At the bottom of the screen a text was running.
\nShort, cold, ordinary:
\n\u201cStrange Baby starved to death.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today we started the day with another painful news.
\nIn Fatih, Istanbul, a two-month-old baby died of malnutrition.
\nI stopped for a moment.
\nThe television did not stop.
\nThe screen did not go black.
\nThe world kept spinning.
\nBut something died inside me.
\nStrange Baby
\nI don't know if his name was Strange, or if we gave him that name.
\nBut I know this:
\nThat baby was not strange or poor.
\nThe strange thing was the cruel people who left him to starve to death.<\/p>\n
He was two months old.
\nSo he only lived for 60 days.
\nWhen the things a baby needs to survive are so simple:
\nan embrace,
\na tit,
\na compassion,
\na feeling of \u201cI see you\u201d...
\nEvery second he breathes,
\ndeliberately, willfully, blatantly starved.
\nThis is not a story of poverty.
\nIt is not a question of absence at all.
\nThis is the deliberate killing of compassion in man.
\nThe most vulnerable,
\nthe one who can't express himself,
\nwho has no language but to cry,
\nin a system that cannot protect
\ndeliberately causing death...
\nWhat else do you call it?
\nBabies are the most vulnerable.
\nThey cannot escape.
\nThey cannot speak.
\nThey cannot complain.
\nThey cannot resist.
\nThey just wait.
\nHe waits even when he is hungry.
\nHe waits even when it hurts.
\nEven in death he waits.
\nThis baby waited too.
\nMaybe every second,
\n\u201cThey will come now\u201d.
\nMaybe every time you cry,
\n\u201cSomeone will hear.\u201d.
\nBut they didn't come.
\nThey did not hear.
\nIn fact, they have heard...
\nand they shut up.<\/p>\n
A society is measured by how it treats its babies.
\nWe watched a sub-band on the screen today.
\nTomorrow another sub-band will flow.
\nThen another one.
\nAnd every time
\nwe'll get used to it,
\nwe're gonna get a little more numb,
\na little more \u201cnormal.\u201d.
\nBut no.
\nThis is not normal.
\nThis is not humanity.
\n\u201cStrange Baby is dead,\u201d they say.
\nNo, no, no.
\nStrange Baby was murdered. right in front of our eyes
\nAnd with him,
\nand our humanity
\nonce again
\nat the bottom of the screen
\nsilently
\nit just flowed away.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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