Well, this is the first time of me writing here - Im still trying to figure out my style and theme so... be gentle with your thoughts andconstructive comments ;)
In the recent days there was a report in the british news channel "SkyNews" the Assad's troops used chimical weapons in their assault against civil targets at Duma city in Syria.
According to the reports dozens were killed and hundreds were injured.
Well, it is not the first time that Assad is using these kind of weapons against his own citizens.
There was similar kind of attack against the city of Ghouta back in August 2013, and there was the attack on Khan-Shaykhun city in April 2017.
This actions is cosidered war-crimes according to the international law, but right now the UNSC (united nations security council) is avoiding from intervening, especially because of Russia's president, who is known for his pro-Assad policy, veto.
Well, that is quit intersting because back in the '90 most of the world nations signed up on the CWC (chemical weapons convention or by its full name: convention on the prohibition of the development, production, stockpilling and use of chemical weapons and on their destruction), who was supposed to (what a surprise) prevent gathering and usage of chimical weapons.
(Fun fact - as of today, only three countries are not signed up on this convention - Egypt, South Sudan and North korea).
What about Syria you ask? Well, they haven't t signed up on this convention up until 2013 when the ministers of foreign affairs of Russia and USA governments formed with Syria an agreement that the latter will expose and destroy all of their chemical weapons until September 2014.
Well, we all can agree that they did a bad job at destroying it.
In contrast to the silene that fallen on the international comunnity, there was some who protested (like USA's president who called Assad a beast) and acted against (like Israel, that according to Russian's news channels reports, attacked an Syrian's air force base) against this crule violations of human right and the international law.
Well, when I'm facing this kind of global-scale crisis it makes me wonder - what is the moral duty in my end? How am I responsible for my government actions/lack of actions?
And sometimes I wonder - if by some chance we can build a system oparated by technology (espesially blockchain ofcourse :) ), that will bring the "small citizen" the power to protest and make a diffrence in his government actions not once if few years but in real time decisions.
That the system of people who are elected by the public could return to its original purpose - to let the people take ACTIVE part in every decision made by their government.
I would like to hear you thoughts about it :)
Hope you enjoyed and had some food for thought.