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Anarchie bij vliegveld op Malediven
De staatsgreep op de Malediven heeft anarchie veroorzaakt in Addu, de tweede stad van het eilandenparadijs in de Indische Oceaan. Politiebureau's en andere overheidsgebouwen werden in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag aangevallen en in brand gestoken, zo meldde de burgemeester van Addu. Hij raakte zelf lichtgewond tijdens de ongeregeldheden.
De politie en het leger hebben zich teruggetrokken uit de 35.000 inwoners tellende stad en concentreren zich nu op de beveiliging van het vliegveld. De luchthaven is van groot belang voor de economie van de Malediven. Grote aantallen vakantiegangers arriveren hier na een tussenstop op de internationale luchthaven bij de hoofdstad Malé voor hun huwelijksreis.
Dinsdag legde president Mohammed Nasheed (foto) zijn functie neer na een muiterij van de politie. Een dag later werd hij in het ziekenhuis opgenomen, nadat hij tijdens een demonstratie was geslagen door agenten. Vicepresident Mohamed Waheed nam de macht over en probeert sindsdien de orde te herstellen.

De vrouw en kinderen van Nasheed zijn inmiddels gevlucht naar buurland Sri Lanka. Woordvoerders van de partij van Nasheed meldden dat het Openbaar Ministerie een arrestatiebevel heeft uitgevaardigd tegen de ex-president. Hij zou zich schuldig hebben gemaakt aan ,,terrorisme'' door het organiseren van demonstraties, die ontaardden in rellen.

Het Nederlandse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken raadt ,,niet-essentiële reizen'' af naar het hoofdeiland Malé met uitzondering van het vliegveld Malé International Airport. Bij reizen naar de overige delen van de Malediven krijgen Nederlanders het advies ,,waakzaamheid te betrachten en demonstraties en samenscholingen te mijden''.

Het proces werd aangespannen door een aantal individuen, waaronder een moslimgeestelijke. Facebook-berichten, YouTube-filmpjes en blogposts die aanstootgevend zijn voor hindoes, moslims en christenen moeten voortaan worden gefilterd en gecensureerd.

Hoewel Google en Facebook, net als Microsoft en Yahoo, in hoger beroep zijn gegaan, nemen ze voorlopig geen risico. Volgens de rechtbank in Delhi kan India hun websites op zwart zetten als ze zich niet naar het besluit voegen.

Verantwoordelijk
De zaak volgt op een wet die vorig jaar werd ingevoerd, meldt Reuters. Daarin staat dat bedrijven verantwoordelijk zijn voor de boodschappen die gebruikers op hun sites plaatsen. Als ze een klacht ontvangen, moeten ze het beledigende materiaal binnen 36 uur verwijderen.

Politici hopen dat de maatregel helpt om maatschappelijke onrust te bezweren. Aanstootgevend materiaal zou de religieuze verhoudingen op scherp kunnen zetten. Het Indiase internet kent vooralsnog relatief weinig restricties. Critici vrezen dat India meer op zijn buurland China zal gaan lijken.

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• The action follows weeks of intense government pressure for 22 Internet giants to remove photographs, videos or text considered “anti-religious” or “anti-social.”

• Indian officials have been incensed by material insulting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ruling Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi and religious groups, including illustrations showing Singh and Gandhi in compromising positions and pigs running through Mecca, Islam’s holiest city

• Anyone hurt by online content should be able to seek legal redress, he said. The government has warned it has evidence to prosecute 21 sites for offenses of “promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national integration.”

• Prosecutors, who sued on behalf of a Muslim religious leader who accused companies of hosting pages that disparage Islam, said they would provide the companies with all relevant documents. The court gave the companies 15 more days to report back.

Ariel schreef: Wat voor de één aanstootgevend is, is voor de ander religie.

Mahalingam schreef: Nu komt de aap uit de mouw: het is gewoon Legal Jihad. Niks meer en niks minder.

Trouble in paradise: Maldives and Islamic extremism
By Amal Jayasinghe (AFP
MALE — At the Maldives' National Museum, smashed Buddhist statues are testament to the rise of Islamic extremism and Taliban-style intolerance in a country famous as a laid-back holiday destination.
On Tuesday, as protesters backed by mutinous police toppled president Mohamed Nasheed, a handful of men stormed the Chinese-built museum and destroyed its display of priceless artefacts from the nation's pre-Islamic era.

