Utibe Joseph Jimmy Why do world leaders remain silent over genocide? This question haunts me, especially when I think of the lives lost, the suffering endured, and the cries that echo unheard. As a global community, we claim to value human dignity, yet time and again, we witness atrocities, and our leaders, the ones entrusted with the power to protect, remain eerily quiet. Why? Is it because the victims are distant from their concerns, isolated by borders, or perhaps their lives are deemed less valuable than political expediency?

How many people must die before they understand that these are not just numbers on a screen or distant tragedies? How many more innocent lives must be sacrificed before they see the humanity in those suffering? In Palestine, families are torn apart, homes reduced to rubble, and dreams crushed under the weight of conflict. In Russia, lives are shattered by violence and instability, the scars of war running deep in the hearts of a people longing for peace. Yet the silence persists. The silence of indifference, of diplomacy stalled by the cold calculations of power.

I cannot comprehend how much pain must be endured before the leaders of the world finally hear the cries of those whose voices are lost in the chaos. The silence isn't just complicity; it’s a failure to uphold the very values of justice and humanity that we claim to stand for. If we do not speak out now, if we do not act, how many more must die before our conscience is awakened? How many lives does it take for the world to finally stand up and say, enough is enough?