RATIONAL DISCOURSE
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Laws have been codified and complied by a large number of states in the comity of nations, notwithstanding certain reservations, declarations and selective non-compliance of international obligations by a couple of states or in extreme cases by the rogue states, which selectively comply with general international law at their convenience.
The international community has set the benchmarks, deviation from which is considered exceptional and immoral. A rational discourse, however, has made the world worthy of dignified living and security of communities and individuals.
Indian state has its own legitimate responsibility and enormous contributions to the common human causes, However,it could correct
the clearly defined faultlines and address to issues of enormous human rights significance like those cited above.
The dialectics of conflict resolution advances by breaking up the conventional, imperial mind sets of the decision makers and explores new ways of breaking up the impasse.
In the process, the international actors have to honour their treaty obligations- particularly of the 1966 covenants. India unlike other southern states had been a NAM leader and incidentally, India had strongly espoused the global de-colonisation since 1960s by way of seconding the Soviet proposal of UN GA resolution 1514 of 1960.
India’s global de-colonisation agenda would be fruitful if it also implements its own resolution in regard to the AANSGT of the country ,by resorting to peaceful and democratic methods like plebiscite and leaving aside its half a century-old brutal state repression in the NES.
India is also under binding treaty obligations to report to the UN Human Rights Committee, its concern over other under-addressed collective human rights ,at the time of its submission of the fourth report ,which was long overdue in 2001 .
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* Dr. Naorem Sanajaoba is a Professor and former Dean of Law Faculty at the Gauhati University, Asom.
The author is a Human Rights defender and a social activist in the NE region of India for more than 4 (four) decades and is a reknown author of several internationally distributed books on human rights, humanitarian laws, among others.
The author can be contacted at naorem06(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in or alternate email at
nsanajaoba(at)gmail(dot)com .
This article was first webcasted on September 20th, 2007.
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