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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:21 PDT
Subject: Release of Essay by Justice Bains
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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Release of Essay by Justice Bains

/* Written  8:34 pm  Jul 18, 1992 by dawar@gradient.cis.upenn.edu in cdp:soc.cult.india */
BULLETIN			 Number 22, July 11, 1992.
Committee for the Release of Justice Ajit Singh Bains.

Issued by Dr. Jeffrey Goodman - Canadian Coordinator
	  76 Rusholme Rd., Toronto, Ontario M6J 3H5
	  Tele/Fax Number: (416) 537-8142

ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF "STATE TERRORISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS"
BY JUSTICE AJIT SINGH BAINS

We are proud to announce that today, July 11, the paper titled "State
Terrorism and Human Rights" written by Justice Ajit Singh Bains from Burail
Jail, Chandigarh, has been released simultaneously from Toronto, Dublin and
New Delhi.  Published by the Association of Indian Progressive Study Groups,
this pamphlet is perhaps the clearest exposition of the whole question of
the violation of human rights, the rule of law and the responsibility of
governments in this respect.  The pamphlet is being sold for five dollars
and is available in English, French and several Indian languages.  All the
proceeds from the sale of this pamphlet are going towards the Defence Fund
set up for the release of Justice Bains.  We appeal to all of you to buy
this pamphlet, to publicise it and in this way to contribute toward his
release and to the struggle for human rights.  Reproduced below is the
Publisher's Note to this pamphlet.

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

We are very proud to place before the public opinion of the country this
eloquent and forceful essay in defence of human rights and the rule of law.

Justice Ajit Singh Bains needs no introduction, either as a jurist or as a
human rights activist.  This essay is not just a dignified plea for the rule
of law in a society where the absence of civilised jurisprudence is being
sorely felt, whether by the Punjabis or the Assamese, or the workers of
Bhilai, Dalla and other places.  Rather it is an exposition of the process
whereby societies sink into the quagmire of anarchy and lawlessness, and of
the fundamental role of governments play in either facilitating or averting
such a tragedy.

What makes this essay all the more remarkable is that it has been written
from within the confines of a prison cell, where the author has been
languishing for the past three months under the Terrorism and Disruptive
Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA).  It will be apparent to the reader of
this essay , if she or he is not already familiar with the case, how
malicious the charges of "sedition" and "secession" against the author are.
It is to the credit of Justice Bains that even under such conditions of
adversity, he has turned the tables on his accusers.

AIPSG, New Delhi and New York,
July 10, 1992.
From: hrcoord@igc.org (Human Rights Coordinator)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Officer Defends Repression!
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:38:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700280:000:1831
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jul 27 11:38:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Officer Defends Repression!

/* Written  7:13 am  Jul 27, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua */

2. NICARAGUAN ARMY CHIEF DEFENDS REPRESSION
Army Chief (and Former FSLN National Directorate member) Gen.
Humberto Ortega responded to critics who say the army is growing
more repressive by warning, "We will not allow people to break
the law with impunity or undermine the country's stability." He
rejected claims that the army and police were being used by
rightwing forces to bring back Somoza-era repression, and
indirectly criticized his brother, Daniel Ortega, by condemning
political leaders who legitimize the use of force. Gen. Ortega
said all political sectors should make it "perfectly clear that
they condemn the use of violence," and that such methods should
never be "endorsed as acts of heroism." (Daniel Ortega had said
that the Sandinistas would take up arms if the rightwing managed
to gain control of the armed forces and the police.) "The army
and the police would be the first to take up arms to defend the
government of Violeta Chamorro and prevent the return of Somoza-
style rule in Nicaragua," asserted Gen. Ortega. "The armed forces
respond only to the constitution and the government." 

