Thursday, 31 January 2013

Two Pakistan polio vaccination workers killed in mine blast



Polio workers in Pakistan
Two polio vaccination workers have been killed in a landmine blast in the Kurram tribal region of north-west Pakistan, officials say.
The men were visiting a village in the Malikhel area when the mine went off. No group has claimed the attack.
Correspondents say Sunni militants may have planted the mine - the upper Kurram area is dominated by Shias who do not oppose anti-polio efforts.
At least 11 polio workers have now been killed in Pakistan in the past month.
Seven other charity workers were killed in January in the Swabi area - it is not clear if they were targeted because their charity offered vaccinations or education for girls.
The Taliban have threatened anti-polio efforts across Pakistan - accusing health workers of working as US spies and alleging that the vaccine makes children sterile.
Along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is still endemic.
Sectarian violence
Jawad Ali, in charge of the anti-polio campaign in Kurram, told the AFP news agency that the pair had been killed "on the spot".
He said the team had been visiting areas not covered by a three-day vaccination campaign that ended on Wednesday.
Map
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says it is unlikely the polio workers were targeted deliberately.
The upper Kurram valley is inhabited by the Shia Turi tribe - which traditionally abhors the Sunni Taliban - it is also an area blighted by sectarian violence, he says.
Landmines are frequently planted in these areas to cause Shia casualties or hinder their free movement, our correspondent says.
Kurram is part of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal region near the Afghan border where Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants have strongholds from which they mount attacks on Pakistani, Afghan and Western targets.

Source: BBC & Internet 

Salman Rushdie's Kolkata Visit Cancelled || West Bengal Govt Surrenders Again












Another Victory of  Extremist Hardliners of Kolkata:Veteran Writer Sir Salman Rushdie Got Harassed Again.

Author Sir Salman Rushdie's visit to the Indian city of Calcutta to promote the Midnight's Children film has been cancelled at the last minute.A cinema chain official said an event to promote the film had been scrapped.

The author was also expected to drop in at a literary event at a book fair where director Deepa Mehta and actor Rahul Bose were addressing a session.
Organisers of the event said the police asked for a written guarantee that the author would not attend.
Sir Salman is considered a controversial figure in India where his 1988 book The Satanic Verses remains banned.
Last year, he withdrew from the Jaipur Literature Festival after reports of a death threat. He was also forced to abandon plans to address the gathering by a video link after protesters threatened to march on the venue.
The film based on Sir Salman's novel of the same name opens in India on Friday.
Correspondents say it is believed that the police told the organisers that if Sir Salman came to the city he would be sent back immediately.
Also, reports said the state government did not want the author in the city - a few years ago, there were protests against the visit of the controversial Bengali writer Tasleema Nasreen and the authorities were concerned about similar protests and civil disorder.

Source: Times Now, Star Ananda and BBC News 

Monday, 28 January 2013

MASS CRIMES & THE 1984 SIKH POGROMS By Simi Dhanjal



 





London : In this thesis I aim to look in detail at the 1984 anti – Sikh Pogroms, and the way in which they were investigated. I will then be looking at why India abstained from voting on the ICC Statute in light of the mass crimes that have been committed in India and India’s failure to address these crimes. I intend discussing prosecutions of genocide at an international level, drawing on examples from Europe and Africa. It would then be useful to look at the Genocide Convention and the parties to it, as well as other mass crimes which international tribunals have been set up for, looking at the outcomes and prosecutions mostly in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, such as in the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Finally I will look at mechanisms of accountability and whether it is better to try crimes using national courts or to have the assistance of the international community Pogrom’ literally means ‘to destroy, to wreak havoc, to demolish violently’. A pogrom is described as a form of a fierce riot, or a mob attack which is either permitted or overlooked by the government and military authorities, targeted against a particular group; it can be to target victims on grounds of ethnicity, religion or many other reasons, characterised by killings and devastation of the victims’ homes, businesses, possessions, properties and religious places of worship. The term ‘pogrom’ was initially used to signify widespread violence against Jews in the Russian Empire, such killings or pogroms distress members of groups which may be seen as vulnerable and often leads to genocide in its most excessive form.

Over the last twenty years, nine commissions have been appointed and put in place to investigate the anti – Sikh pogroms of November 1984. The year 1984 was particularly unusual in the magnitude of violence that it wrought on India, in particular in the north of India
.The anti – Sikh pogrom was four days of mass violence in the capital of India, Delhi, in
which armed mobs killed unarmed Sikh men, women and children, Sikh homes were also burnt and looted, as well as schools and businesses, even Gurdwaras3 were horrendously attacked.

The lead up to this violence began in June 1984 during the Operation Bluestar, this was when the Indian Prime Minster at the time, Indira Gandhi, had ordered the Indian army to attack Sikh extremists who had taken sanctuary in the Golden Temple. The result of the attack on the Golden Temple was the killing of innocent worshippers and pilgrims, also religious artefacts and historical structures were destroyed as were parts of the temple such as the Akal Takht – the highest state of authority within Sikhism.

During this period Sant Jarnail Singh Bindranwale, the head of the Dam Dami Taksal7
, homed in on the Sikh struggle and became conscious of the dissatisfaction amongst Sikhs, resulting in him becoming an iconic leader of the struggle which was undermining the Sikh

faith and community. In 1982, when Bindranwale took sanctuary in the Golden Temple, was when Indian Prime Minister, order the attack upon the Golden Temple because she was unsettled about the rise in popularity of Bindranwale. Sikhs, who both did and did not support Bindranwale, were outraged by the attack and more so the scale of violence upon their holiest place of worship.

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Simi Dhanjal
Volunteer Consultant
Refugee Council
London, UK

Zemira Eli Natan
Executive Director
International Unity for Equality

 
Achintya Das
Administrative Director
International Unity for Equality


 


 
 

Mughalistan a Long Time Dream of Muslim World

Pakistan-Bangladesh plan a Mughalistan to split India:



Mughalistan (or Mughalstan) is the name of an independent homeland proposed for the Muslims of India. This Mughal-Muslim state in the Indian subcontinent will include all of North India and Eastern India, and will be formed by merging Pakistan and Bangladesh through a large corridor of land running across the Indo-Gangetic plain, the heartland of India. This Mughalistan corridor will comprise Muslim-majority areas of Northern India and eastern India that will be partitioned for the second time in history.
The comprehensive plan for a second partition of India was first developed by the Mughalstan Research Institute (MRI) of Jahangir Nagar University (Bangladesh) under the patronage of the two intelligence agencies, Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Bangladesh’s Director General of Forces Intelligence, DGFI. The “Mughalistan Reaserch Institute of Bangladesh” has released a map where a Muslim corridor named “Mughalistan” connects Pakistan and Bangladesh via India.
The Pakistani Punjabi-dominated ISI’s influence on MRI is evident even in the Punjabi-centric pronunciation of the word ‘Mughalstan’ (without the “i”), instead of the typical Urdu pronunciation (Mughalistan). Islamic Jihadis in India have been well-armed and well-funded by the neighbouring Islamic regimes, as part of Operation Topac – the late Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq’s grandiose plot to balkanize India.

