ITS HEART WRENCHING

Yesterday night was a very difficult one for me, I couldn’t sleep. Yes, it was because of the teenager who was killed by security forces. Tufail, 17, was a 12th standard student and lived just a few houses away from mine. The whole night I could hear the wailing of women, which reverberated the whole area and I kept on thinking the state of shock and grief the parents of this young kid would be in after losing their only son. This is the fourth such incident in less than 3 months and second in my neighborhood. It’s around afternoon and I hear that his dead body has been released by the police for his last rites. The whole city is under curfew but even then thousands of people are attending his funeral.
Locals had alleged that security personnel hit the victim on the head by rifle butts, which resulted in his death on the spot. Although earlier the police claimed that the cause of Tufail's death is still not clear and it could be a murder. They are on a look-out for two people who had dropped him at hospital and disappeared. Now according to the NDTV, the police have finally admitted that the youth was killed by a shell fired by the police, this is after their continuous denial that not a single bullet or shell was fired yesterday.
In such a situation it becomes very difficult to explain my stated position and talk about peace and dialogue. People ask me why is this happening and when will it end, I don’t have an answer, I really don’t . So many agencies are working overtime to scuttle any peace talk and when I talk about peace, I only become more hated and more vulnerable. You never know who kills whom and why? There is no excuse for killing a teenager , the culprit should be brought to justice and given the most harshest punishment on planet earth . If that doesn’t stop the innocent killing I wonder what will.