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  • Politician-Naxalite Nexus in Andhra Pradesh
    P V Ramana    ·   30 Sep, 2003    ·    #1167    ·    Commentary    
    The dangerous trend of politician-left-wing extremist (Naxalite) nexus continues to be alive in Andhra Pradesh. It needs to be rooted out, sooner than later, if peace is ever to come to the region. On 19 September 2003, the vernacular Telugu med...
  • Child Soldiers II: Preference for Children and Preference by Children
    N Manoharan    ·   30 Sep, 2003    ·    #1166    ·    Commentary    
    Wars are fought by adults. The use of children in combat activities is revolting, especially when children are drawn into violent conflict for the fact of being children. There are two major factors behind children being preferred for soldiering...
  • Suicide Bombers: A New Front Opens in Iraq
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   29 Sep, 2003    ·    #1165    ·    Commentary    
    The suicide bomber phenomenon had a faster genesis in American-occupied Iraq, in comparison to the Palestinians who adopted this tactic in the mid-1990s after several decades of Israeli occupation. Iraq has been a secular Arab entity, bu...
  • Spurt in Militant Violence- Tough Times for the Security Forces
    Amin Masoodi    ·   29 Sep, 2003    ·    #1164    ·    Commentary    
    Following the killing of Jaish-e-Muhammed chief, Gazi Baba, mastermind behind the parliament attack and the outfit’s, deputy commander, Nasir Mahmood Ahwan, there has been a renewed spurt in militant violence. The militant groups continue ...
  • Reverberating Northeast (Regional Media Survey, September 1-20, 2003)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   29 Sep, 2003    ·    #1163    ·    Commentary    
    Visit of the Bhutanese King to India The visit of the Bhutanese King to New Delhi in the second week of September raised enormous hopes in the media regarding an early dismantling of the militant camps in that country. On September 14, the ...
  • Kuka Parray’s killing – A setback to the peace process
    Amin Masoodi    ·   29 Sep, 2003    ·    #1162    ·    Commentary    
    The killing of Mohd.Yousuf Parray alias Kuka Parray, a former militant-turned political leader, is a major setback to counter-insurgency operations and the peace process in Jammu & Kashmir. Kuka Parray, a folk singer in his youth who commonl...
  • Indefensible Defence
    Sonika Gupta    ·   25 Sep, 2003    ·    #1161    ·    Commentary    
    We have seen it all now. Mulayam Singh Yadav defended Amaramani Tripathi, accused in the Madhumita murder case, as the “saviour of UP.” Tripathi is being rewarded for voting in favor of the SP government at a time when Mulayam Singh ...
  • Child Soldiers I: A Factual Overview
    N Manoharan    ·   25 Sep, 2003    ·    #1160    ·    Commentary    
    Definition A child soldier is any person under the age of 18 (it was 15 before 2000 as per international norms) engaged in deadly violence (non-criminal) or “combat support” as part of a state armed force or non-state armed grou...
  • Naxal Assault: Growing Vulnerability of Bihar Police
    Sanjay K Jha    ·   20 Sep, 2003    ·    #1159    ·    Commentary    
    Growing vulnerability, sagging morale and the lack of preparedness of the Bihar police was exposed, once again, when Naxalites blew up a police vehicle killing 12 persons, including 11 police personnel in the western Bihar district of Rohtas. Po...
  • Dam it! Why Big Dams in India’s Northeast Will Not Bring Prosperity
       ·   20 Sep, 2003    ·    #1158    ·    Commentary    
    On 30 August Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee assured that by 2007 every village in the country would be electrified and by 2012 every house illuminated. However, gloom descended over the eight northeastern states following this announcement....
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