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Human
Rights situation in South Asia highlighted
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Dec 28 : The
Human Rights situation across the South Asian region is beyond expectation, said human
rights activists today.
"The political
demonisation in the entire region has undermined human rights situation," K M Subhan,
former justice of Bangladesh said.
Subhan was speaking at
a programme organised by Prakash Kaphley International Solidarity (PKIS) Award in the
capital today.
He highighted the
horrible human rights situation in the region. He said that human rights violations in
different countries in the region are reflected in different forms.
However, he claimed
that other countries in the region should take a lesson from Sri Lanka where the
government and the Liberation of Tamil Tigers’ Elam (LTTE) have recently brokered a
ceasefire.
Subhan also held the
civil society responsible for the present human rights violations across the region.
"The civil society seems to have been reserved in this regard. They must raise their
voice high against such rights violations," Subhan said.
Speaking at the
programme Teesta Setelvad, a veteran human rights activist and a journalist in India, who
also received the third PKIS Award, said that the human rights situation was deteriorating
everyday. She charged the Indian politicians of deliberately flaring the communal violence
in India for their own political gains. "India is not the India at all, all the
politicians there have gone down to the medieval age and emphasize political
high-handedness in every walks of life," Setelvad said.
Setelvad literally
cried out while talking about the pathetic human rights violations in Gujrat and Kashmir
states of India.
Similarly, Tara Nath
Ranabhat, Speaker, who also chaired the programme said that the current problematic
situation would not remain longer. "The rights violations will one day come to an
end," Ranabhat said.
Malla K Sundar, a human
rights activist came down heavily against the government in the programme. "Even the
people in Nepal have begun feeling alienated in their own country," Malla K Sundar
said.
He said that human
rights groups shun both the government and the Maoists for abusing rights of the people.
"One must be able to live a peaceful and respective life," Malla said.
He also urged both the
government and the Maoists immediately stop the spree of killings and come to a dialogue
for a peaceful resolution of the problem.
Speaking at the
programme, Kapil Shrestha, a member of National Human Rights Commission said that the two
wrongs in no way would make a right. "It’s high time for all the human rights
activists to raise the issues of human rights violations from both the government and the
Maoists," Shrestha said.
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