Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Hands of God grind Slowly but Surely

Man thinks himself, as indestructible forgetting that there is some Power above Who controls all aspects of your life.
While I feel for the Chinese people in their hour of pain and commiserate with them, I cannot but feel that this is the retribution brought on them for the torture and killing that their leaders have done to the Tibetan people.
The Tibetans are a peace loving people who believe in Buddhism, a religion the mention of the name itself brings to your heart an inner calm and when you do injustice to them, the Higher Power will be forced to take action..
I would again appeal to the Chinese Government, not to destroy their race but to leave them in peace.
Patients and their family members outside the evacuated hospital.
Medical staff and family members evacuated patients from a hospital in Chongqing
A street in Chongqing. Earlier in the day, the first reports of fatalities came from Chongqing, where two primary schools
were damaged. Four pupils died and more than 100 others were injured, state media reported

Students evacuated a classmate who had fainted to a playground in Qionglai.Rescuers searched for students at a collapsed school in Juyuan Township of Dujiangyan.
A rescuer searched the rubble of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan. Damage is believed to be especially severe in
Dujiangyan, a county of 600,000 people located near the epicenter.

People gathered in a parking lot in Chongqing after the earthquake. China is prone to seismic activity and has suffered horrific earthquakes in the recent past. In 1976, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the city of Tangshan, located roughly
70 miles from Beijing. More than 240,000 people were killed and nearly every building was leveled in that quake.

State media reports said "rows of houses" had collapsed near the quake's epicenter, and some reports say as many as 5,000 people may have been killed in single county. People looked upwards after evacuating tall buildings in Nanjing
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China's Sichuan Province on Monday afternoon, reportedly killing more than 8,500
people. The death toll steadily increased throughout the evening, raising concerns that the number could go far higher.
Tremors shook buildings for hundreds of miles and were felt as far away as Vietnam and Thailand, according to interviews
and reports in China's state media. Above, a collapsed school in Dujiangyan.

1 comment:

saibal_bose said...

I somehow cannot agree that all the dead children in Sichuan were killed as some sort of divine retribution for the wickedness of their leaders in government. This argument or even this thought just devalues us as human beings and makes this world a very frightening place to be in.

Besides, the atheists in the Chinese government may not even comprehend the concept of ‘divine intervention’. Actually some might even argue that this colossal tragedy ultimately works in favor of the Chinese government. Imagine the potential PR opportunity for the government after the ugly images of the brutality with which the Tibetan unrest was handled were seen around the world. If the Chinese government can do a good job providing relief for the people of Sichuan it will give them a chance to rebuild their battered image.

I think GOD has yet to pick a side and is still deliberating on this issue…