Chapter 503: The Heavy Burden (I)

Nekhlova's experience is tragic, but in the end, it is just a little boy with a lack of vocabulary, described dryly in pale and weak language. Without a real picture, it is difficult to reach the soul and touch the heart.

Knowing this, Tang Fei still insisted on telling their tragedy in this form of self-description, instead of personally using the camera to record the moment when the tragedy really happened. It's not that I can't think of it or can't do it, it's that I don't want to.

There was once a photographer named Kevin Carter who won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism Feature Photography for a photo published in The New York Times, but shortly after winning the prize, Kevin Carter ended his young life with carbon monoxide in Johannesburg, South Africa.

In 1993, the war-torn Sudan was hit by a rare famine, starving everywhere and eating the soil. A South African freelance photojournalist was on a trip to Sudan when he came across a scrawny Sudanese girl on her knees, seemingly dying of starvation, while a vulture feeding on animal carcasses was waiting not far behind her, waiting for the girl to starve to death and then eat her carcass.

This freelance photographer is Kevin Carter, who took the photo and drove away the vultures and watched the girl return to her mother, who received the relief food, but the unscrupulous media maliciously covered up Kevin Carter's self-report in order to stir up the discussion, so that he was caught in the whirlpool of public opinion, and was spurned and criticized by people all over the world.

In the end, Kevin Carter, who was under mental pressure, chose to commit suicide, and the work he left behind, "Hungry Sudan", did not draw the world's attention to Sudan's hunger, but instead attracted attention for the discussion of journalistic ethics and morality that revolved around photographs.

Tang Fei had heard the story before he became a journalist, so although he had the resources and ability to film the moments of innocent refugees being torn apart by monsters, to film the slow motion of them starving to death, he did not do so.

Tang Fei knew that he couldn't save everyone, and he knew that no blind media would dare to point the butcher's knife that killed people and took blood at him, but he was unwilling to record such a scene with his own lens, so he tried his best to save everyone who could be saved, and let the survivors tell their stories in person.

Nekhlova's tragedy is not unique, open the map of the five Central Asian countries and point at it, you can find thousands of similar tragedies within the reach of your fingertips, the difference is that Nekhlova is lucky to survive, and many more people die tragically at the hands of monsters and thugs.

The living are powerless to change anything, and the only thing they can do is to make their voices heard to the world, bending their knees and begging for help for the most basic right to live.

One self-described video after another was uploaded to the Internet and quickly topped the hot search list on major social software, with self-narrators of different skin colors, languages, and ages, but each video told a tragic story full of blood and tears, and all ended with the same sentence.

"For the sake of fellow human beings, save us!"

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Inside the majestic red wall of Zhongnanhai, a middle-aged man wearing a jacket and a white shirt walked hurriedly, leading the black-clothed young man behind him into the chairman's office - because the **** and the ***** of the Communist Party of China in recent leadership groups are all served by the same leader, so he, the director of the general secretary's office, is also the director of the chairman's office, and it is much easier to enter and exit the chairman's office than the leaders of other departments.

The chairman's office was not very spacious, with a limited space full of bookshelves, a large desk, a high-backed chair, and a few wooden chairs and a small coffee table, all of which had been removed to make room for a bed.

The two knocked on the door and came in, and when they saw Chairman Wen, they put down the documents in their hands.

"Here, sit." Chairman Wen took off his reading glasses and tried to reach out to the chair opposite, only to find that there was only a bed there.

"I'll go get a chair." The Chief of Staff of the President's Office personally went out and brought in two chairs, and then gently closed the door.

"Comrade Yang Xiaoqian, time is precious, so I'll get straight to the point." Chairman Wen looked directly at Yang Xiaoqian, who was sitting in a precarious position, and said solemnly, "The organization wants to add another burden to you, of course, I respect your personal wishes." ”

The chairman is a leader and a member of the organization, since he said "I respect your personal wishes", not "the organization respects your personal wishes", it means that there is actually no other choice, Yang Xiaoqian stood up and saluted, and said loudly: "Resolutely obey the organizational arrangement!" ”

"Hey, Comrade Xiao Yang, this is not a formal occasion, sit and talk." The Chief of Staff was very discerning and spoke out on behalf of the chairman.

This is a face-to-face communication, not a formal order, if Yang Xiaoqian is so solemn, it will not be good. In addition, the chairman has been working hard recently, and if he can communicate in a relatively relaxed way, it will be a good thing for the chairman and Yang Xiaoqian.

Yang Xiaoqian sat down willingly and waited for instructions.

"In recent days, there has been a series of videos that have caused strong repercussions at home and abroad, and you should have heard of it." Chairman Wen used a declarative tone.

"Yes, always with a high level of attention." Yang Xiaoqian bowed his head slightly, he not only heard of it, but also watched each video completely, and guessed the identity of the author.

These videos can deceive a large number of tears, and can make citizens in a peaceful environment realize how lucky they are, and help maintain domestic social stability, but nothing more.

Unless the official government of Central Asian countries sends a signal for help, the self-reported videos of these refugees can hardly be used as a reason for China to send troops, and the national governments of Tajikistan and other countries have become exiled governments, and the national leaders and dignitaries of Kazakhstan have either fled across the Caspian Sea to Iran or obtained asylum from the Russian Federation. Although Huaxia had the heart to rescue and had spare strength, the division was nameless and could only stand still.

"They are all compatriots in the world, and what happened to them makes my heart ache." Chairman Wen sighed and said sadly, "And the thought that there are still thousands of overseas Chinese compatriots who are suffering this kind of tragedy makes my heart even more sad. ”

Yang Xiaoqian looked up in astonishment, the evacuation work had already begun, but it was impossible for Huaxia to bring all overseas Chinese compatriots back to the mainland, and in other countries that had been seriously affected, there were still quite a few overseas Chinese who were in trouble.

If the reason for sending troops is to help refugees from other countries, it will not only cause criticism, but also lead to a series of follow-up problems, such as the resettlement of refugees in other countries.

But if it is said to be to rescue overseas Chinese compatriots, it is a reasonable reason.

As for whether there are overseas Chinese in the five Central Asian countries, how many overseas Chinese are there? It doesn't matter, it's all up to Huaxia anyway.