Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Who are India’s real traitors?

    by Indra Sinha, 6 November 2010

    It is India’s wealthy elite that is turning its back on the nation and its people, not Arundhati Roy

  • Take up with President Obama, the matter regarding absconding accused in Bhopal gas leak disaster case

    by Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Saghathan, Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti, 6 November 2010

    Appeal India’s Prime Minister from the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan (BGPMUS) and the Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti (BGPSSS) is to remind you that the Government of India has not made requisite efforts to bring the three absconding accused in the Bhopal gas leak disaster to justice. The absconding accused are accused No.1, Warren Anderson (the then Chairman, Union Carbide Corporation [UCC]), accused No.10 (UCC), and accused No.11 (Union Carbide Eastern). The present appeal is with reference to accused No.1 and accused No.10.

  • India should steer clear from blood diamonds

    3 November 2010

    Indian diamond barons, the Surat Rough Diamond Sourcing India Ltd (SRDSIL), has announced plans to buy $100 million worth of Zimbabwean diamonds every month. The minister of mines of Zimbabwe, Obert Mpofu, was warmly welcomed in Mumbai recently, and it’s clear that the Indian cutting and polishing industry sees the potentially mammoth Marange fields as a crucial source of supply in coming years.

  • Investigate human rights violations at New Delhi commonwealth games

    by Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), 3 November 2010

    Investigations of wrong doing at the New Delhi Commonwealth Games of October 2010 must also include himan rights violations. Full text of the Press Release by Human Rights and Land Network

  • Afghanistan will not know peace until women are equal participants in negotiations

    3 November 2010

    U.S.-led forces have been unable to provide security or protect Afghan civilians in many areas. As the scale of the military intervention has increased, the insurgency has become stronger and the influence of the Taliban and armed groups has spread. The presence of foreign troops has been identified as a major factor driving the insurgency, along with widespread resentment of a corrupt central government and the abuses of predatory strongmen. The climate of insecurity and impunity has produced new forms of powerlessness for many Afghan women and girls, who have been widowed, displaced, trafficked, and forced into marriage as a direct or indirect result of the conflict.

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