Not surprisingly, Osama Bin Laden has thrown his support behind the concept and creation of this Greater Pakistan to “liberate” the Muslims of India from the Hindus. The Mumbai underworld (led by Karachi-based don Dawood Ibrahim who executed the gruesome 1993 Mumbai bombings), Jamaat-e-Islami, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen have declared their unified support for creating this undivided Islamic nation in the Indian subcontinent. The Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Indian Mujahideen are working in tandem with the aforementioned organizations to waged Jihad against the Hindus of India.

It is important to note that in its “holy war” against India, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba has openly declared Hindus to be the "enemies of Islam" who should all be converted or killed. The Lashkar-e-Tayyaba group has repeatedly claimed through its journals and websites that its main aim is to destroy the Indian republic and to annihilate Hinduism. Jaish-e-Mohammed has vowed to "liberate" not just Kashmir, but also to hoist the Islamic flag atop the historic Red Fort after capturing New Delhi and the rest of India.

SIMI has championed the "liberation of India through Islam" and aim to restore the supremacy of Islam through the resurrection of the Khilafat (Islamic Caliphate), emphasis on the Muslim Ummah (Islamic) and the waging of Jihad on the Indian state, secularism, democracy and nationalism – the basic keystones of the Indian Constitution – as these concepts are antithetical to Islam. The Indian Mujahideen have sent several emails claiming responsibility for several bombings in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad (in Uttar Pradesh), Bangalore, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and New Delhi in 2007 and 2008. The emails refer to notorious Islamic conquerors of India (Mohammed bin Qasim, Mohammad Ghauri and Mahmud Ghaznawi) as their role-models, refer to Hindu blood as “blood to be the cheapest of all mankind” and taunt Hindus that their “[Hindu] history is full of subjugation, humiliation, and insult [at the hands of Islamic conquerors]".

The Indian Mujahideen’s emails warn the Hindus to “Accept Islam and save yourselves” and or else face a horrible fate: – “Hindus! O disbelieving faithless Indians! Haven’t you still realized that the falsehood of your 33 crore dirty mud idols and the blasphemy of your deaf, dumb, mute and naked idols of ram, krishna and hanuman are not at all going to save your necks, Insha-Allah, from being slaughtered by our [Muslim] hands?”

Background

Pakistan’s emergence in 1947 was as a “mutilated, truncated, moth-eaten Pakistan, in M.A. Jinnah’s own words, because the Muslim League’s original plan did not envisage the partition of Punjab and Bengal. Today, Mughalistan is Jinnah’s dream come true.

The Partition of India provided temporary respite to the Indians and merely postponed the inevitable outcome. By 1971, all across Sindh, Western Punjab, Gandhara (Kandahar) and Eastern Bengal, the native populations of the Indian Religionists (Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains) have been wiped out almost entirely by conversion, massacre and mass exodus. Extrapolating this scenario, we find ominous results. This Islamic beach-head, which squeezes India from both sides (Pakistan and Bangladesh), gradually links up with a Fifth Column within India and gains fresh territorial and demographic victories within the last two decades (Kashmir valley, several districts of West Bengal and Assam, Malappuram district in Kerala and the Hyderabad-Deccan region). The Islamic Anschluss creeps steadily and bloodily, until the Western beach-head (Pakistan) is linked up demographically with the Eastern beach-head (Bangladesh) through the formation of a Islam-dominated belt called “Mughalstan”, that will then run through Jammu, Mewat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam.


Jammu & Kashmir

It is an open secret that wherever the Muslims are in a majority, the rights and freedom of the non-Muslims are severely curtailed. Take for example Kashmir. It’s the only state in India which is a Muslim majority and let us see what happened there. Hundreds of temples were razed, Hindus were forced to flee, their women were raped, children were killed and houses forcibly occupied. The entire Kashmiri Hindu population (known as Kashmiri Pandits) having been driven away, killed or converted between 1990 and 2000 in a silent, mass genocide. The Muslims in Kashmir have been enjoying a special status under Constitution’s Article 370, hardly any central law is enforced there, the number of income-tax payers is among the lowest and unlike other poor states, J&K gets 90 per cent central financial assistance as grants and only 10 per cent as loans. Still there are complaints that a ‘Hindu central government discriminates’. The other minority, Buddhists mostly located in Ladakh, too, are harshly treated and discriminated against by the mainly Sunni Muslim governance in Srinagar. The Buddhist Association, Leh, has been submitting memorandums to the central government about how Buddhist youths are denied jobs and a fair chance to join the Kashmir Administrative service and professional colleges in spite of clearing the entrance exams. The number of Buddhist minorities is fast decreasing causing concern amongst their leaders. Even their dead are not allowed to be buried in Muslim-majority Kargil area and monasteries have been denied to be built. Leh district continues to see rampant conversions of Buddhist women to Islam.
The Kashmir Valley today has a 98 per cent Muslim population. Poonch district, which is contiguous with Pakistan, has a Muslim majority. Jammu district has seen regular attacks on Hindu civilians and temples. The Hindu-population of the adjacent district of Doda is being squeezed out by Islamic violence. As a result, Doda is now a Muslim-majority district, where the population ratio between the Muslims and the Hindus in Doda district is now 55:45. Doda town has a 90 per cent Muslim population. Out of the seven subdivisions, Banihal, Kishtwar and Balesa are Muslim dominated areas. Bhaderwah, Thathri and Ramban have a Hindu majority. In Ladakh, Kargil district has a Muslim majority.


Northern India

In the backward Mewat region of Haryana (and Rajasthan), Muslims form 66% of the local population. In 2005, the Congress (I) state government in Haryana quietly created a Muslim-majority district called Mewat, by vivisecting Gurgaon district. This move strengthened the clout of Islamic groups in the region. After all, it was in Haryana’s Mewat region in 1992, that Muslim mobs in Nuh town had hacked Hindus, destroyed Hindu temples and brazenly slaughtered cows openly on streets after seizing them from Gau Shalas (cow shelters). Today, the mass conversion of Hindu villagers to Islam, purchasing tens of thousands of Hindu girls for use as sex-slaves, cow-slaughter and social boycott of Hindus is common in Muslim families in Mewat. The average Muslim birth rates of 12-15 children per household in Mewat is increasing even more by cases like the Mohammed Ishaq family where the patriarch has sired 23 kids from his wife, Bismillah.
The 2008 bomb blasts targeting Hindu temples and civilians in Jaipur underscore the rising tension in Rajasthan.

Muslim-majority cities like Old Delhi and Malerkotla (in Indian Punjab) provide not only shelter to Jihadi terrorists, but also geographic continuity to Muslim-dominated districts of western Uttar Pradesh (UP), especially Agra, Aligarh, Azamgarh, Meerut, Bijnor as well as Muzaffarnagar, Kanpur, Varanasi, Bareilly, Saharanpur and Moradabad. Muslim attacks on Hindu religious processions, religious riots and bomb blasts are common place in UP as was seen in Mau, Ayodhya, Lucknow and Kanpur. The UP state population of Muslims has risen to 18% today.

