Sunday, October 9, 2011

Now See This

Here is another shocking information from a columnist.
Whitehall's compensation payments to Afghan civilians killed and injured by its troops are doubling each year.
Let us disentangle this.
What is Whitehall?
This a road running north from Parliament Square, towards Charing Cross at the southern end of Trafalgar Square. This is considered to be the seat of HM Government.
What is HM Government?
Her Majesty's Government. Government of UK.
So basically UK's payment to compensate for civilian damage is doubling every year.
So let us take stock of the things.
We learn that UK has been paying indemnity to the civilians for the damage they are doing to them in Afghanistan.

Let us thank these kind souls for their acts of mercy.
And coming back to the cause, the damage done to civilians, one would assume that other countries involved in the action in Afghanistan might also be doing the same thing. Killing civilian and giving indemnity.
And the biggest contribution to this massacre compounded with kind charity must be that of US.
This should be a fair assumption.
And the mind numbing clause is that the damage is doubling every year.
There is killing of civilians and the rate is doubling.
The least one can do is to talk about civilization and barbarity.
And the concept of indemnity too has to be clarified.
It entails that the perpetrating party will not continue their acts of homicide and atrocity.
This is part of implementation of indemnity.
Indemnity is not a fee. It is more of a punishment. And it is not at all a license to kill.
It is not a hunting license.
For the actions of a single individual, or his group which has to be of necessity small, the west has been punishing a whole country-in fact several of them. Afghanistan and Iraq included.
One finds oneself at a loss of words-how many times can one use the phrase mind numbing?
For intentional targeting of civilians?
For Abu Gharaib?
For Guantanamo?
For musical killing?
For Bagram?
For trophy hunting of victim's fingers?
For accelerated killing?
For mechanized killing?