(Whenever South Asia’s oppressed minorities - often betrayed by their community leaders - have risen up against prejudiced, majoritarian governments, hundreds (even thousands) have been arrested and tortured to death. Those responsible for these custodial deaths have rarely been punished.)
No mercy, devoid of compassion
No place to hide existing under unjust laws
Prejudiced against, no masks for the state’s intolerance
Justified protests in the face of blind disregard
Betrayed by those on whom they had placed their faith
They come with laws, enforced by guns
They come with laws, their eyes filled with cold intent
The state holds the needle that weaves the cloth of prejudice
And so they spill out on the streets
They who have always faced defeat
Black flags raised they march down
Towards the armed, the uniformed
The path leads to their demise
Into a tiny cell, entombed for life
Held for days, cut off from the world
Screams falling upon deaf ears
Left ignored, aid refused
Fevered, bloodied, death comes slow
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