Reflecting upon the first world war, second world war, Hiroshima and the Holocaust, war of savagery and butchery waged by man against man, oppressed versus oppressed Laing concluded, we human beings have slaughtered by our own hands coming on for one hundred million of our own species. We all live under the threat of our total annihilation. We seem to seek death and destruction as much as life and happiness…only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilisation apparently driven to its own destruction. I dont know how this fits with 28-year-old Parameswaran who was ready to starve himself to death for freedom of tamil people. He continued to hunger-strike for 24 days and stopped it today as he felt the British government responded to his requests. It seems like Parameswaran's parents were killed by SLA and he himself has been closer to death many times. When he was asked by a BBC reporter whether he was afraid of dying.....He said: "No, no, no, I'm not worried - because I saw many thousands of deaths of friends of mine. That means livers, kidneys and stomachs coming out, people dying, right in front of my eyes".
Is man‘alienated’ from his true human nature?
"Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth"
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How will anyone understand our pain. We have been slaughtered by singalese since 1948 and then by indian army and again singalese have started to kill us. what to do? We never hurt anyone, 10 of us set fire to ourselves and died. One did it in front of geneva. what happend? no body helped. now i was so scared for this boy, he was stubborn didnt even want to drink water later. I thought he was going to die. but god's grace ministers promised to do soemthing. but i dont know if they would. they are still killing us. yesterday also they bombed the last hospital with all staff and children and women. all doctors died, all nurses died. no food or medicine. who will look after rest of them? please somebody help.
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