Sunday, January 15, 2023

Why Pakistan has no future unless we bring Generals to justice



General Bajwa in a tracksuit was in Dubai was waiting for traffic to cross the road.  What a miserable sight...the reply tweets said it all.  A general for whom whole Pakistan stopped before he crosses the road comes to his meagre being outside of Pakistan.  These Generals have destroyed Pakistan a country of immense wealth culture and talented people.  There is no end in sight to their loot while the country has not seen a balanced budget since its creation. They break laws, they hang politicians and they disappear innocent.   Reminds a quote from the book of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn explaining why these criminals need to be prosecuted if Pakistan as country has to survive:



 

 We will not do any of the things they did for  the sake of our country and our children we have the duty to seek them all out and bring them all to trial...not to put them on trial so much as their crimes and to compel each one of them and to announce loudly yes I was an executioner and a murderer and if these words were spoken in our country only one quarter of a million times a just proportion if we not to fall behind west Germany, would it perhaps be enough.  It is unthinkable in the 20th century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that past which ought not to be stirred up. We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.  In keeping silent about evil in bearing it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface we are implanting it and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.  When we neither punish nor reproach evil doers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundation of justice from beneath new generations.  It is for this reason and not because of the weakness of the indoctrinational work that they are growing up indifferent.  Young people are acquiring the conviction that foul deeds are never punished on earth that they always bring prosperity.  It is going to be uncomfortable horrible to live in such a country.

The Gulag Archipelago; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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