Oil or a child’s life?
“Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki has vowed to use an “iron fist” to crush people who threaten security in the city of Basra. Mr. Maliki’s comments, aired live on Iraqi TV, came as he visited the southern city with the aim of halting in-fighting between Shia factions. He has accused “criminal gangs” of holding the city’s lucrative oil exports and other trade to ransom. Factional rivalry and sectarian tension have recently eroded Basra’s reputation as one of Iraq’s calmer cities.”
I was reading BBC news when I stopped to this. I think after all this time we are getting used of officials from everywhere asking for an end to the civil war that is obviously starting in Iran; so used that we are missing the reality. Reading a bit more the truth hit me like a shock: “The past few months have seen a drastic decline in security, with Sunni mosques being forced to close down and in-fighting breaking out between rival factions in the Shia-dominated city. A Shia faction has threatened to sabotage oil exports through Basra to exert leverage over the Iraqi government.”
It is all about oil all over again. Doesn’t matter the innocent lives, doesn’t matter that a kid grows up inside a battlefield with certain possibilities to see alive adulthood, nothing really matters, what really matters is oil.
Even writing that I was thinking, damn whats the surprise. You always knew it. Yes I always knew it but does that mean that it shouldn’t bother me any more?
Thanos