Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The shocking facts - Mumbai Terrorist attacks July 2011

Its been a while since I read/watched any Indian news. But I watched this talk show today - India Today by Karan Thapar in "Mumbai Blasts, experts discuss terror tackling strategies". Then as a follow up, tried to read in as much about the attacks on the internet as possible. While doing that, I came across a number of shocking incidents that I feel the need to protest against. And hence this blog

  1. Lack of leadership and intent from the government. No angry speech by the ministers, Just a lame duck release by the man in charge.
  2. And a stupid comment from the home minister saying "After 31 months, Mumbai was attacked" What? Excuse me Sir - What then do you expect - one per quarter? Please...
  3. From the Home Minister: "The blasts is not a failure of intelligence agencies". Oh really, this is not a time to make false baseless boasting claims, it was time to nip it in the bud and say Yes we failed.
  4. Despite places like the Zaveri Bazaar being on the radar repeatedly, the CCTV cameras did not function and stopped working!
  5. There were hardy any ambulances to take the injured and they were carried in trucks! Where is the preparedness to respond to situations?
  6. A big leader of the ruling party accusing the opposition party's partner organization to be probably behind making the bombs. How long can he be allowed to continue with this nonsense?
  7. So many months after 26/11 the ATS is only half of its approved size! Why are enough security guards not recruited?
  8. The police reforms that were so much talked about after 26/11 have still not been implemented!
  9. The Community police partnership of the Mumbai police has been abandoned
  10. I was in airport at Mumbai 48 hours after the blasts and NOBODY yes nobody checked my bag at least till it went over the belt after check in! Don't know why they have removed the mandatory X-Ray scan which used to be there around 5 years ago!
  11. Death in custody of a man detained for questioning.
  12. No police cordoning off the areas and constant TV/media coverage of the fires, the bodies and the cries!

Going by the over exuberance of the Maharashtra police in cases like the Pune Bakery Blast, they might soon announce this case as Solved. But it won't be possible for them to prove it in courts. I am completely astonished and outraged at the issues mentioned above - on top of feeling for those who have lost their dear ones.