Gen. Ortega added that if the Sandinistas had won the 1990
elections, the civil war would still be continuing. "With the
fall of the Socialist bloc, on which the Sandinistas largely
depended, there would have been no cooperation from anywhere, and
conditions would have been even more difficult," he said. "Right
now we probably wouldn't even be talking about getting paid for
work, but getting rice, beans and sugar in place of a salary."
[Inter Press Service 7/22/92; El Diario-La Prensa (NY) 7/23/92
from AFP; LADB 7/24/92 from CAHI, Notimex, AFP, ACAN-EFE, AP]
From: magliano@husc10.harvard.edu (Marcia Magliano)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.celtic,eunet.politics,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Finnish Phrases
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:24:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Jul28.152423.14262
Organization: Harvard University Science Center


Hello,

	I have recently visited Finland.  During my very short stay, 
I received the generous hospitality of several Finns, some of whom do not
speak English.  My clumsy thank you notes have been sent, and in the
future I would like to send holiday cards, complete with wishes of
happy holidays, good health and whatever other salutations would be
considered courteous.  If anyone is familiar with the language, and 
could send me a few such phrases, I would be most appreciative.  

		Kiitos!

			-Marcia
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,misc.legal,alt.activism
From: lazarus@wixer.cactus.org (Michael Lax)
Subject: Re: ADL/Hate Crime Laws
Organization: Real/Time Communications
 <dfs.712330620@ro>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 23:44:54 GMT



Please folks, leave David _alone_!  It has always been my opinion, supported
by a lot of experience, that whenever someone - including myself- reacts with
utter indignation, questions need to be asked.  As David mentioned, the
Constitution is a good - probably great - document.  It is _not_ perfect - it
was not even designed to be, which is why we have amendments.

lazarus@wixer.cactus.org
Michael Lax
Austin, Texas
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.celtic,eunet.politics,talk.politics.misc
From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
Subject: Re: Separation vs. integration (Was Re: The European Community Blackmailed by Greece)
Reply-To: hallam@zeus02.desy.de
Organization: DESY ZEUS Central Data Acquisition
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:01:49 GMT

In article <tahonen.26@katk.Helsinki.FI>, tahonen@katk.Helsinki.FI (Timo
Ahonen) writes:

|>Are serious about your claims that after a few years Slovaks will want to 
|>rejoin with Czecks and the "Soviet Union" will reform from the present CIS 
|>states? You make it sound like economy is and has been the only reason for 
|>the indenpendence of the new states, and if it fails there's no reason for 
|>the continuation of the independence. I'd take it as an insult to the newly-
|>independent nations. According to your logic Eire should never have 
|>separated from Britain. Should she now rejoin the UK?

She did. Eire joined the EC and has now given to Brussels control over a
large slice of ecconomic and social policy.

The Czecks and Slovaks have both got ambitions to join the EC. In that
case the separation is likely to be temporary since the ones wanting the
split are the ones with most to loose. It is only the crackpot
politicoes who got in because they were not communist (and for no
positive reason) who wanted the division.


|>You cannot just expect that after the same length of suppression, now in the 
|>midst of poverty and national re-discovery those nations would be 
|>immediately ready for the same kind of integration and mutual trust as in 
|>the West. 

National rediscovery? What prey is that? 

|> However, the example of the peaceful 
|>splitting of the in itself artificial state of Czecho-Slovakia seems to 
|>indicate that at least they are well into catching up with us.

And just why should splitting a state into two be any sort of progress?
The trend in Europe and North America is entirely in the opposite
direction. The CIS is a strange creation, but still caries out much the
same functions as the original US federal govt did. 

I think you failed to understand what is going on. The Warsaw pact
countries have not ceased to be communist, they have simply become
capitalist. They are finding ways of sitting on both sides of the fence.
in the same way they are perfectly capable of wanting independence and
confederation at the same time.


