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RE: Sacrificial Lamb (a 50-word story for @jayna)
It’s so important to remember those times in history when human beings have treated each other like animals and sub-humans, and have perpetrated abuses and crimes upon one another. Two days ago I toured Auschwitz, one of the World War 2 Nazi camps. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were brought in by train and sent to the gas chambers. We like to believe such horrendous atrocities could never happen again. I hope that is true.
Unfortunately, it is not. I has happened since and it continues happening. The Balkans, Rwanda, and I hate to put my people in the same lot because it sounds farfetched, but what is happening in Venezuela is a new form of genocide.
The displacement alone, which some sources conservatively place at 3 million, is horrendous (I estimate it in 5 million). But when this government is gone and people have access to vital info, the atrocities will show their true colors.
We have some 92 violent death per 100,000 inhabitants a year (but in Caracas in can be about 112 per 100k); that's more than 20,000 death a year, for more than a decade!.
The government has done nothing to stop that. That was their way of keeping people in line. Self-control, you may call it. Who would be interested in political activism if you have to worry about being killed in the streets or at home, for that matter?
And then you have people starving and dying at hospitals that have nothing to help them or at home (to avoid the indignity of dying surrounded by strangers and flies). And the government denies the crisis and refuse to get help because we are an autonomous nation.
So much for autonomy and the humanism that was going to counter savage capitalism.
And, like back in the 1930s, governments debate whether they should intervene or let independent nations solve their issues (Russia and China think so and they are so influential, and there are so many respecting and admiring their resourcefulness...).
The world has not changed one bit; if at all, it has gotten worse. At least back in the 1930s you can argue it was difficult to get info around. Many people ignored what was going on. What can be argued now?