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ON THE POLITICAL VIOLENCE UNLEASHED AGAINST THE LEFT IN WEST BENGAL
Academics and human rights activists from inside and outside India appeal to the democratic minded people in West Bengal and across the country to condemn and expose violence against the members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Left Front Government in West Bengal.
MAOIST VIOLENCE IN LALGARH, WEST BENGAL, MUST BE CONDEMNED
Posted by Aditya Nigam
The setback suffered by the two major communist parties of India in the recent parliamentary elections has given space to Indian Maoists to launch a reign of terror in the Left Front ruled state of West Bengal.
NO LINK BETWEEN NEPAL MAOISTS AND LALGARH: MENON
Indian authorities rule out any link between Nepal and Indian Maoists in recent violence in West Bengal.
PAKISTAN: TURNING THE TIDE OF TERROR
Kiran Omar
The Pakistan Army’s Operation Rah-e-Rast (the Right Path) continues to pound Taliban strongholds and aims to flush them out decisively from Buner, Swat and other areas where they had established their control forcibly through terror and coercion.
SRI LANKA: END ILLEGAL DETENTION OF DISPLACED POPULATION
(Human Rights Watch, June 11, 2009)
The defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has left more than a quarter million Tamils as virtual prisoners of the Sri Lanka’s government. Their human rights must be safeguarded.
NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S STATEMENT TO THE MEDIA
Colombo, June 13, 2009
A Sri Lankan party demands a political solution to the plight of its Tamil population within a United Sri Lanka.
NO SCOPE FOR DITHERING OVER FATWA
(Editorial, New Age, June 17, 2009-supplied by SACW)
Issuing of Fatwa should be made illegal, argue Women’s organizations in Bangladesh.
INDIA: ELECTION VERDICT 2009- WHITHER BJP?
Ram Puniyani
The set back suffered by the Hindutva forces in the May 2009 Parliamentary elections in India has triggered a new debate within the party. Should it or should it not abandon the very reason for its existence- making India a Hindu country?
SHIVAJI’S STATUE IN ARABIAN SEA
Ram Puniyani
During the rule of Moghul Emperor Aurangzeb (1658-1707), Shivaji led a fight for a Maratha (now the state of Maharashtra) kingdom; he did not succeed but has been made into an icon. Attempts are being made to erect a statue something like the American Statue of Liberty in the Arabian sea.
IRANIAN ELECTIONS ARE AN OCCASION FOR BUT NOT THE CAUSE OF MASSIVE PROTESTS
Daya Varma
The recent protests in Iran denote a rebellion against fundamentalism; the election outcome is just an occasion.
NO MATTER WHO IS PRESIDENT OF IRAN, THEY WOULD STONE ME
Lila Ghobady
Why didn’t I vote in the latest elections for the president of the country of my birth, Iran? Because no matter who is the president of Iran, they would stone me!
BRIC SHOULD CREATE CONDITIONS FOR FAIRER WORLD ORDER
Siddharth Varadarajan
Brazil, Russia, India, China stress financial, agricultural and strategic aspect of new grouping.
OVER ONE BILLION PEOPLE HUNGRY
One sixth of humanity undernourished – more than ever before. The faces behind the numbers.
NEPALESE IN CANADA TO HOLD ITS SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN CALGARY
Monday, June 22 2009, Calgary, Canada: NRN (Non-resident Nepalese)-Canada, the national umbrella organization of the Nepali Diaspora in Canada is holding its annual conference in Calgary, a beautiful city located near picturesque Rocky Mountains, on Saturday, the 27th June 2009.
CPI-MAOIST BANNED IN INDIA
On June 22, 2009, the Government of India extended the ban on the Communist Party of India (Maoist) across the country.
VIENNA SHOOT-OUT: DALIT ASSERTION- A REVOLT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION
S. L. Virdi Advocate
On May 24, Sant Niranjan Dass Ji, Head of Dera Sach Khand Ballan (Jalandhar), his successor Sant Rama Nand and their followers were attacked by some Manuwadi elements in Shri Guru Ravidass Temple at Vienna City of Austria. Dera Head Sant Niranjan Dass was injured, his successor Sant Rama Nand was martyred and many followers were severely injured in the firing. As a reaction Dalits made a ravished show of their anger through violent demonstrations in Jalandhar, Phagwara, Hoshiarpur, Phillaur, Muktsar, Malot, Ludhiana, Amritsar cities of Punjab, Ambala, Yamunanagar, Jagadhari, Kurukshetar, Ladwa and Shahbad of Haryana and Jasur and Nurpur Cities of Himachal Pradesh.
OBITUARY: HABIB TANVIR (1923-2009)
The legendary theatre personality, a poet, an actor and a revolutionary Habib Tanvir died at the National Hospital, Bhopal on June 8, 2009 at 06.30 Indian Standard Time. His daughter Nageen was at the bedside. Habib Tanvir was admitted to the hospital because of respiratory problems; the cause of his death was kidney failure. Almost every one associated with INSAF Bulletin has met Habib Saheb one time or another. On behalf of INSAF Bulletin, we express our deep condolences to his daughter Nageen and to his close relatives, Javed and Neeraj Malik, New Delhi and Abha Sur in Boston (Ed.).
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