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Chapter 1, Continues…
Second, to combat these terrorists we place restrictions on human rights of the citizens such as on privacy, freedom of travel and association so the victims of attacks suffer both ways. Third, human rights questions are raised when the terrorist are apprehended, on such issues as torture, deprivation of human dignity, the rights to a free trial, on clemency from death penalty, etc..
We thus need a policy framework structured in four dimensions: 1. A clear cut statement of objectives, 2. Defining the priorities of these objectives, 3. A strategy to achieve the objectives, 4. Commitment of necessary human, financial, and infrastructural resources.
In a nutshell, a government has to have the right to do what is sufficient, but reasonable, to combat terrorism while maintaining human rights with reasonable restrictions. Such Laws that abridge fundamental rights for crimes of terrorism, such Unlawful Activities Act, can be made within reasonable restrictions on fundamental rights such as reversal of the burden of proof and tested for constitutionality by the Supreme Court. The nation has learnt the Human rights value of such reasonableness during the 20 months of the State of Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi led Government
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
The hoary concept of Hindustan [coined originally as a sandhi of two words [Hi from Himalaya and Indu from Indu Sagar] thus originally comprised the presentday India, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan. Ironically even today the Chinese in their Official documents and public conversations refer to India in the same way as they have been for the last 2000 years—that is “Yinduh Guo” translated as Hindu Rashtra.
It may be recalled that Kaikey in Ramayana was from Iran and Gandhari in Mahabharata was from Afghanistan. These two areas were 100% Hindu land till Muhammad bin Qasim’s Arab force of the Caliphate led by Umar attacked in Sindh in 711. But that attack was repulsed by the joint army of Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Andhra.
To be continued…