Many individuals have spoken up albeit after the death of Fr Stan. Many like him are still behind bars and harassed to no end, amazingly, by the very authorities who must uphold human rights.
Will all editorials, letters and protest marches have any effect on the government? The government will just wait till all this pent-up grief dies down, as it will, and those others waiting for justice, will still languish in jails.
We need to speak out at the right forums. Our lone South Goa non-BJP MP must speak out very strongly not only about the injustice and ‘murder’ of Fr Stan, by the very judicial system that is supposed to uphold human rights.
The ruling BJP MLAs must know that human rights come first and that their silence means they are party to the crimes. Yes, their current silence means they are ready to sell their souls for whatever ‘cause’ their central leaders ask them.
We need to ask them tough questions and not ‘assume’ they are justified in keeping silent.
