Points: International Peace Year: 1986 — The world in a precarious position — The need of the hour.
The UNO declared 1986 as the International Peace year. The same year the nuclear blast in Chernybol in Soviet Russia and the crashing of the manned space ship in USA made man aware of the dangerous situation mankind is really in. The programme of ‘Star Wars’ of USA still continues and the Nato and the Warsaw pact countries confront each other with all kinds of ballistic missiles.
‘Peace’ is a very tame and innocent word. But in today’s world it is the most urgent topic. Many years ago Tagore commented on the world mad with violence. But today violence has become lam more menacing. Disarmament talks are going on between the two superpowers but they are no more than mere rituals. Nations do not trust one another, underground nuclear testing is not abated, and limited wars between Iran and Iraq, or Israel and Lebanon have been eye-openers. Then there is South Africa and the Apartheid. In fact, the whole work is sitting on a simmering volcano.
It is an irony that when two crore people were dying in Africa of starvation, five hundred sixty billion dollars were being spent on military annually in the whole world. The question is: Can’t we buy peace and save life with the huge amount of money we spend to buy war and weapons of war?
The UNO declared 1986 as the International Peace year. The same year the nuclear blast in Chernybol in Soviet Russia and the crashing of the manned space ship in USA made man aware of the dangerous situation mankind is really in. The programme of ‘Star Wars’ of USA still continues and the Nato and the Warsaw pact countries confront each other with all kinds of ballistic missiles.
‘Peace’ is a very tame and innocent word. But in today’s world it is the most urgent topic. Many years ago Tagore commented on the world mad with violence. But today violence has become lam more menacing. Disarmament talks are going on between the two superpowers but they are no more than mere rituals. Nations do not trust one another, underground nuclear testing is not abated, and limited wars between Iran and Iraq, or Israel and Lebanon have been eye-openers. Then there is South Africa and the Apartheid. In fact, the whole work is sitting on a simmering volcano.
It is an irony that when two crore people were dying in Africa of starvation, five hundred sixty billion dollars were being spent on military annually in the whole world. The question is: Can’t we buy peace and save life with the huge amount of money we spend to buy war and weapons of war?
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