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Our sympathies and prayers go out to the innocent victims of the disaster of Tuesday 11 September.  The persons who perished had absolutely no control over the causes, which motivated the perpetrators of this horrendous deed.  Life to whomsoever it belong is precious regardless of the nationality, race, or religion.   Human lives are not evaluated on the basis of the per capita income of the nation from which they come.  While contemplating on the victims of this disaster and the poignant plight of their loved ones let us pause to remember also victims of other acts of International terrorism.

In Kenya, East Africa in 1998 numerous innocent people were killed and maimed.  For decades the Palestinian people have been living in a state of political and economic siege.  We cannot forget the 58,000 American soldiers who perished in the Vietnam War.  Let us not forget also the thousands of Vietnamese soldiers who were killed trying to defend their country against International terrorism, the innocent men women and children who were murdered in cold blood, the unsuspecting victims of carpet bombing and the tens of thousands of children who were born with deformities as a consequence of the aerial spraying of herbicides as an act of war.   Our sympathies should also go out to those innocent victims of acts of covert and overt operations of International terrorism in the Balkans.  How many of us know that nearly 500,000 infants have died in Iraq due to the lack of medicines as a result of the sanctions imposed.

Let us now spare a moment to turn to reflect on the millions of victims massacred, tortured, raped, oppressed and deprived as a consequence of State Terrorism.

Let us remember the millions of helpless Jews who were tortured and massacred in Nazi Germany.  Let us think of the millions of persons killed during Stalin’s regime in the Soviet Union.  Let us not forget the millions of people massacred in Indonesia and East Timor during the Suharto regime.  In Sri Lanka during the past decades thousands of Thamils have been killed in State sponsored pogroms and by the Armed Forces.   Rape, torture, disappearances, numerous infant deaths and deprivation through embargo of essential items are an every day occurrence. car sales mean prices new cars dealers in the United Kingdom

Our attention should be drawn to the victims of torture, massacre and murder in Chile under Pinochet, in the Republic of Congo under Mobutu, in Uganda under Idi Amin, in Cambodia under Pol Pot.  We should think of the Kurds in Turkey. cars option car rental deals denver budget tariffs

The human race should put their heads down in shame for the massacre of millions of innocent people in Rwanda and the neighboring parts in Africa.  The so-called civilized world has no claim to call itself civilized when we did very little to those millions of Africans who died of famine, hunger and starvation.  They died by the minute as an indirect result of State terrorism.  Children watched their parents die and with all their meagre strength helped them to be carried to their shallow graves while waiting for their turn to be carried to their graves. vente machine a sous

It will take many years to erase from our memories the scars of State terrorism under the Apartheid regime in South Africa where the people on account of their dark skin had to endure untold misery, privation, humiliation and oppression.

State terrorism is borne of absolute power and absolute power corrupts absolutely.   The terrorist state uses its absolute power in targeting its victims and this in turn begets absolute powerlessness amongst its victims.

If retaliation is the answer to International terrorism then what should be the response from the absolutely powerless victims to State terrorism?

Dr. S. Jayahanthan

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