Did you see any old movies, where a mighty king can throw people behind bars
and having killed at whim? That part is no fiction. Those were medieval
ages where life is not a right but mercy of the government.
Later that practice is abolished due to political movements and called it Right to Life. It means my life is mine, though Govt is superior , it cannot take my life from me except following the process of law.
We, Indians have “right to life " as a fundamental right. It means, Govt cannot put me behind bars without reason, or hang me without proving my guilt in the court of law. (That’s the theory).
In the recent encounters at Telangana and Andhra Pradesh , Netizens gave their support to police , presuming it as revenge ( Tollywood is famous for Revenge stories next to love stories . ) They questioned the Human Rights activists, why don’t they ask terrorist groups and criminals to stop doing crime, and if police were not humans and what about rights of their lives ?
Let's say, like in the movies of 70s and 80s, police came to your home and took you to police station, or shot you dead. Do you think it wont happen? Do you think all police personal are saints, and their hearts burn with guilty when they have use force?
As I tried to explain earlier, Human rights are to prohibit govt from killing the citizens. You know, you can make a complaint to Human Rights commission, if family of martyred police didn’t get the ex-gratia or promised job to the family member on humanitarian grounds. Human rights commission is another weapon for a citizen along with courts, to ward of Govt if it encroaches into the personal space.
If you believe Good people and Bad people are two different people, then, please close this window and continue playing candy crush saga.
If power does not corrupt, then we don't have to come a long way from Monarchy to Democracy. Somehow power, brings out the true nature of humans. To check that, we been using accountability. If police is not accountable for the bullets they use, the situation will be too dark.
Yesterday I went to “Encountering accountability”, a discussion pertaining to recent Encounters that happened in Telugu land.
The second speaker, a lady, forgot her name, is quite imaginative, and a conspiracy theorist. In the encounter that happened in Telangana, three police were shot dead and wife of one of them is a pregnant. And her imagination is the encounter is a set up (assumption required to be a human rights activist) and Govt handpicked the officer whose wife is a pregnant, so that people will justify the killing of others. That’s where I stood up and walked out.
The first speaker, Jeevan Kumar is lot sensible than her. Unlike her, he talked on data collected. One intriguing point he raised is about the word Encounter itself. The usual story is that police with arms, with no intention of using them, were going to somewhere, then they were attacked by criminals (including Naxalites) , in order to save their own lives, they have opened fire, and criminals got killed.
Later that practice is abolished due to political movements and called it Right to Life. It means my life is mine, though Govt is superior , it cannot take my life from me except following the process of law.
We, Indians have “right to life " as a fundamental right. It means, Govt cannot put me behind bars without reason, or hang me without proving my guilt in the court of law. (That’s the theory).
In the recent encounters at Telangana and Andhra Pradesh , Netizens gave their support to police , presuming it as revenge ( Tollywood is famous for Revenge stories next to love stories . ) They questioned the Human Rights activists, why don’t they ask terrorist groups and criminals to stop doing crime, and if police were not humans and what about rights of their lives ?
Let's say, like in the movies of 70s and 80s, police came to your home and took you to police station, or shot you dead. Do you think it wont happen? Do you think all police personal are saints, and their hearts burn with guilty when they have use force?
As I tried to explain earlier, Human rights are to prohibit govt from killing the citizens. You know, you can make a complaint to Human Rights commission, if family of martyred police didn’t get the ex-gratia or promised job to the family member on humanitarian grounds. Human rights commission is another weapon for a citizen along with courts, to ward of Govt if it encroaches into the personal space.
If you believe Good people and Bad people are two different people, then, please close this window and continue playing candy crush saga.
If power does not corrupt, then we don't have to come a long way from Monarchy to Democracy. Somehow power, brings out the true nature of humans. To check that, we been using accountability. If police is not accountable for the bullets they use, the situation will be too dark.
Yesterday I went to “Encountering accountability”, a discussion pertaining to recent Encounters that happened in Telugu land.
The second speaker, a lady, forgot her name, is quite imaginative, and a conspiracy theorist. In the encounter that happened in Telangana, three police were shot dead and wife of one of them is a pregnant. And her imagination is the encounter is a set up (assumption required to be a human rights activist) and Govt handpicked the officer whose wife is a pregnant, so that people will justify the killing of others. That’s where I stood up and walked out.
The first speaker, Jeevan Kumar is lot sensible than her. Unlike her, he talked on data collected. One intriguing point he raised is about the word Encounter itself. The usual story is that police with arms, with no intention of using them, were going to somewhere, then they were attacked by criminals (including Naxalites) , in order to save their own lives, they have opened fire, and criminals got killed.
1.
If the usual story is true, then in many cases, death
of police should occur, which is very rare.
2.
Coming to the specific incident which happened in
seshachalam forest. Criminals were in hundreds, they attacked police by throwing
stones and axes, and police opened fire. 20 criminals died. None were injured,
none were arrested. Now that i am writing, the incident reminded me the climax
of “ The Great escape”.
A common Netizen justification is that, few police got
beaten up in the past by the same gang, regarding Seshachalam incident. So it’s
a revenge story, super hit.
Dont get confused
that justice and revenge are same. Punishment through the process of law, is
not just to placate the victims family, but its remind others that, there is powerful
force above attacker and victim, and breaking the law will not be tolerated.
I support Human rights , up to the point of controlling the
Govt to take lives of citizens. I am not that Human Rights activist who believe
death penalty should be abolished, i support it. In fact, i always wonder why they
don’t hang people in public which will install fear better than reading the
news about it.
Continents move faster than our courts. Should we go for “ Instant justice” then? That’s a good idea, provided that only
wise have the power to use weapons. We
cant trust all police, and i will not trust the police who took the sparking
plug of my friends bike to get money. If he is given a gun and no
accountability on how he used it, there the only difference between him and a
gangster would be just uniform.
We might romanticize the police encounters for “Instant
justice” like the movie Bharateeyudu. But what if the old man starts using his
martial arts skill for his own purpose not for the society ?
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