22-05-2011
When terrorism became a curse of history, Osama Bin Laden turned into its infamous Fakir. He refined its forms, contemplated with due diligence and threw upon his enemies with great perfection. And when he threw the curse, it stuck well and wrought havoc. That killed people in hordes and brought shivers to the knees of mighty nations. He established the largest underworld of terror governance and threw curses across the continents with high and unparalleled sophistication. When he was incapacitated, albeit some questions of peripheral legality, no one raised a finger of disapproval. Because, humanity wanted terrorism restrained, reduced, removed and erased. And those who dared to risk their lives on the mission to kill the master of terrorism were rewarded and revered.
I often wonder whether India is as resolute and responsible in thwarting the curse of terrorism!
Take for example the terrorist and extortionist Sohrabuddin who was wanted in three states or Ishrat Jahan who, as per Central Intelligence bureau inputs, entered Gujarat with Pakistani nationals to kill the Chief Minister Modi. When they were felled by Gujarat police, instead of celebrating the significant dent made on terrorism in India, a political party pursued Muslim appeasement policy by way of encouraging Teesta Setalvad to move a petition saying that the encounters were fake. Unlike the accolades and rewards poured on those who opposed terrorism in the world, the cops who dared to take the terrorism head-on in India lost their jobs and even a Home Minister was jailed. Sending those who strive hard to keep law and order to prison makes the Fakirs who send down the curse of terrorism - stronger, confident, brazen and successful. When the underworld of terrorism is allowed to rise above ground, the over-world of law and security becomes terrorized and invalid. With this, the Government supported NGOs like those of Teesta Setalvad become far more powerful .
The Central Government has an uncanny knack of chasing the wrong goose and killing the guardians. It allows those who waged Kargil war to be guest speakers in New Delhi. It goes overboard to shake hands with a Government that has planned and bred terrorism on its soil with a sole purpose of striking us in Kashmir and Mumbai. The senility of top leadership in Governance has no vision of right against wrong.
If Pakistan is a rogue State that breeds and broadcasts terrorism, we are a senile State that tolerate terrorism and wrongly punish those who oppose it. If USA considers the killing of a terrorist an act of war that’s beyond the considerations of sovereignty of another nation, India considers the killing of a terrorist as an act that displeases a particular community. If USA rewards and celebrates its heroes who decimate terrorists, India unseats and jails those who try to nip terrorism in the bud. If USA feels that the attack on WTC is violation of their sovereignty and then justifies killing even the unarmed perpetrator of violence on the soil of another country, India spends millions in keeping Afzal Guru safe and alive despite the Supreme Court order of capital punishment to the dreaded attacker of the Parliament.
In fact, the way the Government of India addresses terrorism is in itself terrorising. In the recent goof-up of dossier sent to Pakistan asking to hand over 50 terrorists, a few have been traced to India. The Government does not know who it is searching for & who it has found. The icing on the cake is the appointment of Binayak Sen to a Committee of the Planning Commission, a convict of no less a charge than sedition.
At a time when we have to move forward with head held high, we have begun to move backwards on sly.
My own country is beginning to appear strange to me.
V K Saxena
President
National Council for Civil Liberties
401 Vraj Avenue, C - 2 Swastik Society,
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009 Phone +91-79-26560979, Fax +91-79-26401892
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