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India: Conflict Issues
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• India's
tribal schools are questioned, Boston Globe, USA, March 07, 2004
India's tribal schools are questioned Teaching promotes bigotry,
fanaticism, rights groups sa
• The
silent wounds of Gujarat, Open Democracy, UK, January 22, 2004
A new report highlights a neglected aspect of the massacre of Muslims
in India’s western state of Gujarat in 2002: brutal sexual
violence against women.
•
Maintaining
communal harmony, The Hindu, Chennai, April 01, 2003
The Supreme Court has, apart from putting the Ayodhya issue in the
correct legal perspective, in effect cautioned against any attempt
to disturb the status quo even on the 67 acres surrounding the disputed
site.
•
The
other face of fanaticism, NY Times, USA, February 02, 2003
The violent uprooting of millions of Hindus and Muslims across the
hastily drawn borders of India and Pakistan had tainted the freedom
from colonial rule that Gandhi had so arduously worked toward. Pankaj
Mishra.
•
Open
society and its enemies, Dawn, Karachi, January 18, 2003
Tell us Mr Deputy Prime Minister, how does a planned, pre- meditated
killing and looting of members of a particular community become
an aberration? Kuldip Nayyar
•
Gujarat
will repeat: Singhal, The Hindu, October
12, 2002
The war of words between the Bharatiya
Janata Party and the Vishwa
Hindu Parishad shows no sign of dying
out. Undeterred by the BJP describing the VHP as being influenced
by religious extremism, the VHP today warned that Gujarat would
be replicated in the entire country.
•
Murder
in India, New York Review of Books, USA, August 15, 2002
"There are only two places Muslims can go to," says Ramchandra Paramhans, the ninety-year-old
abbot who heads both a militant sect of sadhus
(Hindu mendicants) and the cash-rich trust that is in charge of
building a Rama temple over the site of the demolished mosque at Ayodhya,
"Pakistan or Kabristan [graveyard]."
Pankaj Mishra
•
Abnormal
Normality, Times of India, July 30, 2002
Chief minister Narendra Modi's
gamble recently in pitching for elections, on the plea that peace
and normalcy reign in Gujarat, is a challenge to India's time-tested
principles of equal citizenship and non-partisan governance. Teesta
Setalvad
•
Kashmiris
Caught in Cross-Fire, Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2002
Like most of Kashmir's victims, Halima Doie lost her life in a fight
she didn't want and was powerless to stop. An
illiterate Muslim woman born into the once nomadic Gujjar
tribe, she and her family lived, or died, at the mercy of the men
with guns.
•
Healing
touch for Gujarat, Times of India, July 26, 2002
Interview with M Hasan Jowher, an Ahmedabad-based management and infotech
consultant who founded SPRAT (Society for Promotion of Rational
Thinking) with the specific aim of fighting obscurantism and superstition.
•
From
the heart of darkness, Hindustan Times, New Delhi, July 26, 2002
The Godhra burning - communal, repulsive
and criminally punishable - was not the reason why the rest of Gujarat
went up in flames. Nor was it the reason why Muslims, especially
women and children, have been hunted down, humiliated, forced to
look on as family and friends were gang raped, cut up into pieces,
blown apart, with the survivors cast away to fend for themselves,
being dared to re-build their lives, their work. Part Two of Two
part report. Mukul
Mangalik
•
Hell
is empty, Hindustan Times, New Delhi, July 25, 2002
More and more people, young and old, of different skin colours
and cuts of face, believers and non-believers, speaking as many
different languages as this country has to offer, need to get on
to trains heading for Gujarat. Part One of Two part report. Mukul
Mangalik
Cry the Beloved Country
Harsh Mander
Countercurrents.org
(Harsh Mander, the writer, resigned from
Indian civil service after witnessing the state complicity in the
carnage in Gujarat)
http://www.countercurrents.org/harshmander.htm
Reports
•
The
Next Generation: In the Wake of the Genocide, July 2002
A Report on the Impact of the Gujarat Pogrom on Children and the
Young by an independent team of citizens from Calcutta, July 2002,
Supported by Citizens' Initiative, Ahmedabad.
•
We
have no orders to save you: Human Rights Watch, April 2002
Report on state participation and complicity in communal violence
in Gujarat. PDF.
•
Recent
Communal Violence in Gujarat, India, and the U.S. Response, USCIRF,
June 10, 2002
Hearing by the United States Commission on Religious Freedom.
•
Deliver
Justice, Amnesty International
Amnesty International memorandum to the Government of Gujarat on
its duties in the aftermath of the violence.
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