Deepachelvan’s PoemTranslation of his poem in Tamil titled
யுத்தகால நிகழ்வுகளின் கலந்துரையாடல்
Translated into English by Latha Ramakrishnan
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About Our War-Time incidents
They are going to discuss.
No one has committed any crime _
This is what all Enquiries say.
The children know everything.
Even the most brutally cruel nights
They call snow-covered
The hands of all do have
criss-cross lines of blood-stains.
Whether they had properly handled
the weapons
Whether they had deftly thrown
the bombs
Whether they are aptly positioned_
So, all the Commissions keep
enquiring.
All the Enquiries
that collect and hold
the blood oozing out of
the Tables of Democracy
are tricky; vicious.
In the Land for which
the boon of children is banned
They bring laws
against their rights to live.
How brutally cruel the
War-time incidents
was revealed by children
narrated, weeping,
with blood-stained faces
and deeply wounded voices.
No one seems to have
any intention of
withdrawing the Forces.
They manufactured Claymores
for all generations to come;
Bombs, for all cities
and Atom-bomb against
the very Earth itself.
it is Guns that keep wandering
against all the people.
They so brutally ruined
the World of Children.
Forever War goes on
in some corner.
Somewhere children, terror-struck,
are hiding as the
very personification of fear.
All Enquiries and Commissions
without exception
list out the victories
gained in war.
Exchanging cups they throw open
even more war-zones.
They hang on,
pondering over the ways and means of
creating Power-Structures.
They start probing the
‘Godown’, closed down
They instruct the soldiers
to have a firm hold on their riffles
that grow weak in their
hands.
In Iraq’s oil-wells
children are hiding.
The bombs thrown in Afganisthan
are still simmering
American Forces swell
and pervade
the entire world.
About our war-time incidents
They are going to discuss
For obtaining something,
and also to perform-
With smiles they gather in an
assemblage.
One and All so cleverly hide
the fact of
One and All being ‘War-Criminals.’
The Children know Everything.
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* America has declared that in connection with War-Crimes it is going to conduct an Enquiry on the former Army General of Sri Lanka, Sarath Ponseka,
About Our War-Time incidents
They are going to discuss.
No one has committed any crime _
This is what all Enquiries say.
The children know everything.
Even the most brutally cruel nights
They call snow-covered
The hands of all do have
criss-cross lines of blood-stains.
Whether they had properly handled
the weapons
Whether they had deftly thrown
the bombs
Whether they are aptly positioned_
So, all the Commissions keep
enquiring.
All the Enquiries
that collect and hold
the blood oozing out of
the Tables of Democracy
are tricky; vicious.
In the Land for which
the boon of children is banned
They bring laws
against their rights to live.
How brutally cruel the
War-time incidents
was revealed by children
narrated, weeping,
with blood-stained faces
and deeply wounded voices.
No one seems to have
any intention of
withdrawing the Forces.
They manufactured Claymores
for all generations to come;
Bombs, for all cities
and Atom-bomb against
the very Earth itself.
it is Guns that keep wandering
against all the people.
They so brutally ruined
the World of Children.
Forever War goes on
in some corner.
Somewhere children, terror-struck,
are hiding as the
very personification of fear.
All Enquiries and Commissions
without exception
list out the victories
gained in war.
Exchanging cups they throw open
even more war-zones.
They hang on,
pondering over the ways and means of
creating Power-Structures.
They start probing the
‘Godown’, closed down
They instruct the soldiers
to have a firm hold on their riffles
that grow weak in their
hands.
In Iraq’s oil-wells
children are hiding.
The bombs thrown in Afganisthan
are still simmering
American Forces swell
and pervade
the entire world.
About our war-time incidents
They are going to discuss
For obtaining something,
and also to perform-
With smiles they gather in an
assemblage.
One and All so cleverly hide
the fact of
One and All being ‘War-Criminals.’
The Children know Everything.
---------------------------------------------------------
* America has declared that in connection with War-Crimes it is going to conduct an Enquiry on the former Army General of Sri Lanka, Sarath Ponseka,
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