It was too…I don’t know how to phrase the word after ‘too’, it was sort of gnawing at my heart; the whole issue and the whole idea of me researching on ‘the cause of TERRORISM’. I just took a pen an my diary and decided to sit down somewhere were none could even see me writing instead of tabbing on the keys on my laptop..
I have no idea as to why I wanted to be alone but then not every query of my mind is answered by my heart.
I have never read any post supporting terrorism in my entire life and so the only window I had to peep into a so called ‘terrorist’s life was by listening to their interviews or read voraciously on articles written on terrorists who broke down during the interrogation and spilled up some beans.
I was confused, I saw some and I read some and yet none of them where of the same person, they were of a variety of people who may have had different mindset and different situations which drew them to join the terror brigade. But when I zeroed them all under the single category of humans, it became terribly easy for me to understand certain points.
I decided to take up a case for my ‘Analytic Journey’. I took up the name ‘Ajmal Amir Kasav’. I had the name and I had the crime; now I had to find the ‘identity’ .
I have been intrigued by this man right from the day I saw him being flashed on almost every television channel that I could see in my TV. He and one of his friends was captured by the camera when they were leaving CST or Chattrapathi Shivaji Terminus after initiating the terror spree that they had started out for.
I kept wondering whenever I saw his image on TV or newspaper as to how familiar he looks. I had this notion that I actually had seen him.
No, I had not.
But all of us , we youngsters could see him as familiar. He was or let’s saw he is just like any of us; a normal day guy,young, determined and human. I may have to take the ‘HUMAN’ part back because no HUMAN can kill his fellow men so brutally as that man and his gang did.
But….
I had made up my mind to follow every talk of his that is revealed to the public after interrogation, mainly because I wanted to hear him say as to ‘WHY’ he had taken up this course of life!!!
I read, I followed..
They say that to uproot an evil you need to know where its roots lie!!!
Terrorism has its roots in every other evil of society.
Poverty!
Communalism!
Hatred!
This is the profile of a TERRORIST that I could make up from all this.
He is twenty one, some say he is nineteen. He is the most hated man in India as of now( politicians follow closely in the list). He was born in a small village in Pakistan. He had a large family. He had four siblings and a mother and father to complete his family picture. He has an elder brother who is illiterate and works as a laborer, he has a married elder sister and two younger brother and sister( 11-12 years old). His father owns a small chat wala thela and his mother takes care of their home which is already into ruins.
They are no well off enough to make him study for a graduate degree and so what do they do? They let him study till 4th grade and then take him out of school and decide that there are enough feeding mouths in the family and hence he is sent to live with his brother. He keeps moving places and is fed up by the time he is seventeen and decides to leave home and go on and make his home money.
He abandons his family, joins a religious leader and starts working as a laborer. He ain’t satisfied. He wants something which he never had enough of in his childhood- the green bills; MONEY.
He decides to indulge in small time robberies and thefts. One day he goes to get new arms for his robberies along with his friend, they meet people handing out pamphlets form the political wing of a terrorist outfit. They decide to sign up.
If you think they are heart and soul into the whole agenda of the outfit, you are extremely wrong. They aren’t even sure as to what the ideals of the outfit are. They decide to take up the complete arms training to improvise on their robbery skills.
As the training starts, so does the hypnotic speeches, screening of videos and other such elements which start bringing out an influential change.
They camp gives him a feeling that he has never felt before, a feeling of belongingness; something that his lost childhood had never felt. He realized that his family was the ‘camp’.
Slowly he started submerging himself into the complete idea of ‘jihad’ and is chosen to go on an advanced training camp with some others. He is trained well for a militant combat. He is lavished with things he has never seen before and he is materialistically happy.
The day arrives when he has to set out for his mission after it is promised that his family will get a LARGE sum of 1.5 lakhs after he dies.
He starts on the mission with a bunch of his friends.
All his friends’ family get the money promised to them except his.
HE DOESN’T DIE, HE IS CAPTURED ALIVE.
In police custody he said this “ I want to see my mother”. He also repeatedly screamed to his captors to kill him.
