London's deaths are a tragedy, but there is far worse happening in the World

On the 22nd March 2017, Khalid Masood drove a vehicle at high speeds across Westminster Bridge, knocking down several people and killing some of them in the process. The vehicle proceeded to hit the railings outside Westminster and the driver exited, brandishing a knife and stabbing police officer Keith Palmer. Masood was shot dead by armed police seconds later, but 5 people including Keith Palmer died of their injuries. Islamic State took credit for the attack and outpourings of support have been sent to London.

It was an attack by a crazy jihadist who had a history of violence but I can't help have this feeling that there has been an over-exaggeration of the gravity of this attack. People have been on the news, bellowing in defiance of the terrorist actions. For an example, just watch Andrew Neil's denouncement of Islamic State from Newsnight a few days ago. However to me, this seems a case best explained by Josef Stalin :

"One death is a tragedy, a million is just a statistic"

Obviously, the words of a brutal dictator are not the sources I would like to emphasise on, but what he says is true. Our reaction to the world around us and it's daily suffering is apathetic. I want to show the UK, that we are a selfish nation, that does not even consider the rest of the worlds suffering. Parties like UKIP and Right winged Tories want to reduce or abolish foreign aid but don't look outside their safe houses to see that the rest of the world needs our help. For example, here are some of the events in just the last month across the world, that have barely been registered here.

 

In the Last Month : Africa

• 11 people were killed by heavy rain and flooding in Angola and 700 homes were destroyed, since the 22nd March 2017.

• Half of the population of the Central African Republic are in "dire need of humanitarian assistance". (2.3 million people)

• On the 24th March 2017, the ICC has for the first time ordered a war criminal, Germain Katanga, an ex-militia leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to pay $1 million in compensation to victims of a village massacre in 2003.

• The UN found 10 mass graves in the DRC on 23rd March 2017.

• In February 2017, uniformed soldiers shot dead 13 unarmed civilians in the DRC.

• 40 DRC Policemen were decapitated by Militiamen on 26th March 2017

• At least 65 people were killed in a giant landslide at Ethiopia’s largest rubbish dump on 11th-12th March 2017.

• 20 people, mostly children, were killed in Ghana, when a storm caused a tree to fall on to them on 20th March 2017.

• As of mid-March, 81 people have been killed in a Madagascan Cyclone.

• 52 people died in an attack by gunmen in Nigeria on 20th March 2017.

• Somalia is facing a horrendous drought and famine is widespread.

• On the 17th March 2017, Uganda's chief of police was shot dead.

• In Zambia, 8 people died in a stampede for food handouts on the 6th March 2017.

• In Zimbabwe, 246 people have died in floods since mid February 2017 and thousands more are now homeless.

Germain Katanga, convicted DRC War Criminal

In the Last Month : South America

• An outbreak of Yellow Fever has killed 137 people in Brazil.

• 11 people died in Ecuador and 25 were injured when a bus drove into a ravine.

• 85 people have died in floods in Peru.

Peru's Floods

In the Last Month : Asia

• 30 people died in clashes between rebels on the Myanmar/China border.

• 25 people died when a bus drove over a cliff in Nepal.

• 9 people died in a bomb blast in Pakistan.

• 4 people died in a bomb blast in the Philippines.

• 27 people killed since the Philippines restarted their aggressive anti-drugs policy.

• 7 people killed when a prison bus was shot at in Sri Lanka.

• 11 refugees died off the coast of Turkey.

• More than 40 people are reported dead after unknown assailants fired on a boat carrying migrants off the coast of Yemen.

• 200 refugees are feared drowned in the Mediterranean fleeing from Islamic State since the beginning of March 2017.

• A Car bomb in Baghdad killed 23 people on March 20th 2017.

• Up to 200 people were blown up in Mosul during a USA ordered airstrike on March 13 2017.

• At least 33 Civilians were killed in airstrikes ordered by the USA in Syria on the 21st March 2017

Damascus in Syria

Conclusion

The world is not just what Britain wants and what it has. Yes, the London attack was a tragedy, but it has been played as a devastating attack on our democracy, when it was really a single nutcase trying to cover himself in blood soaked glory. 

All it took to shutdown London was a madman with a vehicle and a knife, and by labelling this a terrorist attack on our democracy, they have opened the door for further attacks by madmen. If this was a designated terror offence, why were Derrick Bird (who killed 12 random people) or Thomas Mair never labelled as terrorists? It is simply because this attacked the elite of society and it scared them. They want more authority to prevent these attacks, which in reality, probably isn't possible.

In other countries that I have listed above, these sort of attacks happen every day/week/or month, yet because our capital is attacked it now becomes our tragedy and sympathy is poured towards us? 1 police officer died in London, yet 40 were brutally decapitated in the DRC, but apparently that's not news. Who cares about them? No one will put a memorial up in their name, or look after their families.

The world is a savage place, but we should thoroughly acknowledge how lucky we are to live in such a safe part of the world.

References

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39372030

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39381148

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/angola-floods-kill-11-widespread-destruciton-170324084831333.html

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