Inexcusable...

A "friend" once said Kashmir is like a child that is annoyed with its parent and the parent (India) just disciplines the child. I wonder if rape, torture, oppression and murder is what parents must use for discipline. 
These are sad times, and I choose not to dignify with a response, those who condone such acts.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. 
- Wayne Dyer

# Lynch Mob # Supreme Court of India

In its judgement of August 5, 2005, the Supreme Court of India admitted that the evidence against Afzal was only circumstantial, and that there was no evidence that he belonged to any terrorist group or organisation.
The court however believed that, the incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, had shaken the entire nation and the collective conscience of the society will only be satisfied if capital punishment is awarded to the accused.

Mohammed Afzal Guru

For sure we belong to Him and for sure to Him we shall return!

Since 2004 only two of the many convicted death row inmates in India have been hanged, this should tell you death penalty in India is not executed often. One was Ajmal Kassab, where the evidence was overwhelming and another is Mohammed Afzal Guru, where there is no direct evidence. I would suggest, leave aside personal bias and read the verdict of the Supreme Court in this case. It was a clear case of the need for vengeance (defined as the collective conscience of the country in the Supreme Court Order). They needed a scape goat, and who other than a Kashmiri. It has been 10 years and still the identity of the slain attackers has still not been established. Incredible but true!

For the State of India, the sentencing of Afzal Guru was never about this man, it was a decree against the Ideology of Kashmiri Resistance, the Identity that defies being called an Indian. If in his hanging today, India believes that it has hanged the aspirations of Kashmiris, it couldn't be more wrong. After more than 2 decades of its punishing Tyranny, Draconian laws and Oppression in Kashmir, India ought to know better. Alas it doesn't!