IMC-USA Weekly News Digest - August 31st, 2009
Sushil Sharma, convicted in the Naina Sahni murder case, is eating khajurs and food twice a day. He and 30 other Hindu prisoners in Tihar Jail will fast for a month during Ramzan this year. These prisoners are joining Tihar's 4,000 Muslim inmates during prayers, and iftaar and sehri. "They share the food brought by the relatives of Muslim inmates. We provide them fruits and other things required for the roza (fast). Some NGOs are also assisting us," Tihar spokesperson Sunil Gupta said. Jail authorities have made arrangements for namaaz (prayers) on Tihar premises and inmates are being provided food at 4 am and 6.30 pm every day. The authorities have arranged for fruits for all those observing rozas. A senior official at the jail said: "It is good that other inmates are following this regime; it helps a person to stay disciplined and reforming him or herself. It is also a great example of inmates respecting each other's religion. Jail superintendents are organising everything in all 10 jails and in Rohini as well. Some NGOs are also contributing with fruits and other articles for consumption after the roza." The jail authorities are also giving lessons in the Quran and other pertinent rituals to the inmates, a source said. There are around 11,000 prisoners in Tihar Jail, of which around 30 per cent are Muslim; officials said almost all of them are fasting. Some rules have also been relaxed for those observing Ramzan. "Normally, prisoners are not allowed to move out of their cells between the 'lock-in' time in the evening and 'lock-out' time the next day. But those observing rozas are being allowed to move out of their cells so that they can offer prayers and have their meals," a jail official said. Visitors are coming to Tihar in large numbers. And though the jail canteen is providing inmates with khajurs, fruits and other items, food from outside is being allowed both in the morning and evening. Officials say the prisoners understand each other's festivals and celebrate them together. "Navratras are about to start and Muslim inmates fast during this Hindu festival," an officer said. Former Chief Minister Suresh Mehta has agreed with the revelation made by BJP leader Arun Shourie in an interview with The Indian Express that how Narendra Modi had virtually defied Atal Behari Vajpayee by not resigning as the Gujarat CM in the wake of the 2002 riots. Reacting to the interview appearing in this paper on Wednesday, Mehta said although it was decided by senior leaders that Modi should resign (following the post-Godhra riots), he (Modi) virtually staged an orchestrated coup against Vajpayee at the party's national executive meeting held in Goa at that time, and scuttled the decision that he should resign. "I still remember Atalji having conceded then that it (not forcing Modi to quit) was one of his two to three major mistakes that he had committed in his political life," said Mehta who has left the BJP, but continues to adore the former Prime Minister. The former CM told Newsline this evening that he was against the notification issued by the Modi government banning Jaswant Singh's book on Jinnah in the state. "The book was launched in Delhi on August 17, and the Modi regime issued the ban orders in the next 24 hours or so. Is it possible for Modi or any of his officials to go through the voluminous book in that short period and decide on the ban ?" Mehta asked. He said Modi must have decided to ban the book on the day it hit the stands "to extract political mileage out of it and salvage his dwindling popular image in the party". Mehta said he agreed with the media reports that it was Modi along with other BJP leaders who had initiated a move to get Jaswant Singh expelled during the just-concluded national executive meet at Shimla. Mahagujarat Janata Party (MJP) general secretary Sunil Oza said Modi never liked Vajpayee and preferred to always remain with Advani in the BJP politics. It was Advani who had protected Modi after the post-Godhra riots, Oza said, adding that "Atalji had felt the pangs of the riots and wanted the Gujarat CM to step down." Though Oza, the BJP rebel leader, declined to comment on the ban on Jaswant's book, he alleged it was "a gang of political thugs that was responsible for his expulsion". This gang appears to be out to finish politically the Vajpayee loyalists one after another. http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/507680/ SEE ALSO: Former national security advisor (NSA) Brajesh Mishra said on Thursday that L K Advani was part of the decisions taken "unanimously" by the then Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) regarding the release of militants to save 160 hostages on the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999. "The decisions were taken by the CCS, which had (then) prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, home minister L K Advani, finance minister Yashwant Sinha, defence minister George Fernandes and external affairs minster Jaswant Singh as its members," Mishra told Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN. The comment of Mishra, former prime minister Vajpayee's closest aide, comes days after Jaswant Singh said he had "covered" up for Advani during the 2009 Lok Sabha campaign by concealing that the BJP's prime ministerial candidate knew of the terrorist-hostage swap during the 1999 hijacking episode. In a bitter attack on Advani after his sacking from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last week, Jaswant Singh had revealed that the former home minister's claim that he was unaware of Jaswant Singh accompanying three freed terrorists for securing the release of 160 hostages was not true. Advani had all along claimed that he was not in the know that Jaswant Singh was on the plane with three terrorists to Kandahar. Rebutting Advani's claims, Mishra said: "I am not going to get into anything that then home minister Advani said. I will only draw your attention to the fact that key members of the CCS - George Fernandes, Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha - have very clearly said he (Advani) was there." "A proposal was made in the CCS that Jaswant Singh should go and bring back the hostages and it was agreed by the CCS. Let's put it more charitably as George Fernandes said, may be he has forgotten," the former NSA said. Giving details of the IC-814 hijacking and demands of the militants, Mishra said: "They (hijackers) wanted the release of 36 terrorists and $200 million and also the interned remains of some terrorist buried in Kashmir. Each and every man (in the CCS) was opposed to the demand. Then there was a decision, a unanimous decision, that in order to save 160 hostages three terrorists will be released. No money, no interned remains (were given)." Mishra said the CCS was meeting every day during the hostage crisis and "the CCS took the decision that Jaswant Singh should accompany the terrorists to Kandahar". "Jaswant Singh proposed that he would go to Kandahar to bring back hostages. He explained that Indian representatives negotiating there had suggested that somebody senior should be there in case of some last minute problems. This he told the CCS. This was agreed to unanimously," he said, adding that Advani was part of the decision. