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[mukto-mona] FW: UN Expert Stands by His Comment Stating Israeli Conduct Same As Nazis --Asia Post editorial dated 4.9.09



 

 

 

UN Expert Stands by  His Comment Stating Israeli Conduct Same As Nazis

 

 

The BBC has reported in its website that The next UN investigator into Israeli conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis.

 

 

Speaking to the BBC, Professor Richard Falk said he believed that up to now Israel had been successful in avoiding the criticism that it was due. Professor Falk is scheduled to take up his post for the UN Human Rights Council later in the year.

But Israel wants his mandate changed to probe Palestinian actions as well.

Professor Falk said he drew the comparison between the treatments of Palestinians with the Nazi record of collective atrocity, because of what he described as the massive Israeli punishment directed at the entire population of Gaza.

He said he understood that it was a provocative thing to say, but at the time, last summer, he had wanted to shake the American public from its torpor.

 

Israeli actions in Gaza are collective punishment, says Falk .

"If this kind of situation had existed for instance in the manner in which China was dealing with Tibet or the Sudanese government was dealing with Darfur, I think there would be no reluctance to make that comparison," he said. That reluctance was, he argued, based on the particular historical sensitivity of the Jewish people, and Israel's ability to avoid having their policies held up to international law and morality. These and other comments from Professor Falk are, if anything, even harsher than the current UN investigator, John Dugard, who himself has been withering about Israel's actions. A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry said that Israel wanted the UN investigator's mandate changed, so that he could look into human rights violations by the Palestinians as well as Israel. If that were not to happen, the Israeli government may consider barring entry to the new UN investigator.

 

 

We feel that the new UN investigator Mr Richard Falk has just spoken the minimum truth. We congratulate that he decided not to retract his statement on Israeli conduct. The record of Israel is a shame for humanity. It is no way less than barbarism of other evil dictators like Hitler and Stalin.

 



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[mukto-mona] Whither BJP ISP Sept 2009

Dilemmas of Defeat: Whither BJP?

Ram Puniyani

The humiliating electoral defeat continues to dodge the BJP. In quick succession lot of things are happening, old pillars are crumbling, earlier cracks are on display with bigger clarity and those who joined the party in the hope of basking in the glory of power are deserting. In the process a lot of things which were slightly hidden are becoming glaringly obvious.

After Jaswant Singh was expelled from the party he talked about certain incidents which show the true nature of the party and the major political personalities involved. Later some of these points were confirmed by Arun Shourie, Brajesh Mishra and Company. The first point which strikes an observer is that it is the nature of people who have come out with statements. First in the row was Yashwant Sinha, then Jaswant Singh, followed by Arun Shourie, another one, Sudheendra Kulkarni, was prompt enough to leave the party. What is common about them is that they all are not having RSS background. Most of BJP leaders, trained in RSS shakhas kept mum on the reasons for defeat and state of disarray in the party. Sushma Swaraj is an exception anyway, as women are not allowed to be members of RSS. Some of the beans which were spilled during the process are very revealing.

Jaswant Singh pointed out, later confirmed by Arun Shourie, that Vajpayee wanted to sack Modi when the Gujarat carnage was on. It was Advani who blocked it. It reflects as much on Advani as on Vajpayee. When Vajpayee raised the issue of dealing with Modi, Advani retorted that if that is done there will be bawal, severe turmoil, in the party. As they went for the Goa meeting Modi offered to resign and as if on a cue most of the top brass of the party attending the meeting opposed it. After he realized that most of the party is with Modi in executing the anti minority carnage, Vajpayee changed his tune and said those words, which subtly went in for Modi's defense, The words were, …but Godhra also happened! This episode shows that while Advani was hard core in supporting Modi line of violence against minorities, most the party stood by Modi, endorsing his violence and making him a Hero. This is what happens when one is trained by RSS, trained in 'Hate
minority' sentiments. The character of most of the BJP top brass is there for all to see. But what about Vajpayee, he talks of action against Modi and when he sees that most of the party is for supporting what is going in Gujarat, he goes on to give a hidden justification for what Modi was doing. Not only that he made a weak willed attempt to resign but was 'easily persuaded' to stay on. The swayasevak, the RSS soul in his body, was alive and kicking and he went on to serve the full term.

