Showing posts with label Human Rights in Nepal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human Rights in Nepal. Show all posts

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Faulty Investigation

Faulty Investigation

What does the word police stand for? It seems ridicules that the more than 90% of the police force in the south eastern countries are not aware of. This shows the incompetence in which their are embroiled in. 
I shall bring the acronym to fore later but to put an analogy of this to the testing, I would like to bring an incident of great magnitude in nature. 
About six people were sentenced to prison in Nepal for the murder of a person that they had confessed to in front of the police. It so happens that this person resurrected after six months or so after the conviction of his murders. 
These people are are languishing for a crime that they are not culpable of. Why? If a person whom had been murdered by the confessed people, how is it possible that he had come to life? This can perplex any science. 
After all he had been killed by the very eyes of the people who did the deed of taking his life and throwing his lifeless body into the Koshi river. Mind you, that the rivers in Nepal are fast flowing bodies. 
His coming back to life is unexplainable, unless there are other means to explain it. 
Yes, there are other means of explaining it. The incompetence of the police force in Nepal. Just to show that they are doing their jobs and that their stats show so, that they are solving cases in the country, arbitrarily case without proper investigation and forced confessions can make up the bulk of it, the cases solved.
One can actually assume what really went on in this particular case and most other cases can be taken on this line. A complain was lodged that a particular person was murdered by supposedly these people by the family members of the supposedly murdered person. Pressure was put on the police and so the group of guys were arrested and put under torture to confess in police detention. 
It is natural that when one in under torture that is painful, they will concoct a story up in order to get away from the pain an torment that is leashed on them. 
The case for the police have been solved. They were convicted for a murder of a person. This could be a case of irony or a breach of the law that the very people are to maintain. 
This shows only one thing - that the police force in Nepal are both incompetent and that many people must be languishing in prison for a crime that they may not have committed or have been given sentences that are not virtues of a part of the crime that was committed.
It also show either directly or indirectly that torture and forced confession is prevalent in the police force. Any person can become a victim of the police brutality in Nepal as were the incidences of deaths in police custody of a number of people which is then made out to be that he die of some illness or a heart attack. Obviously the pain inflicted on a person will make him die of an heart attack at time. 
It need not mention some case, but if one happens to read the newspapers in the country you would come across such cases. 
Finally, if human rights is to exist in the country proportionally, independent investigation of such case should be done and if it comes to notice that brutality was used to make confessions, then those police persons should be taken as criminals and punished as ones. Including the high and mighty officers that make it possible to happen under their jurisdiction. For they are the most culpable of what is happen. 
This all because they want to score merits of the number of cases they have solve and gain merits for it and at the same time are involved in venal acts of taking bribery from those they can. If not, how is it possible that they are able to accomplish building homes in the city, with the salary they get. 
Steven William Pitts 
  

Monday, November 25, 2013

Money, Money Everywhere

Money, Money Everywhere

by Steven William Pitts

If you have to walk on the road that you notice, the high raised buildings, the glamour and glitter, the cars and bikes, and the shops which point to only one thing, that there is money, money everywhere, but unfortunately, it is in the hands of a few while the vast majority of people have to live in the shadows of it behind closed door, just creeping out so that others do not see their depravity.

Yes, this is practically true, that there is so much of money lying around in just the hands of a few people, who flaunt it to that extremes, that it makes one believe that wealth is on the flow. Ironically, the vast majority are not a part of it and at the same time their presence is not noticeable.

Why might you ask? It is not they do not want to be a part of the extravaganza of wealth, but the disparity does not allow them the luxury. They do not have the wealth and means to partake of it. Their life goes in obscurity of trying to make ends meet so that they can eke out a living and on it they have to sustain themselves so that a time may come when they can have a glimmer of hope to taste a part of the glamour and glitter. This is just a dream without cream.

Only few have made it out from this dungeon of being hidden as they system is in place to keep it that way. Who would be so vile as to lose the affluence of enjoying the glamour and glitter of life. If the system breaks down where everything has to be shared equally, then there is no meaning to having got to prominence.

The irony of it all is that the money which is flaunted by the few is actually made of the many that have to live in shame. It is like make hay while the sun shines. It seems the same as rob the poor to make yourself rich – the antithesis of Robin Hood.

How is this happening? This happens with what one calls “Free Market Economy” without government control. Those that have the means control the market and do as their please making money in the bargain from what little the many less fortunate. Those in power enjoy a share of it – so why allow a break from traditional ways of life.

When man is kept in economic subjugation there is no better way of controlling him. His earning are not enough to fed him live alone him paying the rent. While those who are living off him are able to flaunt what they have along with their children.

This is the case in Kathmandu as those who are depraved have no voice as they must live under the subjugation of what they pay their landlords, the market to sustain their lives and have no political say in the matter as their jurisdiction lies elsewhere.

This post was written to tell the true story of Kathmandu and how people are fleeced of their earnings by both the landlords as well as the market. The eyes can be deceptive to the money lying around as you must really go into places where people live as tenants, then would you really get the true picture of political impunity in the country.

Steven William Pitts

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