The world politics has become so complicated that’s difficult to decide whether people fighting their own government for their human rights are terrorists or loyal soldiers of society. During good old days people were made to believe in the Divine Right of the Kings. Everything said by the King. was true and every act done by him was always right. If anyone said or did something different, he was considered a “traitor”. He could be hanged or tuned out of the Kingdom. The only quality which mattered was loyalty to the King and that was considered ‘more sacred than the loyalty to the common man and welfare of the society.
Getting together and organizing a group of people to demand their human rights was considered a rebellion against the King who kept mercenaries to keep them under control and impose his divine right to rule. When the King died, his son, howsoever, inefficient or incompetent he may be, had his dynastic right to rule and commit injustice to the people,
After a long struggle and many sacrifices, people won the battle to claim their human rights from the Kings. The rule of the people, by the people and for the people was established and called democracy Tt was expected to be always just and sympathetic towards its people. Today, however, we find the conditions, if not worse, at least the same as were during the dynastic rule of the Kings. People are still crying for human rights and are shedding lot of blood even in a democratic set up.
Democracy in some countries has come to mean the domination of majority, not a just order, Majority have the right to loot the property of an innocent person, kill him and burn him alive simply ‘because he belongs to a “minority”. If any person speaks against this inhuman crime, the majority government has the right to declare him a“ terrorist” and torture him to death, All this is considered “ Justice ” under the law.
Humanity wonders who are terrorists? Those who stand up to demand their human and civil rights or those in “majority” who terrorize them and kill them mercilessly. The old law stands, rather more conspicuorisly, that the rulers can never commit a crime. Whatever they do is legal and just because THEY ARE THE RULERS.
The laws made by the majority say:
- Any minority member is a criminal if the government says he is a criminal unless he proves himself innocent.
- Any minority member can be tortured (or even killed), put in jail without assigning any reason for any number of years or until he agrees that whatever the government does is right, etc.,
India, the so called the largest democracy, is no exception to the above. It can rather be quoted as an example of what has been mentioned above, Thousands of members of minority communities were Killed or burnt alive by labelling them as “ terrorists” or “ illegal entrants ” or * criminals ”, The killers were considered to have well deservedly qualified to become Ministers, How one can ‘expect justice and freedom of human rights where the majority ‘community warns clearly in no unmistakable words: “The non-Hindu, people of Hindustan, must either adopt the Hindu culture and Language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no ideas but those of glorification of the Hindu Race and Culture…..They may stay in the country wholly sabordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, for less any preferential treatment not even citizens’ rights.” Golwalke in “ We Or Our Nation”. _
The above words are not hollow but are real and found translated into action when one reads communal clashes taking place in different states of India resulting in the killing1000 or more of minority people every year. The right of ‘majority to exterminate (or subjugate) minor ty was more effectively demons trated in 1983 when more than 5000 innocent poor Muslims (some counts say 10,000) were killed or burnt alive along with their huts in Assam. Today, these“ terrorists and killers” are regarded as heroes of the majority.
To flush out 40 wanted men, the Army attacked the Golden Temple, Amritsar, Akal Takht was destroyed, 7000 pilgrims were killed and valuable library manuscripts and relics were burnt in June, 1984. Another 5000 innocent Sikhs were killed or burnt alive in November. All this, to please the majority.
People have to answer the question “Who Are Criminals?”, those who disobey the majority rule to demand their equal civil rights or those who kill them.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 7, 1986
