Monday, November 13, 2006

What's going on!

"Sri Lankan government forces are recruiting child soldiers to fight against the Tamil Tiger rebels, the United Nations has said." (More details: BBC News)
Sri Lanka is a poor island-country located South of India. The Tamil Tigers, a rebel group accused of rectruiting children for combat, has fought a civil war for decades against the official government to gain ample autonomy or independence for the Tamil (mostly hindu) minority. But now the government is also to be to pointed at.
Colombia have also had troubles of this sort. The FARC guerrilla (FARC is for 'Colombia Revolutionary Army' in Spanish) and some paramilitary groups have been accused of recruiting children in recent years. Some less-than-18 teenagers have been captured by the Colombian army in combat.
As I see it, this is just a glimpse of the consequences that hate can cause by means of war. Leaded by anger, and just this way, people are able to commit the most horrorful misdeeds. I don't know what to do to stop or at least ease the pain of the many children forced to fight wars everywhere in the developing world. But surely this kind of situations teach me how much the world needs hate to be lowered, no matter where we are or where are we doing. So it would be a good start to fight against my own hate. Because I don't want these horrible things to happen again. Just that.

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Sunday, November 12, 2006

In the photo

I was looking some photos from an exposition about German photography in a local library. Stopping at one of them, "Round table" (Martin Liebscher, 2005), I've got the impression that I was part of the picture. It shows some men on a conference; in the room they were in there is a round table, some of the people are sitting around it. Just at the right there's some guy showing a video to the others on a TV screen; he also has access to a video camera at his right side. There are stairs to the next floor; some of the guys are standing there. At the left side we find some books.

But the feature that caused the effect I mentioned was that the floor and the ceiling don't fix completely into the picture, so I had the impression that they continued under my feet and above my head respectively. I guess that would be the photographer's intention. But it shouldn't be a rare case that artists make their works just to make other people realize how their perception constitutes the world they live in.

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