I’m sorry but, no, they don’t. Even if these media reports are taken on face value and we try to convince ourselves that the perpetrators are being brought to book, justice, for whatever reason, is not evidently being effective here. If it was, there would be none of these incidents happening in the first place. Unfortunately, I feel events like these are just the tip of a very large iceberg and real justice has been an elusive rarity in this part of the world, no matter how hard people try to ignore it.

In my opinion, this historically ingrained prejudice prevalent among those connected with authority in this part of the world raises serious questions as of their competency to do any good, and hence the basis for their legitimacy. For people living in the free world, events like these can only act to reinforce the belief of a peoples subject to systematic dehumanisng behaviour with recognised impunity day in day out.

I think these serial actions by law enforcement officials only further serves to blur the distinction between a defender of justice and a criminal.