My thoughts on Encounter Killings, posted on Facebook:
ENCOUNTER KILLINGS
My party is in power in the state of Chhattisgarh, India.
I do not favour any particular camp or side, and would like to think the INC is united in that state.
Clearly, we are not in power at the centre.
That said, I would like to re-state my overarching disapproval of the concept of encounter mass killings of suspected naxals (or maoists, or whatever they are supposed to be).
What one is reading in the open media (my only source of reports on this right now), is that the government opened fire on people in a forest area.
In a country where our jurisprudence as far as the death sentence goes is so, so, particular about there not being the miscarriage of justice (wrongly indicting and executing a person), to the extent that on one occasion, on the near-eve of the execution of a long-heard and properly conducted death sentence, the supreme court registry and bench was activated beyond midnight on a technicality.
But for those who dwell blamelessly and disempowerdly (haha, the English language will have to learn to accept the post-colonial word) in the woods, Collateral Damage is some rare specie in legalese, I suppose.
V. Shruti Devi, 18th November, Gurugram, India.
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