Throughout the course of history, there had been many vicious and callous dictators, rulers whose very appalling acts led to the tragedy of humanity. The close association with history as a student, I can relate my overview as something of a myth along with the true nature of reality. Names that do bear the real nefarious and evil, range on the top with Adolf Hitler, slowly descending to the present day.
Be it the historic genocide committed on the civilians or the great fire of ancient Rome, not to forget Nero, history brings another real image of his complicit in the burning of his own Rome. The intention of today’s history is to compare his name to some of the most brutal acts of crime. History opens its pages soaked in the blood of innocence and the teardrops are stained in a manner of black, the exemplary acts of vicious episodes that forecast a shadow of pain, humiliation and death.
The murderous legacy of Cambodian, the Ugandan massacre or anyone, anywhere, where blood is spilt, the sufferers is humanity alone. As citizens of tomorrow, we should try to learn from the pages of history and try to forget the injustice shown by history as such to the millions across the globe.
(The writer is a Kerala-based columnist)
