Friday 1 May 2009

Trail Of Tears


Given the conditions of contemporary civilization, how can one claim that the 'normal' man is sane? The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow men in the last fifty years-laing.

58BC- roman invasion of europe.
Julius Caesar became governor and military commander of the Roman province of Gaul, which at this time included modern france, Belgium, and areas of Switzerland, Holland and Germany west of the Rhine. For the next eight years Caesar led military campaigns in the area. His next target was UK.
In the UK and mainland Europe the Dark Ages are characterised by barbarian invasions. Barbarians were any tribe or group who came from outside the bounds of the old Roman Empire and had not been "civilised". The term "barbarian" means "with a beard" - they generally did not shave unlike Roman men.
At the end of Roman Empire tribes such as the Goths, Vandals, Franks, Hun, Burgundians, Lombards, Picts, Scots, Angles and Saxons all invaded the lands of the disintegrating Western Roman Empire. In 410AD Rome itself was sacked by the Goths. Following this Britannia became self governing but fairly soon after this event was invaded by the Picts, the Scots and later by the Saxons and Angles.

In 1493, when Columbus returned to the Hispaniola, he quickly implemented policies of slavery and mass extermination of the Taino population of the Caribbean. It felt "normal" and the law was created to meet the needs of the SOCIETY. Within three years, five million were dead. Las Casas, the primary historian of the Columbian era, writes of many accounts of the horrors that the Spanish colonists inflicted upon the indigenous population: hanging them en mass, hacking their children into pieces to be used as dog feed, and other horrid cruelties. The works of Las Casas are often omitted from popular American history books and courses because Columbus is considered a hero by many, even today.

Mass killing did not cease, however, after Columbus departed. Expansion of the European colonies led to similar genocides. "Indian Removal" policy was put into action to clear the land for white settlers.

The Medieval History of India was full of genocides. According to Koenraad Elst more than 100 millions hindus were killed by the muslim invaders and perhaps the biggest holocaust in the world. Just in this century Tutsis, Tibetans, Cambodians, Bangladeshis, Gypsies, Ukrainians and Armenians have all suffered more than a million deaths in deliberate actions. Before them died possibly a hundred million natives in North and South America, tens of millions in the slave trade--and unknown millions of Hindus in India as a result of the invasions beginning in the 7th century
1900: Raphael LemkinRaphael Lemkin, who would later coin the word "genocide," is born into a Polish Jewish family in 1900. His memoirs detail early exposure to the history of Ottoman attacks against Armenians.

1915-1917-Armenian Genocide.

1947-1948: Creating an international convention on genocide Raphael Lemkin was a critical force for bringing “genocide” before the nascent United Nations, where delegates from around the world debated the terms of an international law on genocide. On December 8, 1948, the final text was adopted unanimously. The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide entered into force on January 12, 1951, after more than 20 countries from around the world ratified it.

1992- 1995: Wars of the former Yugoslavia
In one small town, Srebrenica, 7,800 Bosnjiak men and boys were murdered by Serbian forces.
1994: From April until July, up to 800,000 people, mostly from the Tutsi minority group, were killed in Rwanda
2004: Genocide in Darfur more than 100,000 people have been killed; the latter is a figure from the Coalition for International Justice. As many as 2.5 million people are thought to have been displaced as of October 2006.
1948-2009: Genocide of Tibetians:
China has for 40 years been engaged in a relentless program to destroy the Tibetan people, their culture and religion. Little or nothing has been done about it, particularly by the ever-impotent UN.
1948-2009: Genocide of tamils (hindus) in sri lanka, a place called Vanni continues in the name of "war on terrorism" more than 7000 pe0ple got killed, more than 20 000 wounded according to UN. International community is still keeping the silence as india, china, pakistan, russia are supporting supporting the sri lankan government??????? Politics !
I am truly sorry. I dont know what to say. Is there anything I could do?


2 comments:

Adiyaarku-adiyen said...

thanks for telling us about the history
i clearly understand the moral of the history u said
its tough to change the entire world peacefully
one drop of powerfull poison in the sea is enough to kill entire lifes
one poisoned human mind is enough to kill the whole world
its unimaginable to change entire human race
so increase more population in ur community and bein the nature of "fittest of the survival" be stronger to kill every one b4 they kill us

Jackie Bahu said...

1948 - Ceylon gains full independence from Great Briton.

1949 - Indian Tamil plantation workers disenfranchised and many deprived of citizenship.

1956 - The pro-Sinhalese nationalist Sri Lanka Freedom Party came to power in 1956 promising to make Sinhala, the language of the majority Sinhalese people the sole official language.

The Sinhala only policy was opposed by the Sri Lankan Tamils, Federal party which conducted a non-violent sit in protest on June 5, 1956 in front of the parliament in Colombo , the capital city. About 200 Tamil leaders and politicians took part in this protest.

But the protestors were attacked by a Sinhalese mob that was led by a junior government minister. The same mob after listening to a speech by populist Sinhalese politicians urging them to boycott Tamil business went on a looting spree in the city. Over 150 Tamil owned shops were looted and many people were hospitalized for their injuries.

The riots took place from June 11, 1956 and occurred over the next five days. Local majority Sinhalese colonists and employees of the Gal Oya settlement board commandeered government vehicles, dynamite and weapons and massacred minority Tamils by the hundreds. It is estimated that over 150 people lost their lives due in the violence.

1958 - This was first island wide ethnic riots that targeted the minority Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lankaafter it became an independent country from Britain in 1948. The riots lasted from May 22 until May 27, 1958 although sporadic disturbances happened even after the declaration of emergency in June 1, 1958. The event is generally termed as an ethnic riot, but in some geographic locations in its scale of its destruction, it was a pogrom. The estimates of the mass murders of 300 Tamil civilions. For five full days the government did nothing.

1977 - The anti-Tamil riots, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people again stared on the August 12 1977, less than a month after the United National Party came to power in 1977. Over 300 Tamils were killed during these riots.

1981 - BURNING OF JAFFNA LIBRARY - This riot involved the destruction of the Jaffna Public Library, with the loss of over 100,000 books, artifacts and palm writings. Many irreplaceable historical documents and artifacts of civilization in Sri Lanka were lost forever. Police and army were responsible for the burning of the library and the riots. Four Sri Lankan Tamils were killed.

1983 RIOTS - The ethnic riots is better known as Black July Pogrom. At least 3,000 Sri Lankan Tamil civilians killed and many more made homeless and as refugees and number of places of business destroyed. The riots occurred following a deadly ambush by Tamil Tigers, which killed 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers.

Organised gangs associated with the ruling United National Party (UNP) was actively involved in the organization of the riots. Equipped with voter registration lists, they continued burning and attacking only Tamil residences and business, while army and government officials stood by.

One of the most notorious single massacres of the riots[16] took place at the Welikada high security prison on July 25. Thirty-seven Tamil prisoners, most of them detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, were killed by Sinhalese prisoners using knives and clubs. Survivors claimed that the prison officers allowed the keys to fall into the hand of the Sinhalese prisoners. A second massacre at the prison took place on July 28, in which a further 15 prisoners were killed.

More than 18,000 houses and numerous commercial establishments were destroyed and hundreds of thousands of Tamils fled the country to India, Europe, Australia and Canada.
what is genocide?

Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

• Killing members of the group;

• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

• Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

• Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.