Next door, Bihar has a 17% Muslim population and religious tensions are simmering.



Along the Indo-Nepal border of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, around 1900 Islamic seminaries have come up on both sides of the Indo-Nepal border in recent times. "There has been an exponential increase of Madrassas on both sides of Indo-Nepal border in the recent past of which around 1100 are in India while the rest are in Nepal," revealed Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Tilak Kak. These large number of Madrassas, which serve as have come up in a disproportionate way and are not proportional to the Muslim population in the area. India’s Task Force on Border Management, in its report of October 2000, wrote about the ominous developments along the India-Nepal border: “On the Indo-Nepal border, Madrassas and mosques have sprung up on both sides in the Terai region, accompanied by four-fold increase in the population of the minority community in the region. There are 343 mosques, 300 Madrassas and 17 mosques-cum- Madrassas within 10 kilometres of the border on the Indian side. On the Nepal side, there are 282 mosques, 181 Madrassas and eight mosques-cum- Madrassas. These mosques and Madrassas receive huge funds from Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Managers of various Madrassas and Ulema maintain close links with the embassy officials of those countries located at Kathmandu. Financial assistance is also channelized through the Islamic Development Bank (Jeddah), Habib Bank of Pakistan and also through some Indian Muslims living in Gulf countries. Pakistan’s Habib Bank, after becoming a partner in Nepal’s Himalayan Bank, has expanded its network in the border areas including Biratnagar and Krishna Nagar. It is suspected that foreign currency is converted into Indian currency in Nepal and then brought to India clandestinely. Madrasas and mosques on the Indo-Nepal border are frequently visited by prominent Muslim leaders, Tablighi Jamaats (proselytizing groups) and pro-Pak Nepali leaders. Officials of Pak Embassy have come to notice visiting Terai area of Nepal to strengthen Islamic institutions and to disburse funds to them. Pro-Pak elements in Nepal also help in demographic subversion of the Terai belt.”

West Bengal and Assam: The Weakest Links in the ChainAccording to the 2001 census, the Muslim population is 28% of the total West Bengal population. In Assam, the Muslim population comprises atleast 31% of the total state population.

Arun Shourie wrote this in the Indian Express in 2004:

“Muslims in India accounted for 9.9 per cent (of India’s population) in 1951, 10.8 per cent in 1971 and 11.3 per cent in 1981, and presumably about 12.1 per cent in 1991. The present population ratio of Muslims is calculated to be 28 per cent in Assam and 25 per cent in West Bengal. In 1991 the Muslim population in the border districts of West Bengal accounted for 56 per cent in South and North Parganas, 48 per cent in Nadia, 52 per cent in Murshidabad, 54 per cent in Malda and about 60 per cent in Islampur sub-division of West Dinajpur. A study of the border belt of West Bengal yields some telling statistics: 20-40 per cent villages in the border districts are said to be predominantly Muslim. There are indications that the concentration of the minority community, including the Bangladesh immigrants, in the villages has resulted in the majority community moving to urban centres. Several towns in the border districts are now predominantly inhabited by the majority community but surrounded by villages mostly dominated by the minority community. Lin Piao’s theory of occupying the villages before overwhelming the cities comes to mind, though the context is different. However, the basic factor of security threat in both the cases is the same.

Figures have been given showing the concentration of Muslim population in the districts of West Bengal bordering Bangladesh starting from 24 Parganas and going up to Islampur of West Dinajpur district and their population being well over 50 per cent of the population. The Kishanganj district (of Bihar) which was part of Purnea district earlier, which is contiguous to the West Bengal area, also has a majority of Muslim population. The total population of the districts of South and North 24 Parganas, Murshidabad, Nadia, Malda and West Dinajpur adds up to 27,337,362. If we add the population of Kishanganj district of Bihar of 986,672, the total comes to 28,324,034. (All figures are based on the 1991 Census.) This mass of land with a population of nearly 2.8 crores has a Muslim majority. The total population of West Bengal in 1991 was 67.9 million and of these, 28.32 million are concentrated in the border districts, with about 16-17 million population of minority community being concentrated in this area. This crucial tract of land in West Bengal and Bihar, lying along the Ganges/Hughly and west Bangladesh with a population of over 28 million, with Muslims constituting a majority, should give cause for anxiety for any thinking Indian.’’
And what if, from these figures, I had advanced two warnings. First,
‘‘There is a distinct danger of another Muslim country, speaking predominantly Bengali, emerging in the eastern part of India in the future, at a time when India might find itself weakened politically and militarily.’’
 


And second that the danger is as grave even if that third Islamic State does not get carved out in the sub-continent into a full-fledged country? What if I had put that danger as follows?
‘‘Let us look at the map of Eastern India — starting from the North 24 Parganas district, proceeding through Nadia, Murshidabad, Malda and West Dinajpur before entering the narrow neck of land lying through Raiganj and Dalkola of Islampur sub-division before passing through the Kishanganj district of East Bihar to enter Siliguri. Proceed further and take a look at the north Bengal districts of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar before entering Assam, and its districts of Dhubri, Goalpara, Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar and Barpeta. A more sensitive region in Asia is difficult to locate...’’

To quote Sandhya Jain’s article “India’s Cancer Wards” in “The Pioneer”:
‘Mr. R.K. Ohri, ex-IGP, Arunachal Pradesh, cautioned that an Islamic Caliphate is rising on India's flanks, from Bangladesh to West Asia, and that the shadow of the Mughalistan corridor is now visibly manifesting in various districts along the Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bangladesh border. The demand for a 'Muslim Banghboomi' has already been raised, warns ex-MP B.L. Sharma (Prem). Traveling in West Bengal to check out certain atrocities against Hindus some years ago, his convoy was attacked by Bangladeshis. When demographer J.K. Bajaj and his colleagues prepared a mathematical model of the demographic challenge facing India, they found it exactly matched the map prepared by Bangladesh's Mughalstan Research Institute. Experts feel the latter has been prepared by the ISI because the 'Mughalstan' spelling indicates a Punjabi mind!
Bangladesh's reputed human rights activist Salam Azad laments that Bangladesh is the best place in the world for the return of the Taliban. Madrasas, he said, are teaching that "Muslims are the best in the world; non-Muslims will be converted, beaten, killed, married, raped, because non-Muslim women are regarded as maal-i-ganimat (free war booty)… Minorities will be oppressed, indigenous people will be attacked, in my country there is oppression everywhere and this is being done by the so-called educated people of the madrasas."
West Bengal BJP leader Tathagatha Roy said the extent of atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh can be seen from the fact that in several districts there was not a single woman between the ages of seven to seventy years who had not been raped in that country. He apologized for the indifference of the BJP Government which did not grant refugee status to Hindus fleeing oppression in Bangladesh. North Eastern Students Organisation chairman Samujjal Bhattacharya said all 49 tribal belts and blocks in Assam have been occupied by Bangladeshis. The shadows have spread to Arunachal, Nagaland, Manipur and Meghalaya
Today, Hindus residing within a 50-km radius of the border are feeling the heat. They are being harassed on Indian soil and forced to move as the infiltrators establish themselves along this corridor, thus de facto extending the Bangladesh border into India.’
The West Bengal administration, which had taken a serious view of the problem in the initial stages of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government, now seems to have accepted it as a fait accompli. The chief minister had adopted some steps to contain the menace when the BJP strongman L.K.Advani was the union home minister from 1998-2004. But his initiative has slackened after the installation of the UPA government at the Centre since 2004.
In case the ramifications of the unfolding scenario are not yet clear to Indians, the bomb-blasts and religious riots are a roaring continuation of the 1400-year Jihad against India – an ongoing war that will culminate in the Islamisation of what’s left of Hindustan. Already the demographic battle is underway and the Mughalistan scenario looks feasible. The book “Religious Demography of India” published by A P Joshi, M.D. Srinivas and J K Bajaj of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), Chennai, reveals that in 2001, Muslims comprise over 30% of the total population in the Indian-subcontinent (comprising India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). The total Muslim population zoomed from 12.5% (1991) to 30.3% (2001), in just 10 years (from ex-IAS officer V.Sundaram’s article in “News Today”: Deathly Demographic warnings for India).


