This day, previous year,

More than quarter a million innocent lives

Butchered by the brutal force of

Chemical bombs, Cluster bombs

And the most cruel ammunition

Barred by the U.N.

Blood-thirsty barbarians

Destroyed tiny babies, innocent children

And helpless ladies;

Genocide carried in broad daylight

When the U.N. stood as a passive spectator!

No big powers dare open their mouths!

No peace-brokers wished to mediate!

The biggest democracy, U.S.

Failed to condemn the genocide

The Land of Lincoln

Swerved from protecting

The rights of minority!

The country of George Washington

Declined to utter a voice in protest!

Thousands and thousands of people

Were melted as ash!

The crying children

Weeping mothers

Ailing aged

Did not get any help;

Skulls and bones

Heaped like mountains

Were carried by military trucks

Just to hide the massacre from media!

SriLanka became a Slaughter-house!

Did Buddha order this bloodbath?

Hitler seems to be a gentleman

When compared with Rajapakshe!

The Fuhrer of Germany

Declared Jews as his enemies.

The torture camps, Gas chambers,

Guillotine and all modes of perpetration

Were never hidden by the media.

Here in SriLanka

The butchery of a quarter million people

-Mass destruction by military junta-

was carried in the name of anti-terrorism!

Who is the terrorist?

One who fought against mass murder?

Or the one who committed the mass execution?

Even after a year you wish to keep silence?

Don't you have hearts with an iota of compassion?

Don't you have eyes to weep?

Don't you have a mind to condemn it?

Don't you have a conscience to guide your intellect?


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Written by ILAKKUVANAR MARAIMALAI
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