The Hindu : No camouflage

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Friday, May 10, 2002

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No camouflage

Sir, — Jaswant Singh's remark (May 8) that India would not accept being spoken to from assumed positions of superiority or greater morality smacks of sarcasm to camouflage the obvious inefficiency, rather unwillingness to protect the innocent in Gujarat, where violence has not yet been brought under control.

The Minister's blowing of our own trumpet that India did not accept any foreign diktat in 1998 (after Pokhran) is pitiable as India failed to show true moral courage by refusing to accept any foreign monetary or developmental help or repaying the mindboggling outstanding dues to the developed countries but scurried among developed countries explaining the reasons behind Pokhran till the foreign assistance was resumed.

A xenophobic who murdered an Indian in the U.S. after the September 11 attack has been tried and awarded the death sentence within eight months, but no one has been sentenced even after 18 years of the 1984 pogrom. The trial against the assassins of Graham Staines and his minor sons has not reached a conclusive stage despite lapse of more than three years. Instead of trying to cover up crimes by tall claims which willynilly shield the perpetrators, the Government had better learn from the U.S. and the West on how to deal with criminals.

Puthiyavan Raj,
New Delhi

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