Communalism Combat __________________________________________
HATE HURTS HARMONY WORKS
May 18, 2007
Press Statement
We as citizens of India, committed to Peace between peoples, communities and nations, standing for equality for all strongly condemn the dastardly blasts after Friday prayers at the Hyderabad Mecca Mosque today. Terror attacks have no religion and victims of all communities fall prey to these premeditated and violent attacks. India being a secular democratic republic committed to its constitutional mandate must ensure that all its agencies of State and Law Enforcement look at all acts of terror dispassionately and acknowledge that these can be planned and carried out by outfits of all colours and hue who eschew and promote hatred and violence. International terror outfits as well as those that use religion to generate terror from within the country. All must be equally put under intelligence scanners. To date the activities of all such outfits, despite their proven and public record of generating acts of terror and violence including perpetrating pogroms against sections of Indians, have NOT been scrutinized with the same rigour as those of know terror outfits. We must not forget the lessons, unraveled, and yet to be unraveled following the nanded (2006 and 2007) and Malegaon (2006) blasts in Maharashtra.
Teesta Setalvad
Javed Anand
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Nandan Maluste
Rajendra Prasad
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