This is ultimate war crime against humanity

THE Peshawar mosque attack in which 101 were killed is an act of terrorism that must be condemned by the whole of humanity. Conflict, the grim reaper, continues to claim the lives of innocent people across the Muslim and non-Muslim world.

The dire consequences of war, hatred and prejudice, particularly for the civilian population, defy description. War is like fire in the human community, one whose fuel is human beings. Wars expose man’s ultimate inhumanity to man. Wars are an innate but obsolete part of human nature.

Wars reflect man’s basest instinct, untamed by rationality. All wars are instigated by hungry megalomaniacs, the politicians, managed by professional killers, the military, and fought by the brainwashed members of their population, the cannon fodder. The murder of innocent young civilians in many lands continues unabated.

This is the ultimate war crime against humanity, while a passive global audience looks on. Today’s world abounds in international courts, laws and tribunals, yet war is becoming more brutal, more transnational, with mounting civilian casualties. The world has lost its humanity.

Conflicts in Muslim lands have been marked by almost medieval acts of savagery. The scale of brutality is frightening. There is no logic to the growing levels of nihilistic violence and wanton bloodshed.

We are in the cross hairs of a potential massive nuclear holocaust that could erase all life on earth. 2023 will be mankind’s final dance with death unless sanity, civility and common sense prevail.