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/advani-knew-of-kandahar-swap-brajesh-mishra/100088-3.html SEE ALSO: The turmoil and discontent in the Bharatiya Janata Party deepened further on Monday as senior leader and MP Arun Shourie made a televised all-out attack on party president Rajnath Singh, describing him as "Alice in Blunderland" and "Humpty Dumpty." Coming five days after the expulsion of party veteran Jaswant Singh, the "shock" delivered by Mr. Shourie - who complained that no action had been taken by Mr. Rajnath Singh on a letter he had written to him confidentially - is expected to lead to yet another high-profile exit from the party. Some party leaders said Mr. Shourie's expulsion was imminent. The reference to "Humpty Dumpty" was from Through the Looking-Glass, a sequel by Lewis Carroll to his Alice in Wonderland. Just as Alice expected Humpty Dumpty to fall at any time, in the BJP, almost at all levels, leaders are expecting the "fall" of not only Mr. Rajnath Singh, whose tenure comes to an end in early January 2010, but also the exit of L.K. Advani, after the observation by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat that a generational change in the party's leadership was necessary. This added to the uncertainty, party leaders claimed. There were reports that even as the infighting in the BJP intensified, Mr. Bhagwat was planning to hold a press conference later this week. Party leaders have been saying that the fighting "will not stop" until Mr. Rajnath Singh and Mr. Advani are replaced and that "things will get worse before they get better." While Mr. Jaswant Singh earlier described the RSS as a "shadowy organisation" and said no political party could afford to be dictated to by such an outfit, Mr. Shourie said it was time for the RSS to "take over" the BJP and described its current president as a kati patang, a kite that has been cut and is up for grabs. Party leaders went into a huddle as NDTV began publicising in the evening Mr. Shourie's interview televised late in the night. Mr. Shourie's attack is a continuation of the loud complaints by senior leaders that some in the party - the reference was to Arun Jaitley - had been "rewarded" for mismanagement of the election campaign. The "reward" was the position of Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. Since then, there has been an all-out effort to ensure that he does not get the position of party president when Mr. Rajnath Singh's tenure comes to an end in January 2010. Mr. Shourie publicly complained that his earlier confidential letter to Mr. Rajnath Singh had not been acted upon. His grouse was that when senior leaders like him are not heard by the party high command, they are forced to go to the media to air their grievances. http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/25/stories/2009082556600100.htm SEE ALSO: Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh moved the Supreme Court on Friday, challenging the Gujarat government's ban on his book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Singh, along with a representative of Rupa and Co, publisher of the book Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence, filed a petition in the apex court against the ban imposed by the Narendra Modi government on August 19, two days after the book's launch. The petition said that the Gujarat government notification banning his book had no mention of the content which called for action and added that the ban was imposed without anyone reading the book. While imposing the ban, hours after Singh was expelled from the party, the state government had alleged that it had defamed the image of the country's first Home Minister Vallabhbhai Patel by "questioning his patriotic spirit". Gujarat Government spokesperson Jay Narayan Vyas had said, "I think it is an injustice to a national hero like Sardar Patel. Gujarat would not permit this kind of a book to be sold in the state." However, Singh maintained that the step amounted to "banning thinking" and likened it to the one taken against noted author Salman Rushdie for his controversial work Satanic Verses. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/jaswant-throws-the-rule-book-appeals-against-ban/100143-3.html SEE ALSO: The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Hindutva ideology had a 'negative'impact in the northeast where its relevance was almost negligible, said Kiren Rijiju, a former national secretary of the party and MP who has left to join the Congress. Rijiju, a former MP from Arunachal Pradesh who was considered the face of the BJP in the northeast, resigned Monday to join the Congress. "I would say the BJP's Hindutva campaign had a very negative impact in the northeast, a region with a dominant minority population. Hindutva failed to cut much ice among the people in the region," Rijiju said. "I realised that the Congress party was the best option to work for the development of the northeast. I am committed to carrying forward my agenda for overall socio-economic progress of Arunachal Pradesh and the whole of the region," the former MP from Arunachal Pradesh West constituency said. Rijiju lost the last parliamentary elections to the Congress' Takam Sanjay. Rijiju, 38, was made national secretary by the BJP early in his political career. "The problems and sentiments of the people of the northeast were not understood by the BJP leadership. I tried my best to make the leadership realise the intricate problems of the region, but then they simply failed to understand," the former BJP leader said. The Congress is jubilant after the firebrand BJP leader agreed to resign and join the ruling party. "This is an important political development and we are happy that he is with us now," Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu said. The development is significant for the ruling Congress as Arunachal Pradesh goes to the polls to elect a 60-member legislature sometime in October. "I have no intention to fight the assembly elections," Rijiju said. "I would rather work for the party and do whatever best I can for the welfare of my state and the region." The BJP, however, had some harsh words to say about Rijiju by terming him a betrayer. "He betrayed the very party that gave him a solid platform to launch his political career. He made himself a pawn in the hands of the Congress," BJP's general secretary in-charge of northeast, P. Chandrasekhar Rao, said. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/21992/hindutva-had-negative-impact-northeast.html SEE ALSO: Advocating the need for speeding up of inquiries against officials with 'doubtful integrity', CBI director Ashwani Kumar on Wednesday blamed the 'weak' criminal justice system for encouraging corrupt practices. "The weak criminal justice system of our country encourages corruption. Departmental trials of corruption cases go on for years and these delays encourage the dishonest to indulge in corrupt practices with impunity," he said speaking at the 17th Biennial Conference of CBI and State Anti Corruption Bureaux. "The need of the hour is to complete the departmental inquiries against officers of doubtful integrity within three to six months," he said. Making a case for speeding up of trials in corruption cases, the CBI chief said court cases against corrupt officials should be completed "within three years". "We in the CBI and state anti-corruption bureaux feel it is possible, provided the government, and the judiciary, and Parliament are determined and work in possible coordination," he said. The chiefs of anti-corruption bureaux and vigilance agencies from the States and the Union Territories, besides senior CBI officers are participating in the conference to deliberate upon the various dimensions of corruption in India and the strategies to effectively tackle it. