by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 26, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Violence, World Issues
Ev’rywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy ’cause summer’s here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy? [‘Street Fighting Man’ Rolling Stones] “Sometimes my life just don’t make sense at all And...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 13, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues, Suffering, Violence, World Issues
I lost a wife to lung cancer. After been touched by pain and tragedy I can never again be glib about the pain of others. On the anniversary of September 11th I look afresh at the impossible pictures. It is too much. The pain represented there is way too much for me to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 7, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Justice, Violence, World Issues
“Be quiet or we will shoot you all!” By now the 21 hostages taken from Sipadan Island by the Abu Sayyaf would have gone through 19+ days of captivity. Hostages go through well documented phases depending on how long they are in captivity – shock,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 11, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Violence, World Issues
Remember the Marshall plan? Named after the then U.S. Secretary of State, George C. Marshall(1947), it was a financial aid programme funded by the United States, “for the recovery of war-devastated Europe: former Allies, belligerents and neutrals…all that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 12, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Violence, World Issues
“..pie in the sky by and by when you die..” Atheistic communism used to throw this taunt at Christianity. Believing that ‘religion was the opiate of the masses’, communism saw Christianity as a threat to its programme of building a just...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 29, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Hope, Life Issues, Violence, World Issues
Tensions rise over refugee ship Four dead in Spanish plane crash Policeman “killed family then himself” Mid-East ‘truce’ fails to bite These were the main headlines from BBC Online today (29th August, 2001). If they sound too grim, here is the...
