History is ruthless, it remembers the tomb of Mir Jaffer as ‘Namak haram ki deorhi. and calls Tipu Sultan Sher Mysore.
History does not forget & forgive those who make it. Making of history does not mean always doing right. It equally means doing wrong. Those who did wrong are never forgiven by those who suffer by their wrong. Similarly, those who did right are never forgotten by those who benefit from their right. Wrong or right may be a decision or an action taken at a given moment of time in the past by those who had opportunity, authority, power or means to control, shape & direct the course of events in a particular direction.
We have in history very cruel dictators, tyrants & fascists, who have made history by their cruel & barbaric rule that caused suffering to millions world-over. The history books are fraught with their savagery. But, as I say, they have made a history, a bad history indeed. Their names exist in the annals of history of mankind. There will be more additions to the list of those barbarian rulers in future as well. In our times history for posterity is made by many such savages under different names of governance. Many democracies are also doing it by inflicting misery & pain on their own people.
We have in history leaders who too have created history by their wrong actions or decisions at a particular period of time, mostly for their low understanding & erroneous assessment of the events before them. It may be due to lack of knowledge of history, or personal greed, or self-aggrandizement or bad advisers around, of theirs, as well.
We have in history people like rulers, leaders, scientists, technologists, engineers, architects, academics, thinkers, theologians, philanthropists, philosophers & many more who have made history, a good history, by their right decisions & actions at right moments of time.
The nations were built on the foundation of equality, liberty and freedom. Our forefathers sacrificed their lives to fetch the fruits of independence, not for themselves but for us. They used information to add needed propulsion for achieving freedom and they used intelligence to justify the need of our freedom based on unity. However, in last 70+ years of independence, we as a nation have failed at every level of integration, in using such wisdom which we had gained but sadly we lost.
Situated 15 km southwest of Beijing’s city center, Lugou Bridge is an 800-year-old stone structure, which the Italian merchant, traveler and explorer Marco Polo wrote of in one of his journals, earning it its more commonly recognized name in English—the Marco Polo Bridge. Though Marco Polo’s writings about its exquisite architecture may have made it known in the West, for the Chinese people, the bridge has been imbued with a significance it cannot be separated from ever since 1937. On the night of July 7, 1937, Japanese troops conducted a drill near the bridge without informing the Chinese garrison. During the drill, the Japanese army claimed a solider had gone missing afterward and requested they be allowed cross the bridge to search for him. When they were refused by the Chinese army, the Japanese opened fire. The battle, henceforth known as the Lugou Bridge Incident, marked the start of China’s eight-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which claimed more than 35 million Chinese lives. “History is history and facts are facts. Nobody can change either history or the facts. Anyone who intends to deny, distort or beautify the Japanese history of aggression will not find agreement among the Chinese people nor the people of any other country,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping at a ceremony commemorating the 77th anniversary of the Lugou Bridge Incident in Beijing on July 7.
It was one of the biggest secrets of the post-9/11 era: soon after the attacks, President Bush gave the CIA permission to create a top secret assassination unit to find and kill Al Qaeda operatives. The program was kept from Congress for seven years. And when Leon Panetta told legislators about it in 2009, he revealed that the CIA had hired the private security firm Blackwater to help run it. “The move was historic,” says Evan Wright, the two-time National Magazine Award-winning journalist who wrote Generation Kill. “It seems to have marked the first time the U.S. government outsourced a covert assassination service to private enterprise.”
The quote is from his e-book How to Get Away With Murder in America, which goes on to note that “in the past, the CIA was subject to oversight, however tenuous, from the president and Congress,” but that “President Bush’s 2001 executive order severed this line by transferring to the CIA his unique authority to approve assassinations. By removing himself from the decision-making cycle, the president shielded himself — and all elected authority — from responsibility should a mission go wrong or be found illegal. When the CIA transferred the assassination unit to Blackwater, it continued the trend. CIA officers would no longer participate in the agency’s most violent operations, or witness them. If it practiced any oversight at all, the CIA would rely on Blackwater’s self-reporting about missions it conducted. Running operations through Blackwater gave the CIA the power to have people abducted, or killed, with no one in the government being exactly responsible.” None of this is new information, though I imagine that many people reading this item are hearing about it for the first time.
