MRN Articles
https://mediareviewnet.com/?s=MRN+Articles
Search Results for: MRN Articles
MRN saddened at passing of one of Africa’s intellectual giants: Ali Mazrui (1933-2014)
Following is a review by Iqbal Jassat of The Mazruiana collection (2005) Ali A Mazrui debating the African condition An annotated and… Read More »MRN saddened at passing of one of Africa’s intellectual giants: Ali Mazrui (1933-2014)
Mrn action alert India human rights violations in Kashmir
Contents:
1. Summary
2. Background
3. Action required
4. Sample letters
1. Summary
A cycle of violence has erupted again in India’s troubled Kashmir valley
since 11th June 2010 with the shooting to death of a schoolboy by Indian troops. Until 29th June 2010, eleven Kashmiri youths have been killed by the heavily armed Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). The Indian authorities have imposed a curfew and deployed thousands of troops in Kashmir’s main towns in an effort to restore order in the volatile Muslim-majority province, which is at the centre of a decades-old sovereignty dispute between India and neighbouring Pakistan.
2. Background
The latest wave of trouble began on June 11, 2010 when a seventeen-year-old Kashmiri youth, Tufail Ahmad Mattoo died after he was hit by a teargas shell fired by the police during a routine post-Friday prayers protest in downtown in Srinagar. His death sparked angry clashes between stone-pelting youths and the heavily armed CRPF.
On June 19, Rafiq Ahmad Bangaroo, 27, who was beaten up by CRPF men near his residence in old Srinagar on June 12, died in hospital. The next day, mourners returning from Bangaroo’s burial attacked a CRPF mobile bunker with stones. They were reciprocated with fire, killing Bangaroo’s neighbour Javaid Ahmad Malla, 26, and wounding three others.
On June 25, Shakeel Ganai, 17, and Firdous Khan, 18, were killed by CRPF men in Sopore. On June 27, Bilal Ahmed Wani, 22, died following the firing in Sopore. On June 28, Tajamul Bashir, 20, and Tauqeer Rather, 9, were killed in Delina and Sopore.
On June 29, Ishtiyaq Ahmed, 15, Imtiyaz Ahmed Itoo, 17, and Shujaat-ul-Islam, 17, died in a CRPF firing in the southern town of Anantnag. This cycle of 11 killings in less than three weeks by the police and paramilitary forces across Kashmir is a gross violation of human rights conducted by the Indian government against the people of Kashmir. The chief minister, Omar Abdullah has resorted to imposing a curfew to curtail street protests from spreading further.
More information at: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?266068
Read also: Kashmir: Act before foreign forces land in Srinagar by Zafarul-Islam Khan, Editor, The Milli Gazette at: http://ihrc.org.uk/news/articles/9416-kashmir-act-before-foreign-forces-land-in-srinagar
3. Action required
The Media Review Network urges all decent, freedom loving and human rights activists to write to the following authorities and urge them to remind India of its human rights commitments and demand an end to the killings of Kashmiri civilians.
a) Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
(Fax: 0091-11-230-19334, e-mail: manmohan@sansad.nic.in)
b) Shri P. Chidambaram, The Union Home Minister
(Fax: 0091-11-230-92979, e-mail: hm@nic.in)
c) Navanethem Pillay, High Commissioner,
The Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights
(Fax: nil, e-mail: InfoDesk@ohchr.org)
d) Baroness Catherine Ashton,
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
(Fax: nil, e-mail: catherine.ashten@ec.europa.eu /
lutz.guellner@ec.europa.eu )
e) Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, The Secretary General
Organisation of Islamic Conference
(Fax: +966-2651-2283, e-mail: cabinet@oic-oic.org)
f) Minister of Department of International Relations & Co-Operation South Africa, Ms Maite Nkoana Mashabane (Tel: +2712 351 002, email minister@dirco.co.za)
ACT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!
