Yes, the punishment is subject to many reasons as it is not that easy to punish and give death punishment. But the acts of Dhara singh will project a bad opinion in the international socity as Mr.Stains was toiling for the welfare of poor in India and it may be his vision to teach the poor to be in right path through the christian way. And why all the people bothering about religious boundaries instead of behaving good and helping themself and others?
What Dara singh and his men have done is inexcusable and unforgivable. The world was outraged at such a bloddy crime committed against innocence. Missionaries who have been helping Lepers, trying to ease the pain of these sufferring people something that is very rare, Not many people in our Indian society take notice of people lying in the streets in pain, but here is a missionary who comes all the way from Australia to help us. May God Bless Graham and his sons.
And as for the penalty awarded, dara singh and the rest do not deserve to live. Any organisation supporting his acts should be put behind bars.
Dara Singh was social worker who provided many services to the tribals.He didn't had any criminal background till the incident.That's why the tribals stood with him.There are many unreported cases of foriegn missionaries doing such highly deplorable things in various parts of the country. This murder must be a lesson to those who are following the path of Graham Staines.
I don't believe that Dara Singh has done a grave mistake than the Australian missionary,Graham Staines. The media hasn't highlighted anything about the missionary. Why did the missionary come to India? He came here not to tour India but to convert the tribal people into Christianity by exploiting their innocence. He had written an article in an Australian magazine saying that the Hindus are uncivilized creatures who worship's the evil,Sathan{He might have mistaken that the Goddess Kali of such sort}. The tribals in this part of the world{some sects in Orissa} were pure vegetarians and eating of meat{especially beef} makes them outcast and such hapless people were easily converted into Christianity. For implementing this dirty idea,he organized some sort of jungle-partys and in this partys the tribals were offered the beef. By this a large no. of tribals were outcast and were converted. Thus the tribal population and their ancient culture had affected badly. Dara Singh and the members of the tribal sect addressed their concern to Graham Staines not one but many times. But he was to proceed with his nasty plan. This prompted Dara Singh and his friends commit the murder.
Yes, justice has come through! But every human being has a right to live until called upon by his/her Maker. Yes, the Courts do have a right to try and sentence the guilty... but has NO RIGHT to take a persons life.... Only the Maker of Life has the right TO TAKE AWAY the life of its creation... not another co-creation, whatever be the status, power and position of the other co-creation!
Graham Staines and his two boys are enjoying Heaven but that does not mean we can murder (we can use any fancy language to substitute this word) their murderers. Of course, if they go scot-free they could cause more harm, more pain and more problems. But that does not mean they can be murdered!
Life is to be respected from every angle! Let Heavenly Justice prevail on Earth as well!
May our right cheek be turned for every left cheek that is slapped!
This proves that in India, violence against innocents is not tolerated. A man who kills children, burns them alive deserves to be punished. I see Dara not as a Hindu, but as a child killer, a blasphemer against the tenets of Hinduism, Christianity, etc. Religion does not teach us to kill and anyone who does so in the name of religion profanes his own religion. The murders were treated as criminal, inhuman acts and condemned by all of us.
It is about time that we Indians look to developing our country and making it the world power it should be. We should not waste our precious resources killing each other and calling for silly bandhs. We should work harder and show the terrorists and communalists (or are they one and the same?) that we are united, and we will not cower before them or be broken up by them. Mera Bharat mahan and we must make the world see that by the sweat of our brow and our intelligence and innovation.
Its good that the guilty have been punished, though little late. I will be interested to see the reaction of the so called civil liberties groups esp, Amnesty International with regards this death sentences. Mind you all, Amnesty opposed death sentence for the people who attacked parliament and killed many people. Let usnow see whether it would react in the same way, given that the offender is not from minorities.
RE:Death penalty
by bhardwaj on Sep 24, 2003 04:21 PM
Thats right .. How come no Human rights group commented on this so far? Are they so biased that they take religion into account whil dedefending human rights? :(
RE:Death penalty
by Vijay Arora on Sep 25, 2003 11:55 PM
I salute your brains. When heart becomes inoperative, one has to limit his capabilities to brains only. Well, why compare Stains and 'stains'. Afterall, who's in the parliament. Traders who buy coffins and cheaters in the stamp market. One leaves his own people and land to serve the poor and downtrodden in India, your emotions hurt to see his murderer is sentenced. You still wait someone to shout "human rights" and this man will continue his carnage. hats off.
RE:Death penalty
by Ravind on Sep 24, 2003 04:19 PM
Though lil out of context, Poornima has raised an interesting point - It's more than 48 hours at the point of time I'm typing this text and have not read anything regarding the reactions of Civil Liberties groups. Can I conclude that the so called Human Rights groups are supporting death sentence in this case?
RE:Death penalty
by Sundar on Sep 26, 2003 12:32 PM
I pity Poornima and the others who joined her in plalying religeous hatred politicts about the death sentence given (as per Indian Penal Code) to a hardened criminal who set fire to two innocent children of 11 and 7 years old, and then said that he did not regret it. They and many others, who are blinded by the religeous fundamentalists, will continue to talk like this, till their own children of 11 and 7 are harmed by a criminal like Dara Singh, belonging to his cast and religion. I would like to remind them that Hinduism is a humane religion.
RE:Death penalty
by Yamini on Sep 24, 2003 04:33 PM
Interesting point. First of all I agree that justice has been done by punishing the guilty. But I suspect the motives of the Human rights groups who defend terrorists and keep mum on issues like this. Do they feel the people who were killed in Parliament atatck were not humans or Dara need not be discussed because he is a Hindu? What about the Dalit groups which defend dalits at any cost? In this case, since Dara is a Hindu Dalit they thought it is not necessary to make any noise.. eh?
