My Humble Request To The Bellicose Rulers Of The World!

This is my humble request
to the bellicose rulers
of the world.

Do you know Ashoka?

Ashoka the Great,
a great Indian emperor
who ruled the country
two thousand years ago.

He, once a warmonger,
became a great
peacemonger.

He, once a warrior,
transformed into a great
pacifist.He fought a bloody
war in Kalinga.

A war of destruction.

A war of
great human tragedy.

Ashoka the Great,
a great Indian emperor,
witnessed the human
tragedy which he himself
caused.

Witnessing the
war and its effects,
affected him
profoundly;
changed him
forever.

Ashoka, a man of war,
became a man of
love; a man of
peace.

Two thousand years ago,
a war changed him
into a peace-loving
man, a Buddhist.

You Demagogues,
You Hypocrites,
You warmongers,

how many wars
have you, rulers
of the modern world,
waged
in the name of
peace;
in the name of
language;
in the name of
religion;
in the name of
nationalism.

My humble request
to you, bellicose rulers
of the world, is
this:

When will you
learn
a lesson
from the past;
from the story
of Ashoka,
a great Indian emperor,
who ruled the country
two thousand years ago?