Manila Crises - Violence rules!

How easy it is to play with people's lives! You have a grievance - just, unjust or otherwise- well, you can just settle the score by other people pay for it! Around the world grievance redressal has taken on a bloody public route and caught in the middle are innocent civilians. As we all saw the Manila hostage drama live on our TV screens, one thing played over and over again in my mind- how helpless law and law enforcers are when faced with such crises! Now, after hours of high drama and a few innocent lives later would begin the postmortem- should the SWAT team had done instead of that or were they using right equipments or were they having a plan... so on and so forth... but to what avail?

Incident after incident, be it bombing, taking hostage or any other form of violence unleashed by those on the other side of the law, anywhere in the world, exhibit only one thing - helplessness! No matter the country or hue of its government its the common man on the street who pays, and pays dearly for the anger of the few- the few who are anyday more lethal than the many.

You may catch the perpetrator, take him to court, show him the gallows or in many cases allow him long drawn legal defence in the name of human rights- but what about those who have lost all they had for no fault of their own? Till now there has not been one instance where a perpetrator of such inhuman terror been taken to task in a manner that inspires dread in the mind of those planning such heinous acts. In most of the cases they have either died a martyr or faced courts, trials etc. Too little, I think. Human Rights applies to human beings - it cannot apply to people who have no humane thought in their entire being.

And, what about pre--empting the trouble? Preparedness? Forward Planning? Proactive measures? Fancy words and means of livelihood for many a diplomats and civil servants across the globe. On ground - nothing. Now, for instance, post the Manila crisis, there will be hightened security worldwide, advisories from various government, mock drills in many a cities etc etc... and the noise will be there for a few days and then the dead will be buried as we move on to yet another incident of mindless violence. Is there an end to this? does not seem so....