Both the printed and the electronic media give priority to such occurrences. It is a paradox that in this high tech era violence reigns supreme unlike even in primitive times. Firearms and chemical weapons of mass destruction invented by modern technology also cause immense loss of human lives. This is not something particular to Asia, Africa or Latin America. To the conventional mind, this tragedy is the harbinger of an imminent world disaster.
Man is the unique dispensation of nature.
The irony is that today man has become his own killer. The split was between man and man enlarged into the division between tribe and tribe race and race and so on. Finally, the different racial groups began to maintain their separate identities, which exercise at times climaxed in ethno-centrism. At the end, the entire globe is overshadowed by violence and bloodshed. Today as we are at the fag end of the 20th century, it has been said that about 80 countries are engulfed in various conflicts.