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1. What are his Crimes ?
It has become fashionable amongst the Brahminist-controlled Indian press to pour hatred and vitriol on Veerappan. A continuous flood of hate-mongering propaganda has been unleashed. The purpose of this article is to logically analyse and study whether Veerappan is indeed as criminal as he is portrayed, and compare the treatment meted out to Veerappan with that meted out to other criminals.
Let us first see the `heinous crimes' with which Veerappan is charged. Let us also take these charges from one of the most anti-Tamil and anti-Veerappan articles ever published by an Indian newspaper, the Hindustan Times of 29th August 2000. In bold headlines entitled `Veerappan - One of India's Deadliest Killers' this newspaper screamed " In three decades of crime, he has killed 120 people, poached 2,000 elephants, and garnered 40,000 kg of ivory and sandalwood worth Rs 100 crores." [ `Veerappan - One of India's Deadliest Killers', Hindustan Times, 29 Aug. 2000 ] Setting aside the rest of that rather useless article, which was comprised solely of violent emotional hyperbole, we see that Veerappan has been charged with the following acts:
`Garnering' 100 crores from sandalwood smuggling.
`Poaching' of 2000 elephants
`Killing' of 120 people.
Let us compare each of these figures with that of some other well-known persons in India.
2. Veerappan's Pennies
Firstly, let us compare the scale of Veerappan's criminalities versus that of some other famous criminals in the Indian Union. So, let us compare Veerappan's `criminalities' with some of the darlings of the Brahmanist Indian Union:
Rajiv Gandhi's Rs. 1400 Crores :
Let us see how much Rajiv Gandhi, one of the darlings of the Indian media, stole when he pounced upon the Union treasury. "Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been named as the prime accused in the proposed chargesheet relating to the Rs 1,437-crore Bofors gun deal clinched in March 1986." [ `CBI to name Rajiv as Bofors case prime accused,' Indian Express, Wednesday, May 14 1997 ] Thus, we see that Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Pandit Nehru the Kashmir Brahmin and son of Feroze Gandhy the Parsi Brahmin, amassed a staggering fortune of Rs. 1400 crores which is more than TEN TIMES the sum obtained by Veerappan, a Tamil `poacher'. While Rajiv Gandhi enjoyed a luxurious life as Prime Minister with plenty of wine, women and song, Veerappan had to hide in the forest, hunted down by Soviet-built helicopter gun-ships.
Jayalalitha's Rs. 600 million :
Let us now compare Veerappan with another darling of the Indian media, Jayalalitha. An ex-actress, this lady has enjoyed a good life as screen siren and then as chief minister of Tamil Nadu. What was her private fortune ? This we learn from the Indian Express: " Courts were told that the raids resulted in seizure of some 28 kg of jewellery (worth Rs 51 crore), 91 wrist-watches, 41 air-conditioners, 10,500 sarees, 750 pairs of footwear and so on ... The investigations led the DVAC to some startling revelations. For instance, while before she was Chief Minister, Jayalalitha's assets were worth Rs 2.01 crore, after five years in power, her assets were calculated to be disproportionate by Rs 66.65 crore." [ `The Jayalalitha baggage,' Ritu Sarin, Indian Express, Wednesday, April 28, 1999 ] Jayalalitha had a wonderful time looting the state treasury of funds : " Police say shares of the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation were sold cheaper to its joint venture partner, a private company, causing a loss of Rs 290 million to the government." [ `Jayalalitha faces new corruption charge,' India Times, 21 August 2000 ]
So here we find another person amassing wealth far exceeding the paltry sums obtained by Veerappan. Both also are inhabitants of the same state, Tamil Nadu. What could possibly be the reason for the difference in treatment meted out to these persons ? Let us study the caste background of Jayalalitha. We learn from the Daily Star News that " Jayalalitha came from a rich Brahmin family and had a film star for a mother. Her father squandered away the family fortune, forcing his daughter to enter films and become the top Tamil actress of her day." [ Daily Star News Volume 2, Number 237, April 19, 1999 ] So now we know: if a Brahmin loots thousands of crores, he becomes media darling and prime minister for `cheating the idiot Sudras' while if a non-Brahmin Tamil dares to obtain one hundred crores, he is immediately hunted down by the army using helicopter gunships. even using helicopter gunships : "For almost three decades, he has evaded the law, special commando forces armed with everything from helicopters to night-vision devices." [ `Veerappan - One of India's Deadliest Killers', Hindustan Times, 29 Aug. 2000 ]