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Two recent events intrigued me and it left me wondering on the devious minds working to disrupt lives and bringing untold destruction and terror across the world. One incident was the simultaneous explosion of several pagers across many places in Lebanon maiming and killing several Hezbollah recruits and also commoners including women and children. This was sabotage and espionage possibly by the Israeli Mossad, (although there is no confirmation) to attack the roots of the Hezbollah movement which the Israelis consider as a terror outfit working as a parallel government in Beirut. This is sure to put even John Le Carre look like an amateur!
But what is particularly striking and scary is the sheer scale on which these simultaneous explosions took place, and points to the fact that anything which is connected to the internet can be hacked, manipulated, tinkered and programmed to carry out devious and deadly attacks. What next? Do we see internet TVs blow up inside houses, cars which are today having wifi and built in software programs operating through the cloud, become a toy for these hack specialists? One may argue that all’s fair in love and war, but who draws the line between fair killings and blatant murders? Geneva convention drawn after the second world war is an outdated set of guidelines, which needs to be completely re-written given the modern nuances and technological complexities.
The second event in our own home country is the increasing sabotage done in the most primitive way possible! Placing iron bars, cylinders, concrete slabs on railway tracks in the dead of night and waiting for a massive disaster to take place. Who on earth can think of such dastardly and devious ways of trying to cause unspeakable agony and trauma and disrupting one of the most intricate and patronized railway networks in the world! And if reports are right, some of the sabotage acts were caught being done by Railway staff themselves. How does one explain these senseless and barbaric acts of sabotage? It is indeed a stroke of great fortune and luck that there has been no major accident so far but who can stop these, in future? Surely the engine drivers are also human and may not be able to stop the train at all times. With every rail accident, there would be a huge clamour for safety, ministerial resignations, but does that solve the problem?! This is a mindset problem, dealing with criminal minds intent on destruction and terror.
The two events mentioned above, one done with technological precision and the other with crude methods speak of the mental malaise and the deep divide in the society today. Hatred, anger, mistrust among people is so rampant that one does not think twice before committing such acts. Governments and political parties of all hue and colour, must come together to stop such mindless violence and killings or attempt to kill. What is even more disconcerting is the silent approval and justification by many who clandestinely support such acts.
Lets raise our voice against this barbarism. Enough is Enough!!
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