- Oct 9, 2005
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What if a bill gets passed which specifically targets the majority community of the country?
In your case whitey, in mine, Hindus.
You get this:
http://www.rediff.com/news/column/fatal-flaw-in-communal-violence-bill/20110602.htm
This Bill is about to be passed by the Indian parliament: Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill, 2011.
From the writer's words:
The manipulative syntax of the bill smacks of a furtive agenda to tilt the scales in favour of a specific community at the cost of the majority and violates the basic tenet of equality before the law.
Being charred to death in a train compartment transformed into a raging inferno by a violent, baying pyromanaical mob reeking with animosity would certainly codify one as a victim of communal violence by any lexicographic criterion (Godhra 2002). But not if you happen to be a Hindu, the majority community, you do not, according to the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill, 2011.
As per the bill, a 'victim' is not a stand alone descriptor but includes a modifier of 'belonging to a group as defined under this Act'.
And a 'group' the bill stipulates is "a religious or linguistic minority, in any state in the Union of India [ Images ], or Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes within the meaning of clauses (24) and (25) of Article 366 of the Constitution of India."
Is this fair? D:
In your case whitey, in mine, Hindus.
You get this:
http://www.rediff.com/news/column/fatal-flaw-in-communal-violence-bill/20110602.htm
This Bill is about to be passed by the Indian parliament: Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill, 2011.
From the writer's words:
The manipulative syntax of the bill smacks of a furtive agenda to tilt the scales in favour of a specific community at the cost of the majority and violates the basic tenet of equality before the law.
Being charred to death in a train compartment transformed into a raging inferno by a violent, baying pyromanaical mob reeking with animosity would certainly codify one as a victim of communal violence by any lexicographic criterion (Godhra 2002). But not if you happen to be a Hindu, the majority community, you do not, according to the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill, 2011.
As per the bill, a 'victim' is not a stand alone descriptor but includes a modifier of 'belonging to a group as defined under this Act'.
And a 'group' the bill stipulates is "a religious or linguistic minority, in any state in the Union of India [ Images ], or Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes within the meaning of clauses (24) and (25) of Article 366 of the Constitution of India."
Is this fair? D:
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