If you are still shaken by the horrifying scenes of
September 11, please observe a moment of silence for
the 4,000 civilian
lives lost in the New York, Washington DC and
Pennsylvania attacks.

While we're at it, let's have 13 minutes of silence
for the 130,000 Iraqi civilians killed in 1991 by
order of President
Bush
Sr. Take another moment to remember how Americans
celebrated and cheered
in
the streets.

Now another 20 minutes of silence for the 200,000
Iranians killed by
Iraqi soldiers using weapons and money provided to
young
Saddam Hussein by the American government before the
great eagle turned
all
its power against Iraq.

Another 15 minutes of silence for the Russians and
150,000 Afghans
killed by troops supported and trained by the CIA.
Plus 10
minutes of silence for 300,000 Japanese killed in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by
the Atomic bombs dropped by the USA.

We've just kept quiet for one hour: one minute for the
Americans killed
in NY, DC, and Pennsylvania, 59 minutes for their
victims throughout the

world.

If you are still in awe, let's have another hour of
silence for all
those
killed in Vietnam, which is not something Americans
like to admit. The
US went to another continent thousands of miles away
and
burnt tens of thousands of Vietnamese peasants with
napalm. Or for
the massacre in Panama in 1989, where American troops
attacked poor
villagers, leaving 20,000 Panamanians homeless and
thousands more dead.

Or for the millions of children who have died because
of the USA
embargoes on Iraq and Cuba. Or the hundreds of
thousands
brutally murdered throughout the world by US-sponsored
civil wars and
coups d'etat
(Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Guatemala, El
Salvador to name a
few).

Maybe, and although the memory of Americans claims
otherwise, someone
may remember the USA attack on Baghdad where 18,000
civilians were
killed.
Did someone see it on CNN? Was justice ever served? Or
was there even
any
retaliation?
We hope that Americans finally begin to understand
their vulnerability
and
the attacks and other tragedies that they have caused
around the world.
The dead in other places hurt as much as the dead of
the Towers, maybe
even more!

What about the 560,000 Iraqi children (as per current
UN data) who have
died
as a direct cause of the US supported sanctions
against Iraq? Are these
the
children of a lesser God? What about a new generation
of nearly one
million

Iraqi children who are currently having their lives
being ruined by
improper nutrition,
lack
of medicine and inferior education because of US
supported sanctions.

Our Indian Govt. announced 1 min Silence for the
people who died on 11
sep,even our own
Parliment
house stood up in Silence for a minute.Did they evr do
the same thing
for the thousands
and thousands of
people who died in Orissa or Earthquake in Gujrat or
the people who died
in recent
riots.
May our govt thinks that INDIANS are the people a
lesser God.May be our
Blood is not as
pure as the
Americans.


Now, let's talk about terrorism, shall we?


Read:

A writer's reflections on the U.S.-decreed `War
Against Terror', the conflict between power and
powerlessness, and a better world on its way.

BY prestigious booker prize winner ARUNDHATI ROY

http://www.flonnet.com/fl1920/stories/20021011003106500.htm


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