National Security
Human Rights for Terrorists and Smugglers’ Accomplices
Dt: 10/4/15
Human Rights for Terrorists
and
Smugglers’ Accomplices
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
There have been numerous articles in various newspapers and journals paying tributes to Lee Kuan Yew, the 91 year old great builder of Singapore who passed away recently. That he built up a small Island country of about 600 sq. kmts and less than 6 mln people as an exemplar for all developing nations, as an intellectual, entrepreneurial, disciplined, educated, aspiring, nation comprising of people of different religions and races. But how he accomplished this great feat has not been brought out. When once questioned by a foreign journalist about legal procedures, law and order Lee said , “let us have order first, law can come later”. “He first brought order and discipline and dedication among citizens and society. He saw that order was enforced/restored swiftly, strictly and trials were concluded without numerous adjournments and several stages of appeals so that justice was delivered quickly and did not allow cases to linger for decades generations as in India.
2. I am mentioning this in the context of the furore over five jihadi terrorists shot dead in Nalgonda district by the Telengana police and 20 accomplices of smugglers shot dead by the police of Andhra Pradesh in Chittor district, both on the 7th of April 2015.
3. In India robbery, corruption, terrorism and smuggling illegal felling and mining and crime are thriving because the law enforcement is slack. The judiciary is granting adjournments very liberally. There are too many stages and kinds of appeals. Those who are convicted and sentenced to jail come out on bail and indulge their old professions as exemplified by Sri Lallo Prasad Yadav who was convicted of corruption after 18 years of investigation and legal battles and is now out of jail on bail and forging the United Janatadal ( of different Jhagdadal ). Corruption and conviction and jail sentence have no effect. Is there any wonder that corruption and crime thrive and thievery, fraud and embezzlement go on unchecked.
4. Is it moral to give human rights to inhuman beings, jihadis who take innocent lives in order to establish the superiority and rule of their religion over others, armed soldiers organised into armies sworn to overthrow the constitutionally established government and substitutes by a dictatorship of the proletariat as conceived by Karl Marx and executed by Lenin, Stalin and Mao ? Similarly, in Chittoor red sanders are illegally cut and are smuggled out. Criminal businessmen are engaging poor people to illegally cut the red sandals. Is it anybody’s case that these mazdoors are not aware that they are drafted into an illegal act and the police forces are ranged against such activities? Newspapers and even leaders of some political parties criticise the government for its inability to stop illegal felling of red sanders and their smuggling out of the state for export by criminal persons.
But when the government takes serious police action, they denounce the government .
5. When the policemen are engaged in search and capture operations against these illegal gangs, are they to simply peacefully persuade the illegals to kindly surrender and will they obey? It is quite possible that the men engaged in felling the trees attacked the police -men with their axes and other instruments and the police men would have in self defence used their fire arms resulting in the death of the criminals. The policemen performed their duty in good faith. If politicians and professional defenders of terrorists jihadis and criminals attributing to them noble causes go on demanding inquiries and punishments to policemen. We can be sure that no policeman would venture to do the unpleasant task of catching thieves or preventing terrorism. There will be no order there will only be laws which can be cited in courts and taught in colleges. We would have a rogue society where gentlemen will fear to live. As Lee Kuan Yew said, we must have order first and the law should only be to quickly and effectively enable the enforcement of order. (644 words)
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