South Asia Citizens Web

Action for a Progressive Pakistan
Healing the Wounds of the Past
On May 13, 2009, the Government of Bangladesh demanded an unconditional apology from the Government of Pakistan for war crimes committed during the 1971 army action in what was then East Pakistan. The Pakistani government’s response was to dismiss the demand, telling Bangladesh to ‘let bygones be bygones’. This was not the first time this demand was made, nor the first time it was dismissed with such flippancy by Pakistan. (…)

May 22-28, 2009
“Man does not live by politics alone”-Lenin
S Irfan Habib unveils the revolutionary Bhagat Singh’s literary side
Little is known about the revolutionary nationalists beyond their daring exploits leading to supreme sacrifice for the motherland. All of them were not merely bundles of emotion, ever ready to kill or die for the freedom of India. Quite a few of them were serious thinkers, besides being active revolutionaries. They read voraciously about the world politics (…)

a very urgent appeal that is to call upon the Government of India as well as all political parties within the country and their newly elected Members of Parliament to take a position during the upcoming Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council on Sri Lanka that is to be held on 26th May, 2009.

The report covers wide range of issues such as violations of the rights of the indigenous peoples by the security forces and the non-tribals, indigenous peoples and armed conflict, violations of the international humanitarian law by the armed opposition groups, violence against indigenous women and children, alienation of indigenous peoples’ land, displacement of indigenous/tribal peoples, repression under forest laws, failure of affirmative action programmes and state of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, among others.

An audio recording of retired Admiral L. Ramdas (former Chief of the Indian Naval Staff) speaking in August 1998 at a University campus in the United States.