Comment to Night Soul Woman's numerical epitaph
Your 29,000 children every day is a devastating number
calling other endless numbers to mind, which never must be forgotten,
like the hundreds of thousands of women slaughtered by inquisitions 1300-1700 for being supposed witches,
like all those hundreds of thousands of Indians the Spanish killed in Latin America for not being natural Christians and to take their kingdoms and riches,
like the hundreds of thousands of Red Indians in North America killed (on purpose) by Englishmen and Americans, (the English having introduced the first bacteriological warfare by infecting blankets for sale to Indians with smallpox,)
like all the uncountable 'heretic' victims of the Catholic Inquisition 1200-1700,
like the 1,5 million Armenians killed by the Turks in the First World War, the first comprehensive genocide,
like the 20% of all Tibetans killed by the Chinese for nothing, or for just the pleasure of destroying their culture and identity,
like the 1,5 million of his own people that Pol Pot killed off in Cambodja just to execute his power according to the guidelines of Mao Zedong,
like the 6 million Jews killed by Hitler's Germans, the worst genocide ever,
not to speak of the 63 million victims to Lenin and Stalin
or the at least 70 million human deaths caused by Mao Zedong,
or the efficiency of the Americans, who in two brief blasts sent 500,000 innocent Japanese to death, either directly or unbearably slowly, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
and so on, and so on,
all of them having proved but one thing, that humanity never learns....
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-09-06 at 17:28
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187. Numerical epitaph - the worst catalogue of humanity
Your 29,000 children every day is a devastating number
calling other endless numbers to mind, which never must be forgotten,
like the hundreds of thousands of women slaughtered by inquisitions 1300-1700 for being supposed witches,
like all those hundreds of thousands of Indians the Spanish killed in Latin America for not being natural Christians and to take their kingdoms and riches,
like the hundreds of thousands of Red Indians in North America killed (on purpose) by Englishmen and Americans, (the English having introduced the first bacteriological warfare by infecting blankets for sale to Indians with smallpox,)
like all the uncountable 'heretic' victims of the Catholic Inquisition 1200-1700,
like the 1,5 million Armenians killed by the Turks in the First World War, the first comprehensive genocide,
like the 20% of all Tibetans killed by the Chinese for nothing, or for just the pleasure of destroying their culture and identity,
like the 1,5 million of his own people that Pol Pot killed off in Cambodja just to execute his power according to the guidelines of Mao Zedong,
like the 6 million Jews killed by Hitler's Germans, the worst genocide ever,
not to speak of the 63 million victims to Lenin and Stalin
or the at least 70 million human deaths caused by Mao Zedong,
or the efficiency of the Americans, who in two brief blasts sent 500,000 innocent Japanese to death, either directly or unbearably slowly, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
and so on, and so on,
all of them having proved but one thing, that humanity never learns....
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 791 times
Written on 2006-09-06 at 17:28
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