Monday, August 27, 2007

Mügeln and after, did we learn something.?

The India(ns) Bashing affair in Mügeln came and went, most media reported in their own funny ways. In mainstream German media, it was a non-affair, in european media it was non existent and of course the world media remained ignorant, quite acceptable to say when 8 Indians are beaten up by crowd in a remote east german town.
The Left wing magazine Der Spiegel was perhaps the only one who did try to make something out of this issue, but unfortunatley or fortunately nobody takes left wing rant so seriously.
The affair threw up a lot of questions,but as a practice hard questions are never asked because of the fear of getting answers which are harder to tackle as a a result in about 2 days the entire thing got buried deep and simply disappeard as does a lot of issues when they get too uncomfortable.
The first question the media did NOT ask was,
why is that police took One full hour to arrive at the scene after a detailed report was received?
There existed an Intelligence report that this fest was under threat from the so-called right wing extremists, but the Police were not present.
If I were naive, I would not read much into this beacuse we are used to Police inaction, thats what most people did anyway beacuse if you probed below the skin about Police action you will actually dirty your fingers with all thats wrong about most part of East Germany.
Most media blamed the NPD as the bunch responsible,but NPD has 10% of popular vote in East Germany they are not the usual bunch of isolated trouble makers as they are made to be.Does this not explain why the Police were not an Hand to enforce order? but this is too fearful an explanation so we will not do it.
Media reported that 50 people chased 8 Indians and when these Indians hid in a Restraunt run by another Indian,they destoryed the Restraunt, beat up the people who took up refuge and then interestingly completely destroyed the car belonging to the owner parked nearby.
Does this sound like an attack that took place instantaneously, not at all because somebody knew very well that in the bunch of parked cars, which one belonged to the Indian restraunt owner.
To me its not important that 50 people chaesd 8 people or it was pre planned or not, what is important is that the fest had 300 other people mostly locals who were completely aware of what went on and they choose to give a tacit approval to the acts by simply not coming forward to help of an already reluctant police force.
History has a very bad habit of repeating itself.
But Looking at this whole issue from another completely different view we can ask the question what does a party like the NPD gain by beating up a few poor Indians in a remote town?
Agreed the NPD is against forigners, but Indians dont really matter in terms of numbers and two hardly 50000 Indians have chosen to Permanently settledown in Germany and most who did are in the Western Parts of Germany, the rest come and go so long as the EU economic powerhouse has fuel to run, the ones that do live part time are professionals who earn much more than the national average and contribute to the German Economy that distributes this money among east germans, The word distribute is used intentionally since in most parts of East Germany unemployment is 60% plus. The NPD is a political party with 8% vote and it is not that they are unaware of this.
The real foreigners who matter are the Muslim Minority, but any action by the NPD against them will trigger a response too horrible to comprehend and hence The Guiding leadership of NPD ensures that some hapless foriegners like the Indians get the wrong end of the stick.
It is said that the Federal government spends a few million euros to educate people against Right wing/Left wing extremism,my advice is double it or triple or throw it into the north sea and bet that it will not create a ripple.

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