Advani's lies about Kandhar episode do not need further criticizing the person, who driven by the ambition to show his iron man character, kept lying to the whole nation, that much about his leadership qualities. He is not alone in this. Earlier at one point of time Vajpayee had also claimed to be the part of freedom movement and having gone to jail for the same during 1942 Quit India movement. This lie was exposed by two journalists of Frontline, but this has not become so known to the public mind. Vajpayee had been mistaken to be the participant of Quit India agitation by the police and arrested. After his arrest Vajpayee clarified in a letter written to the authorities that he was not part of the procession; agitation but was a mere onlooker to the procession organized by the youth who were part of the national movement. On this ground he sought his release from jail and he was duly released. So in that sense, what Advani has done is not something
which the earlier top BJP leader has not done. The cash for votes scam also shows very clearly as to what low level BJP can stoop for the sake of power.

Now despite the fact that the BJP is in tatters, it will not die. The reason is, BJP has been a mere political arm of RSS. At most of the crucial junctures RSS has been controlling BJP from behind the scene. The only difference is that now all is in the open. To begin with majority of BJP workers, leaders are from RSS background, totally indoctrinated in the ideology of 'Hate Minorities', in the ideology of Hindu nation. The statement of Shourie that RSS should take over BJP is a bit complex. Shourie must know that as a BJP member he is mostly amidst RSS workers, barring few. On the top of that RSS always keeps a watchful eye on what its subordinate organizations are doing and keeps coordinating their activities. Its agenda is clear, to bring in Hindu Rashtra over a period of time.

Since the electoral debacle, many a commentators said that BJP can give up Hindutva and survive as a rightwing opposition. Such a suggestion has no place in the real politic, as BJP is nothing but a political child of RSS. It has autonomy to work in the given framework, the framework laid out by RSS. While the current RSS Sarsanghchalak says that BJP will decide its own policies that statement is merely something from the World of make-believe. As things are becoming clearer RSS has taken a total and direct charge of the tottering party.

What is the trajectory for future? For some time, with RSS imprints being very direct, the other NDA allies will opt to remain aloof from NDA and BJP. As happened in 1996 all the opposition parties refused to touch it even with barge pole. They came around the next time as it emerged as the big party and lured by the power, they hung on to BJP. It is likely that despite all its efforts BJP will become a marginal national outfit for quite some time.

It does prevail in the form of its power through states, where it is implementing Hindutva agenda with full vigor. It is also likely that it will try to build itself more through states than at national level. Till RSS is alive BJP will be there, goes without saying. The only difference will be the speed of infiltration of RSS agenda of Hindutva by infiltration in the state machinery, media and education will become slightly slower than usual.

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Issues in Secular Politics

September 2009 I

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[mukto-mona] BBC - One giant slip in Bangladesh news



One giant slip in Bangladesh news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8237558.stm

 

 

Two Bangladeshi newspapers have apologised after publishing an article taken from a satirical US website which claimed the Moon landings were faked.

 

The Daily Manab Zamin said US astronaut Neil Armstrong had shocked a news conference by saying he now knew it had been an "elaborate hoax".

 

Neither they nor the New Nation, which later picked up the story, realised the Onion was not a genuine news site.

Both have now apologised to their readers for not checking the story.

 

"We thought it was true so we printed it without checking," associate editor Hasanuzzuman Khan told the AFP news agency.

"We didn't know the Onion was not a real news site."

 

The article said Mr Armstrong had told a news conference he had been "forced to reconsider every single detail of the monumental journey after watching a few persuasive YouTube videos and reading several blog posts" by a conspiracy theorist.

 
" The truth is that Neil Armstrong never gave such an interview. It was made up "
Daily Manab Zamin

 

"It took only a few hastily written paragraphs published by this passionate denier of mankind's so-called 'greatest technological achievement' for me to realise I had been living a lie," the fake article "quoted" Mr Armstrong as saying.

 

The made-up quote went on to say that although the journey had felt real, in fact "the entire thing was filmed on a sound stage, most likely in New Mexico".

 

"I suppose it really was one small step for man, one giant lie for mankind."

 

'Numerous hits'

The story was published on the Onion's website on Monday and on Wednesday, the Daily Manab Zamin translated it into Bengali, attributing it to the Onion News Network in Lebanon, Ohio. It then ran in New Nation on Thursday.

 

Daily Manab Zamin, the only tabloid newspaper in Bangladesh, published an apology to its readers on Thursday, saying the report had "drawn a lot of attention".

 

"We've since learned that the fun site runs false and juicy reports based on a historic incident," it said.

 

"The Moon landing one was such a story, which received numerous hits on the internet.

 

"The truth is that Neil Armstrong never gave such an interview. It was made up. We are sorry for publishing the report without checking the information."

