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I did not know what would be built out of the ruins'
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പ്രധാനമന്ത്രിയുടെ സൗഹൃദസംഘമെന്ന പേരില് സൗജന്യമായി ഹജ്ജിന് കൊണ്ടുപോയവരുടെ പേരുവിവരങ്ങള് കേന്ദ്ര സര്ക്കാര് സമര്പ്പിച്ചത് പരിശോധിക്കുക </div>
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ജസ്റ്റിസ് നിസാര് അഹ്മദ് കക്റു, കോണ്ഗ്രസ് നേതാക്കളായ രാജ്യസഭാ ഉപാധ്യക്ഷന് കെ. റഹ്മാന് ഖാന്, പ്രൊഫ. സൈസുദ്ദീന് സോസ് എം.പി എന്നിവരാണ് ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതല് തവണ പോയത്.. കേന്ദ്ര വിദേശ സഹമന്ത്രിയും മുസ്ലിം ലീഗ് അഖിലേന്ത്യാ പ്രസിഡന്റുമായ ഇ. അഹമ്മദ്, മുസ്ലിം ലീഗ് സംസ്ഥാന പ്രസിഡന്റ് ഹൈദരലി ശിഹാബ് തങ്ങള് എന്നിവരും ഇതേ സംഘത്തില് ഒന്നിലധികം തവണ പോയതായി സര്ക്കാര് അറിയിച്ചു. 2004ല് എം.പി എന്ന നിലയില് ഹജ്ജ് സൗഹൃദ സംഘത്തിലുണ്ടായിരുന്നു അഹമ്മദ് 2006ല് സംഘത്തലവനായിട്ടാണ് സംഘത്തില് ഇടം പിടിച്ചത്. പട്ടിക്കാട് ജാമിഅ നൂരിയ ജനറല് സെക്രട്ടറി എന്ന നിലയില് 2006ല് സൗഹൃദസംഘത്തില് കൊണ്ടുപോയ സയ്യിദ് ഹൈദരലി ശിഹാബ് തങ്ങളെ 2009ല് മുസ്ലിം ലീഗ് സംസ്ഥാന പ്രസിഡന്റ് എന്ന നിലയില് വീണ്ടും കൊണ്ടുപോയെന്നും സത്യവാങ്മൂലത്തിലുണ്ട്. </div>
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കേരളത്തില് നിന്ന് സൗഹൃദസംഘത്തില് കയറിപ്പറ്റിയതില് ഭൂരിഭാഗവും മുസ്ലിംലീഗിന്െറയും കോണ്ഗ്രസിന്െറയും നേതാക്കളാണ്. കഴിഞ്ഞ 10 വര്ഷത്തിനിടയില് കേരളത്തില് നിന്ന് പ്രധാനമന്ത്രിയുടെ സൗഹൃദസംഘത്തില് കൊണ്ടുപോയവരായി കാണിച്ചത് മുസ്ലിം ലീഗ് നേതാക്കളായ ഇ.ടി മുഹമ്മദ് ബശീര്, അബ്ദുസമദ് സമദാനി, പി.വി അബ്ദുല്വഹാബ്, ഡോ. എം.കെ മുനീര്, വി.കെ ഇബ്രാഹീം കുഞ്ഞ്, ചെര്ക്കളം അബ്ദുല്ല, മുസ്ലിം യൂത്ത്ലീഗ് മുന് സംസ്ഥാന പ്രസിഡന്റ് സയ്യിദ് സാദിഖലി ശിഹാബ് തങ്ങള്, പാണക്കാട് സയ്യിദ് അബ്ബാസലി ശിഹാബ് തങ്ങള്, കോണ്ഗ്രസ് നേതാക്കളായ എം.ഐ ഷാ നവാസ് എം.പി, എം.എം ഹസന്, ടി.എച്ച് മുസ്തഫ, മൗലാന ആസാദ് ഫൗണ്ടേഷന് മുന് അംഗം ടി.പി.എം ഇബ്രാഹിം ഖാന്, ജസ്റ്റിസ് കെ.എ അബ്ദുല് ഗഫൂര്, ഒ.അബ്ദുല്ല എന്നിവരെയാണ്</div>
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.സര്ക്കാര് ഖജനാവില് നിന്ന് പണം ചെലവിട്ട് പ്രധാനമന്ത്രിയുടെ ഹജ്ജ് സൗഹൃദ സംഘമെന്ന പേരില് തെരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത ചിലരെ ഹജ്ജിന് കൊണ്ടുപോകുന്ന രീതി നിര്ത്തലാക്കണമെന്ന് സുപ്രീംകോടതി അഭിപ്രായപ്പെട്ടിരുന്നു . സൗഹൃദ സംഘത്തിന്െറ വിശദാംശങ്ങള് പരിശോധിച്ചപ്പോള് പലരെയും ഒന്നിലധികം തവണ കൊണ്ടുപോയതായി കണ്ടത്തെിയെന്നും ജസ്റ്റിസുമാരായ അഫ്താബ് ആലം, രഞ്ജന പ്രകാശ് ദേശായി എന്നിവരടങ്ങുന്ന ബെഞ്ച് കുറ്റപ്പെടുത്തുകയുമുണ്ടായി </div>
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മൊയ്തു വാണിമേല്http://www.blogger.com/profile/03717187571069224030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024003564291274229.post-30224390825319778032014-03-08T03:59:00.000-08:002014-03-08T03:59:04.189-08:00 മയിലുകൾ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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മൊയ്തു വാണിമേല്http://www.blogger.com/profile/03717187571069224030noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024003564291274229.post-18088599046224948732014-03-08T00:13:00.003-08:002014-03-08T00:13:52.199-08:00അഹമ്മദി ൻറെ വിദേശ യാത്രകൾ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ഇത് സംബന്ധിച്ച് നേതാക്കൾ അണികൾക്ക് നിർദേശം നല്കികഴിഞ്ഞു.<br />
അഹമ്മദ് കഴിഞ്ഞ കൊല്ലം എത്ര തവണ മലപ്പുറം മണ്ഡലത്തിൽ എത്തിയെന്ന് നാട്ടുകാർക്ക് അറിയാം. എന്നാൽ അദ്ദേഹം എത്ര തവണ വിദേശയാത്ര നടത്തി എന്നറിയണ്ടേ? പറയാം.<br />
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ഇപ്പോൾ അഹമ്മദ് ഇന്ത്യയിൽ ഇല്ല. കഴിഞ്ഞ ജനുവരിയിൽ അദ്ദേഹം കുവൈത്തിലായിരുന്നു.<br />
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2003 ജനുവരി - കുവൈത്ത്<br />
മാർച്ച് 16 -ജിദ്ദ<br />
മാർച്ച് 29- താജികിസ്ഥാൻ<br />
ഏപ്രിൽ 14-16 ലിബിയ<br />
ഏപ്രിൽ 17-18 അൽജീരിയ<br />
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ജൂണ് 17 -കസ്ക്കിസ്താൻ<br />
ജൂണ് 30- ജൂലായ് 6 -ലബനോണ്, ജോർദാൻ , ഫലസ്തീൻ<br />
ജുലി -4 -8 കുവൈത്ത് , ഫലസ്തീൻ<br />
സെപ്ടംബർ 4 - ജിദ്ദ<br />
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മൊയ്തു വാണിമേല്http://www.blogger.com/profile/03717187571069224030noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024003564291274229.post-12689369332366049922014-03-07T22:27:00.000-08:002014-03-07T22:27:16.595-08:00പൊന്നാനിയിൽ ഇടതു സ്ഥാനാർഥിക്ക് കോണ്ഗ്രസ് നേതാക്കളുടെ ആശീർവാദം?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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പൊന്നാനിയിൽ ഇടതു സ്വതന്ത്രനായി അവതരിച്ച വി. അബ്ദുറഹ്മാൻ എന്ന കോണ്ഗ്രസ് നേതാവിന് കോണ്ഗ്രസിൽ ചില ഉന്നതരുടെ ആശീർവാദമുണ്ടോ? ഉണ്ടെന്നാണ് സി.പി.എമ്മിലെ ചിലർ രഹസ്യമായി പറയുന്നത്. ചില കോണ്ഗ്രസ്കാരും ഇക്കാര്യം സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്നു. രമേശ് ചെന്നിത്തലയുടെ മലപ്പുറം ജില്ലയിലെ രണ്ടു വലംകൈകളിൽ ഒരു വലംകൈ ആണ് അബ്ദുറഹ്മാൻ. ആര്യാടന്റെ ഇഷ്ടക്കാരനുമാണ്. ഇ .ടി മുഹമ്മദ് ബഷീര് വര്ഗീയ വാദിയാണെന്ന് ആര്യാടാൻ പ്രസ്താവിച്ചത് ഓർക്കുക. ബഷീരിനെതിരെ കോണ്ഗ്രസ് വോട്ടുകൾ സമാഹരിക്കാൻ കോണ്ഗ്രസ് നേതാക്കളുടെ ആശീർവാദത്തോടെയാണ് അബ്ദുറഹ്മാന്റെ ഈ രംഗ പ്രവേശമെങ്കിൽ പൊന്നാനിയിലെ ലീഗിന്റെ കാര്യം കഷ്ടമാകും.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">പക്ഷേ, 'ഴ' അത് അംഗീകരിച്ചു തരില്ല.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">ആത്മാവിന്റെ ഭാഷ പരസ്പരം കേള്ക്കാനാണ് ശലഭയാത്രകളെന്ന് അവളുടെ ന്യായം.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">അവള് തുടര്ന്നു: സൈലന്റ്വാലിയുടെ ഉള്ക്കാട്ടില്വെച്ചാണ് ഞാന് ശലഭദേശാടനം കണ്ടത്. കാട്ടിനുള്ളില് അധികം ഉയരമില്ലാത്ത ഒരു മരത്തിന് ചുറ്റും ആയിരക്കണക്കിന് മഞ്ഞപ്പൂമ്പാറ്റകള്.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">വാന്ഗോഗ് ചിത്രങ്ങളില് മഞ്ഞപോലെ.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">കാട്ടുപച്ചക്കും ഇരുളിനുമിടയില് തിളങ്ങുന്ന മഞ്ഞയുടെ ശലഭലോകം. ചിറകില് കണ്ണുകളില്ലാത്ത മഞ്ഞപ്പൂമ്പാറ്റകള്.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">ഞാനൊരു ശലഭമരമായിനിന്ന് അവയെല്ലാം എന്നെ പൊതിയുന്നത് സങ്കല്പിച്ചുനോക്കി.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">പിങ്ക്സാരിയില് മഞ്ഞപ്പൂമ്പാറ്റകളുടെ കാട്. തലമുടിയിലും കഴുത്തിലും കണ്ണുകളിലും...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">നാളെ ഇവിടെ വന്നാല് നിറയെ മഞ്ഞച്ചിറക് പെറുക്കാമെന്ന് ഗൈഡ് പറഞ്ഞു.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">മരിച്ചശേഷം എന്റെ ചിറകുകള് ആരെടുത്താല് എനിക്കെന്താ?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">കുറച്ചു നേരത്തെ ശലഭമൌനത്തിനുശേഷം 'ഴ' വീണ്ടും^</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">^ഞാനും നീയുമൊക്കെ ഒരു നൂറുവയസ്സുവരെ ജീവിക്കുന്നു എന്ന് കരുതുക. അതെത്ര അസഹനീയം! മടുത്തു മടുത്ത് ഛര്ദിക്കാനേ നേരണ്ടാവൂ. സ്വയം നിന്ദിച്ച്, സ്വയം വെറുത്ത്, അരുതായ്കകളുടെ ചിലന്തിവലയില് കുടുങ്ങി...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">ആത്മാവിന്റെ ഇഷ്ടങ്ങളാണ് ആര്ക്കും വേണ്ടാത്തത്.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">പൂമ്പാറ്റകള്ക്ക് ശൈശവവും ബാല്യവുമില്ല. പ്യൂപ്പപൊട്ടിച്ച് പുറത്തുകടന്നാല് കിട്ടുന്നത് ഒരു പൂര്ണ ജന്മം.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">പഠിക്കാന് പോകണ്ട. ജോലി നോക്കണ്ട. കല്യാണം കഴിക്കണ്ട. കുട്ടികളെ പോറ്റണ്ട. ഭാര്യയായി, അമ്മയായി, വീട്ടമ്മയും അമ്മൂമ്മയുമായി എത്ര കൊല്ലാണ് മിന്നാമ്മിന്നി പുഴുവെ പോലെ ഇഴയുക?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">പത്തെഴുപതുകൊല്ലം നീളുന്ന നമ്മുടെയൊക്കെ പുഴുജീവിതത്തെക്കാള് എത്ര മനോഹരമായിരിക്കും ശലഭജന്മം!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">നമുക്കും ചെറിയ ചെറിയ ശലഭജന്മങ്ങള് മതിയായിരുന്നു.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">ഒന്നോ രണ്ടോ ദിവസം ജീവിക്കുക. പിന്നെ മരിക്കുക. പിന്നെയും പിന്നെയും ശലഭജന്മങ്ങള്. വീണ്ടും വീണ്ടും കാത്തിരിപ്പ്. അങ്ങനെ കുറെ ശലഭജന്മങ്ങളുടെ തുടര്ച്ചയായിരുന്നു ജീവിതമെങ്കില്!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">'ഴ' തണുത്തു വിറക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. കരിമ്പടമെടുത്ത് മൂടിയിട്ടും മഞ്ഞു കാറ്റില് പുളയുന്നുണ്ട്.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">'ഴ' എന്നെ ചേര്ന്നിരുന്നു. അവള് പുതച്ച കരിമ്പടം തുറന്ന് എന്നെക്കൂടി അകത്താക്കി.</span></div>
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ഇന്ത്യാ വിഭജനത്തെ തുടര്ന്നുള്ള നാളുകളില് അകത്തും പുറത്തും കണ്ണീരൊലിപ്പിച്ച് ‘നവഖാലി’യിലൂടെ ഒരാള് നടന്നുപോയി. വൃദ്ധനായ മഹാത്മാ ഗാന്ധി. ഇന്ത്യ-പാക് വിഭജനത്തില് ഏറ്റവും ദു$ഖിതനായ മനുഷ്യന്. ആ മനുഷ്യനെയും അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്െറ ദര്ശനങ്ങളെയും കോണ്ഗ്രസുകാര് മാത്രമല്ല, സാധാരണ ഇന്ത്യന് പൗരന്മാരും മറന്നുപോയിരിക്കുന്നു. ആണ്ടിലൊരിക്കല് പാലൊഴിച്ചു കഴുകി ശുദ്ധീകരിക്കാനുള്ള കരിങ്കല് പ്രതിമ മാത്രമാണ് ഇന്ത്യക്കാരന് ഇന്ന് ഗാന്ധിജി. ഗാന്ധിജിയും അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്െറ സഹന സമരമുറകളുമാണ് തങ്ങളുടെ വിപ്ളവ മുന്നേറ്റങ്ങള്ക്ക് ശക്തിപകര്ന്നതെന്ന് മുല്ലപ്പൂവിപ്ളവത്തിന്െറ വക്താക്കള് ആണയിട്ടു പറയുമ്പോഴാണ് സ്വന്തം ദേശത്ത് മഹാത്മജിക്ക് ഈ അപചയം. ഈ അപചയത്തിന്െറ നേര്ദൃശ്യമാണ് ഇന്ന് ഇന്ത്യ-പാക് അതിര്ത്തിയായ വാഗയില് കാണുന്നത്. ഗാന്ധിജി ജീവിച്ചിരുന്നെങ്കില് ഇന്ന് ഈ അശ്ളീല ചടങ്ങുകള് തടയുകതന്നെ ചെയ്യുമായിരുന്നു.<br />
ഇന്ത്യ-പാകിസ്താന് അതിര്ത്തി കടക്കാനുള്ള റോഡ് മാര്ഗമാണ് വാഗ. ഇന്ത്യന് പഞ്ചാബിലെ അമൃത്സറിനും പാകിസ്താന് പഞ്ചാബിലെ ലാഹോറിനുമിടയിലെ ഗ്രാന്റ്ട്രങ്ക് റോഡിലാണ് ഇത്. 1947ലെ ഇന്ത്യാ വിഭജനത്തില് വാഗ ഗ്രാമം ഇരുരാജ്യങ്ങള്ക്കുമായി പകുത്തിടപ്പെടുകയായിരുന്നു. ഒരുഭാഗം പാകിസ്താനില്; ബാക്കി ഇന്ത്യയിലും. 1959ലാണ് അതിര്ത്തിയിലെ സൈനികര് തമ്മിലുള്ള ഈ നാടകീയ സൗഹൃദ പരിപാടി ആരംഭിച്ചത്. അതിര്ത്തി ഗേറ്റുകള് തുറക്കല് ചടങ്ങെന്നും പതാക താഴ്ത്തല് ചടങ്ങെന്നും ഇതിന് പേരുണ്ട്. Beating retreat border Ceremony എന്നാണ് ഇംഗ്ളീഷില് ചടങ്ങിനെ വിശേഷിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്.<br />
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ചടങ്ങില് ഇരു സൈനിക വിഭാഗങ്ങളും പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന അക്രമോത്സുകതയെ ഇന്ത്യയിലെയും പാകിസ്താനിലെയും ജനാധിപത്യവാദികള്ക്കൊപ്പം വിദേശ രാജ്യങ്ങളും കടുത്ത രീതിയില് വിമര്ശിച്ചിരുന്നു. പരസ്പരം പകയും വിദ്വേഷവും ജനിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ശരീരഭാഷയാണ് ചടങ്ങിലുടനീളം ഇരുസൈനികരും പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കുന്നത് എന്നതായിരുന്നു പ്രധാന ആരോപണം. ദിവസവും ഈ ചടങ്ങ് കാണാനെത്തുന്ന ഇരു രാജ്യത്തെയും ജനങ്ങള്ക്കിടയിലും ഈ വിദ്വേഷവും പകയും പടരുന്നുണ്ടെന്നും ആക്ഷേപമുയര്ന്നു. 2009-10 കാലത്ത് ഇതേക്കുറിച്ച് വിപുലമായ സംവാദങ്ങള് നടന്നിരുന്നു.<br />
സൈനികരുടെ ഇത്തരം അക്രമോത്സുക ചലനങ്ങള് അവസാനിപ്പിക്കണമെന്ന പൊതുധാരണ ഇരുരാജ്യങ്ങളിലുമുണ്ടാവുകയും ചെയ്തു. പാകിസ്താന്റെയ്ഞ്ചേഴ്സ് മേജര് ജനറല് യഅ്ഖൂബ് അലി ഖാന് 2010 ഒക്ടോബറില് ഇത്തരം ശരീരഭാഷകള് ലഘൂകരിക്കാന് തീരുമാനിച്ചതായി പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുകയുമുണ്ടായി. എന്നാല്, ഇതൊന്നും പ്രായോഗികതലത്തിലെത്തിയില്ല എന്നതാണ് ഇന്ന് കാണുന്ന ചടങ്ങുകള് തെളിയിക്കുന്നത്.<br />
കശ്മീരിലെ ശ്രീനഗറിലടക്കം സൈനിക സാന്നിധ്യം കുറച്ചുകൊണ്ടുവരുകയും കശ്മീരികളുടെ വിശ്വാസം ആര്ജിക്കാന് തീവ്രശ്രമങ്ങള് ആരംഭിക്കുകയും ചെയ്ത പ്രതിരോധമന്ത്രി എ.കെ. ആന്റണിപോലും വാഗ അതിര്ത്തിയിലെ ഈ നാടകങ്ങള്ക്കുനേരെ കണ്ണടക്കുന്നു എന്നുവേണം കരുതാന്. ഇന്ത്യ-പാക് സംഘര്ഷം ലഘൂകരിക്കാനും സൗഹൃദം വളര്ത്താനും നിരവധി തവണ മന്ത്രിതലത്തിലും ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥ തലത്തിലും ചര്ച്ചകള് നടന്നെങ്കിലും അവയിലൊന്നും ഈ അശ്ളീലം അവസാനിപ്പിക്കുന്ന കാര്യം വിഷയമായില്ല എന്നാണറിവ്.<br />
