Attack on Lanka cricketers revives Munich memories
Updated On: 04 March, 2009 07:49 AM IST | | khalid a-h ansari
Yesterday's attack on the Sri Lankan team revives memories of the 1972 Olympics Games when 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer were killed by Palestinian gunmen
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Yesterday's attack on the Sri Lankan team revives memories of the 1972 Olympics Games when 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer were killed by Palestinian gunmenYesterday's attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore has revived horrific memories of last November's terrorist carnage in Mumbai, not to mention the Sept 11u00a0 blitz on New York's Twin Towers, and the guning down of Israeli athletes by Palestinian gunmen in the 1972 Munich Olympics Games Village.
The latest declaration of war by terrorists on world sport, heretofore considered sacrosanct and above politics by idealists, has plunged the sporting world in gloom and created a crisis that seems to have no end in sight in the foreseeable future.
It has exposed sanctimonious professions by the likes of former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan who, while repeatedly pleading for resumption of cricket tours of that country, have been living in a fool's paradise in maintaining that cricketers are too revered and beloved in the Indian sub-continent to ever be victims of any terrorist attack.
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Sri Lankan spinner Ajantha Mendis (left), Tharanga Paranavitana (centre) and assistant coach Paul Farbrace aboard an ambulance early today morning shortly after flying home from Pakistan. pic/AFP Trending StoriesLatest Photos |
