Blood Money
Two murder cases in two different countries that got a lot of publicity in recent times got “sorted out” in the same way. The first was the Pakistani case where an American (supposed CIA agent) killed 2 Pakistanis in a crowded market. The second was the case of the Italian marines who killed fishermen from Kerala. The common resolution in both cases? Pay off the victims. With that, the case was over in both countries. Is paying money to the victims such a bad thing? Forget your sense of morality for a minute and instead look at the future from the point of the fishermen’s surviving relatives (the Pakistani case is more complicated because, as per the US, the guys killed were trying to kidnap the American when they were shot). - Suppose India prosecuted the Italians, what were the odds we’d have convicted them any time in the next billion years? Zero, given what our case against Kasab has shown. Justice or closure (or whatever fancy term...