According to the 2001 census report, Indian population is 1,027,015,247.3. Of this, 1.5 crore people are Bangladeshi infiltrators who are living in India. The Intelligence Bureau has reportedly estimated, after an extensive survey, that the present number is about 16 million. The August 2000 report of the Task Force on Border Management placed the figure at 15 million, with 300,000 Bangladeshis entering India illegally every month. It is estimated that about 13 lakh Bangladeshis live in Delhi alone. It has been reported that one crore Bangladeshis are missing from Bangladesh [August 4, 1991, Morning Sun] and it implies that those people have infiltrated into India. These infiltrators mainly settle in the north-east India and in West Bengal. This is shown by the fact that there has been irregular increase in the Muslim population in these states and many of the districts have become Muslim majority. The proportion of Muslims in Assam had increased from 24.68 per cent in 1951 to 30.91 per cent in 2001.Whereas in the same time period the proportion of Muslims in India increased from 9.91 per cent to 13.42 per cent. In West Bengal, the Muslim population in west Dinajpur, Maldah, Birbhum and Murshidabad 36.75 per cent, 47.49 per cent, 33.06 per cent and 61.39 per cent respectively, according to 1991 census.
This has not only caused the burden on the Indian economy, but also threatens the identity of the indigenous people of the north-east of India. In Tripura, another north-eastern state of India, the local population has been turned into a minority community over a short period of time by the sheer numbers of cross-border migrants from Bangladesh. In 1947, 56 per cent of Tripura’s population consisted of tribal (or indigenous) population. Today this stands at a 25% of the total. In many districts these infiltrators are the one who decides the outcome of elections. Outcomes of the 32 per cent of Vidhan Sabha seats in Assam and 18 per cent of seats in West Bengal are decided by them. This is due to the fact that political parties are helping them to get ration cards and voters ID and hence using them to win elections.
According to the report, at present there are 80 lakh Bangladeshi infiltrators in Bengal, 55 lakh in Assom, 4 lakh in Tripura and 5 lakh in Bihar (Katihar, Purnia and Kishenganj districts) and Jharkhand(Sahebganj district). As far as West Bengal is concerned, the concentration of infiltrators is quite marked in the border districts like North and South Dinajpur, Cooch Behar, Nadia, Murshidabad, Malda and North and South 24 Parganas. The affected areas in Assom are Dhubri, Goalpara, Karimganj and Hailakandi, while a similar scenario is noticeable in Kailashar, Sabrum, Udaipur and Belonia areas in Tripura. Pakistan's ISI is believed to have a hand behind this large-scale infiltration which has been playing havoc with the economy of Bengal and Assam. Home ministry sources say Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami(HUJI), the dreaded militant outfit active in Bangladesh, has succeeded in sending a large number of militants along with the infiltrators to West Bengal.
The Home ministry had laid stress on an early completion of barbed-wire fencing along the borders with Bangladesh. Of the 2216 km-long border the fencing could be completed only along 1167 km till 2007. The continuous infiltration has brought about serious demographic changes to Bengal's border areas and made the border-map, drawn after the 1974 Indira-Mujib agreement, somewhat irrelevant. The Centre has consequently sought a detailed report from the state government on changes in the population pattern in 66 blocks of nine border districts.


