The vilest form of brutality
Of late, human brutality has, perhaps, for the first time reached its height around the Iraqi captives in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. A picture recently published in one of the dailies of the country shows that ferocious dogs were allowed to bite a wretched, helpless captive who lay almost dead and naked on the ground. Blood was oozing from different parts of his body bitten by the dogs. An American soldier with a dog beside him was looking at the dying captive with a smiling face . At this, a question may certainly arise. Where is humanity and where is Geneva Convention, though we very often talk of these things? A man who is a captive is really a helpless human being. Anything may be imposed on him. This is true about the American soldiers as well.
In fact, those who are posted to kill in the war field, are no more than ordinary men. They are appointed and used in war by the ruling class or that section of people who are in power. To exercise power, the rulers very often impose their selfish whims on common people. Most wars or misanthropic acts, so far we know, are directly or indirectly linked with those whims of a few.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Perhaps, the time has come to reassess the definition of humanity. Nobody actually knows why the war started in Iraq in the first place.