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The highlight of today's news letter is a heart rending photo essay on the plight of Rohingya refugees by Abu Ala Hasan
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The Balfour Declaration Planted Terror In The Middle East!
by Dr Salim Nazzal
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/10/28/the-balfour-declaration-planted-terror-in-the-middle-east/
I believe that there is no political declaration throughout history that has had devastating effects such as the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration has ignited wars lasting 100 years in addition that it has posed a serious threat to the entire globe
How Israel Forces Confessions From Jerusalem Boys
by Maureen Clare Murphy
Israel subjects detained Palestinian children from Jerusalem to “extensive denial of their rights,” according to a new report. The mistreatment of child detainees is part of a wider policy “aimed at encouraging Palestinian residents to leave the city,” the Israeli rights groups B’Tselem and HaMoked state.
Rohingyas: A Photo Essay From A Refugee Camp In Bangladesh
by Abu Ala Hasan
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/10/28/rohingyas-a-photo-essay-from-a-refugee-camp-in-bangladesh/
‘Refugee camps’ of sorts or just make shift shelters of “Rohingya” minorities of Myanmar, who have fled the genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Myanmar army and majority population, have sprung up along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. These camps are stretching from just outside of the barbwire fences erected by Myanmar government to the Bangladeshi territory across the no-man’s land. The persecuted and denied citizens of Myanmar are clinging there, still in fear, as the Burmese military regularly patrol the area and plant landmines to prevent them from any attempt to go back to their ancestral houses where they lived for generations. They also see the smoke from burning villages, the houses they have left behind and human corpses carried down by the streams, clear indications that the onslaughts they have fled are still continuing unabated. Along with it rumour and fear flies around. Almost one million of 1.1 to 1.2 million Rohingya sare now forced to l
eave
their houses and take refuge in Bangladesh.
An Ordinary Life Enslaved By A Card: Coercively Linking Aadhaar With Hunger Is No Solution
by Adv Dr Shalu Nigam
In PUCL v Union of India, popularly known as the Right to Food Case, the Supreme Court in a series of orders defined and shaped the of citizens’ rights against hunger, starvation deaths and malnutrition. Despite of these affirmative judicial interventions, on 28 September, 2017, in theSimgeda district of Jharkhand, a 11-year-old girl Santoshi died after starvingfor eight days. The ration card of her family was not linked to the Aadhaar and therefore the family could not receive subsidized food grains for months from the local ration shop. This case is not an aberration. In Jharkhand itself, 11 lakhs ration cards have been cancelled because the card holders have not submitted their Aadhaar numbers.
Bank Officers Body Files PIL Against Aadhaar Linkage
Making Aadhar compulsory is illegal and would virtually convert the citizens into “slaves” as they would be under the government’s surveillance all the time; apart from violating the citizens’ fundamental rights granted under the Constitution as they would be coerced to give sample of their fingerprints and iris.
Naming And Shaming: Men, Sexual Harassment And “Due Process”
by Prem Kumar Vijayan
It is vital to remember that if the stipulations of institutional “due process” are followed strictly, the most disempowered victims of sexual harassment (children, for instance, or Dalits) may never be allowed to speak. Men need to recognize, accept and deal with this respectfully; they need to respond, as both Karen Gabriel and Ratna Raman note, not by claiming victimhood because “due process” was not followed in naming and shaming them, but with grace and generosity towards the accusers. This may well be reconstructed as an entirely new kind of “due process”, which actually cognizes inequalities and imbalances in power
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar As ‘Mediator’ In Ayodhya Mosque Demolition Case! Congress Once Again Falls Into The Hindutva Trap
by Shamsul Islam
The Hindutva camp has unabashedly once again thrown in the ring name of its trusted and tested follower, SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR as ‘mediator’ between Hindus and Muslims on the Babri mosque/Ram temple conflict. Shockingly, the Congress lauded Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s efforts to hold talk with the stake holders of Babri Masjid-Ram Temple and act as a ‘mediator’ between them.
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