AI lists 300 million abused Indians &  Kashmiris, Naxalites

??????? ????| PAKISTAN LEDGER | ???????? ????? | May 29th, 2008  | Moin Ansari | ???? ??????? |  | RUPEE NEWS | Moin Ansari | May 29th, 2008  | ???? ??????? | ????? ????? |All is not well in the Indian Union. The country of India is infected by insurrections, insurgencies and popular armed Naxalite and Maoist revolts. This in addition to the popular armed rebellion in Kashmir, the Northeast and the belt from Nepal all the way to Andhra Preadesh and part of Gujarat.

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‘India lags behind on human rights front’* Amnesty International expresses concern over widespread impunity enjoyed by state and non-state ‘actors’ in J&K By Iftikhar Gilani

NEW DELHI: International human rights watchdog Amnesty International has said that despite a limited urban economic boom affecting a section of the population, India continues to lag behind on human rights, reporting gross abuses in Jammu and Kashmir, North-Eastern states (Seven Sisters) and the Gujarat Naxalite-affected states of Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.

Amnesty International has listed the state of Gujarat as affected by the Naxalite insurrection.

The seven states of the Norhteast are not in control of the central government

According to Amnesty International, Jharkand is a state full of Human Rights abuses

According to Amnesty Internation, Madha Pradesh is beset with Indian Human rights abuses

Naxalite insurrection from Nepal to Andhra Pradesh

Chattisgarh insurgency is extremely violent. The state of Chhattisgarh has an area of 1,35,191 sq. km. and a population of 20.83 million. There are 16 districts, 146 blocks, and 20179 villages. The State has population density of 154 per sq. km. (as against the national average of 324). The decadal growth rate of the state is 18.27% (against 21.54% for the country) and the population of the state is growing at a slower rate than the national rate..Chhattisgarh is one of the few landlocked states of the country. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar bind the State in north, in the east it is bound by Orissa, in the south by Andhra Pradesh and in the west by Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. A large part of the state comes under Vindhyachal range that divides the Subcontinent into two. Mahanadi and Narmada are the principal rivers of the state. Narmada has its origin in Amarkantak, which lies in Chattisgarh.

The seven states of the Northeast are in open rebellion against New Delhi

Bihar: A 273-page report bares the fact that about 49.5 percent of rural Muslim families and 44.8 percent of the urban Muslim households fall below the poverty line, 19.9 percent among them are acutely poor, and 28.04 per cent Muslims in rural areas are landless labourers.

In its annual report, the watchdog has also cited the Nandigram violence in West Bengal, and condemned the insensitivity of the Indian middleclass and the media towards human rights issues.

Impunity: Regarding Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the report has expressed concern at the widespread impunity enjoyed by state and non-state ‘actors’ for indulging in torture, death in custody, abductions and unlawful killing. Quoting local human rights groups, the Amnesty report said that in the past 18 years, 1,051 people had been victims of kidnap in Baramulla district alone. Challenging official claims that there had been no disappearances until November 10, 2007, the report said that 60 people had disappeared since 2006, including nine in 2007. Five people who had allegedly been detained illegally were traced.

Amnesty International has charged India on four counts.

1) Increasing violence against marginalised communities and their

2) Forced evictions in the name of development,

3) The trampling of human rights in the name of war on terrorism and protecting national security, reluctance to abolish death sentence – India had voted against a UN General Assembly resolution for a moratorium on the death penalty and

4) India’s refusal to allow UN Rapporteur on Torture and Enforced Disappearances to visit and investigate the cases. Jamia Millia Islamia Vice Chancellor Prof Mushirul Hassan and noted activist Sadia Dehelvi, who unveiled the report, lamented that a campaign for human rights and concern for marginalised sections were a least priority for India’s growing middleclass and its powerful media.

Dehelvi questioned the concentration of troops in Jammu and Kashmir. “In Kashmir, at a single point of time, we may have 3000-4000 militants. But to combat them we had 700,000 troops. They are not there to combat militants but to subjugate people,” she said, adding that when the army stationed for too long, it had a colonising effect.

The report said that despite economic progress, around 300 million people remained in poverty. It charged the government with ignoring existing constitutional provisions while forcing tribals and marginalised sections from their homes and allotting property to industrialists.

The report also highlighted the plight of adivasis in Dantewada, many of whom have been displaced from their homes and are being forced to live in special camps, allegedly due to the Salwa Judum anti-naxal campaign.

Millions of baby girls are killed in India before and right after brith. Widows are burnded in Sati. The Amnesty International sought abolition of death penalty and pointed out “at least 100 people have been sentenced to death although no executions took place”.

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