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2003-05-30 20:41 | User Profile
Original Article Available At: [url=http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc02192003.htm]Kalistan Affairs[/url]
The unfortunate and shocking truth about the nation of Aryan Hindu's. Millions of children sold into slavery, fully 86% of the country lives below the US poverty level, the author even stating that "Even Nepal's, Bangladesh's, Ethiopia's and Sierra Leone's population is better off than India's ".
This is truly tragic, and one can now see why we should pity poor RBAN and his delusional fantasy. He's quite possibly going mad from hunger.
** India is going the Colombia way
BY Dr. Amarjit Singh
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Washington DC: February 19, 2003: A Delhi-datelined story in today's Independent (a London newspaper) by correspondent Phil Reeves headlined, "Murder reveals plight of India's child servants," focuses on India's poverty and practice of bonded child labour (slavery) and expresses surprise that, "the lucid details of 11 year old boy, Umesh, who was murdered by his employer, in New Delhi, with a kitchen knife, for refusing to cook, mildly interested the city's newspapers but the fact that he was a child did not." What's new - this child abuse has been going on in India for the past half century?
Phil Reeves wrote in amazement in the Independent that, "there was no hand-wringing over why a boy had been put to work in domestic service at an age when he should have had a long school career ahead of him. Nor were there any deafening demands for tighter enforcement of national or international child labour laws." Reeves goes on to explain in his dispatch in the Independent newspaper that, "Indians have long lived with such horror stories and with the wearying reality that many of its social problems flowing from poverty and over-population are too massive for government to resolve. But Umesh's death provided an insight into an upstairs-downstairs world that faded away in Britain early in the last century, yet is preserved in India by an unending supply of extremely cheap labour, rigidly hierarchical social attitudes and profound poverty." Guestimates speak of about ten million children working as servant/slaves in urban households and another thirty million toiling in rural households in India. It is an evil practice most Indians urbanites will condemn in public but will go home and demand that the child servant in their own home help them remove their shoes and provide other valet services.
The correspondent of the Independent newspaper, Phil Reeves, would not have been surprised at the callousness he saw over Umesh's gruesome murder had he known more about the Brahmanical social order which reigns supreme in caste-ridden India. Hindu society - Laws of Manu - sanctions and confers a higher status on a cow, a monkey, a rat and an elephant and orders a better treatment and safety on these animal/gods than hundreds of millions lower caste human beings who are citizens of India. Try hitting a cow in India or shooting a monkey or killing a rat in public and see what happens!
Had Phil Reeves participated and reported on a public hearing which took place in New Delhi, a few days ago, organized by the the 'Right to Food Campaign' (where witnesses testified to a stark reality that basic prerequisites for a life of dignity and safety are still beyond the reach of a majority of Indians after 54 years of independence) he would not have been surprised by the lack of reaction to the child-servant's murder in New Delhi. The UN"s Human Development Report-2002 also says as much in % figures, (For details click on: > [url=http://hdr.undp.org/reports/view_reports.cfm?country=IND&countryname=INDIA%20]http://hdr.undp.org/reports/view_reports.c...ryname=INDIA%20[/url] <) on page 158, in its chart No. 03 on Human & Income poverty reports. It reports that 86.2% (the highest percentage of any country in the world) of India's population of over one billion lives below the Income Poverty Line of US$. 2 per day. Even Nepal's, Bangladesh's, Ethiopia's and Sierra Leone's population is better off than India's with a poverty rate of 82.5%, 77.8%, 76.4% and 74.5% respectively living on less than US. $ 2 a day.
Organizers of "The Right to Food Campaign" collected several hundred people from twelve different Indian States, (along with 47 organisations - students, academics and journalists) in the capital city of India who gathered, on an open ground in Delhi University, to listen to the testimonies of people living with hunger who asserted the right of all citizens to be free from hunger. It was the first public hearing at the national level in fifty four years since the British left, and its aim was to investigate more comprehensively the nationwide situation caused by food deprivation and the failures of the Indian state.
Economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, who addressed the "The Right to Food Campaign" gathering in Delhi, said that contrary to what many people believe, India has not done well in tackling the pervasive presence of persistent hunger. "Not only are there persistent recurrences of severe hunger and starvation in particular regions, but there is also a gigantic prevalence of endemic hunger across much of India. Indeed, India does much worse in this respect than even sub-Saharan Africa. Calculations of general undernourishment - what is sometimes called protein-energy malnutrition - is nearly twice as high in India as in sub-Saharan Africa. It is astonishing that despite the intermittent occurrence of famine in Africa, it too manages to ensure a much higher level of regular nourishment than does India. About half of all Indian children are, it appears, chronically undernourished, and more than half of all adult women suffer from anaemia. In maternal undernourishment and the incidence of birth of underweight babies, India's record is among the worst in the world." Amartya Sen's above statement is confirmed by the UN's Human Development Report-2002. India (along with Nepal & Ethopia) led the world in % of underweight children under age five at 47%. **
2003-05-31 02:44 | User Profile
Where is rban these days? I haven't been able to visit OD all that much the last couple of months, but I haven't seen any new posts from him in a bit. I sparred with him on and off for the longest time, and then decided to let him rant, maybe he'd run out of gas. Maybe he has.
2003-05-31 02:47 | User Profile
Originally posted by Roy Batty@May 30 2003, 20:44 ** Where is rban these days? I haven't been able to visit OD all that much the last couple of months, but I haven't seen any new posts from him in a bit. I sparred with him on and off for the longest time, and then decided to let him rant, maybe he'd run out of gas. Maybe he has. **
Rban is rbanned (see the Europe section of the Foreign Affairs forum to find out why). For how long I don't know. Hopefully, Tex will decide to be merciful on us, and deny the cretin the right to post here forever.
2003-05-31 02:57 | User Profile
Very interesting Prodigal Son. I see that others, including yourself, were hitting him right where it hurts. You were hitting him with facts. If he does come back, I think I'll continue to ignore him. The Hindus and others taking jobs from white Americans are but one symptom of the destructive malady that has overtaken this nation.
2003-06-03 14:48 | User Profile
**Rban is rbanned **
I for one, hope not. RBAN provided some comic relief with his pseudo scientific rant about AH superiority.
Much of what is discussed on this forum is distressing, infuriating, or solemn. I kinda enjoyed his single minded attempts to refute the obvious.
Plus he was great fun to bait....far more predictable than any Bass.
2003-06-03 15:13 | User Profile
Churban's entertainment is good but in small doses. When the latest posts page is infested with churban's droppings, it takes away from the forum. The little :dung: got out of line -- no cow dung cakes and urine cola for him for a month(?) :(