Rickshaw Diaries: Changing our Condition

Baraka Bajee from Rickshaw Diaries really summarizes the situation in Pakistan beautifully:

Of the people closest to where the bomb goes off they say there is nothing left but a pink mist to mark that a human once lived and breathed there. Further away and you begin to see shredded skin and disembodied limbs lodged in treetops. Then, burned corpses and dazed survivors.

Six years ago when I worked at a Boston-based human rights organization one of our areas of focus was the Occupied Territories - Palestine. The topic of suicide bombings and whether they were valid instruments of defense sometimes came up with family members and other Pakistanis. Many of them thought that even when used against civilians it was justified because of the miserable living conditions of the Palestinians and their lack of weapons against a well-equipped, occupying army.

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