While we sit in our air-conditioned rooms sipping a cup of tea or coffee, there are protests, violent attack taking place on innocent people. Although there’s only something we can do but spread some awareness. It’s a classic example where “Rich wage war but the poor and innocent die”.
Unheard cries and woes of Rural India-
1 tweet and people from big cities might get Oxygen, hospital bed etc. What about those who are not on Twitter? Those who don’t have access to the internet?
For example-
Kolhapur district had a 3.4% fatality rate, the highest in Maharashtra. The national fatality rate during that time was 1.9%. The villages in Kolhapur are overwhelmed by this outbreak. Dr Nilesh Thackeray, a doctor in Kolhapur has been working at 2 village health sub-centres in the villages of Tardal and Alte. There are approximately 16000 people living in those villages. He’s the only one handling all the patients in those villages for the past year. He’s a single public doctor for 16000 people. This is just one district, imagine all other villages in India. (Reported by- Sanket Jain )
While the big cities are getting all the needed attention, infrastructure to combat the 2nd wave. There has been a great deal of lapse in rural India to get all the necessary infrastructure to combat COVID. The reason for the high cases in rural India is mainly because many labourers, migrants who have travelled back from big cities might be a carrier. This is just the tip of the problem, another problem lies with educating them about Vaccines. I talked to 3 of my friend’s distant family members in the villages. They believed “there is no need for vaccine”.
Questions like“What if something happens to me after the vaccination?” “If people are still getting Covid in spite of getting the vaccination done, what’s the use?”were continuously asked throughout the interview I conducted with them. There needs to be a vast vaccine awareness program especially in rural India where there is hesitancy about the vaccines.
Israel-Palestine conflict:
Palestinians inspect the damage of their destroyed homes in Beit Hanoun
The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict began with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities in the 1947–48 civil war.
What happened now?
Tensions are often high between Israel and Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank. Gaza is ruled by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which has fought Israel many times. Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank say they're suffering because of Israeli actions and restrictions. Israel says it is only acting to protect itself from Palestinian violence.Things have escalated since the start of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in mid-April 2021, with nightly clashes between police and Palestinians. The threatened eviction of some Palestinian families in East Jerusalem has also caused rising anger.
While Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire, bringing to an end 11 days of bombardment, the heaviest flare-up since the 2014 Gaza War, that has leftover 240 people dead and threatened to destabilise the volatile region. The recent calling of truce by Israel and Hamas(a political entity in Palestine) is significant given that they have a long history of military clashes.
Migrant crisis between Morocco and Spain-
Many migrants and refugees using inflatable rings and dinghies have often made the dangerous journey from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. This week an influx of at least 8,000 was unusually high, threatening a humanitarian crisis.
Many were young men, but there were also families and unaccompanied minors. At least one person died making the crossing and thousands have been expelled by the Spanish authorities. Many are worried the migrants’ rights have been violated during what they describe as a “rapid pace of expulsions”.
Why is this happening?
For 25 years, Morocco has instrumentalized migration. And every time Spain was not giving substantial compensation for the cooperation that Morocco was giving to Spain by controlling migrants, Morocco was, for a few days, hours, stopping to control the borders. And that's when there was an unexpected inflow. These events with the Polisario Front leader most likely triggered this situation for Morocco. But, most likely, Spain stopped sending investments, sending aid for development, and this has been the last straw for Morocco. And with these 6,000-8,000 migrants, Morocco has tried to punish Spain for not cooperating enough with them.
With both government having talks, the situation should resolve soon.
There are more protests happening in Hongkong, Indonesia, Russia, Peru, Haiti against the tyranny of the government and its draconian laws. Hopefully, innocent people don’t lose their lives and bring a change to the issue that matters the most.
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