FINDING THE REAL CULPRITS
Last week there were two brutal killings, a day and
five thousand kilometers apart, one in a very poor and developing country and
the other in a fairly rich developed country. On February 26th a 42yrs old man
was hacked to death with machetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A day later a 55 yrs
old man was executed with multiple gun shots in the back in Moscow, Russia. Former
was a blogger and the later was a politician.
Different people, different cultures, different lands.
At a cursory glance, these two killings do not seem to be connected at all. But
if you look carefully these two murders are symptoms of the same malaise.
In Dhaka, Mr. Avijit Roy, an American engineer and blogger of Bangladeshi origin, was killed
because of his secular writings on growing religious intolerance and bigotry.
In Moscow, Mr. Boris Nemtsov, a prominent political leader in Russia was gunned
down because of his robust opposition to corruption and war mongering of Putin’s government.
These two men were killed because a certain group of
people did not agree with their views and these two could not be bribed or
intimidated into silence. They stood firm against injustice and hypocrisy and
paid the ultimate price.
More such brave and honest people will be killed in
coming days and months. Some of the criminals who pulled the trigger or wielded
the knife will be caught and punished. But the real culprits will never be brought
to justice.
The reason that real culprits will not be brought to
justice is because we are looking in the wrong direction. The actual
perpetrators of such atrocities are not the idiots and megalomaniacs who commissioned
or committed such acts. The real
culprits are you and I, the silent majority, who believe in justice and fair
play but choose not to come out in enough numbers to condemn such acts unequivocally.
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