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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 170562" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Mumbai Massacre Perpetrator's Sentence Affirmed </span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Even as the death sentence of the Mumbai massacre's lone living perpetrator was affirmed last week, murderous politicians show how medieval justice in India remains. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">by Dilip D’Souza - September 3, 2012 4:45 AM EDT </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In Mumbai on August 29, activists of the Shiv Sena party distributed sweets. Which is what you usually do when there's been a birth in the family, or a marriage, or some other good news. Elsewhere the same day, the head of their party, Uddhav Thackeray, demanded a public hanging. Not what you usually do when there's been a birth in the family or such like.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Turns out that both these were reactions to the same bit of news: India's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence a lower court gave Mohammed Ajmal Kasab.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Kasab is the only survivor of the gang of armed thugs who swarmed ashore and attacked Mumbai (/articles/2012/07/01/mumbai-terror-attack-group-lashkar-e-tayyiba-now-more-dangerous-than-al-qaeda.html) in November 2008, killing over 160 people. He was captured and--despite loud calls to flay him alive, lynch him, tear him apart, and the like -- given a lengthy trial. It ended where we all knew it had to: he was found guilty and sentenced to die. Routine, predictable stuff, really. But for me, the trial was a thing of pride, a reminder of a country's faith in justice and the rule of law. It marked us as different from terrorists who kill indiscriminately.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>The reminder is a good thing, because that faith is too often tested. In November 1984, mobs roamed the streets of Delhi, intent on slaughter, many of them instigated and led by powerful politicians. In days, they had killed 3,000 Sikhs. 26 years later, nobody has been punished for what I consider India's greatest crime -- if it makes any perverse sense to choose. In late 1992 and early 1993, mobs killed about a thousand in Mumbai, the majority of them Muslim. Again, powerful politicians led the mobs, egged the murderers on. One was even caught by the Army at the height of the violence, roaming in a jeep crammed with gangsters and weapons, including an unlicensed gun. Again, 20 years on, nobody has been punished. Not only was the man the Army caught never punished, he even won election to Parliament afterward. (My MP, to my disgust).</strong> </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Justice? People like me believe it's like the Loch Ness monster: widely spoken about, but nobody has seen it for years. And if that's what justice has been reduced to, we worry for our country. We fear the anarchy that must inevitably lie ahead.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Which is why we welcomed Kasab's trial. Even though every one of us knew he was guilty -- after all, we actually watched him doing his worst -- here was justice at work, as it must always be, in the shape it must always take. That it also stimulates demands for public executions is another matter.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But, as we found out on August 29, justice was at work elsewhere too.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In the state of Gujarat, in February and March 2002, mobs killed over 2,000 people. One such mob went to the lower-middle-class Muslim ghetto of Naroda-Patiya in Ahmedabad. Like in Delhi and Mumbai before, this mob was instigated and led by a powerful politician. This time, it was a woman. This time, it was a doctor. Maya Kodkani, a practicing gynecologist, was also an elected member of the Gujarat state assembly. Witnesses saw her distributing swords to the blood-crazed mob, urging them on to slaughter.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In a few hours, they killed upwards of 90 people. In a season of massacres, if it makes any perverse sense to choose, this was the supreme one.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Witnesses saw her distributing swords to the blood-crazed mob, urging them on to slaughter.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Killing done, Dr Kodkani went back to her practice and to her elected office. In 2007, she won election again and now became Gujarat's Minister for Women's Development and Child Welfare. This is one of those times that I must swear, like Dave Barry is often constrained to do in his humor columns, that I am not making this up. Not that there is anything remotely humorous in the effort to comprehend this repulsive truth: overseeing the welfare of Gujarat's children and its women's development for a period a few years ago was a lady doctor who, a few years before that, had led the murder of 90+ Gujaratis, including 34 children and 32 women.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But yes, justice was at work too. A case was filed against Kodnani and several dozen others over the Naroda-Patiya massacre. In 2009, the Gujarat Government -- the same Government Kodnani was serving--actually filed an affidavit (<a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-02-21/news/28413366_1_kodnani-affidavit-mla-and-allegations" target="_blank">http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-02-21/news/28413366_1_kodnani-affidavit-mla-and-allegations</a>) in this case, averring that Kodnani "was the leader of mob … and allegations against her is [that] she was instigating the mob to commit crime and therefore she was playing the main role." Also, "she is a minister in the present government, so there are ample chances of tampering with prosecution witnesses by way of giving threat."</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Makes you wonder: If the Gujarat Government knew all these things about Kodnani, why was she made minister anyway? Were they thumbing their noses at the people of Gujarat, at the rest of us Indians? And this little capsule history -- elected representative leads a massacre, joins her government as minister, her government tells the court she might use her position as minister to intimidate witnesses -- has it happened anywhere else in the world?</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">On August 29, Justice Jyotsna Yagnik of a special Gujarat court found Kodnani and 31 others guilty for the Naroda-Patiya massacre.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Their cases offer up plenty to debate: the death penalty itself, the coming to power of criminals and more. All that will happen over the weeks and months to come. But meanwhile, I'm struck by the attitudes towards these two people. There's universal hatred for Kasab, but plenty of support for Kodnani, even after her conviction. Plenty of people who say what she did was justified. No, the Shiv Sena has not handed out sweets to celebrate her conviction, nor has its chief demanded she be publicly hanged.