Gentle Waves: Silent terrorism… black economy
By: Dr. Yasir Mahgoub Elhussein
It might not sound extreme to consider drugs a silent terrorism that spreads among societies and a black economy that destroys tillage and udder. The ceiling of sponsorship has been raised to purely political goals, which is no less dangerous than declaring war. It is no secret that several countries sponsor drug production and ship them out to other countries as means of malicious war.
Surprisingly, the volume of the global drug trade amounts to about $500 billion, which is close to the global arms trade, amounting to about $531 billion, according to a report by the International Peace Research Institute in Stockholm, the Swedish capital.
There is no doubt that war is hated, frightening, deadly, and destructive. However, there is another war other than the traditional war we know, a war that is much more dangerous, as it has destroyed and continues to destroy, burn and sweep away. destructive. There are about 275 million drug users around the world, according to 2021 statistics, and about half a million deaths in 2019 alone. The end of every drug addict is self-destruction, erosion of his dignity, social isolation, imprisonment or mental disorders, or homelessness on the streets.
Addiction represents a compulsive desire to continue using or obtaining drugs by any means and at any cost, with a tendency to increase the dose; Which causes psychological and physical dependence and a harmful effect on the individual and society.
The danger is that drugs pose a serious threat to the human race with extinction due to a high rate of abuse among human beings, especially young people, who represent 80% of drug users, including children.
Many countries in the region suffer from the danger of this scourge, which is spreading like wildfire. In Jordan, over the past year, 19,000 cases were dealt with, in which 27,245 people were arrested, including 9,591 accused of promoting and dealing in narcotics, according to the Public Security Directorate.
It was noted that the quantities seized are unprecedented in the history of Jordan. Western sources indicate that 80% of the Captagon in the world comes from the ruling regime in Syria. In Sudan, with increasing criticism of the state’s laxity in curbing the widespread proliferation of drugs.
the Sovereignty Council chairperson, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan adopted a national campaign to combat narcotics for a year, before accusing parties and organizations – he did not name – of propagating these scourges by “supporting some groups under the banner of consolidating democracy.”
Information indicates drugs are used and distributed extensively and most of the demonstrators are under its influence during ongoing regular protests called for by the resistance committees against the ruling military junta
Narcotics are one of the most dangerous and dirty weapons that are used in wars – whether hot or even cold. Surprisingly, the drug weapon quickly ignites among the soldiers of the party using it, because many world armies use these weapons on their soldiers so that they can continue in battles for a longer period as narcotics give a soldier a sense of courage, high self-confidence and help him advance into enemy hot spots.
The use of combat drugs by armies is ancient, as in the American, Red, and German armies, and more recently in the Ukrainian, Russian, and Israeli occupier armies. An Israeli journalist said in a report that Israeli soldiers have their reasons and justifications for drug use, as they feel that they are doing wrong things towards the Palestinians, that is, attacking homes, and striking terror into the hearts of children, killing and the besieged in Gaza, including shepherds and fishermen.
The United States tried to innovate and develop a combat drug based on methamphetamine, which was used by its soldiers in World War II to overcome stress and combat drowsiness in the war against the Third Reich and other wars fought by the United States, but experiments have shown that this type works on the lack of fear and humanity in the hearts of its users and leads them to commit crimes, and in the long run, disturb the mental health of abusers.
Many stories have been written about the Lebanese war, many of which dealt with drug abuse among the fighters. Some mentioned how the Israelis are the ones who supply all the fighters with drugs if they are lacking in a fighting group so that the fighting continues without stopping. Recently, the Lebanese novelist Rabih Jaber published the novel “Birds of the Holiday Inn”, in which he talked about the Lebanese war and the drugs that fighters, boys and girls, used in the fighting areas between the rival factions in the Beirut battles, and how drugs were an integral part of the war and the fighting in militia wars
In Sierra Leone, an African country, a man has released a book called The Long Road: Memoirs of a Child Soldier. He recounts his entry into the battlefield as a 12-year-old boy, conscripted by the Sierra Leonean army against the revolutionaries who were trying to overthrow the regime. That boy and his generation of children who were recruited did not know what the word soldier or fighter meant. The writer tells his painful story; The corporal in charge of them gave them cigarettes with the food, then brought them white pills and told them that they would enjoy these white pills and it would give them the energy to help them fight. The writer goes on: “We took those white pills and felt happy… we would take them every day, in an unlimited way.” Children in infancy are brutally fought. The writer describes some of the battles that he and his 12-year-old comrades fought brutally, how they slaughtered enemies with daggers and how they also slaughtered prisoners, and the corporal commanding them held a competition to motivate the fastest child in severing the enemy’s neck.
the writer says he was the fastest. He goes on to say that he began to kill without feeling any guilt or remorse. On the contrary, he longed for battles, and most importantly for the availability of drugs around the clock.