One of New Zealand’s Darkest Days

jumps (61)in #news • 6 years ago

people pray for the victims of the terrorist attack by Fiona Goodall/Getty Images

New Zealand, it's a relatively peaceful place with a great landscapes and touristism atraction in it, around 4.95 milions population in this country. a place where popular film like Lord of the Ring was shot in there and it being listed as the second most peaceful country in the world after Iceland, according to the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2018 published by the Institute for Economics and Peace. a country so peaceful that police officers rarely carry guns.

While the truth is a there's no place is being avoided for a evil forces in earth, on friday 15 march 2019. Brenton Harrison Tarrant claimed to be the immigrant-hating white supremacist in his manifestos has been involve in the act of terrorist attack at two mosques in christchurch resulting at 49 victims and 48 injured, most of them are immigrants. the suspects did streamed the live video on Facebook with a Go-Pro camera during they perform the act of violence. livestreamed video is around l 17 minutes of his rampage at Al Noor Mosque, where, armed with at least two assault rifles and a shotgun, killing at least 41 people. Several more people were killed in an attack on a second mosque in the city a short time later according to national post news.
The live stream video did taken down by the police. while there's another 2 suspect in custody, New Zealand police still looking for another potential suspects. also Facebook, Twitter and Youtube still searching the live stream video of rampage around internet.

"one of New Zealand’s darkest days" described the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern and in the future she will consider of the change of country’s gun laws a result of the rampage, but she did not specify how. yet.

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PERSONAL NOTE :
I love New Zealand, i wish i could go there someday and enjoy the beauty of it's country and the peaceful of its place. This news made me sad somehow.. i wish for a condolence for the families victim of the tragedy in Christchurch, New Zealand. i hate to see this happen but who am i ? i personaly an agnostic, i dont care about all religion, race and skin color looks. afterall we all a same, living in a tiny part of universe, we are a Human.
to end this post i quote from Carl Sagan, Called A Pale blue Dot ;

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

By Edgar Su/Reuters a Flower for the victim of Terrorist attack in New Zealand