Sunday, August 5, 2007

No Remorse

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free
- HH Dalai Lama



While the court has given it's verdict on a lot of people associated with the Mumbai Blasts in '92/93, has justice been served for the victims of the blasts.
The people who have been convicted are foot soldiers while the architects of the blasts roam free.

Dawood is known to own homes in Dubai and Karachi and is supposed to be in pak-afghan border. Musharaff has long denied the existence of Dawood in Pakistan.
Tiger Menon, is in Dubai and has even opened a hotel with some Mumbai hotelier.
His brothers have surrendered and have been convicted even though they did not truly have thier hands into it.
Anees Ibrahim and some of his associates are still scott free in Pakistan.
Abu Salem's case is still in progress.
It took 14 years for justice to take it's course. For one of the biggest terrorist act in the financial capital, this is way too long.

Talking of which, the Mumbai riots case seem to have been forgotten and the victims of the riots have not been given any retributive justice. The Sri Krishna Comission was de-comissioned and the contents have been long forgotten.
The political nexus with the underworld has been ignored while some of the victims of the bollywood nexus have fallen victims to the political agendas. While Sanjay Dutt has been punished for posession of a firearm, Sarpotdar's case for possesion of explosives was dropped. Shiv Sena pramuk Bal Thackrey, the then Chief Minister Murli Monaohar Joshi and other prominent Shiv sainiks who were instrumental during the Mumbai riots have not even been booked.
The cases of bias by the police where they let go some of the hindus and turned blind eye on crimes happenig on muslims are still open. A lot of these were seen at the lower cadre officers. Some of the police officials and the customs officials have been convicted, a lot of them have been vindicated.

We, being the largest democracy, it is our duty to uphold the rights of the citizens. We need to make real effort to deport the terrorists like Dawood, Tiger Anees and the others so that justice can be served. The centre seems to be taking a lot less interest in dealing with UAE and the Pakistan to deport these people. We need to work with the Interpol to achieve these needs. There is a larger concern that they do not want to do this as a lot of political nexus with the underworld could surface.

As for now, it might seemed delayed but there has been some amount of justice served to the mumbaikars. No Remorse.

No mercy for what we are doing
No thought to even what we have done
We don't need to feel the sorrow
No remorse for the helpless one

War without end
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath

Blood feeds the war machine
as it eats its way across the land
We don't need the feel the sorrow
No remorse is the one command
- Metallica

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