കഴിഞ്ഞ നവംബര് ഏഴിനാണ് ഞങ്ങള് 35ഓളം പത്രപ്രവര്ത്തകര് വാഗ അതിര്ത്തി സന്ദര്ശിച്ചത്. കേരള സ്റ്റേറ്റ് പബ്ളിക് റിലേഷന്സ് വിഭാഗവും കാലിക്കറ്റ് പ്രസ്ക്ളബും ചേര്ന്ന് സംഘടിപ്പിച്ച 15 ദിവസത്തെ ജമ്മു-കശ്മീര്, പഞ്ചാബ്, ദല്ഹി ടൂറിന്െറ ഭാഗമായിരുന്നു അതിര്ത്തി സന്ദര്ശനം. കേന്ദ്രമന്ത്രിയുടെ പ്രത്യേക കത്തും വിളികളുമുണ്ടായതിനാല് വി.ഐ.പികളായാണ് ഞങ്ങള് അന്ന് വൈകീട്ട് വാഗ അതിര്ത്തിയിലെത്തിയത്. ഞങ്ങളെപ്പോലെ വി.ഐ.പികളായി നിരവധി വിദേശികളും സ്വദേശികളും വേറെയുമുണ്ടായിരുന്നു.<br />
അതിര്ത്തി വേലിക്കപ്പുറത്ത് പാകിസ്താനിലും ഇപ്പുറത്ത് ഇന്ത്യയിലും കാണികള്ക്ക് ഇരിക്കാന് സ്റ്റേഡിയം മോഡല് പടികള് ഇരിപ്പിടങ്ങളായി ഒരുക്കിയിരുന്നു. അതിനുതാഴെ ടാറിട്ട റോഡില് നൂറോളം വിദ്യാര്ഥിനികളും സ്ത്രീകളും ദേശഭക്തിഗാനങ്ങള്ക്കൊപ്പം നൃത്തം ചവിട്ടുന്നു. റോഡിന്െറ വശത്ത് ഇന്ത്യന് സൈനികരുടെ ഓഫിസ്. അവിടെനിന്നാണ് ദേശഭക്തിഗാനങ്ങളും അനൗണ്സ്മെന്റുകളും. ചടങ്ങുകളുടെ നടത്തിപ്പ് ചുമതലയുള്ള വെള്ളവസ്ത്രം ധരിച്ച സൈനിക ഓഫിസര് ഇടക്കിടെ നിരത്തിലിറങ്ങി നൃത്തക്കാരികളെ പ്രോത്സാഹിപ്പിക്കുന്നു. ആംഗ്യഭാഷയില് കാണികള്ക്കും സ്റ്റേഡിയത്തിലിരിക്കുന്നവര്ക്കും നിര്ദേശങ്ങള് നല്കുന്നു. ഇടക്കിടെ ചില പെണ്കുട്ടികള് ദേശീയപതാകയുമേന്തി അതിര്ത്തി ഗേറ്റിലേക്ക് ഓടുന്നു. തിരിച്ചോടുന്നു. ഇന്ത്യന് സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യസമര ചരിത്രവുമായി ബന്ധമുള്ള ചലച്ചിത്രങ്ങളിലെ ആവര്ത്തിക്കുന്ന ദൃശ്യങ്ങള്.<br />
ഇന്ത്യന് അതിര്ത്തിയില് ഉയരമുള്ള മറ്റൊരു കെട്ടിടത്തിനു മുകളില് തൂക്കിയ ഗാന്ധിജിയുടെ പഴയ കളര്ചിത്രം കാലപ്പഴക്കംകൊണ്ട് വെളുത്തു വിളര്ത്തിരിക്കുന്നു. ദിവസവും നടക്കുന്ന ഇവിടത്തെ നാടകരംഗങ്ങള് കണ്ട് നവഖാലിയിലെന്നപോലെ ഇവിടെയും ഗാന്ധിജി കണ്ണീരൊഴുക്കുന്നുവെന്ന് തോന്നുംവിധം മഴവെള്ളമൊലിച്ച പാടുകള് ആ മുഖത്ത്.<br />
ഈ കെട്ടിടത്തിനു മുകളില് നില്ക്കുന്ന ഇന്ത്യന് സൈനികര് ഗേറ്റിനപ്പുറം പാകിസ്താനിലേക്ക് തോക്ക് ചൂണ്ടിനില്ക്കുന്നു. ഗേറ്റിനപ്പുറം പാകിസ്താനിലും ഇതുതന്നെ അവസ്ഥ. അവരുടെ കെട്ടിടത്തിനു മുകളില് മുഹമ്മദലി ജിന്നയുടെ പടമാണുള്ളത്. ആ കെട്ടിടത്തിനു മുകളിലെ പാക് സൈനികര് ഇന്ത്യയിലേക്ക് തോക്കും ചൂണ്ടിനില്ക്കുന്നു. അവരുയര്ത്തിയ സ്റ്റേഡിയത്തിലും നൂറുകണക്കിന് സ്ത്രീകളും കുട്ടികളും പുരുഷന്മാരും. ഗേറ്റിനപ്പുറവും ഇപ്പുറവുമുള്ള സൈനികരുടെ വേഷത്തില് മാത്രമാണ് മാറ്റം. ചുവടുകളും ശരീരഭാഷയും മുഖഭാവങ്ങളുമെല്ലാം ഒന്നുതന്നെ- ‘തന്നെ ഞാന് ചവിട്ടിയരക്കും, പാഠം പഠിപ്പിക്കും’.<br />
സൂര്യാസ്തമയത്തോടെയാണ് പതാകയഴിക്കല് ചടങ്ങ് നടക്കുക. അതിനുമുമ്പേ അതിര്ത്തി ഗേറ്റുകള് തുറക്കുകയും അടക്കുകയും ചെയ്യും. അപ്പോഴേക്കും ചടങ്ങുകളുടെ പിരിമുറുക്കം കൂടും. അനൗണ്സ്മെന്റ് മൈക്കിലൂടെ മുദ്രാവാക്യംവിളി ഉയരും. ജനം ആവേശഭരിതരായി ഉച്ചത്തില് വിളിക്കും.<br />
ഹിന്ദുസ്ഥാന് സിന്ദാബാദ്.<br />
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ഇതിനിടയിലാണ് അക്രമോത്സുക ചുവടുകളുമായി സൈനികര് ഒറ്റയായും കൂട്ടമായും മാര്ച്ച് നടത്തുക. ഗേറ്റ് തുറന്നുകഴിഞ്ഞാല് ഇരു സൈനികരും തൊട്ടടുത്ത് അഭിമുഖമായിനിന്ന് ചുവടുകള് ആവര്ത്തിക്കും. ഒരേസമയം അപരന്െറ ചെവിക്കുറ്റിക്കു തൊഴിക്കാനെന്നവണ്ണം ശിരസ്സുവരെ കാലുയര്ത്തി പിന്നെ മണ്ണില് ശക്തിയായി ചവിട്ടും. നെഞ്ചില് കൊള്ളാവുന്നവിധം കാല്മടക്കി മുട്ട് നെഞ്ചുവരെ ഉയര്ത്തി ചുവടുവെക്കും. ഇത്തരം ചുവടുകള്ക്കിടയില് ഇരു രാജ്യങ്ങളിലെയും ജനങ്ങളുടെ ആര്ത്തുവിളി ആക്രോശങ്ങളായി മാറിയിരിക്കും. മൈക്കുകളിലൂടെ ആവേശം അലതല്ലും.<br />
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ഇന്ത്യ-പാക് വിഭജനകാലത്ത് ഇരുരാജ്യങ്ങളിലും നടന്ന കലാപങ്ങളും രക്തച്ചൊരിച്ചിലുകളും ഓര്മയില് വ്രണങ്ങളായി നിലനില്ക്കുന്ന ജനതക്കിടയിലാണ് ദിവസവും ഈ ചടങ്ങുകള് തുടരുന്നതെന്നോര്ക്കണം. അത് ജനങ്ങളിലുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന മനോഭാവം എന്താകുമെന്നറിയാന് അധികം മന$ശാസ്ത്രമൊന്നും പഠിക്കേണ്ടതില്ല. ഇത്തരം അക്രമോത്സുകതക്കിടയില് അപ്രസക്തമായിപ്പോകുന്ന മറ്റൊരു ചടങ്ങുണ്ട്. ഇരു രാജ്യങ്ങളിലുമായി അകന്നുപോയവര് അതിര്ത്തി കടന്ന് ബന്ധുജനങ്ങളെ കണ്ട് സ്നേഹോഷ്മള വികാരങ്ങള് കൈമാറുന്ന ഉദാത്തമായ രംഗം. ഇത്തരമൊരു ശത്രുതയുടെ ആവേശത്തിനിടയില് ആത്മാര്ഥമായും സത്യസന്ധമായും സ്വന്തം ബന്ധുവിനെ ആശ്ളേഷിക്കുന്നതെങ്ങനെ? നല്ല വികാരങ്ങളും വിചാരങ്ങളും കൈമാറുന്നതെങ്ങനെ? ഈയൊരു ചടങ്ങ് സത്യസന്ധവും ആത്മാര്ഥവുമായി നടത്താന് കഴിഞ്ഞിരുന്നെങ്കില്, ഗാന്ധിജിയുടെ കണ്ണീര് സന്തോഷക്കണ്ണീരാകാന് അതുമാത്രം മതിയാകുമായിരുന്നു.<br />
53 വര്ഷമായി തുടരുന്ന ഈ ചടങ്ങിനെ ഇരുരാജ്യങ്ങള് തമ്മില്, മനുഷ്യര് തമ്മില് സ്നേഹവും സൗഹൃദവും നന്മയും വളര്ത്തുന്ന മഹത്തായ ഒരാശയമായി മാറ്റാനാകില്ലേ? തീര്ച്ചയായും കഴിയും. അക്രമോത്സുകവും അശ്ളീലവുമാകുന്ന കവാത്തുകള്ക്കുപകരം സ്നേഹത്തിന്െറ ശരീരഭാഷ പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കാന് നമ്മുടെ അതിര്ത്തി സുരക്ഷാസേനക്ക് പ്രേരണയും പ്രോത്സാഹനവും നല്കണം. അതിനാവശ്യമായ രാഷ്ട്രീയ തീരുമാനം ഇരുരാജ്യങ്ങളിലുമുണ്ടാവണം.<br />
അങ്ങനെയെങ്കില് ഗേറ്റുകളുടെ അപ്പുറവും ഇപ്പുറവും ബന്ധുക്കളെ കാണാനെത്തുന്നവര്ക്ക് സ്നേഹാവേശത്തോടെ സത്യസന്ധമായി പ്രിയപ്പെട്ടവരെ പുണരാനാകും, ആശ്ളേഷിക്കാനാവും. പരസ്പരം നല്ലവാക്കുകള് പറഞ്ഞ് രണ്ട് രാജ്യങ്ങളിലേക്കുമായി നന്മനിറഞ്ഞ മനസ്സുമായി പിരിഞ്ഞുപോകാനാവും.<br />
അപ്പോള് സൃഷ്ടിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന മനസ്സിലെ മധുരം ഒരു ശത്രുതക്കും മായ്ക്കാന് എളുപ്പമാകില്ല. സാഹോദര്യത്തിന്െറ ഓര്മപ്പെടുത്തലായി ഈ ആഘോഷം മാറുന്നില്ലെങ്കില് പരസ്പരവൈരവും ശത്രുതയും വളര്ത്താന് മാത്രമാകും ഈ അതിര്ത്തി കവാത്തുകള് കാരണമാവുക. ഞങ്ങളുടെ വാഗാ സന്ദര്ശനത്തിനുശേഷം ഒരാഴ്ച കഴിഞ്ഞപ്പോള് 14ന് പത്രങ്ങളില് ഒരു സന്തോഷചിത്രം. മധുരസൗഹൃദം: വാഗാ അതിര്ത്തിയില് നടന്ന ദീപാവലി ആഘോഷത്തില് പാകിസ്താന് റെയ്ഞ്ചേഴ്സ് വിങ്കമാന്ഡര് അദ്നാന് ബി.എസ്.എഫ് ഡെപ്യൂട്ടി ഇന്സ്പെക്ടര് ജനറല് ബേബി ജോസഫിന് മധുരം സമ്മാനിക്കുന്ന പടം. ഈ ചിത്രം പകര്ന്ന സന്തോഷം ഏറെ നീണ്ടുനിന്നില്ല. കണ്മുന്നില് വാഗയിലെ യഥാര്ഥ ചിത്രങ്ങള് തിളച്ചുവന്നു.<br />
ഞാനമ്പരക്കുകയാണ്, സമ്മാനമധുരം നല്കിയവരുടെയും അത് സ്വീകരിച്ചവരുടെയും യഥാര്ഥ മാനസികാവസ്ഥ, വികാരം എന്തായിരിക്കും? ഒരു ചടങ്ങ് എന്നതിനപ്പുറം ഇതിനു പിന്നില് എന്തെങ്കിലും ആത്മാര്ഥതയുണ്ടാകുമോ? ആര്ക്കറിയാം. മഹാത്മജിയുടെ കണ്ണീരുതോരാന് ഇരുരാജ്യങ്ങളും ഇനിയും ഏറെ മുന്നോട്ടുപോകേണ്ടതുണ്ടെന്നുറപ്പ്.<br />
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മൊയ്തു വാണിമേല്http://www.blogger.com/profile/03717187571069224030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024003564291274229.post-1995560350777015232012-07-07T05:59:00.005-07:002012-07-07T06:00:57.649-07:00Gabriel Garcia Marquez Suffering from Dementia and Stopped Writing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Suffering from Dementia and Stopped Writing</h1>
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the winner of 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and the author of the 1967 masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude.</h2>
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Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez is suffering from dementia and has stopped writing, says his younger brother, Jaime Garcia Marquez.</div>
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"He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry because I feel like I'm losing him," the author's brother told students at a lecture in the city of Cartagena.</div>
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"Dementia runs in our family and he's now suffering the ravages prematurely due to the cancer that put him almost on the verge of death," said Jamie who was invited to talk about his relationship with the acclaimed author.</div>
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It was the first time that a family member of Marquez was speaking about his health publicly. Jamie said he tried to keep the writer's health a secret, just to protect his privacy.</div>
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"The fact is there are lots of comments. Some are true but they're always filled with morbid (details). Sometimes you get the sense they'd rather he were dead, as if his death were some great news," Jamie told the students.</div>
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Gabo, as the author is affectionately called throughout Latin America, is the author of several best sellers including Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth and Memories of My Melancholy Whores, which is his last published work.</div>
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<span class="meta_origin" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CAIRO, Jun 15 2012 (IPS) </span>- It is becoming increasingly uncomfortable to be female or foreign in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, birthplace of the January 2011 Egyptian revolution.</div>
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<span id="more-109995" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>A wave of sexual assaults against female protestors and foreign female journalists by mobs of men, some armed with sticks and belts, has taken place in the last few weeks in broad public view.</div>
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An American photographer witnessed a Danish woman being seriously sexually assaulted as she was dragged into a building on Tahrir Square by a group of men. Other Egyptian men who tried to come to her aid were attacked. An AP reporter witnessed another foreign woman being attacked similarly.</div>
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Several veiled Muslim women had their hijabs pulled off and were sexually molested. The men involved tried to remove more clothing.</div>
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Aggravating this volatile situation has been an advertisement on Egyptian state TV warning Egyptians against talking to foreigners, saying they are probably spies working for foreign intelligence agencies. Only after the ad was heavily attacked and ridiculed was it pulled.</div>
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One of the women sexually assaulted and beaten up was accused of being an Israeli spy. She was subsequently dragged away, traumatised and bleeding, into a gas station by some employees. This probably saved her being from being lynched by the mob.</div>
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“You’re working for Israel!” yelled a middle aged man as I spoke to several protestors. That provoked some of those I was interviewing to turn hostile.</div>
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A group of about 100 women and their male supporters, protesting the ongoing sexual harrassment of female protestors in Tahrir Square was attacked by a large group of men.</div>
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The men men threw stones and bottles at the women, and at a number of men who had come to protect the women. Several gunshots were heard. The protest was organised on Twitter and Facebook by protestors with the support of civil society groups.</div>
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Some Egyptian protestors argue that the mob attacks are organised by the state, like the sexual assaults carried out by Mubarak’s security men when mass protests began against his regime in 2006.</div>
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“This is an attempt to intimidate women from taking part in the protests,” said Egyptian journalist Bisan Kassab, 29. “It is also an attempt to discredit the revolutionaries in our conservative society where female protestors venturing out at night with male protestors are viewed as morally quesitonable.</div>
