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So who cares for human rights in Tibet? Or Manipur?
First Post | Rajeev Srinivasan | Nov 21, 2011,
A number of monks and nuns in the Tibetan monastery in Kirti, Chinese-Occupied Tibet, have immolated themselves in the recent past, to protest their genocide and cultural extinction by the Chinese. But this news has been underplayed by the media everywhere, which is either trying to cozy up to the Chinese totalitarians or is bullied into submission.
Similarly, the Indian state is completely absent when the rights of the people of Manipur are trampled on due to an illegal blockade (with religious and ethnic intolerance the prime force), driving prices up to stratospheric levels – Rs 300 for a litre of petrol, for instance. The Indian state is not willing to stand up to the perpetrators of the blockade, a bunch of thuggish separatists from nearby states.
But the Indian state is quick to want to remove the Armed Forces Special Powers Act(AFPSA) from J&K based on agitations. There is a failure to ask the question: why is there the need for the AFPSA in the first place? Why is it appropriate to remove it when the situation that called for draconian rules has continued to worsen? Why not fine-tune it, instead of, like with Pota, acting in haste and regretting at leisure?
Thus it appears that India’s soft state is as uncaring about the rights of its people (well, to be precise, it is uncaring about the rights of some of its people: it has been known to weep excessive crocodile tears about the rights of some of its other people) as is China’s hard state. In both cases, self-preservation and self-aggrandisement, one might argue, are the primary objectives of the state.
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* This Post is uploaded on November 21 2011
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