Tuesday, January 16, 2007

The one with the Nithari killings

I won't go into details of the whole story. I'll leave a link.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/nithari-40-bags-of-human-remains-found/top/31238-3.html

I've been following the whole story every since it first emerged. Yes, it was during the exams. I shamelessly watched NDTV for hours. This the first time something so huge and barbaric has happened in "my time". It's like a milestone, full of gor.

I just want to assess how ignorant we are. The police and government in this case were ignorant. At the same time, they did do something about it. They had set up a team for a fortnight two years ago and arrested Mohinder once. I'm not defending them but their side has to be considered too. I could be making blatant assumptions but Uttar Pradesh I believe, is a lot less secure than other states. Crime is probably more prevailing there with hundreds of missing children and kidnapping cases. It must be hard for the police force with they're meager resources to crack every case.
We've seen that public pressure usually helps in these things. People need to be more aware of their surroundings. We're so ignorant. I blame myself too. I see something bad on the road and I just forget about it. If the police cannot prioritize well the we have to do that for them. We may have to work hard for it but that doesn't change the fact that justice has to be delivered.
I remember once on my way to college I saw this man violently beating up his wife and kid. There were about 5-6 other men just watching the entire incident. They did nothing. But is it right for me to blame them when I didn't do anything either? I know, I was in a vehicle; I couldn't just jump on the road or possibly get involved in the ordeal. But the fact remains that I was ignorant too.

This probably isn't the first serial killer. Others just haven't been caught yet. I hate it when people lap things up by saying that "things aren't as bad as they are in the US". No, in fact, things are much worse here. We don't have any less number of rape cases; more than half of them aren't even reported. So many children are missing. God knows how many of them are being abused, dismembered and trapped in child trafficking.

It's pure ignorance that's driving us backwards.

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