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/21564/weak-criminal-justice-system-encouraging.html SEE ALSO: Three frames were missing from the sequence of pictures showing the final moments of Chungkham Sanjit, a 23-year-old former militant killed in the heart of Imphal a month ago, allegedly by Manipur Police commandos. But these three pictures have now appeared in a poster only in Sanjit's neighbourhood Khurai in Imphal East - they are close shots of his body, so close that it has led to talk that the release of the pictures was "an insider's job". Sanjit's relatives maintain the pictures were delivered in a CD by some unidentified men but that has not ended talk on who took the pictures and how. One version doing the rounds is that the commandos, hoping that coverage of the killing would help them win gallantry awards, granted photographers access. The other version says some "insiders", who wanted to make public the "extra-judicial" killing, released these pictures. The truth probably lies somewhere in between. But it has not escaped notice at the highest levels of the Manipur government. A state cabinet minister, who did not wish to be named, said the police top brass have been told to look into this aspect as well. Inquiries and official records reveal that Sanjit who served eight years in the People's Liberation Army - the PLA insurgents have been battling the state for over four decades - quit the underground in 2007 after he fractured his shoulder while he was with the PLA 253 Battalion on the Indo-Myanmar border. He enrolled as a health assistant in an Imphal polyclinic in a bid to return to the mainstream. He also began painting houses and was on the lookout for contracts. Mother Taratombi Devi recalls how Sanjit left home at age 13 to help father Chungkham Khellen Meitei who ran a truck repair shop along the National Highway 39 in Senapati district. The highway is infested with insurgents and it was not long before Sanjit joined their ranks. The family says he was was arrested three months later and produced before an Imphal juvenile court. He served two months and was released but returned to the PLA. Sanjit's three brothers are still in school - Vishal (16) in Class X, Mamocha (14) in Class VII and Manish (10) in Class V. "Sanjit would never discuss the time he spent with the PLA," said Taratombi Devi. "My son was trying hard to find some work." She shows an identity card issued by Raj Polyclinic that described Sanjit as an "attendant." On the day he was killed, he left the identity card at home and went to the Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital where his uncle was admitted. His uncle needed medicines, so Sanjit headed to the market. L Sushindro, a contractor who stays close to Sanjit's home in Khurai, said: "Just five days ago, Sanjit came to me to say he had taken up house-painting jobs. He asked me if I could help him with contracts and I promised to do that." Family members say at 10.10 am, Sanjit used his mobile phone to call Ibomcha, who had accompanied him to the hospital and was with his uncle in the hospital, from B T Market where had gone to buy medicines. He wanted to know if the doctor had visited his uncle. That was the last time they heard from him. When Ibomcha tried to call Sanjit later to say that the doctor had dropped by "everytime I dialled, it (the cellphone) was switched off." The alleged encounter at the market was over by then and Sanjit was dead. Cousin Anandi tried to call him at 12.10 pm: "I got through and asked him what he was doing, that the doctor had given a new medicine. There was silence at the other end. Then someone said 'kei dourea?' (what happened). I knew it was not Sanjit. The man at the other end hung up." Manipur DGP Y Joykumar Singh said some shopkeepers tipped off police about underground agents extorting money. He said a police commando team rushed to the market and tracked down Sanjit who allegedly took out a firearm and fired indiscriminately, forcing policemen to kill him in retaliatory firing. He said nothing more could be said on the matter since a judicial inquiry was on. http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/506766/ SEE ALSO: To curb rising incidents of divorce among Muslims, Islamic courts (Sharai Adalat) have been asked to act as marriage counsellors to try prevent couples from going their separate ways. The guideline has been issued by All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) for all Islamic courts across the country. "The AIMPLB adopted this proposal in its Kalikat confrence held on July 12," said Khaliq Ahmad Khan, Convenor of Helal committee. The courts, set up in many places across the country, run under the guidance of local Islamic scholars and religious preachers. Usually, these courts issue Fatwas and guide members of the Muslim community on religious and social matters. Mufti Ubaidur Rahman, chief city Imam of Faizabad, said the new guideline will be favourable not only for the Muslim community but also for the government agencies that implement law. As Islamic courts are capable of solving social and family issues, they can reduce the burden of government agencies, he claimed. For Islamic scholar Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahli, the whole idea behind the move is to prevent the division of families. He expressed concern over the growing tendency among couples to split over petty differences. "While a Sharia court was always seen as a forum for formalising a split between a couple, it will now also play the role of a facilitator to keep them united," he added. The AIMPLB will urge all Islamic courts to allow a divorce only when separation is inevitable and there is no scope for a patch-up between an estranged couple. http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/508666/ SEE ALSO: A Dalit youth was beaten, tonsured and paraded through the streets in a Haryana village - for dialling a wrong number. Narrating his ordeal to the police on Wednesday, Suresh, a resident of Dani Ramjas in Bhiwani district, said, "I was trying the telephone number of one of my acquaintances on Monday when I inadvertently dialled the number of Dharam Singh (another villager). The moment I realized my mistake, I apologized immediately and disconnected the phone." The apology, however, did not help. "On Tuesday, Dharam and his friends, numbering six, humiliated me publicly when I was on my way to Siwani town. They tonsured me after lifting and carrying me away bodily. That done, they tied me to a motorcycle and paraded me through the streets, thrashing me intermittently," Suresh said. Not stopping at that, his tormentors threatened him with dire consequences if he reported the matter to police, he said. The police are yet to register a case though the Dalits have demanded action against the perpetrators. