[sustran] Fw: [sustran] A feedback on - Attack on Humanity

[kisan mehta]

----- Original Message -----
From: kisan mehta <kisansbc at vsnl.com>
To: <Dr. Varghese (Pz:) George <varghese at krec.ernet.in>>
Cc: <sustran-discuss at jca.apc.org>; <surekha52 at yahoo.com>; <hjk at rincn.net>;
<priya_salvi at yahoo.com>; <sujit at vsnl.com>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [sustran] A feedback on - Attack on Humanity


> Dear Dr Varghese,
>
> Thanks for your 21.09  message in response to mine
> giving my feelings on terrorism.  I fully agree with you
> that terrorism rises from the vast disparities.  What is
> the way out? I am copying my email to Surekha Sule, volunteer for peace.
> It  appears people have
> started using email communications as an excuse
> for not practising.   We have to do something concrete
> to bring peace and make life safe for the common
> man who becomes the victim.
>
> Dear Surekha
>
> The attack on the WTC has atleast placed the terror
> of terrorism on the global map.   Till then, countries
> would be expected to treat and fend out the internal
> and external terrorism as a local aberration even though fuelled by other
> states.    Hence the reply to terrorism
> had limited response.
>
> Whatever the US administration may do is not going
> to go beyond the defending of the sovereignty of the
> US and protecting of the US people even though in
> the WTC attack itself nationals from other countries
> have lost their lives.     I do not expect change of mind
> in the diehard Republican who is wont to see beyond
> his immediate interest.    Pakistan has been provided
> larger credibility to what it is doing to the other side of
> the wall.
>
> In this light we have to work for the protection of
> human beings more than Indians and Colombians.
> Can we mobilise?
>
> With your wide contacts, we can start.   Please send away two letters that
> you have received from me in
> last 24 hours to as many firends, contacts etc as the first shoot out.
We
> shall send our article on
> Freedom Struggle to interested people. This article
> brings out the superiority of moral force over
> physical violence by coincidence.
>
> We need to mobilise sane citizens of the world who accept the need for
> objectivity and neutrality against terrorism.  Bush has pulled up himself
> only on realising
> that his tower of pride for Free Trade has been pricked.
>
> Whatever it may be `is'.  We can strive to create an atmosphere to fight
> religious bigotry, including in one's religion by birth or ritual,
> fundamentalism, bullying by
> one nation of another.   We know this requires the
> combined strength of the fire power of all states on
> the earth and much more.  I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THOSE FIGHTING FOR PEACE
> SHALL HAVE AND
> ACQUIRE IF THEY STAND UP BEHIND THE CAUSE
> RESOLUTELY. Best wishes
>
> Kisan Mehta kisansbc at vsnl.com
>
> Dr Varghese, Please let us know as to what we
> can and must individually and jointly do.   Do not
> expect ministers. politicians and all those who should
> matter to be with you. People have to work out
> strategies and work them out.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dr. Varghese (Pz:) George <varghese at krec.ernet.in>
> To: sustran <mailto:sustran-discuss at jca.ax.
> Cc: Kisan Mehta <kisansbc at vsnl.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:25 AM
> Subject: [sustran] A feedback on - Attack on Humanity
>
> > Dear Kisans and Sustrans
> >
> > This is in response to the email communications sent by
> > kisan mehta <kisansbc at vsnl.com>
> > on  Fri, 14 Sep 2001 05:50:01 +0530
> > and Fri Sep 21 10:45:34 2001
> >
> >        Some of us see terrorist activities as a fight between
> >        civilizations. But it is not so.  Its just a fight between mighty
> >        nations one against the other to prove their superiority.
> >        The poor countries are at times compelled to take sides for their
> very existance.
> >
> >        The mighty powers have suceeded in creating a situation where
> >    poorer countries are left with no choice, but to remain as
> >        Banana republics obeying the orders of the mighty nations.
> >
> >        Religion  being an intergral part of society, has played a major
> role in fomenting communal tension all over the world (as in >
> Kosovo, Yugoslavia, Palestine, Indonesia, etc.) just as it had been during
> the  Crusades of the 11th Century and the era of colonization from the
15th
> to the 19th century..
> >
> >        The only period when tension used to exist otherwise in the name
of
> >        ideology was during the cold war period between the US and the
USSR
> >        -between Capitalism and Communism/Socialism.
> >
> >        The vacuum that resulted after the collapse of the USSR is now
> filled by religious fundamentalists and terrorists. It seems that the
world
> rather refuses to remain subservient to a single master. It finds new ways
> and means to  keep the mighty ones in check one way or the other.
> >
> >        THE FALL OF THE WTC has futher revealed the truth that military
or
> >        technological superiority will in no way ensure the security of
> >        any nation.  Terrorists have always chosen the most suitable
weapon
> >        they can bargain with - the lives of the innocent  people.  Have
we
> >        ever made a count of lives lost in Srilanka and India due to
> terrorist activities?
> >
> >        The time has come for all nations  to stand together to fight not
> only terrorism, but all forms of oppressions in this world.
>
> >        Dr. Varghese George
> >        Deptt. of Civil Engg.,
> >        Karnataka Regional Engineering College,
> >        Surathkal, South Karnataka Pin-574157
>
>