DGFI & ISI Plan To Capture West Bengal and Assam Through Vote Machinery
To facilitate Mughalistan and the concomitant partition of India and Bengal, the DGFI-ISI have jointly planned to change the demography of West Bengal and Assam on a priority basis.
As many as 53 out of 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal have a high concentration of voters who happen to be illegal Muslim from Bangladesh. Similarly, the fate of 40 Assembly seats in Assam depends on the votes cast by illegal Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators. All this has been revealed by a recent report of the union home ministry on infiltration from India's neighbour. The report has been prepared on the basis of facts and figures provided by the Task Force on Border Management and Assam's former governor S.K. Sinha.
As such the Bangladeshi Muslims can control the West Bengal Assembly, and dictate terms to the state government of West Bengal in all respects. The picture of plight of majority Hindu electorates worsened in the State, as Muslim electorates have a clear majority in three districts viz. Malda, Murshidabad & North Dinajpur and 63 (sixty three) blocks in West Bengal. Again, an analysis upon the projection into the 2001 Census hints at abnormal Muslim growth everywhere in West Bengal, where the Muslim population is 28% of the total state population.
There are at least 5 powerful Muslim ministers in the West Bengal state cabinet: Abdur Rezzak Mollah (Minister of Land & Land Reforms), Anisur Rahaman (Minister of Animal Resources Development), Mortaja Hossain (Minister of Agriculture, Marketing & Relief, Minster of State), Anarul Haque (Minister of State for Public Health, Engineering) and Abdus Sattar (Minister of State for Minority Development & Madrasa Education).
In West Bengal, there are 45 Muslim Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) out of 294 seats. There are 5 Muslim Members of Parliament from West Bengal out of 42 seats: Mohammed Salim (Calcutta North East), Abu Ayes Mondal (Katwa), Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury (Malda), Abdul Mannan Hossain (Murshidabad) and Hannan Mollah (Uluberia), all of whom strength the control of Islam in various government institutions and the police hierarchy.
As the UPA Central Government and the CPI(M) State Government have paid no attention for the threat of Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators in West Bengal, the Bangladeshi Muslims have captured land, money and unequalled power of voting throughout the border districts in Bengal in many places.
With the passive support of both the UPA Central Government and the CPI(M) State Government and with the active support of all the political parties in West Bengal (except for the BJP) for winning the Muslim votebank’s support, the DGFI & ISI has actively put down roots in the soil of West Bengal for their purposes. Not only are they successful in the ongoing demographic change of West Bengal by means of mobilizing the election machinery of Bengal, they have also opened their fronts everywhere in smuggling, trafficking, drug peddling, illegal cow smuggling, trans-border gang robbery and of course terrorism, with the active grassroots support to the Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami-Bangladesh (HUJI-B), Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammad.
Now in its most advantageous position, the DGFI & ISI’s joint collaboration is now promoting activities of Mughalistan in Kolkata, Howrah & other districts. The Dhaka-based Mughalistan Research Institute has identified various areas marked as “Mini Pakistan” in W.Bengal & Eastern India. This Mughalistan, as we know, comprises the entity of Greater Pakistan, right from Afghanistan to Myanmar including Bangladesh, whole of W. Bengal, Assam & many other portions of India. This Pan-Islamic movement gets petro-dollars from the Arab World and fake Indian Currency from Pakistan and Bangladesh for the maximum manifestation of their plans. The Muslim infiltration from Bangladesh gives oxygen to the Pan-Islamic movement in India. Now they have direct access into the West Bengal State Assembly and into the Ministry of Bengal within Writers Building, Kolkata. But sadly, West Bengal’s vote politics undermine the situation by turning a blind eye to this colossal tragedy, unabashedly providing voters’ ID cards to the Muslim infiltrators and setting a dangerous peril for Bengali Hindus and India.
The North-Eastern region is connected to rest of India by a small strip called “The Siliguri Corridor” or “Chicken’s Neck”. The Islamists have planned to isolate the North-East of India from the rest of India, in order to facilitate the creation of Mughalistan. This Operation is named as “Operation Pin code”. For this they have planned to infiltrate 3000 Jihadis into North Eastern region. According to the Task Force, there are 905 Mosques and 439 Madrasas along Indo-Bangladesh border on the Indian side.
Some excerpts from the report, "Demography survey on eastern border" by Bhavna Vij-Aurora in “The Telegraph” are startling. “There have been reports that more Madarsas and mosques are sprouting along the borders, which in itself is an indication of increased Muslim population in the area," disclosed an intelligence official. The last such study was done by the Intelligence Bureau and the home ministry in 1992, and their report kept a secret in view of the sensitive findings. It was ultimately leaked and the estimated number of illegal migrants from Bangladesh was anywhere between 1.5 crore and 2 crore. It's time for a fresh survey, according to sources. There have been renewed intelligence reports that militants are using madarsas and mosques as safe havens, and also for storing arms and ammunition. According to reports, the largest number of madarsas and mosques has come up in bordering areas with Nepal, lower Assam and Bengal. This complements another secret survey that has revealed that nearly 40 per cent villages in the border districts of Bengal are predominantly Muslim. There are reports that concentration of the minority community, including the Bangladeshi immigrants in the villages, has resulted in the majority community moving to urban areas. Along with madarsas and mosques, a large number of Muslim NGOs have sprung up in the area bordering Nepal. Most of these madarsas are used for anti-India activities by Pakistan-backed terrorists. The NGOs ostensibly work for the social and educational uplift of the Muslim community and receive substantial and completely unregulated funding from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya and other Islamic countries," an intelligence report said."
When India was partitioned in 1947 on religious grounds and Muslims got West Pakistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), they had a vulture´s eye on the entire north-east. Muslims were not satisfied with both the Pakistans. They wanted the whole of the north-east region (undivided Assam) integrated with East Pakistan. Manul Haq Chowdhury, Jinnah´s private secretary, who remained in Assam and later became a minister in Assam assembly, wrote to Jinnah in 1947: “Quaid-e-Azam, wait for the next thirty years, I shall present Assam to Pakistan on a platter.” Since then, a sinister game plan to ‘grow more Muslims in the north-east’ has been going on surreptitiously.
Today, out of the total 24 districts of Assam, six districts, namely, Nagaon, Goalpara, Dhubri, Karimganj, Barpeta and Hailakanndi have 60 per cent Muslim population while other six, namely, Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar, Kamrup, Nalbari, Darang and Cachar districts have above 40 per cent of them. Out of the 126 assembly seats, the election of 54 MLAs depends on the Muslim vote bank. There are 28 Muslim MLAs and four ministers, namely, (i) Rocky Bul Hussain (Nagaon), Minister of State for Home Affairs; (ii) Ismail Hussain (Dhubri), Minister for Flood; (iii) Dr Nazurul Islam (Doboka), Minister for Food and Civil Supply, and (iv) Misabul Hussain Laskar (Borkhola, Cachar), Minister for Cooperatives.
There are two Lok Sabha MPs in Assam, namely, Anwar Hussain from Dhubri and A.F. Gulam Osmani from Barpeta and one Rajya Sabha MP, Smt. Anwara Timur (Nagaon). The Muslim community of Assam has provided one former Muslim Chief Minister—Smt. Anwara Timur (Nagaon) and one former President of India—Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (Lakhtokia, Guwahati). Earlier, in the Assam Gana Parishad (AGP) Ministry, headed by Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, there were two Muslim ministers, namely, Maidul Islam Bora from Kamalpur, Kamrup district and Sukur Ali from Barpeta. Several high-ranking officers including deputy commissioners are from this community. Obviously, the Muslim community, including the Indian Muslims and the Bangladeshi Muslims, have become a dominant group in Assam and it is they who decide who would be the Chief Minister of Assam and what would be the major policies of Assam pertaining to detection and deportation of illegal Muslim migrants and care of Muslim welfare.
Tarun Gogoi, the Congress(I) Chief Minister of Assam, is giving all protection to these Muslims due to political compulsions. The Assamese community has been overpowered by Muslims. These Bangladeshi Muslims are sneaking into upper Assam too, creating serious problems for the Assamese. The demography of Assam has drastically changed and the very existence of the indigenous people is threatened. The manifold growth in Muslim population has overburdened Assam and the Assamese people are feeling harassed and tortured. The livelihoods of the local people are getting snatched away by these illegal Muslim migrants. The Janjati (indigenous tribal) communities in Assam are not organized. Therefore, their land and forests are very often forcefully occupied by these Muslims. The Nelli massacre in 1983 was the worst clash between the local people and Bangladeshi Muslims in which several Lalung Janjati people were reportedly killed and many Lalung villages were burnt.

