by Antara Dev Sen
Our justice system presented us with two enormously important
judgments on Wednesday, August 29. Both were about mass murder. Both
were about massacres that had horrified the nation. Both had a sectarian
angle. Both verdicts proclaimed that there was a larger conspiracy and
meticulous planning behind the mass murders. Both found the accused
guilty of pre-meditated mass murder.
But we responded to these two verdicts very differently. Which once
again gives away our shameful prejudices, mindless priorities and silent
fears. [. . .]
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