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“We are not talking about assaults in a dark alley carried out by individuals but about large groups of men doing this in full public view,” Kassab told IPS.</div>
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Kassab believes the assaults are taking place at two levels. Some, she said, are “Egyptian men who are sexually frustrated on a personal level due to not being able to marry before earning enough to pay for a home and wedding amidst Egypt’s high unemployment levels. They have also been emasculated under Mubarak’s regime and they look for weak targets to make them feel empowered.</div>
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“But the other attacks are state organised and this is obvious in the way they have been coordinated. These mob attacks always happen during politically volatile times such as elections or demonstrations,” Kassab told IPS.</div>
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To a certain degree the intimidation has worked, with a number of women refusing to come back to the square in light of the harrassment.</div>
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“It’s disgusting, it makes us feel lower than men. We’ve come here to pay our respect to the martyrs who lost their lives and this is how we are treated,” Shimaan Muhammed, 23, told IPS.</div>
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“Stop calling it harassment, a march of over 100 was attacked in Tahrir. I’m sick to my stomach. It’s assault,” said protestor Sally Zohny.</div>
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“Maybe the women were wearing revealing clothing, or perhaps some of them were thieves,” one young man who refused to give his name told IPS.</div>
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“What were these women doing at night in the square? Why did they come here anyway?” asked another young man who would only give his name as Ahmed.</div>
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Meanwhile, several foreign journalists have been debating the growing xenophobia in Egypt actively encouraged by the state media who appear to be backing Ahmed Shafik, a former cabinet member in Mubarak’s National Democratic Party.</div>
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“I lived here the better part of six years before January 25 (the date of the revolution) and never felt the kind of suspicion/hostility I do now,” said an American journalist.</div>
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Egyptian women have been vocal protesters against the post-Mubarak regime, despite continuing sexual harassment at marches and gatherings. Photograph: Amel Pain/EPA</div>
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A mob of hundreds of men assaulted women holding a march demanding an end to sexual harassment in Cairo, as attackers overwhelmed male supporters and molested several of the marchers in Tahrir Square.</div>
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The attack on Friday follows a spate of smaller-scale assaults on women in Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the uprising that forced former president Hosni Mubarak to step down last year.</div>
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Earlier in the week, an Associated Press reporter witnessed around 200 men assault a woman who eventually fainted before others came to her aid.</div>
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Friday's march demanded an end to all sexual assaults. Around 50 women participated, surrounded by a larger group of male supporters who joined hands to form a protective ring around them. The protesters carried posters and chanted. After the marchers entered a crowded corner of the square, a group of men waded into the women, heckling them and groping them. The attackers chased the the marchers as they tried to flee. Several women were cornered against railings and groped, according to reports. Eventually, the women found refuge in a nearby building.</div>
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"After what I saw and heard today I am furious at so many things." wrote Sally Zohney, one of the event's organisers on Twitter.</div>
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Ahmed Mansour, a 22 year-old male medical student who took part in the march, said: "Some people think it is targeted to make women hate coming here."</div>
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During the uprising against Mubarak last year, women said they briefly experienced a "new <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/egypt" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Egypt">Egypt</a>". Women participated as activists, protesters, medics and frontline fighters against the security forces. They have continued to play a leading role over the past 15 months. However, assaults on women protesters have been common, mainly perpetrated by men opposed to their presence and the security forces. Lara Logan, a US correspondent for CBS television, was sexually assaulted by a mob in Tahrir Square on the day Mubarak stepped down, as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians celebrated.</div>
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In a defining image of state violence against women, soldiers dispersing a protest in December were captured on video stripping a woman's top off and stomping on her chest, as other troops pulled her by the arms across the ground. That incident prompted a march by 10,000 women through Cairo.</div>
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In contrast, the small size of Friday's march could reflect the fear felt by women in the square.</div>
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Sexual harassment of women, including against those who wear the hijab, is common in Cairo. A 2008 report by the Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights said two-thirds of women in the country experienced sexual harassment on a daily basis. A string of mass assaults on women in 2006 during Eid, the feast following Ramadan, prompted police to increase patrols.</div>
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"Women activists are at the core of the revolution," said Ahmed Hawary, who attended Friday's protest. "They are the courage of this movement. If you break them, you break the spirit of the revolution."</div>
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Alive and well … Gabriel García Márquez. Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AP</div>
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Rumours of the death of the great Colombian novelist <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gabrielgarciamarquez" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Gabriel García Márquez</a> have been, in the immortal words of Mark Twain, greatly exaggerated.</div>
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Magical realist Márquez won the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/nobel-prize-literature" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Nobel prize for literature</a> in 1982 for "his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts". Yesterday evening <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/UmbertoEcoOffic" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">a Twitter account purporting to belong to the Italian author and academic Umberto Eco</a>stated: "Gabriel García Márquez dies. I received the news now from New York." Writer <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/mario-vargas-llosa" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Mario Vargas Llosa</a> and Márquez's family confirmed the news, according to the account, which "will be officially announced by the sister Aida and by publishers in few hours".</div>
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With the Eco account followed by almost 2,000 people, the news quickly spread and literary social media went into mourning – until doubts started to surface about its veracity. The Eco account has not been verified by Twitter as belonging to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/classics/9780099466031/the-name-of-the-rose" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">The Name of the Rose</a> author, and its tweets were eventually dismissed as a hoax. "What if we said <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/umbertoeco" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Umberto Eco">Umberto Eco</a> died? A false account," tweeted the apparent – although not verified – account of the 85-year-old Márquez himself, <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/elgabo" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">@ElGabo</a>. Jaime Abello Banfi, director of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation, also denied the rumours, while Reuters' Mexico correspondent <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/CBarreraDiaz" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Cyntia Barrera Diaz</a>said a colleague had spoken with the Colombian ambassador to Mexico, and Márquez was in Los Angeles visiting family.</div>
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"Don't be upset about Twitter circulating rumours of Gabriel García Márquez's demise – this is exactly how magical realism works," said New York Times journalist Michael Roston. "Looks like the García Márquez news is hoax. What bastards. Chronicle of a Death Foretweeted ..." <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/thestephmerritt" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">said author Stephanie Merritt</a>, referencing Márquez's novel <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/fiction/9780141032467/chronicle-of-a-death-foretold" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Chronicle of a Death Foretold</a>.</div>
