The selective amnesia of the English media in India is simply breathtaking.
There appears to be a cardinal rule: Never publish anything that would be in the least bit negative about Muslims in general and Pakistanis in particular; or about Christians; or about Marxists in general and the Chinese in particular.
For instance, the Chinese genocide in occupied Tibet is glossed over, and an Indian English magazine's famous editor goes on a China-sponsored tour there and writes a glowing account of how life is beautiful.
After all, it's just details that a million Tibetans have been wiped out and a lot of their women forcibly sterilised in an explicit path towards genocide.
Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, and rose-coloured glasses redux?
When the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found two Catholic nuns guilty of crimes against humanity in June 2001, the Indian English media simply buried the story.
Here is an excerpt from the Economist magazine's report, 'Judging genocide', June 14, 2001.
On June 8th%u2026 two Roman Catholic nuns were found guilty in a different court, thousands of miles away, of complicity in the Rwandan genocide. Their trial had lasted a mere two months.
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by Swaraj Sudharm on Jan 19, 2008 11:18 PM Permalink
No body listens to love. Every one looks for AK47. How pathetic is the Govt. Of India behaviour towards Kashmiri pandits...???...
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by Srinivas P on Jan 19, 2008 10:56 PM Permalink
This is why the attack on a Hindu temple in Dera Bugti in Balochistan in March last year got absolutely no coverage in the Indian media and did not disturb Indian society in general.
Shabana Azmi and Kuldeep Nayyar and Human Rights Watch and the rest of the human rights cottage industry were very quiet. The US Council on International Religious Freedom was thunderously silent, too, which shows yet again that their definition of 'religious freedom' is rather unique: It means the freedom of American cults to propagate their bizarre ideas.
It is not as though the information was not available. A cursory Google search brought up an Associated Press report carried by the Taipei Times ('Scores killed in rocket attack on Hindu temple', March 22, 2005), which says, among other things:
Seventeen minority Hindus were killed when their temple was hit by rockets during fighting between renegade tribesmen and security forces in a restive tribal town in southwestern Pakistan last week, a government official said yesterday.
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by Srinivas P on Jan 19, 2008 10:58 PM Permalink
Daily Times of Pakistan carried a report, excerpted below:
The Jamhoori Watan Party on Thursday released a list of 61 people killed in a clash between Frontier Corps personnel and the Bugti tribesmen in Dera Bugti on March 17. Senator Amanullah Kinrani, party spokesman and president of the Balochistan High Court Bar Association, gave the list to reporters at a news conference. According to the list, 19 Hindu children between ages 1 and 16, three women, and 11 men were killed in the clash. Nineteen other Hindu men and five women were injured.
The victims are mostly Hindu children, who had presumably sought shelter in the temple at a time of war. Curious that the shelling just happened to hit the temple, isn't it? Since the victims were mere Hindus, the Indian English media felt free to ignore the whole episode.
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by john thomas on Jan 19, 2008 11:05 PM Permalink
This sounds like you are quoting something someone wrote a while ago after the IISc attack. Can you provide the source and the author? And what is the point you are making?
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by Chandra Prakash on Jan 19, 2008 11:19 PM Permalink
Srinivas Puttar is confused himself so he is confusing others. Shabash Beta, carry on.....
