SACW - 11 Nov 2013 | Bangladesh: Tracking down the killers of 1971 / Pakistan: Malala book ban / India: Patriarchy in Calicut; Audio: Disarmament & Militarisation / Sri Lanka: Minority women / Burma: anti-Rohingya pogrom / Philippines: Yolanda / Felix Stalder on Internet

Sun Nov 10 14:56:59 EST 2013

South Asia Citizens Wire - 11 November 2013 - No. 2797 
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Contents:

1. Pakistan private schools ban Malala book
2. Pakistan’s New normal / Mourning a villain (Khaled Ahmed and Zahid Hussain
3. Bangladesh: Tracking down the killers (David Bergman)
4. Jihadi clouds over Bangladesh (Tarek Fatah)
5. Commentary on Nepal’s Upcoming Constituent Asssembly Elections of 19 November 2013
6. The Khmer Rouge tribunal : Justice and the killing fields | The Economist
7. Peter Popham on anti-Rohingya pogrom in Burma
8. Sri Lanka: Minority women face increasing levels of sexual violence and insecurity (MRG report)
9. India: Calicut university is an institution of nonsense patriarchy! | Taslima Nasreen
10. India: Video interview - Gabrielle Dietrich speaking on secularism . . . (siawi.org)
11. India: What is Communalism? (Dilip Simeon)
12. India: Modi says Congress committed 'sin' of partition
13. India: 1986 When CPI(M) challenged the Muslim Women's Act as an attack on secularism
14. Audio Recordings from ’Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: Relevance for South Asia and the World’ conference (8 Nov 2013, New Delhi)
15. India: Film Makers Statement on denial of visa to British Director Callum Macrae
16. Philippines: Yolanda the climate messenger | Walden Bello
17. Audio: Normalisation of Militarisation on Indo Pakistan Border in Kashmir | Rita Manchanda
18. Mass-destruction weapons: Hypocrisy isn’t policy (Praful Bidwai)
19. India: The choice, the bottomline (Javed Anand)
20. India: Aftermath of Muzaffarnagar Communal Violence - Reports by Sadbhav Mission and NAPM
21. Felix Stalder about the future of the internet . . . : interview by Uschi Reiter
22. India: Towards a new darkness (Vidya Bhushan Rawat)
23. India: The fire this time - What might follow the run on the Rupee (Aseem Shrivastava)
24. Pakistan - India Peace: No Alternative To Dialogue (Dr. Daya Varma, Vinod Mubayi)

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1. PAKISTAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS BAN MALALA BOOK
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Private schools in Pakistan have banned teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai's book, calling her a tool of the West.
http://www.sacw.net/article6175.html

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2. PAKISTAN’S NEW NORMAL / MOURNING A VILLAIN 
(articles by Khaled Ahmed and Zahid Hussain)
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From being public enemy No.1, the chief of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has virtually been turned into a hero after his inglorious death.
http://www.sacw.net/article6126.html

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3. BANGLADESH: TRACKING DOWN THE KILLERS
by David Bergman
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An article on the abduction and killing of 18 professionals in December 1971, and the making of the film which investigated the role of UK based Chowdhury Mueen Uddin
http://www.sacw.net/article6146.html

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4. JIHADI CLOUDS OVER BANGLADESH
 by Tarek Fatah
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A clash of civilizations is unfolding in Muslim Bangladesh, where the forces of radical jihadi Islamism are trying to topple a liberal democracy, and no one in the West seems interested.
http://www.sacw.net/article6091.html

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5. COMMENTARY ON NEPAL’S UPCOMING CONSTITUENT ASSSEMBLY ELECTIONS OF 19 NOVEMBER 2013
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a short selection of commentary in the media about the upcoming elections in Nepal
http://www.sacw.net/article6135.html

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6. THE KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL : JUSTICE AND THE KILLING FIELDS | THE ECONOMIST
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After six years, the court trying the perpetrators of one of the worst mass-crimes in history is likely to end up with just three convictions. Was it all worth it?
http://www.sacw.net/article6136.html

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7. PETER POPHAM ON ANTI-ROHINGYA POGROM IN BURMA
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Burmese Buddhists attacked and killed Rohingya Muslims in race riots in June 2012, just as Aung San Suu Kyi was beginning her charm offensive in the West. Everywhere she went, the priority of governments was to make her welcome, so it passed with little comment that she had failed to condemn the anti-Rohingya pogrom. The violence has continued sporadically ever since, while Ms Suu Kyi has yet to denounce it convincingly.
http://www.sacw.net/article6145.html

