Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Right or Wrong - 2 (Godhra verdict)


The verdict for the Godhra tragedy which left 52 dead and in turn triggered one of the worst communal roits is out with 31 convicted, the court sentenced 11 to capital punishment and 20 to life imprisonment.

The court gave its verdict explaining the motive behind the cold blooded act by all the convicts was simply "anger".
Were the convicts just so angry that they took a decision to burn a train and kill unknown kar sevaks????
OR
If they were so angry about Hindus that they were trying to wipe out whole of the Hindu community by setting up a compartment of a train on fire????

Almost all the convicts belong to the working labor class i.e. tea vendors, auto drivers, truck cleaners, milk vendors etc etc...
What made these daily wage earners so angry that they (conspired planned ????) and themselves executed a cold blooded murder of unknown "kar sevaks" traveling in a train?
These convicts might have planed how to execute the murder of unknown kar sevaks people for some benefit or reason but for what benefit they could conspire a communal riot.
The actual conspiracy was to trigger the communal riots (successfully happened as the side affect)which was conspired by some one who is/are not even in the picture and these a few angry common daily wage earners would not even know what the conspiracy was all about.

With two independent entities one appointed by the Gujarath government and the other by the railways to probe the massacre contradicting each other, one commission explaining it as the cold blooded conspiracy of a few angry men and other concluded it as a mere accident. Where is the report about the dirty politics played by the actual conspirators.

Definitely the death punishment and the life imprisonment given to the convicts is less for what they did but there should a long list of actual conspirators which is missing in the verdict.

-Sun

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