More than 750 peoples have already been killed so far in more than half a dozen attacks on the financial capital of India ever since 1993. The country is yet to recover from the attack in November 2008 and the main accused Kasab is yet to be hanged and here is another serial blast on Wednesday to shock us all.
What is the reason behind high frequency of such attacks on Mumbai? Why it has become the most favorite place for the terrorists that there have been more than 6 blasts in around 18 years? Why no other city but Mumbai bleeds again and again and despite of all secret services and securities the terrorism is not getting extinguished?
As per the ministers, Mumbai and Delhi will always remain the most targeted cities on the list. But we all know the financial and entertainment capital is more prune to attack than the actual capital Delhi. Though attack on Mumbai grabs attention of the entire country in a blink so that may be one of the reason why terrorist choose Mumbai every time. But the main reason lies somewhere else deep in the past.
It all started in early 1993, just two weeks after the demolition of the Babri mosque by Hindu fanatics in December 1992, which killed more than 900 people and it triggered the serial bomb attacks, just two months after the riot, which killed more than 250 people. This is when the rule of law broke down in the city and a liberal city ruled by law and order turned into a city infamous for heinous crime, killings and terrorism. Once initiated the crime graph never went down in the city. It was only the last month, when gunmen shot dead the city's leading crime journalist on a rainy morning and zipped away openly on their motorbikes. Its the same city where the flats meant for war widows was allegedly grabbed by politicians, retired army officers and business giants.
The image of the city has turned out to be a chimera with bloodshed every other day. This crime chain needs to be broken in order to put law and order back or else Mumbai may go the Karachi(Pakistan's port city) way where terrorist attacks are as common as some festival or cavalcade.
What is the reason behind high frequency of such attacks on Mumbai? Why it has become the most favorite place for the terrorists that there have been more than 6 blasts in around 18 years? Why no other city but Mumbai bleeds again and again and despite of all secret services and securities the terrorism is not getting extinguished?
As per the ministers, Mumbai and Delhi will always remain the most targeted cities on the list. But we all know the financial and entertainment capital is more prune to attack than the actual capital Delhi. Though attack on Mumbai grabs attention of the entire country in a blink so that may be one of the reason why terrorist choose Mumbai every time. But the main reason lies somewhere else deep in the past.
It all started in early 1993, just two weeks after the demolition of the Babri mosque by Hindu fanatics in December 1992, which killed more than 900 people and it triggered the serial bomb attacks, just two months after the riot, which killed more than 250 people. This is when the rule of law broke down in the city and a liberal city ruled by law and order turned into a city infamous for heinous crime, killings and terrorism. Once initiated the crime graph never went down in the city. It was only the last month, when gunmen shot dead the city's leading crime journalist on a rainy morning and zipped away openly on their motorbikes. Its the same city where the flats meant for war widows was allegedly grabbed by politicians, retired army officers and business giants.
The image of the city has turned out to be a chimera with bloodshed every other day. This crime chain needs to be broken in order to put law and order back or else Mumbai may go the Karachi(Pakistan's port city) way where terrorist attacks are as common as some festival or cavalcade.
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