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Márquez is just the latest victim of the so-called Twitter death-rumour mill, joining <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pope-benedict-xvi" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Pope Benedict XVI</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/fidel-castro" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Fidel Castro</a> and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/pedroalmodovar" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Pedro Almodóvar</a>. Many of the hoaxes <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/30/twitter-hoaxer-tommaso-de-benedetti" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">were instigated by the Italian schoolteacher Tommaso De Benedetti</a>, who has also <a href="http://storyful.com/stories/29053" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">been linked to the fake Eco account</a>. "Social media is the most unverifiable information source in the world but the news media believes it because of its need for speed," De Benedetti told the Guardian in March.</div>
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</div>മൊയ്തു വാണിമേല്http://www.blogger.com/profile/03717187571069224030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024003564291274229.post-75649660881413809992012-05-15T06:56:00.005-07:002012-05-15T06:56:58.398-07:00Man sets himself on fire outside Breivik trial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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OSLO — A man set himself on fire on Tuesday outside the Oslo courthouse where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for killing 77 people in twin attacks last July, police said.</div>
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The man, whose identity was not revealed, suffered serious injuries, Norwegian police said.</div>
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"The man crossed the street and set himself on fire," Kjell Jan Kvarme, head of police security operations outside the courthouse, told AFP.</div>
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"Police officers pulled off his clothes and put out the fire."</div>
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Commercial broadcaster TV2 quoted a witness as saying the man had shouted in Swedish: "Shoot me! Shoot me!"</div>
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The incident took place at 1:42 pm (1142 GMT) and the man was taken to Ullevaal Hospital, police said.</div>
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Kvarme said the man was seriously injured, adding that his motive was not known and that there was no evidence so far to say it was linked to the Breivik trial.</div>
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Inside the courthouse, on the 19th day of Breivik's trial, young people wounded in his massacre were testifying about the shooting spree on the island of Utoeya on July 22.</div>
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Breivik has been charged with committing terrorist acts when he bombed a government building in Oslo, killing eight people, before shooting dead another 69 in his rampage on Utoeya.</div>
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The victims were there for a summer camp of the ruling Labour Party's youth wing, and the youngest had just celebrated her 14th birthday.</div>
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Breivik has confessed to the killings but has refused to plead guilty, insisting the shootings were "cruel but necessary" to stop the Labour Party's "multicultural experiment" and the "Muslim invasion" of Norway and Europe.</div>
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As advancements in DNA sequencing technology lead to personalised treatments, we examine the cost of the war on cancer.</div>
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It has been more than 40 years since Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act of 1971, beginning the 'war on cancer'. There have been notable successes since, particularly with childhood cancers. Childhood leukemia, once a death sentence, now has survival rates approaching 90 per cent. The American Cancer Society estimates that 767,000 cancer deaths were prevented over the last 20 years.</div>
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One cause for optimism is the rapid advance of DNA sequencing technology. The Human Genome Project took a decade and cost $2.7bn. Companies are now racing to sequence human genomes in a day for $1,000. This is particularly important for cancer research as genetic mutations cause the disease.</div>
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The ability to sequence patient DNA and that of their tumours is leading to "personalised medicine"; treatment regimes tailored to genetic quirks in people and their cancers. We talk to Dr Joel Malek and Dr Arash Tabrizi, two researchers doing exactly that right here in Qatar.</div>
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Producing these treatments is a business; the cost of cancer drugs can be shocking. A single treatment of the advanced cancer drug Yervoy can cost $30,000, or $120,000 for a four dose course. That is too expensive for NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), the cost effectiveness watchdog for England's National Health Service, but producing such drugs does not come cheap.</div>
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It takes an average of 10 to 15 years and $1.3bn to bring a drug to market, but the real cost is in attrition; only five per cent of agents that show anti-cancer properties make it through the approval process. This high failure rate and associated costs make such investment risky; small companies have trouble finding financing and large pharmaceutical companies have slashed research spending. We speak to Dr. Ronald DePinho, the president of the MD Andersen Cancer Institute, and Dr. Paolo Paoletti, the president of Oncology at GlaxoSmithKline, about the business and future of cancer research.</div>
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Cancer is a disease that comes at great cost, financially, as well as personally, so what is being done to bring that cost down?</div>
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Personalised medicine and advanced therapies are unavailable to many in developing countries. Traditional chemotherapy kills cancer cells, but takes healthy cells with it. Those treatments require the sort of supportive care that is unavailable in many countries. There are fewer cases of cancer in developing nations, primarily because people do not live as long. Sixty per cent or more of new cancers occur in those aged 65 and older.</div>
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Those that do get cancer in developing nations have a poor outlook. In 2008, the International Agency for Research on Cancer found 118.7 incidences of cancer per 100,000 people and 93.7 deaths in Africa. Compare that to the UK which had 504 incidences and 181.3 deaths per 100,000.</div>
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As part of this episode of <em>Counting the Cost</em>, we take a look at the effort to provide good cancer care in Pakistan. In a country where 150,000 cancer cases are reported every year the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital is for many the only hope.</div>
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Yousaf Khan, the father of a patient, says: "My son was suffering from blood cancer, even I was not able to afford its cost...but one day I visited Shaukat Khanum and found it a blessing for my son who is under treatment here from the last two years free of charge and he has recovered a lot."</div>
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A Pakistani court has jailed the three former wives and two daughters of<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/osamabinladen" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a> for 45 days for illegally remaining in the country, according to their lawyers.</div>
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Since they have been in detention since 3 March, the sentence means the five women will spend another 14 days in prison before being deported to their home countries. They were also each fined 10,000 rupees (£122).</div>
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The money was paid on the spot," Aamir Khalil, one of the lawyers, said. "The secretary of the interior has been instructed to make arrangements for their deportation after that."</div>
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Bin Laden was shot and killed in May last year by US special forces. The former <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/al-qaida" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on al-Qaida">al-Qaida</a> leader had been discovered living in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad after a decade-long manhunt.</div>
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Analysts said <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pakistan" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Pakistan">Pakistan</a> may have wanted a lengthy prison sentence for the family to prevent them from discussing details of their time in Pakistan. Once outside, they could reveal details about how the world's most wanted man was able to hide in Pakistan, an ally of the US, for years.</div>
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Pakistan's government and military have long denied aiding Bin Laden and his family.</div>
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Any revelations about ties to Bin Laden would embarrass Islamabad and infuriate Washington, which staged a decade-long hunt for Bin Laden after the 11 September attacks in 2001.</div>
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Yemen-born Amal al-Sadeh, Bin Laden's youngest widow, and her four children were among 16 people detained by Pakistani authorities after the Abbottabad raid, which also included two other wives from Saudi Arabia.</div>
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Hana Shalabi arrives in Gaza after agreeing to end 43-day fast in protest against detention without charge by Israel.</div>
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Shalabi was one of around 300 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails under administrative detention [AFP]</div>
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<tr><td class="DetailedSummary" id="tdTextContent" style="line-height: 19px;">Hana Shalabi, a Palestinian woman on a hunger strike for 43 days, has been deported to the Gaza Strip after ending her fast under a deal that has been criticised by Palestinians.<br /><br />Shalabi has been protesting against her detention by Israel without charge.<br />
