Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Sisto resigned (many airmen thought he should have been fired, many others thought he should have been jailed). If the plane had crashed, killing passengers and crew, it would doubtless have been added to the list of unexplainable accidents.
During the killing, Gandhi had warned that there was danger of open war between India and Pakistan.
"The world thought war was the ultimate horror, and civil war the worst of wars. It is not. India is what Macaulay called it, a 'decomposed society.' Even the British could not establish law; they merely kept order. A decomposed society cannot make war, which requires law, authority...
"It has long been held that mass killing is the work of states, not of peoples. War, some say, is caused by professional militarism, the existence of large arsenals and the itch of governments to exercise their most spectacular function. Similarly, the killing of 6,000,000 Jews in Europe...
The Prosecutor's answer: "Although leaders of the two states are, in different degrees, responsible for agitating or at least for misunderstanding the communal hatred, the appalling fact is that most of the killing was unorganized and spontaneous. In this case, a rare and significant one, the state power...