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4938843.cms SEE ALSO: The timing couldn't be worse for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the organisation whose diktat was once binding on its political child, the BJP, on every issue from core ideology to its leadership. In a television interview broadcast on Tuesday on the news channel Times Now, Mohan Bhagwat, who was appointed RSS chief four months ago, chided the BJP for its infighting and disarray and warned its leadership to take charge … or else. It turns out that the BJP has little time for such advice. On August 19, a day after the interview was broadcast, the party expelled Jaswant Singh, a party stalwart and a founder member, who had been in charge of the external affairs and finance ministries in BJP-led Central governments between 1998 and 2004. Ignoring Bhagwat's stern advisory to resolve issues internally, the BJP leadership also read out the riot act to former Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje during its three-day brainstorming meeting at Shimla this week. Raje has refused to quit as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly - a post she assumed after she was voted out of power in last November's elections in the state. Disgusted at the open infighting in the BJP, the Nagpur-based RSS blames the BJP's top two leaders, Lal Krishna Advani and party president Rajnath Singh, for the party's mess and says the duo have failed to bring the BJP back on the rails since its stunning loss to the Congressled coalition in last May's Lok Sabha elections. "Advani will have to go," an RSS functionary bluntly told TEHELKA in New Delhi, declining to be identified. "Yeh sab kachra saaf hoga (All this garbage will be cleaned up)." The RSS has, in fact, been pushing for a change in the BJP's top leadership since the Lok Sabha elections. Its top functionaries have been upset with Advani for continuing to be the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha after the defeat. Bhagwat claimed in his TV interview that Advani first told him he would step down from the position that he held in the outgoing Lok Sabha, but changed his mind a few days later, citing "pressure from within the party" to stay on. Not that the RSS has had any love lost for Jaswant Singh, one of those rare BJP veteran who have never been RSS members. Deeply hurt at his expulsion from the party that he helped found, Singh was never particularly liked by the conservative RSS brigade, who found him too westernised for their liking. An RSS leader recalls with irritation that Jaswant Singh disclosed in his previous book that he had opened a bottle of whiskey to drink up after completing one of his most trying assignments - ferrying top Islamic terrorists from an Indian prison to Afghanistan in exchange for the safe return of a planeload of Indian passengers who had been hijacked and held hostage for a week in December 1999. "The RSS prides itself on promoting Indian values and cultures," the RSS leader said. "What message do we send out to our cadres by talking so openly about drinking alcohol?" Another reason for the RSS's anger with Jaswant Singh has been his meddling in the politics of his home state of Rajasthan in order to destabilise Vasundhara Raje. Two years ago, Jaswant Singh's wife had filed a criminal case against Vasundhara Raje after posters had appeared in Rajasthan depicting the former chief minister as the Hindu goddess Durga. A third and perhaps the biggest reason for their anger with Jaswant Singh was his decision to contest this year's Lok Sabha election from the mountainous constituency of Darjeeling in West Bengal, a seat he won with the overt support of a clutch of political outfits that harbour separatist tendencies. But, says the RSS leader, the issue is much larger than whether Singh needed to be thrown out of the party. "The key issue is: Are Advani and Rajnath Singh today capable of holding the party together?" he asks. "The answer is no. Nobody has any clue what is happening inside the party. The only way out now is for Advani in particular to make way for new leadership. This will have to be done. This will be done," the RSS leader said. In fact, he points to Bhagwat's blunt statement during the TV interview: that there are a number of second-generation leaders who can easily be installed into leadership positions. "It is a universal rule that the young generation must replace the old generation," Bhagwat had said in the interview. "When, where and how [the change is effected], they [the BJP] will have to decide." Ironically, the BJP's failure to win back power in this year's Lok Sabha elections has strengthened Bhagwat, who is 22 years Advani's junior. Although Bhagwat became its chief only in April 2009, he has virtually headed the RSS for a decade as its general secretary. In that position, he was the immediate deputy of KS Sudarshan, who retired as RSS chief in April after appointing him as his successor. With Sudarshan in unstable health, Bhagwat had been running the day-today operations of the RSS for many years. While traditionally RSS chiefs - sarsanghchalaks, as they are known - always held an unquestionable control over the BJP's political leadership, Bhagwat came to run the RSS at a time when Advani was already a BJP veteran and India's powerful home minister and soon became deputy prime minister. Thus, Bhagwat and the RSS had to necessarily take the backseat. HOWEVER, BHAGWAT got his chance to flex his muscle for the first time when he fully backed his former boss Sudarshan after Advani praised Jinnah during a visit to Pakistan in 2005. While Advani initially tried to get out of the controversy unscathed, the Sudarshan-Bhagwat duo eventually forced Advani to quit as the BJP president, considerably weakening Advani's clout within the party. In fact, this year, Bhagwat had kept the RSS away from the day-to-day management of the BJP's election plan, unlike during the previous elections. When BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley angrily kept away from election planning meetings last March, demanding that his rival leader Sudhanshu Mittal be taken off election management in the North-East, the RSS refused to intervene in the dispute and asked the party to resolve it internally. Now, however, the RSS is keen to effect change in the BJP leadership, perhaps over the next six months. "There are at least ten leaders to choose from," the RSS functionary told TEHELKA. Of course, Advani and Rajnath Singh have one chance in that period to prove themselves - the upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra, where the ruling Congress-NCP coalition is up against a ten-year incumbency. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne290809cleaning_out.asp SEE ALSO: The BJP was yet to recover from the Jaswant Singh salvo when it has been hit by an Arun Shourie missile. While Mr Jaswant Singh had gone into blast-BJP mode fully after he was unceremoniously shown the door, Mr Shourie has done that perhaps pre-expulsion - and in far more castigating terms. He has not only described the present state of the party as "Kati patang" - certainly an apt description of a party adrift - he has castigated party president Rajnath Singh as "Humpty Dumpty" (a nincompoop). The interesting thing is that he has done so with the RSS shield in hand. Mr Shourie has come to the conclusion that the party has no cure for itself, but to believe that the RSS can save the party is not convincing either. By suggesting that the RSS should swiftly take over the reins of the party, he has perhaps made sure that the counter-fire will only come from the direction of the BJP and not the Sangh Parivar. Whatever happens in the days to come, the ugly internecine war in the party makes a sad spectacle. The erstwhile ruling party will be only debilitating itself further through such self-inflicted wounds. The fight for supremacy that is currently on among various groups may end up in mutual harm. If things degenerate this way, the next insider-outsider taking potshots at it might very well be Mr Yashwant Sinha who had already made his intentions clear through his remarks critical of the Advani camp soon after the party’s general election debacle. Mr Arun Shourie has been an outspoken and forthright journalist, and it might not be right to say that he is lashing out only because his Rajya Sabha term is coming to an end and he has nothing to gain from the party. His words may be biting, but he is not off the mark. The present leadership has proved that it is incapable of applying the necessary correctives. But handing over the reins to leaders handpicked by the RSS may also prove counter-productive. Mr Shourie must be knowing this, but he too has not suggested a cure for the party as it is. He could be asking himself why he did not realise earlier that he was in the wrong company all along. