Thursday, June 4, 2015

'One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter' What bullshit!!


The very mention of courts and lawyers send a shiver down the average man’s spine. If there is one bit of advise that is handed down the ages from fathers to sons it is this – ‘avoid lawyers like the plague’.  However the truth is that dispute resolution can only be achieved by adhering to rules and the interpretations of that is what Courts and lawyers do. It may come as a surprise to many that the study of law now includes new areas like governance, taxation, human rights and now even terrorism.

When it comes to terrorism most of us would like to lock these terrorists and throw the keys away but we also need to keep in mind that sometimes these ‘criminals’ have been wrongly punished. It is to safe guard these innocents that laws are made and why courts take extreme care to see that no man is wrongly punished. But when we see the delays in sentencing people like the Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab who killed innocent Indian citizens at the Victoria Terminus at Mumbai it creates confusion in our minds.
Most of us had felt that the Indian judicial system was nit picking when there was so much evidence that he indeed killed so many innocent people. Some felt they should have marched him to the nearest gallows and hanged him. However, the fact that the trial dragged on for years is now recognized as a tribute to the fairness of the Indian judicial system.
In this conversation with Geetha Madhavan, a leading lawyer specializing in matters of International terrorism she says hanging Ajmal Kasab should have been an open and shut case. She prefers to call a spade a spade and feels that mollycoddling terrorists or pandering to terrorist organizations is a complete ‘No No’. She is particularly incensed when she hears the oft repeated defense that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. She has a simple yardstick to judge this. If the accused has killed innocents who have played no part in the dispute then he has no right to call himself a ‘freedom fighter’.
According to Geetha Madhavan such a person is just a plain and simple ‘murderer’ and ought to be judged as one.

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