The deep shock and outrage at the dastardly killing of about
a dozen innocent people watching the new Batman film- The
Dark Knight Rises in Denver, Colorado filtered through newspapers, blogs
and related articles and made instant headlines, the world over. It was indeed
a ‘’Dark NIGHT’’ for the audience.
The alleged culprit just about 24 years old, obviously a maniac
has since shown no remorse for the massacre.
The administration was quick to apprehend the suspect
before any further similar horrendous attempts, were made. Investigations in
the case later showed that the act was pre-meditated months earlier and
executed as scheduled.
One can easily identify the pain of the next of kin of
the deceased as the attacks claimed innocent lives who never knew what destiny
had in store for them.
The western countries have always valued Human Life in a
different perspective. Research and analysis is done and different innovative
ways are brooded upon to prevent or minimize such loss of human life whether by
homicide, suicide or natural disasters. The culprits are nailed quickly and
justice prevails.
Every possible angle is probed into to ensure there is
minimum loss of life and property. Their disaster management cell is well awake to all possible threats and search
and rescue squads are always on their toes to meet any contingencies.
In contrast here, in India more than 80,000 people
succumb to road accidents every passing year and the figures are alarmingly
increasing in geometric progression. People get killed in petty issues –
indiscriminate celebratory firing during trivial events like winning an
election, marriage ceremonies etc. We have army men chucking helpless people
out of trains in frustration. We have kids getting crushed under their own
school buses. Countless People who perished in the 1984 Bhopal Gas holocaust
have long been forgotten and given a measly sum of 400 USD in compensation. The
irony of the case gets further magnified as entire families have been wiped out
leaving behind no claimants. It seems in India life is very cheap and its value
is easily identifiable and can be fixed with alarming ease. The value of a
human life has steadily eroded over the years and deriving a fair and equitable
Justice is virtually impossible for the common man.
Had any Indian company perpetrated such an act in the US
our entire country and its economy would have been held to ransom and the
perpetrators whisked away and swiftly tried in US Courts.
Compare that to the recent case when India had to move
HEAVEN and EARTH just to get access to David Coleman Headley for questioning who
covertly had provided logistical and tactical support to the Mumbai terror attacks
in 2008.
Losing a life and being a citizen of US /Israel /European
countries would reap in huge compensation to the affected families and almost
succeed in brow beating the suspect Country behind the act to abject penury.
In contrast on July 16th 2012 the US Navy
fired indiscriminately and killed an Indian fisherman in Dubai near Jebel Ali
port, under the pretext of MISTAKEN IDENTITY. Obviously we being a soft state a
token apology from the perpetrator of the crime was accepted without a murmur.
In April 2001
16 Border Security Force personnel were brutally ambushed and killed near
Meghalaya border by the Bangladesh Rifles and the dead bodies were tied to
bamboo poles and paraded in the Villages.
A ‘’STRONG ‘’
Protest was lodged with the Bangladesh High Commission as per the standard norm
by our Govt. which under stably was overlooked by the Bangladeshi officials.
The case is still being pursued at an official level between the diplomats at a
leisurely pace. Only the families of those killed would know and experience the
pain, anguish and humiliation.
Time and again we
had to go through this humiliation because of the persona of a soft state or
perhaps a failed state??
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