Sentencing

(in a sentence)

By Roberto Lavidez

Civilians protesting

against human rights

violations by despotic

regimes are deliberately

silenced by security forces

to instill fear amongst

dissidents who are seen

as threats to national

security which is

all about fear of losing

security of positions

in the government

reacting in drastic

measures such as

extra judicial executions

of those who on several

occasions disappear

after inquiring about

others who have

already disappeared

only proving the

disparity between what

the government says

about human rights

and the wrongs they do

showing virtual collapse

of state authority and

increasing volatile

human rights situations

urgently calling for

political awareness

and involvement in

mass action to help

protect the lives of men

and women who have

committed themselves

in one way or another

to defending human rights

and ending unfair trials

torture and sentencing

fellow life savers

to death.   

©robertolavidez2012