He said he ‘repented’ the things that he did.
This is Ajmal Amir Kasav’s life!!!
He wasn’t BORN a terrorist, he didn’t even want to be one.
What was it that changed him from a laborer to a robber to a TERRORIST??
What made this man change from a troubled child to such a young man??
What went berserk?
Was it poverty? Was it hatred? Was it greed?
Or was it just plain destiny!!!
I and I guess all of us need to check on these BIG question marks!!!
( This is the start of my so called ‘analysis’ on why these men turn up to do such brutal things? Is it just money ; like any hitman demands? Or is it the communal ideal that marks ‘terrorism’ apart from others.)
Something for today- I just saw CNN-IBN and they have this innovative thing called ‘CITIZENS AGAINST TERROR” campaign. You just need to log on to the CNN-IBN website and you can use your webcam and internet to shoot a clip of what you wish to be done against terror/ something that the common man can do( I guess common man can do everything) . If you do not have a webcam ; then you can visit any CNN-IBN ‘citizens against terror’ kiosks in your city when you are returning from work or college and just speak out your idea.
The ten selected ideas will be sent as ‘Citizen charter against terror’ to the Home Ministry’; I don’t know as to what good it will do after that( if home ministry will REALLY look into it) but still, I guess we do have a chance to be heard :)
So try and do this today :)
See you all again on ‘analytic journey’..
( P.S--THIS POST DOES NOT IN ANY WAY UNDERMINE THE DEATHS OF SO MANY HUMANS IN VARIOUS ACTS OF TERRORISM WORLDIWIDE.IT IS JUST AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND AS TO WHERE EXACTLY THE ‘ROOTS’ OF TERRORISM ARE)
I have no idea as to why I wanted to be alone but then not every query of my mind is answered by my heart.
I have never read any post supporting terrorism in my entire life and so the only window I had to peep into a so called ‘terrorist’s life was by listening to their interviews or read voraciously on articles written on terrorists who broke down during the interrogation and spilled up some beans.
I was confused, I saw some and I read some and yet none of them where of the same person, they were of a variety of people who may have had different mindset and different situations which drew them to join the terror brigade. But when I zeroed them all under the single category of humans, it became terribly easy for me to understand certain points.
I decided to take up a case for my ‘Analytic Journey’. I took up the name ‘Ajmal Amir Kasav’. I had the name and I had the crime; now I had to find the ‘identity’ .
I have been intrigued by this man right from the day I saw him being flashed on almost every television channel that I could see in my TV. He and one of his friends was captured by the camera when they were leaving CST or Chattrapathi Shivaji Terminus after initiating the terror spree that they had started out for.
I kept wondering whenever I saw his image on TV or newspaper as to how familiar he looks. I had this notion that I actually had seen him.
No, I had not.
But all of us , we youngsters could see him as familiar. He was or let’s saw he is just like any of us; a normal day guy,young, determined and human. I may have to take the ‘HUMAN’ part back because no HUMAN can kill his fellow men so brutally as that man and his gang did.
But….
I had made up my mind to follow every talk of his that is revealed to the public after interrogation, mainly because I wanted to hear him say as to ‘WHY’ he had taken up this course of life!!!
I read, I followed..
They say that to uproot an evil you need to know where its roots lie!!!
Terrorism has its roots in every other evil of society.
Poverty!
Communalism!
Hatred!
This is the profile of a TERRORIST that I could make up from all this.
He is twenty one, some say he is nineteen. He is the most hated man in India as of now( politicians follow closely in the list). He was born in a small village in Pakistan. He had a large family. He had four siblings and a mother and father to complete his family picture. He has an elder brother who is illiterate and works as a laborer, he has a married elder sister and two younger brother and sister( 11-12 years old). His father owns a small chat wala thela and his mother takes care of their home which is already into ruins.
They are no well off enough to make him study for a graduate degree and so what do they do? They let him study till 4th grade and then take him out of school and decide that there are enough feeding mouths in the family and hence he is sent to live with his brother. He keeps moving places and is fed up by the time he is seventeen and decides to leave home and go on and make his home money.
