Showing posts with label Mugabe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mugabe. Show all posts

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Peace And Harmony.


Spiral Head, 1952.
Pavel Tchelitchew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Tchelitchew


Yesterday, Richie and I were talking about how my MS diagnosis in 2006, has had a big impact on our lives, how it has totally changed our lives.

Our lives as we knew them then, was over, one thing it has no effect on is on us, on who we are, before my diagnosis I was looking forward to getting old with my darling Richie, now I look forward to seeing him again everyday.

That is why my blog  is not just about ms; it is about the things that I can't do any more, things I encounter, like the frustrations of dealing with companies like Welzorg, but also of helpful  people.

My blog is my daily diary of the pain and discomfort of ms but it’s also about the pain and suffering that I read abut in the newspaper and see on the TV screen.

Like seeing the man covered in blood running up the middle of the road in Syria shouting they are killing us, and in the next moment he was killed on TV, we saw this on Dutch TV.

He looked like someone I knew, called Hassan, who owned a falafel shop, he used to give us squatters extra, seeing this man killed cold-bloodedly on the TV was upsetting, I shall never forget him.

O n the BBC TV we saw the desperate lives of a group of people in Zimbabwe, small children, who should have been at primary school.

Doing everything to earn money to feed their families and to pay for themselves to go to school, everyday they did n ot succeed,   it was heartbreaking viewing.

The desperate situation in Bahrain, where doctors and nurses have been tortured and sentenced to long prison sentences for practising medicine.

Hopefully their sentences will be repealed as other countries express their alarm about the high level of state repression, other African dictators are quite rightly worrying about maintaining their status at all cost.

Wouldn’t be good if people could finally be able to live in peace and harmony, without manipulation by dictators who are kept in power by our ‘’democratic’’ governments.

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Never Going To Forget Them


Gareth's Photo Of Wales

Most days I write about my life, about being extremely disabled with Primary Progressive MS.

However despite wanting and needing to post about my situation, I do also need to post about other things too.

Otherwise I would not be able to be me, engaged with the world not just focussing on my situation and getting depressed because all I can see and feel is my own pain.

Life and my life is so much more than just this shitty disease, I can not and do not want to only focus on that aspect of my life even if it dominants our lives Richie’s and mine.

Watching the film about The Forgotten Children of Zimbabwe was very upsetting, sitting here crying made me realise that despite everything I am still better off than the people in Zimbabwe.

I had to write about it yesterday, somehow writing helped me to work through all the emotions I had felt when seeing those lovely children suffering.

So much suffering, bad enough that incurable diseases offer no perspective of improvement but for so much suffering to be inflicted because of power is revolting.

All that suffering so that one man can stay in power, a man who does not care how many lives get destroyed in the process.

In 2003 Mugabe said:

‘’This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources… If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold."

Richie mentioned Mugabe had said he wanted to be like Hitler so I looked on the Internet and found the quote on this blog:


http://quotingmugabe.blogspot.com/


The film about The Forgotten Children of Zimbabwe was very upsetting, seeing people living like that with no hope was horrible.

Their lives do not matter to Mugabe who has thrown them away as if they were rubbish.

The children in the film all had great potential but unless things change soon they will also be thrown away.

Really hope that Mugabe dies soon so that those people can live, can have a future.
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Right now he is killing thousands by starvation, others he has murdered and he has his security services watching everything people do.

I won't be able to forget this film and Obert, Grace and Michelle or Esther nor do I want to forget them ever.