Sudan vs. Former Yugoslawia: Bad karma in genocide?

After Sharon Stone's comment regarding the chinese earthquake and the bad karma with Tibet, I hesitated to use this heading. But after reading this entry, I hope, that you will understand my point and not compare it to the thoughtless comment of Ms. Stone.
It has been a couple of days now, that I wanted to write about Sudan's president and that funally(!) the UN is taking action. My interest for Sudan actually developed after readin a great book named " They poure Fire from the Sky". This is not just a book about three of the lost boys, who had to wander around in the african sun, like thousands of others. It's a story of pain, death, loss, but also hope and persistence. A story by three amazing young men, who just did not give up and fought for life. At the age of 11- 14, seperated from their families, seeing how sisters and mother were raped and killed, seeing how fathers were burned alive, seeing skelettons of relatives next to their walkway. A story of three young men, who were so strong to continue their walk, despite of hunger, being forced to drink their urine in order to survive. A story, whcih makes wonder how children are sotime treated by grown-ups. A life-changing story. Rarely did a book leave such an incredible impact on me. I turn off the water when washing my face, I switch all the lights out when I am not in a room, I walked a couple of days ago (for fun) 6,5 miles, while it was somewhat warm, and realized that this children did not walk for fun and the sun was not only womehwat warm. They wlaked to survive and the sun was HOT. Why? Because the extremists in the sudanes government wanted them to become muslims. They wanted to cleanse the country, raped in order to produce more of their kind. My first reaction is that this is not Islam. Islam clearly forbids rape, the Koran speaks about the treatment of women in a different manner. So why did the sudanes government misrepresent Islam? I don't know. And I am sure noone will know the real reason behind it. Most likely it's the "Jerry McGuire" answer: 99 % of all the questions can be asnwered with: $$$, money. So I assume it was the same in this case.
Now, yesterday the former serbian minister was captured after 13 years. Also for genocide or " cleansing" purposes. In his case, he wanted to clean the country from everything but serbs. Killed 5000 muslims in one night, raped women and girls in ordr to spread the serbian blood. Created massgraves and became famous for one of the worst genocides in the past century.
This makes me wonder, in the first case muslims are the killers, in the second one, muslims are killed. What are we doing in this world? Most of all what kind of sample do we grow-ups set our children? Do as I say, don't do as I do? Or, sweetie, wait until you are older, then you can kill as well, for now play nice and share? The same way nature pays us back at times ( at right), does humanity do the same: tody you kill, tomorrow you get killed?
Noon wins, not the nations, not the leaders. they loose their pride pretty quickly, pay hiding in weird places, by looking pathetical pittyful when they hear what they are accused of, and yes, by begging for forgiveness. How can you even dare to ask for forgivenss when you ruined thousands of peoples lives? The ones you have killed are gone, thos enumerbs are given in the news. But noone talks about those who continue living, or ho actually try to survive with those terribe memories, day after day.
I guess in this case, it is bad karma for each side.
Labels: Serbs, Sudan, War, Yugoslavia