{"id":569,"date":"2004-10-19T13:56:38","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T18:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=569"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:24","slug":"you_cant_please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/you_cant_please\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t please everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Veerappan\" title=\"Veerappan\" src=\"http:\/\/anna.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/veerappan.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000564.html\">Manish<\/a> already posted about the assassination of notorious bandit <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/2219574.stm\">Veerappan<\/a>, but I thought I&#8217;d follow up by telling SM readers about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3757580.stm\">this article<\/a> from the BBC, which discusses how a &#8220;leading&#8221; South Indian human rights group is unhappy with the tactics employed in exterminating the dacoit.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>&#8230;the killing could have been avoided, according to the human rights group, People&#8217;s Watch.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>Its head, Henry Tiphagne, asked in an interview with the BBC Tamil Service: &#8220;Why could the 100 armed police officers who surrounded Veerappan not have forced him to surrender or simply wounded him?&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>Veerappan had many times told journalists how he had bribed police and politicians, and had made clear he would give details if he was ever tried.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>Mr Tiphagne said, with Veerappan&#8217;s death, the allegations of his links to leading figures in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka could not be examined.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>After gazing at that picture, what <em>I<\/em> want to know is, what happened to his meesha (moustache)?  Am I looking at an insult added to (final) injury?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manish already posted about the assassination of notorious bandit Veerappan, but I thought I&#8217;d follow up by telling SM readers about this article from the BBC, which discusses how a &#8220;leading&#8221; South Indian human rights group is unhappy with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/you_cant_please\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}