Botched rescue effort of Jihad

WE are shocked at the sad fate of the four-year old Jihad. And our grief has been further intensified by the callous and insensitive behaviour of the government agencies involved in the rescue effort. Not only was it totally messed up by the Fire Brigade, the handling of the situation, the behaviour and utterances of persons in positions of responsibility, including the state minister for home also confounded the situation.

To say the least, the rescue effort was unplanned and disorganized, with no control over the large number of onlookers; and the deceit resorted to and the hint of conspiracy that the authority 'discovered' in the matter were uncalled for. At the end it took the innovation of a few local people to retrieve Jihad's dead body, which the fire brigade wanted us to believe, after more than eight hours of so called rescue operation, was not there. To have called off the rescue operation shows that the government actually believed that the whole thing was hoax.  

And how does the government explain the extremely cruel treatment meted out by the police to a father who was not sure at that time what his son's fate would be?  One wonders what his fate would have been had Jihad's body not been recovered. To keep him in custody for 12 hours without food is cruel and betrays a government that is prone to see conspiracy in every event.   

There are many explanations that the government owes us and there are many people that need to be taken to task. We would hope that both would be done quickly.