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090826/edit.htm#2 SEE ALSO: The ideological disarray and divide appear to be evident not only in the BJP but also in the extended Sangh Parivar. While the political arm - the BJP - is already reeling under repeated mutinies, the mother organisation - the RSS - seems to be on the crossroads with former RSS chief S Sudarshan on Tuesday asserting that Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah was committed to an undivided India. The shocker from Sudarshan, who paved the way for Mohan Bhagwat on March 21 this year, has raised eyebrows within the Nagpur outfit, let alone the BJP. On being asked if he regarded Jinnah as secular, the former RSS head said in Nagpur: "Jinnah had many facets. He was once associated with Lokmanya Tilak and was totally committed to an undivided India. "When Gandhiji started the Khilafat movement, Jinnah had opposed it, saying that if the Caliph in Turkey had been dethroned, what had India got to do with that. At that time, nobody listened to him, which saddened him. So he quit the Congress and left for England. After returning in 1927, the Britons brainwashed him and prompted him to put forth the demand for a separate state of Pakistan for Muslims." Sudarshan said had Gandhiji been adamant, Partition would not have taken place. "But he was not for it because Nehru was his weakness." On whether the Sangh had taken a tough stand during his leadership when L K Advani made the "Jinnah is secular" comment, Sudarshan said he had given clarifications on the matter. Asked if he was satisfied with the clarification, he answered in the affirmative. RSS leader Ram Madhav on Tuesday said the former RSS chief's views were misinterpreted and what Sudarshan had meant was that at one point of time, Jinnah had supported an undivided India. Madhav said Sudarshan had also spoken about how Jinnah had been one of the main causes of Partition. Meanwhile, shaken by Shourie's description of BJP president Rajnath Singh as "Alice in Blunderland" and the blistering public criticism of its "rudderless functioning", the party on Tuesday asked Shourie to explain his conduct. After contemplating an immediate suspension of Shourie, the party sought to revise its views and thought it fit to wait until Shourie submitted his written explanation. Shourie on Tuesday night said he would give a clarification, and that his ties with the party had not snapped. "If there is any ambiguity and the party president and others have asked for clarification, I will clarify. There is no problem," Shourie told reporters. The BJP Parliamentary Board is likely to meet this week to decide on Shourie's fate, according to sources. In a no-holds-barred attack on the party president and senior leader L K Advani, Shourie on Monday demanded the sacking of the entire top rung of the party. "They behave like Humpty-Dumpty. The BJP, under their charge, has become a 'kati patang,'" he said and called for handing over the reins of the party to regional satraps. Meanwhile, Rajnath Singh on Tuesday met Bhagwat to discuss the issue. The Sangh has not completely rejected Shourie's criticism and has in fact expressed its agreement with some of his bold propositions. RSS national executive member Ram Madhav said it was for the BJP to take control of the situation. Asked about the RSS's role in the BJP, he said "some of our friends are there" and that they would look after the best interest of the organisation. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/21383/disarray-sangh-parivar.html SEE ALSO: Four days after personnel from a combined team of the Imphal West Commandoes and 12th Maratha Light Infantry picked her up from her home in Imphal Mayang, 11-year-old Salam Bidyarani Devi lies listless at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal. Tended to by five aged women, Bidyarani complains of breathlessness, murmurs incoherently and stares into nothingness. She's so afraid of strangers that she refuses to let the five women - one of whom is her grandmother - leave her bedside. Bidyarani, a Class VI student of Immanuel Grace Academy in Nongmaikhong was picked up by security forces on August 14 when they came looking for her parents for allegedly harbouring militants and hiding their ammunition. Since her parents were not at home at the time of the incident, Bidyarani was taken to the Imphal Mayang police station and later admitted to a private clinic at night. She was released on August 18 after police arrested her parents. The Bidyarani case has attracted global attention and Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation and action against the policemen involved in the incident. "The targeting of a minor by armed forces is a shameful act. It is a direct violation of the Child Rights Convention. All law enforcement agencies should be trained to deal with children. A lot of things could have been avoided in this case," said Madhu Malhotra, a Deputy Program Director of Amnesty International to TEHELKA. The police, however, maintain that the girl was not arrested. They claim she was hospitalised after she fainted on seeing the team arrive at her house to search it. They say that because her parents had fled and there was nobody to attend to her, she was accompanied by her grandmother to the clinic. The police statement further states that at about 3:30pm on August 15, when the girl's condition improved, she was brought to Imphal Mayang police station along with her grandmother for safe custody. Police claim that since nobody came to ask for Bidyarani and because her grandmother refused to take her home "fearing a gun battle between the security forces and militants," she stayed at the police station till August 18 when she was finally handed her over to her maternal uncle. But the police version is questionable. A joint team of Childline Imphal, the Child Welfare Committees of Imphal West and Thoubal district and a representative of the state's Social Welfare Department on August 19 conducted an on-the-spot enquiry. A copy of the findings of the enquiry (available with TEHELKA) clearly states that Bidyarani was forcefully picked up by the security forces after a prolonged scuffle between them and the women of the neighbourhood. Women constables were called only when the combined team was about to leave the place with the detained child. The report also states that though she was detained at about 9:30am, she was admitted at the clinic only at 3:00 pm (as per the clinic's record). In the five-and-a-half hours she was with the security forces, she remained