Here, we get back to a basic theme.
Why is a soldier and terrorist to kill citizens bad ?
There is no longer any doubt about it, but it has an important meaning.
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Terrorism is a crime!
The World Trade Center bombing in September 11, 2001 gave a serious shock to the whole world.
As a result, the U.S. President immediately declared, "this is war!", and began the war on terrorism with enthusiastic support of the people.
This case well shows that massacring citizens produces bigger hatred.
Well then, in the Yugoslav wars, what kind of a reaction did the world show to the slaughter of Bosnian citizen performed by military? ( annotation 1)
In 2016, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia pronounced a judgment of 40-year imprisonment to the ex-President who commanded the slaughter.
In fact, this person was a hero for Serbian citizens, and the extradition did not advance for 13 years.
By the way, it is fairly recent that all the world other than the countries concerned came to
judge war crimes after the war in this way.
What is important?
War is the largest disaster that the human race brought, but, on the other hand, the human race has brought about various policies that prevent conflict and war in a long time.
One of the policies is the application of the war crimes including “ crimes against peace” “crimes against humanity” after the World War II.
This progress occurred only half a century ago while the history of war for 5,000 years,
More important is the human race continues bringing about preventive measures strenuously.
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What is a meaning of judging it by war crimes (law)?
In fact, most of law has been created to prevent conflict.
In prehistoric times, a taboo and custom were created for prevention of conflict, and ritualized fighting grew, a council of elders was created for to avoid expansion of struggles as a reconciliatory role.
Those rules bore fruit in "Code of Hammurabi" or "the Ten Commandments" before long.
At this point in time, these had to depend on authority of God.
In more recent years, human society came to aim at having consistency in the system of law by a concept of "justice".
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What is justice?
In fact, this is a difficult problem, but there is one thing it is sure.
It is that the human race can decide "justice" by ourselves now.
I assume, " Justice is a judgmental standard that a society judges whether a human act is right or bad" .
Seeing it from a viewpoint of conflict, I can say, “ a bad act is an act to cause a conflict, and to spread it”.
One of the bad acts to cause a conflict and to spread it is to increase people's hostility and hatred to extreme.
At last we can see what is bad.
“You must not bomb a hospital ship.
You must not abuse a captive.
You must not use cluster bomb or poisonous gas.”
These produce the massacre of noncombatants and citizen, the people feel strong hatred for it, and will accept the retaliation of the further massacre.
By punishing such war crimes, our world becomes preventing the harshness of war and the civil war.
At the end
What is the terrorism that the Middle Eastern extremists perform in the world?
This only drives people around the world to hate for the Middle East, Arab and Islam, and rather the extremist’s hope only more goes away.
Already, the world as well as the Middle East is filled with hostility, and it bring a vicious circle that puts the Middle East in a difficult spot moreover.
Their terrorism is unlike past terrorism in one country as for making enemies of the world, and the result is greatly different.
I wish that the extremists, neighboring people, and particularly Islamic leaders think about a series of the human wisdom .
This continues the next time.
注釈１
１９９５年、ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ内のスルプスカ共和国のカラジッチ元大統領がスレブレニツァでボスニア系民間人８０００人の虐殺を指揮した。
セルビアのミロシェヴィッチ元大統領も同様の戦争犯罪で裁判中、病死した。
注釈２
その端的な例が北米先住民にあります。
部族内で殺人が起きると、部族が穢されたとして部族全員で厄払いの儀式を行った。
そして犯人は追放されるが、数年して犯人は自身の請願により復帰した。
ここでは、両親族間で生じる復讐心を儀式と追放で抑制している。
人類は、意識するしないに関わらず、紛争防止の巧みな策を設けて来た。
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