The Great Escape

It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie—two criminals escape prison. The escapists want to look like ‘A-team’ perhaps; out conning the diplomats? Two Italian marines who had murdered Indian fishermen were held in judicial custody in India. On promise that they will return after casting their votes in their elections, they were allowed to go to Italy. They were to return as they are awaiting trial in Indian Court; but the criminals did not return to India after voting in Italy. India cannot be taken for granted, as they presume. Italians will learn that India is a powerful nation and not just a any third world country who need not be taken seriously. What is the meaning of going back on word given? If criminals are sent out with a promise of return, promise must be honoured, it is made between diplomats of the two countries.

Italy must listen to Indian courts. It did not. So Italy is still struck in backward mindsets? Have they no idea that this is 21^st Century.  They will be taught lessons in modern history by international organisations.Excerpts from this blog published in February last year under the title "Human Life is Precious" is given below:
 

Two Indian fishermen who were fishing off coast of Kerala in Southern India were shot dead by Italian marines five days ago. The marines have been charged of murder. The Indian police had arrested them and had taken them into custody. They have been now sent to 15days of remand as this is what is done till court hearing takes place. This has aroused the local people and protests are going on. They want justice to be done when lives of fellow Indians were lost for no reason.

What is most hurtful is that is our simple fishermen’s lives so cheap that foreign marines take it as fun to shoot them? They had said they had thought these fishermen "looked like pirates"; for these marines, travelling in high seas, a game of “let’s shoot Indian pirates for target practice” was full of fun. Is value of human life so cheap? Do Indians look so so small that couple of lives was nothing to these marines?
Our status in the comity of nations is determined by how well we conduct ourselves in international conventions. It is also determined by how well our people are treated by outsiders.

We Indians have adopted to world culture; and we work as engineers, doctors, and managers, all over the world. We want to be respected. All people need respect, however big or small. We Indians are highly educated people, and we know our rights well. Guarding our Honor is very important to us. We want human dignity. We should to be treated like fellow human beings, and not as any animal—shooting down fishermen! It is outrageous!