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Editor : Nagaraj.M.R.........................vol.2…issue.48.....................10/02/2007
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Editorial : KILLER COLAS & KILLER MEDICINES OF
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In
mention the type & quantity of ingradients on each food product. Even ,
under the present food Act itself the government officials can ban the harmful
colas & other products in the interest of public health & lives. Then
how will they get kickbacks ?
The cola companies are so cunning & ruthless that they have used muscle
power – rowdies , corrupt police personnel & assaulted harmless peaceful
protestors. The cola companies have purchased justice previously in kerala
& got favourable judgement. Due to presence of cola companies , under water
table has depleted in surrounding villages. The farmers are unable to grow
their crops & are committing suicides. One of the senior executive of a
cola company – BEJOIS , MADE MURDER THREATS , FIX-UPS IN FALSE CASES TO EDITOR
OF HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH'S and even made false complaint to police , but
repeatedly failed to turn-up for enquiry fearing that truth will come out. The
police closed the case subsequently.
In
Just a few months back , there was a programme called "bad medicine"
on BBC channel , where in the drugs controller for
companies & drugs control department officials and unearthed a huge scam of
Rs.200 crore of fake medicines. However the government didn't take any action
as politicians were also part of the ring & threw the report on a back
burner.
In
arm of corruption has even reached the apex court. JAI HIND , VANDE MATARAM ,
GOD' SAVE MY
Your's sincerely,
Nagaraj.M.R.
COCA-COLA , PEPSI COLA & OTHER SOFT DRINK MANUFACTURERS
-Are you disclosing full information to the consumers about contents of your
products ?
various soft drink manufacturers & bottled drinking water manufacturers
draw their raw material- water from the tube wells . nowadays due to excessive
usage of chemical fertilizers , pesticide , insecticides , the ground water
table is polluted by these chemicals . these are very harmful for human beings.
In some areas even the ground water is poisoned by arsenic & flouride . In addition
the soft drink manufacturers use chemical flavours , food additives &
preservatives in their products . these are also harmful to human beings above
certain limits.
Some of the MNCs are practicing double standards , while in their home
operations in the U.S.A they are strictly adhering to F.D.A norms as consumer
safety is strictly enforced there by the government , while in
manufacturers specifically coca-cola & pepsi,
1.how you are removing the harmful chemicals from the tube well water ie your
raw material ?
2.how you are ensuring the proper mixture of food additives , preservatives
& flavours within safe limits ?
3.why not you are giving the exact quantity of all contents in the soft drink
of your's on the product itself ?
4. are you exactly replicating your manufacturing & quality norms of your
U.S.A operations in
5.are you strictly adhering to food norms of government of
6. are you keeping the F.D.A NORMS OF U.S.A as benchmark for your operations in
7. are you ready for the laboratory test of your product randomly selected by
the consumer ?
8. Are they using genetically modified food ingredients ?
9. are they using ingredients sourced from animal origins ?.
HUMAN
RIGHTS SCENARIO IN
In addition,
Another major problem facing the
country is the caste system. Despite many commitments expressed by
The absence of justice also
contributes to deeply entrenched poverty and starvation. The AHRC's studies on
starvation deaths have revealed that there have been deaths caused by
starvation even due to the negligence of magistrates who have particular
responsibilities relating to these matters.
In short, the neglect of justice
in
AN APPEAL TO HONOURABLE CHIEF MINISTER OF
Dear Chief
Minister,
INDIA: Human rights activist detained in
police custody on a frivolous charge
Name of victim: Mr. Gopen Sharma, aged about 44 years, Bayarampur village,
Jalangi, Murshidabad district, West Bengal state, India
Alleged perpetrators: Police officers attached with Raninagar police station,
Murshidabad district, West Bengal state, India
Place of incident: Kaharpara and Raninagar police station
Date of incident: 8 February 2007
I am writing to you to express my concern regarding an alleged incident of
assault and detention of a human rights activist Mr. Gopen Sharma on 8 February
2007. I am informed that Gopen was assaulted by Sarkar, a resident of Kaharpara
on
I am informed that Gopen sought help from the BSF officer who instead of
helping Gopen took him into custody and produced him before the Raninagar
police station. However, the police officers too refused to help Gopen, but
registered a case against him as crime 21/2007 and detained him in custody. I
am also informed that Mr. Sarkar, who assaulted Gopen is also detained in
custody, but without any charge and is likely to let off.
I am concerned to know about this case since the facts of the case suggest that
the police is engaged in a harassment tactic upon Gopen since they know that he
was responsible for filing complaints against them in the past with the
National Human Rights Commission and also the state government authorities. I
am also concerned why the police desisted from informing Gopen the reason for
his arrest and detention, which is a violation of procedural laws in
I therefore request you to kindly intervene in this matter so that an inquiry
is ordered into the entire incident and the conduct of the Raninagar police in
relation to crime 21/2007 is inquired into. I also request you to take
appropriate actions so that a case is also registered against Mr. Sarkar, who
assaulted Gopen and the case against Gopen is withdrawn if necessary after an
independent inquiry.
