India: Today Terrorism Threatens Carnage Like That Of World Wars

UNITED NATIONS: The sacrifices of the 85,000 Indian Army personnel who gave their lives fighting the Axis Powers were remembered at a commemoration of the victims of World War II amid a grim warning that today terrorism threatens to engulf the world in as great a carnage.

"For millennia in India, it has been the philosophy of upholding the values of good over evil that has guided the code of the warrior," India's Deputy Permanent Representative Bhagwant S. Bishnoi said at the General Assembly commemoration.

"It is with this perspective that Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of non-violence, supported Indian participation in the two World Wars despite our then ongoing struggle against colonial rule," he said.

The 2.5 million Indians who joined armed forces made up "the largest volunteer force ever raised in history," he added.

But colossal threats to peace world-wide have emerged again, this time in the form of terrorism and they require a global response, Bishnoi said.
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