All those who supported shoot to kill and supported immunity from all laws in the form of AFSPA should feel remorse.
I have proved the limitation of power of the state against its own citizen that:
"..to support and palliate every form of terrorism as long as it is the terrorism of revolutionaries against the forces of law, loyalty and order. Governments who have seized upon power by violence and by usurpation have often resorted to terrorism in their desperate efforts to keep what they have stolen, but the august and venerable structure of the British Empire, where lawful authority descends from hand to hand and generation after generation, does not need such aid. Such ideas are absolutely foreign to the British way of doing things."
Let us not behave like colonisers in Kashmir and North East. Let us be a modern egalitarian democracy with respect for the citizen's rights to life and property. Let us respect Rule of Law and Human Rights as defined by the modern society and not be barbarians intoxicated with state power.
If British colonisers (including Churchill who was acknowledged to be highly anti Indian hawk) did not need such raw uncontrolled State power, let us not ask for it in this 21st century against our own brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts and senior citizens in Kashmir and North East.
The point needs no further argument, I presume.
"It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. (I.1355b1) Aristotl
I have proved the limitation of power of the state against its own citizen that:
- AFSPA is brutal and draconian.
- An egalitarian democratic state does not need it.
- It is unfair to the citizen.
- f Kashmir is India the people should be treated as Indians not left feeling oppressed by its army.
- Equal treatment for all Indians is called for.
- Let army personnel accused of crimes against the people of India stand trial in Indian Courts!
- If our colonial power did NOT need such draconian laws for enforcing law and order, we do not need it either.
"..to support and palliate every form of terrorism as long as it is the terrorism of revolutionaries against the forces of law, loyalty and order. Governments who have seized upon power by violence and by usurpation have often resorted to terrorism in their desperate efforts to keep what they have stolen, but the august and venerable structure of the British Empire, where lawful authority descends from hand to hand and generation after generation, does not need such aid. Such ideas are absolutely foreign to the British way of doing things."
Let us not behave like colonisers in Kashmir and North East. Let us be a modern egalitarian democracy with respect for the citizen's rights to life and property. Let us respect Rule of Law and Human Rights as defined by the modern society and not be barbarians intoxicated with state power.
If British colonisers (including Churchill who was acknowledged to be highly anti Indian hawk) did not need such raw uncontrolled State power, let us not ask for it in this 21st century against our own brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts and senior citizens in Kashmir and North East.
The point needs no further argument, I presume.
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