 

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[ALOCHONA] BBC - One giant slip in Bangladesh news



One giant slip in Bangladesh news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8237558.stm

 

 

Two Bangladeshi newspapers have apologised after publishing an article taken from a satirical US website which claimed the Moon landings were faked.

 

The Daily Manab Zamin said US astronaut Neil Armstrong had shocked a news conference by saying he now knew it had been an "elaborate hoax".

 

Neither they nor the New Nation, which later picked up the story, realised the Onion was not a genuine news site.

Both have now apologised to their readers for not checking the story.

 

"We thought it was true so we printed it without checking," associate editor Hasanuzzuman Khan told the AFP news agency.

"We didn't know the Onion was not a real news site."

 

The article said Mr Armstrong had told a news conference he had been "forced to reconsider every single detail of the monumental journey after watching a few persuasive YouTube videos and reading several blog posts" by a conspiracy theorist.

 
" The truth is that Neil Armstrong never gave such an interview. It was made up "
Daily Manab Zamin

 

"It took only a few hastily written paragraphs published by this passionate denier of mankind's so-called 'greatest technological achievement' for me to realise I had been living a lie," the fake article "quoted" Mr Armstrong as saying.

 

The made-up quote went on to say that although the journey had felt real, in fact "the entire thing was filmed on a sound stage, most likely in New Mexico".

 

"I suppose it really was one small step for man, one giant lie for mankind."

 

'Numerous hits'

The story was published on the Onion's website on Monday and on Wednesday, the Daily Manab Zamin translated it into Bengali, attributing it to the Onion News Network in Lebanon, Ohio. It then ran in New Nation on Thursday.

 

Daily Manab Zamin, the only tabloid newspaper in Bangladesh, published an apology to its readers on Thursday, saying the report had "drawn a lot of attention".

 

"We've since learned that the fun site runs false and juicy reports based on a historic incident," it said.

 

"The Moon landing one was such a story, which received numerous hits on the internet.

 

"The truth is that Neil Armstrong never gave such an interview. It was made up. We are sorry for publishing the report without checking the information."

 

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[ALOCHONA] The Failed state of South Asia-India



The Failed state of South Asia-India

 
In a sea of affluence spreading from Luxemburg to Sydney south Asia is the only island of penury—kept down by India, that is a heavy millstone for South Asia. Unlike China India has been unable to pull herself from the bootstraps and provide decent living, food and shelter to her citizens. Marketing alone cannot gloss over the poverty stricken population of India. Bollywood may be able to hide the Indian slums by filming in Kuala Lumpur but Bollywood cannot hide the dilapidated infrastructure of India cities. By all counts, India is a failed state.

The congomleration of statesThe real failed state is InsurrectionNaxalites

89 insurgencies raging all over "India"

India has the greatest proportion of people in Asia behind Nepal without access to improved sanitation, according to Unicef. Some 665 million Indians practice open defecation, more than half the global total. India has the highest childhood malnutrition rates in the world: 44 percent of children younger than 5 are underweight, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute. India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation's Growth By Jason Gale. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aErNiP_V4RLc&refer=exclusive
Bharat national debt 2.5 Trilion Dollars one of the highest in the world

Bharat national debt 2.5 Trilion Dollars one of the highest in the world

As a result of the Gujarat riots, and ongoing communal strife, Bharat in July 2009 was put on the USCIRF (United States Commission for International Religious Freedoms) watch list for failing to protect it's religious minorities.
Bharat is in good compnay. Other countries currently on the commission's Watch List are Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, Laos, the Russian Federation, Somalia, Tajikistan, and Venezuela etc.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/US-body-puts-India-under-Watch-List-on-religious-freedom-/articleshow/4888149.cms
Bharat Verma, a renowned Bharati nationalist that writes for the Indian Defense journal list three major threats to India. These are listed in all Indian security briefings

Second, the Northeast if not addressed appropriately could unhook from the Union before the Valley given the acute vulnerability of the Siliguri Corridor, which is merely 10 to 20 kilometer wide and 200 kilometers long. If this critical corridor is choked or subverted or severed by force, the Union of India will have to  maintain the Northeast by air. With poor quality of governance for which the country is infamous, the local population may gravitate towards other regional powers.