Phill Hallam-Baker
Xref: sparky soc.rights.human:2755 misc.legal:15135 alt.activism:13711
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,misc.legal,alt.activism
Subject: Re: ADL/Hate Crime Laws
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:48:03 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1992Jul28.012804.28002@eff.org>, mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) 
writes:
> As a lawyer, I have no trouble imagining a fact situation in which a
> fictional work of art could be fraudulent. Imagine a case in which the 
> movie company misrepresented the nature of the film (by, for example,
> touting it as an accurate presentation of FBI's role in the civil-rights
> struggle in the South) in order to induce you to buy a ticket to see it.
 
In that example, the film is not fraudulent; rather, the statements touting 
it as realistic are fraudulent.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
Subject: Re: ADL/Hate Crime Laws
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:03:14 GMT

In <118-PCNews-124beta@ccs.covici.com> covici@ccs.covici.com (John
Covici) writes:

[...]
>``Mississippi Burning''--an inflammatory and fraudulent
>propaganda piece produced on behalf of the ADL by
>Hollywood to support the hate crimes statutes.

Perhaps you'd care to document your charge that the movie
was 'fraudulent?'  It's hard to imagine how a fictional movie
could be called 'fraudulent.'  Perhaps also you'd oblige us by
giving us hard evidence of ADL's alleged involvement in the
movie?  And please spare us anything from LaRouche or EIRNS or
Spotlight or the Liberty Lobby.

I realize that you can make arguments against hate crime statutes
based on the American Constitution.  That just shows that perhaps
the Constitution or its interpretation may be flawed.

--
                     |         | "Step up and shake the hand
David F. Skoll       | ||||||| |  Of someone you can't stand,
|_ _ _  __   __ _ __ |  \\V//  |  You can tolerate him if you try..."
 / |  | |_|   | |  | |  __|__  |  -- Tom Lehrer, "National Brotherhood Week"
_____|________________________________________________________________________
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:01 PDT
Subject: Update on Yugoslavia
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700260:000:1556
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jul 24 18:01:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Update on Yugoslavia

From MIDEUR-L@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu Fri Jul 24 04:14:32 1992

    Report from the news magazine Heute-Journal, 23.07.1992

The UN troops in Sarajevo seem to be greeted with a cool welcome. A German
TV team issued to Drobrinja, under Serbarian artillery fire now for weeks,
interviewed some citizens and got replies like these:
- "About food we can look for ourselves. What we need is arms."
- "We do not want bread, we want weapons."
- "The UN shall rather militarily intervene."
- "We have no need for their food, we have need for peace. And for getting
   peace we have to get rid of the Serbs."
- "All they do is keep telling us that they have no mandate. Unless all
   the Serbs are driven away there will be no peace here."
A Sarajevan newspaper (or what is left of it) exhibits on his floors a
series of anti-Serbian, anti-EC, and anti-UN cartoons. An example showed
by the cameras said: "Serbia is hiding behind the UN."
The commander of the UN troops, Gen. MacKenzie, has already received
several assassination threats because he allows Serbarians to be fed, too.
His comment: "We have already fed 300 000 people, but just one of them
said thanks." The one was Bosnian President Isbetgovic.
Official registrations count 50 000 casualties from the Serbarian aggression,
estimates add a further 50 000 civilians, women and children included, from
massacres, and 1.5 to 2 million refugees.
No doubt, Bosnia is treading on a very long, very dark way into the
future.

The Observer
From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici)
Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,misc.legal,alt.activism
Subject: Re: ADL/Hate Crime Laws
Date: 28 Jul 92 0:22:41 GMT
Organization: Covici Computer Systems

dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll @ Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University) once wrote....
>
>What international news agency refers to Bronfman as a "Bootlegging heir"?
>
>Is this from "Spotlight" or something??
>
I think I got it from New Federalist of a recent issue.  EIRNS is a
news provider for New Federalist and Executive Intelligence Review.

By the way, Bronfman is in fact a bootlegging heir.