These Bangladeshis have illegally sneaked into Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura too. They are marrying the local girls of influential people and are thus getting protection from their in-laws’ families. After marriage with a Janjati girl, they convert her to Islam. They purchase land in the Janjati belts in the name of their Janjati wives by producing Janjati certificates in her name. Now, the new generation of Muslims, i.e. the Janjati Muslims, is growing. They give Muslim names to their children but the clan remains that of local wives, like Saidullah Ningrum, Azad Lingdoh (Khasi Muslims), Nizamuddin Semia, Akram Semia (Naga Muslims), Shahabuddin Chowdhury, Akbar Laskar (Assamese Muslims) and others. In Assam, Muslims are using Assamese surnames like Hazarika, Barbhuian, Bargohain, Bhuiyan, Bora, Gohain and others. There are Meitei Muslims too in Manipur.
In Nagaland, the Muslim menace is more serious. Dimapur has become the den of these Bangladeshi Muslims. They constitute the leading labour force in the agriculture sector owned by the Naga community. The majority of rickshaw-pullers, auto-drivers and other manual labourers is now of Bangladeshi Muslims. This has given rise to robbery, theft, illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs and liquor, smuggling of pornographic films and vulgar literature and an unprecedented rise in crime, flesh trade and prostitution. This influx has narrowed the jobs of lay workers too.
The Nagaland state capital, Kohima, has become the second biggest haven for the illegal migrant Muslims who occupy most of the shops in the main market, P.R. Hills and other localities. They marry Angami girls and become sons-in-law of the Naga people.
Similarly, all the district areas such as Mokokchung, Wokha, Zunheboto, Phek, Mon and Tuensang are infested with them. They are sneaking into the interiors of Nagaland. In places like Jalukie in Zeliang area, Naginimora, Tizit and other central places of Nagaland, the pain of the presence of migrant Muslims is felt by the local Naga populace. Some ten years before, the students´ bodies had agitated against these foreigner Muslims. But the agitation was silently withdrawn reportedly due to threats from Bangladesh that the Government of Bangladesh would demolish all the camps of Naga undergrounds established in the territory of that country if the Bangladeshi Muslims were harassed in Nagaland. On seeing this unprecedented growth of Muslim population in Nagaland, S.C. Jamir, the then Chief Minister, once stated, “Muslims are breeding like mosquitoes in Nagaland.”
As a result of such illegal migration of Bangladeshi Muslims and their nuptial ties with the local Naga girls, a new community called Semiya or Sumias has already emerged in the state. Their number is estimated to be several thousand. The concentration of the Semiyas is the highest in Dimapur and Kohima districts respectively. There are fears among many that the voters’ list might have been doctored to accommodate the Semiyas as well other immigrants. The result of such immigration is gradually being felt in the state.
According to a Dimapur-based newspaper, on any Muslim religious day at least half of the shops in Kohima and some 75 per cent in Dimapur remain closed. It is also a fact that control over business establishments is fast receding from the hands of the locals. A recent survey conducted by the state directorate of Agriculture showed that 71.73 per cent of the total business establishments are being controlled and run by non-locals. Out of the 23,777 numbers of shops in the state, the local people own only 6,722 shops. Since the illegal migrants provide cheap labour, they are aggravating the unemployment problem. Besides, they pose a threat to the internal security as well. Reliable sources indicate that they are also involved in various unwanted activities like drug peddling and flesh trade.

The Big Picture

The following map shows the concentration of Muslims and Hindus in the Indian subcontinent today. The highlighted areas show riot-prone regions of India where aggressive Muslim populations range from atleast 20% to 100% of the population.



Lest one mistakenly thinks that Mughalistan is the culmination of the Islamisation of India and that somehow the rest of India will be spared its fate, it must be stressed that this second partition of India is only the beginning. In Hyderabad of Andhra Pradesh, northern districts of Karnataka and certain areas of Maharashtra, the growth of Muslims is very high. Likewise, in Kerala, the Muslims now constitute 25% of the state’s population. Malappuram district was carved out to create a Muslim majority district by the Communist government headed by E.M.S Namboothiripad. Today, the entire Malappuram district enforces the weekly holiday on Friday (not Sunday) for schools and businesses, while Hindus in neighbouring Kozhikode (Calicut) and Kannur are intimidated through high-profile massacres like in Marad. The planning and execution is well underway to ensure a continuing Anschluss where several Muslim majority pockets such as Moplahstan (in Kerala) and Osmanistan (in the Deccan) will gradually spread in size and link up with Mughalistan to form a Greater Mughalistan.
This Greater Mughalistan is of strategic significance as it will provide a contiguous, strategic corridor linking the Ummah into a pan-Islamic Caliphate. The ISI-DGFI-Indian Jihadi triumvirate has fondly nicknamed this pan-Islamic Caliphate as Islamistan (meaning "Land of Islam"), a synonym for `Islamic World' or `Dar-ul-Islam'. This geographical Islamic crescent will link the Islamic Middle-East to Islamic South-East Asia, with the new Islamic World stretching all the way from Morocco and Bosnia in the West to Malaysia and Indonesia in the East.

 

There are Muslims in India today who dream of “Mughalistan” and are working relentlessly towards a further partition of India by creating “Mughalistan” in the UP-Bihar-Bengal-Assam corridor. It remains the focus of mainstream groups like the Tablighi Jamaat (who have methodically radicalised the ordinary Muslims) as well as underground terror groups like the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and the Indian Mujahideen, who have blown up several Indian cities killing thousands of people. Until Mughalstan is achieved, Indians will continue to see serial bomb-blasts, attacks on Hindu festivals and temples, killings of Hindu activists, conversions of Hindu women and socio-economically backward sections, and brazen cow-slaughter that will continue endlessly until the Hindu mind becomes too numb and shell-shocked to look at the bigger picture, or comprehend the future – that Mughalistan is inevitable (“Mughalstan Paindabad”).

Lessons of history have been quickly forgotten. Indians have become twisted “politically correct” escapists who prefer to turn a blind eye to reality. Now it is not about just Kashmir any more, it is all of India that Pakistan wants. And the creation of Mughalistan is not a question of “If”, but “When”. Unless we stand up and stop it.
All Indians, secularists and nationalists alike, must act quickly. We should ponder upon the future of India that we will bequeath to our children in the near future, if the plan of Mughalistan is allowed to proceed unhindered. Indians have to start taking responsibility for their future generations. We must do everything in our might, to ensure that the tide of Islamic expansionism is restricted and reversed, beginning right now.

The common man should take all possible measures politically, socially and economically to single-mindedly achieve this goal.

