Paris, weep no more

By Joseph Edgar . . . .
I slept quite early Friday night and opened my eyes the next day to the news of the merciless killings in Paris. Reports from CNN shows that over 120 people lost their lives in coinciding attacks all over the city. My fear in all of these is the fact that there is no way in the world that soft targets can be totally protected from this harbingers of evil.
How do you protect a stadium filled with sports fans or a concert with music fans. If this could happen in Paris with its strong network of surveillance equipments, scanners and powerful policing then you can now imagine how lame we remain here in Nigeria.
Terrorism seems to be winning. The suspected downing of the Russian airplane over Egypt, the slaying of westerners and other innocents by ISIS, the earlier attack on Paris and indeed all over the world terrorism seems to be taking the upper hand.
If you ask me, I think it’s time we suspend human rights and adopt a tougher stance on all these. That is why when the Amnesty International report came out indicting the Nigerian Army on human rights violation, I scoffed. The terrorist don’t think of human rights when they behead people, throw bombs into market places and pluck innocent people from the sky just like that.

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A new term of engagement has to be worked out by nations and accepted globally. Human rights must now take a back seat if we are to rid the world of terrorism and protect the innocent. Otherwise, we would only be scratching the surface and the carnage like what happened in Paris would continue to be the order of the day.
Nobody is safe, not even the President of the United States, and now that sports and entertainment is being targeted we just may begin to see the collapse of these huge industries like the 9.11 did to aviation, thereby adding more woes to the world economy.
My prayers go to the people of France and my sincere consolation to the families who have lost loved ones.
Kai, I’m in tears.

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