According to Amnesty International, thousands of people are now imprisoned, many arbitrarily or on the flimsiest of charges. This is the case in Iran where the pressure on minorities and individuals has intensified over the last two months. When our ‘bandwidth’ of empathy is stretched to breaking point, and governments and organisations who step in to act where rights are violated are likewise inundated, perpetrators also seize their opportunity and take advantage of the focus being elsewhere to ratchet up pressure on those they seek to persecute. Missiles may not be raining down on them, they may still enjoy the sanctuary of home, but their lives are no less difficult and disrupted, sometimes impossibly so. It is difficult against this backdrop to advocate for awareness of other instances and other places where ordinary people are deprived of their human rights. Multitudes are affected and we can only guess at the true level of suffering being experienced. Millions are displaced – many have lost their lives. THE ONGOING WAR on our continent is devastating indeed.
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