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Where Angels Fear to Tread
Sreeram Chaulia
The August 19
terrorist attack against the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad has
reopened old wounds and dilemmas in the international humanitarian
community. By its sheer scale of devastation and brutality - more than
20 killed, including UN special representative to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de
Mello - it was the biggest single atrocity committed against
humanitarians and the culmination of a decade-long trend of worsening
insecurity for field personnel working in relief and rehabilitation
operations......More...
Hizbul Mujahideen and the Pandits
Pt.
Kashi Nath Pandita
In a statement appearing recently in national
newspapers, militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen says that it will allow
the Kashmiri Pandits to return to their homes in the valley if they join
the anti-India separatist movement and fight against the Indian troops
side by side with the Hizbul cadres.
We may remind our readers that following the
gunning down of BOP leader Tikalal Taploo on September 14, 1989 by the
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front gunmen in front of his house in Srinagar,
this writer published a letter in The Kashmir Times asking the JKLF
leadership to spell out its policy towards the Pandit minority of
Kashmir.....More...
J&K: The Hurriyat Splits
Kanchan
Lakshman
Internal
fissures within All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC),
the main overground secessionist syndicate in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K),
culminated in a formal split on September 7, 2003, with at least 12 of
its 25 constituents 'removing' Chairman Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari
and 'replacing' him with Massarat Alam as its interim chief. A five-member committee has been
formed to review the Hurriyat's constitution and suggest amendments to
reverse what the dissenters perceive as 'autocratic' decisions taken by
the executive committee.....More...
J&K : WINDS OF CHANGE OR A BIG DECEPTION
Dr. Ajay Chrungoo
The spate of 'Fidayeen' attacks on the Army in Jammu, terrorist assaults
on pilgrims at Qazigund and Vaishno Devi (Katra), or the Nadimarg
massacre, should in the normal course, put to rest any doubts about the
internal security scenario in the state. However, given the pattern of
government responses to the 'War of Attrition' in the state, we may see
the continuance of the attitude of self-deception through a blatant
denial of reality. How many statements, coming from those at the helm in
the Centre as well as the state, have we seen in recent days, which
proclaimed the 'Return of Normality'?....More...
Learning from History
Francois Gautier
The massacre of six million Jews by Hitler and
the persecution they suffered all over the world in the last 15
centuries has been meticulously recorded after 1945 and has been
enshrined not only in history books, but also in Holocaust museums, the
most famous of these being the one in Washington DC. It has not been
done with a spirit of vengeance: Look at Israel and Germany today, they
are in the best of terms; yet, facts are facts and contemporary Germany
has come to terms with its terrible actions during Second World War.....More...
The Secularists
and the Ayodhya Excavations Report
Dr. Koenraad Elst
In India, frequent political
incidents pit Hindu nationalism, or even just plain Hinduism and plain
nationalism, against so-called “secularism”. But what passes for
secularism in India is often the diametrical opposite of what goes by
the same name in the West. Recent incidents over the Ayodhya
temple/mosque controversy confirm the disingenuous character of Indian
secularism.....More...
Two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right - Part II
Vinod Kumar
This month we are at
the other common theme – Muslims of today are not responsible for the
crime of their ancestors! I am willing to agree with it but before I do
so let us look at it little more closely......More...
No
Endgame in Sight
Ajai
Sahni
Two years after the horror and the
tragedy, the events of
9/11 appear distant, and the
intensity and urgency of the 'war against terror' has been diluted by a
complex of compromises, of selective or misdirected responses, and by a
failure to consolidate the gains that have been secured at extraordinary
cost in resources, courage and sacrifice. There have, over these two
years, been many victories over terrorists; yet terrorism seems no
closer to defeat.......More...
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