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?
I spend one night at the police station, actually there were five of us. however it wasn't exiting at all. We were not offered any facilities such as cell, food and tea or coffee. Well we were not arrested officially, but we voluntarily decided to spend the whole night as one of our collegue got arrested. He had royal treatment though, he slept, rested and had food after a long demonstration at parliament square.
