Murderers of Kerala

MulaiAzhagi wrote:There are also pitched battles between the Communists and Hindus, revenge killings, and so on: rather like mafia wars in Sicily, but startling in generally peaceable Kerala.

There was the particularly gruesome case of KT Jayakrishnan Master, a school teacher and BJP Yuva Morcha member, who was hacked to death in front of a terrified class of 11-year-old children in broad daylight in 1999. The alleged killers were all Communist cadres, and several were sentenced to death. The Kerala High Court upheld the lower court’s order, but the Supreme Court reduced it to a life sentence for just one person, Pradeepan, and released the others. In 2010, the then-ruling Communists commuted Pradeepan’s life sentence, and released him on the occasion of Independence Day.

Thus, they literally got away with murder.

Jayakrishnan’s case came up again recently in the wake of an apostate’s murder: that of TP Chandrasekhar, leader of a rebel, breakaway group, who was hacked to death on 4 May 2012. It is believed that his group, the Revolutionary Marxist Party, was beginning to siphon off significant support from the party rank-and-file, which, it appears, meant he had to be liquidated.

One of the suspects in the Chandrasekhar murder case, TK Rejeesh, revealed that he and 16 others were involved in the Jayakrishnan murder, and he alleged that those who were convicted of the murder were innocent stand-ins for the real culprits. So justice perverted, in addition to justice denied.

Be that as it may, there was another startling outcome from the Chandrasekhar case. Idukki district secretary MM Mani made a dramatic statement on 27 May: “Yes, we have killed the enemies of CPM. We have shot, stabbed and beaten them to death. A hit-list of party enemies was prepared and each of them was executed in that order.”

Mani went on to say about his Congress targets: “(We) killed them by beating, stabbing and shooting according to a hit-list. First person was shot dead. One was beaten to death. Another was stabbed to death. After this, Congress men (went) leaving behind their khadi clothes. But we could not take revenge on all of them”.

For a senior party man to confess to extra-judicial killings – and to then continue to be unrepentant about it later – is remarkable. It shows that the Communists meant it when they said “Power flows from the barrel of a gun” – in effect, they were only pretending to be bound by the rules of a democracy. If one were to look at this purely objectively, this should be enough to disqualify them from elections altogether.

http://www.firstpost.com/blogs/is-the-religion-of-marx-now-in-self-destruct-mode-403144.html