My son, Eshan Arya recently updated his Web Page 

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 ....... he is often consulted for his in-depth academically researched and ethically sensible views on a broad spectrum of fields from political, social, education, corporate & sports areas.
                

    Last Friday's Terrorist Knife Attack and Car Fire       
    Incident (on the 09/11/2018) on Melbourne's  
    Bourke Street showed how a brave police force  
    and an alert public can reduce or limit the damage... 

         Melbourne's Knife Attack (courtesy - TOI 09/11/2018 & Youtube)

         Quote /// .... On Friday afternoon, 30-year-old Hassan     Khalif Shire Ali pulled up in Bourke Street  in a  four-wheel drive, containing gas cylinders turned to their open  position, in what police said was a  failed plan to cause an explosion.... /// Unquote                (courtesy news.com.au) 

• Hassan Khalif Shire Ali stabbed and killed an innocent 74-year-old popular restaurant owner and seriously injured 26 and 58-year-old innocent men, both needing surgeries.

• The Victoria Police and members of the public responded instantly and bravely.

• The Car did not explode due to the immediate response though it got burnt.

• And very noticeably a nearby - reportedly Homeless Man took a shopping trolley and effectively reduced physical harms to more people by putting himself at harm's distance from the terrorist. While by contrast, the terrorist tried to fulfil his private objectives by killing and harming the innocents and affecting the lives of their dependents in the name of his extremist beliefs.

• The homeless on the other hand didn't care for his own life and put himself at harm's distance from the criminal who had already killed one and injured two and wanted to blow up the car and cause more deaths - the homeless was ready to die to save others while the attacker wanted to die and kill others for his own sake !! 

• Two policemen put themselves at an extremely close distance from the attacker and gave the attacker a chance to surrender - putting themselves at high risk of being stabbed - one of the cops being a newly trained young man. They risked their lives to save the public and do their duties.

• Finally, only upon facing multiple stabbing attempts by Hassan Khalif Shire Ali the young cop shot him to end the stabbing spree and also to save his mate and himself.

• All this happened with no pre-warning, in spite of having several anti-terror measures and an alert police force.

• But in spite of all the measures, it is the alert minds and actions of the members of the unafraid public that helped reduce the damage the terrorist wanted to inflict. 

• The bold standing up of the homeless man and engaging the attacker by the two cops with themselves showed the resolve of the peaceful civil society not to budge by the harmful extreme attacks by the rogue fanatics - but alas, the tragic loss of one innocent life and the life-changing injuries to the other two ... though it could have been even worse if not for these brave cops and the responding brave homeless man and also some others! ...   

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