Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • A conscience encountered

    by Sandeep Pandey, 5 October 2008

    I’ve often been blamed by friends and colleagues for not keeping secrets to myself. It has been my practice to share information with people whenever I feel my conscience burdened. From my experience I can say that whenever I’ve, under such circumstances, shared the truth, it may have put some people in inconvenient positions but in the long run it proved to be right thing to do. But, I must confess, I’ve never encountered something as big as this. Till now it has been only very personal (…)

  • Orissa-like terror stalks Christians in Karnataka interiors

    by John Dayal, 5 October 2008

    All India Christian Council
    – Head Office: Hyderabad Camp: Mangalore
    – Dr John Dayal
    – Secretary General
    – (Member, National Integration Council, Government of India)
    – Mobile: 09811021072 Email:catholicunion@gmail.com
    PRESS RELEASE
    – 5th October 2008
    Orissa-like terror stalks Christians in Karnataka interiors
    Police ordering village churches not to hold Sunday worship, submit
    `Licences’ to hold prayers; State home minister VS Acharya, senior
    Police officers must be sacked (…)

  • Rally and Public Meeting to Save Secularism and Democracy, Bangalore 6 October 2008

    by karnataka komu souharda vedike, 5 October 2008

    Dear Friends, • 25th November, 2007: In Balupette village, Hassan district three Christians severely beaten by Hindu fundamentalists. About twenty Hindu extremists stormed a worship service at Christ Vision Church in Balupette village. They threatened the congregants and chased them away. After burning the Bibles, the extremists then dragged out two pastors, C.J. Joemon and C.J. Jojo, and another congregant, G. Anil, to the junction half a kilometer away. They stripped them, tied them to (…)

  • Islamabad’s Margala Towers Tragedy

    4 October 2008

    This is an appeal to your conscience. As you are well aware on October 8th, 2005 as a result of corruption and negligence Margala Towers collapsed, leaving 72 people dead and over two hundred families homeless. Subsequently a case was filed in the Supreme Court on behalf of all the victims (Constitutional Petition No. 26 of 2005 Saad Mazhar etc vs. C.D.A. etc.) after nearly 2 years of struggling, the victims were compensated due to an historic, precedent setting judgment/order (October (…)

  • Nuclear Power: An Open Letter to India’s Left Parties

    by People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, 4 October 2008

    People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy 42/27 Esankai Mani Veethy Parakkai Road Junction Nagercoil 629 002 Tamil Nadu
    October 2, 2008
    To
    The National Executive Members Communist Party of India Ajoy Bhavan 15, Kotla Marg New Delhi 110 002
    The Central Committee Members Communist Party of India (Marxist) A.K.. Gopalan Bhawan 27-29, Bhai Vir Singh Marg New Delhi 110 001 The Central Committee Members All India Forward Bloc 28, Gurudwara Rakab (…)

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