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When shall we Learn?

A Bosnian youth rendered shelterless in the snow capped heights
No hope, no aid, not even a grain of food to fill his appetite

Left in the open to shiver to death at night
Encountered by starvation in the day and the Serbian might

With faith in his heart, like a glimmer of light
He picks up arms to avenge his people's sorry plight

A terrorist they call him and terrorism his fight
Only to stop their crimes from coming under light

A fanatic, extremist, fundamentalist he is portayed
But the light of Eeman and the zeal in his heart

Cannot be diminished by propaganda so farce
A Palestinian boy with a sling in his hand
Pelting stones at the occupiers of the Holy Land

A terrorist he is by the law of this age
Agonized and tortured like a bird locked in his cage;

Marching on silently to death in captivity
To break free from the fetters of an unbearable agony

From the valley of Kashmir, rise the cries of the oppressed
The tortured, terrified, raped and suppressed

With weapons in their hand and their cause so sublime
Waging "jihad" against the barbarians of their time
A struggle for peace, against injustice and oppression
Against the killings and destruction, the torture not to mention

Yet the World turns it's eye blind towards the atrocities perpetrated
The people maimed and the violence so naked

In the freezing cold of Grozny's plains
Land missiles, bombs and shells unrestrained

Roofs blown off and buildings razed
Civilians carnaged and buried in mass graves

An army drunken, let loose like dogs untamed
To dishonour the people, like beasts insane

"Concerned we are", says the hypocrite Uncle Sam
Yet gloats and cares not even a damn
"Terrorists", they are branded, with bloodstains on their own hands

So shamelessly they commiserate with the oppressor, committing massacres in the land
When shall we learn?

And not just cry for help and yearn?
For the global powers to intervene
Is it not enough, what we have seen?

From the bombardment of Iraq and Lebanon
To the land mines in Afghanistan
And the mass graves in Bosnia and Kosovo
To the human right abuses in Kashmir
When shall we learn?

And not just cry for help and yearn?
That we are the architects of our own destiny
And not the western help, nor its money
Uncle Sam, UN and NATO shall never intervene
Except when the mass graves are dug and the blood bath is over