An ex Guantanamo prisoner and guard meet.

An ex Guantanamo prisoner and guard meet. The guard felt genuine remorse for ill-treating the prisoners few times. The ex-prisoners pardoned him.

What a good display of humanity. Wish more people could forgive each other. The world would be a better place.

[news.bbc.co.uk]

I was delighted to read this news. Many innocent people have been ill-treated at the Guantanamo prison and I am glad that some of the guards are feeling remorse for. It has been seen that ill-treatment of people ignites or enhances hatred which in turn makes people more bitter. This bitterness prompts them to commit more acts of violence resulting in added ill-treatment by states. This cycle just goes on and on. Because of such actions taken by states, the world has become a much worse place in the last 20-30 years.

The peaceful people of Punjab were ill treated and their religious sentiments were crushed by the state and we saw decades of bloodshed there. Countless innocent people were killed by the state but so far there has been no justice. The justice demanding people of Kashmir are being subdued using heavy hand by the state and this has resulted in two decades of bloodshed there. The politically inspired decisions of states result in sufferings for the innocent people. The way the Tamil people have been treated by the Sri Lankan government in 2009 and the way the so called civilized Western countries kept quiet is quite appalling. They have no shame. Bush was clamouring about human rights and human dignity. Where was this clamouring when hundreds of thousands of Tamils were subjected to inhuman atrocities by the Sri Lankan government? A quarter million Tamils are still living in military camps under extreme conditions.

Forgiveness, empathy, and love are the ingredients of lasting happiness but this can happen only if humanity embraces Dharma in true sense.

Kulbir Singh

not only remorse, this is a great example of humility. to appologize and admit wrongdoing one has to subdue the ego.

imagine if world leaders could find this humility, this ability to admit they're not perfect... we'd have a lot less wars in the world today.

Kulbir Singh Wrote:
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. Bush was clamouring
> about human rights and human dignity. Where was
> this clamouring when hundreds of thousands of
> Tamils were subjected to inhuman atrocities by the
> Sri Lankan government? A quarter million Tamils
> are still living in military camps under extreme
> conditions.
>


It appers that " Compassoinate Conservatives" like Bush believe that human rights should be propagated in places where there is a Buck to be made. The whole concept of Nishkam Seva is completely alien to them.