----
         John Covici
          covici@ccs.covici.com

Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,soc.culture.magyar,soc.culture.yugoslavia,talk.politics.misc,alt.skinheads,misc.headlines,soc.culture.african.american,soc.culture.arabic
From: spain@galvia.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: Eire, Ireland? (Was Re: Separation vs. integration)
Reply-To: spain@galvia.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:47:33 GMT

--
In article <CC.92Jul28094542@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:

|>OK, we definitely can't use "Eire".  But we also can't use "Ireland", because
|>it's ambiguous (it could equally refer to the 26 or to the 32 counties).
|>Could someone please suggest an unambiguous and inoffensive word for the 26
|>counties?

OK lets refer to this country as Fred.  :-) :-)

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

          U.S.A. here we come

          God thinks he's Jackie Charlton

       Gary Spain, DEC, Galway, Ireland   - spain@galvia.enet.dec.com

|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 25 Jul 92 15:34 PDT
Subject: Re: The Acehnese Disappeared
Nf-ID: #R:cdp:1476700256:cdp:1476700268:000:2429
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jul 25 15:34:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: The Acehnese Disappeared

/* Written  2:50 pm  Jul 25, 1992 by apakabar in cdp:reg.indonesia */

     Kyodo, Jakarta, July 22 - The U.S.-based human rights group Asia 
Watch has sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State James Baker urging 
him to raise human rights issues at a meeting with Southeast Asian 
foreign ministers starting Friday in Manila.
     In the letter, obtained Wednesday, Asia Watch asked Baker to
express specific concerns over the human rights situation in
Thailand, Indonesia, East Timor, and Burma.  The letter is dated
July 17.
     Indonesia and Thailand are members of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which also groups Malaysia, Brunei,
the Phillipines, and Singapore.
     ASEAN foreign ministers end their two-day annual meeting
Wednesday and will follow it up Friday through Sunday with meetings
with ASEAN's so-called ''dialogue partners,'' including the U.S. and
Japan.
     Asia Watch said its primary concerns in Thailand relate to the
Thai military's continued close relations with the Khmer Rouge of
Cambodia and the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) of
the military junta in Myanmar.
     It said the Thai military's business dealings with the Khmer
Rouge in gem-mining and logging provide the guerrilla group with the
financial support to continue fighting.
     Another primary concern is the failure to account fully for the
military bloody crackdown in Bangkok in May, the letter said.
     ''We urge you to discuss with the U.S. Department of Defense
the possibility of a freeze on high-level contacts between the Thai
and U.S. militaries and a ban on resumption of aid, weapons sales,
or joint exercises until an accounting has taken place and support
for the Khmer Rouge ceases,'' the letter said.
     On Indonesia, Asia Watch urged Baker to express concern at the
failure of the Indonesian government to account for the dead and
missing in East Timor and Aceh.
     Asia Watch concerns on East Timor relate to the November 12
killing of civilians last year.
     Aceh is a troubled Indonesian province in northern Sumatra
where there have been clashes between Indonesian troops and
a separatist movement seeking to form an independent Islamic state.
     Asia Watch also urged Baker to reiterate concern at the human
rights situation in Myanmar, raised at last year's ASEAN
postministerial meeting.
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:46 PDT
Subject: Human Rights Hypocrisy
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700245:000:2422
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jul 22 09:46:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Human Rights Hypocrisy

