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11 novembre 2009 3 11 /11 /novembre /2009 10:29

Of walls, and walls

While an event to rejoice, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall should also be a reminder that there are still walls between nations and peoples that seem to be even more insurmountable than the physical barriers presented by fences, barbed wire or landmines.

The walls that divide people on the basis of religion, ethnicity, race, creed and ideology are more formidable and unjustified, going against the grain of humanity mankind should exhibit.

The international community needs to tear down the walls of discrimination erected between peoples and individuals, eradicate stereotypes and eliminate hatred and dehumanisation. Achieving this is a challenge and would be a real measure of where we stand as a race, as human beings living in the 21st century and having a long common memory of wars and destruction wrought by the inability to accept “the other”.

The fall of walls everywhere - and no one wishes to see the one Israel erected to confine the Palestinians more than the people of this region - is not, however, the ultimate answer. As long as animosity and hatred continue to dominate human relations, a wall will be always there, inhibiting normal development, giving reason for aggression, war and annihilation.

Various international human rights instruments have been articulated and adopted to deal with these very challenges, but few inroads have been made towards removing these man-made walls.

The celebrations surrounding the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall cannot therefore be complete as long as other barriers still exist between nations and individuals elsewhere.

The way to address this is through ending occupation, aggressions and the denial of basic human rights, especially the right to self-determination.

11 November 2009



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