32 vs 183 kills

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Its been more than a year since i blog here. Been very busy with life and feel like write something after all the recent events happening.

I had been following the Virginia Tech massacre since after a few hour the event unfolded. Reading through the news and updated from various sources and I really feel disturbed by the event. 6++ years in Minnesota had made me feel that US is pretty much a big part of my root because of all the fantastic things I had gone through during my 6 yrs there. The Virginia Tech shooting brought me back to the time when 911 happens when I was still in Minnesota, feeling sad and depressed about the event.

So few days after that event i still keep refreshing the msnbc website to look for any updates regarding the VT shooting. It is still in the headline on the front page but later i notice at the section below it there is a small news link 'At least 183 killed in 4 Baghdad car bombings'. So it kinda struck me then that there are much more worse events going on around the world but people (including me) just choose to concern about things going on in the western world.

No doubt msnbc and cnn are american owned and they have the right to decide which matter is more significant. But I am just saying because those troubled country like Iraq have very limited voice to speak up thus they are most often being ignored. We know there are 4.0 GPA student who got killed in the shooting but do we know any young bright kids who got killed in the Iraq bomb blast? If we look at the magnitude of the event, shouldn;t that event in Iraq getting 6x more coverage and 6x more effort in solving the issue? The world's problem will never be solved when ppl chooses to ignore the events going on on the other part of the world. We all living on the same planet, the problems we ignore will eventually comming back to haunt us like what happen on 911. Its time we revive the song 'We are the world'..

There comes a time when we heed a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
and its time to lend a hand to life
There greatest gift of all

We cant go on pretending day by day
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We are all a part of Gods great big family
And the truth, you know,
Love is all we need

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