"They have effectively erased all evidence of our Buddhist past," a senior museum official told AFP at the now shuttered building in the capital Male, asking not to be named out of fear for his own safety.
"We lost all our 12th century statues. They were made of coral stone and limestone. They are very brittle and there is no way we can restore them," he explained.
"I wept when I heard that the entire display had gone. We are good Muslims and we treated these statues only as part of our heritage. It is not against Islam to display these exhibits," he said.

Five people have since been arrested after they returned the following day to smash the CCTV cameras, he said.

The authorities have banned photography of the damage, conscious that vandalism of this kind which echoes the 2001 destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan by the Taliban is damaging for the nation's image.

communal harmony .
Delhi HC asks police chief to submit status report on ‘Islamist’ website
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Police commissioner to submit a status report on an “Islamist” website (http://www.shariah4hind.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) within a week.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Shah Endlaw was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, president of the Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena. The PIL has sought a ban on the website as it has allegedly threatened communal harmony in India.

The petition alleged that the website disrespect and disreputes the Indian constitution and its secular feature.

According to the PIL, Islamic extremists are planning to organise a huge rally in Delhi to propagate Islamisation of Indian subcontinent and enforcement of Shariah law across India. This may result into communal clashes and disruption of public peace and order in State of Delhi and other parts of India, the petition said.

On 22nd February 2012, anti-Muslim organisation Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena will attend the Delhi High Court appealing for a ban of organisation Shariah4Hind. They will also be demanding that the planned rally for Shariah on 3rd March 2012 outside Sansad Bhavan be outlawed and that visas for Anjem Choudary and Shariah4Hind representatives be rejected.

WHO schrapt India van 'poliolijst'
In de afgelopen 12 maanden heeft zich geen enkel geval van polio voorgedaan in India, zei de Indiase minister van Volksgezondheid Ghulam Nabi Azad zaterdag. „We hebben de slag gewonnen, maar de oorlog is nog niet voorbij. Laten we met dezelfde kracht onze inspanningen voortzetten, dan kan India in 2014 poliovrij worden verklaard”.

In 2008 telde India nog 549 gevallen van polio. De afgelopen jaren houdt de overheid twee keer per jaar een prikdag waarop elke keer bijna 170 miljoen kinderen een vaccin oraal krijgen toegediend. Daarnaast zijn er speciale teams die uitrukken zodra iemand symptomen heeft die op polio lijken. „Dat wordt dan gezien als een noodsituatie wat betreft de volksgezondheid”, aldus Azad.

In response of PIL Delhi Police registered FIR against Anjem Choudary, Omar Mohhamad Bakri, Abu Baraa and shariah4hind team under sections 124A (sedition), 153A (Communal crime),295A(Communal crime) IPC & 66A IT Act on 28th Feb late night & issued arrest warrant against them. Fearing the arrest, The contractor of Shariah in world Anjem Choudary cancelled the Shariah rally which was to be held on 3rd March.

In India wil ook de moslim positief gediscrimineerd worden
De landelijke Congrespartij kwam eerder met een vergelijkbaar plan, maar heeft nog weinig stappen gezet. In vier staten zijn dergelijke plannen al wettelijk vastgelegd, maar worden moslims nog steeds achtergesteld.

Om te bepalen wie precies aanspraak kan maken op de voordelen kijken overheidscommissies naar de vroegere status van de bekeerlingen. Waren de voorouders van de moslim ooit onaanraakbaar, dan krijgt hij - in theorie - waar dalits ook recht op hebben.

Assam riots: Hundreds of villages burned, toll rises to 26
Reuters | Jul 24, 2012, 08.04PM IST

GUWAHATI: Police shot dead four rioters in Assam on Tuesday as security forces struggled to contain ethnic fighting that has killed 26 people and left remote hamlets in flames, forcing tens of thousands from their homes.

Rioting between Bodo tribespeople and Muslim settlers has raged for days. Some of the victims died of machete wounds, aid workers who has seen the bodies said.

Police opened fire on a mob that was burning property in the Bodo-dominated Kokrajhar district, killing the four, police inspector general S.N. Singh told Reuters.