unconscious. Even though she urgently needed medical attention, the 11-year-old was kept at the police station. What is startling is that Bidyarani was admitted to a private clinic instead of the government primary health centre, which is much closer to the police station. After she was discharged from the clinic on the following day (August 15) at about 9:00 am, Bidyarani was taken to the Imphal Mayang Police Station by some uniformed women constables. When she and her grandmother insisted that they be allowed to return home, they were told that she would be freed only after her parents were handed over to the police. When the investigating team visited the Imphal Mayang Police Station where Bidyarani was detained, they found out that she had been made to stay in a cramped room. She was released on August 18, 2009 – only after her parents were arrested. On August 23, a protest rally was taken out in Nongmaikhong area by school students denouncing Bidyarani's detention. They demanded that the government rehabilitate the girl and bear the cost of her treatment. They also called for a judicial inquiry into the incident. Annie Nangsatabam, chairperson of the Child Welfare Committee, Imphal West who was part of the enquiry team told TEHELKA that this was a clear case of police highhandedness. "She was kept in conditions not permitted by the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2006. It's a violation of her rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. She is completely traumatised," she says. Nangsatabam adds that they would pressurise the government to ensure that the rights of children are not violated like this anymore and stated that the use of children as pawns in counter-insurgency operations must end. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne050909kidnappers_in.asp SEE ALSO: Vrechhapal is a village of 140 tribal families in the forests of south Chhattisgarh. Near this village, the state government has given "prospecting licenses" to the Tatas and the Essar Group to mine iron ore. In the last four years, the local police and the Salwa Judum, the police-backed tribal militia, have destroyed this village several times, but the villagers have returned each time to rebuild their lives. On June 28 this year, policemen and Judum goons attacked the village again, shooting dead a man, raping a woman, and burning down 40 houses. Ten days later, when three human rights activists - Delhi School of Economics professor Nandini Sundar, Osmania University professor JP Rao, and Institute of Rural Management professor Ajay Dandekar - visited the village with my co-activist Kopa Kunjam, the Judum attacked their jeep and nearly set it on fire. We at the Vanvasi Chetna Ashram (VCA) wrote to the police condemning the attack on the village. We also notified them that we would be reaching rice to Vrechhapal as the police had burnt down its agricultural produce. This angered the police. On August 9, hordes of policemen attacked and occupied the village. The terrified residents ran to the hills to hide. The police shot and killed a villager and later rounded up five innocent tribal people, including a woman, from other villages. When the police left Vrechhapal two days later, they shot and killed all in cold blood. Dantewada Superintendent of Police (SP) Amaresh Mishra later claimed his men had killed six Naxals in a fierce encounter. But newspaper photographs showed the dead "Naxals" with their hands tied behind. The police said two bodies, including the woman's, were washed away. But villagers found the two bodies with deep injuries, with the woman's neck tied to a big stone. Meanwhile, we struggle still to bring justice to six women raped by Judum policemen and now camping at our Ashram in Dantewada city. They first wrote to the SP asking that FIRs be filed against their rapists. The SP failed to respond. Then they approached Chief Judicial Magistrate Sanjay Kumar Soni at Dantewada. But he ordered them to go to Konta, 140 km south of Dantewada, a township that is a brute Judum stronghold. Soni asked them to go plead before a Judicial Magistrate, whose job it is to register the case but who doesn't have the legal authority to try the rape cases. Braving the Judum terror, these women went to Konta and filed written complaints before this Magistrate, Amrit Kerkatta. But he decided their written testimony wasn't enough and ordered they give oral testimonies. Then he took another day to hear the testimonies of their witnesses such as their parents. Then he fixed a date to hear their lawyers. But he did not attend court on that day, nor on the next. So these women filed a petition before Dantewada District Judge, Sharad Gupta, urging him to hear the case. He has rejected their application, we don't yet know why. These women are running from one court to another to get a case registered, although the law says a woman's complaint of rape is enough to register a case. The truth is that the government has decided to drive the tribal people out of their lands and steal their natural resources, and the state agencies - politics, bureaucracy and judiciary - are conniving in the atrocities. The launch of the Salwa Judum in 2005 wrought a massive upheaval in Dantewada as the police and the Judum began killing hundreds and rape thousands, and burn down villages. Terrified villagers picked up their traditional arms, the bow and the arrow, in self-defence. This is exactly what the Indian Government wanted. It now calls them Maoists! And it plans to decimate them by way of genocide. This carefully planned conspiracy is a historical process. Many of today's economic superpowers - from the US to Australia - are founded on genocides of indigenous peoples. The Indian Government now aims to kill the indigenous people in Chhattisgarh because they are sitting atop vast reserves of some of India's best quality iron ore that is 70 percent pure, as also atop 90 percent of India's tin deposits, besides plentiful rubies and mica. The saddest part is that it is a democratic set-up that is planning to kill the tribal people, and India's vast middle class backs the State. I don't know how India will ever redeem itself from this sin. And once we get into the habit of killing the weaker among us, then the cycle will never end. Tomorrow we will kill the Dalits, then the minorities, and then the people of the villages. This would be social Darwinism. The VCA decided to counter the government's evil plan. We began bringing people back to the villages the Judum burnt down. This work meets with a Supreme Court order that makes it mandatory for the state government to rehabilitate all the tribal people the Judum violence displaced. The apex court has also ordered the government to investigate allegations of Judum violence, prosecute the offenders, and pay compensation to the victims. The Chhattisgarh Home Secretary gave an undertaking to the court its orders would be met. Of course, not one case has been filed or compensation given, because it is the police that are the culprits. On the other hand, the government has stopped all civic services to the tribal areas. By doing this, they are forcing the villagers towards the Naxals. Whereas prior to the start of the Judum the Naxals here numbered only about 5,000, their mass base may now count up to one lakh. If the security agencies indeed launch a massive attack as the Centre is planning, then they are unlikely to find many Naxals but would certainly end up killing thousands