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THE DEATH OF TWO MEN

Mar 13, 2015 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

Two men were killed last Tuesday night. One was killed in Agricola and the other in Diamond. One was a shopkeeper. The other was described as a political activist.
No one has said that the death of the former was related to his work as a shopkeeper. But there are many voices who are saying that the latter’s death was a political assassination – that is, the motive for the killing was political.
In short, what we have is an argument that goes as a follows. X was a political activist. At the time of his death he was involved in a political activity. Therefore his death is a case of a political assassination.
This is not a valid argument, because even if one assumes that the first two propositions are true, namely that X was a political activist, and that he was killed while undertaking political activity, it does not follow that his death was an act of political assassination, because it could have been some other thing.
Unless there is some evidence that the death of X was politically inspired, the conclusion about a political assassination does not hold. I have not seen any such evidence, and I know of no such evidence at this time. Yet the talk about political assassination persists.
It is illogical. It is like saying that Y was a shopkeeper. Y was killed while in front of his shop. Therefore Y’s death was related to his shopkeeping.
This too is not a valid argument, because Y’s death may well be unrelated to his work in his shop. It may be related to something else. At best, therefore, the conclusions drawn in both the deaths of X and Y are speculative.
I do not know either of the men killed. I have never met them. I have never seen them. I have never spoken to them. But I can understand the suffering that is being felt within their families. It is not easy to lose a loved one.
I extend my sympathies to the families of both men. There can be no justification for what happened to those men, none whatsoever.
I expect that the police force will vigorously investigate both cases and will eventually solve them. I expect that anyone with information about the deaths of these individuals will come forward and give such information to the police. I expect that special interest will be shown in the pathology of the man killed in Diamond, and that the same interest will be shown about the man killed in Agricola.
The families of both men are going through a very difficult time at this moment, and I do not wish at this stage to say anything that will be insensitive. I do not know anything about the deaths of these men and therefore I will not, as many are doing, speculate about what were the causes of their deaths, or who may have been responsible for their murders. Without any hard evidence or leads, I cannot say why these men died.
A great deal of attention is being paid to the death of the  man killed in Diamond, presumably because he was  better known to the public, and because he was involved in political activities.
I have no knowledge about his death and I will not say anything about the person himself at this time, out of sensitivity to his grieving family. But when he is buried, I will discuss what research into him has revealed. This information is not top secret. It is publicly available with the simple click of a mouse and the use of Google.
I am sure that many in the media fraternity would have come across the same information in their research, but for some reason they are not making this information public, at least not as yet.
What I will reveal is therefore not any secret. It is information that can easily be garnered about the man who was killed in Diamond. This information I repeat has nothing to do with his death. It is about his political views and therefore has implications for those who wish to turn his death into a political lightning rod.
For the time being, let us allow the police to do their work and see what emerges in both cases. And let us be sensitive to the feelings of the families of both men and not say or do anything that would increase their distress or pain at this time.

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