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Monday, July 03, 2006

Should we be tolerant?

Recently, a big controversy about another case of two young girls who were raped and killed in Belgium. When they had not found their bodies, I still felt ok, maybe there was somewhere a hope of them stayed alive...

Last week, they found the girls's bodies. I feel so upset, how could one be able to do something like that? There is one thing is good is that at least the Belgium's government really took it serious, that is to say a human life is important here. Certainly, people here have not heard all. In VN, there are a cases of murders that sound even crazier, like a nephew killed his grandmother for a sum of money (about 10Eur) or a woman without mercy threw her husband's daughter into the river just because she is jealous (to be honest, they should punish the husband for divorcing his wife and bringing home a prostitute)...Vn is still poor, and the number of youngers who are addicted to drugs are endless, and when you are high, you probably don't know what you are doing...For me, these are tragedies in life rather than a conscious crime, that demonstrate that we can't lose our animal traits.

Raping an under-age girl in VN costs 20 years in prison, and if the girl dies, they will get a dead penalty, no discussions. But dead penalty, I doubt if it really works, does it really help to keep the level of crimes down? I was in favour of dead penalty, I think people who are capable of commiting a heartless crime should receive a highest punishment, and putting them into prison is not enough. But the pusnishment has to be effective, has to make a murderer considers twice before deciding taking other people's life, and dead penalty does not seem to work (at least in VN it does not). Raping an eight years old girl, and then killed her, it broke my heart. I can't beleive that for so long we have existed, some of us are just sick, and cruel. They deserve to die several times. I also find myself not to want to give a punishment that creates too much pain or torturing people either, it is not in our power to do so. Maybe we should just let destiny to decide the fate of human race, we don't last very long, I guess.

Two old leaders of VN have resigned to hand over their power to their younger fellows. The new PM of VN is not someone whom I hope does not stay very long. Although both of them are from South of VN, and even though they are those who are in favour of democratic economy, I think VN will go down faster in the hands of those people. He has said to fight corruption, but he has proposed to not punish the minister of transportation who spent foreign aids on bettting in football (we are talking about millions of dollars), he just asked them to resign. That pisses a lot of people off. VN is governed by police force, most of people who hold important position are originally from police, and that is a negative sign.

Anyway, my country is a never ending story...

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