Witnesses and Palestinian officials told the AFP news agency that Shalabi entered Gaza via the Erez border crossing, and was transferred by ambulance to a local hospital for tests.<br /><br />Shalabi, who met relatives on the Israeli side of Erez before entering Gaza, said she was "very happy to be in my country with my people".<br /><br />But, she added, the encounter with her family - from Jenin in the West Bank - was very difficult.<br /><br />"I was shocked meeting my family, and they were shocked to see me," she told the media on the Gaza side of Erez. "The meeting with my family was very difficult."<br /><br />Shalabi was received in Gaza by approximately 100 people bearing her picture and calling out her name. Officials from the Islamic Jihad and Hamas movements were also there.<br /><br />Sivan Weizman, Israel's prison services spokeswoman, said Shalabi, who ended her hunger strike on March 29, was transferred in a regular vehicle, and that she had no details on her condition.<br /><br />Shalabi began her hunger strike after she was arrested on February 16 and held without charge. She was hospitalised on March 19, after 33 days without food, with doctors saying she had lost 14kg and her pulse was "feeble".<br /><br />On March 29, Palestinian authorities announced that Shalabi had agreed to a deal with Israel under which she would be released and deported to Gaza for three years in exchange for ending her hunger strike.<br />
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The deal has been criticised by rights groups and the Palestinian prisoners affairs ministry, which said she had been forced to accept the arrangement.<br /><br />But in a statement released on Sunday through her lawyer, Jawad Bulus, Shalabi insisted she had agreed to the deal voluntarily.<br /><br />'To my dear family and my people and all the free people in the world, I thank you for your efforts and I appreciate everything you did for me and for the prisoners," she said.<br /><br />"I hope that you will understand my position and my decision, which was taken freely."<br />
"I chose to be transported to Gaza, which is half the homeland, and to be with my family and people there for three years," she said.<br /><br />
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<tr><td><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>"With no guarantees that she or her family will be permitted to travel, her expulsion could essentially become an extension of her previous isolation</strong></span><span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>"</strong></span><br />
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"After that I will go back to my home in Jenin and to my family. I hope that my decision will be respected and that we will continue to support together those who are fighting their battles for the homeland and for the prisoners," said Shalabi.<br />
Palestinian prisoners group Addameer and Israel's Physicians For Human Rights-Israel, both of which worked on Shalabi's case, expressed concern about the deal, in a joint statement on Sunday.<br /><br />They noted that their officials, as well as Shalabi's relatives, were denied access to her during the final days of her hunger strike.<br /><br />And they warned that "aspects" of the deal "are fundamentally at odds with international law".<br /><br />"With no guarantees that she or her family will be permitted to travel, her expulsion could essentially become an extension of her previous isolation from her home and family while in prison."<br /><br />The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement issued in Geneva that it was not involved in the negotiations between Shalabi and the Israeli authorities "and is not aware of the details of the arrangement."<br /><br />However, the organisation said it "urges the Israeli authorities to comply with international humanitarian law ... which prohibits Israel, whatever its motives, from forcibly transferring Palestinians to another territory."<br /><br />The statement added: "On purely humanitarian grounds, the ICRC did facilitate a visit between Ms Shalabi and her relatives, which took place today at the Erez crossing."<br />
<strong>Previous detentions</strong><br /><br />Israel had previously held Shalabi for 25 months but released her in October last year under a <a class="InternalLink" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/10/20111017221258366393.html" style="color: #fb9d04; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">prisoner swap deal</a>with Hamas, which controls Gaza.<br />
Shalabi was one of about 300 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails under administrative detention orders, which allow a court to order an individual to be detained for renewable periods of up to six months at a time.<br />
Her action followed a hunger strike undertaken by another <a class="InternalLink" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/02/201222113016367480.html" style="color: #fb9d04; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Palestinian prisoner, Khader Adnan</a>, who also protested his detention.<br />
Adnan refused food for 66 days, only agreeing to end his hunger strike after a deal was struck ensuring he would be released at the end of his four-month term.<br />
In the wake of his hunger strike, dozens more <a class="InternalLink" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middleeast/2012/02/2012212123512120636.html" style="color: #fb9d04; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails</a> launched similar protests, according to Palestinian and Israeli officials.</td></tr>
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Junk food is bad for health. Its definition tells its inner
story—food that is high on calories and saturated fat but low on
nutrition. Junk food is all about pleasure and empty calories. So, the
world is worried. It is now linked to the growing epidemic of
non-communicable diseases—the ‘fat’ problem. Every ailment from heart
diseases to hypertension and diabetes is linked to how one eats and how
one exercises. Junk food has become the world’s biggest health
headache. And some governments are taking action—banning junk food
advertising in children’s programmes, removing it from schools and even
imposing a fat tax. Sugar, salt and fat are items that need to be
regulated. This means governments have to step in to control the
powerful processed food industry. But this is not happening in India.
It believes food industry has full privilege to sell anything—and kill
people slowly and sweetly. So, the Pollution Monitoring Laboratory of
the Centre for Science and Environment, a non-profit in Delhi, decided
to investigate the food people love to eat—everything from chips to
bhujia and instant noodles to burgers. All the food that is sold to us
through persuasive and glamorous advertisements; all the food that our
film and cricket stars tell us to eat. The laboratory checked for fats,
carbs, salt and trans fats. The results are deadly and damning. Eat at
your own risk, is the message.<br />
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FRIED POTATO CHIPS</div>
<img align="left" alt="CHIPS" border="0" height="112" src="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/19_1_20120415.png" width="100" />It
has around 33% fats. This means if one munches a standard-sized packet
of chips (65-75gm), he or she consumes about half of the daily fats
quota. Unlike in a balanced diet, where a maximum of 30% of calories
should come from fats, 50-60% of calories come from fats in chips</td>
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INDIAN SNACKS</div>
<img align="left" alt="aloo bhujia" border="0" height="104" src="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/19_2_20120415.png" width="90" />Fats
and carbohydrates combined, 100 gm of Kurkure has enough calories to
satisfy one-fourth of one’s daily recommended quota. If you are fond of
aloo bhujia with tea, you get high doses of salt and trans fats, along
with a high amount of calories</td>
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INSTANT NOODLES</div>
<img align="left" alt="Maggie Noodles" border="0" height="98" src="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/19_4_20120415.png" width="100" />The
“tasty and healthy” meal comes with high salt, empty calories. A packet
of noodle has around 3 gm of salt; recommended intake is 6 gm/day.
Addition of vitamins, as claimed by Maggie Noodles, doesn’t make it a
healthy food as it has negligible fibres; 70% of it is just
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POTATO FRIES</div>
<img align="left" alt="POTATO FRIES" border="0" height="134" src="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/19_3_20120415.png" width="100" />Fries
that one eats with burger and soft drink are laden with fats: 20% of
its weight is fats, 1.6% of its weight is trans fats. By eating a large
serving (220 gm), one exceeds the safe limit for trans fats. Additional
trans fats come from accompanying burger too</td>
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BURGER</div>
<img align="left" alt="BURGER" border="0" height="102" src="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/19_5_20120415.png" width="100" />KFC’s
Chicken Zinger has 16.9% fats. McAloo has 8.3% fats. How unbalanced
diets are they is gauged from the fact that 35% of calories in a veg
burger come from fats. In non-veg burgers 47% calories are from fats</td>
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CARBONATED DRINKS</div>
<img align="left" alt="cold drinks" border="0" height="129" src="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/19_7_20120415.png" width="100" />The
300 ml serving that one drinks with all kinds of junk food has enough
sugar (over 40 gm) to exceed one’s daily sugar quota of 20 gm. After
this, forget the cup of tea, one should not even eat fruits. Any
additional sugar will make one fat</td>
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FRIED CHICKEN</div>
<img align="left" alt="KFC" border="0" height="114" src="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/19_6_20120415.png" width="100" />Regular
consumption of this product is likely to make one obese. A two-piece
fried chicken of KFC (about 250gm) has nearly 60 gm of fats, which is
recommended for the whole day</td>
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PIZZA</div>
<img align="left" alt="pizza" border="0" height="137" src="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/19_8_20120415.png" width="100" />By
far, pizzas were found to be healthy compared to the other junk foods
tested. They have low levels of salt and fats; levels of trans fats were
