Since Independence Christian Run Schools have been praised for providing a very high standard of education in India.But in recent years there have been reports where hindu students have been banned from wearing tilaks or any other hindu symbols outwardly like aum pendants or red strings around the wrist especially on Hindu religious days.They are also encouraged to take part in singing christian hymns and celebrate Christmas and other christian festivals but not Hindu. Is there a hidden agenda to convert ? Dr Koenraad Elst explains.
The War is Over? Human Rights groups have been charging Lankan regime as sadistic behind a facade of its smiles
Channel 4 has once again comeup with a report that Tamils are increasingly charged detained and tortured without trial on unsubstantiated and flimpsy grounds of ‘association with the Tamil Tigers’.
A U.K. group quotes how even women are not spared and atleast someone in a family is held without charges.
Typical of such fascist regimes like at South America- many detainees’ families have complained that scores of such victims have simply gone ‘Disappearing’.
Behind the smiles hides a Sadistic Regime says the Channel anchor and how Sri Lanka is to face an imminent scrutiny by Human Rights Organisations with United Nations Committee.
Some 12 Human Rights groups woulld place their Fornesic documents in its study about 60 specific cases of torture that it tells still goes on years after the end of a Civil War which again involved a War Crimes tragedy yet to be fully investigated and a brutal regime that could be behind a facade of apparant Reconcilation and Rebuilding efforts.
News.com Australia reports –
DETAINEES in Sri Lanka are routinely tortured, but the government is not credibly investigating the allegations, Amnesty International says.
Sri Lanka has legislation against torture, but no effective way to implement it, Yolanda Foster, the rights group’s Sri Lanka expert, said today.
Amnesty International issued a report on Sri Lanka ahead of a review by the UN Committee Against Torture tomorrow.
“There is no longer an independently functioning unit investigating torture allegations levelled against the security forces, which calls into question Sri Lanka’s commitment to ending this abhorrent practice,” Ms Foster said.
The rights group accuses police, military personnel, paramilitary forces and prison guards of routinely beating and torturing detainees. It said that during the first 14 years of the anti-torture legislation, only three prosecutions were reportedly made under the police Special Investigation Unit, which has since been sidelined.
Amnesty International said that in 2008, the government claimed 42 indictments against 90 people stemming from torture investigations in the prior four years. But the group said most of those cases never went to trial.
The group said detainees have been held arbitrarily for prolonged periods, sometimes years, without charge and that most of them are eventually released for lack of evidence. It said those tortured include criminal suspects and people with alleged links with the now defeated separatist Tamil Tiger rebels.
A number of suspects have died while in police custody in the last few months. Last month, people attacked and seriously damaged a police station after a youth died while in custody.
Freedom from Torture has used forensic methods to document evidence of torture through the production of medico-legal reports (MLRs) for use in the context of asylum claims by torture survivors who have fled to the UK.
Keith Best, Freedom from Torture’s Chief Executive, said:
“As well as recording serious psychological impact in virtually all of the individuals whose cases are sampled in this report, the evidence also reveals high levels of visible scarring which strongly suggests a deliberate policy of ‘branding’ and an environment where perpetrators act with impunity. The experiences documented in the report of signed confessions forced through torture, fingerprinting and the deliberate infliction of visible injuries, mean that the risk of future detention and torture for survivors on return to Sri Lanka remains high, especially given the fact that in every single one of these 35 cases release from detention was resultant on the payment of a bribe. Fourteen had reported torture on their return from periods of time spent abroad.”
The 35 individuals whose MLRs were reviewed in Freedom from Torture’s study were detained in a range of facilities around Sri Lanka and all report being targeted due to an actual or perceived association with the LTTE, often through family members, or an opposition political party. It has been widely reported that the LTTE forcibly recruited Tamils into membership and other support roles during the civil war, suggesting that a very large proportion of the Tamil population is at risk of being targeted on this basis.
Carbon Emissions have jumped by a whopping 6.5% this year globally, tiggering concerns over its impact in an already bad weather wrecked planet's environment
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Inside Story discusses if world leaders should review their environmental and financial policies. Joining the show are guests: Charlie Kronic, Fred Pearce, and David Henderson.
Do you miss the excessive stress on Coal and avoidance of Fossil fuels as a term of reference by Al jazeera?
Well, Fossil fuels Was the the concern- our motorways cough out as much bad gases with diesel and dust- but Al jazeera is owned by Oil Shieks?
Long live the media. Nevertheless emission is bad. So-
Aronite Thinking is that the above scenario provides an inescapable choice of India adopting more unconventional and non-carbon energy generation technologies.
Nuclear Reactors therefore imperative and given seism logically least active zones at India. Besides its immense pool of engineers, technical personnel and scientists Nuclear power generation offers environmentally less destructive means of Power generation.
Israel conducted nation wide Civilian defense and nuclear safety drills in the wake of Imminent Iranian Nuclearisation
The imminent announcement by International Atomic Agency regarding Iran and possibly in affirmation of its acquiring Nuclear capability this week has put Israel on high alert.
Civilian evacuation and mobilisation capabilities in any such eventuality regarding the Nuclear turned Iranian with self avowed hostility regarding the existence of Israel itself is therefore natural.
Iran has repeatedly vowed to wipe out Israel off the face of the earth and given its recklessness as in the recent Assassination plot against Saudi Ambassador at the U.S- Israel cannot do otherwise than be ready for all eventualities and send a message that it’s capable of facing up.
Turkey and Lebanon’s Hezbollah too are bearing down on Israel with hostile intent.
Hizbollah has leaked its intentions to fire some 20,000 Rockets and awe the Israelis and occupy Gallilee in a soon to come War with Israel.
The lop sided Activists of ‘Peace’ as usual tell the usual lies that Gaza is under some blockade that denies Medicines and essential goods-
which never were denied them.
The Flotilla is the flotilla of ‘useful idiots’ who would help Hamas break the cordon of Israel to check the ship loads of Heavy arms and Rockets through sea from Iran.
They are the Chartered Naval Flotillas to the aid of Hamas Navy and not peace.
Islamist premier of Turkey and the Islamist upsurge at post-Mubarak Egypt are restive for a showdown with Israel that would galvanise the Pan Islamist movement.
The Peaceniks are also invariably without fail silent on Ceaseless Rocket attacks on Israeli civilian populations from Gaza and demonise selectively the Israeli measures defensive to such hostile actions.
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