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[1] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Wed May 24, 2006 Subject: Maoist Peace Negotiator Calls for Dissolution of Parliament and Interim Constitution and Other Reports/Comments I. http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=297358&sid=SAS II. http://bloggersnepal.com/?p=649 Is this among 12 point agreement comrade? Posted by yrol on May 23rd, 2006 * Maoist national wide blockade (April 25) * Maoists torch a passenger bus at Basmadi (April 26) * Maoists abduct 11 RNA soldiers (April 29) * Maoists continue abductions (May 8 ) * Stop extortions: Home Minister tells Maoists (May 11) * Maoists threaten two FM stations (May 14) * One killed, two seriously injured in bomb explosion (May 14) * Maoists beat man to death (May 14) * Maoists extort from Indian pilgrims (May 15) * Prachanda not fully satisfied with proclamation (May 19) * Maoist ‘extortion’ shuts down Birgunj industries (May 20) * Maoists ask banks for money? (May 22) * Maoists bomb NC worker’s house (May 23) These were some of the news headlines covered by various media in Nepal, after the restoration of Parliament. These acts of Maoists clearly show that they are not serious about a peaceful solution to address the current problem. ------------------- [2] From: Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01@yahoo.com> Date: Wed May 24, 2006 5 Subject: Is HIV = AIDS? Definitely not, say researchers. http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/05/23/hiv_test_bogus_based_on_circular_reasoning.htm Health Supreme Update: HIV Test Bogus - Based on Circular Reasoning HIV Test Bogus - Based on Circular Reasoning Read full article also at: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mahajanapada/messages>; ---------------- [3] From: "Ram Narayanan" <ramn_one@adelphia.net> Date: Wed May 24, 2006 Subject: AP Report in CNN: Baluchistan struggles for independence from Islamabad http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/23/pakistan.baluch.ap/index.html CNN.COM Pakistan's forgotten war Baluchistan struggles for independence from Islamabad Tuesday, May 23, 2006; Posted: 11:22 p.m. EDT (03:22 GMT) QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- In the remote desert of Baluchistan, a war for independence is distracting Pakistan as it struggles to contain Taliban and al Qaeda militants along the Afghan border. It is up against an array of Baluch fighters who accuse it of plundering the hidden riches of the arid southwestern province: natural gas. It's Pakistan's "other" war, a sideshow to its battle in troubled Waziristan some 250 miles (400 kilometers) to the north, where pro-Taliban fighters have gained stature and Osama bin Laden is still suspected to be hiding. But the conflict in Baluchistan is also a costly one, feeding off the deprivation in what is Pakistan's largest and poorest province despite sitting on the nation's principal gas reserves. The army put down another tribal rebellion here in 1974, reportedly leaving about 3,000 dead. "It's not just a few tribal chiefs against the government. There's a genuine movement of Baluch nationalists. There are people enlisting every day and picking up arms," said Asma Jehangir, chairwoman of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Violence escalated sharply after rockets landed about 300 meters from President Gen. Pervez Musharraf while he was visiting the town of Kohlu in December. The Pakistanis then launched an offensive against the Bugti and Marri tribes, whose leaders control swaths of Baluchistan like feudal lords with militias numbering thousands. People in Baluchistan feel shortchanged. The royalties on their gas have barely changed since 1952. Only 25 percent of villages are electrified, and only 20 percent have safe drinking water. The shadowy and recently outlawed Baluchistan Liberation Army is blamed for near-daily attacks on gas pipelines and electricity pylons that have disrupted the province's power supply. It claimed responsibility for bombings at a police training school at the provincial capital Quetta on May 11 that killed seven people. 'Indiscriminate bombing' Musharraf says he wants to develop Baluchistan. He is building a deep sea port at its coast and encouraging foreign investment. But new military garrisons intended to secure the restive region have bred suspicion and hardened resistance. "The government wants to take complete control of the gas fields for future digging and drilling. Their policy is to exterminate the Baluch," said Nawab Akbar Bugti, 79, the silver-bearded Bugti chief, speaking to The Associated Press by satellite phone from his mountain hideout. He said thousands of soldiers and paramilitaries had been deployed, using helicopter gunships, bombs and artillery. He claimed hundreds of civilians had been killed and tens of thousands displaced from around Dera Bugti, some 300 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Quetta. In a report on two recent fact-finding missions to Baluchistan, the rights commission accused the military of "indiscriminate bombing" and listed more than 60 dead in December and January, many of them women and children. It also voiced "grave concern" over militants mining roads. The government denies killing civilians and presents the problem as one of law and order. Raziq Bugti, a spokesman for the elected Baluchistan provincial government, said that if militias disbanded, gave up heavy weapons and stopped challenging