WHEN THE WORLD KEEPS SILENCE, IT IS OUR DUTY TO REMEMBER
According to the UN, from 2005 to 2020, about 104,100 children were killed or seriously wounded because of war or landmines. Tens of thousands were abducted. Hundreds of thousands were forced to abandon their houses. Millions were deprived of education.
At present, in 2022-23, the Mainstream Media are dropping tears to commemorate Ukrainian children— meaning exclusively those who suffered only at the Ukrainian side of the frontline.
Such an attitude is pretty old. During the Balkan conflicts in the 1990s, the West praised and emphasized the pain of the children of war from Kosovo and other bodies separated from former Yugoslavia— with a blind eye at the kids of Serbia who were killed and shelled by the NATO-supplied weapons and then directly by NATO as it invaded Serbia in 1999.
During the ongoing Ukrainian war, the West alleges Russia in bombardments and erasing such Ukrainian cities like Bakhmut— while in 2016-17, the NATO forces had been besieging ISIS-controlled Mosul with indiscriminate shelling and total destruction of the city which caused a humanitarian disaster, but nobody cared.
They say, I stand with Ukraine — but they did not stand with hundreds of African children who were dead or expelled during the French 2014-2022 Operation Barkhane which was designed to combat terrorism in Sahel but was unable to handle it during all the long-lasted 8-year war.
Such institutions as the International Criminal Court (ICCt) are incapable neither to prevent the crimes against humanity, nor to fully punish all the villains. The same Western forces have letted the 1994 Rwandan genocide to emerge and the ISIS to bore after the US had destroyed the Iraqi government — and nobody was taken to account in this tragedies among the Western leaders.
Now it’s time to give up.
Everybody knows about Kim Kardashian's broken fingernail, but nobody knows about the Alley of Angels in Donetsk where the portraits of 150 children killed by the Ukrainian shells are depicted. Everybody knows the names of Hollywood celebrities, but nobody knows the names of 47 Serbian and Roma civilians slaughtered by the US-backed Kosovo Liberation Army during the Orahovac Massacre in July 1998.
We are tired of hypocrisy, double-minding, lies, and the irresponsibility of the international organizations which de facto represent only a minor part of the humanity and have not made any decision which might have brought any harm to the West— rather than to its adversaries.
On May 26 2023, together with Narodna Patrola (People’s Patrol), a Serbian Patriots’ movement, we’re conducting an action in front of the ICCt in The Hague to commemorate innocent children’s souls.
Don’t know— don’t care?
We know. We care.
