Angry villagers burn alive captured leopard

[Safarigent]

there is a video.
online and on the news.
it will make your eyes wet..

[winnie_the_pooh]

you must be very proud of your countrymen, now i understand perfectly why hunting/gun ownership is not allowed, imagine if those people were actually armed

This is something I did not expect you to say.I do not see any pride in what has happened in the comments posted here only i) condemnation of the act as barbaric and ii) an attempt to understand what drove them to do it.

[peterdk]

winnie_the _pooh

it was meant in a very sarcastic way, and i can allready see that you all are heart broken about this incident.

best

peter

[Katana]

Those officials ought to thrown out for not doing their job and made to stand trail for dereliction of duty. You can't just stand around and say "there was nothing we could do", because they do have the powers and wherewithal to do what they are supposed to do. For most guys in the Forest Service its just a job. They have absolutely no understanding of the environment, nor any love of it.

[goodboy_mentor]

Those officials ought to thrown out for not doing their job and made to stand trail for dereliction of duty.

I agree. I saw the video on youtube, the armed policemen can be found to be standing casually as if they are implicitly co-operating in this heinous crime. No amount of justification can justify this barbaric act by these people. Main question is how many policemen/government officials have been punished and made an "example" for dereliction of duty in India for crimes that have been openly done in their presence or rather sometimes even lending a helping hand? I do not think this incident as an isolated incident but rather it is a symptom of growing general lawlessness in India. I do not want to sound negative but let us face a reality that our criminal justice delivery system has practically failed. Thousands of people were burnt alive by mobs in Delhi in 1984, thousands were burnt alive by mobs in Gujrat in 2002-3, Grahm Stains and his sons were burnt alive by similar mobs in Orissa, just search in Google.com for "news burning alive India" you will get lot of such incidents.

[airgun_novice]

Is this the one ? It was uploaded on Oct 18, 2010.
A few faces - civilian and police, can be made out - pick them up for questioning and truth will be out.

[goodboy_mentor]

Yes this is the one I saw, sorry I did not notice the date then. So this act of burning alive of animals is now happening again and again. There is another news about similar burning alive of leopard in "presence" of officials dated March 24, 2011 at http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/leopa ... hand-93935

[jaz]

India is a banana republic.

[full_circle]

India is a banana republic.

Whats wrong with you??? A leopard was killed, probably with good reason. The method of killing is gruesome. One member tries to be sarcastic in an offensive way. Another wants to call India an unstable, industrially backward country. WAKE UP and appreciate India for what it is, its accomplishments, and the fact that despite all it's shortcomings, it works. Stop comparing it to your fantasies of the so called developed countries. What works for a country with 10 million population does not work for a country with a population of 1.2 billion.

[Vikram]

Full_Circle,

I appreciate you correcting him for calling India a banana republic.But, re the leopard, it wasn't killed for a good reason.Also,While we celebrate our achievements, we should not be vein enough to turn a blind eye to its darker facets. The burning of the leopard was barbaric, and no amount of rationalisation does not take away that fact.

Best-
Vikram

-- Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:01 pm --

Anyway, for a change and as an example that we harbour kindness too,

A leopard cub rescued that fell into a well.

[youtube][/youtube]

Best-
Vikram

[shadowsabhi]

ho poor animal ............