Buddhist Mass Murderers?

I woke up with this on my mind. I am so angry at what is going on in Sri Lanka. We use words like genocide without thinking about what it really means. The smashed bodies of children in mass graves with their parents and grandparents. Burnt villages and the smashed remains of every day life the only reminders of a dead community.
I believe that the Sri Lanka n government are wiping out the island's Tamil minority. I can not prove that: neither can any one else because the government has banned outside observers and has arrested journalists who have tried to enter the Tamil region.
Tony Blair and George Bush abandoned law to make a "War on terror" . Now the murderous thugs in Sudan the ultra right in Israel and the Buddhists who rule Sri Lanka label an inconvenient population "Terrorists" and attempt to eliminate them from the face of the Earth.
This is the victory for the Islamic fundamentalist scum who attacked the twin towers- the world has moved away from civilization and back into the dark ages. Now the UK and US will torture and use lies to excuse wars: a new age of intolerance.
The way the World settles it's disputes is set- Serbia's methodology in the Balkan disputes (which put so many of its leaders on trial for war crimes) has been the way disputes have been conducted around the world. Blair and Bush- both reeking of superstitious self righteousness have moved the US and UK into a new era of global terror that a bearded numptie in a cave could never have done.
In the Boer War in South Africa the British used a method of controlling the "terrorist" Boers by controlling the civilian population that supported them. They created secure villages to concentrate the scattered population and thus invented a new term: concentration camp. Thousands of Boer women and children died of starvation and disease in the camps along with thousands of black families who were also rounded up in to even worse camps. Today Tamil survivors of the Sri Lankan army are being herded into prison like camps. As yet we do not know their fate. No one is allowed to report the situation.
Human cruelty hiding behind the twin falsehoods of Nation and Religion. Neither lie justifies inflicting suffering on our fellow humanity. I wish I knew what to do.

Have a look at this page if you are interested.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/02/15/genocide_in_sri_lanka/

Tom Leonard poem.

when the colonial oppressor
wears the proxy badge of victimhood
 
when the state talks about democracy
and boasts about democracy
and busses in its voters
from the 4 corners of the globe
 
when the possession of nationality
is a foot landing on an airport tarmac
and the dispossessed fester
in the camps of the dispossessed
 
 
 
when spokespersons for the state 
are good at explaining the current position in English
because they are English
and good at sounding American
because they are American
 
and the natives are hopeless spokespersons
who speak in heavily accented English
because they are not English
who don’t sound American
because they are not American
 
they are foreigners
on their native soil
and they sound like foreigners
because that’s all they are
to the English, and to the Americans
and to the incoming dispossessors
 
foreigners
 
 
 
 
 
statehood is right to arms
statehood is control of the air
 
and the state walls up the natives
the state drives roads through their livelihood
the state uproots their livelihood
 
statehood is tank
statehood is bulldozer of homes
 
 
 
 
state killing is not killing
state killing is justifiable context
state killing is the operation of justice
 
stateless killing is simply killing
stateless killing is never context
stateless killing is motiveless evil
 
we are the state
you are the stateless
 
the battle is good versus evil
what more history do you need?
 
 
 
 
to accuse the state of oppression
is genocide
 
to accuse the state of racism
is genocide
 
to accuse the state of colonial expansion
is genocide
 
no one wants to be accused of genocide
much better to turn a blind eye 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
but the state is oppressive
but the state is racist
but the state is intent on colonial expansion
 
and the state colonises the past
the state says its people are the single victims of history
 
yet many are the victims of history
no single people has precedence
 
 
 
 
we inherit no victimhood from the murdered in the genocides of history
we Inherit no guilt from the murderers in the genocides of history
 
they are the dead
we are the living
 
who alone are responsible for our actions
who cannot forever blame our role as victims   
 
to be oppressive
to be racist
to be intent on colonial expansion
 
wearing the proxy badge of victimhood
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tom Leonard