Pakistan's sovereignty, negotiations would be possible. If not, "force will be used. It's very clear," he said. Punjabis targeted The Baluch make up about half of the province's 6.5 million people. They have coexisted with ethnic Pashtuns, Sindhis and Punjabis but long-brewing tensions are increasingly coming to the surface. "Punjabis should leave," said Asif Baluch of the Baluch Students' Organization, which advocates independence for the Baluch. "We're not against them as human beings, but as a dominant class." He accused intelligence agencies of holding Baluch activists for months, sometimes years, without trial. Baluch separatists have started targeting ethnic Punjabis who dominate Pakistan's bureaucracy and security services. On March 18, at a mountain picnic spot southeast of Quetta, masked men shot dead two junior government officials they believed to be Punjabis. A third survived his gunshot wounds by playing dead. Faruq Shah, a Pashtun, was spared after the attackers twice checked his ID. "It feels like I escaped from the jaws of death," he said. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ---------------- [4] From:Rebecca Kurian Re-HIV in Manipur UN report flags up India drug use By Dan Isaacs BBC News, Delhi A new report has highlighted increasing concern over the rise in drug abuse in north-eastern India. The prevalence of intravenous drug-taking has had a serious impact on the spread of HIV and Aids in the region, the report says. It is also concerned by weak border controls with Burma which allow the easy trafficking of heroin into India. The report was published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Indian government. India has long been recognised as a transit route for drug traffickers moving heroin from the opium producing areas of Afghanistan and Burma and on through India to the rest of the world. Inevitably that has led to a rise in heroin addiction within India itself over the years. But this new report highlights the growing concern over the abuse not just of opiates, but a range of pharmaceutical products. Injected Ironically, it is the tightening of controls on heroin trafficking that has forced many drug users to switch to "over-the-counter" medicines often sold illegally by unscrupulous pharmacists. These have to be injected rather than smoked, which has drastically increased the spread of HIV infection not just within the drug using group, but to their sexual partners as well. There is, says the report, an urgent need for gathering better data on drug use and HIV infection from the remote north-east states of India, and for drug-user support programmes at the local level. One approach the report says has been particularly effective is the involvement of reformed drug addicts to work within the community helping current users overcome their own addiction. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/5010684.stm Published: 2006/05/23 21:08:50 GMT © BBC MMVI ---------------------- [5] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Wed May 24, 2006 Subject: Discourse on Nepal in India suklasen http://66.116.151.85/?p=3485 International Nepal Solidarity Network for democratic peace Hindu, Tuesday, 23 May 2006 -------------- [6] From: Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01@yahoo.com> Date: Wed May 24, 2006 Subject: [NVIC] NIH foisting experimental AIDS vaccine on the world. E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER Vienna, Virginia http://www.nvic.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UNITED WAY/COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN #8122 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Protecting the health and informed consent rights of children since 1982." http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/living/health/14646199.htm Monterey County Herald, CA Posted on Tue, May. 23, 2006email thisprint this Biggest AIDS vaccine trial yet Researchers air doubts about U.S.-funded study in Thailand By ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA The Washington Post --------------------- [7] From: Parvez Jamasji <parvez1942@yahoo.com> Date: Wed May 24, 2006 7:43am Subject: Re: [airforceindia] Do the Politicians REALLY Care for India? No salary for months on end for Teachers, ramshackle - dilapidated condition of schools; & abject poverty; don't allow the teachers nor the students to attend school. Not only in Villages but even Bombay. WE are a hypocrisy & a mobocracy masquerading as the world's largest democracy. IT Super Power; aspiring economic Power;;;; on the way to the moon. Winston Churchill saw better than Nostradamus as far as India was \ is concerned. " Power will go into the Hands of Thugs . . . . . . Not a bottle of water nor a loaf of bread will go untaxed ". The blood of starving millions will be on their - (neta's) & your hands - (British Parliament) who wanted power transferred to the netas. Sixty Years Hence, starvation Deaths & Suicides due to poverty are part of independent India's landscape. Compare this with the state & status in which our netas-babu's live. Bigoted but DUM netas have got it all wrong,,, right from independence. OUR governance has snatched Poverty from the jaws of Prosperity & impoverished India. Compare the status of 300 million in 1947 with the state of 1. 2 Billion in 2006. Looking at the gleaming high-rise wont help. 60% of Bombay is slums created as vote banks by ????? Netas. PRJ ------ |
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