Manish already posted about the assassination of notorious bandit Veerappan, but I thought I'd follow up by telling SM readers about this article from the BBC, which discusses how a "leading" South Indian human rights group is unhappy with the tactics employed in exterminating the dacoit.
...the killing could have been avoided, according to the human rights group, People's Watch.
Its head, Henry Tiphagne, asked in an interview with the BBC Tamil Service: "Why could the 100 armed police officers who surrounded Veerappan not have forced him to surrender or simply wounded him?"
Veerappan had many times told journalists how he had bribed police and politicians, and had made clear he would give details if he was ever tried.
Mr Tiphagne said, with Veerappan's death, the allegations of his links to leading figures in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka could not be examined.
After gazing at that picture, what I want to know is, what happened to his meesha (moustache)? Am I looking at an insult added to (final) injury?
