“A message for International Human Rights Day”
By Kat Ulrike
Despite the difficulties, defending human rights will always be a part of a country's fight for freedom and justice. Contrary to assertions that minimise the truth, people today must assert themselves because of the realities they face. Because public space is becoming more and more limited, the only option left is to engage in resistance.
Due to the fact that as the rotten system in power spirals out of control, hunger and poverty are rising, which has been an affront to people's political, economic and social rights. Additionally, the scale of the order's blatant killing sprees, massacres, massive destruction, and grave crimes is growing increasingly unfathomable as ringleaders and its attack dogs, all in the name of interest trying to silence those who stand for the people and for the nation.
And these trying times demand to renew commitment to human rights and social justice. For regardless of the attacks, the masses have never allowed themselves to be suppressed or defeated in their fight for democratic interests, regardless of the obstacles in their path, and must instead cling to the struggle as their only means of achieving genuine freedom and justice.
Those from the order may still try to undermine, urging the people to "move on," which appears to be the prevalent attitude today, with injustices both past and present forced to take a back seat to the necessities of daily living/survival.
But will the people simply accept "moving on"? People will always demand rights and justice because it protects their own life and dignity. They cannot simply ignore the looming crisis, which includes rising commodity prices, inflation, low wages, unemployment, landlessness, and rampant corruption no matter the order is trying to downplay, deny, or divert attention to what they perceive as their enemies especially those who sought truth from facts. And the fact that some people are imprisoned or killed for asserting cannot prevent the rest from becoming concerned and fighting back in any way they can.
Again, the contradictions and disparities between the interests of the ruling few and those of the oppressed become even more apparent.
So is the zeal of the nation's struggle for its rights.