INDIRA'S NECKLACE

The more I know about India, the more I'm convinced I should never visit. It's rather like our own Deep South except with more interesting food; the same corrupt politicians, corrupt policemen, and brutal capitalists.

Yes, under normal circumstances, probably perfectly safe.

Unless you're a woman, of course.

Or have a "mouth".


My mouth has, on occasion, gotten me into trouble. I'm older and wiser now, and have over the years learned to be far more diplomatic.
But sometimes stuff comes out that, though I stand by it, would probably have been better not said.


Earlier this morning I started rereading material on the internet about Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler, and their personal involvement in the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. You might recall that two soldiers shot Indira Gandhi full of holes in October of that year for ordering the destruction of the central shrine of the Sikhs earlier that year?

[Actually, the entire Gandhi family should have been shot, given their corruption, opportunism, and overweening arrogance, during their entire history as operators and brutalists since Nehru, but no matter. Only the Italian is still alive from that generation.]


Good Hindus of all castes, including Christian, responded by going on a week-long rampage, killing between three and twenty thousand people, targeting their victims either by appearance, or by consulting voter lists provided by the Congress party for that express purpose.


The facts of these matters are too nauseating to detail here, but what is truly staggering is that three decades after the brutal killing of several thousand Sikhs by Congress Party mobs, very few people have been punished, and no significant Congress bigwigs have done any time at all. They always manage to get charges dropped, evidence covered up, cases thrown out, and witnesses silenced.


"WHEN A BIG TREE FALLS, THE EARTH SHAKES"

Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler both found that their careers were fast-tracked after organizing the mobs and encouraging the mayhem. They are just two examples; many other Congress politicians furthered their prospects by complicity, as did members of the Delhi police.
None have ever been punished.


One salient fact which is fascinating, is that 'necklacing' appears from all accounts to have been invented by stalwart Congress-party Indians.
The practice, which later gained fame as an African National Congress political tactic, consists of filling a tire with gasoline and placing it around the neck of the victim.
Often while an audience of approving activists looks on.

India in 1984. Africa in 1985.
[And Haiti by 1986.]

It's a toss-up whether Sajjan Kumar or Jagdish Tytler was the first man to suggest it. Maybe a more lowly Congress supporter was "inspired".

They certainly provided the fuel, however.

Plus detailed lists of targets.



Oh by the way: they're still very important people in Delhi, welcomed by the finest establishments, and invited to society events.
Their presence lightens up the gathering.
Very popular gentlemen.




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