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!