{"id":643,"date":"2009-11-10T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T15:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2009-11-10T15:53:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T15:53:23","slug":"delhi-descends-into-savagery-another-personal-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/delhi-descends-into-savagery-another-personal-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi descends into savagery : another personal experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be wrong of me to keep posting these stories, but it is important to know that the carnage against Sikhs in Delhi is not something that can be consigned to History.  It is something that happened recently and the both  victims and criminals are still alive.  It also shows (as in Gujarat and in Mumbai after that) how easily we descend into savagery worse than animals, where a human being ceases to be one.  Why ? what happens ? Why would a neighbor kill another ? Is it within us to do this ? Within you or me ? This one is from Aimee :<br \/>\nmy uncle was the first sikh who was killed in the riots&#8230; he owned a huge business of taxi&#8217;s and this is the story i heard from his own family that survived&#8230; i must have not been 9&#8230; my uncle was dragged out from his house to his taxi stand beaten all the way there&#8230; while his young daughter ran after him trying to save him&#8230; they hanged him in front of her but did not kill him fully and then burned him alive&#8230; imagine seeing your own father die in front of you&#8230;. she was left to die at the stand&#8230; broken arm leg and god knows what else&#8230;  I heard of her after 1 yr &#8211; she lived and joined the radical Sikh movement&#8230; then they ask  why and how do we save our children from something like that. ? .. she is dead now.. well that is what i know&#8230; no one talks about this in our family&#8230; but 1984 case are still going on&#8230; so many died in name of caste system&#8230; we should not repeat the past and learn to heal those who have been hurt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be wrong of me to keep posting these stories, but it is important to know that the carnage against Sikhs in Delhi is not something that can be consigned to History. 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