| Biswo |
Posted
on 25-Jun-02 06:55 PM
Rated R for grisly contents:-)
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Still sweating, he told us, the only foreigners in the train, that he
witnessed a post-public execution scene in the nearby city of Xian.
"The road was clotted,with fresh human blood. The convicts were first
paraded in the city in a open truck, with their charge tagged to their
body. And then were shot."
I only wished the convicts were not political prisoners. In the
government's drive to tamp down political dissent, they often go
overboard.
And later I was gallivanting in the dressed down street of Shanghai
with a friend of mine who happened to be a lawyer. Neon lights were
glowing, and preparation of national day was going on in Shanghai.
"You know what is our law?" Mr Xuan said, "It is what our leaders say.
I get so frustrated a lot of times." I remembered about our Hukumi
Shashan. What Ranas said was our law.
"Do they kill political prisoners?" I asked, still shocked by Xian story.
"Normally not, not that I know. But it is entirely possible for some
police to frame someone political person as a smuggler and shoot him."
In Panchayat, they shot Captain Yagya Bahadur Thapa, while his appeal
was still in the Supreme Court, I remembered.
Justic(or injustice) is pretty fast in China. Last time, the Broken Tooth,
the most ruthless criminal of Hongkong kidnapped the son (Richard) of
Hongkong tycoon Li Ka Shing. The Broken Tooth was later nabbed and his
case lasted only two weeks. He was swiftly executed.
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And talk about corpses. What do they do with corpses?
A Nepali student in prestigeous Shanghai Medical University once told
me the cadavers for dissection were mainly courtesy due to Shanghai
Police. For free. It didn't surprise me, because I knew England first
implemented such law of providing corpses of convicts to medical schools
and that law was later followed world wide.
Do hospitals in Nepal suffer from the crunches of corpses,sth that once
lead to the purloining of corpses from a lot of cemetery in USA ? I am
not sure. Corpses for medical study is the idea that doesn't shock me.
I don't believe in reincarnation, and I know the body is all earth after
death.We in Nepal cremate the corpses,and someone once joked that surfaces
of Nepal's holy rivers are made up of human remains.
And finally, what shocked me was the tradition of Slavery era south.
The owners of slave used to own their corpses too and used to sell them
to the hospitals of southern university. So, while medical schools
in north, in 19th century, suffered from lack of corpses to provide to
medical students, medical schools in south used to tell the prospective
students,"Don't worry about corpses. We have them enough."
"Visiting southern America, someone somewhere claimed, "Isn't just visit
of landscape, it is the visit of mindscape."
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