Pornywood and India Inc. cannot hide the truth about a failed state.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. (Socrates)

maoist-insurrection-india.jpgThe real failed state is NaxalitesINTERNAL "INDIAN" CAVITIES: The Naxalites have a force of approximately 15,000 cadres spread across 160 districts in the states of Orissa, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka and West Bengal. They operate primarily in the lawless, dense forested areas of India's interior, with some estimates saying Naxalites control approximately 10.03 million hectares (about 25 million acres) of forests nationwide. They also have an active campaign to recruit students and other youths to help spread their left-wing extremism into India's towns and cities. Thus far, however, the Naxalites have not demonstrated the ability to operate in urban areas.
While the Maoists have carried out spectacular attacks and did disrupt polls to some extent, they were not fully successful in effecting a boycott. Voter turnout in the constituencies worst hit by Maoist violence was a respectable 50%.
Maoist influence runs through a stretch of territory referred to as the "Red Corridor". This extends from the Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh through Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand up to Bihar. Areas in western Orissa and eastern Uttar Pradesh are also under Maoist influence. And they have some presence in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka as well.
The area where the Maoists operate has grown dramatically in recent years. In the early 1990s the number of districts affected by varying degrees of Maoist violence stood at just 15 in four states. This rose to 55 districts in nine states by the end of 2003 and to 156 districts in 13 states in 2004. Maoists are believed to be operating now in around 200 districts (of a total of 602 districts in the country) in 17 states.
 
Government officials point out that these statistics and the name Red Corridor have conjured up images of Maoists being in control of a large swathe of land and posing a threat to the Indian state…
…The Maoists have also been blowing up power lines and service towers. In May 2007, they blew up three 132 KVA high-tension towers in the Bastar region, plunging six districts into darkness for a week and disrupting normal power distribution for a fortnight. "Functioning of hospitals, communication systems and rail traffic, besides iron ore mines was badly affected," Ramana points out. In June of last year, two 220 KVA towers were blasted depriving 15,000 villages of electricity.
Maoists have displayed their military capability through their high-profile attacks on railways and other infrastructure. They have been able to inflict losses running into millions of dollars on the state they are seeking to overthrow. Maoists rule India's 'Red Corridor'
By Sudha Ramachandran April 2009.

KashmirOccupied KashmirOccupied Kashmir

Kashmir: 100,000 civilians killed

White Widows: 50, million women ostracized from society and incarcerated in temples

Hindu atrocities against widows.

  • East Punjab: Brutal suppression of Punjabi insurrection. Thousands killed
  • Tamil Nadu and Mizuram are in flames seeking independence
  • Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka led by Tamils Terrorists in India
  • Bihar: Major suppression of Biharis and problems with Bangladesh
  • West Bengal in Communist hands fueling Naxalites.
  • Gujrat: Serious Hindu Muslim riots perpetuated by Mr. Moodi. 3000 burned..
  • 200 -300 million Untouchables have little or no rights
  • 150 million Muslims are at the lowest rung of the ladder:
  • This was the Muslim Albanian flag
  • India the only island of penury in Asia keeps the Subcontinent poor
  • India has had wars with all her neighbors
  • India has lowest per capita GNP in the Subcontinent
  • Indian poor are poorer than Sub Saharan Africa
  • dalits-in-india-4.jpg
  • More than a 1000 districts in the hands of the Naxalites
  • Cracks showing in IndiaNaxalite insurrection
  • More than 560 states were forced into the union they did not want to be part of
  • French Indian EmpireThe British Empire does not even show half of PakistanMany states included. Posessions of the Dutch empire in the Subcontinent
  • Tamil Nadu and Mizuram secessionist movement are live and hot

