Who is to blame ?
Who is to blame? I asked myself, this question several times the past three days. I am talking about the horrific acts of meaningless violence that took place in Mumbai this week. I couldn’t come up with a clear answer on who is to be blamed for these attacks. Of course, This group of weak minded and misguided youth, who were devoid of any basic human emotion and displayed such a display of shameless contempt for human life including their own , they need to be blamed for this atrocity. The next logical step is to blame the organization that they belong to , the people that trained them, the people that funded them, the country that sheltered them and helped them to carry on this act.
By the country that helped and sheltered these terrorists, I mean Pakistan. I blame them for this and more terrorist acts that were carried out in India and around the world in the past few years.“But we have no hand in this terrorist act”, the leaders of Pakistan might say. The fact remains that, Pakistan actively allows for these terrorist organizations to thrive in its territory. They allow for the “charitable funds” collected around the world, to find their way to buy weapons and train these terrorists. They allow for their state intelligence agency to procure and share the intelligence that is used to carry out a terror activity in India. Once a terrorist attack is complete, they offer five star accommodations to the perpetrators and facilitators of such act (case and point : Dawood Ibrahim ). Pakistan does everything that it can do, short of stamping its official seal of approval to encourage these heinous activities. So, I blame Pakistan and the terrorist organizations and terrorists that it harbors for this attack. But is that all?
What about the Indian Government? No, I am not suggesting that these attacks might be some crazy conspiracy hatched by the Indian administration. But, I want to ask, what was done to stop these attacks? What was done to secure the people that put them in power ? The current UPA government took office on May 22, 2004. Since then there were 18 major terrorist attacks on Indian soil. 18 terrorist acts in 54 months. Here is the list :
2004 August : 6 killed in car blasts in the city of Mumbai.
2005 October : 60 killed in three bomb blasts that occurred in busy markets of New Delhi
2006 March : 20 killed in bomb blasts in the train station and a temple in Varanasi.
2006 July : 187 killed in the bomb blasts on commuter trains in Mumbai.
2006 September: 40 killed in the bomb blasts in the town of Malegaon.
2007 February : 70 killed in fire bombing of Pakistan bound Friendship express.
2007 May : 11 killed in a bomb blast in Hyderabad.
2007 August : 40 killed in bomb blasts in Hyderabad.
2007 October : 2 killed in a blast at Ajmer Sharif shrine in Ajmer.
2007 November: 15 killed in bombings in various cities of Uttar Pradesh.
2008 May : 65 killed in bomb blasts in Jaipur.
2008 July : 8 bombs go off in Bangalore.
2008 July : 50 killed in bomb blasts in Ahmedabad.
2008 September : 25 killed in Bomb blasts in New Delhi.
2008 September: 80 killed in bomb blasts in Malegaon
2008 October : 20 killed in bomb blasts in Imphal.
2008 October : 80 killed in bomb attacks in Assam.
2008 November: 200 killed in gunmen attacks in Mumbai.
I see a trend here. Every year the terrorist acts went unanswered, it emboldened the terrorists. The number of terrorist acts that were carried out in India multiplied year by year since 2004. The Indian response after most of these bombings is more or less the same- “we blame the external forces that are encouraging the terrorist acts in India. We will endure these attacks……” Lot of words were said after these 18 bombings, not a single solid action was taken to check the terrorist activity in India. The politicians in charge continue to play vote bank politics, too complacent and too incompetent to protect the people who trusted them to protect them – What a shame!.
So I ask again , Should the Indian Government be blamed ? I think so.
What about the people who not only voted for such an incompetent and weak government into power in India but, continue to tolerate it ? Are they to be blamed ?
