This time around, I decided to keep my visit to Earth a secret although I decided there was no particular danger from anybody. Yet still, I cannot forget and put it in my past the fact that I was stabbed in the neck while entering my home in a dark alley and left bleeding to die.
It might sound weird when I say that I smelt alcohol on my attacker just as he stabbed me.
I pressed my neck tightly to stop the blood flowing out.
I turned around and saw the attacker calmly walk out on to the main street and get on a waiting moped with the rider and him taking off seemingly without any hurry.
It was the early evening hours, yet it was quite dark.
I hailed a passing moped whose rider was generous enough to take me to the nearest hospital.
Strangely, while I was recuperating at the hospital, a police investigator came to see me, showed me passport sized photos of three men, and claimed they were my assailants. He asked me whether I know them and I told them I do not recognize them. The attack happened on a street with CCTVs and I guess the police discovered the identity of my attackers through those video footage. The officer said the three suspects belonged to a network but didn’t specify what type of a network it was. He said police hasn’t arrested the three suspects yet in order to keep tabs until a larger segment of the network could be apprehended.
The arrest never took place.
A change of government occurred but the new administration made no move to arrest the perpetrators.
I believe that freedom of thought is the one singular thing that can save individuals as well as societies. So I was willing to fight for it even if I was killed in the process because I believed that was the only one true thing that could set any human free and therefore was worth fighting for.
Strangely, I realized that a major paradigm had shifted recently in my home country after the election of a heavy-handed leader who some saw as a brutal dictator with an iron fist. I lost all hope of getting justice.
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