26th November, 2008, a black day in the history of our country
left many questions unanswered and raised even more questions as its
aftereffects. Even what happened as an aftereffect itself raised many more
questions. First, let us look upon the aftereffect question which has been
echoing through the whole country, since the day of that heinous crime against
humanity.
Are we prepared to tackle
terrorism and deal with it? It seems, terrorists are more directed towards
their so-called goal than us in defending against such crimes. Year after year,
terrorism is taking its toll on people, yet we stand on ground zero, no
direction, no clue, just dreading for something like this to happen again and
preparing ourselves to play the blame game and vote politics. But I am not
going to discuss that issue here as it has now become old and you all must be
surely aware of this unanswered question and cursed the government and
administration for that. A desperate and ignorant attempt to answer this
question was made a few days back, probably due to the then upcoming
anniversary of the date, to shut up some mouths and bring the citizens in a
false illusion of justice and safety. But, let us discuss this part after we ponder
over the question which officials must have come across after the calamity was
over.
“We have caught a live terrorist, what should we do with it now?” I
thought to myself on the day of his secret death, in a country where these type
of attacks have become a common thing now, shouldn’t the answer to the previous
question have been figured out beforehand?? A delay in 4 years for reaching some sort of
decision itself shows unpreparedness on our part in fighting terrorism, let
alone giving a slap back on its face. And what was the decision made? We killed
something which boldly entered the country, went on a killing spree knowing
that it certainly would be killed in the action and that too after 4 years,
spending crores on its safety. Was this an act of fury or mercy??
No, Mr. President, this wasn’t the type of justice the citizens
killed that day deserved. Most saddening part is that we, the people who
suffered, the people who have been demanding justice accepted this sentence as
a symbol of ‘end of terrorism’. How stupid and ignorant can we get? Kasab was just
a petty goon in a fleet of rascals which stand on its feet, which is still a
threat to any Indian who can be chosen at random.
No my friends, justice has not been done yet to the souls of the
gone ones. Stop living in the fog of ignorance and false security. This isn’t
the end of a chapter of terrorism. An infliction of serious loopholes in our
judicial system and another act of vote-bank politics by our beloved leaders maybe,
but surely not the justice we deserved. Justice will truly be done, when we
have created a nation where no pest dare enter and spoil her essence, where
people can feel safe and can proudly say, “Enter with goodwill at heart and we
shall serve you, enter with appaling intentions and we shall burn you.”
