It was heartbreaking to watch the
video in which a guy jumped off motorbike stabbing a young boy walking at the
street. It happened on 06 January 2023 around mid-night. The young boy was stabbed
multiple times until he could barely walk and fell off eventually. According to
information he went dead right there at the scene before the police arrived. The
video attracted my attention because the way the suspect stabbing is scary. It
is also sad to see that young people nowadays are much wilder, and extremely hostile
to each other more than my time when I was at their age.
Naturally crimes happen anywhere
in the world, even in the most peaceful countries. I consider that as a way the
Nature processes, people born to die. But in the case of Timor-Leste. The pattern
of young people conflict indicates some structural and systemic problem in this
country. I thought that poor education system contributes to this outcome. Young
people are not well educated from school, and I would say from family as well. One
generic and biased personal observation. When I observe school youngsters
grouping along the street of Dili, they are not disciplined. They don’t respect
public street norms, they bully each other, they interfere one another, and
worst they fight, sometimes. This type of attitude and behavior are brought in
to the society eventually.
Similarly, desperation for
economy in the country also contributes. What young people mostly do at home is
nothing but just sitting in their neighborhoods. There is no work to do because
there is no work indeed. I don’t think the State can recruit all people to work
for government. Even if there are jobs in industries, they don’t have skills. They
become desperate because of the nothing-to-do. They find each other to plan for
activities such as drinking alcohol, gambling, etc. These activities are
poisons for peace when done in poor society.
All culminates in the martial art fight phenomenon. All these years, after independence, martial arts conflict has become the major reason why people fight each other, it even affects the political and democratic processes. Is it not horrible? In this country, when there is dissenting opinion, defamation, harassment, and other serious conflicts or crimes happen among individuals and community members, most people don’t seek for justice, they don’t go to tribunal. There are many reasons why, but some are because they are not able in terms knowledge, and resources. Another is because they don’t trust the judicial system. Officials in law enforcement entities are partisan because being inclined to their groups' principles. As a result, some people make their own decisions, they act directly, they fight-they kill to feel like getting justice.
*I hope this gives you an inspiration
