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It is butchery: Krishna Iyer

Kochi: V.R. Krishna Iyer, former Supreme Court Judge, in a statement here, has condemned the carnage at Lebanon and called it "butchery." This is the text of the statement:

"Two nations are at war — Israel and Lebanon. The terrible carnage began and continues, the blood and butchery being largely at the instance of Israel which dare not venture on such a diabolic attack without the backing of the U.S. and President Bush. What a catastrophe and countless homicide! What is the United Nations for? To remain mute and deaf, when massive slaughter is being aggressively inflicted with American support? India had historically been a leader of over hundred non-aligned nations and yet this leader — our country — has not protested against the unjust war.

"Do remember when the Americans bombed the Lebanon Palace, Rajiv Gandhi, as courageous Prime Minister, condemned publicly this atrocity violative of international order. What has happened to our power of speech, our cosmic conscience, our International jurisprudence?

"I plead with the people of India, the political parties with guts and principle and those in power at the Centre and in the States to tell the U.N. its duty to speak loud and act now when the world suffers from the declaration of an open war by Israel. How preposterous would the World Order be if pusillanimous nations, in taciturnity, surrender to a policy of silence when a Big Power-backed, aggressive stooge attacks a small power with none to protest."

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