Habitual horror but few arrests: Attacks, Blasts become common in India
The nation is becoming prone to the awful routine of opening its eyes with the scenic brutality caused by another bomb blast in its any corner, be it public or private; buried or renowned palace. Bombs are lodged in packed public places viz. trains, parks, restaurants, markets and synchronized blasts leave dozens of people dead and many more mutilate.
The popular response of the organization is to blame Islamic militants and be extra vigilant in other parts of India in preparation of another potential blast. Then the investigations go on and on only ending with a long list of suspects.
In February, a bomb on a train traveling through north India on its way to Pakistan killed 68 people. In July 2006, seven bombs exploded in Mumbai, killing more than 200 and injuring more than 700 others. In October of 2005, three serial bombs killed 62 people in New Delhi. No concrete step has been taken to understand who is behind the attacks. On Saturday night, a pair of bombs went off in Hyderabad killing at least 42 people.
“Available information points to the involvement of terrorist organizations based in Bangladesh and Pakistan,” Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh said. “These investigations don’t go anywhere,” said V.K. Sood, a retired lieutenant general and New Delhi-based defense analyst. “The authorities find it exceedingly difficult to specify who was actually behind the blasts … It’s basically a guessing game.”
For the past two years, India was second only to Iraq in the number of terrorist fatalities worldwide, with 1,361 deaths in 2005 and 1,256 in 2006, says the report conducted by U.S. government’s National Counterterrorism Center. What needs to be changed is the mono centric approach of investigations that blames every attack, directly or indirectly, to Pak based terrorists. Perhaps we also need to work on technology a bit, laggards that we are.