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"Facts Unlimited" |
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21 Aug 2006 12:40:04 AM |
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Indian lawyer launches crusade against rights abuses in Kashmir |
http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/08/21/d608211303130.htm
Indian lawyer launches crusade against rights abuses in Kashmir
Afp, New Delhi
It took Supreme Court lawyer Sonia Raj Sood just one visit to
Indian-administered Kashmir to find her true calling in life -- to
fight atrocities against Kashmiris attributed to India's security
forces.
"You may read about it but you only really understand it when you get
to Srinagar," Sood told AFP, referring to the summer capital of India's
zone of Kashmir.
"You realise that atrocities are being committed against an entire race
and ... they are being committed by our army," she said.
The "pain and suffering and trauma" she saw in Kashmir prompted her to
launch her own one-woman campaign to persuade Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh to rein in the troops.
Since that first trip to Kashmir in February this year, the 40-year-old
Supreme Court advocate has criss-crossed India, Pakistan and Britain in
a bid to persuade prominent personalities to write letters to Singh
urging him to order a halt to human rights violations there.
The dynamic yet unlikely activist -- she was once married to a
Maharashtra prince and lived in a palace near Mumbai -- began her
campaign in India, twisting the arms of colleagues and political
leaders until they fired off letters to the Indian premier.
She then crossed the border into Pakistan where she sweet-talked a
string of parliamentarians, including Chaudhry Shujat Hussain,
president of the majority party in the National Assembly, to write to
Singh.
"I would urge you to take a bold initiative by seeking the withdrawal
of Indian troops from Jammu and Kashmir, from those areas where human
rights violations have been documented," wrote Hussain.
She also got former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan, now leader of
the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf or Movement for Justice party, to urge a
pullout of Indian troops from Kashmir, where they have been battling an
Islamic insurgency since 1989.
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| User: "Neil Boss" |
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| Title: Re: Indian lawyer launches crusade against rights abuses in Kashmir |
02 Sep 2006 01:03:46 AM |
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Well now a Muslim country talks about "facts". Fact is that the Muslims
invaded India and the end result has been the partitioning of India into
Porkistan and Bangladesh. Fact is that the Muslim are terrorising the world
because of their ungodly faith.
Fact Islam and Muslims are responsible for terrorists attacks on 9/11 and in
the UK, etc.
We as Hindus have the right to protect our territory from being invaded by
uncivilised barbarians who are Muslims.
Yes we as the natives of Kashmir (my family are natives) are greatful to
India to include Kashmir as part of India and they have "held" onto Kashmir
because as Hindus and natives of that land we are children of Bharat Mata
(the real name of our beloved nation India).
Those are th only real facts.
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