Hostages and Dilemma

Comments to:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0817/p99s01-duts.html

It is not rarely that when we watch action movie, the protagonist character will take hostages when he is in difficult situation or when he is demanding something. Ironically, maybe it has been in our mind that taking hostages is a way to get what we want.

About one month ago, Taliban capture 23 Korean missionaries who went for humanity mission in Afganistan. The people came with peace, helping the Afganistan people to get well from the condition of war. In fact that they would get safety and security along their mission in Afganistan, they were captived by Taliban as hostages.

Taliban used them as hostages in purpose to make the Afganistan government to release some of Taliban soldiers released. In addition, they will also kill the hostages one by one, each one every decided deadline approached.

Until now, there are already two Korean were killed. The Afganisthan governments doesn't seem never ever grant Taliban's request. On the Taliban side, they also don't seem want to release the Koreans. Now, they tend to give the deadlines when if their request isn't granted, they will kill one of the hostages.

This condition is like dilemma for Afganisthan government. They have to decide whether protect the rights of the foreigners that came as missionaries to their country, or to protect their own citizens from the threats if they release the prisoners as the Taliban's request. Even the wisest person maybe can't decide which one is better.

I think the way that Taliban took is very wrong. Same as the other people that take hostages to get their requests approved, I don't think that it is the good way to do. They just give away innocent people to get requests granted. Ironically, the asked requests aren't good at all, even if the requests were granted, they could danger the society by making more and more people suffered.

Now what can we do when these things happened? One thing for sure, there is no any good answer to be the solution. Then what can we do is to prevent all these things happen. Taliban wouldn't do these things, if there is peace if there is peace in Afganishtan. The criminals will also unable to take hostages if they can be caught in advance.

But, when these things happen, what we can do is only to take which one do we thing happen, then pray that the decisions we make will be the best decision. That's all we can do..




Pictures are taken from:
http://english.people.com.cn/200409/19/images/hostage.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/08/03/world/03korea.600.jpg