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Do we tend to forget the 'Why?'

Sometimes I wonder if we forget to ask the 'Why' behind some sceneries.
I am indeed shocked by what happened in Russia. What brings people to blow themselves and with them children and other humans? I don't have the answer.
But while television show human bodies and research where 'terrorists are raised', I rather ask the question 'Why?'

Memorial estimates that approximately 3,000 people had vanished in Chechnya during the four years from 1999 to 2003. Given Chechnya’s estimated population of 700,000, that works out to approximately 43 disappearances per every 10,000 people
“Over the past one and a half years it’s become the biggest plague,” says Orlov of the kidnappings. Before, Chechen civilians used to be subjected to a different kind of horror, known as zachistki, or “mop-up operations.” As a way of combating guerillas, the military blocked off entire villages and then searched every house, checked everyone for ID, randomly detained people and questioned them. The questioning was more often than not combined with beatings and torture.

Maybe some answers are lying there.

Read the article
Another article from Israeli perspective:

Israeli historian Professor Ilan Pappe believes that suicide bombings are exploited by the Israeli establishment in order to discredit the Palestinian cause:

"The suicide bombs are presented to the Israeli public as an insane act by an insane people? with whom there is no chance for peace. Instead of putting a wider analysis which would say there is a way out of the suicide bombs. While everybody condemns them, and rightly so, there is a way out of it. And the way out of it is to provide the circumstances in which these young people would find avenues of hope instead of avenues of despair. "

Read the whole article here

And this is a interesting one from an Arabic point of view

Posted on September 6, 2004
in Limit of my knowledge

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