I hope that you will take appropriate actions in this case at the earliest.
Yours sincerely,
NAGARAJ MYSORE RAGHUPATHI
AN APPEAL TO HONOURABLE CHIEF MINISTER
OF MANIPUR
Dear The Chief
Minister of
Name of victims:
1. Mr. Henpu Singsit Khoken, resident of New Keithelmanbi village, Seiprameina,
Senapati district, Manipur [deceased]
2. Mr. S. Letkholal Haokip alias Palal, resident of Khoken village, New
Keithelmanbi, Seiprameina, Senapati district, Manipur
3. Mr. Seiminthang Haokip, resident of Kotlen village, New Keithelmanbi,
Seiprameina, Senapati district, Manipur
Alleged perpetrators: Personnel from 32 Assam Rifle (AR) stationed at Kotlen
village, Senapati district, Manipur
Place of incident: Khoken church compound in Khoken village, Seiprameina,
Senapati district, Manipur state, India
Date of incident: At around 12:30pm on 31 January 2007
I am writing to you to express my concern regarding an alleged incident of
indiscriminate firing in a church compound by the officers from the 32 Assam
Rifle (AR) on 31 January 2007 at about 12.30 p.m. in Khoken village of Senapati
district of Manipur. I am informed that a person, aged about 36 years succumbed
to the bullet injury and two others were seriously injured in the incident. I
am informed that the AR has refused to accept responsibility of the incident.
I am also informed that the victim Mr. Henpu, who sustained a bullet injury in
his chest, succumbed to the injuries on the way to the Regional Institute of
Medical Sciences (RIMS). The other two were admitted to the same hospital and
currently undergoing treatment.
I am also informed about the statements given by the injured persons at the
RIMS. Mr. Letkholal who sustained a bullet injury on his left arm is in a
position to identify the AR officers who fired at them.
I therefore urge you to immediately intervene in this case and register case of
murder against AR officers responsible for the firing. The officers must be
identified, arrested and prosecuted. I also urge you to give appropriate compensation
to the deceased\'s family and the injured persons. The witnesses in the case,
including the injured must be given complete protection so that they are not
forced to withdraw their statements.
Further, I request you to ensure that the civil and political rights of the
people of Manipur are safeguarded by ending the military rule and an
unconditional withdrawal of the emergency laws in the state.
I hope that you will take appropriate actions in this case at the earliest.
Yours sincerely,
NAGARAJ MYSORE RAGHUPATHI
AN APPEAL TO HONOURABLE CHAIRMAN NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Dear
Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission of India,
INDIA: Police inaction in alleged
assault and death threat against a human rights activist
Name of victim: Mr. Santhosh Kumar Patel, son of Mr Raghubar Patel, resident of
Manapur village under Phulpur police station in Varanasi district, Uttar
Pradesh state, India
Alleged perpetrators:
1. Mr Sijjan Yadav, resident of Pindra village under Phulpur police station in
Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh state, India
2. Mr Raju Yadav, resident of Asila, Pindra village
3. Mr Ajeet Patel, resident of Ramaipur, Pindra village
Place of incident: Near Surya Narayan Inter College in village Pindra under
Phulpur police station in
I am writing to you to express my concern regarding the alleged attack and
threat to life of a human rights activist in
Mr. Santhosh Kumar Patel, a human rights activist associated with PVCHR, a well
known human rights organization in
I am informed that on
After the assault when Mr. Santhosh went to the Phulpur police station to lodge
his complaint against the aforesaid perpetrators, the Officer in Charge (OIC)
of the Phulpur police station refused to register a case. Finally the case was
registered by the police after Mr. Santhosh, who came back with the villagers
to the police station, persuaded them for three hours. However, the perpetrators
named in the complaint are yet to be arrested since the local police are
refusing to investigate the case.
I therefore urge you to immediately intervene in this case and to ensure the
safety of Mr. Santhosh so that he could continue working in the area. I also
urge you to ensure that the local police will investigate the case and
immediately arrest the alleged perpetrators. I am surprised to hear that even
after daily newspaper reports in
I hope your proper action immediately.
Yours sincerely,
NAGARAJ MYSORE RAGHUPATHI
Militarisation and impunity
in Manipur
Manipur, which is situated on
the border of
The Armed Forces (Special
Powers) Act declared Manipur a `disturbed' area and legitimized full-scale
military operations, permitting even a non-commissioned officer to extinguish
kill on mere suspicion with guaranteed immunity. The extent of military
deployment is such that at the height of anti-insurgent operations in the 1990s
there were at least four divisions and 270 paramilitary companies stationed in
the small state. Today a military camp can be found nearby every inhabited area
of the region. In some parts, the area of land occupied by state security units
exceeds that of the villagers. For instance, from Sangakpham Bazaar to
Koirengei Duck Farm in Heingang Constituency, a distance of some 5.5 kilometres,
the security forces have occupied some 470 acres of land.
