Bangalore: Amnesty International, world’s largest human rights organization- so far barred from entering India, the graveyard of human rights- has attest secured Govt. of India’s permission 10 send a delegation to the country. I ‘the delegation led by Dr. Sangeeta Ahuja of the South Asia team has written a letter to our Editor seeking a meeting with him here.
Accordingly, the DV Editorial team, Dalit Human Rights Forum, Council of Indigenous People-India, Muslim Law Protection Committee and other human rights organization s with which the Editor is connected have fixed a meeting with the visiting Amnesty team here on Aug.4, Sunday.
Ms. Emma Blower, who looks after India, is the other member of the team which will tour Karnataka for five days from Aug 1 to 5. It will be in India in July and August.
Apartheid in India: The Brahminical govt. led by Chanakya never allowed any foreign human rights organization, let alone Amnesty to visit India because of the largescale police and army atrocities il committed in Kashmir, Punjab, Northeast and many other parts of India. To coverup the sins of the ruling uppercases, they launched a virulent anti-Amnesty campaign in their Brahminical toilet papers. (DV Feb. 15,1995 p.8). It was Dalit Voice which had been repeatedly defending Amnesty and its great work. DV has been also critical of the Govt. of India’s rubber-stamp National Human Rights Commission headed by a Brahmin ex-Judge.
That Amnesty could finally enter India, shows the changed atmosphere that has come about because of the Shudra Govt. takeover in India.
Original home of racism: When Sister Sangeeta Ahuja took over as chief of the South Asia division, we had expressed the hope that as an Indian she would seriously take up the case of India’s Untouchables, who constitute the world’s single largest population subjected to racism. We are sure that this visit is a step in that direction and assure the fullest support to Amnesty in its “search for truth in India. We want Amnesty to come out with a document it-self Untouchables- just on the lines the Minority Rights Group, London, did it so that the world knows the truth about this closely guarded secret of racism, before which the South African Apartheid would pale into insignificance.
Even while welcoming the appointment of Sister Sangeeta to the Amnesty (DV Jan.1, 96 p.12), we had then thrown a challenge to her that “DV will judge her not by her words but her actions”. India is the original home of racism and the world’s largest apartheid system works here. (DV May1, 95 p.16).
We are sure she has accepted this challenge and hence this meeting.
