From my war diary
March 1999
"Here again. Six floors underground. And upstairs, outside, the night is quiet. Like yesterday. Like March 24 when it all started. It is quiet until we hear that sound again. A warning war siren and then the silence... Scary silence. Sounds of airplanes flying. Why is the sky so scary? Why are they doing this? We are afraid of the sky. The news says that an operation called "Noble Anvil" or "Merciful Angel" is being performed in the sky. They are not sure what is the correct name of the operation. But does it matter? There is certainly nothing noble or merciful in all this. The next news is that the child died in the toilet when shrapnel flew through the window. A train with passengers was hit. Maternity hospital and national television. They threw something bad off the planes. Some depleted uranium. They say we are all going to get sick.
What is this? I do not know. Maybe I will know tomorrow. Now I want to sleep. But I can't sleep. Here, 6 floors underground. People are noisy. Mom is worried. Dad is somewhere, we don't know where. Defends us. I just want to get out of here and go upstairs to my room, to play a Super Mario game. I missed two episodes of my favorite series. I want this to end. I can't listen to these noisy people. There is no air. I didn't even know that under the building we have a place like this called a shelter. I listen to what they say. They wonder what we will do if bombs fall on our building. The ruins will bury the shelter forever and we will die here. I don't want to listen to this. I want to go upstairs."
23 years ago, on this day, March 24, the bombing started in my country, which lasted for three months. As an eleven-year-old child, I was not aware of the danger to the extent that it was dangerous, but I kept a diary of everything that was happening.
Now, after many years, I feel more stressed when I think of war than I did then, especially while reading the diary. The war took a lot of victims, and because of the radioactive substances of depleted uranium, a lot of people got cancer after the war. We still feel the consequences today.
Unfortunately, despite all the negative effects of wars, people are still at war, society is stagnating, we are losing lives and suffering the consequences. I hope that the world will wake up in peace soon and that wars will be just a memory of something that must not be repeated and that should forever remain only in the diary.
Thank you for reading.
The article is original and mine. The lead image is from unsplash.com.
In previous days I've written an article that talks about the agony bring by war. Indeed, there's none goodness brings but violence. I feel so pity for those people who suffers from that.