An avenue for the mind

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.