Rich people employ poor people to kill poor people. Workers and peasants do not have time to ill-plot things against the civilization and beauty of life. Owners who always want to remain above the toilers have time to plan and celebrate massacres. This is an enterprise harming the majority and benefiting few.
Human massacres frequently being organized in different parts of the world have not changed the nature of politics or intentions of rulers. The intention of massacres is not to bring anything good to people. Naïve people involved in such activities may be making it an expressive method. But those who have professionalized and specialized in designing massacres of civilians are the masters that cannot be punished by power other than the exploited people themselves. Such planners are well-established individuals with sufficient tie with ruling elites. They are well-protected. Where do they hide? They cannot go beyond the earth. Who protects them? Millions of people pay heavy taxes and keep security forces for their safety and for punishing criminals. But just the opposite is happening.
Those killed never knew for what causes they were victimized. Those who survive never know why they are forced to live an unsafe life. Thus, modern human civilization has been facing bizarre doldrums not only due to ultra-materialization of human minds but also due to criminalization of national and international politics. The increasing terrorist attacks especially targeted against innocent civilians in different countries shows the extent of mechanical criminalization of human minds. This is the time for global thinkers and local actors to take leisure for exercising their original minds over the roots of human plights.
Who knows? Peace efforts may be prospering into peace industries and peace industries may mean conflict industries to generate more economic transactions. What’s the rationale of weapons? To protect people and nations! Hence the justification of war business? What’s democracy? People’s lives! What do people’s lives mean? Live like human beings, not like instinct-dependent animals! If so, why are brilliant politicians smiling at human-animalization process? We need no multinationalization of conflicts.
We need conflict transformation because it qualitatively transforms our bestial nature. This means a better human culture. It again means nobler thoughts and deeds as suits the substances underlying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
The UDHR substances, should they be listened to with original human brains and hearts, will definitely remind us of the World War I and the World War II consequences. They will help us remain human beings.
To remain and become better human beings, the most primordial job is to control the ongoing criminalization at political fronts, which knowingly or unknowingly, produce criminalized generations. Consequently, even professional ideas and creativities can be criminalized, and criminal potentialities can be professionalized and legalized. Look at the realities of the world! The powerful enjoy impunity and the powerless are punished for their innocence and helplessness.
Amidst such powerlessness and helplessness, cruelties being imposed on people mold them accordingly. This has become a major way of criminalizing the uncriminalized.
Most of the injustices of the world go unreported, untouched. So many of them are deliberately covered up. Mass sufferings have been localized. The international community generally has not obtained an opportunity to perceive them truly. For instance, the inhuman practice of caste untouchability in India and Nepal, has deprived millions of so-called untouchables (politically known as Dalits) of their human dignity. But this has not become an international agenda despite some ceremonial discourse by a few foreign scholars and I/NGOs. The concerned governments have made every strategic effort to stop this agenda from entering the UN General Assembly. They want to maintain status quo. Change in people’s lives means change in the elites’ power structure. They do everything superficially on condition that nothing happens to the existing power structure. Justice to victims will mean injustice to victimizers. They want to maintain their superiority over toiling masses, who should always remain in a terribly debilitated mental and physical state so that things can keep on going.
Murderers, in a similar way, have maintained their business. They have been able to deceive people. They have hugely profited from deaths of innocent human beings. They do not intend to empower people morally, politically, economically and intellectually. Doing so is not their concern. Their concern is to quench their blood thirst and enjoy killing people. They want to maintain their rule of murder. Murderers are the most loyal and reliable forces for war entrepreneurs. They are the vital promoters of arms business. More weapons are selling. More human beings are being killed. More money is being generated. People’s sufferings have doubled. Yet, the business of chanting slogans has been going on with no effect.
Where are we wrong? Perhaps in many places. Aren’t we trying to control crimes through crimes? Aren’t we trying to contain violence through violence? Aren’t we talking of reducing the proliferation of weapons by producing more weapons? Why haven’t we been able to change people’s minds and lives? Who are we indeed?
A pilot suggestion is: let’s go to the roots of human politics. Can people’s politics replace rulers’ politics?
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