Moin Uddin
Kathmandu
Since time immemorial we are raising our voice to eradicate the torture and unethical punishments that women faces in a day to day life.
Despite raising many similar voices by several other means be it on television, radio, newspaper or by organizing rally in the major places or sitting outside of the ministers home and offices also sometimes dismantling the property in rage we have by our hard efforts achieved nothing significant other than the sweet statement of the officials saying that they’ll investigate and bring the culprit to the public and shall punish him/her to the harshest.
And we the innocent ones believe that the officials will act to their best and we tend to cancel all the other programs to support the victim, now it has become a tradition when any such crime occurs. Doing so every time the government has become aware of our innocence and they slow in the process of acting immediately and the media who only seeks the hot news for the day just to publish it on their paper or to broadcast on their radio/television they even don’t give a heck to follow up the news the next day. This is just a simple reason for the criminals to get motivated to commit crime.
We the general people come into emotion easily and put on status when anyone immediately reports in the social networking sites. We vomit our thoughts without giving a thought of what we are trying to say. We people also have become fancied by the problems which are occurring.
We get hyper for a day and the next day we get lost in other problem that we face in our life. This is obvious; we have our own problems to sort out first. This is the mentality of most of the people. We never think that those problems are ours. We also can be victim anytime. This awareness doesn’t come to us when other face the problem. We have become a fancy journalist without getting a course of the ethics that the journalist need to follow, thanks to the burgeoning popularity of various social networking sites that we are familiar with.
Recently two girls suffered from an inhumane act. Unidentified boys threw acid on the face of those girls in the busiest and happening place of town .i.e. Basantapur where sadly there is a major police station situated on the heart of the place but the culprits got the courage to act making the life tougher for those girls, not only them there are other girls too who is insecure of walking on the roads freely.
There are other cases too such as, rape, molestation, threating people, financial problems, trying to show off, power struggle, status struggle, love, hate, short tempered, which are the major cases that we tend to neglect when identifying the crimes.
If we try to look deeply into many criminal cases the crime has occurred oftentimes mainly due to unsuccessful love stories, hate for the other people, ego problem between coworkers/ friends, unheard problems, not being able to withstand the torture which turns into the result of hating that people. And when people tends to hate there is obvious to occur the crime.
Even the boys are not safe in this matter. If a girl can be a victim then can’t a boy be the victim? This is a matter of concern for every individual.
The solutions that the government can play are by being faithful to their duties and responsibilities and to act immediately when they get the report of the crime. Transparent actions and process of trying to find the crime should be made available to the public which will help in building the trust of the general public towards the police.
INGO/NGO should also be able to raise the concerns and plight of the individual and should try to aware the people about the possibilities of the crime that could take place and should also try to say that why the crime could take place and also have to say the solutions to alleviate the crime.
Individuals have a major role to play. The crime occurs between individuals and as I’ve mentioned already above the possibilities of why the crime occurs. If anyone faces the crime then you should be able to stand by the victim until and unless they get the justice. Not just acting among the hype that the media creates and to cool down when the stories are unsaid by the media.
Media plays a huge role in any spheres of life. Most crime occurs due to the information transmitted by the media. Media by means is most powerful medium in shaping the mental and physical condition of the people. They can build the love and hate relationship between people and even cultivate the ego problem which could result into the major crime. Media should be loyal towards the job, they shouldn’t take anybody’s side and should flow the information accordingly. The main problem of our Nepali media is they only try to seek new information to raise their TRP. They hardly follow up the news and don’t bother to say what happened next as something other new problem arise and they gets lost in all those to cover the news. Last week the two girls’ news was overshadowed by the Turkish Airlines news. This is the situation of our media. Ever media houses run for the same news and the next day they never try to follow up.
What I think is crime can only be controlled when every concerned people comes and join hands to wipe it. They should also think that the crimes that took place today can happen the other day with them. Until and unless we don’t feel the pain of others as ours the crime will never come into control, no-matter how much we boast about eliminating the crime. This will keep on continuing.
Published on a newspaper myRepublica on 09 Mar 2015
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