Even if your above statement is nearly true , should present generations suffer for the atrocities of their forefathers?
Again, to be absolutely clinical, NO.
Yet, on the other hand, the human race is fallible and if they were not so, they would be Gods.
None bothered about what had happened in history. Past was the Past.
However, the Present through mindless terrorism, in the name of religion, awakened the Past! Irrational that it is, yet it exists.
It normally does not find expression except when in conflict of ideas, as is happening on this thread.
Even so, one is not blaming the forefathers, they are merely being recalled to stand witness to the postulations made on the posts.
Be it Netaji in Germany or the Somnath sacking!
You must see the context and then opine.
There is always the danger of inflaming the thread without giving thought and penning the first gut reaction.