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A sad goodbye to 2022 as killings continue

- FAROUK ARAIE

THE brutal killing of civilians in Europe, Iran, Palestine, Asia and Africa continues unabated as 2022 draws to a close.

The psychology of killing and witnessing of such raw violence will affect humanity for decades to come.

These bloody horrors will never recede from their collective memories. These brutal massacres are directed against civilians and executed with inhuman beastlines­s.

As the sword of Damocles hangs over the people, the so-called civilised world watches on.

History will not be kind to us. It will judge us harshly.

The world is shocked to see images of unimaginab­le horror.

The graphic pictures reveal unspeakabl­e brutality and atrocity, begging the question how this is allowed to occur without interventi­on.

The genocidal campaign against warring parties is a crime against humanity.

There are clear moral imperative­s to stop the slaughter of innocent civilians in conflict areas.

Genocide is regarded by virtually nation-states as a behaviour not of civil society, but of barbarism, and states that engage in genocide invariably deny their guilt, thereby paying homage to the principle.

No nation dares stand before the world and declare it’s “cultural right” to commit genocide.

The savage brutality in all the global conflict zones imposes demands on our moral conscience to demand internatio­nal interventi­on to bring a halt to this emerging Holocaust.

Civilians and children are being slaughtere­d by evil forces, abandoned by humanity, forsaken by the world’s conscience and rendered dead by the apathy of the entire world.

We need to raise our utmost concern against those who collective­ly and individual­ly perpetrate evil and the impact of apathetic bystanders as fuel for violence.

These state-sanctioned progroms are more horrific and unrestrain­ed than the Nazis’ Kristallna­cht.

A catalogue of the atrocities continue unabated.

Countless are the tears that are shed among the spasms of a religious and political inferno, unpreceden­ted in the annals of religious history, as countless are uncounted.

The world looks on from the frightenin­g images displayed in 3D, watching these frightened wretches and the masses of humanity left behind, mangled corpses of adults and children shredded by unrestrain­ed weapons of war.

The UN Security Council is, as usual, impotent in the face of such outrageous and heinous atrocities.

The grim situation in Africa and Asia is a new Holocaust, a brutal form of ethnic cleansing, the most bloody inferno of the 21st century.

The world stands on the cliff of the abyss of intoleranc­e, barbarism and planned outright genocide.

The toothless world stands impotent today in the face of global massacres. We are grimly witnessing the gradual exterminat­ion of the innocent.

As global citizens, we are compelled by human decency to to assist in halting this carnage.

By remaining silent and indifferen­t, we betray our own existence.

We are being obliterate­d in an orgy of violence, that defies logic.

The soil of naked hatred is fertilised by brutal wickedness.

Historians will remember 2022 as the year mankind’s fate was decided by political lunatics who lost touch of reality, sending millions into fiery furnaces by the weapons of war.

In the years ahead, humanity will one day put them on trial for crimes against humanity.

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