also low. CSE tested only the basic pizza. Those with extra cheese are
more popular and might not be very safe</td>
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</div>മൊയ്തു വാണിമേല്http://www.blogger.com/profile/03717187571069224030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024003564291274229.post-1495712219256412982012-03-30T05:08:00.001-07:002012-03-30T05:08:17.198-07:00One-Man Army?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em>How did an outstanding General become the most polarising Chief of Staff in the Indian Army’s history? <strong>Brijesh Pandey </strong>on the war games that threaten our defence establishment</em></div>
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<strong>Deceptive truce </strong>Gen VK Singh greets Defence Minister AK Antony</div>
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<strong>KITCHENER VERSUS</strong> Curzon, Thimayya versus Krishna Menon, Vishnu Bhagwat versus George Fernandes and now VK Singh versus AK Antony and Manmohan Singh: in the past century, these have been the biggest military commander-political boss battles in Indian history. In each case conditions have been different. Kitchener was a crafty man who conspired against his viceroy and finished his career in India. Thimayya, a noble and much loved soldier, was reduced to a caricature by Krishna Menon and more so by Jawaharlal Nehru who turned down his resignation but refused to save him from a difficult defence minister. On his part, Bhagwat was cussed. Like Kitchener he demanded autonomy in appointing his subordinate naval commanders, more autonomy than any civilian authority would give him. He ran a public campaign and paid for it.</div>
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Which of these templates suits VK Singh, the chief of army staff and general of the 1.3-million-strong Indian Army who has just declared war on his government? It can safely be predicted that he is not viewed as a Thimayya, a gentleman general who is still honoured by military historians. Yet is Singh, reputed to be a financially honest officer in a time when the military brass has come under scrutiny on matters of integrity, the villain of the piece — or is he just a proud-to-the-point-of-stubborn soldier who lost his head? The army, a public institution with a very private code of honour, is still trying to make up its mind.</div>
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The mood wasn’t always so grey. In fact when General Singh fought and asked the government to clarify its position on his year of birth — 1950 or 1951 — he was the subject of sympathy. Many believed that he was indeed born in 1951 but that army records had deliberately not been corrected by some of his predecessors to ensure he retired in May 2012 and not a year later. This was done, it was said, to ensure a certain line of succession to the top job in the Indian Army.</div>
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When Singh’s letter to the Defence Ministry — just before he moved the Supreme Court — was replied to by a minor bureaucrat who snubbed the army chief and rejected his age claim, there was actually much disquiet in military circles. Has civilian control of the army come to this — a point where the general of the Indian Army could be shoved aside by a small-time bureaucrat?</div>
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Today that disquiet has gone. Rather there is a sense of exasperation. Singh’s claim that in 2010 he was offered a bribe by a retired army officer, Lt General Tejinder Singh, caused a controversy when he said he told Defence Minister Antony about it but the latter did not act. What defies explanation is that Singh himself kept quiet about it for two years, neither filing a written complaint nor informing a police authority.</div>
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Next, on March 12, Singh wrote a letter to the prime minister arguing that the army was severely incapacitated and not in position to defend the country should there be a war. This top-secret letter then made it to the press, only intensifying the conflict between the general and the government that appointed him. If it is established the general leaked the letter, his sacking is inevitable. If the prime minister’s office leaked the letter to discredit the general — some of the points he makes in the letter are grossly exaggerated, military veterans say — then the breakdown of the civilian-army HQ relationship is alarming.</div>
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Where lies the truth? Who is India to believe?</div>
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<strong>LET US</strong> begin with the bribery allegation. On March 26, Singh told <em>The Hindu </em>newspaper that a retired three-star general had come to his office and offered him a Rs 14 crore bribe to clear further purchase of Tatra trucks. Singh said he was flabbergasted and found it hard to comprehend what was happening, eventually asking his visitor to get out of his office. Singh then told Antony about the incident, something Antony admitted in Parliament where he identified the alleged bribe giver as Tejinder Singh.</div>
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So why didn’t Antony, a politician who prides himself on his honesty, take action against Tejinder Singh? This is where the links don’t match. The defence minister says he asked the army chief to take action but that VK Singh said he did not want to pursue the case. Neither did he give a complaint in writing. This was strange. Stranger still was Antony’s response. What prevented him from ordering an investigation on the basis of an oral complaint?</div>
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Speaking to TEHELKA, Antony offered a weak defence: “Yes, I was under tremendous tension for the past two days. Now … I’m cool. It was the first time there was an allegation directly hitting me. And it was levelled by none other than the army chief who is going to retire soon. Even today I don’t know why he did it. But his allegations had damaged the image of our defence forces. He put the pride of our country at stake.”</div>
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<strong>Wheeler-dealer?</strong> Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh (left) claims no role in Tatragate</div>
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The defence minister was not quite innocent. There is a back-story to Singh’s Hindu interview. It came after what one retired general close to Singh called “incessant sniper fire” from the defence ministry bureaucracy and its factionalists in the army. On 16 February, a military intelligence officer is believed to have alerted officials about Antony’s office being bugged. A section began to leak stories to the media hinting that the army chief was responsible for this. Singh was hurt and the army was asked to issue an unusual press release: “The present [eavesdropping] story has been put out by Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh, who was the ex DG-DIA, and who has been earlier questioned on the purchase of the ‘off-air monitoring system’ without sanction by the technically empowered committee. This officer has also been an allottee in Adarsh Housing Society in Mumbai and has also offered bribe on behalf of Tatra and Vectra Ltd, which supplies vehicles to BEML. The officer along with some disgruntled serving officers of the Military Intelligence, against whom administrative actions are in the process, has worked out this fictitious story.”</div>
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This press release was not a clarification but a counter-charge. Less than a month later, it was revealed that the bribe offer was made to the army chief himself, and that Tejinder Singh, former director-general (DG) of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) was charged with being a defence equipment agent. Tejinder hit back by filing defamation case against the army chief. The two may be sworn enemies today but they too have a history, or so goes the cantonment grapevine.</div>
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Tejinder joined the army in 1970, a year after VK Singh. Before becoming DG, DIA, he was area commander of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa. He was allotted a flat in the infamous Adarsh Society in Mumbai, where army officers and politicians stole land meant to house Kargil war widows.</div>
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Tejinder is believed to have been close to General JJ Singh and General Deepak Kapoor, the two immediate past army chiefs. JJ Singh made him commander in Mumbai and Kapoor, who had a cold war with VK Singh, brought him in as head of the DIA. Tejinder retired in June 2010. He was in the running for the post of chief of the powerful National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) but failed to get it due to the Adarsh aftermath.</div>
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Tejinder has not denied meeting VK Singh in 2010. His friends say he had gone to lobby for the NTRO job and in turn offered to help Singh get his date of birth issues sorted out, leveraging some of his political connections. This might explain some of VK Singh’s inexplicable reluctance to move against him on the alleged bribe, though as of now there is no direct link between Tejinder and Tatra Vectra Motors, which manufactures Tatra trucks in Hosur. Tejinder claims he runs two consultancy companies.</div>
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Tejinder has a reputation for being influential. Married into a politically connected Punjabi family, he escaped the Adarsh episode as well as the serious charge that he had over-spent in getting his house refurbished while he was posted in Mumbai. When an anonymous complaint reached the Ministry of Defence, JJ Singh, then chief, neutralised it.</div>
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Speaking to TEHELKA, Tejinder was copybook correctness: “I completely deny all the allegations levelled against me by the army. I don’t work for the Tatra company and I will file criminal defamation against all the persons involved for naming me in the press release.”</div>