Future Indiadalits-in-india-3.jpg

INDIA AS A FAILED STATE: India is a failed state for failing to provide food shelter and clothing for her citizens. India has bloody borders. India has had wars with all her neighbors. By harping on the "failed state" mantra the bigoted Indian commentariat wants to surround "Akhand Bharat" with small Balkanized mini-states like Sikkim, Bhutan, Sri Lanka. Any hegemonous power achieves its goal in the region by sabotaging the integrity and sovereignty of the neighbors. India wants to surround itself with a "Warsaw pact" type of string of obsequies and subservient states. Pakistan is big hurdle in India's hegemonistic policy of Westward expansion. Since the West never faced "India" in combat, they are unaware of the (South) Indian agression that was encountered by Southeast Asia (Laos, Cambodia, and even Indonesia). China and Pakistan working together have arrested the advance of the sepoys of Delhi. "Waving Goodbye to Hegemony" By Parag Khanna: Dawn of a multipolar world with China and Europe and maybe Russia….Who is Absconding and Why?Straght-jacketed in penury and embroiled in petty squabling India is perpetually absent!
250 million Dalits in India eek out a living in subhuman conditionsdalits-in-india-3.jpgUNTOUCHABLE DALITS EEK OUT A SUB HUMAN LIVING IN INDIA:Between 150 to 250 million Dalits or Untouchables live in utter sub-human conditions. A population as large as the United States lives in conditions that are below and worse off than that of Sub Saharan Africa. The dalit websites shed some light on the plight of the Dalits. EU says "India is being ruled by castes, not laws"-Indian state machinery supports License to kill Dalits
dalits-in-india-4.jpgIndia: 3500-yrs of massacres of Dalit-Sudra Blacks by Arya-Brahmins "In the Indian caste system, a Dalit, often called an untouchable, or an outcaste, is a person who according to traditional Hindu belief does not have any "varnas". Varna refers to the Hindu belief that most humans were supposedly created from different parts of the body of the divinity Purusha. The part from which a varna was supposedly created defines a person's social status with regard to issues such as whom they may marry and which professions they may hold.[1]Dalits fall outside the varnas system and have historically been prevented from doing any but the most menial jobs.[1] (However, a distinction must be made between lower-caste people and Pariahs.) Included are leather-workers (called chamar), carcass handlers (called mahar),poor farmers and landless laborers, night soil scavengers (called bhangior chura), street handicrafters, folk artists, street cleaners, dhobi, etc.
Traditionally, they were treated as pariahs in South Asiansociety and isolated in their own communities, to the point that even their shadows were avoided by the upper castes. Discrimination against Dalits still exists in rural areas in the private sphere, in ritual matters such as access to eating places and water sources. It has largely disappeared, however, in urban areas and in the public sphere, in rights of movement and access to schools[2]. The earliest rejection of discrimination, at least in spiritual matters, was made as far back as the Bhagavada Gita, which says that no person, no matter what, is barred from enlightenment. Even early Indian texts such as the Rig Veda discourage the abuse of outcastes. The text reads, "Indra, you lifted up the outcast who was oppressed, you have glorified the blind and the lame." (Rg-Veda 2:13:12)[3]There are an estimated 160 million Dalits in India.[4] Wikipedia
250 million Dalits (doll-leets) , formerly called Untouchable, who have been told by the upper castes of India that they are less than human. If even a Dalit's shadow falls on an upper caste person, that person is polluted according to caste rules. The Dalit Freedom Network partners with the Dalits in their quest for religious freedom, social justice, and human rights by mobilizing human, information, and financial resources. Take a moment and learn aboutthe most oppressed people of all humankind.http://www.dalitnetwork.org/
For some 4,000 years, so-called bhangis or untouchables earned a modest living by scraping "night soil" from the cavernous household toilet pits of higher castes and carrying it away in pans balanced on their heads.
"Culturally, it was taboo in Indian society to talk about human excreta, night soil and all these things," says Bindeshwar Pathak, who started Sulabh International Social Service Organization, a Delhi-based group whose name means "readily accessible." India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation's Growth
By Jason Gale. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aErNiP_V4RLc&refer=exclusive
InsurrectionNAXALITE INSURRECTION: The real failed state is "India" with it's penury stricken and poverty enveloped palliating millions sleeping on the sidewalks of its major cities. Bollywood can hide the Indian indigence with a song and dance in Paris, Singapore or Dubai but it cannot fill the hunger of the millions of starving Indian bellies in more than 1000 districts which is under the control of the Naxalites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxalite
"Dalits are not allowed to drink from the same wells, attend the same temples, wear shoes in the presence of an upper caste, or drink from the same cups in tea stalls," said Smita Narula, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch, and author of Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables." Human Rights Watch is a worldwide activist organization based in New York.
India's Untouchables are relegated to the lowest jobs, and live in constant fear of being publicly humiliated, paraded naked, beaten, and raped with impunity by upper-caste Hindus seeking to keep them in their place. Merely walking through an upper-caste neighborhood is a life-threatening offense. National Geographic
TAMIL LAND, MIZURAM, NAGALAND ASSAM INSURRECTIONS:
Mizuram insurgency
Nagaland secessionist movement
Tamil Nadu wants Independence from "India"
The Tamils want an independent state in Southern India and Northern Sri Lanka
Very few policy makers in India dare to acknowledge the danger to the nation's territorial integrity. The security and integrity of the nation has become hostage to vote-bank politics. Democracy and more than eight percent economic growth will be of no avail if the country as such withers away. India is not only being frayed at its borders by insurgencies, but its very writ in the heartland is becoming increasingly questionable. The rise of a nation is predicated upon unity, peace and stability, which are essentially determined by good governance. The prevailing security scenario poses the serious question - Is India's development and economic growth becoming unsustainable due to poor handling of the security? There are three dangers to the territorial integrity that bedevil the nation. Bharat Verma. Indian Defense Institute.Insurgencies are raging in many areas which can be listed as Northwest (Kashmir and East Punjab), in the Northeast (seven sister states), in the Naxalite belt (Middle country), and in the extreme South (Tamil). The world does not see these on the television sets, but that does not mean that they do not exist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeh9FQLR_M8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKnRjV7boK0

