Killing fellow soldiers is not a phenomenon which first occurred on November 5, 2009 at Fort Hood military base in Texas in the United States. It is happening all over the world with increasing frequency, particularly with the armies which are involved in a prolong conflict. India is no exception. We have seen a number of incidents of army personnel, especially deployed on the border in Jammu and Kashmir, gunning down the officer or fellow soldiers before committing suicide or getting kille...

The shootings at Fort Hood in Texas by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist and practising Muslim, are shocking and condemnable; and the perpetrator should be punished according to the law of the land. It has to be investigated at length if the killings have anything to do with his being a Muslim or simply reflects the case of a psychiatric patient who was feeling sad about the prospects of being sent to a war which he, like billions of others, regarded as a crime against humanity.