No doubt that the Sri Lankan forces did commit crimes; but when, and how much, is it ethical to kill in war?
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
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| Was it ethical? |
From Sri Lanka, questions about wars by Praveen Swami The real question in the debate over India’s Sri Lanka policy isn’t whether it is pragmatic or ethical. It goes, instead, to the heart of the ethics of the wars our country fights, and will fight in years to come
Florence-on-the-Elbe, they used to call the historic German city of Dresden, before it began to turn to ash that evening in February 1945. Inside of days, the United Kingdom and the United States bomber command dropped some 3,900 tonnes of ordnance over the city, creating an inferno which would claim an estimated 25,000 lives.