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8. SRI LANKA: MINORITY WOMEN FACE INCREASING LEVELS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND INSECURITY 
Minority Rights Group International’s (MRG) report
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Four years since the end of the armed conflict, the situation of minority women in the north and east of Sri Lanka has changed dramatically – and for many it is getting worse.
http://www.sacw.net/article6141.html

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9. INDIA: CALICUT UNIVERSITY IS AN INSTITUTION OF NONSENSE PATRIARCHY! 
by Taslima Nasreen
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It’s not a university’s responsibility to encourage women to become mothers. University should encourage women to become dignified personalities, independent and respected human beings. It is totally women’s personal matter whether they want to reproduce. Like a conservative patriarchal guardian Calicut university crossed the university boundary and entered women’s private bedrooms. It is alarming.
http://www.sacw.net/article6132.html

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10. INDIA: VIDEO INTERVIEW - GABRIELLE DIETRICH SPEAKING ON SECULARISM . . . 
(SIAWI.ORG)
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A video recording of Gabrielle Dietrich by Marieme Helie Lucas in April 2011. This is part of wider a series of video interviews with feminists on secularism, fundamentalism(s) and on women’s rights being compiled at siawi.org Language: English / Produced for siawi.org
http://www.sacw.net/article6112.html

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11. INDIA: WHAT IS COMMUNALISM?
by Dilip Simeon
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Scanned version of unpublished typescript from 1981; a paper trying to define what constitutes communalism in India.
http://www.sacw.net/article6174.html

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12. INDIA: MODI SAYS CONGRESS COMMITTED 'SIN' OF PARTITION
- Dilip Simeon's Blog
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The fascist method of speech is contained in 3 rules: affirmation, repetition, contagion. They spread lies and practice deceit as a matter of habit. Truth is whatever is convenient for serving their interests. The RSS in power will abolish truth completely. Modi's lies are a foretaste.
http://www.sacw.net/article6171.html

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13. INDIA: 1986 WHEN THE CPI(M) CHALLENGED THE MUSLIM WOMEN'S ACT AS AN ATTACK ON SECULARISM
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A scanned PDF version of a Communist Party of India Marxist Pamphlet that firmly challenged the Muslim Women’s Act as an attack on secularism in India. There was still a time in India when both the left and the women’s movement talked of uniform laws for all citizens across all religions, and this pamphlet is remnant of that era. It is reproduced here in public interest, to draw attention of all towards that fact that talking of a uniform civil code was not taboo for progressives. [SACW LEFT ARCHIVE]
http://www.sacw.net/article6169.html

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14. AUDIO RECORDINGS FROM ’ABOLISHING NUCLEAR WEAPONS: RELEVANCE FOR SOUTH ASIA AND THE WORLD’ CONFERENCE HELD ON 8 NOVEMBER 2013 IN NEW DELHI
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Audio Recordings from a day long conference ’Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: Relevance for South Asia and the World’ held on 8 November 2013 in New Delhi. The event was organised by Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace in collaboration with ICAN and Pakistan India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy. These recordings were made at Plenary II: 14.00 – 17.00 pm. The session was chaired by Chair: Seema Mustafa, Centre for Policy Analysis; Speakers were: Prakash Karat, General Secretary, Communist party of India (Marxist), Aruna Roy, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan Manoranjan Mohanty, Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy [recording unavailable] Achin Vanaik, Political Scientist & Founder Member of CNDP, Jean Dreze, G B Pant Institute, Allahabad
http://www.sacw.net/article6156.html

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15. INDIA: FILM MAKERS STATEMENT ON DENIAL OF VISA TO BRITISH DIRECTOR CALLUM MACRAE
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We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the Indian government for refusing a visa to award winning British filmaker Callum Macrae, thereby preventing him from attending the premiere of his documentary ‘No Fire Zone’ in New Delhi and Mumbai.
http://www.sacw.net/article6163.html

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16. PHILIPPINES: YOLANDA THE CLIMATE MESSENGER
by Walden Bello
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It seems these days that whenever Mother Nature wants to send an urgent message to humankind, it sends it via the Philippines. This year the messenger was Yolanda, a.k.a. Haiyan. For the second year in a row, the world's strongest typhoon barreled through the Philippines, Yolanda following on the footsteps steps of Pablo, a.k.a Bopha, in 2012. And for the third year in a row, a destructive storm deviated from the usual path taken by typhoons, striking communities that had not learned to live with these fearsome weather events because they were seldom hit by them in the past. Sendong in December 2011 and Bopha last year sliced Mindanao horizontally, while Yolanda drove through the Visayas, also in a horizontal direction.
http://www.sacw.net/article6168.html

