I woke up feeling so groggy and heavy. And like most mornings rolled over to pick up my phone and scroll down the facebook front page. Bombings. Dead. Brussels.
It had happened six hours earlier, around 8am CET. terrorists ruthlessly bombed Brussels' airport and a metro station near the European Commission. Days earlier, one of the masterminds of the Paris attacks (where over a hundred perished, one mainly at a theatre where a concert was being held) was captured in Brussels.
The terrorists have struck again. After Mail, Ankara, Paris, the symbolic heart of Europe is the latest victim. Is there no end to this madness? Is there no end at all?
Pictures of maimed people quickly spread on social media. Cartoons with Tintin in tears were drawn... A torn country, Belgium today stands United again fear and terror, as other nations, mainly western democracies which have suffered attacks themselves. Stand in solidarity with the victims of senseless violence.
What will drive someone to hate random strangers so much they would maim them? What would drive someone to commit such acts of violence and not care whether children or old people, whether Muslims or Christians, whether Asians or Africans fall victims?
Such horrendous acts.... Instilling fear and death and gore into the lives of many who just go about their daily lives...
The extremists and right wing are having a field day. Blame is being laid on the Muslims and a whole people are painted in such bad light again...
When will such senseless violence end? When will the cruelty of humankind inflicted on itself ever end?
May the world be at peace! May there be sanity and peace...
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