The Hindu : It is murder

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Wednesday, Apr 09, 2003

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It is murder

Sir, — Iraq has been invaded on charges of possessing weapons of mass destruction, alleged in an openly hypocritical and double standard manner by the U.S. which, in turn, has stockpiled lethal weapons of mass destruction. Hundreds of Iraqi civilians, including women and children, have been killed in the air raids.

As the war is in violation of section 2 of the U.N. Charter, these killings have to be counted as murders and the perpetrators as war criminals. The irony is that this war has been undertaken, as claimed by some, as acceptable to Christianity, thus making a travesty of the Christian religion, since it directly violates the commandment "Thou shall not kill".

Mar George Theckedath,
Thiruvananthapuram

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Sir, — The law of the jungle - might is right - reigns supreme in Iraq. The mighty U.S., on whom the United Nations has no control and all universal laws of good nature have no hold, along with its allies Britain and Spain, is fighting a small nation, Iraq, without any provocation or justification. The majority of world opinion views the U.S. action as just aggression not for democracy but for oil.

It is sad that other nations could not stop this barbaric and atrocious war, like bulls watch their mate being killed by leopards without rendering it any help. This goes to prove that enlightened nations are no different from the species of the jungle.

J.G. Shanmuganathan,
Coimbatore, T.N.

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