South Asia Citizens Web

The National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) as well as its constituent organizations opposes the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill that seeks to protect the interests of the rich and powerful while leaving the Indian citizens high and dry on the nuclear highway. NAAM exhorts the people of India to ask their Members of Parliament to vote against this anti-people legislation.

"Chittagong Hill Tracts, situated in the south-east of Bangladesh and bordering Myanmar and India, has become a by-word for ethnic and environmental conflict and struggles for identity and citizenship."

We welcome the announcement by the CPI (Maoist) to observe a ceasefire and enter into talks with the Government of India. Given the government’s expressed willingness to engage in talks, we hope that this offer will be reciprocated.

Pakistan Peace Coalition (PPC) has vehemently condemned the terrorist acts of beheading of two Sikhs in separate incidents in Khyber and Orakzai agencies of Federal Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) by militants and termed them attempts to sabotage the revival of peace process between Pakistan and India.

I’m getting myself ready for Boi Mela, Probhat Feri, or at least the obligatory kurta pajama. But my SMS, email are rudely interrupting with some reality doses. The news comes in drips, pushing through a rigid media blackout. Bengali settlers attacking Jumma (Pahari) homes in Sajek. The same Sajek that was the scene of anti-Pahari arson rampages in 2008. Now the damage was even more widespread. Two hundred homes burnt in one day. A Buddhist temple allegedly burnt as well. And then, sometime during the day, security forces fire on demonstrators. Later, the media tells us they fired on Paharis fighting with Bengalis. How odd then, that all the dead and wounded are Pahari. Why aren’t there are any Bengali settlers who were hurt?