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbXecDNPNzM

The list of groups fightng Bharat was taken from the Bharati defense report published i the Indian Defense Weekly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWn5zXG13WE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeh9FQLR_M8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0CuwWphFIs

Is There A Solution To Violence In North East India? April 15, 2009

Martin McCauley writes: The north east Indian states, known as the Seven Sisters, are home to a heterogeneous mix of ethnic groups. They have been in conflict with New Delhi since independence in 1947. They are of fundamental importance for the nation's economy supplying oil and coal. The region has been plagued by terrorism for the last 30 years.

The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) is the largest terrorist group and earlier this month set off several bombs in the state's business capital, Guwahati. The goal of the movement is independence for Assam.

Large numbers of workers from India's Hindi belt have migrated to Assam to labour in its tea plantations and mines. Hence ULFA targets both national and local political elites especially the Hindi speaking migrants who are predominantly from Bihar, a very poor state. The argument of the ULFA is that the poor migrants are overwhelming the local culture and depriving Assamese of work in their own industries. Hence it is xenophobic and chauvinistic.

Although ULFA is strongly opposed to internal migration in India it does not protest against the illegal immigration of Bengali Muslims from Bangladesh. This has led Indian officials to assume that Bangladesh's Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) is involved. New Delhi maintains that the DGFI is supported by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

