I have to say I only got a C from my ESL class in highschool and being a total introvert has made me have alot of difficulties in expressing words. And now with the current situation, I don't know what to do anymore. I'm sorry that I have to use this space to scream.
What I want to say is that it really pains me to see that many countries now believe that my country Thailand attacked first, just because of their constant repetitive social postings that they are "weaker and smaller" country and that they would never attack first. We tried to be patient with them by using only defensive measures, but they started to cross the line, from trespassing and burying landmines in our land to firing at the civilian area and hospitals.
It's like a little kid hitting an older kid with a bat and when the older kid tried to push the little kid away to stop them, they just ran to an adult to say the older kid pushed them over obviously not telling that they hit the older kid first. Definitely the adults will think that older kids just want to bully little kids
Every time I scrolled past posts from an international news company it always showed a picture of the damages from our side but with misleading headings that anyone who scrolled past without clicking and reading the whole story will believe that the images are from "weaker and smaller" country. When we retaliated by only aiming our weapons at their military, never at their civilians, the news just shortened the headlines to just us using "better" technology to "attack".
When I was young I used to believe in the professionalism of international news companies but as I grew up I saw how biased they all are. It all depend on the source of income. They now became loudspeakers for a certain organisation or a country. Online news nowadays has to be faster and attention grabbing while accuracy and truth does not seem to matter anymore.
No need to guess who the sponsors are but now their news are constantly portraying us in such a way that they can be the "hero" to swoop in, intervene, save the "small and weak" country from being "bullied", and have excuses to force us to comply to any of their requests which might even bring a bigger mess to our land.
I really hate to admit, but another biggest problem also stems internally where many of the corrupted officials in my country just kept quiet and not actively protesting against all the claims and fake news because they are afraid to lose their "business" they made with the neighboring country. We normal citizens are trying our best to spread the words to the world while these officials are always late to make any official statements.
No one wants violence, talking it out is always the best solution, but how can we be sure that our officials will protect our land when they enter the so-called "peace talk"? Or the middle man is truly in the middle? On top of this, recently there was a cease fire agreement made, my country was still under constant attack even way past the deadline. They kept saying to the world they wanted peace but they still aimed their weapons toward our towns and evacuation sites, while the news reported their words but not their actions.
The fastest and loudest always win because people believe what they see and hear first. All I can hope is that someone does read this and understand our situations more.
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