of innocent tribal people. And this is bound to send millions more towards the Naxals. Even if the government occupies the tribal lands, the Naxals will launch guerilla attacks and kill many jawans. In this way, the classic capitalistic battles will see innocent and poor young men die on both sides - one, working for the State only for a living, and the other, the tribal, defending his land. Of course, the State can't afford to have the VCA unravel its plans. So district and police authorities began harassing our volunteers, disrupting our work, stopping our supply vehicles. On July 30, the police arrested one of our volunteers and charged him with being a Naxal planner. I phoned and asked the SP, why have you arrested him? He said: Don't question us. Days earlier, police swooped down on Kopa Kunjam's house, and beat him and his mother severely, threatening to kill him if he didn't dissociate himself from me. For the security establishment in Chhattisgarh, I must be done away with. But my choice is already made. Mahatma Gandhi said that young people should go live among the tribal people and die among them. I am a non-tribal and I came to this land 17 years ago. I have since lived among the tribal people. I will surely die here, just as the tribal people will die here. Until I die, or until I am imprisoned, I will keep resisting the State's brutal war against its own defenceless tribal people. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne290809havoc_and.asp SEE ALSO: Karnataka High Court Judge Justice D.V. Shylendra Kumar deserves to be commended for having stressed the need for judges to disclose their assets in national interest. Significantly, his views are at variance with those of the Chief Justice of India, Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, who had taken the position that throwing open the information to the public may lead to harassment of judges. Justifiably, Justice Shylendra Kumar has supported disclosure from the standpoint of the people's fundamental right to know under Article 19 (i) (a) of the Constitution as also under the Right to Information Act. Interestingly, Justice Kumar dispels the CJI's apprehensions of the judges' "safety and security" in the event of their disclosing the assets and avers that the rule of law should operate "uniformly" - something which the Supreme Court itself had maintained in various judicial pronouncements over the years. The Tribune, too, has been commenting in these columns that judges, being constitutional functionaries, should not claim any immunity from the rule of law in the interest of transparency and accountability. Though the Centre has deferred the introduction of the Judges (Declaration of Assets and Liabilities) Bill, 2009, in the recent session of Parliament, one cannot but recall the controversial Clause VI of this Bill which required judges to declare their assets to their superiors but spared them from being made public. Had the Bill been passed, it would have served little public interest. No wonder, many members had opposed it. The need for asset disclosure has become far greater today because of the increasing cases of corruption involving the members of the judiciary. There is also a growing public perception that there is lack of accountability and transparency in the judiciary. Moreover, when most judges are known to be just and impartial, command people's respect and have nothing to hide, they should not be reluctant to disclose their assets. Instead, they should come forward and support the cause of transparency as Justice Shylendra Kumar has done. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090824/edit.htm#1 SEE ALSO: Author: Hector Olasolo Punishing the Modis (Aug 29, 2009, Frontline) Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, is likely to be examined by the Special Investigation Team headed by R.K. Raghavan, the former head of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Former Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswamy only exposed himself to ridicule when, in the midst of an election campaign, he issued a show-cause notice to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, on December 22, 2008, for calling Modi a merchant of death ("maut ka sau dagar"). He was ignorant of the fact that Modi had earned that certificate from the Supreme Court itself.… Justices Doraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasayat of the Supreme Court advisedly mentioned Nero in their judgment in the Best Bakery case, delivered by Justice Pasayat, on April 12, 2004: "Those who are responsible for protecting life and properties and ensuring that investigation is fair and proper seem to have shown no real anxiety. Large number of people had lost their lives. Whether the accused persons were really assailants or not could have been established by a fair and impartial investigation. The modern-day 'Neros' were looking elsewhere when Best Bakery and innocent children and helpless women were burning and were probably deliberating how the perpetrators of the crime can be saved or protected." The Nero here is the one at the apex of power, like the emperor himself. (Zahira Habibullah Sheikh vs State of Gujarat (2004) 4 SCC 158; page 1,987). Gone are the days of the sovereign immunity of heads of state, let alone heads of government, from criminal liability for the wrongs they commit. Modern jurisprudence has travelled a long way in recent years. Indian law is not inadequate. Section 107 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, defines abetment very widely. It covers instigation, intentional aid and participation in a conspiracy. The aid or participation can be by "illegal omission". Explanation 2 to Section 107 says: "Whoever, either prior to or at the time of the commission of an act, does anything in order to facilitate the commission of that act, and thereby facilitates the commission thereof is said to aid the doing of that act" (emphasis added throughout). It is very much a legal and constitutional duty of the Chief Minister of a State of the Union of India not to "facilitate" the commission of a pogrom whether by instigation, connivance or any form of facilitation. This is a question of fact to be proved in a court of law. Narendra Modi will, doubtless, receive a fair trial. There are two hurdles. One is proof - oral, documentary or circumstantial. The other is the sanction of the authority that appointed him to the office, the Governor of the State, as Section 197 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, requires. It is more than arguable that it is unconstitutional. In any case, the Governor's refusal of sanction is open to judicial review. In a court of law, Modi will be presumed to be innocent unless his guilt is proved beyond reasonable doubt. The evidence, therefore, must meet this test. It will depend on the court to assess its weight. When Henry II exclaimed, in the presence of his courtiers, "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" was he not instigating them to kill Beckett? Is not Modi's famous remark "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" connivance at the Gujarat pogrom in 2002 in retaliation for imagined wrongs at the Godhra railway station? (The quote is from The Times of India, March 3, 2002.) Annexure 10 to Volume I of the report of the Concerned Citizens Tribunal - Gujarat 2002 contains a tabulation of "Hate Speech"; many of the speeches are by Modi himself. (The report, entitled "Crime Against Humanity", is in two volumes. Professor Richard Bonney's writings on the carnage are available in Harvest of Hatred, Media House, Delhi. There is much useful material in an excellent compilation of essays edited by Siddharth Varadarajan, Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy, Penguin.)