Saturday, September 24, 2011

Plane Crash : Heading towards statelessness

After almost three hours of the plane crash I'm still flipping from one news channel to another to get the Real News. The media is giving all kind of details and don't know which one to believe. Some say all are Indian nationals but others say there are few European. I don't understand why they can't talk to the airlines and give the details of the deceased and their nationalities. The government channel Nepal Television is running PM's address at the UN General Assembly!!!!!!!!

According to the people out there in Kotdanda, Lamatar, the police were keen on looking at the incident rather than saving the person who was still alive. They said "the guy was still talking and could have been alive if he had reached hospital on time." According to them he said "I can be alive please save me and take me to the hospital". The villagers themselves brought the injured in stretcher but the police van didn't stop to help him rather they asked to wait for the ambulance to arrive. I don't know what is the most important task for the police? Is it to save the injured or to go for inspection of the incident? I think people from Lamatar did whatever they could to help which is really commendable.

Last week when the earthquake shook us with 6.8 Richter scale, we didn't hear anything from our government and now with the behaviour of the police. I have now come to realize the absence of state and our country is heading towards statelessness.