There has not ever been a
systematic assessment of the effects of militarisation on the people of
Manipur. However, it can be said that three decades of suffering and
humiliation at the hands of the military has greatly undermined people's
physical and spiritual integrity and threatened the survival of entire
communities. The threats are variously direct--caused by extrajudicial
executions, rape, torture, enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention--and
indirect--caused by confiscation of arable agricultural land, sacred cultural
sites and hillocks in residential areas, or restrictions on fishing, farming
and other activities in forests and wetlands.
Confiscation of land for
military deployment is a recurring cause for great hardship and
dissatisfaction, as in the case of the occupation of over 200 acres of land at
Mahakabui village in Senapati District, which is now a massive Assam Rifles
camp. Land is occupied without regard to its value or importance to local
inhabitants. The 8th Assam Rifles have taken over the Chinga Hills, considered
a sacred site by the Meitei people. Likewise, they have occupied a prime
location inside
Where army camps are set up,
villagers lose not only their land but also suffer many other restrictions that
affect their livelihoods. The 7th Assam Rifles deployed at Thanga Karang and
Sendra has completely banned fishing in
The psychological effects of
living within sight of an army camp or similar facility, common throughout
Manipur and other northeastern states of
Increasingly the military is
being deployed in Manipur to protect unsustainable and exploitative government
projects. The Loktak Hydroelectric Power Project, which displaced thousands of
people in Thoubal and Bishenpur Districts without compensation and caused
massive destruction to the Loktak Wetlands, is being protected by the Central
Reserve Police Force and the Border Security Forces. The Assam Rifles and
Indian Reserve Battalion are guarding the Mapithel Dam of the Thoubal
Multipurpose Project in Ukhrul District, the construction of which has been
vehemently opposed by local people. Three people died in December 2005 when the
Border Security Forces and Indian Reserve Battalion fired upon villagers
demanding proper rehabilitation and resettlement after they were forced out of
their houses by the Khuga Dam. And the Assam Rifles has publicly stated that
they will protect the construction of Tipaimukh High Dam, which local people
have opposed for over two decades.
The expansion of the military
and related agencies in Manipur has created enormous problems for civil
society. While the government complains that it has no money with which to
support civilian institutions, it has blatantly pumped millions more rupees
every year into the police and army forces stationed throughout the state.
Meanwhile, the spaces for dissent have steadily shrunk.
Public resistance to the
militarisation of Manipur began with the historic protests in the early 1980s
against the killings and atrocities in Patsoi Langjing perpetrated by the
Central Reserve Police Force, including the rape of a pregnant woman. As the
legacy of atrocities has continued till today so also has the legacy of protest
against injustice, which has been consistently met with violence.
The militarisation of Manipur
must be taken seriously. The government of
As far back as 1997 the UN Human
Rights Committee called upon the government of
Amnesty International is concerned
at reports of shootings, allegedly carried out by Central Industrial Security
Force (CISF) personnel, that resulted in the death of two local businessmen
near Geleki town, Sivasagar district (a town outside CISF jurisdiction in Upper
Assam) on 23 January 2007. A third businessman was seriously injured.
Amnesty International would like to remind the Indian authorities that they are
obliged, under both international human rights law and the Indian Constitution,
to ensure that no one is arbitrarily deprived of their right to life.
According to reports, Mr Nilikesh Gogoi, Mr Bholu and Mr Arun Saikia were
returning from a coal depot in Anakbati when the shooting took place. According
to Arun Saikia, who is currently undergoing treatment for bullet wounds to his
stomach, CISF personnel overtook their vehicle when they were returning from
Anakibati, a town bordering Nagaland, at approximately 23.30 and without
warning immediately opened fire on the unarmed civilians.
Amnesty International understands that a judicial inquiry into the incident has
been ordered by Tarun Gogoi, Chief Minister of
Amnesty International would also like to remind the authorities conducting the
probe to comply with the Principles on the Effective Prevention and
Investigation of Extralegal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions which spell out
in detail the obligations of governments to conduct inquiries into unlawful
killings. Such inquiries should seek to determine the cause, manner and time of
death, the person(s) responsible, and any pattern or practice which may have
brought about the deaths. They should include an adequate autopsy, collection
and analysis of all physical and documentary evidence and statements from
witnesses. Those who have ordered unlawful killings or are in any other way
responsible should be held to account as well as those who have carried the
killings out. In accordance with Principle 17, written reports must be made
within a reasonable time on the methods and findings of the inquiry. These must
be made public immediately and include the scope of the inquiry, procedures and
methods used to evaluate the evidence as well as conclusions and
recommendations based on findings of fact and on applicable law.
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