Terrorists...within human territory?
As Bangalore recovered from Friday’s bomb blasts, Ahmedabad reeled from explosions on Saturday.
The numbers, 9 blasts in 6 places within 60 minutes at Bangalore.
And 17 blasts in 12 places including two hospitals within 70 minutes.
There are hardly any parallels to what happened in Ahmedabad- in terms of terror attacks, IEDs and suicide bombings, never has a hospital been targeted in the cruel and completely inhuman manner the Civil hospital in Shahibaug and the LG Hospital in Maninagar were. Hospitals are always the centre of action after any attack- it’s perhaps the first time they have become the scene of the attack itself.
If terror is a war, then what kind of war is this - that tries to kill the injured, to maim those already suffering, and to destroy the healers?
And the worst part of the plan- that the blasts at the hospitals were timed to be among the last of them all - 80 minutes after the first bomb went off, 40 minutes after the first round ended - at the very hospitals where most of the injured would be taken. A diabolical plan that slayed a hardworking doctor and his pregnant wife, which murdered little children visiting an ailing grandmother, and so many others. What kind of mind can work out something like that? Sadist would be an understatement. The terrorist group lies when it says the blasts are in revenge for events of the past - it’s the revenge of the future that they aim to create. It’s not our fear they’re looking for, it’s our retaliation they want. And that’s something to think about, as we set it up.