The horrendous detailed accounts of the ordeals Mike Auguste has gone through before dying are as unbearable as the suggested likelihood of his suspected executioner?s impunity if dreadful witnesses back pedal upon or refuse to bear testimony against the alleged murderer .

All appropriate measures taken and planned to be taken to prevent any obstacle in securing a fair trial for that much publicized gruesome deed would not only be crucial in securing justice for the victim?s family, but would also help in reassuring a bewildered nation that such a barbaric crime does not have its place in 21st century Mauritius.

Failure in doing so might, on the one hand, encourage wrongdoers in using violence and fear to achieve their wrongful objectives. On the other hand, honest and law-abiding citizens might be discouraged in believing in a justice that is not perceived to be done.

An independent democracy now in its forties maturity, should more than ever endeavour in delivering its people from the avoidable and unnecessary yoke of terror and murder simply because life is sacred, and? that?s not a joke!