazil, where violence is unrelenting and makes victims even where we could never have imagined do.
It was, for example, a shame what we saw in the last days of April in Curitiba, a known and quiet capital of Paraná, when teachers of public schools in the defense of legitimate interests, were prevented - with use of police force - of entering at the Legislative Assembly and monitor the vote on a project of class’ interest, a project proposed by the Government of Paraná, which seeks resources that do not belong to them to fulfill its cash needs, after having sprayed it, for their own incompetence, State's finances.
The scenes of what happened in Curitiba are regrettable and, of course, they will have consequences. (2)
It is almost certain, given the general impunity that reigns in this country, which in the field of human justice nothing happens to the aggressors and their clients.
They will, however, respond - in the court's conscience - the physical and moral damage they have caused to those who teach our children and should be given not only higher wages, but respect for whom one day sat on a bench school too.
Such acts do not pleased, of course, the Lord of life and escape altogether the unforgettable lesson of Jesus:
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your spirit; this greatest and the first commandment. And here you have the second, like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. - The whole law and the prophets are found at those two commandments." (Matthew, Chapter XXII, verses 34 to 40).
(1) The full article of Afzal Ashraf can be read clicking at: http://goo.gl/cKsn2Z
(2) To watch one of the News about what happened in Curitiba, click at: http://goo.gl/NRpRhP
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