A conscience-pricking protest note has stunned the observant eyes of the world, by means of an extremely rare and unusually sensitising way that it has been presented to the global conscience. The mind-n-heart shaking note titled A Voice for the Voiceless has been presented by 10-year-old Ubaydah al-Fiddhah Hafia and her 12-year-old brother Ghulam Bishar Hafi, who have chosen to write the protest note with their own blood. The Voice for the Voiceless note has been presented to mark the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression 2024, who are victimised in wars and other situations of aggression. The blood-written note clearly highlights the pressing concerns of relevance and indicates certain lucid-clear segments and avenues of systematic brutalities that have been repetitively committed against the innocent children the most vulnerable that remain the softest target and the easiest objects of prey.
The small children’s voice raising effort has raised a number of serious questions and integrated them all to make a composite question mark on the subject-matter and the position held by the institutional fora worldwide. The symbolic format adopted by the two children was primarily conceived as an ignition for a clarion call, which would be destined to some sequels chain aimed to knock at the doors of the global hierarchies and begging from them to turn their heads and ears to the screams of the innocent children who become “the softest-n-easiest objects of prey” in the situations of aggression. Children are simply children — whether they belong to any of the ethnic facets of region, religion or race, they are after all children, the most vulnerable part of the humankind. Be it the Ukraine war or the Iraq war, be it from the worst past archives of the Holocaust mega tragedy or the genocidal persecution of Rohingyas, be it the past case of the massacre in Army Public School in Pakistan or the… or the ongoing worst case scenario of macro grave aggression against innocent Palestinian children.
O innovators, you know our innocence very well – and thats why you have confidently and quite irregrretfully invented the toy bombs in order to entrap us quite softly by reshaping the innovative frames and forms of Neo-Hitlerianism. Isnt it? Dont you see the evidence-based data, which clearly authenticate the ongoing situation in Gaza, in which nearly 700,000 children are starving to death? O people, shame for the criminal shamelessness on shooting at babies in cradles; shame for traumatising the infants during their initial moments in this world! O people.
