In 1861 there was a Judge in America who thought there was nothing immoral in slavery.
Mr Abraham Lincoln had this to say.
" .... Judge Douglas ..... proceeds to assume, without proving it, that slavery is one of this little, unimportant, trivial matters which are of just about as much consequence as the question would be to me, whether my neighbour should raise horned cattle or raise tobacco; that there is no moral question about it, but that it is altogether a matter of dollars and cents; that when a new territory is opened for settlement, the first man who goes there may plant there a thing which, like the Canada thistle or some other of those pests of the soil, cannot be dug out by the millions of men who will come thereafter; that it is one of the little things that is so trivial in its nature that it has no effect on anybody save the few men who first plant upon its soil; that it is not a thing which in any way affects the family of communities composing these states, nor any way endangers the general government. Judge Douglas ignores the very well known fact that we have never had a serious menace to our political existence except it sprang from this thing, which he chooses to regard as only on par with onions and potatoes."
Quotation is from Abraham Lincoln - Life and Speeches and Letters -- Wordsworth Classics.
Sir, in agreeing to inquiry by a "hybrid court" the TNA ranks the genocide of Tamils with onions and potatoes
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