Writings of Kerala Geek

It was more than 2000 years back that an intelligent fellow named Jesus said “those who live by the sword die by the sword”. I remember this almost daily when I read Kerala news papers.

Today (2nd Dec) all newspapers had this news on the front page – “30 year old political activist hacked to death in Trivandrum”. It is a disturbing news. This violence had been going on for some time in this area, started as a minor quarrel between two groups of people some time ago. Now it has got political & communal colors. The fight between the groups worsened to such an extent that a young man is now murdered. This fellow is survived by a wife and a son. The murdered man himself was accused of various crimes including attempted murder and other kinds of violence.

Another problem in the above incident is that no one is coming forward to broker peace (Police did some attempt but was unsuccessful). If this fight was resolved during its early stages, much bloodshed could have been avoided. The Goonda Raj in Kerala is on the increase. Unless something drastic is not done to curb the menace, it is going to be a big headache for everyone.

Some criminals think that if a crime is committed as a group chances of conviction is less. It is in some respects true also. We need to change the criminal system to increase penalty for gang violence including death penalty. Also rules regarding evidence must be relaxed in such cases since people are afraid to testify against gangs. India doesn’t have a witness protection scheme.

Kannur district was notorious for similar deaths & violence for a long time. People got tired and finally some peace is now restored between groups. I do hope that some common sense will prevail in Trivandrum also. Do we really need to prove Jesus again and again?