An Open letter Prime Minister of India
Posted on | september 9, 2012 | 3 Comments
The preamble of the Indian constitution read as, ‘WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA’… further grand themes like JUSTICE, LIBERY AND EQUALITY of status has been highlighted with utmost care. Further ‘DIGNITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL’ has been asserted. The tone of the preamble sets the ethical and legal framework to create an atmosphere in the country where all human being can live with their realized potential and dignity. However, reality is appalling. Justice is elusive (inaccessible, long delays, corruption, political influence) to the majority of the downtrodden and untouchables. Liberty (freedom of expression) is at stake, such as:
1. On 26th June, 2012 Ms. Shirin Shabana Khan, senior member of management committee of PVCHR posted in Odisha Watch an article published in Asia News. This article includes the quotation of Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi on Kandhamal issues. After more than a month three gentlemen (Mr. Saubhagya Panigrahi, Mr. Chinmaya Kumar Panda and Mr. Bahara Mihir Mohanty) from Odisha attacked on her religion identity. Read more
Tags: AFSPA > AIIMS > audit > brickfields > freedom > FREEDOM of EXPRESSION > Gandhi > ghetto > India > justice > liberty > Marginalised > MNREGA > police > PVCHR > Raghuvanshi > Varanasi
Bangladesh: Assassination of Begum Khaleda Zia has planned
Posted on | september 8, 2012 | 2 Comments
Khaleda Zia
According to Wikipedia Ziaur Rahman, was a Bangladeshi politician, the seventh President of Bangladesh and an army officer, who read the Declaration of Independence of Bangladesh. During Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, he was first a sector commander before being promoted to one of three brigade commanders of the Bangladesh Forces; his brigade was called the Z Force, after his first initial. A highly decorated and accomplished military officer, he became a Bir Uttom, the highest gallantry award for a living officer for his wartime services, and retired from the Bangladesh Army as a Lieutenant General.He later became the seventh President of Bangladesh from 1977 until 1981. During his administration, he founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), one of the two largest political parties in the country. He is popularly known as Shaheed President Zia, meaning “martyred Zia,” in reference to his 1981 assassination. His role during the assassination of Sheikh Mujib in 1975 and subsequent military coups have made him a controversial figure in Bangladesh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziaur_Rahman)
I have been informed by credible intelligence sources that the recent change in high level of Bangladesh Army by promoting three Brigadier Generals to the rank of Major General is a minor change of a major plan suggested by India’s foreign intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing [R&AW].
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Tags: 1971 > 1981 > assassination > Bangladesh > BNP > DGFI > Khaleda Zia > R&AW > Wikipedia > William Gomes > William Nicholas Gomes > Ziaur Rahman
The Latin American LEFT and the GRASS ROOTS
Posted on | september 8, 2012 | No Comments
Introduction
Since the Wikileaks and Assange affair, and than the denial to extradite Alexander Barankov, Ecuador positioned itself as the champion of human rights and a defender of free speech.
It is a very positive sign that Latin American government step up the plate, and show that democracy indeed has become a fixed feature of the continent.
The Colombian President has announced the beginning of informal talks with FARC as precursor for peace, beginning next November in Oslo. The peace process is widely supported by the people and legislature who drafted a bill to create a framework for ‘amnesty’, or as Human Rights Watch puts it Amnesty in disguise. But the Colombian people want peace more than anything, and if they support amnesty for the rebels than indeed amnesty will help enforce the peace talks and provide an impetus for lasting peace after more than half a century of war and conflict.
Are the developments in Colombia and Ecuador indeed signs of democratic consolidation and politicization?
But before we start hollering hooray and doling out balloons in celebration of Latin American democracy lets take a closer at the underlying factors that brought on these actions. Before continuing with this issue I want to introduce into the discussion, the impeachment of the Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, rather the fact that it invoked negative reactions in Latin America. I don’t believe that said reactions are symbolize increasing democratization, of human rights, quite the contrary!
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Tags: ASEAN > Assange > Bachelet > Bolivia > Brazil > Chavez > Chavisimo > Colombia > Ecuador > FARC > FMLN > FMNL > grass-roots > Human Rights Watch > Lugo > Lula > Luminoso > Morales > Nicaragua > Paraguay > poverty > Sandinistas > Stroessner > Suriname > USA > Venezuela
Breaking the Silence in New York; Historic Harlem March to End the Drug War
Posted on | september 8, 2012 | No Comments
The Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity arrived in New York today and hit the ground running. In the early evening, hundreds of caravan members and New York supporters met each other in Riverside Church to hear the testimonies of the drug war’s devastation on both sides of the border. A mammoth, neogothic structure built by the Rockefellers, the church has a long history of housing causes for social justice. It was here on April 4, 1967 that Martin Luther King made one of his last speeches before he was assassinated–a glaring indictment of the Viet Nam war.
In his speech, called “A Time to Break Silence”, King cited his reasons to oppose the Viet Nam war. His words apply almost uncannily to the drug war today. Despite the difference in historical contexts and the differences between the two wars, their similarities and the truth of the words stand not only the test of time but the test of conscience as well.
Both wars were, and are, deadly; both unconventional for their time; both fought for motivations distinct from those professed to the people.
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Tags: Caravan > Colombia > drug trafficking > drug war > gangs > Inequality > Mexico > poverty > trafficking > violence > WORTH
Abusing children “part and parcel” of Israeli ideology, says rights defender
Posted on | september 7, 2012 | No Comments
Rifat Kassis is the director of Defence for Children International-Palestine Section. In 2010, I interviewed Kassis about about his organization’s work and the special situation of Palestinian children growing up under occupation. I interviewed him again this week on the Israeli soldiers’ confessions about the mistreatment of Palestinian children, published in a new booklet from the Israeli veterans’ organization Breaking The Silence. The disturbing violations of children’s rights by soldiers took place between 2005 and 2011.
Adri Nieuwhof: Have you read the Breaking the Silence report with testimonies about the abuse of Palestinian children by Israeli soldiers? What was your first impression when you read it?
Tags: abuse > DCI-Palestine > Israel > Kassis > Palestine > Rifat Kassis
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