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<strong>SOON THERE</strong> was another twist to the tale. Within hours of the defence minister’s statement in Parliament, Colonel (retd) RSN Singh, formerly of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW, India’s external secret service), said there was an audio recording of the bribe offer and the conversation in 2010 between Tejinder and the army chief. If this were true, it made Singh’s position even more puzzling? Why had he recorded the conversation?</div>
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Army chiefs cannot be visited by just anybody. There is an elaborate protocol and it is breached only for professional and personal friends of long standing. If VK Singh agreed to meet Tejinder, he must have felt a comfort level. Why then had he decided to record the conversation? Was there some premonition? Also, if the evidence was available, why had Singh not cited or used it?</div>
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Retired army officers don’t doubt the honesty of VK Singh. They are, however, talking of his rivalry with Deepak Kapoor, who had cleared the last tranche of 768 Tatra trucks. Before Singh became army commander (a pre-requisite for becoming COAS), his conflicting age issue was a problem. Kapoor did not accept Singh’s claim that he was born in 1951 and told Singh if he did not accede to the 1950 date in writing he would be denied a promotion and a shot at the chief’s job. Singh swallowed his pride but waited to get back.</div>
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On becoming commander, Singh sought to be named vice-chief and serve under Kapoor in New Delhi. This would give him leverage in the capital when Kapoor retired and ensure the succession. Kapoor had other ideas. He wanted to make Lt General PC Bhardwaj the vice-chief and position him for the top job.</div>
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A precedent was dug up. In 1983, Indira Gandhi had superseded SK Sinha, the then vice-chief, and appointed Arun Vaidya as the army chief. The reason was the then prime minister distrusted Sinha’s independence and felt he was not pliant enough. The logic offered was that Vaidya was a better, more decorated soldier. As it happened, Bhardwaj had won a Vir Chakra and was more decorated than Singh.</div>
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‘Both parties are guilty of inaction. Instead of raising the issue at the fag end of his career, Singh should have done it when the bribe was offered.<strong> As for Antony, he’s just picking on technicalities saying Singh didn’t give it in writing. Singh still hadn’t when Antony ordered the CBI inquiry two days ago. So why didn’t he just do it when he was told earlier?’</strong></div>
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‘This exposes a rift between the military and civilian establishment.<strong>The chief brought the bribe offer to the notice of his superior. Antony should have acted even if the chief said he didn’t want to take the issue further.</strong> It is like saying, I saw a murder, but I don’t want to talk. This will pull down our morale and is very dangerous for our country’</div>
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‘For the first time in history, an arms lobbyist has walked up to the chief and offered him a bribe. What’s worse is that the same set of<strong> people feel that they have such backing that they can hold the chief to ransom. They have taken steps to defame him,</strong>fabricate false birth certificates, innuendos planted in media… all designed to see that he was thrown out of office’</div>
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‘This is something VK Singh should have come out with 18 months ago. What is the point of coming out at this late stage? The sense that I get is that <strong>he wanted to get back at the system… knife the system, which did not give him justice.</strong> That is why it is even more important that he is asked to go. He should go voluntarily or he should be forced to’</div>
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Singh, a commando by training and at the time chief of the Eastern Command in Kolkata, hit back by cracking down on two of Kapoor’s officers — Lt Gen PK Rath and Kapoor’s military secretary, Avadesh Prakash. They were court-martialled for their role in secretly selling off army land in Sukna, Darjeeling, to a property developer. Kapoor was angry but couldn’t do much. Singh used this episode to establish himself as General Clean-up — the man who would stand up to corruption in the army. After the Sukna affair, the government could not deny VK Singh the army chief ’s job and not arouse public suspicion.</div>
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Yet old ghosts still haunted the Army HQ. Tejinder — who is believed to have a Bhiwani connection with VK Singh, a Rajput who hails from that small town in Haryana — is also supposed to be close to Kapoor. Did this arouse suspicions in Singh and lead to him turning the conversation in his office with Tejinder into what in retrospect would seem a sting operation?</div>
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<strong>WHY WAS</strong> the Tatra deal so important for Tejinder or whoever was trying to influence the army chief in 2010? Here too some background is called for. The all-terrain, all-weather Tatra trucks have been carrying the army, literally, for 25 years now. The first agreement was signed in 1986, in the Cold War years, with Omnipol, the Czechoslovakian company that made the trucks.</div>
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About three years later, the Eastern Bloc collapsed and Czechoslovakia itself dismembered into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The future of Tatra truck supplies to the Indian Army was in doubt. Ravi Rishi, an NRI businessman, bought Tatra through his London-based company Vectra. In 1992, the Indian public sector company BEML started buying trucks from Tatra Sipox in the United Kingdom and giving them to the army.</div>
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What was ignored, perhaps deliberately, was that Tatra Sipox was a London-based trading company and not an original manufacturer. This was in direct conflict with the principal defence-purchase rule in India — you buy from the manufacturer, not some intermediary. Later the holding pattern of the company changed again, and BEML signed a joint venture agreement with Tata Vectra, with Rishi as majority shareholder. As per the modalities of this 2003 agreement, the army chief had to okay the Tatra procurement deal each year. The last deal was signed in 2010, after Deepak Kapoor’s assent.</div>
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When VK Singh took over, he refused to play ball and announced annulment of the Tatra deal. He said the truck was overpriced and not performing well. A rival manufacturer, Ural India, was promising a truck for Rs 40 lakh, about half of Tatra’s price. Besides, Ashok Leyland and Tata Motors were also announcing plans for making all-weather, all-terrain trucks for the Indian Army.</div>
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As such, Tatra had enough reason to do its utmost to get VK Singh to change his mind.</div>
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<strong>WHILE THE</strong> defence ministry was trying to defuse the bribe bomb, on 28 March came the letter bomb. General VK Singh’s letter to the prime minister painted a doomsday scenario. “The army’s entire tank fleet was devoid of critical ammunition,” the DNA newspaper quoted the letter as saying, “to defeat enemy tanks. The air defence was 97 percent obsolete and it doesn’t give the deemed confidence to protect from the air. Not only this, the infantry had deficiencies of the crew-served weapon and lacks night fighting capabilities. Not only this, the elite Special Forces were woefully short of essential weapons.” The army chief asked the PM to “pass on suitable directions to enhance the preparedness of the army and… [warned] the hollowness in the system is a manifestation of the procedure as well as legal impediments by vendors.”</div>
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The leak of such a sensitive letter to the media, on a day when the Chinese president was in India for the BRICS summit, left the political class fuming. It also caused anguish in some sober military and analytical circles. This incident could well cause Singh his job and be the difference between retirement and stormy sacking.</div>
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Nevertheless, is Singh right in his charges? Army specialists says much of what he’s saying is already in the public domain but by saying it out of context and sensationalising it he made it seem bigger than it was. For example, in saying 50 percent of tanks didn’t have night-vision, no guns had been bought after the Bofors deals of the mid-1980s and that the air defence equipment was old, Singh ignored statistical context. He bypassed the defence minister, wrote straight to the prime minister and left the nation scared.</div>
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The fact is, only 50 percent of Indian tanks have night-vision capability but every single T-90 tank posted on the Pakistan border does. The army’s air defence systems may be old, but the bulk (90 percent) of the air defence response rests with the air force.</div>
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As a military veteran sums up, “We are prepared to defend our borders. Claims that we are underprepared and heading towards a 1962-like situation are rubbish. What is leaked is only partial information.” Full information would entail an assessment of the perceived threat, the force allocation, the choice of border (Pakistan or China), the year of conflict modelling (2015, 2020 or 2030 for instance) and the objective (defence or deep penetration into enemy territory).” VK Singh had clearly mucked it up.</div>
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<strong>RETIRED ARMY</strong> generals agree it is high time the government looked into the whole procurement process of the army. According to Major General (retd) GD Bakshi, “For the past three decades, our defence acquisition has been slowed to a crawl, major arms equipment induction is taking 30 years. Bofors was in 1987, we have not got another medium gun since then… We have not been able to replace our helicopter seats for the past 30 years… Please see what the Chinese are doing. And what the Pakistanis are doing.”</div>
