The seemingly senseless but assuredly brutal killing of T&T's Ravindra Ramrattan by the Somali Islamist group Al-Shabab is a frightening example of the terror which faces the world and which disarmament, as being advocated by the United Nations, cannot counter. Sympathy must go out to the relatives of Ravi, who must be in shock as to how he became a target; clearly he was an unfortunate victim of a kind of impersonal violence capable of killing anyone.
We sit in our living rooms on a daily basis and absorb television's reflection of what film producers consider the "real world" of ultra-violence, whether committed in the interest of some ideological cause, some personal vendetta, or for sex, or race hate, or in the name of the need for world, regional or national hegemony; when all of the above and more are played out in real life, there is shock and consternation.
The reality is that the film producers are merely reflecting a world of humankind that is steeped, grounded, even conceived of in physical, economic, social, intra-regional cultural violence.
At times such as the present, the powerful blocs united in kinship, race, culture, economic, military power and their desire to continue their domination of world society, engage the United Nations Security Council with a renewed focus on the five-point agenda for disarmament of a previous Secretary General, endorsed and updated by the current office holder.
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