Over 900 people killed in a stampede in Iraq, most of which are women and children, all because some idiot thinks it's a good idea to pretend there's a suicide bomber in the midst. What kind of sick person will do something like that?!
I can't even try to imagine the horror of being caught in such a situation. Squashed in an overloaded lift already renders me with feelings of claustrophobia; these people were literally suffocated to death by the people around them. It's like drowning in the midst of too many people. Or like having your very body squeezed to death by a few anacondas. Arghhh!
I think I'm going to get nightmares about this... Those poor poor people.... Why is the world we live in becoming such a horrific place? I'm starting to feel a certain apprehension about tuning to the news or reading the newspapers. If I stop reading the 'serious portion' of the newspapers, and read only the cartoons, it's not because I'm an apathetic Singaporean who has no interests in world affairs. It's because my heart breaks every time I open the papers, and read about suicide bombings, and stampedes, and people drowning in hurricanes. I keep asking myself, what is the world coming to, and I can't seem to be able to find an answer to that..
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