Friday, April 11, 2008

Links and Notes

Here are the links of some You Tube videos relating to the genocides of 1971 by the Pakistani army:

Bangladesh Genocide 1971 : Jogannath Hall, Dhaka University Massacre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMg9Ly9nK0g&feature=related

Bangladesh Genocide 1971: Khulna Massacres

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z6SgETOjug&feature=related

Bangladesh Genocide 1971: Rape Victims

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwPbkyZVJo&feature=related

Protecting Pakistan's Hindus

Guardian reports on the state of condition of the minority hindu in Pakistan:

...Pakistan, according to many accounts, was founded as a way to protect the rights and existence of the minority Muslim population of Colonial India in the face of the larger Hindu majority. Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, is reported to have said in 1947: "In due course of time Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims will cease to be Muslims - not in a religious sense for that is the personal faith of an individual- but in a political sense as citizens of one state." It is therefore a travesty of Pakistan's own founding principles that its Hindus - and not to exclude Christians and Ahmadis - have suffered so grossly...

When schools ‘teach' untouchability

In Gujrat, India still the teachers are practicing discriminition towards the untouchables unabashedly. DNA correspondent report:

...In village schools of Gujarat, SC children are forced to sit at the back, actively discouraged from participating in class activities, and even subjected to food and water taboos.....Dalit teachers and cooks are never allowed to serve food during the mid-day-meals to kids. Whenever Dalit cooks serve food, only Dalit children eat their mid-day meal...

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