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Mirwaiz reaches out to world online
(source:: Daily Greater Kashmir, Srinagar)
Srinagar, February 09 (KMS): The All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has adopted novel way to garner public support against the killings in the Valley by launching a website through his I-phone. Placed under house arrest, Mirwaiz couldn’t march to the United Nations Military Observers Group here to register protest against the recent killings.
The APHC Chairman launched a website with his pre-recorded video-messages in English and Kashmiri tracing the history of Kashmir dispute and urging the people to voice their concern over the human rights violations by Indian troops. The website – http://web.me.com/mirwaiz/kashmir/Welcome.html – urges international community to take note of the rights violations and warns that delaying resolution of the Kashmir dispute will “continue to send thousands of innocent victims to graves.” He has also kept a link- http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/hr-kashmir – wherein people can express their concern over the rights abuses.
Christian attacks shameful
(source: Voice of the Cape fm Online)
The Gauteng-based advocacy group, the Media Review Network (MRN) has roundly condemns attacks directed at Christian communities in Nigeria, Iraq and Egypt this weekend. On Christmas Eve, three bombs exploded in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing dozens of people. That area has seen more than 500 people die in religious and ethnic violence this year alone. Members of a radical Muslim sect, known locally as Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for the bombings and attacks on two churches in the northern city of Maiduguri the same night, killing at least six people.
In Egypt, a suicide bomber killed 21 people and wounded 79 outside a Coptic church on Saturday, in an attack President Hosni Mubarak said was the work of “foreign hands.” There was no immediate claim but Al-Qaeda has called for punishment of Egypt’s Copts over claims that two priests’ wives they say had converted to Islam were being held by the Church against their will.
And in Iraq on Friday, at least two people have been killed and 18 others wounded in a series of bomb attacks against the homes of minority Christians in different parts of Baghdad, police and interior ministry officials said on Thursday. Assailants in southwestern Baghdad threw two grenades inside the home of a Christian family, leaving two people fatally wounded and injuring five more. In a different neighbourhood, attackers planted a bomb near a Christian home. Two people were injured in that attack. Then another bomb planted near a Christian house in western Baghdad exploded, wounding one member of the family as well as a civilian.
“This shameful conduct and the horror associated with such misguided brutality cannot be condoned. The sheer senselessness of these bombings and the toll it takes on lives and limbs of innocent people, is utterly unacceptable. That such barbarity result in provoking counter-threats of violence against Muslims, undermines inter-faith harmony.”
According to MRN, victims of unjust wars and occupation of the type led by the American government and its western allies include persons from both faith groups – Islam and Christianity. “It therefore makes no sense that such victims who face enormous socio-political challenges within their respective countries, would turn on each other. Thus we urge for calm & call on the global community of both faiths to deny faceless agents of anarchy any opportunity to bedevil mutual harmony,” MRN said.
Israel knows that peace just doesnt pay
Israel knows that peace just doesn’t pay
By Amira Hass
Successive Israeli governments since 1993 certainly must have known what they were doing, being in no hurry to make peace with the Palestinians. As representatives of Israeli society, these governments understood that peace would involve serious damage to national interests.
Economic damage:
The security industry is an important export branch – weapons, ammunition and refinements that are tested daily in Gaza and the West Bank. The Oslo process – negotiations that were never meant to end – allowed Israel to shake off its status as occupying power (obligated to the welfare of the occupied people) and treat the Palestinian territories as independent entities. That is, to use weapons and ammunition at a magnitude Israel could not have otherwise used on the Palestinians after 1967. Protecting the settlements requires constant development of security, surveillance and deterrence equipment such as fences, roadblocks, electronic surveillance, cameras and robots. These are security’s cutting edge in the developed world, and serve banks, companies and luxury neighborhoods next to shantytowns and ethnic enclaves where rebellions must be suppressed.