The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament

by Arundhati Roy

Let’s concede that an Attack on the Indian Parliament does amount to an Attack on Democracy. Was the 1983 Nellie massacre of three thousand ‘illegal Bangladeshis’ not an attack on Indian Democracy? Or the massacre of more than three thousand Sikhs on the streets of Delhi in 1984? Was the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 not an attack on Indian Democracy? Was the Shiv Sena-led slaughter of thousands of Muslims in Mumbai in 1993 not an Attack on Indian Democracy? What about the 2002 pogrom against thousands of Muslims in Gujarat? There is plenty of evidence, direct as well as circumstantial, to connect leaders of our major political parties to these mass murders. But could we ever imagine any of them being arrested, imprisoned for eleven years, let alone executed? Oh no. On the contrary, one of them—who had never held public office—was recently given a state funeral that brought the city of Mumbai to a standstill. Another will most likely be running for the post of Prime Minister of the World’s Largest Democracy in the next election.

Was only Afazal Guru became the scapegoat of Indian Democracy Saulaghter. During Indra regime emergency happened. We call ourselves as a secular state where Sikhs, Muslims and Dalits were salughter. Though the faces kept on changing. Late Indra, Economic reformer Late PV Narmisha, Lallu Parsad Yadav, Amit Shah or Current PM Narendera Modi. All raped democarcy for the Lust of Raisina. Stainrd blood of Comunal clash were wiped out and became sudh,