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[1] Catholic World News: India: commission finds Christians not safe in central state <http://www.cwnews.com/news/rss/index.cfm>; Jun. 20 (CWNews.com) - India's autonomous National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has declared that Christians are "not safe" in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. The commission found that Hindu fundamentalists "freely raid Christian homes, carry out searches, and humiliate women there on the pretext of curbing proselytism." The government of Madhya Pradesh, controlled by the Hindu-nationalist BJP party, has enacted a law banning proselytism and restricting religious conversions. The NCM, which visited Madhya Pradesh to investigation allegations of harassment against Christians, faulted the BJP government for failing to protect the tiny Christian minority. "There is a total failure of administeration to protect human and religious rights of Christian minorities," the group said. Two Christian women in a remote Nadia village were raped recently by Hindu bigots for the refusal of their families to reconvert to Hinduism. When a Christian leader tried to organize a press conference to highlight this in state capital Bhopal, Hindu fundamentalists disrupted the press conference also. "Among the complainants were bishops who were in tears as they spoke about anti-Christian atrocities there," Harcharan Singh Josh, a spokesman for the NCM member told reporters. --------- [2] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Jun 22, 2006 Subject: Responses to 8-Point Agreement in Nepal I. http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2006/jun/jun17/news04.php Eight point agreement "historic" one: Prachanda Maoist chairman Prachanda has described the eight point agreement reached between the political parties and Maoists during the summit talks on Friday as historic one. II. http://indiaenews.com/2006-06/11730-government-maoists-out-nepal.htm Government, Maoists have left us out, say Nepal women Kathmandu - Even as Nepal's government signed a historic pact with Maoist insurgents for peace, both sides were accused of leaving out women, who form the majority of the country's population. Women, representing groups as diverse as the powerful, sophisticated Forum for Women, Law and Development (FWLD) and the grassroots Adivasi Janjati Mahila Sangh (AJMS), began a sit-in in front of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's official residence in the capital. III. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DEL234924.htm Fear starts to lift in rural Nepal after peace deal 18 Jun 2006 05:25:23 GMT Source: Reuters BETAHANI, Nepal, June 18 (Reuters) - Ram Kumar Jaisawal says the people of his tiny village on Nepal's baking southern plains would never have had the courage to speak out against Maoist rebels a few days ago. -------------- [3] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Jun 22, 2006 Subject: US and India Devise New Strategy to Push the Outrageous Nuke 'Deal' http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1669346.cms?headline=India,~US~take~G-8~route~to~woo~NSG India, US take G-8 route to woo NSG Indrani Bagchi [ Wednesday, June 21, 2006 10:59:54 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ] NEW DELHI: US and India are preparing the ground to make the nuclear deal more attractive to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which will take up the matter after it clears the US Congress hurdle. While India is engaged in some high level, though quiet, diplomacy with some member-countries, the US, according to reports, is pushing the G-8 summit in St Petersburg next month to issue a statement supporting the deal. Confirming the proposed move, sources in India said this could come within the rubric of the central theme of the G-8 summit this year - energy security. The G-8 forum is a clever idea. It's the only grouping of global nuclear powers which does not include China, that is widely expected to be the biggest naysayer to the nuclear deal. Among the top eight industrialised nations, UK, France and Russia are open supporters of the deal. After PM Manmohan Singh's trip to Germany, Berlin has been much more amenable to the nuclear deal. Foreign secretary Shyam Saran will be lobbying hard with Japan this week, whose opposition is influenced by its experience. India has been engaged in "high level" contacts with Canadian government and diplomats expect a supportive Ottawa. That leaves Italy, among the G-8 pantheon, which remains the undecided one. Under Berlusconi, say sources, the support would have been a shoo-in, but under the more Left-wing Prodi, the outcome is unclear. Nevertheless, a G-8 approval would mean a lot for India. But in a more fundamental way, it would be a big boost before the NSG takes a call on the deal. ---------------- [4] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Fri Jun 23, 2006 Subject: Nepal Maoist's praise for India Nepal Maoist's praise for India By Charles Haviland BBC News, Kathmandu The leader of Nepal's Maoist rebels, Prachanda, says neighbouring India played a key role in persuading his group to take part in peace talks. He said that it was India who had encouraged him to make common cause with the parties now making up the government in Kathmandu. Prachanda also said the entire population of Nepal should be given five years military training. Both sides clinched a landmark power-sharing deal last week. India had no official role in last November's talks between the Maoists and what was then Nepal's opposition parties held in Delhi during King Gyanendra's absolute rule. But Prachanda now says India had long been urging the Maoists and parties to do something jointly, and that without this they probably would not have made common cause. Prachanda was speaking in a wide-ranging magazine interview in which he seemed to show a partly pragmatic, partly hardline view of Nepal's future. He said he did not believe in a parliamentary republic, but did not elaborate on what system of government he would prefer. He also said that all citizens should be made to undergo five years military training, creating a vast militia to keep law and order. But he also spoke of freeing up new resources for development by cutting the government and Maoist armies right back and by abolishing the monarchy - although, as before, he said the monarchy could remain if the people so voted. Ironically, Prachanda said Mao Tsung's model for a people's republic could not fulfil modern needs and criticised Stalin for not allowing competition in society. He even said profit-making by capitalists could aid development. In last week's landmark accord the Maoists and the new government agreed that the rebels would join an interim government here. Since then the Maoists have said they will not decommission their weapons beforehand, while the government has been implying that they must. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/5105250.stm Published: 2006/06/22 09:18:30 GMT ----- [5] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:15 am Subject: Iran & War and law http://disarmamentactivist.org/2006/06/15/off-the-map/ Iran & War and law 15 Jun 2006 03:03 pm Off the Map Michael Spies |
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