The latest picture of the war crimes in srikanka covered by channel 4 in the uk decidedly brought to mind just one old adage....fattened before the slaughter.
This particular set of pictures spoke volumes about the loss of humanity in our world. The first picture is one where this innocent child of 12 sat with a vacant expression, the next picture shows him eating something and the very next picture showed a lifeless body of the same child with five dark bullet entry wounds to the chest. The child was shirtless in all three pictures and is found wearing the same green shorts in all three.
Apparently, technologists state that all three pictures were shot from the same camera. But what is its point when such a picture shows a lifeless child lying in the middle of nowhere....dead.
Is the world really that thick-skinned to just stand by and witness such an atrocity? Wasn't such acts found in the pages of history which also talks about the downfall of large civilizations immediately after such acts?
We in the twenty first century, are we senselessly bringing upon a destruction upon our own heads?
Technological advancements might claim various things with regards to the picture- when, where and how it was shot. But is all that going to bring back the child to life? Was he put to death just because he was the son of Prabakaran; leader of the LTTE group that was silenced.
If there is someone on this planet who wishes to speak for the voiceless or the dead at this point of time, then here is me challenging you....bring justice, make this child be heard.
Human lives are shed for various reasons but ain't it shameful to slaughter a human child after feeding it? Was such an act, really an act to prove somebody's sardonic and sarcastic way of looking at this child's life?
What was the Sri Lankan government thinking? Lets fatten this child and then slaughter it?
We are so very civilized that we now have PeTA to give voice to the four-legged voiceless, but do we have an agency that can give voice to the now-dead innocent children who were slaughtered for the "sins" of the fathers?
