fredag 16. desember 2011

The Assassination

On 30th of January 1948 Mahatma Gandhi was assasinated. You don't dare to tell me that you don't know who Gandhi was! Gandhi was one of the most facinating and inspiriting persons here on this earth. He stood up against the British and got all of India and South - Africa with him. He wanted to eliminate the discrimination and he did. Without using any violence! That's an acomplishment, I believe, only a man of great knowledge, will and committment could be able to carry through.

But what I wanted to talk about in this blogentry was his assassination. That day in January he was shot at point-blank range by a man named Nathuram Godse. He was an hindutva activist, and at the time of the assassination Gandhi had just given the muslims the areas in India where it was Muslim-majority. The hindus saw this as a betrail, because Gandhi himself was a Hindu. Gandhi believed it would bring peace, but instead he was assassinated because of his agreement to this seperation of muslim and hindu. 

Gandhi was, at the time of his death, a man who we all remember as old and always wearing his little round glasses. But I hope after you've read this, you will remember him for much more than that.
Truely a man of knowledge, will and committment, and a man who inspired millions of people and changed. something, ment something and made a diffrence.

A man who will be remembered as one of the most important in the history og humanity.