Do you think that people with mental disorder should be locked in? Should be tortured because of an illness, an illness that they are born with. They are unguilty, WE are the guilty one,how can WE accept them to be locked in to mental houses that tortures them? Victims that didn't need to be victims.
In high school I had the subject "History" in school, the professor told us about how some generations ago the mentally disabled people were often quietly sent away to bleak government institutions, left to live out their days on the isolated fringes of society. I thought that now, in 2013, this would not occur. But I was wrong.
The scenes from this five minutes long documentary are not from that era, they're playing out now, day after day, halfway across the world.
Families that gives aways children and adults...they give up, they don't care about fighting day by day for their best friend; their son, daughter, brother etc... They throw these persons behind crumbling walls and rusted bars. But why?
In the video you see an investigation that takes us to a world that has been forgotten through the years. To a country where a mentally disabled child often means a life sentence in an institution: SERBIA, once part of the eastern European country formerly known as Yugoslavia.
When I watched the video I found myself struggling to keep my tears back while watching it. One man who is 21 years old looks like 10 years old, he has been kept in a crib his entire life, his limbs are atrophied and his body frozen.... children with Down Syndrome are being tied to their beds for hours at a time. Ann, the journalist, showed the footage to the prime minister of Serbia. She wanted his opinion about the video, and he tells her that it will take YEARS to correct. Excuse me? YEARS? No no no...Get those people out of that place TODAY! It is unacceptable to treat people in that way! I am disgusted about how the people that work in that institute can eat, sleep and play with their family knowing what is happening in this institution everyday. I am more then horrified about how long this has been going on...20, 30 or maybe even 40 years? They cal this Serbia's "Dark Secret", and obviously nobody has cared enough to expose that secret.
What happens in that institute is terrible. We all can state it. But, we need to think about the situation in Serbia. That country doesn't have money, and it's because it was tortured by crises and sanctions by America b 1990-1998, and it wasn't finished there... year 1999 it got bombarded by Nato. In America, probably a single patient would get a single room and a personal nurse, this all because of the patients parents/family could pay a lot for that kind of care. In Serbia, parents can almost not even fund their children, and imagine if children are sick from incurable disease, for most of the parents it's impossible then. So, in fact...we can't blame all the people that leaves their children there, but we can blame the WORLD for not working against this problem, or actually... we can blame on the COUNTRY that actually is behind all these problem. AMERICA. Because of its Anti Serbian policy, and constant sabotaging of Serbia. Because of what happened in 1999 Serbia have a lot of minus in their economy and budget. The little amount of money the country has goes to highest priority and hardly mantained emergency services.
By saying "How can the parents put the children there?! Why does it look like that?! So terrible the people there are!" doesn't help anything. Before you say it, read the story of Serbia. Now when I have red the story of Serbia I can say that it is terrible what happens there, but I can't say that the fault is of the parents... Because the fault is OURS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1kbayAdlgg
These pictures are made by George Georgiou who worked in Kosovo and Serbia between 1999 and 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Serbia
http://www.resistance88.com/topics/kosovowar/advserbia/consec1.htm#.UneUixagclI
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nato-bombs-yugoslavia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
http://acidcow.com/pics/7995-psychiatric-hospitals-in-serbia-38-
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=32b_1338333843
http://acidcow.com/pics/7995-psychiatric-hospitals-in-serbia-38-pics.html
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/daily-reports/2013/september/26/opinions.aspx
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