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use too much or unnecessary force. They must observe due restraints, refrain from showing revenge, and avoid making a show of their firing and hitting power. When firing had to be ordered, he always first asked his policemen to fire mostly into the air instead of into the crowd. He instructs them to have only the minimum casualties. Even in several such trying circumstances, he has always kept the principles of ahimsa as his guide. If he and his men would have been even a bit careless, they could easily end up with many casualties. I wish that more senior administrators would follow his example of restraint and care for non-violence.
AHIMSA GUIDES A JAIN PARLIAMENTARIAN Once one senior Jain member of the Indian Parliament told me that as a Jain, guided by ahimsa, she is always careful and when voting on resolutions involving war and government promotion of meat, mostly votes against these and other himsak industries. Similarly, after the State assembly elections in the State of Karnataka in April 2013, one Mr. Dhananjai Kumar Jain was appointed a Minister of the State of Karnatka by the State Chief Minister, Mr. Jain was assigned the Ministry of Fisheries and Husbandry. On ahimsa and Jain principles, he refused the assignment.
PRIORITY OF CARE FOR HORSES During the Desert Storm War (in the early 1990s), when US forces invaded Kuwait to drive out invader Sadaam Hussein of Iraq, the Iraqi army retreated and set many buildings in Kuwait on fire. By that time, most of the Kuwaitis had already fled, leaving many of their horses tied in their stables. Some of the stables there were on fire too. At that moment, one television reporter from Boston, while filming this retreat and the inferno all around, saw the plight of the horses in the stables. There was no one to save the lives of these poor
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