TO stand in the centre of a battlefield without weapons and yet use the authority of your voice to silence the loud violence of oppression, of guns and injustice, takes something beyond courage.It is not just the preparedness to die for the principle of justice and equality, but the bravery to leave a legacy which shows that human dignity has no equal; that it cannot be buried by bullets or nuclear weapons. That the value of life is a comprehension beyond simple and hurried grasp. Such was the uncompromising moral backbone of the Non-Aligned Movement at a time the globe was polarised between East and West; between the United States of America (USA) and its allies on the West and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), led by Russia in the East.It was a time when the world knew a nuclear war was imminent and out of fear and self-preservation, most nations carefully took sides, […]
THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT: PASSING THE MANTLE