India. Indians drink cow urine which they call gaumutra. It is interesting to see the Cracks showing in IndiaIndia herself is cutting India down to size. Many think of a monolithic country as portrayed by India inc. Cracks are showing and many states are in open rebellion. There were more than 560 states in the Subcontinent, and the prospect of nation building has been an arduous and daunting task on the brink of impossibility.
50 MILLION WHITE WIDOWS INCARCERATED IN TEMPLES:
Widows in Indiaindian-white-widow.jpg Women whose husbands die are ostracized and incarcerated in Hindu temples in rural India. Many are sold as prostitutes to earn their keep. They are not allowed to touch any normal being. Their shadow is considered a bad omen..
Khalistanjigjit-singh-chauhan.jpgKHALISTAN:The Sikhs have been suppressed but still angry at what is happening to them. They will rise again. http://roadtokhalistan.blogspot.com/
According to Amnesty International, the Indian state has sought to stifle the basic human rights of the Sikhs by creating a culture of impunity where large-scale extrajudicial killings, torture, custodial rape, use of draconian laws by state agencies are natural occurrences that go unpunished.<ref>Amnesty International, "India: Break the cycle of impunity and torture in Punjab," January 2003. [9]. </ref>
While mass media reports claim that "normalcy" has returned to Punjab, impartial observers like Amnesty International assert that the basic human rights of the Sikhs continue to be violated by the Indian state.Amnesty International, "India: Break the cycle of impunity and torture in Punjab", January 2003. [10]. From recent events, it appears that a demand for Khalistan persists in sections of the Sikh community. On April 14, 2004, Daljit Singh Bittu founded a new political party, the Shiromani Khalsa Dal, with "establishment of a free, sovereign, and separate Khalsa state" as its primary objective.Shiromani Khalsa Dal, "Daljit Singh Founds New Party on Idealism and Activism", [11]. Second, on April 29, 2004, the Dal Khalsa, a Sikh nationalist organization, began a week long "Khalsa Freedom March" from the Akal Takht in Amritsar with an objective of gaining support for the idea of Khalistan by peaceful means. Sikhe News Bureau, "Khalsa March for Freedom", [12]. A large number of gurdwāras (the Sikh houses of worship), across Punjab and in the diaspora continue to celebrate the "martyrdom" anniveraries of Sikhs who died fighting in the Khalistan freedom struggle. While fear of human rights abuses keeps sloganing in Punjab to the minimum, the Sikh organizations in the diaspora (primarily Europe, North America and Australia) continue to lobby for the secession of Khalistan from the Indian union.
Creation of the Punjab Rights Forum: In June/July 2005 following the arrests of dozens of alleged Babbar Khalsa (International) militants and sympathizers in Punjab and Delhi, a number of Punjab based pro-Khalistan political parties and organizations joined forces with a dozen odd Human Rights, Religious and Kisan groups to form a loose coalition known as the Punjab Rights Forum. Sikh Wiki, http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/
PENURY STRICKEN INDIA HAS FAILED TO PROVIDE HER CITIZENS A DECENT LIVING: How poor is India? Some startling statistics have just been released by a forgotten wing of Dr Singh's own administration, the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector. Around 80 per cent of India's working population is in this sector. Nearly 80 per cent of this group earns less than 20 rupees a day and 85 per cent of this sub group is trapped in debt. By that usual sleight of hand we have drawn an arbitrary line to define poverty: Rs 12 a day constitutes the poverty line. This encourages the illusion that 77 per cent of India is now above the poverty line. It isn't that much above in any case. Nor is this poverty line index-linked to inflation. Twelve rupees a day buys much less today than it did three years ago. The traditional poverty groups remain where they were: 88 per cent of Scheduled Tribes and Castes, 80 per cent of "Other Backward Classes" and 85 per cent of Muslims belong to the "poor and vulnerable" class. M. J. Akbar is Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle newspapers. He can be reached at mjakbar@asianage.com, http://www.khaleejtimes.com/ColumnistHomeNew.asp?section=mjakbar&col=yes
FETID WATERS IN ALL MAJOR INDIAN CITIES: Delh, Mumbai
In Devi's village, sewage and household wastewater flow along open drains that line both sides of narrow alleyways. The fetid water gathers in a shallow channel choking with plastic containers, discarded footwear and household trash. A woman carrying a folded mattress on her head steps deftly along a narrow bridge spanning the mire. A mechanical pump chugs on the bank, sucking up the liquid to dispense over a nearby vegetable patch. Children play around the edge, alongside tethered, cud- chewing water buffalo.
A man walks past, clutching a water-filled plastic bottle, presumably on his way to defecate. The rest of the slurry empties into a trench coursing along a feces-dotted path through a field of cauliflowers. A shoeless boy uses a long-handled spade to create a new sluice for the black sludge to ooze over the vegetable field.
What's not drained from the trench empties into a cesspool on the flood plain of the Yamuna River, which flows through Delhi and then Agra before joining the Ganges at Allahabad, 1,370 kilometers (850 miles) from its pristine source in the Himalayan mountains.
'Remorseless Drain'
"If you've got feces all around you, it will find its way into your mouth," Bartram says. "Cholera and typhoid are always dramatic because they come through as outbreaks, and outbreaks catch the news. The real burden is this long, remorseless drain of straightforward, simple diarrheal disease."
Like Devi's village, less than a fifth of Agra is connected to a sewage system. The 1.3 million people generate more than 150 million liters of effluent each day. The city has the capacity to treat 60 percent of the sewage. There are plans to build three more treatment plants by 2012 with funding from the state and federal governments and the Japan International Cooperation Agency, according to the Agra Municipal Corporation. India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation's Growth
By Jason Gale. http://www..bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aErNiP_V4RLc&refer=exclusive
BASIC HYGIENE NOT AVAILABLE TO HALF THE POPULATION
India has the greatest proportion of people in Asia behind Nepal without access to improved sanitation, according to Unicef. Some 665 million Indians practice open defecation, more than half the global total. India has the highest childhood malnutrition rates in the world: 44 percent of children younger than 5 are underweight, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute. India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation's Growth
