Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Koodankulam Struggle: A Chronology (Part I)

    by S. P. Udayakumar, 14 February 2012

    Koodankulam Struggle: A Chronology (Part I)
    Compiled by S. P. Udayakumar
    (From The Hindu, Frontline, The Times of India, India Abroad, The New York Times reports, and other local publications in Tamil Nadu. This is a partial list of some of the events.)
    Source: S. P. Udayakumar, The Koodankulam Handbook. Nagercoil, India: Transcend South Asia, 2004 (ISBN: 81-89312-00-6)
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    November 20: The Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi signed (…)

  • Fear of resurgent Islamist movement in Maldives

    11 February 2012

    Political chaos in the Maldives, security services across the region fear, could open the way for a resurgent Islamist movement.

  • Support Separation Between Religion and State: A Petition and Open Letter to Human Rights Watch

    10 February 2012

    Rather than becoming complicit with religious fundamentalists in power, we call on Human Rights Watch to report violations and threats against those targeted by fundamentalists and to support the call for secularism, and the continuing struggle for social justice.

  • India: Press Release - People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy - 10 February 2012

    by People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, 10 February 2012

    While the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) welcomes the State Expert Team set up by the Chief Secretary on behalf of the Honorable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, we are obliged to point out that Dr. M. R. Srinivasan, a member of the team, is a well-known pro-nuclear person. The people of Tamil Nadu had expected that the State Expert Team members would be neutral and independent but Dr. Srinivasan is neither. So it is hard for the PMANE to accept Dr. Srinivasan. Given this situation, the PMANE would like to request the Honorable Chief Minister to replace Dr. Srinivasan with another expert and expand the Expert Team with experts in Geology, Oceanography and Hydrology in order to deal with a few KKNPP-specific issues.

  • India: Is the Raghavan SIT in Undue Haste for a Closure? - Open letter

    8 February 2012

    We, the undersigned members of civil society, were aghast to learn from newspaper reports that RK Raghavan, the head of the Special Investigative Team (SIT), is planning to file a closure report, and has no intention of filing charges against Narendra Modi and his co-conspirators for being allegedly complicit in the horrific massacre in Gujarat in 2002 which resulted in the death of over a thousand innocent citizens and extensive destruction of private and public property.

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