Isn’t that bizarre? But as said History never forgets.
The Caravan India had quoted immediate members of CJ Loya’s family, who questioned the circumstances surrounding his death and said that the judge had been offered Rs 100 crore to give an order favourable to the prime accused, BJP president Amit Shah. The judge passed away on December 1, 2014 after a heart attack while in Nagpur to attend a colleague’s daughter’s wedding. In interviews to the magazine’s reporter, Niranjan Takle, members of Loya’s family listed what they said were inconsistencies in the facts surrounding his death. he Caravan had quoted Loya’s sister Biyani as saying that the family found blood stains on the judge’s shirt, on the neck and at the back. Other family members also said they saw there was an injury on his head:
A diary entry by Biyani from the time reads, “There was blood on his collar. His belt was twisted in the opposite direction, and the pant clip is broken. Even my uncle feels that this is suspicious.” Harkishan [Loya’s father] told [Caravan], “There were bloodstains on the clothes.” Mandhane said that she, too, saw “blood on the neck.” She said that “there was blood and an injury on his head … on the back side,” and that “his shirt had blood spots.” Harkishan said, “His shirt had blood on it from his left shoulder to his waist.”Still the government of India hides the truth from the public, but only untill Amit Shah and BKP are in power, why? Because history has noted each and ev ery thing about it.
The worst kind of betrayal comes from selfish people who care only for their promotion or success. Mir Jafar was one such man whose greed pushed innocent people into violent oppression for a couple of centuries. Belonging to the upper ruling class of Bengal, Jafar sided with Britishers and went against his people just so that he could sleep in a better home and sat in a better office. This was the seventeenth century when the Britishers were still trying to strengthen their Indian subcontinent. Seeing the opportunity, Jafar sold his people to the Britishers and allowed them to massacre the complete Bengal Army. In exchange, he was appointed as the puppet ruler in the region. Not much later, Jafar betrayed the trust of the Britishers too, only to side with the Dutch. However, his greed got the best of him.
Not only did it not end well for Jafar, but India was also thrown into callous times for the next couple of centuries under British rule.han a month after the incident, Beijing was captured.
Some of the most notorious of the CIA’s operations to kill world leaders were those targeting the late Cuban president, Fidel Castro. Attempts ranged from snipers to imaginative plots worthy of spy movie fantasies, such as the famous exploding cigars and a poison-lined scuba-diving suit.
But although the CIA attempts proved fruitless in the case of Castro, the US intelligence agency has since 1945 succeeded in deposing or killing a string of leaders elsewhere around the world – either directly or, more often, using sympathetic local military, locally hired criminals or pliant dissidents. In spite of this, the US never totally abandoned the strategy, simply changing the terminology from assassination to targeted killings, from aerial bombing of presidents to drone attacks on alleged terrorist leaders. Aerial bomb attempts on leaders included Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi in 1986, Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic in 1999 and Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Earlier well-documented episodes include Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba of Congo, judged by the US to be too close to close to Russia. In 1960, the CIA sent a scientist to kill him with a lethal virus, though this became unnecessary when he was removed from office in 1960 by other means. Other leaders targeted for assassination in the 1960s included the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, president Sukarno of Indonesia and president Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam.
In 1973, the CIA helped organise the overthrow of Chile’s president, Salvador Allende, deemed to be too left wing: he died on the day of the coup. The alleged North Korean plot sounds crude. But intelligence agencies still resort to crude methods. The alleged North Korean plot recalls the assassination of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. A British inquest concluded he had been killed by the Russian intelligence agency using polonium hidden in a teapot.