Earlier, hundreds of men armed with spears, clubs and rocks attacked an express train passing through Kokrajhar, injuring several passengers. In another incident, several people suffered bullet wounds and others were injured in a stampede when police fired to disperse a gang of 400, a senior police official said.

Soldiers and federal paramilitary troops patrolled Kokrajhar town and outlying areas on armoured vehicles mounted with machine guns. The government said more security reinforcements were travelling to the region.

In defiance of an overnight curfew, rival mobs spread to rural areas and neighbouring districts overnight, targeting hamlets along river banks and in the jungle. Some 500 villages have been destroyed by arson.

"The security forces were silent spectators when village after village was burnt down," veteran local politician Urkhao Gwra Brahma told Reuters.

Ringed by China, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan, India's northeast is home to more than 200 ethnic and tribal groups and has been racked by separatist revolts since India's independence from Britain in 1947.

In recent years Hindu and Christian tribes have vented strong anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment against Bangladeshi settlers. The Bodo tribe has clashed with Bengalis in deadly riots several times since the 1950s.

The latest violence was sparked on Friday night when unidentified men killed four youths in Kokrajhar district, police and district officials said. In retaliation, armed Bodos attacked Muslims, suspecting them of being behind the killings.

Hagrama Mohilary, the leader of the tribal council governing the region, warned that former separatist rebels had joined the violence to protect Bodo villages. He called for the rebels, who are officially observing a ceasefire, to lay down their arms.

Bodo tribes shot at Muslim villages close to the border with Bhutan on Monday night, a senior police officer who asked not to be named told Reuters. He said no casualties had been reported.

Assam's chief minister, Tarun Gogoi, told TV network CNN-IBN that he hoped the situation would be under control within two days. He said some 30,000 villagers have fled their homes and taken shelter in relief camps, but local officials said the numbers were at least twice that.

The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticised Gogoi for not stopping the rioting and Prime Minister Manomhan Singh called the chief minister asking him to do everything possible to stop the violence. The Hindu nationalist BJP has in the past been accused of fanning religious conflicts.

Tribal leader Mohilary said relief camps were overcrowded and suffering a shortage of food and medicine because roadblocks across the region had stopped supply trucks.

India's Assam issues 'shoot on sight' orders amid violence

Security forces in India's Assam state have been given "shoot on sight" orders amid violence that has killed at least 21 people.

The move follows fierce fighting between indigenous tribespeople and Muslim settlers in Kokrajhar and Chirang districts.

More than 60,000 people have fled their homes for relief camps.

There have been tensions between indigenous groups and Muslim Bengali migrants to Assam for many years.

After the latest outbreak of violence, an indefinite curfew was imposed in the worst-affected Kokrajhar district.

"The situation is very tense. Both Bodos and Muslims are setting fire to each other's homes. People are fleeing homes as rumours of rioting are spreading. The paramilitary forces have had to fire to control mobs in some areas, and the army has also been deployed," Kokrajhar district commissioner Donald Gilfellan told the BBC.

Police say that the clashes began when unidentified men killed four youths on Friday night in Kokrajhar district, an area dominated by the Bodo tribe.

They say that armed Bodos attacked Muslims in retaliation, suspecting them to be behind the killings.

Soon afterwards unidentified groups set houses, schools, and vehicles ablaze, police said, firing indiscriminately from automatic weapons in populated areas.

"Ik hoor dat mensen in India nog steeds met hun handen eten?" vroeg Oprah tijdens het diner. De familie had haar uitgenodigd om te komen eten. In India is het traditie om met je rechterhand te eten. De vraag schoot Oprah’s gastheren dan ook in het verkeerde keelgat. [...]
“Shockerende arrogantie van een onwetende rijke vrouw", schreef de New Yorkse journalist Aseem Chhabra.

Mumbai violence: Organiser admits ‘irresponsible’ speech
Twenty people have been detained in connection with the violence in Mumbai that killed 2 people and injured over 50, even as organisers of an event to protest violence against Muslims in Assam and Myanmar have admitted “irresponsible speech” that triggered rioting.[...]
Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik meanwhile, told the media that a red alert had been issued, given that this was a sensitive situation. “The holy month of Ramzan is on. Considering there were serial blasts in Pune recently, and that the Independence Day is also coming up, we have issued a red alert in the city until the situation is entirely under control”, he said.