… Hector Olasolo's book is indispensable to anyone interested in bringing top leaders, political or military, to account for their complicity in crimes. It is a work on criminal international law but lawyers concerned with domestic law will also find it most rewarding. The concepts of "Joint Criminal Enterprise" (JCE) or "Control of Crime" (CoC) should be common to domestic and international law. They are clearly defined and thoroughly analysed by Olasolo in this erudite work. The Tables of Cases and of Legislation reflect its comprehensive sweep. It provides, in effect, a detailed commentary on the Rome Statute as well as the statutes of the two tribunals. The author points out that "the single most important issue during the trials of senior political and military leaders is the determination of the specific mode of liability the respective leader has incurred in criminal liability for the crimes charged in the indictment. Other important issues raised during the trials against senior political and military leaders include the problems relating to the need to prove a broad range of criminal activities, as shown by the unfinished four-year-long trial against Slobodan Milosevic and the specific defences raised by the defendants.… http://www.frontline.in/fl2618/stories/20090911261808100.htm
IN THIS ISSUE
COMMUNAL HARMONY
NEWS HEADLINES
OPINIONS & EDITORIALS
BOOK REVIEW
COMMUNAL HARMONY
30 HINDU INMATES KEEP FASTS ALONG WITH MUSLIM FRIENDS AT TIHAR (AUG 27, 2009, INDIAN EXPRESS)
NEWS HEADLINES
NOT FORCING MODI TO QUIT WAS ONE OF MAJOR MISTAKES, ADMITTED ATALJI (AUG 27, 2009, INDIAN EXPRESS)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4938077.cms
http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/506707/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4934418.cms
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/20232/no-central-assent-gujarat-anti.htmlADVANI KNEW OF KANDAHAR SWAP: BRAJESH MISHRA (AUG 27, 2009, IBN)
http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/507994/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4942384.cms
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/22168/jaswants-cash-vote-salvo-advani.html
http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/505886/CRISIS IN BJP DEEPENS AS SHOURIE ATTACKS RAJNATH (AUG 25, 2009, THE HINDU)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4929725.cms
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/21356/shourie-brands-bjp-pvt-firm.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/decision-to-expel-jaswant-not-right-yashwant-sinha/100102-37.html
http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/505881/JASWANT THROWS THE RULE BOOK, APPEALS AGAINST BAN (AUG 28, 2009, IBN)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4929801.cms
http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/505883/
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090825/nation.htm#2
http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/27/stories/2009082755572000.htmHINDUTVA HAD NEGATIVE IMPACT IN NORTHEAST: FORMER BJP LEADER (AUG 28, 2009, DECCAN HERALD)
http://www.expressindia.com/story_print.php?storyId=507606
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4930127.cms
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/21706/rs-10-crore-seized-vhp.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-100615.htmlWEAK CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ENCOURAGING CORRUPTION: CBI CHIEF (AUG 26, 2009, DECCAN HERALD)
http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/27/stories/2009082760541000.htm
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-4923481,prtpage-1.cms
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/21575/court-notice-cbi-buta-singhs.html
http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/28/stories/2009082860191400.htmMISSING PICTURES POP UP ON IMPHAL POSTER, RAISE MORE QUESTIONS ON ENCOUNTER (AUG 25, 2009, INDIAN EXPRESS)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4923291.cms
http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/506201/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4916790.cms
http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/29/stories/2009082951691100.htmTO PREVENT DIVORCE, ISLAMIC COURTS TO ACT AS MARRIAGE COUNSELLORS (AUG 29, 2009, INDIAN EXPRESS)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-4949987,prtpage-1.cms
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/21318/shrc-issues-notice-state-govt.html
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090828/nation.htm#6
http://www.asianage.com/DALIT TONSURED, PARADED FOR DIALLING WRONG NUMBER (AUG 27, 2009, TIMES OF INDIA)
http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/30/stories/2009083057620500.htm
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4899602.cms
http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/507734/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4937796.cms
OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS
CLEANING OUT THE AUGEAN STABLES - BY AJIT SAHI (AUG 29, 2009, TEHELKA)
http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=13350
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4925313.cms
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/20938/dance-pygmies.html
http://www.frontline.in/fl2618/stories/20090911261812700.htmNOW ITS SHOURIE - EDITORIAL (AUG 26, 2009, THE TRIBUNE)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4933696.cms
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne050909coverstory.asp
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?261561
http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=13061DISARRAY IN SANGH PARIVAR - BY DEEPAK K UPRETI (AUG 26, 2009, DECCAN HERALD)
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne050909advani_is.asp
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/21288/removed-reality.html
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?261553
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne050909incoldblood.aspKIDNAPPERS IN KHAKI - BY TERESA REHMAN (SEP 5, 2009, TEHELKA)
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090827/edit.htm#1
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/21713/excessive-force.html
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090826/edit.htm#1
http://epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/13840.pdfHAVOC AND THE DOGS OF WAR - BY HIMANSHU KUMAR (AUG 29, 2009, TEHELKA)
http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/08/23/stories/2009082350100300.htm
http://www.tehelka.com/story_zzzmain42.asp?filename=Ne050909walls_not.aspASSETS OF JUDGES - EDITORIAL (AUG 24, 2009, THE TRIBUNE)
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne050909half_of.asp
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090827/edit.htm#4
BOOK REVIEW
THE CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY OF SENIOR POLITICAL AND MILITARY LEADERS AS PRINCIPALS TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMES
Reviewed by: A.G. Noorani
Available at: Hart Publishing, Oxford; 2009; pages 354, £50 . http://www.amazon.co.uk/
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