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MAKE WARS OF AGGRESSION A CRIME, SAYS DR MAHATHIR
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 (Bernama) -- Make wars of aggression a crime as it
would result in less wars and less need for defence, founder and chairman of the
Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said Friday
night.
Dr Mahathir, a former Malaysian prime minsiter, said war made beasts of
ordinary men and women, and the cruelties perpetrated were beyond
imagination.
"Yet they are perpetrated by ordinary human beings who have been trained by
civilised governments to kill. Perhaps there is a case for defensive war. But if
we make wars of aggression a crime, there will be less wars and less need for
defence," he said at the royal charity dinner and launching of the Kuala Lumpur
Foundation to Criminalise War at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC),
here.
The foundation was launched by Malaysian King Tuanku Mizan Zainal
Abidin.
Expressing his sadness over innocent women and children who became the war
victims, Dr Mahathir said people needed to understand the horrors of war and to
be concerned about the fate of the young victims.
"Yet we all, every single human society regard killing a crime, a crime
so serious that it warrants the harshest of punishment. How do we reconcile this
with the legitimacy of killing people on a massive scale, in their hundreds of
thousand, accompanied by extensive destruction to towns and cities?," he
said.
Meanwhile, the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War Royal Charity
Dinner Committee chairman, Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, in her speech, said the
dinner was to raise funds to carry out the foundation's voluntary programmes on
a national and global basis as well as to acquire a suitable premises to serve
as the foundation's headquarters.
"Your kind and generous support will certainly contribute immensely to the
foundation's voluntary work to create awareness among the public that war as
an instrument of foreign policy is a crime, a crime against humanity, against
peace and the whole mankind," she said.
The foundation was established last year to provide assistance and relief
to victims of war as well as promote education of individuals and communities
suffering from the effects of war or armed conflict.
-- BERNAMA
would result in less wars and less need for defence, founder and chairman of the
Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said Friday
night.
Dr Mahathir, a former Malaysian prime minsiter, said war made beasts of
ordinary men and women, and the cruelties perpetrated were beyond
imagination.
"Yet they are perpetrated by ordinary human beings who have been trained by
civilised governments to kill. Perhaps there is a case for defensive war. But if
we make wars of aggression a crime, there will be less wars and less need for
defence," he said at the royal charity dinner and launching of the Kuala Lumpur
Foundation to Criminalise War at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC),
here.
The foundation was launched by Malaysian King Tuanku Mizan Zainal
Abidin.
Expressing his sadness over innocent women and children who became the war
victims, Dr Mahathir said people needed to understand the horrors of war and to
be concerned about the fate of the young victims.
"Yet we all, every single human society regard killing a crime, a crime
so serious that it warrants the harshest of punishment. How do we reconcile this
with the legitimacy of killing people on a massive scale, in their hundreds of
thousand, accompanied by extensive destruction to towns and cities?," he
said.
Meanwhile, the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War Royal Charity
Dinner Committee chairman, Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, in her speech, said the
dinner was to raise funds to carry out the foundation's voluntary programmes on
a national and global basis as well as to acquire a suitable premises to serve
as the foundation's headquarters.
"Your kind and generous support will certainly contribute immensely to the
foundation's voluntary work to create awareness among the public that war as
an instrument of foreign policy is a crime, a crime against humanity, against
peace and the whole mankind," she said.
The foundation was established last year to provide assistance and relief
to victims of war as well as promote education of individuals and communities
suffering from the effects of war or armed conflict.
-- BERNAMA