Source: http://www.bengalgenocide.com/

Friday, 25 January 2013

HIndu and Skih Students Were Bullied In Afghan School


When he was 12, Velinder Singh, a Sikh, was bullied so viciously by his Muslim classmates, that he dropped out of school and went to work with his father as a shopkeeper.
“One day my son’s classmates cornered him and forced him at knife point to read out the Quran and become a Muslim,” Porty, the boy’s mother told Pajhwok Afghan News.
Porty said she gave up hope her son would be educated when he left Amir Sherali Khan school in Kabul to work with his father in the store.
Singh is not the only one who has been forced to abandon their studies because of bullying.
There are about 70 Hindu and Sikh school age children living in Kabul, and many have been forced to switch schools or drop out all together, according to Cheran Singh, deputy of Hindu and Sikh Association of Afghanistan.
Sadon Singh, 13, was also student at Amir Sherali Khan school but switched to Aryana private school because of the cruelty of his fellow classmates.
“When the teacher was not coming to class, a few of my classmates would remove the turban from my head and laugh at my hair. They would not give me my turban back until I cried a lot.”
Sandep, Sadon’s younger brother, also switched schools due to the teasing. “My classmates threw balls at my head and called me potato. They also made fun of me while I was eating, saying all Sikh food is dirty.”
The two boys are now studying at a private school, where a stricter style of management means there is less teasing.
Otar Singh, an appointed member of the Meshrano Jirga, the upper house of Parliament, and head of Temple committee of Kart-i-Parwan, said Sikhs do face a lot of discrimination, but for the children it is worse.
“Our children are insulted and humiliated at schools and their religious faith is ridiculed,” he said.
Hindus and Sikhs in Kabul have only one private primary school, Baba Nanak, which is next to their temple. But because they are spread out across the city, some of their children cannot attend the school.
The school has been active since the time of King Zahir Shah (1950-1973). There are about 30 students studying up to 4th grade.
There are two teachers appointed by the Ministry of Education who teach for two hours a day, from 8am to 10am. After that the pupils receive religious education from Hindu and Sikh scholars.
Singh, the deputy of Hindu and Sikh Association of Afghanistan, said although they are citizens of Afghanistan, many are second or third generation, they still face discrimination.
“We are citizens of Afghanistan and proud to be Afghan. Like other Afghans we have faced a lot pain in the past,” he added.
For Hindus and Sikhs, things were especially difficult when the mujahideen came to power in 1991. It was during that time, between 1991 and 1994, that nearly all of the 750,000 Hindus and Sikhs living in Afghanistan fled.
Currently, there are about 3,000 Hindus and Sikh in all of Afghanistan with 130 families in the capital Kabul.
“We are poor people and cannot afford to build schools; we can not provide teacher’s salaries and other equipment needed for schools,” he added.
BUT OUR QUESTION IS:
why children were allowed to bully others at school,
Qani said that it was up to each individual school to discipline their students and ensure there was respect for individual religions.
He urged families to prevent their children harassing others.
Mohammad Tamim Sherzad, head master at Sher Ali Khan School, also confirmed there were problems with harassment of ethnic minority children.
Because of the bullying, there were no Hindu or Sikh children at his school.
“The condition of Hindu and Sikh families for their children to attend our school was that during Islamic studies classes, they would take other subjects.”
Before the civil war, Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs lived peacefully in Khost, Ghazni, Paktiya, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Laghman, Kabul, Helmand and some other provinces.
For example, Prem Nagar village in Khost province had 243 Hindus and Sikh families, but now there is only one Hindu who lives there.

Hindus protest in Kabul over cremation problem By Fagirchand Chandihok


KABUL (PAN): Members of the minority Hindu community rallied against residents of the Qalacha neighborhood of Kabul for opposing the cremation of their relatives’ bodies.
Dozens of protesters in Pashtunistan Ward also accused the Afghan police and army of preventing them from burning the corpses of their near and dear ones in line with the Hindu ritual.
They also carried a woman’s body in a vehicle and sought a place for cremating it. One protestor, Raji Singh Dilnawaz, told Pajhwok Afghan News they wanted to burn their dead relatives in Qalacha.
But area people and security forces did not allow them to perform the cremation ceremonies, he complained, asking the government to drive Hindus and Sikhs from the country if it could not resolve the problem.
With his collar torn and a loudspeaker in his hand, Dilnawaz chanted: “Down with a government that can’t give us our rights. Aren’t we Afghan citizens, aren’t we sons of the soil?”
As the protesters wept and tossed bottles in the air, one of them, Darwand Singh, blamed Qalacha residents for opposing the cremation of Sikhs’ bodies in the area.
“Afghan police and soldiers slapped me and said we will never be allowed to follow our tradition,” warning of continuing their protest and blocking the road.
According to another demonstrator, Avatar Singh, the Ministry of Religious Affairs has failed to keep a 2003 promise regarding the creation of a crematorium. The problem needed to be addressed on a priority basis, he said.
A minority representative in the Senate, Anar Kali Honaryar, also participated in the protest. She explained residents, not security forces, had prevented the cremation ceremony in Qalacha.
The lawmaker claimed winning a promise from the security personnel regarding an early solution to the problem. She demanded the arrest of the elements stopping Hindus from burning their dead relatives.

Thursday, 24 January 2013

Exclusive Interview of Hindu Leader Gobinda Chandra Pramanik and Ripon Dey

Hi Viewers,
                   We are going to interview two prominent leaders from the minority Hindu community of Bangladesh. Soon we will be publishing the interview details on our blog. Stay in touch with us.


 Ripon Dey ( President of The Youth Forum of Bangladesh National   Hindu Grand Alliance )





 Advocate Gobinda Chandra Pramanik, ( Secretary General of Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance )






Achintya Das ( Administrative Director of International Unity for Equality )

                                         

Monday, 21 January 2013

Veerji Kolhi : 2 Cases Won in the High Court-Veerji Kolhi Frees 5...



Advocate Veerji Kolhi continues to defend  Bonded laborers in the courts of Pakistan without fear.  We at International Unity for Equality  celebrate Veerji's victory in court and the freedom of 52 people who on a daily basis face a harsh existance and struggle for survival.  These people are tortured, threatened and forced against their will to remain on the Landlord's property without proper compensation for their work, proper medical care and the ability to raise any form of complaint on pain of death or other dire consequences.  We join with the people who are now free from slavery in their journey toward a more positive and happy existence with a new horizon ahead of them and the ability to meet their basic needs by receiving payment for their labor, safety and security in their living environment.  The photos in this post and courtesy of Veerji Kolhi.  We stand with Veerji in solidarity for all his causes on behalf on those held in Bonded Labor.  Please see the link below as Veerji Kolhi gives a personal update of the status of these victims.



Veerji Kolhi : 2 Cases Won in the High Court-Veerji Kolhi Frees 5...: It was a happy day in the High Court  as , I,  Veerji Kolhi succeeded to free 52 Bonded Laborers from their Landlord.  These cases, which...

Sunday, 20 January 2013

Just Love Me By: Zemira Eli Natan





Balraj Renowned Cartoonist from India


Balraj captures the essence of the many problems we face as Defenders of Human Rights and Peace Activists. How many of YOU are willing to step outside your box to stand for peace between all the Nations, For  Equality under the law, for a world free of racial and religious discrimination?  How many of us are willing to learn something new about someone else from a different country who speaks a different language than you do?  I am happy to say I have friends from all over the world.  I speak many languages but wish I spoke  every language so I could communicate with everyone comfortable. The message here in this cartoon says it all.To achieve peace there must be a willing partner!.Just love me and then peace can happen!  I am praying for a world where there would be and end to all wars, all forms of discrimination, and all misunderstandings between people and Nations!  Thank you Balraj!  We  cannot thank you enough!  Stay tuned for the posting of  an exclusive interview with Balraj.


Zemira Eli Natan
Executive Director
International Unity for Equality

Achintya Das
Administrative Director
International Unity for Equality

Sunday, 13 January 2013

An Act of Agression and Searching for Humanity



We  know what the facts are.  We see these acts of barbaric aggression by enemy states worldwide.  The question is , what about the human side?   Where do we find Humanity in the mutilation of a soldier even after he is killed? India lost two soldiers this way!  Where is the justice for these soldiers and their families?  It is beyond unacceptable  not to acknowledge this brutal act!  There is no denying the breech of security in  this case. 

Now we look for humanity on the other side.  A bomb blast killed a dear friend  who fought for Peace.  This person was brave enough to advocate for peace  despite what he learned originally growing up as a Muslim.  He was a future leader who might have been a key to a brighter future and his life, like the 2 Indian soldiers lives was stripped away!  We cannot bring them back to this world.    How I wish we could.





