Until as recent as the mid-twentieth
century, there were incidents of white Americans hunting the native Indians in the US. From the time that Christopher Columbus stepped on the continent until
the occurrence of the Wounded Knee Massacre in the late 19th century, about 12 million
native Indians were wiped out by the white invaders from Europe.
The
so called state-sponsored genocide policies in North America, unleashed on indigenous
people, had many facets such as mass slaughtering of tribal villages, biological
warfare, forced removal from homelands, incarceration, indoctrination of
non-indigenous values, forced surgical sterilization of native women, prevention
of religious practices, and the list continues. The cruelty extends to burning people live on open stoves and smashing babies on rocks to feed the dogs with their flesh.
In the guise of helping tribal people, the British military
purposefully gave them blankets contaminated with smallpox. This cold blooded
murder took the lives of over 100,000 indigenous people in the Mingo, Delaware,
Shawnee and other Ohio River nations. The United States government forces
followed suit and used similar genocide techniques on the Plains tribes to achieve
the same volumes of deaths.
It is merely 75 years since the
European Hitler’s Gestapo massacred over 17 million people during the Holocaust, and American war machine bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing over 100,000
people instantly. The same Americans are responsible for killing a couple of
million people in Vietnam during the two-decade war which ended in 1975. All these
cases took majority of the lives of innocent people rather than the combatants’.
The adverse effects of bombs dropped in Japan, at a very unnecessary stage of the WWII,
could be seen even many decades later. The spraying of over 70 million litres
of deadly chemical agents on the jungles in Vietnam by American war planes to destroy
the vegetation where Vietcong guerrillas took shelter, have gruesome effects on
scores of poor Vietnamese living in the area
even today. These landscapes have fruitless and mutated trees, highly toxic ground water and
unliveable environment for the animals. It’s just 35 years since.
In the 20th and 21st
centuries, long after the British stopped invading other people’s lands, US and former Soviet
Union (later Russia) kept on poking into the polities of the other countries,
killing and injuring millions of innocent people and destroying cities and villages, and even wiping out entire settlements. The list goes as Korea, Vietnam,
Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Grenada, Lebanon, Libya and the countries beyond the iron curtain.
The above examples clearly show that the so called “Western Civilizations”, its decency and democracy, are not
even new born babies compared to the human history. They are simply fragile
glassware, balanced on a knife edge that can be broken into pieces by one slight
air blow. Even in the last few years, we have seen many events of uprising of racist
movements among the white Europeans, open racial hatred from
even the civil public and visible traces of strong racism in the speeches of the so
called “World Leaders”.
In summary, we are living inside
a soap bubble termed civilization, having a false feeling of security.
The COVID 19 could easily burst this bubble turning the entire “civilization”
into a raging inferno. The fear of the loss of leadership
at the helm, and the fear among the rich masses of sharing limited resources
with the poor may turn them into beasts overnight. The leadership may take racially and ethnically biased political decisions that order the distribution of resources and facilities based on nationality, race, skin
colour, originality etc. Then the chaos may turn the whole society upside down,
resulting random killing, robbing, looting, rioting etc. among the public.
The way that the world was racing
forward for the last couple of decades, the above situation seemed imminent. COVID
19 simply accelerated the process.
In my own native language,
Sinhalese, there is a term “Murugasan Warshawa”, the Rain of Beast Signs. As
the end of the human race approaches, the people start suffering from hunger.
Then the Rain of Beast Sign starts pouring. The people who are caught up in
this rain see the other people as beasts, so that they start killing one another
in fear of attack and to alleviate hunger.
Let's prepare ourselves to be protected from the Murugasan Warshawa.
Let's prepare ourselves to be protected from the Murugasan Warshawa.
