Posted by: leyahred on: August 29, 2007
For most people who grew up in Mindanao particularly in the war-torn areas, spent half of their lives fleeing, weeping, in deep trauma,and transferring from places to places where they could outrun the bullets and they could at least feel safe.Their homes where they thought they could find refuge and comfort were the places that torment their very soul, their being..hearing stories such as these, from my fellow social workers who were assigned on these areas brought chill and shiver to my spine… the thought of being hit by a stray of bullet or bullets horrified me, especially when i thought about those little children, fragile and weak..whose innocence were shattered by the echoes of the helicopters, of bombs, of bullets, of weeping mother, brother or sister who had lost a relative and above all fleeing, for their very lives are in danger.. whose dreams were terrified by gory and bloody encounters especially when they became an eyewitness of the death of their very own brother, sister, parents, who by incident died right from their eyes..whose chance of living their childhood instead of playing and laughter were replaced with tears, with fears and with hatred..because they were all victims of UNJUST war.
If only God would give me a chance to speak to HIM, i would asked him to end poverty, to end injustice and to end class contradiction..I remember when i was a little child i would always find myself praying that if God permit i don’t want to experience war (not in this lifetime), but then i also realized that wars do exist because of the violent character of the bourgeoisie society itself.. it wage war to earn profit, because its business…
it wage war just to maintain the power to rule and to maintain the violent and unjust character of our society, .
but i think God also send me a very strong message that if I did not lift a finger, in order to end oppression then bourgeoisie society continue to exist.. unjustified wars just like what happening now in Basilan and Jolo would continue to sow terror.. the cycle of violence, again would never ceased to exist.
