CONFLICT anywhere in the world is broadcast straight into our living rooms via television.
And thanks to the internet, not even the world's most repressive regimes can impose a news blackout on events within their borders any more.
For most of us, this means we get an armchair view of war and revolution, with all of the associated human suffering.
But for some, those TV images and internet commentaries are a call home to play their part.
Dr Khalid Hanish is someone who heard that call and left the safety of Swansea for the stricken Libyan city of Misrata.
His experiences underlined the sacrifices people are willing to make for political freedom. A freedom thousands of us will squander next Thursday by failing to vote in the Assembly election.
That is no cause for pride in our homeland.
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