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Rajiv Gandhi’s killers did grievous wrong, but they are also victims of an ethno-religious regime that regards them as less than human.

“The people of north India should see us as victims,” R.P. Ravichandran, one of Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins set free by the Supreme Court, said last week.
Few things are fouler than picking piously on those who have done grievous wrong and have had everything taken from them. Ravichandran and his co-convicts are responsible for their murderous choices. This fact exists alongside another: they are also casualties of a convergence of circumstance and history. Only those bereft of intelligence, imagination and compassion would struggle to recognize the equal validity of these two conflicting truths.
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