By Jason Gale.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aErNiP_V4RLc&refer=exclusive
BHARAT HAS THE HIGHEST MALNUTRITION RATE IN THE WORLD
India has the highest childhood malnutrition rates in the world: 44 percent of children younger than 5 are underweight, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute.
"Malnourished children are more susceptible to diarrheal disease, and with more diarrheal disease they become more malnourished," says Jamie Bartram, head of the World Health Organization's water, sanitation, hygiene and health group. "If we collectively could fix the world's basic water and sanitation problems, we could reduce childhood mortality by nearly a third."
Half of India's schoolsdon't have separate toilets for males and females, forcing young women to use unisex facilities or nothing at all. Twenty-two percent of girls complete 10 or more years of schooling compared with 35 percent of boys, a national family health survey finished in 2006 found. India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation's Growth
By Jason Gale. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aErNiP_V4RLc&refer=exclusive
LACK OF EDUCATION INHIBITS A HEALTHY FAMILY/NATION
Barriers that keep girls from equal education compromise the nation's future, says Renu Khosla, director of CURE India, a New Delhi group that works to improve water and sanitation for the poor, including in Kachpura.
"We will have a less skilled population of youth," she says. "Every year of schooling reduces household poverty by bringing down the family size and increasing skill levels."India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation's Growth By Jason Gale. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aErNiP_V4RLc&refer=exclusive
POOR MUSLIMS THIRD RATE CITIZENS:Muslims constitute 25.2 per cent of the population of West Bengal, but have only 2.1 per cent of state government jobs. Kerala, which has almost the same percentage of Muslims (24.7 per cent), has given 10.4 per cent of state government jobs to the community. Assam's ratio is similar: 30.9 per cent and 11.2 per cent. Bihar does better: it gives 7.6 per cent of state jobs to Muslims, who add up to 16.5 per cent of the population. Andhra Pradesh has the best record: 9.2 per cent of the population and 8.8 per cent of jobs. Uttar Pradesh, despite leaders who claim to be more-secular-than-thou has given only 5.1 per cent of state government jobs to an 18.5 per cent population. The situation is no better when it comes to health and education indices.
THE MAOISTS: The North East India comprises of the seven sister states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. They form part of the East Himalayan region which extends from Sikkim eastwards and embraces the Darjeeling Hills of West Bengal. This swate of land is up in arms.
THE IT BOOM:The IT boom affects about 6 million Indians. The rest are schackled as indentured servants, caste prisons, or communal restrictions. The IT industry is based on the "Old Boy Network"which keeps the lower castes, the rural poor and the Untouchables out of thisone island of Indian employment.
Some big Indian companies count on private utilities, bottled water and walled compounds with electric fences. ..Unlike most households in the nearby city of 6.8 million, India's No. 2 software maker's headquarters doesn't suffer water or power interruptions, says Bhawesh Kumar, its facilities manager.
Poverty Trap
Infosys stores water from the public network in three underground reservoirs that can hold 2.2 million liters (580,000 gallons), or two days' supply. The water passes through sand and carbon filters and purifiers, making it cleaner than what's available to local people, he says. Attendants clean the brown- tiled bathrooms and refresh supplies of paper hand towels hourly during the business day. Infrared sensors ensure that toilets are flushed after each use.
Outside such compounds, dirty water and poor hygiene can trap communities in a cycle of disease, malnutrition and poverty, Bartram says. Worldwide, 18 percent of the population, or 1.2 billion people, rely on open defecation and about 884 million drink unsafe water, according to Unicef.
Every year, more than 200 million tonsof human sewage goes uncollected and untreated, fouling the environment. Each gram of feces can contain 10 million virus particles, 1 million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs, the UN found. India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation's Growth
By Jason Gale. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aErNiP_V4RLc&refer=exclusive
Today all Kashmiris and Pakistanis pledge to become one. There is a general strike today, and seminars held to remind people aboutOccupied KashmirSiachen
KASHMIR: Kashmir wants her liberation from India and will continue her struggle.
January 26th is a dark day for Kashmiris. It is remembered as NORTHERN AREAS WERE INDEPENDENT AND NEVER PART OF KASHMIR.A fake piece of paper with wrong dates, crossed out words, and incorrect sequence of events fooled no one. See comments of Stanley Wolpert on this site and others.
IMPEDIMENTS TO INDIA AS GLOBAL POWER: Unless there is a drastic change in India thinking and policies, there is not a snowballs chance in hell of this happening. Madison Avenue along with the Italian lady have taken Sing and company on a ride called "Roman Holiday." One day India will find out that a tango with Uncle Sam may result in the total Balkanization of the country back to pre-British times when there were more than 500 states.
See movies: Fire, Water, Earth….
How Buddhism was exterminated from South Asia? 600BC-400AD Replacing Hinduism in Buddhist lands: The Hindu extremists use the Safron Swastika flag instead of the tri-colored flag of India. (see Hindu unity dot org) Extremist Hindus show power using the Swastika in triple entendre–as an ancient Hindu symbol, reverence for Hitler & sign of Anti-Western Indian hatred. Many want to use the Swastika as the Indian flag.
Indian penury: The reality vs. Bollywood's (Pornywood) marketing gloss
How long to extripate penury from india? 300 years!
Khumb Mela: India's 60 million filthy naked Hindu males India's budget– fit for a superpower
…..See details about each of these subjects in other articles on this site.
Gandhi Unmasked: Criticism of Mohandas Gandhi by his grandsons and other Indians, Nobel Committee & US Congress The Gandhi Page U.S. CONGRESS CONDEMNS GANDHI'S RACIST WRITINGS Did Martin Luther King know about Gandhi's racism?
GANDHI's RACISM AGAINST BLACKS
Seargnt Major Gandhi Gandhi condones Zulu massacres and defends the British. Aug 4 1906

 




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