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...

On Minority

I had done a small research work on the minority conditions in India and Bangladesh. During that time I found the former Prime Minister of India, Mr. Rao to have silently supported the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Two Circles.net reports:

...Addressing a press conference on 3rd April in the capital, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal made sensational disclosure. He said Rao had information about the demolition and he had asked the then-RSS chief Bala Saheb Deoras to inform him about the actual act of demolition at least a day before. Babri Masjid was demolished on 6th December 1992 by thousands of Hindu fanatics while police and civil administration remained mute spectator...

A review of Minority in Pakistan by Daily Times:

...Out of Karachi's total Hindu population of 9,000, the merchant class dominated...The non-Muslims of Pakistan have had a raw deal since 1947 when they decided to remain in the new state...Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and Parsis have been short-changed by the Pakistan Muslim League on a moderate programme; the party succumbed to the hardline religious politics of the very clerics who had opposed the idea of Pakistan...The state got out of hand after 1947 and threatened the non-Muslims, and then gradually journeyed towards eating its own children

Daily Notes

BJP declares to abandon the minority welfare policies taken by current Indian Government in order to consolidate their Hindu vote bank. Times of India says :

Party president Rajnath Singh, in an interview to a news agency, said the BJP would withdraw all minority-appeasement policies of the UPA government...He said his party believed in providing equal opportunity to all sections of society, especially to the economically backward among all communities..."If NDA comes to power, we will cancel all schemes announced by UPA government on the basis of religion," Singh said.

This is revealing the fundamentalist nature of the party.

Srilanka watch reports another minority leader has been assassinated in Srilanka today by LTTE.

Dr. Julia Ljubimova found that air pollution may cause serious brain damage. Last night I was reading a comprehension on the diseased that is created by the enormous stress that the astronauts undergo during their space travels.

The daily times reports that more than 50 rivers of Philipines are endangered due to the pollution.

...Fifty rivers in the Philippines have been destroyed because people are using them to dump their rubbish, leaving some ecologically dead, an official said Wednesday.

Some days ago when I was reading some parts of the book "Power and Terror" I found Turkey to be a great ally of USA and how USA tolerates the crimes or state terrors of Turkey. Have a look:
....It has become a matter of dogma for the foreign policy establishment and much of the American media that Turkey is a "secular democracy". On the basis of strategic considerations and mythical views about the alleged moderation of Turkey, the Western world has stood by and tolerated acts of terror and violence against peaceful Christian communities that would have been denounced and opposed had they occurred elsewhere...