Greece on fire!

The last four days (23-26 August 2007) we are watching a tragedy taking place in Greece. The whole country is on fire. From yesterday afternoon all the areas of Greece have been declared in emergency condition. The fire department are making their best but obviously this is not enough. When a new fire starts every 15 minutes, which state could be capable enough to overpass the problems? Think how Greece with its known problems, such as lack of organization, could do the job! Obviously it cannot.

According with the evidence these fires are results of arsons! This means that someone willingly causes this condition, which yesterday(25 August 2007) costed 52 peoples' lives, destroyed properties, forests, and whatever else the fire found on its way, and brought the whole country in a state of bereavement! New nucleus are starting everywhere and the F.D. is unable to react. Some countries (Cyprus, France and Italy) have sent help, a gesture that becomes more important if we take in mind that the Italians and the French are still suffering from their one fires and that in Cyprus the temperature is still 40°C which makes the condition there also feared every day.

I will not refer to the fires that burn the country this exact moment as there is no point, it is impossible to mention every one fire centre in the country. Yesterday by that time there where 129 fires and by night some of them where off while a lot more started. This moment, same as yesterday the whole Peloponnese is on fire (yesterday 2/3 of it where burned down, now the rest of it), and so do Evoia, Aitoloakarnania, even Attica (Layrio, Keratea, Markopoulo) and yesterday for once again there where fires even in Athens on Ymittos and Penteli .

Really the description of the freaking scenes that our fellow citizens are living is pointless. I do not know what we can do, but certainly what we cannot do is to sit back and argue in order to gain some personal gains. This is obviously a plan well studied and absolutely organized. It cannot be a coincidence that fires start all over Greece between 20.00 at night and 02.00 in the morning! This fires cannot be just actions of paranoiac fire maniacs. It is organized crime. Even the F.D. chief of Italy mentioned yesterday that such a frequency of fires and such a catastrophe as the one that happened yesterday in Peloponnese has never happened again anywhere in the world.
It is possible that the purposes are political as a similar situation happened in '81 when the two strong political parties where in the same positions. On the other hand everyone has it's cut of responsibilities and of course so do the Goverment.
There is also another worse scenario, that this is a new kind of war. The natural wealth of the country has been destroyed with direct short or long term effects on the tourism of the country. The agriculture is destroyed and even the industry is incapable to work. The power is sometimes cut in the country towns so that the Power Network will not suffer a permanent failure, and this, it is obvious even to an ignorant, will result to an economic paralysis of the country. In the same time, the fire causes refuges, destroys properties, leaves death behind. The willingness of the people is going down and also the treatment of all that will be one more expense for one already suffering country. And the worst? With the egocentric politicians of our country and the political parties that with the elections closing it is sure that they already try to manipulate the situation for their profit there is chaos created in the politics of the country and the people are severely divided.
Really... Can You think of a war which could cause worst catastrophe to a country? Unfortunately I am afraid that this is a new kind of war.

And the TV channels may insist to talk about arson suspicions and organized crime! Who economic criminal would do something that would not result in economic profit? Because now in Greece none is gaining money. Or who terrorist (political criminal) would cause this huge catastrophe without informing their identity or declaring their stances?

Honestly I do not know what can be done to stop this disaster, but even worse I have no idea what we will do at the end of the day, when the size of the catastrophe will have to be evaluated. Maybe it is the darkest page in Greek history, as it is not only properties, or loosing a war but the environment also has payed a huge cost.