He abandons his family, joins a religious leader and starts working as a laborer. He ain’t satisfied. He wants something which he never had enough of in his childhood- the green bills; MONEY.
He decides to indulge in small time robberies and thefts. One day he goes to get new arms for his robberies along with his friend, they meet people handing out pamphlets form the political wing of a terrorist outfit. They decide to sign up.
If you think they are heart and soul into the whole agenda of the outfit, you are extremely wrong. They aren’t even sure as to what the ideals of the outfit are. They decide to take up the complete arms training to improvise on their robbery skills.
As the training starts, so does the hypnotic speeches, screening of videos and other such elements which start bringing out an influential change.
They camp gives him a feeling that he has never felt before, a feeling of belongingness; something that his lost childhood had never felt. He realized that his family was the ‘camp’.
Slowly he started submerging himself into the complete idea of ‘jihad’ and is chosen to go on an advanced training camp with some others. He is trained well for a militant combat. He is lavished with things he has never seen before and he is materialistically happy.
The day arrives when he has to set out for his mission after it is promised that his family will get a LARGE sum of 1.5 lakhs after he dies.
He starts on the mission with a bunch of his friends.
All his friends’ family get the money promised to them except his.
HE DOESN’T DIE, HE IS CAPTURED ALIVE.
In police custody he said this “ I want to see my mother”. He also repeatedly screamed to his captors to kill him.
He said he ‘repented’ the things that he did.
This is Ajmal Amir Kasav’s life!!!
He wasn’t BORN a terrorist, he didn’t even want to be one.
What was it that changed him from a laborer to a robber to a TERRORIST??
What made this man change from a troubled child to such a young man??
What went berserk?
Was it poverty? Was it hatred? Was it greed?
Or was it just plain destiny!!!
I and I guess all of us need to check on these BIG question marks!!!
( This is the start of my so called ‘analysis’ on why these men turn up to do such brutal things? Is it just money ; like any hitman demands? Or is it the communal ideal that marks ‘terrorism’ apart from others.)
Something for today- I just saw CNN-IBN and they have this innovative thing called ‘CITIZENS AGAINST TERROR” campaign. You just need to log on to the CNN-IBN website and you can use your webcam and internet to shoot a clip of what you wish to be done against terror/ something that the common man can do( I guess common man can do everything) . If you do not have a webcam ; then you can visit any CNN-IBN ‘citizens against terror’ kiosks in your city when you are returning from work or college and just speak out your idea.
The ten selected ideas will be sent as ‘Citizen charter against terror’ to the Home Ministry’; I don’t know as to what good it will do after that( if home ministry will REALLY look into it) but still, I guess we do have a chance to be heard :)
So try and do this today :)
See you all again on ‘analytic journey’..
( P.S--THIS POST DOES NOT IN ANY WAY UNDERMINE THE DEATHS OF SO MANY HUMANS IN VARIOUS ACTS OF TERRORISM WORLDIWIDE.IT IS JUST AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND AS TO WHERE EXACTLY THE ‘ROOTS’ OF TERRORISM ARE)
1 comment:
What i feel,terrorism is basically a deadlock state/phenomenon caused due to simultaneous occurence of communalism,mutual hatred,stagnation of thought n acutely triggered by poverty but in noway d reverse holds.it has a lot 2 do wid d social upbringin n society coz u need 2 b really brutal 2 kill sum1.v need responsible writers who cn shape oders views n thoughts n i think dis blog is a nice beginnin in dat direction.though i feel its hitym v need sum revolutionizing solution 2 eradicate dis pandemic.i don hv any.i believe oly in fightin.fightin till u die.but m sure dere must b sum gentlemen's solution out dere.For ppl who think writin blog wont serve any purpose dey cn easily be termed frustrated on deir incapabilities as d person who is writin is contributin her bit by bringin forth dis critical issue worldwide(i think atleast dis much is d power of internet); no matter ppl get d point across or not bt it will surely force dem 2 think.
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