"My Dear friend and Peace activist Irfan Ali Khudi martyred in Quetta bomb blast....!!
he was with me during the USA visit, and together enjoyed very Much.
Today I'm very sad to know about him.... Miss you my dear IRFAN ALI.
"

Advocate Veerji Kolhi





You see for yourself here in this photo.  When can these dear friends be reunited in this lifetime?  Can the Activist for Peace  in this photo  be reunited with his family and his loved ones after he was blown up in a bomb blast?

Take a look at the link below.  Can these two  soldiers be reunited with their families and loved ones after they were killed and mutilated?



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I am searching for any signs of Humanity after these events.  In loving memory of the two Indian soldiers who were lost on Indian soil, and Irfan Ali Khuda, a dear friend and advocate for Peace and Human Rights.

Zemira Eli Natan
Executive Director
International Unity for Equality









Friday, 11 January 2013

More Oppression for Bonded Labor-Cases pending in High Court By: Zemira Eli Natan














It appears that the Zandibars are continuing to oppress more people in Bonded Labor. A Zandibar, or Landlord as they are known in Pakistan assumes that they have the right to detain  Bonded Laborers unlawfully, refuse to compensate them for their wages for work that is performed day and night, deny medical care if they are sick or injured and confiscate their personal property and their cattle unlawfully, and if they raise any form of complaint against the Landlord, torture them.  Not only is this enforced by the Landlords by well armed police, the Bonded Laborers are threatened with dire consequences should any of the Bonded Laborers report their current issues under these conditions.  In a combined case involving 16 persons,   these Bonded Laborers working in these conditions were threatened with death!  They were threatened with death because they demanded their wages to be paid to them and to receive basic medical care and the return of their cattle and their personal belongings!  However the Zandibars do not stop there!  They even go so far as to threaten the advocates who protect the Bonded Laborers that their license to practice will be revoked and notices are to be sent in the mail to that effect!  Does it really make sense that just because you are the ruling class in a certain country  that you have the authority to violate the basic tenants of Human Rights and not be subject to the law of your own land?  Does is it make sense that the only advocates who stand to protect the rights of the Bonded Laborers are told that because they work to dispute the Landlords that they will simply lose their license to practice advocacy  on their behalf?  The advocates insist upon ensuring the rights of Human Rights of the Bonded Laborers based on the  principles stated in the Constitution of Pakistan dated 1973.  There is no notification that laws have been changed therefore these principles are still valid and must be acknowledged!

A second case involving 36 persons involved a session court judge calling the police for a report on the day of the trial!  Proper procedure was not followed in this case, yet the advocates lost this case in the session courts because the police informed the judge that there was no Bonded Labor issue pending.  The case was dismissed on these grounds!  Now this case is in the High Court because it must be given as a reminder that proper procedure for the complaint to receive a report from the police should be followed.  It is shocking that this can happen in a society just because there are connections with High Ranking Leaders!  Corruption is one word to describe this!  Complete disregard for the law is another way to describe this!  These  36 Bonded Laborers were also denied their wages, denied proper medical care and had their personal property  confiscated!  Now these innocent victims who are enslaved on a day to day basis have to wait for these cases to be brought to the High Court in order to receive any chance of justice?  This is unheard of in any civil society!  The international communities who see these cases which are involving actual people with cases currently pending in the High Courts will be put on notice and made aware of these obstructions of justice and Human Rights violations!   We will never be silent on these issues and we will also put on notice that there is no just cause to revoke the license of a practicing advocate for defending the rights of people who have no way to defend themselves!  I look forward to more updates from the advocates handling these cases and will keep everyone informed.

Zemira Eli Natan
Executive Director
International Unity for Equality

Advocate Veerji Kolhi
Council for Defence of Bonded Laborers

Saturday, 5 January 2013

IDF foils assault on southern border after terrorists kill 16 Egyptian soldiers | The Times of Israel












IDF foils assault on southern border after terrorists kill 16 Egyptian soldiers | The Times of Israel

There are frequent attempts on the part of terrorists to cross into Israeli borders  and smuggle weapons and engage Israeli soldiers.  Here is an example of a breech of agreement between Israel and Egypt that the borders are to be protected from such intruders. Egypt made a commitment  to assist in protecting these borders yet often terrorists are allowed to penetrate through.  Weapons are smuggled into Gaza  using various methods from driving across the borders with trucks filled with various kinds of explosive material and weapons to using underground tunnels to secretly pass weapons into Gaza.  The links provided  give an overview of some of the most common problems that face Israeli Forces with regard to terrorist cell activity.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-received-warning-of-kerem-shalom-attack-on-friday/

The main problem is that terrorists often attempt to keep Israeli forces busy while engaging in continuous rocket fire into Southern Israel.  Israeli forces remain diligent in addressing this issues each and every day.  Border crossings must be controlled in order to prevent weapons that continually threaten Israeli civilians.  Currently Israel is facing rock throwing and bottle throwing which often cause auto accidents and the wounding of civilians  and soldiers.  The IDF blog provides up to date information  on issues of security to  Israel in addition to the current news involving IDF activity and operations.


http://www.idfblog.com/


Zemira Eli Natan
Executive Director
International Unity for Equality

Tuesday, 1 January 2013

A Boy Pleads for Mercy


















A boy begs for mercy  as his oppressor holds him by his hair.  He stripped naked and left vulnerable and unable to defend himself against the cruelty of what is to come.  He beaten  on his raw buttocks with a heavy stick and his oppressor  pinches the raw and reddened skin there.  The boy cries yet his oppressor shows not one bit of mercy.  This link below is a video  that is very graphic in detail but gives the viewer a clear picture of what someone in servitude in Pakistan is subject to by a cruel and unyielding oppressor.  Yes, I  use the word, "Oppressor"  many times yet this word is  surely not enough to describe my emotions as I watched this horrific event take place  before my eyes as I saw it in this video. Where is the justice for this young boy to be tortured like that?  Who will rush to his defense and who will hear him as he begs for the abuse to stop?  If someone came to help this boy that person would be shot by the landlord who binds him in servitude!  This boy endured this completely helpless to defend himself and isolated from anyone who would hear his desperate cries.  This took place in a country called Pakistan  where it is perfectly acceptable for such inhuman acts of abuse of bonded laborers to take place.  However, I will be the voice for this boy.  A voice that will be heard!  Justice will come for this boy and he will never ever have to experience such  terrible and painful abuse again!  Can anyone who sees this imagine what it is like to live the life of a slave?  What  did this poor innocent child ever do to deserve such severe punishment?  What was his crime  and why must he be a slave in his own land?  Please take a moment to watch this video with an open mind and open heart.  Place yourself for a moment in the shoes of this boy. What if it was your child who endured this alone and exposed and isolated from the entire world?  What if it was you?  As a disclaimer I will advise viewer discretion.  Please do not have small children present while viewing this video.  The contents are very graphic.  Justice is demanded to free this child from this oppression and violation of his basic Human Rights!




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Video courtesy of Veerji Kolhi


Zemira Eli Natan
Executive Director
International Unity for Equality