Australian soldiers suicide
Published 1 year, 4 months ago in Making News.I have just read the article, “Warning sounded over soldier suicides”
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=72848
A tragic and typical case of let’s-blame-the-victim bureaucracy.
I was appalled to read the insensitive response by the Aus government. Not only have ADF superiors and gov officials, such as Tony Abbot, totally denied accountability in an attempt to avoid any liability, but they alarmingly push the responsibility back on the poor soldiers who have been damaged by their compulsory deployment.
These poor souls are forced into a war created by the UAU (Usa, Aus and Uk) AXIS (the true motives of which are still unknown) and their deployment is dictated by the heads of these nations. It is clear that the soldiers who are sent to fight in the mid-east are forced and controlled by the same gov that now has the audacity to blame the damaged soldiers for not accessing the “programs” stating that “the government can’t control the actions of these soldiers”!
What program is ever going to help a severely damaged, traumatized individual who has been forced to witness and or perform or partake in atrocities beyond normal human comprehension? Why not avoid the damage in the first place by eliminating the damaging causes? That is, do not create a war that never needed to exist and do not send our soldiers to fight another country’s war anyway.
Better still, if the gov insists on there being a war, then why not get all those MP’s who voted in favour of it into army gear and ship them over to the war zone? Let them do the tour of duty if they believe in it so much and we can then all watch as they carry out their convctions in typical parlimentary circus-like fashion.
I’m sure the country won’t miss them too much! In fact, while they’re gone, let those damaged souls help run the country and we might even see some changes for the better!
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Read the article too, another reason our troops should be out of Iraq.
War zones will always bring trauma … and no matter what mental health programs are available, some people will be more affected than others. It depends on their resolve, their sensitivity or whether it’s a genetic issue, where they naturally reflect of depressive thoughts. Traumatic scenes often replay in the minds of soldiers - and some can’t escape the anguish, only by way of bullet - or rope. Morbid? Too right - and the government can’t control the mindsets of those small percentage of soliders, who are strugglng to cope with grief or shocking images, compunded by the complexities of every-day living.