Tuesday 23 October 2012

Walk the talk!

The visit of British High Commissioner, James Bevan to Gujarat is a little unexpected. For the last 10 years they had banned Gujarat and the CM, his visits and their investments for the state, since their 4 citizens were killed in the 2002 riots. Though it is obviously difficult for a country (which actually itself is surrounded all over from economic problems) to ignore a state like Gujarat (which is attracting a lot of investments due to its high rate of growth in most of the sectors), but the way the 2002 riots have been ignored or not worked properly on, ideally it did not make any sense to lift the ban and go ahead with them.
I am not a judge here or a person who has got any insights on how much involvement Mr. Modi actually had in the communal riots but, if he had, isn't it so easy for a person to get away with  whatever he has done, however heinous it might be?

The bans by some big nations on any country or state for anything bad or wrong it has done are imposed to show how the actions by some particular state/nation are condemned strongly. If in the period of 10 years any influential country can lift the ban from any nation(without having valid reasons to do it), then how can we expect nations like Israel or Sudan or Iran to change their positions. Or how can we ensure Assad will do what is expected!
I feel that countries should be more responsible in  words and  actions.

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