When Saddam Hussein the cruel leader of Iraq invaded Kuwait on 2nd August 1990, the British Premier Margareth Tatcher issued an statement against Saddam Hussein saying with her powerful voice with anger, ”he is a Monster, a Despot, a BARBARIAN AND a Hitler”. The moment she got this news of the invasion of Kuwait exactly the way our Goa was invaded by the so called champion of Democracy and Freedom of course under the fake democrat and the shameless leader of Bharat Jawaharlal Nehru, some world leaders expressed their deslike of India for such a harsh action. The entire World with the exception of a few fit to be our Panchayats and not the actual nations (States) supported Kuwait in demanding the liberation for Kuwait.
THE WORLD body the UNO and World leaders started condemning Saddam Hussein very badly, Saddam Hussein started losing his respect and dignity and to do the damage control process for the invasion of Kuwait, he chose as the best weapon to counter his adversaries, the Code of Hamurabi that was the first Code of this planet made in ancient Mesopotamia by the ancient King Hamurabi. By citing this Code he called upon the World not to call Iraqi people as backward and further saying that In the history of this planet Iraq getting top position because it has created the first Code of this planet and that was given to the World. What is that Code?
It was the collection of 282 Laws formed by the best of legal luminaries existing at that time in the richly developed land called Babylonia and its purpose then was to have some system for everyone to live peacefully without creating others any inconvenience thereby giving priority for morality. On one fine morning, on the banks of River Tigris a few Iraqi women removed their Sarees or their dresses and made a sort of fence for them to have bath in the river, totally nude. While they were having the bath and enjoying it nicely, one Romeo type of young man while passing that side, he heard some noise of women. Having got his curiosity aroused, he went closer to the fence and made a hole īn ōne ōf their dresses and putting his one eye into that hole, he happily started watching them. From nowhere behind his back a security man came and caught him by his neck and took him to the King Hamurabi who when questioning him and security man, passed a verdict “TO REMOVE HIS EYE Thru which he was watching those nude women having bath. Hence, the Code came to be known as “Eye for an eye and Tooth for Tooth.
However, the law had strong drawback that when any wrong doer or criminal is brought to the king with the wrong accusation then the same sentence is Passed against the ACCUSER.
THERE IS an ongoing debate among us saying taking law into our own hands is the solution for all the ills committed by our people while others say that it is not correct to take law into our hands without sanctioning by judicial consent and still there is one more opinion which is still keeping its way OPEN where it thinks they are correct and that option is the very appropriate one for all the ills of our society and what iS that? That is the doctrine of Cristianity which says “eye for an eye and tooth for tooth is not the solution for our ills.
When the American Civil Rightist MARTIN LUTHER when told that his house has been stoned by the rowdies from his locality because he preached his one of the most powerful sermons in the Montgomery Church where as a Baptist preacher, he spoke against the Apartheid that annoyed the Whites. During the last so many years so many renown preachers came but never a preacher of the caliber of Martin Luther came and spoke thus:’facing to the Whites who by virtue of being WhiTES were given the Previllege Of sitting towards the right AND THE OTHERS LIKE BLACKS WERE GIVEN THE DISCRIMNATORY SEATS TO THE LEFT. dURING THAT TIME MARTIN LUTHER was extremely busy in preparing for his PHD AND WHEN HE STARTED HE STARTED THUS: Pointing out to the Whites said’ My dear brothers and sisters, there is discrimination going on in this very Church in front of us and we are practicing this discrimination here just below our nose and yet we adore Christ and by practicing this type of discrimination we hurt and insult JESUS CHRIST because by acting thus discriminatory we give our impression that we are not ready to associate with Blacks and further saying to the Whites pointing out his finger towards the Whites that is referring to the White: ‘if you cannot integrate with the masses pointing out to the Blacks then you will never integrate with Christ because Christ is come from the masses”.
This was the spark lighted by Martin Luther that when he came home he saw his supporters ready with big Sticks to finish the White miscreants but Luther said by pacifying their anger “down with your Sticks, no violence, violence will get violence. Let us depart from here as friends and no more violence. Otherwise what WILL BE THE OUTCOME? Very bad with innumerable deaths.
A. VERONICA FERNANDES.