Human Rights Day Celebrations in Sri Venkareswara University, Tirupati
11 December 2003
The Hindu,
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2003
Comprehensive review of laws concerning children on the cards
11 December 2003
The Hindu
By Special Correspondent
2003
Blood and money
21 February 2003
Financial Times – London Edition
By Edward Luce and Demetri Sevastopulo
India’s leading Hindu nationalist group – the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or Organisation of National Volunteers – told the country’s Muslims last year that their future safety lay “in the goodwill of the majority”.
The warning, made towards the end of one of the country’s worst episodes of sectarian violence, in which up to 2,000 Muslims died, fuelled allegations that the RSS and its affiliates were implicated in the pogroms. Yet far from deterring the Hindu nationalists, the controversy has encouraged greater militancy – including, in December, the landslide election victory of the BJP, the political arm of the RSS, in Gujarat.
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Kashmiri students in India face discrimination
Tuesday, June 17, 2003; Page A12 | Special to The Washington Post
By Rama Laxmi
MUZAFFARNAGAR, India — Three months ago, Ejaz Husain Jaan was just another Kashmiri student living away from home, nervously studying for his finals and taking short breaks to catch the World Cup cricket scores on television.
Now, he is in jail, facing terrorism charges for allegedly aiding a plan to blow up important government buildings, an accusation he vehemently denies.
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2003
AIDS fuels traffic of Nepali girls to India
9 June 2003
Reuters AlertNet UK
By Sugita Katyal
NEW DELHI, June 9 (Reuters) – Priya was just 12 when she was drugged by an aunt and dumped at a brothel in New Delhi.
“I thought it was a cinema hall but then I realised they wanted me to do bad things,” said the young Nepali woman, now 21, who was brought from her poverty-stricken village with the promise of a job as maid.
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Hindus to reignite Ayodhya dispute
5 February 2003
Financial Times – Asia Pacific
By Edward Luce in New Delhi
Rightwing Hindu groups in India are to launch a national campaign to build a temple in the town of Ayodhya on the site of a former mosque that was demolished by amob 10 years ago.
Atal Behari Vajpayee, India’s prime minister, yesterday said he wanted the dispute – which has aggravated relations between the country’s majority Hindu and minority Muslim communities – to be resolved through peaceful mediation.
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