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17. AUDIO: NORMALISATION OF MILITARISATION ON INDO PAKISTAN BORDER IN KASHMIR | RITA MANCHANDA
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Rita Manchanda on the normalisation of militarisation in the border regions of Rajouri and Poonch in Kashmir. These regions are near the line of control near the heavily militarised border between India and Pakistan. This is a recording of Rita Manchanda speaking at the Pakistan India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy - India National convention on the 21st September 2013, in New Delhi. (audio recording sacw.net)
http://www.sacw.net/article6165.html

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18. MASS-DESTRUCTION WEAPONS: HYPOCRISY ISN’T POLICY
by Praful Bidwai
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Three recent developments highlight the issue of weapons of mass destruction and India’s policy towards them. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has gone to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), dealing with armaments that figure prominently in the Syrian crisis.
http://www.sacw.net/article5978.html

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19. INDIA: THE CHOICE, THE BOTTOMLINE
by Javed Anand
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For Muslims, as for all Indians who subscribe to the idea of a secular, plural India, the choice in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections will be stark: the mascot of the RSS/ VHP/ Bajrang Dal vs the rest. Put differently, irrespective of the motive, a vote for any BJP candidate will be a vote for the Sangh Parivar’s "Hindu nationalist", "Hindu Rashtra" agenda.
http://www.sacw.net/article5970.html

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20. INDIA: AFTERMATH OF MUZAFFARNAGAR COMMUNAL VIOLENCE - REPORTS BY SADBHAV MISSION AND NAPM
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Reports, Memo’s and Handbill by Sadhav Mission in collaboration with Khudai Khidmatgar and by National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) during their various trips to Muzaffarnagar and the various villages in the district that has been hit communal violence.
http://www.sacw.net/article6102.html

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21. FELIX STALDER ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET . . . : INTERVIEW BY USCHI REITER
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Felix Stalder is a lecturer on the theory of media society at the School of Art and Design Zurich, Department for Media Arts. For many years he has been exploring the dynamics of the interface between culture, technology, politics, etc., and has been a moderator of the Nettime mailing list for many years, as well as a board member of the Vienna Institute for New Culture Technologies.
http://www.sacw.net/article6094.html

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22. INDIA: TOWARDS A NEW DARKNESS
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
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As the ASI officials start digging the ‘grave' of enlightened India questions are being asked about the authenticity of the claims made Hindu seer Shobhan Sarkar and the way the government of India jumped into it and engaged ASI in it. For days, it became the favorite on our TV channels and all the bluff masters of Hindutva were there to justify and interpret ‘dreams' until Narendra Modi jumped and suggested that the ‘world was laughing at us'. Word of wisdom by a communal fascist whose party is unable to come out of ‘Ram Temple' complex and therefore making a bigger joke of itself.
http://www.sacw.net/article5962.html

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23. INDIA: THE FIRE THIS TIME - WHAT MIGHT FOLLOW THE RUN ON THE RUPEE
by Aseem Shrivastava
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even if there is no risk of sovereign default, India's exposure and vulnerability to the moods of the global financial markets as well as the policy changes in the US is hugely greater now than in 1991. Inflation, already in double digits, is likely to get far worse as the Rupee depreciates, and will likely have political repercussions in this election year. High unemployment (of the educated and the illiterate), which has been an abiding concern since the early reform days, is going to persist and get much worse, as the economy slows down further, downsizing becomes the norm, hiring stops, and layoffs rise. All indications are of a spiralling down of economic activity as investment shows no signs of reviving, especially given the stagflationary environment and receding domestic demand, as disposable incomes fall, or fail to rise fast enough.
http://www.sacw.net/article6028.html

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24. PAKISTAN - INDIA PEACE: NO ALTERNATIVE TO DIALOGUE
by Dr. Daya Varma, Vinod Mubayi
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There is a large constituency for peace and good relations between India and Pakistan in both countries; the war- mongers and the fundamentalists are a noisy minority but influential in the media, politics, and the bureaucracy. Continuing dialogue at the highest level is essential and it is to the credit of both Dr. Manmohan Singh and Mr. Nawaz Sharif that they recognized that fact and went ahead with their meeting despite all the provocations and we salute them for their foresight in doing so.
http://www.sacw.net/article6024.html

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