Mandalay racial clash 2014

Religious clashes. Clashes everywhere. But overall its all a war between humans. We should only judge people by their actions and mentality. What a group of people do reflects what they are. Its neither what a religion nor a nationality is.

Rumors are that the cause was due to a "Buddhist" maid, being raped by a "Muslim". Its kind of funny to me as this was done by a individual person, fueled by little threats from a violence greedy so called "religious icon", not the whole ethnic or religious groups. We "Buddhists" people got to admit that someone in our ethnicity or religion had  also raped others. It certainly should not affect our lives or result in a bad image of our religion. So to the other religions too. Its a crime of one individual. Not every single one in our religion.  While some "Buddhist monks: are participating in the violent riots,  other monks are making the situation better, showing the right path towards peace. According to Buddha's teaching, peace and forgiveness is the answer while revenge will only cause in further more destructions and hardships.

Prejudices and discriminations exists in the human race but why not change it for a brighter future, looking out for our new generations. What if everybody see others as just as a person. Knowing every single one is different from the others. There is always some good in the bad and will always be some bad in the good. The last but not least, what if the terms describing a person "a buddhist" or "a muslim", grouping many different kinds of people under one irrelevant and prematurely judging titles come to an end? The world would be a better place if we all individually change our mindsets about prejudices bits by bits. So called "religious clashes" will never occur in those kind of environments.

In the end who would suffer from the clashes and violences? Surely us! Because no matter what our views or religions are, we are all of the same race - the human race!

Violence and civil wars will only end with a negative image for our country, our nationalities, our religions. If the situation gets out of hand, we are the ones who will suffer. Setting aside all the casualties,  what's worse would be falling back in our old steps. Who knows? It might be a support to a new century long military regieme again. Stop being puppets for the politics. An eye for an eye will never be a solution.

Peace be upon us humans.

Citations and photos from:

www.bbc.co.uk

www.irrawaddy.org

THE AFTERMATH OF THE KUWAIT OIL FIRE

INTRODUCTION

The war started on the 2nd August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait hoping to take control of the oil wells. Later, the United States sent military forces to Kuwait, in order to push the Iraqi forces out of the area. Knowing the odds of winning the war, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announced the withdraw of his troops. However, in order to cover its retreat, the Iraqi forces were ordered to set fires to the oil wells.

As a result, over 600 oil wells were set fire.

Everyone might think this war gave serious disasters to both countries. However, most of us would be unaware that it affected all of us. The oil prices went sky high and the Earth in which support our survival became the scapegoat. DOES THE IRAQi LEADER EVEN KNOW THAT HE HAD BROUGH A SERIOUS DISASTER FOR OUR EARTH??? I bet not. Speaking from the Geographical side, you can see the amiss environmental impacts delivered to our Earth.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

DO YOU KNOW?
-In January 1991, the Iraqi forces started pumping oil from storage tanks and tankers directly into the sea.
- 11 million barrels of oil were released into the sea.

AS A RESULT
-The water temperature of the sea decreased by several degrees.

-Oil lakes such as these, were formed in the middle of the desert!

 

-The fires went out of control and continued to burn for ten months!

This Satellite photo is the one taken
after 5 weeks the Fires started.

This image shows before, during and after the release of 1.5 billion barrels of oil into th environment, the largest oil spill in human history. 

-Large volume of smoke covered the blue skies of Kuwait, increasing the chances of the natives to have lung related diseases such as Asthma and Tuberculosis.

Day time photograph of the suburbs during the war.

You can see that streetlights were turned on even in the daytime.

IMPACTS ON WILDLIFE

-30,000 seabirds were killed

-2000 tones of dead fishes

-Resulting from the Oil spilled into the Sea.

With references from NASA.gov

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/landsat/news/40th-top10-kuwait.html

Myanmar Earthquake (11-Nov-2012)

On 11th November 2012, an earthquake of 6.8 magnitude ocoured in Myanmar. The Earthquake was followed by 2 strong aftershocks. The first earthquake hit at 07:42 local time. The quake struck 120km north of the second-largest city of Mandalay.

Myanmar's state-run media reported that 74 people had been killed and 111 had been hurt so far. Shwebo bridge, which was under construction, collapsed. Resulting the construction workers to fall into the Ayeyarwaddy river. The construction workers are still missing and death tolls may increase. Myanmar has a poor official disaster response system and lost upward of 140,000 people to a devastating cyclone in 2008. The aid of medicine supplies will be sent to the affected areas as soon as possible along with an assessment team in cooperation with the Myanmar Red Cross Society, according to a U.N. official.

Why study geography?

By studying Geography, we would know more about our earth. How we could adapt to its nature and live accordingly to it. In case of natural disasters, we would know what measures we should take.

What is geography?

Geography includes the study of Human Geography and Physical Geography. It is the science of universe and our earth, how we adapt ourselves and things around us to be make everyday living easier. It is the study of how things happen and why.