Should Kasab be hanged? Seventeen months after the heinous crime against humanity committed by Kasab and his associates,the man has been sentenced to death.
Actually Ajmal Kasab ceased to exist, morally and spiritually,when he took on the task of taking innocent lives.
And he was sentenced to death even earlier. Certainly not today, the sixth of May, 2010. He sentenced himself to death on the day he allowed himself to turn terrorist.
When he landed in Mumbai, he was already a dead man. If he had not died during the shootout, he would have, by training, committed suicide, or been killed by his own masters or his opponents.
Then the seventeen months in prison in India. He must have died a thousand deaths in anticipation of the real one that was inevitable and imminent.
So what will his physical death mean? That terrorism has been severely dealt with? That the Establishment will not tolerate attacks on its people?
Or is this just another meaningless move on the chessboard of international polity? While the diabolical masterminds that spearheaded and planned the attack remain at large, a small-time operator, a mere pawn is to be hanged. Perhaps a sacrifice at the altar of political exigency?
Blood will have been drawn in return for blood. A strong message would have been sent. The government would be seen to have done its duty to its people: a terrorist was caught with a lot of fanfare, and after due noises were made, was predictably sentenced to death.
But will Kasab's death by hanging de-fang terrorism? Will it help hound out the master rats from their hellholes? Will it prevent other impoverished, uneducated desperate and vulnerable young men and women from turning Kasabs? What is anyone doing to address these more important, more serious issues?
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