A woman catches her husband red-handed with another woman who didn’t even know that
the man was married. The wife begins brutally bashing up the other woman in
front of public instead of knowing her husband’s fault.
Near a coastal belt, two groups of friends
get into a fight and one slashes the other one’s throat. Bleeding profusely, he
was rushed to the hospital; luckily survived.
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Mumbai-based artist Durga was purportedly
beaten up by a man just because she reportedly corrected him to avoid using his
phone while riding the bike. A youth’s left wrist was chopped off with a sword
near the Ribandar ferry in a gang war. He was terribly injured and after a few
days passed away.
A video goes viral of family fighting over
the property in the compound by punching, kicking and hitting continuously. The
child watched the entire fight and took the video while hiding indoors.
And finally, in one of the latest
incidents, journalist Vivian Maverick was beaten up by drunken men in a
restaurant. 3 from the gang were already in the bar, they called other 4
friends who came there. Nobody knows, least of all Vivian, what provoked this.
“I have multiple fractures on the face,
broken bones and have undergone two surgeries. We need justice to be served. If
they can do it to me they can do to anyone. These animals need to be jailed
because anti social elements like them are a threat and danger to all citizens
of a civilised society,” shares Vivian.
There is a lot of discussion among the deaths and attacks of foreign
tourists, while that is one factor, we Goans ourselves have become victims to
such incidents. Who is causing this? People in Goa itself…
In Vivian Maverick Martin’s case, a gang who were already drunk
in another area came to the restaurant where Vivian was and hit him to the
extent of almost breaking a chair on his head. What had he done? Nothing. But
like most of the locals are saying, there are some people in Goa who do not
care about the way they are portraying their homeland, all they want is for
people to ‘respect’ and be scared of them. While we talk of Goenkarponn, are
locals indulging in goondaponn
Vivian says that he is trying to find a reason behind the attack
and doubts that it could also be a political connection. Well whatever it is, he
concludes that ‘Goa is no longer safe’.
Of course, we can’t find those good old days where everyone
meaningfully interacted with each other, but we can try and build that up.
Earlier tourists flocked to Goa; in fact everybody did; now all
are afraid. Our Goa might seem like the bright and sunny side of an egg, but
deep down we know what we see. Girls being kidnapped, women are rapped, men are
beaten up, youth are using weapons to fight for silly reasons. Instead of
arguing and discussing matters maturely, we violently attack.
And if this wasn’t enough the incidents of taxi drivers
attacking customers and other drivers just because things are not going
according to them are rising.
“We are witnessing crimes that we had never witnessed before in
Goa. People are too short tempered now days. This is because they believe they
can get away with anything. People are no longer afraid of the laws,” comments
Advocate Caroline Collasso. In all these cases, people have said the punishment
needs to be stringent and quick, and that can only happen if the laws are
strict, and investigation done the right way. With poor implementation of law
it’s impossible to bring justice to victims and catch the culprits.
And is it fair to blame the outsiders always, when we know what’s
happening among us Goans? “We have to take ownership for our mistakes,” says
Mavis Henriques, Lecturer/ Psychologist.
She briefly explains that people live in a virtual world
thinking ‘its Okay’ to harm someone else. “People find it difficult to communicate
verbally, and if they cannot cope up with something they need to find the right
method than attacking someone else,” she adds.
The only way to combat this is to break the culture of silence.
Neighbors friends and relatives to speak up, approach the law, not “compromise:
when they know that their loved ones have been brutally wronged.
Because
a society that looks away faces the brunt of injustice and violence
