For so long, I cried because of my mum and dad. How I have missed them so, longed for them since they went away. I have lost them, I can no longer see them and can never be by their side...
Tonight, I shed tears for my country and for people.
It feels so painful to watch the people beaten, to see such brutality you would never ever imagine after thirty years of the thriving democratic process, peaceful protests and bloodless coups. Once a symbol and model of democracy in Asia, once a bastion against tyranny and censorship and champion of freedoms in a region of the world too used to despots and autocracies, Taiwan has become so tainted with the blood shed by government and police cracking on the skulls of young protesters...
Free press has been silenced with the deletion youtube videos uploaded by protesters showing policemen (with their insignia deliberately and illegally blacked out or removed...) coming down on unarmed civilians with brute force...
The government and certain pro-China MPs scoff at the students and brag how "easy" it was to remove them from the streets...
And certain pro-China and pro-government media outlets deliberately destort the news by (accounting to one account) deliberately knocking down trash cash so they can show footage of turmoil and destruction...
But there is hope still.... How can we not have hope?
Students and professors across the island call for strikes.
People are donating money to buy ads to place in influential international news media.
Doctors, lawyers, celebrities are coming out and denouncing the violence perpetrated by the government.
Municipal elections (God forbid they be banned or manipulated...) At the end of the year are a sure way for people to strip the ruling of its influence and clout in the five major metropolitan areas.
The people are angry!
The people are vigilant and wary.
The people are watching!
Before, I cried because of the mother, the father I have lost.
Tonight, I shed tears for the beloved country I am losing.
No comments:
Post a Comment