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">All of which is why the juxtaposition of these two cases is fortuitous. Because perhaps it will finally make us ask: what is the difference between the crimes these two people committed? What is the difference between these two people, period?</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">I see none.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">No, I see one difference: one of them was never a Minister.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong> <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/03/mumbai-massacre-perpetrator-s-sentence-affirmed.print.html" target="_blank">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/03/mumbai-massacre-perpetrator-s-sentence-affirmed.print.html</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 170562, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"] [B][SIZE="5"]Mumbai Massacre Perpetrator's Sentence Affirmed [/SIZE][/B] [B]Even as the death sentence of the Mumbai massacre's lone living perpetrator was affirmed last week, murderous politicians show how medieval justice in India remains. [/B] by Dilip D’Souza - September 3, 2012 4:45 AM EDT In Mumbai on August 29, activists of the Shiv Sena party distributed sweets. Which is what you usually do when there's been a birth in the family, or a marriage, or some other good news. Elsewhere the same day, the head of their party, Uddhav Thackeray, demanded a public hanging. Not what you usually do when there's been a birth in the family or such like. Turns out that both these were reactions to the same bit of news: India's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence a lower court gave Mohammed Ajmal Kasab. Kasab is the only survivor of the gang of armed thugs who swarmed ashore and attacked Mumbai (/articles/2012/07/01/mumbai-terror-attack-group-lashkar-e-tayyiba-now-more-dangerous-than-al-qaeda.html) in November 2008, killing over 160 people. He was captured and--despite loud calls to flay him alive, lynch him, tear him apart, and the like -- given a lengthy trial. It ended where we all knew it had to: he was found guilty and sentenced to die. Routine, predictable stuff, really. But for me, the trial was a thing of pride, a reminder of a country's faith in justice and the rule of law. It marked us as different from terrorists who kill indiscriminately. [B]The reminder is a good thing, because that faith is too often tested. In November 1984, mobs roamed the streets of Delhi, intent on slaughter, many of them instigated and led by powerful politicians. In days, they had killed 3,000 Sikhs. 26 years later, nobody has been punished for what I consider India's greatest crime -- if it makes any perverse sense to choose. In late 1992 and early 1993, mobs killed about a thousand in Mumbai, the majority of them Muslim. Again, powerful politicians led the mobs, egged the murderers on. One was even caught by the Army at the height of the violence, roaming in a jeep crammed with gangsters and weapons, including an unlicensed gun. Again, 20 years on, nobody has been punished. Not only was the man the Army caught never punished, he even won election to Parliament afterward. (My MP, to my disgust).[/B] Justice? People like me believe it's like the Loch Ness monster: widely spoken about, but nobody has seen it for years. And if that's what justice has been reduced to, we worry for our country. We fear the anarchy that must inevitably lie ahead. Which is why we welcomed Kasab's trial. Even though every one of us knew he was guilty -- after all, we actually watched him doing his worst -- here was justice at work, as it must always be, in the shape it must always take. That it also stimulates demands for public executions is another matter. But, as we found out on August 29, justice was at work elsewhere too. In the state of Gujarat, in February and March 2002, mobs killed over 2,000 people. One such mob went to the lower-middle-class Muslim ghetto of Naroda-Patiya in Ahmedabad. Like in Delhi and Mumbai before, this mob was instigated and led by a powerful politician. This time, it was a woman. This time, it was a doctor. Maya Kodkani, a practicing gynecologist, was also an elected member of the Gujarat state assembly. Witnesses saw her distributing swords to the blood-crazed mob, urging them on to slaughter. In a few hours, they killed upwards of 90 people. In a season of massacres, if it makes any perverse sense to choose, this was the supreme one. Witnesses saw her distributing swords to the blood-crazed mob, urging them on to slaughter. Killing done, Dr Kodkani went back to her practice and to her elected office. In 2007, she won election again and now became Gujarat's Minister for Women's Development and Child Welfare. This is one of those times that I must swear, like Dave Barry is often constrained to do in his humor columns, that I am not making this up. Not that there is anything remotely humorous in the effort to comprehend this repulsive truth: overseeing the welfare of Gujarat's children and its women's development for a period a few years ago was a lady doctor who, a few years before that, had led the murder of 90+ Gujaratis, including 34 children and 32 women. But yes, justice was at work too. A case was filed against Kodnani and several dozen others over the Naroda-Patiya massacre. In 2009, the Gujarat Government -- the same Government Kodnani was serving--actually filed an affidavit ([url]http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-02-21/news/28413366_1_kodnani-affidavit-mla-and-allegations[/url]) in this case, averring that Kodnani "was the leader of mob … and allegations against her is [that] she was instigating the mob to commit crime and therefore she was playing the main role." Also, "she is a minister in the present government, so there are ample chances of tampering with prosecution witnesses by way of giving threat." Makes you wonder: If the Gujarat Government knew all these things about Kodnani, why was she made minister anyway? Were they thumbing their noses at the people of Gujarat, at the rest of us Indians? And this little capsule history -- elected representative leads a massacre, joins her government as minister, her government tells the court she might use her position as minister to intimidate witnesses -- has it happened anywhere else in the world? On August 29, Justice Jyotsna Yagnik of a special Gujarat court found Kodnani and 31 others guilty for the Naroda-Patiya massacre. Their cases offer up plenty to debate: the death penalty itself, the coming to power of criminals and more. All that will happen over the weeks and months to come. But meanwhile, I'm struck by the attitudes towards these two people. There's universal hatred for Kasab, but plenty of support for Kodnani, even after her conviction. Plenty of people who say what she did was justified. No, the Shiv Sena has not handed out sweets to celebrate her conviction, nor has its chief demanded she be publicly hanged. All of which is why the juxtaposition of these two cases is fortuitous. Because perhaps it will finally make us ask: what is the difference between the crimes these two people committed? What is the difference between these two people, period? I see none. No, I see one difference: one of them was never a Minister. [B]source:[/B] [url]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/03/mumbai-massacre-perpetrator-s-sentence-affirmed.print.html[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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