Practices of injustice can never have last word: Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday said war against terror cannot be won till the causes behind the scourge are addressed. He also underlined that disagreements cannot be responded with “force of annihilation”.

Hailing Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology of non-violence, he said it was as relevant today as a hundred years ago and emphasised that “practices of injustice” can never have the last word. “There is no way we can win the war against terror till we address the conditions which make some of the people desperate and our brothers and sisters are treated as rubbish,” he said addressing the concluding session of the Satyagraha Conference. Referring to the “catastrophe” in Iraq, he said antagonists have resorted to violence but in the end real peace and stability can be achieved only through non-violent means and dialogue.