The rebels have countries that are friendly to their cause. The Leader has countries that are friendly to their cause. The Leader’s friends have big guns and begin using them on the people in the rebel area. The countries friendly to the rebels, who also have big guns, supply the rebels with training and guns, but the effort is too little, too late. The world body, charged with world events, condemns the Leader’s actions and all the killing, but are embroiled in bickering and thus, do nothing.
The people are divided. Those in rebel areas have a choice: die through bombing, chemical weapons, disease or lack of food, or flee their country. What are they to do? They flee and try to escape their country. Some take rickety boats across treacherous waters to a third safe continent. Others walk and rely on the charity of those they meet along the way. Their children walk beside them, but how can the children cope?
Unfortunately the third safe continent do not want them, so they continue walking, seeking shelter in any country that will take them. People from other poor countries see that these people are somewhat welcome and decide to join them in the third continent.
A third group enters, blaming the rebel countries for bombing them. The Leader’s friends say they are also bad and say will bomb this third group as well. Unfortunately for the people this third group likes to hide in the rebel areas. Both the rebel friends and the Leader’s friends bomb the same group, but mostly the people in the rebel areas get killed.
Meanwhile the killing continues in the country. Bombs drop on rebel territory, some with chemical weapons. They have no food, water, electricity, nor is it safe to live there. Doctors in the rebel areas plead to stop dropping bombs on innocent people, but now it is difficult to say who is dropping bombs: The rebel or Leader group? Historical and cultural heritage sites in the rebel areas are destroyed, lost forever to the world. The people flee all across the world. Who are the people thrown out of their country and who are people seeking a better economic life. It is difficult to say.
Some people are accepted by the third continent and some are not. Many countries self-congratulate themselves for “rescuing” the people. Of those that accept some people, some get into fights with the people of the third continent. The people of the third continent have second thoughts about welcoming people from the country.
Meanwhile the world stands by and watches the country tear itself apart. Is it really Ok for the Leader to kill half his people. Is it really Ok for the world to allow this to happen?
It seems to me that if the world cared enough they would not permit the Leader to kill half his people. A leader should not have the authority to kill his own people. The world could have stopped the Leader, took control of some of the land of the Leader and make a safe place for those people in the rebel areas. This area would be protected, where neither the Leader or rebel friends could bomb. The movement of people to other countries would stop. There would be no need to flee to somewhere else. The unwanted people problem would not exist. The rebel friends would not need to self-congratulate. Fewer people from the country would die.
And here we sit, today, with blood of the people on not only the Leader’s, but also the rebel friends, the world’s hands. Do others in the world have any responsibility for preventing the Leader from killing his own people? We are smart, humans, in so many ways, but really profoundly intent on killing each other. Witness the people from the rebel areas.