CounterCurrents: We Are Hungry Not Even Drinking Water Is Available : People Protest In Nepal As Death Toll Mounts

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We Are Hungry Not Even Drinking Water Is Available: People Protest In Nepal As Death Toll Mounts
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc290415A.htm

The Nepal earthquake death toll is rising sharply. At the same time the threat of epidemic including cholera, scarcity of safe drinking water and slow speed of relief and rescue work are putting people on the verge of protest, In Kathmandu, people have protested against slow government relief efforts. People are telling: We are hungry, not even drinking water is there. The devastating picture of the earthquake has started emerging from the interior of the country


Roger Waters To Robbie Williams: If You Take Children
And Human Rights Seriously, Please Don't Play Israel
By Roger Waters

http://www.countercurrents.org/waters290415.htm

One UK superstar to another: “Your decision to play in Tel Aviv gives succor to Netanyahu and his regime, and endorses their deadly racist policies”


Farmers Suicides: What Is Causing Them, And What Can Be Done To Stop The Tragedy
By Dr Vandana Shiva

http://www.countercurrents.org/shiva290415.htm

In the weeks and months following Earth Day, let us come together to demand justice for our farmers – the growers of our food, the guardians of our soil. Let us remember Gajendra, Lee, and the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have died at the hands of corporate greed; let us make sure that their stories are heard


US Vaporized Marshall Islands, Performed Human Experimentation On Natives
By Robert Barsocchini

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini290415.htm

“Nuclear Savage” is a recent documentary film that explores American nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands, 1946-1958, and particularly the secret Project 4.1: an American experiment in exposing Pacific Islanders to overdoses of radiation – deliberate human radiation poisoning – just to get better data on this method of maiming and killing people. The public broadcasting establishment has spent more that two years keeping this story off the air


No Arab Bolivars: As Region Implodes, Arab Socialism Fizzles Out
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud290415.htm

A student group had asked me to address socialism in the Arab world, with the assumption that there is indeed such a movement that is capable of overhauling inherently incompetent and utterly corrupt regimes, across the region. But of course, no such group, or configuration of socialist groups exist today, but in name


Sri Lanka: Deterioration Of The Legal Intellect (5): A Conversation
With The Prime Minister On Periodic Massacres Of Youth Since 1971
By Basil Fernando

http://www.countercurrents.org/fernando290415.htm

Last week, 23 April 2014, the television programme‘Sathyagaraya’ - a Sinhala language programme telecast by the Independent Television Network (ITN) and produced by Upul Shantha Sannasagala - broadcast a long conversation with Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasignhe. Our concern in this article, is about one particular question raised by the producer, Mr Sannasgala and the reply given by the Prime Minister, to the same. Producer Upul Shantha Sannasgala, raised a question, which he said, is of very great importance to him, about the periodic massacres of youth which had taken place, repeatedly, every 10 to 15 years in Sri Lanka, beginning with the suppression of youth in the 1971 JVP uprising. His question was as to whether these cyclical massacres would go on, from time to time causing the sacrifice of lives of a large number of youth in the country?


Yakub Memon: A Question Of Life And Death
By Megha Bahl & Sharmila Purkayastha

http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr290415.htm

PUDR notes with extreme concern the Supreme Court's decision on the 9th of April 2015, to reject Yakub Memon’s petition seeking review of his death sentence. This decision will only add another chapter to the growing instances of injustice perpetrated by the State. In the name of providing relief for those killed in the heinous Bombay blasts of 1993 one finds a punishment based on selective targeting and prejudice


The Unsung Heroes Of Kashmir The Labor Revolution In Kashmir (Shawlbaf Movement)
By Rayees Rasool

http://www.countercurrents.org/rasool290415.htm

First Labour Revolution in World History, in Kashmir on 29 April 1865, when workers, Artisans, weavers, Labours, Revolted against their Masters, who exploited, but was crushed with heavy Hand, drowned them in Haji Pather Sum Strean near Zaldager Srinagar, the summer capital. Shawlbaf protest was perhaps the first organized protest for demands in the history of class struggle in India


Protecting Workers Right: Bangladesh Must Encourage Trade Union
By Shahabuddin Rajon

http://www.countercurrents.org/rajon290415.htm

May Day is a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labour movement. The historic May Day is observed with a renewed pledge by the working class to strengthen their unity and solidarity and uphold their right causes across the world. This year the country is observing May Day at a time when it has just completed two years anniversary of Rana Plaza collapse


"She Who Does Not Tire, Tires Adversity": Savitri
By Shobha Shukla

http://www.countercurrents.org/shukla290415.htm

Savitri, a mother of 6 children—5 daughters and 1 son—became a widow 12 years after her marriage, when her husband, the eldest of three brothers, died of electrocution. Narrating her tearful story, Savitri said that fate had been unkind to her from her early childhood. Her father died when she was a child. They were two sisters and one brother. Savitri had to discontinue her studies after Class 8, and had to stay home to do household chores as her mother would go out to work in the fields


Killings By Police Of 20 Labourers In The Seshachalam Forests : Human Rights Forum (HRF) Letter To NHRC
By Human Rights Forum

http://www.countercurrents.org/hrf290415.htm

The death of 25 persons on April 7 in Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Telangana (TS) in alleged encounters has led to much disquiet across the nation. However, the police averment that the killings are the result of “firing in self-defence” is in serious doubt