Indians from Assam flee 'Muslim threats' in Bangalore
Thousands of people from north-east India are fleeing the southern city of Bangalore amid rumours they will be attacked in retaliation for communal violence in their home state.
Hundreds of students and workers from Assam state crowded Bangalore's main railway station on Thursday to try to board trains leaving the city, while officials tried to assure them of their safety.

The exodus followed clashes in Assam in recent weeks between members of the indigenous Bodo tribe and Muslims that left more than 50 deaths and left 400,000 in displacement camps. The violence has spilled over to other states where Bodos and other ethnic tribal members from the impoverished north-east have migrated in search of jobs.
Those fleeing Bangalore said they had heard that text messages were circulating which warned of attacks by Muslims.

On Saturday, two people died and dozens were injured in Mumbai in clashes between police and thousands of Muslims protesting against the deaths last month of Muslims in Assam. Violence has also been reported in the southern city of Hyderabad and the western cities of Pune and Nashik.

Outrage over India cartoonist arrest
Aseem Trivedi was held in the city of Mumbai over the weekend for his cartoons allegedly mocking the Indian constitution.
He was also charged with insulting the national flag and remanded in police custody until 16 September.
Senior journalist and the editor of CNN-IBN news channel Rajdeep Sardesai said he found it "amusing, but also very dangerous that you can get away with hate speech in this country, but parody and political satire leads to immediate arrest".

Christian Missionary run Nirmala School in Kerala rejects admission to Muslim students
Aluva (Kerala): Nirmala School of Aluva, which came under scanner for prohibiting head scarf to Muslim students despite an order from the district ADM, has been found rejecting applications from Muslim students for enrolment to the next academic year.
The school started admissions to the next academic year, a month back and the interviews are underway.

However, many parents from the Muslim community have alleged that even studious and meritorious candidates fulfilling all criteria have been denied admissions.
A parent, who tried to contact school administration to know the reason for the rejection of his ward candidature, was told bluntly: You people can enrol your kids in your own schools.”

Civil rights groups and Muslim organisations in the state are already protesting against the prohibition of wearing head scarves to Muslim female students despite an order from the district administration.

Four arrested, attempt to murder charge to be invoked in Delhi gang rape case
Four men were arrested for allegedly raping and brutally assaulting a 23—year—old girl in a moving bus with police on Tuesday saying that it will invoke attempt to murder charge against them and seek a fast—track trial for speedy justice.
The bus driver Ram Singh, who along with six others, allegedly gang raped the para—medical student on Sunday night, was remanded on Tuesday in police custody for five days in by a Delhi court to allow his custodial interrogation. [...]
The victim’s male friend, an engineer who objected the men making lewd remarks at the victim, was also beaten up during the incident, which led to widespread outrage in Parliament and outside and demand for death penalty for rapists. [...]
The para-medical student was raped in a moving bus on Sunday night and brutally assaulted by four men who also attacked her male friend and threw both of them out of the vehicle. Police, so far, have arrested four persons in the case. [...]
The incident triggered outrage with students of Jawaharlal Nehru University staging a demonstration outside Vasant Kunj Police Station and blocking traffic.

In Kasjmir, bij de grens tussen India en Pakistan, zijn twee Indiase militairen doodgeschoten, zeggen Indiase bronnen. Twee dagen geleden was er ook een incident: toen meldde Pakistan dat India een Pakistaanse militair had doodgeschoten.

Volgens een Indiase legerwoordvoerder werden de Indiase militairen vandaag beschoten op eigen grondgebied. Over het incident van zondag had Pakistan hetzelfde verklaard; dat zou zijn gebeurd nadat Indiase militairen de grens waren overgestoken. Het Indiase leger bestreed die lezing, maar bevestigde wel dat er geschoten was.

India en Pakistan maken beide aanspraak op de regio Kasjmir. De beide kernmachten hebben er meerdere malen oorlogen over gevoerd, de laatste was in 1999. Er zijn wel geregeld beschietingen over en weer, maar als er dan militairen omkomen, is dat meestal op eigen grondgebied.