CNN Screens Bloody Murder

Dateline December 6, 2008


The recent violence in Mumbai may have forced attention on unrestrained violence and murder directed at civilians in an early showing for CNN’s documentary, Scream Bloody Murder.

Sometimes in 2006, Citadel, not affiliated with the military academy of the same name, struggled and stumbled repeatedly in its efforts to produce a story that would bring attention to the world and American audiences the ongoing murder and mayhem that is all but sanctioned by the Global Village simply due to the ineffectual results in preventing this problem.  The fact that many organizations scream occasionally foul has done very little in reducing or rather eradicating this form of “change" be it due to political, economic or power instabilities, its persistence possibly due to the “screening” efforts of interested parties and invested capital.

Highly conservative estimates polling only the largest and most recent conflicts tally up the genocide slate to nearly nine million victims.  If these numbers are not frightfully sickening, requiring outright action and results, then perhaps the problem is not the butchers and killers but the receptive audience.

Genocide and regional conflict resulting in the massacre of civilians has been going on for some time.  While technology and military capabilities over the past century have progressed rapidly, the ability to rapidly mobilize troops anywhere around the globe and disengage peaceably has increased even more dramatically, that is when the political will is on the agenda of those desiring a positive outcome.

Yet this chronic problem has never been addressed properly even when we are now contemplating life beyond the far reaches of our solar system, when we have spent years ascertaining the existence of water on Mars and the moons of Saturn.  Travel and immigration to other planets may no longer be a flight of fancy in less than a century and yet we have been powerless in stopping the outbreaks of genocide, a “difficulty” that seems insurmountable when almost every other barrier in every field of endeavor has been broken.

If you would like to review a short tally of the damage inflicted on this planet in the past several years (not including the blood spilled during and prior to World War II) then you should stop for a moment and look up Lebanese Mesa from the West Coast Midnight Run.

Presented by Christiane Amanpour, CNN will be broadcasting its documentary, Scream Bloody Murder, on December 6, 7, and 8 for American audiences around 8 pm and 3 am ET.  Please check local listings for actual screening time.



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