The False Facade of Civility and Democracy

Kolkata ,India Period: Emergency. One day we woke up around midnight by the sound of battering ,howls shrieks and whimpers. The words:" mago mago" i.e "o mother o mother"rent the air. It suggested that the victims were Bengalis this time. I was having a near spasmodic attack out of disgust, frustration,worry and anger. There is none on the earth who could stop this brazen blood cuddling torture in the open not even the police. The beatings and battering went on till dawn.They were 13-14 persons with their hands tied behind their backs and made to stand in one line. The two ends of the thick rope tied to two electric poles across the street. The victims who fell unconscious would be splashed with water and again battered till they passed out. At dawn when muezzins' call for prayer went up, the limp bodies were untied and thrown into a closed van- some in conscious state and some in unconscious state and taken to some undisclosed location. It was not possible for anybody to know who the victims were and where they had been taken to. The spot got soiled with faeces urine vomit and blood which was washed with water. The criminals had herded some early risers and forced them to do the clean up.I know the names of few of the perpetuators. Their names are Umar (the don) Aftab Khurshid Abshaar Rafique Salaam his younger brother whose name I am forgetting, Shahjahan and some others who were not locals.