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Apart from equipment and weapons, the military also requires a structural modernisation. As a retired lieutenant general says, “The structure of the armed forces is ancient. Basically we are still working on the World War II structure.” In that sense, VK Singh is flagging the right issues — but should that letter have been leaked, irrespective of who leaked it?</div>
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This raises suspicions and nagging doubts about VK Singh, whose Rajput ancestry, Thakur caste affinities and potential political career have all been part of gossip this past week. The army has been the poorer for it. As such, not many are able to appreciate the real intentions of the army chief. Says one lieutenant general: “This man is doing all this out of spite and not an inner desire for reforms. If he had the inner desire for reforms he would have done it two years ago. Right now the motive of VK Singh is to embarrass the government and position himself in the public eye.”</div>
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Whether this is true or not, the fact remains Singh has become a polarising figure, the most polarising chief of staff in the Indian Army’s history. This makes the prospect of his sacking that much more realistic.</div>
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Pointing out the irony, a senior serving officer said, “What is most tragic is that after a long time we had an army chief of impeccable integrity and a defence minister nicknamed the ‘Saint’ for probity in public life. It is indeed very sad that the chief will be forever remembered as a man who fought just for his own honour and thought nothing of the institution that made him what he is.”</div>
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Those who love India and cherish its army will nod vigorously — and shed a tear in pain.</div>
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<em>With inputs from Prakhar Jain and Shonali Ghosal</em></div>
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<em>Brijesh Pandey is a Special Correspondent with Tehelka.</em><br /><a href="mailto:brijesh@tehelka.com">brijesh@tehelka.com</a></div>
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There’s something religious about this 1888 painting of springtime in Arles in the south of France. The peach tree in bloom seems to be full of an inner fire. It is a peach tree but also the burning bush, a sign from heaven. It hits Van Gogh with revelatory force and the sheer reality of it bubbles out of the blue in massed clogged mountains of pink paint. The dry heat of the earth, the depth of the sky, add to Van Gogh’s awed sense that he has found the vein of gold in the heart of the world</div>
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The unloading of the Rs 14cr Tatra truck scam</div>
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<strong>WHEN ARMY</strong> chief VK Singh talked about being offered a bribe so that the Indian Army bought Tatra trucks, the brandname was perhaps unknown to the civilian world. It sounded so much like Tata, the other truck behemoth, that the public might have thought it was an Indian company.</div>
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Tatra Trucks, a Czech firm, is a big name worldwide for all-terrain vehicles. It has specialised trucks for purposes of construction, mining, oil and gas tankers, forest logging and even firefighting. A whole chain of collaborations enables it to operate in countries like India, beating other global competitors.</div>
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On March 18, 2010, the defence ministry had ordered 788 Tatra vehicles from Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML), a Bengaluru-based public sector company that has a collaboration with Tatra Vectra Motors Ltd (TVML) to produce variants of the Tatra vehicle in India. The order was worth Rs 632 crore ($141 million) and delivery time was 18 months.</div>
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But this was just one order. It turns out that the army, starting in 1986, has bought 7,000 Tatra trucks till now.</div>
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It seems unlikely that the truck was ‘sub-standard’, considering its lineage – an allegation that defence ministry officials are now refuting. There may have been a problem with availability of spare parts and service, which was handled by BEML. But in competitive bidding, especially when huge defence contracts are involved, it is quite likely that bribes are offered to seal the deal. That is why the Rajiv Gandhi government banned middlemen, only to have allegations thrown at them of kickbacks being paid for the Bofors gun deal. The gun itself was found to be unexceptional.</div>
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Tatra Trucks is not operating directly in India — it has a joint venture with UK-based Vectra, which boasts of operations mainly in India and East Europe. Besides heavy duty trucks, Vectra is known for its helicopters. Both these engineering giants sell worldwide.</div>
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<strong>On March 18, 2010, the defence ministry had ordered 788 Tatra vehicles from BEML. The order was worth Rs 632 crore</strong></div>
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In 2009, the Czech company had tied up with Russian firm Kamaz Inc (which also has ties with Vectra) and applied in India for homologation, the roadworthiness test. That year, Hino Motors of the Toyota Group was also exploring the possibility of selling trucks in India, and had started roadshows for potential customers. It ended up establishing a joint venture with Marubeni Corporation for selling Hino vehicles, including buses, in India.</div>
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Kamaz Inc, which was already selling its products to the Indian Army but in a smaller way, was a state-owned corporation set up in 1969 at a time when the USSR believed in centralised, large-scale production.The first Kamaz rolled out in February 1976. Although Kamaz was meant to produce supersized cars, it also brought out the midget city car Oka in 1987. Kamaz trucks, incidentally, are no pushovers — they won the Dakar Rally a record 10 times till 2011. The last rally rolled across South America, and registrations are now open for 2013, if you have a truck to race.</div>
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<em>Manjula Lal is Senior Editor, Tehelka.</em><br /><a href="mailto:manjula@tehelka.com">manjula@tehelka.com</a></div>
</div>മൊയ്തു വാണിമേല്http://www.blogger.com/profile/03717187571069224030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024003564291274229.post-63929063180154995282012-03-27T07:09:00.001-07:002012-03-27T07:09:17.397-07:00The majority of rape victims in India see no justice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="style7" style="color: #990000;">The majority of rape victims in India see no justice</span></div>
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<span class="style8" style="font-style: italic;"><strong>Kavita Krishnan, </strong>All India Progressive Women's Association</span></div>
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<strong></strong>Across a cross-section of class, I find that women find it easier to live with having been raped because of the lack of state mechanism that allows them to seek justice. Apart from the societal obstructions that are already present — 97% rapists or sexual offenders are known to the victim from before — the legal system makes it very very difficult for a woman to report sexual violence. There have been countless occassions when members of women's support groups are present at the police station at the time of a victim filing a complaint. There is no arrangement to keep the victim away from her assailant, who is summoned to the same thana, usually just sitting a few chairs away from her with a huge intimidatory circle of family and friends. Apart from this, there are police officials who will ask her every ten minutes if she is totally sure that she wants to register a complaint. If she manages to survive all of this and go through with her complaint, then the immediate line of questioning involves asking her why she was out of her house, why she made any contact with this person — the premise being that she should not be out and about and living her life in any case. Rape is a crime where conviction is extremely low in India, witnesses are hard to come by and in any case the social pressures are such that women know they will be shunned by their communities once they have been raped, especially if they testify — in such a case, why would you exchange the only support system you have, for the satisfaction of a trial that will not go your way?</div>
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The response of our justice system or even several female chief ministers is no different from the way khaps in Haryana or panchayats in UP respond to rape — by asking the girl to defend her movement and character. Cross-examinations are no less than soft porn, and most women who do not even discuss sex with their mothers are suddenly expected to talk about being raped, the rapists erection, the number of penetrations, etc in a room full of people that includes their assailant. The law commission has tried to press for amendments like including digital rape, and penetration through objects etc in rape laws, but still continues to exclude marital rape — once you are married your husband legally has the right to have sex with you whenever he wants, even if there is coercion involved. How ridiculous is this?</div>
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Yes, NGOs and women's help groups try to provide counselling and support as far as possible, and are usually the first people to reach a victim for assistance. But is it not the state's job to provide resuscitation for these women as well? There are proxy crisis intervention cells and rape helplines that have apparently been set up but the numbers for most of these do not work, and when you reach them you will find that they are akin to jail cells for women. It is a huge struggle for us to find the resources to help women seek counselling and legal help as well — and usually, the women who actively seek counselling are those with access to funds and a support system and an education that tells them that this is necessary. For the remaining majority of women in India, living with having been raped is the only option available.</div>
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