Our Tsunami…! by: Mohamed S. Kamel

Our Tsunami…!

Commentary by: Mohamed S. Kamel*

Jan, 15, 2005

Yes Asian Tsunami is one of the greatest disasters in our history and we have to act to help the survivors and rebuild the damaged town and villages, but did we notice anything from this disaster? Did we learn anything from this disaster?

This disaster is an act of God or as some would like to call it “an act of natural disaster”, and the result is more than 100 thousand dead and millions of refugees with no foreseen future. We can not fight this act being “an act of God” or “an act of natural disaster” but in spite all of this we still can help in rebuilding and in forming better future for all those human, and at the same time this will be a great opportunity for the business in the west .

I did not discuss the possibility about this disaster to be an act of human, as been said, nuclear test, but if is it the case, the damage from the human evil is stronger and more harmful than the tsunami.

Many disasters hundreds of times stronger than the Tsunami, not long time; Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Africa, in Palestine, in Chechnya, in the Tibet,.. etc. Who build all this weapons, of mass destruction or of even less power? Who benefits from it? Why we consider that the force could override justice?

This disaster is real and we were able to move the entire world to help and to feel the destruction, all this is an act of the main stream media, because the reason behind this disaster is not an enemy from the main stream media.

But how many disasters must we live and hide from the people?  In consequence, the sentiments and feelings of the people do not get moved, in order the generosity helps the justice to be served.

This is another proof of the failure of the main stream media.

*Mohamed S. Kamel is a freelance writer from Montréal, Canada and the president of the Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), an alternative media group based in Montreal