Bibi Ayesha Laher
Media Liason
Media Review Network
Cell: 082 841 9105
Tell: 012 374 1635
Email: info@mediareviewnet.com
"And what reason has you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of) those who say: Our Lord! Cause us to go forth from this town, whose people are oppressors, and give us from Thee a guardian and give us from Thee a helper.” (Holy Qur’an: Chapter 4, Verse 75)
*************************************************************************************
Read More »Mrn action alert India human rights violations in Kashmir
Mrn action alert India human rights violations in Kashmir
Contents:
1. Summary
2. Background
3. Action required
4. Sample letters
1. Summary
A cycle of violence has erupted again in India’s troubled Kashmir valley
since 11th June 2010 with the shooting to death of a schoolboy by Indian troops. Until 29th June 2010, eleven Kashmiri youths have been killed by the heavily armed Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). The Indian authorities have imposed a curfew and deployed thousands of troops in Kashmir’s main towns in an effort to restore order in the volatile Muslim-majority province, which is at the centre of a decades-old sovereignty dispute between India and neighbouring Pakistan.
2. Background
The latest wave of trouble began on June 11, 2010 when a seventeen-year-old Kashmiri youth, Tufail Ahmad Mattoo died after he was hit by a teargas shell fired by the police during a routine post-Friday prayers protest in downtown in Srinagar. His death sparked angry clashes between stone-pelting youths and the heavily armed CRPF.
On June 19, Rafiq Ahmad Bangaroo, 27, who was beaten up by CRPF men near his residence in old Srinagar on June 12, died in hospital. The next day, mourners returning from Bangaroo’s burial attacked a CRPF mobile bunker with stones. They were reciprocated with fire, killing Bangaroo’s neighbour Javaid Ahmad Malla, 26, and wounding three others.
On June 25, Shakeel Ganai, 17, and Firdous Khan, 18, were killed by CRPF men in Sopore. On June 27, Bilal Ahmed Wani, 22, died following the firing in Sopore. On June 28, Tajamul Bashir, 20, and Tauqeer Rather, 9, were killed in Delina and Sopore.
On June 29, Ishtiyaq Ahmed, 15, Imtiyaz Ahmed Itoo, 17, and Shujaat-ul-Islam, 17, died in a CRPF firing in the southern town of Anantnag. This cycle of 11 killings in less than three weeks by the police and paramilitary forces across Kashmir is a gross violation of human rights conducted by the Indian government against the people of Kashmir. The chief minister, Omar Abdullah has resorted to imposing a curfew to curtail street protests from spreading further.
More information at: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?266068
Read also: Kashmir: Act before foreign forces land in Srinagar by Zafarul-Islam Khan, Editor, The Milli Gazette at: http://ihrc.org.uk/news/articles/9416-kashmir-act-before-foreign-forces-land-in-srinagar
3. Action required
The Media Review Network urges all decent, freedom loving and human rights activists to write to the following authorities and urge them to remind India of its human rights commitments and demand an end to the killings of Kashmiri civilians.
a) Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
(Fax: 0091-11-230-19334, e-mail: manmohan@sansad.nic.inThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
b) Shri P. Chidambaram, The Union Home Minister
(Fax: 0091-11-230-92979, e-mail: hm@nic.inThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
c) Navanethem Pillay, High Commissioner,
The Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights
(Fax: nil, e-mail: InfoDesk@ohchr.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
d) Baroness Catherine Ashton,
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
(Fax: nil, e-mail: catherine.ashten@ec.europa.euThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it /
lutz.guellner@ec.europa.euThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
e) Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, The Secretary General
Organisation of Islamic Conference
(Fax: +966-2651-2283, e-mail: cabinet@oic-oic.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
f) Minister of Department of International Relations & Co-Operation South Africa, Ms Maite Nkoana Mashabane (Tel: +2712 351 002, email minister@dirco.co.zaThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
ACT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!
Bibi Ayesha Laher
Media Liason
Media Review Network
Cell: 082 841 9105
Tell: 012 374 1635
Email: info@mediareviewnet.com
“And what reason has you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of) those who say: Our Lord! Cause us to go forth from this town, whose people are oppressors, and give us from Thee a guardian and give us from Thee a helper.” (Holy Qur’an: Chapter 4, Verse 75)
*************************************************************************************
Read More »Mrn action alert India human rights violations in Kashmir