How do they become so inhuman?

India recorded 3,79,257 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours on 28 April and 2,645 deaths were reported, NDTV. There have been over 300,000 new cases everyday for over a week and over 200,000 a day since 15 April. "The shortage of beds, medical oxygen and crucial anti-viral drugs has added to crisis." Suffering and death are intensely personal and even these grisly numbers do not convey the true horrors of the situation. "An 85-year-old Nagpur resident with dipping oxygen levels died at home after getting himself discharged from hospital against medical advice because he apparently didn't want to block a bed after seeing the wife of a 40-year-old Covid-19 patient pleading for admission," Times of India (TOI). That was in Maharashtra. Then there is Uttar Pradesh (UP). A 26 year old man tweeeted for help to find an oxygen cylinder for his grandfather with no mention of Covid. "Officers in Uttar Pradesh state charged Shashank Yadav with spreading a rumour over oxygen shortages 'with intent to cause....fear or alarm'," BBC. Chief Minister of UP Yogi Adityanath, "a right-wing ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanded that the property of anyone spreading rumours and propaganda be seized." "He also added that none of the state's hospitals lacked oxygen, although scenes have unfolded of an overwhelmed health system." This mother did not indulge in any propaganda. "The photo shows an exhausted Chandrakala Singh, sitting stone-faced in a electric rickshaw with the body of her son Vineet Singh, on a busy street in the city of Varanasi in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh," BBC. "As she sat there grieving, shattered by the death of her son and in desperate need of help, she was robbed. Her son's medical records and phone were stolen." Varanasi is Modi's constituency from where he won in 2014 and 2019, The Indian Express. "As India sees an oxygen crisis due to the Covid surge, a heartbreaking video of a man begging the policemen not to take away oxygen cylinders from a private hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Agra has gone viral on social media," India Today. "Policemen stand guard as oxygen cylinders are taken out of the hospital and loaded into the ambulance." The police say they were taking away empty cylinders. Why didn't they replace empty ones with full cylinders? "The video of a mother falling at the feet of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, begging for remdesivir to save her son's life has once again exposed the crumbling healthcare system," India Today. When she returned to the hospital without the drug her son had died. CMO Deepak Ohri denied he threatened the woman with imprisonment for begging for remdesivir, News 18. Kind of him. Brutal violation of citizens is sadly common in UP. "On the last day of September, India woke up to the disturbing news that authorities had forcibly cremated the body of a 19-year old Dalit (formerly untouchable) woman who had alleged gang rape and died a day earlier," BBC. The victim repeatedly told the police that she was attacked because she resisted rape but, "Since her death, the state government has insisted she was not raped at all," BBC. "A hasty and forceful cremation is a violation of the victim's right to dignity under Article 21 of the constitution," wrote lawyers KYS Tulsi and Tanessa Puri. "Video clips show the district magistrate pressuring the family to change their statement. He is seen threatening and intimidating the family." We know there is a shortage of jobs in India but does it mean that government employees will obey orders for sickening criminal violence against innocent citizens? Do they not have families of their own? Myanmar policemen sought refuge in India rather than obey orders to shoot at unarmed protesters by a brutal military junta, Reuters. Nicolae Ceausescu met his end when the army refused orders to shoot at protesters. Instead he and his wife were executed by firing squad, LA Times. Indian police and officials seem willing to obey any order. However hideous.