/* Written  5:27 pm  Jul 21, 1992 by apakabar in cdp:reg.indonesia */

    Reuter, Tokyo, Aya Takada, July 21 - Japan is being hypocritical when 
it says it wants to use its overseas development aid (ODA) to improve human 
rights, market economies and good government in recipient nations, foreign 
aid experts say.
    Kiyoko Furusawa, who teaches development economy at Tokyo Woman's
Christian University, doubts whether Japan would apply this to nations
with which it has close business ties.
    "I agree with linking ODA policies with human rights abuses by
recipient governments, but I do not feel our government is serious about
implementing the principles," she said.
    She pointed out that Japan did not suspend aid to Indonesia even
after government troops killed scores of East Timorese civilians last
November.
    "We have asked the foreign ministry to make withdrawal of the
Indonesian troops from East Timor a prerequisite for continuing ODA, but
it won't listen to us," Furusawa said.
    Azusa Hayashi, director of the aid policy division of the Foreign
Ministry's Economic Cooperation Bureau, said Japan was currently
reviewing aid to several recipient countries.
    This could lead to ODA being reduced or suspended if these nations
were not complying with four basic principles.
    "We have made various proposals to several recipient governments,"
Hayashi said. "(Their responses) will be taken into account in future
allocation of ODA."
    He declined to name the countries involved.
    But many aid experts dismiss such policy statements as posturing,
saying it would be a long time before Tokyo suspended aid to an
important recipient.
    Japan's ODA totalled $10.95 billion in 1991, up 20.8 pct from the
previous year, making it the second biggest donor in the world after the
U.S. Asia receives some 60 pct of the aid, with Indonesia, China and the
Philippines the main recipients.
    The Foreign Ministry is eager to counter the belief that its ODA is
merely an instrument to promote Japan's exports and seek favour from
countries that provide the essential raw materials for Japanese
industry.
    "Basically, Japan will maintain its stance of meeting the requests
of recipient governments but Japanese proposals need to be accepted in
some cases, especially concerning environmental protection," Hayashi
said.


Xref: sparky soc.rights.human:2696 soc.culture.europe:6637 soc.culture.celtic:5247 eunet.politics:986 talk.politics.misc:36108
From: mackey@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (John Mackey)
Subject: Hawaiian Sovereignty
Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 01:39:23 GMT

	In preparation of the 100th Anniversary of the illegal over-
throw of the Hawaiian government (January 16, 1893), residents of Hawaii
are gathering more often to discuss and demand redress by the U. S. 
government.  One such public expression aimed at our visitors is described
in the following news release:


               VISITOR EDUCATION OF HAWAIIAN SOVEREIGNTY

     On Sunday, August 2nd, 1992, WE THE PEOPLE SPEAK, a group of
people seeking Hawaiian sovereignty and having organized by their talk
radio program phone calls and meetings, will march peacefully with
signs and distribute background information leaflets in Waikiki asking
our visitors to do us a favor and tell the people back home about the
legitimate and rapidly growing demand for Hawaii's sovereignty.  The
sidewalk march of an estimated 150 participants will begin at 10 AM
from picnic area number one behind the bandstand snack bar at
Kapiolani Park and proceed ewa (west) on the mauka (north) side of
Kalakaua Avenue to Lewers Street, then back to Kapiolani Park via
Kuhio Avenue on the mauka (north) side of the street.  

     After the march and leafleting there will be speeches and
appropriate live music at Kapiolani Park until about 4 PM.  All people
in support of the sovereignty movement are invited to join the march
and together with those interested in learning more, are also invited
to listen to the park presentations.

	Please feel free to contact us with your comments or suggestions
by our phone or email address posted below.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
1st Contact:  Mika Spencer                   2nd:  Thomas Galioto
POB 1065 Wahiawa, Hawaii 96786               3190 Maile Way PPTH
808 621-0693 (home 4PM to 9PM)               808 988-9370 (home)
808 522-5108 (12 AM to 4 AM Mon. to Sat.)    FAX:  808 956-2832
FAX:  808 522-5105  Email: mackey@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu, mackey@Uhunix.bitnet
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From: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,misc.legal,alt.activism
Subject: Re: ADL/Hate Crime Laws
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:17:58 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <dfs.712330561@ro> dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll) writes:
#In <1992Jul28.014100.885@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
#Of course I have.  But I bet that the vast majority of Americans have
#*never* imagined in their wildest dreams that their constitution could
#possibly be flawed.

Yea, of course. We are all dumb bumfucks who don't know of the 27
amendments. 



--
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