Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.
Panjab 95/ Satluj is probably reaching a much larger audience through pirated and downloaded copies than it ever would have on Zee5. That's what censorship does.
Bhai Hartosh,
I share your politics, and I am the last person to pull down someone on my own side. You open your piece on KPS Gill by admitting you cannot be unbiased. I respect the honesty.
But bhai, admitting you are the nephew is not the same as admitting where your evidence comes from. And your evidence has a problem you never mention.
Your table comes from the Institute for Conflict Management. Your key text, quoted at length and recommended to readers in its entirety, is Gill's own essay, Endgame in Punjab, published on https://t.co/EVbRVIWIyT, the website of that same institute.
The Institute for Conflict Management is your Mama's baby. He founded it. Who do you think we are?
You accuse Human Rights Watch of quoting Gill out of context, and your correction is what? Quoting Gill more fully, from Gill's own website, backed by Gill's own institute's numbers.
You told us you were the nephew. You did not tell us the data was the uncle's.
Second, Ribeiro. You dismiss Julio Ribeiro as a liberal favourite because he speaks against Modi today. Fine.
But you never mention that Gill was appointed Security Advisor to Chief Minister Narendra Modi in May 2002, right after Godhra, and later publicly defended Modi by putting the blame for the riots on the police and not on the political leadership.
If speaking about Modi today counts against Ribeiro, then working for Modi counts against your Mama. You cannot run the test on one man and give the other a pass.
Third, the cremations. You call the figure of 25,000 disappearances a fabrication, and on the data you may even be right.
But look at what your own correction concedes: roughly 7,650 unidentified cremations over eleven years. Your calculation, not mine.
Then you compare this to peacetime NCRB figures on unclaimed bodies. A beggar who dies on a railway platform and a man picked up from his home by the police; for you these are the same category of corpse?
Your whole NCRB comparison rests on one assumption: that the label "unidentified" was honest. That is exactly the assumption this case destroyed.
We saw it as recently as Covid. The Indian state does not hide bodies, it renames them on paper. That is why the world's excess-mortality estimates were many multiples of our official count. This is not hard to do in India today. In the 80s and 90s it was even easier.
And in Punjab it was not a suspicion, it was the finding. Executions were logged as encounters. Custody deaths were logged as escapes. The murdered were registered as unclaimed. You are citing the register to defend the man, when the register itself was the weapon.
And what sits under that register is not in dispute. The CBI confirmed 2,097 secret cremations at just three grounds in one district, and cremation workers testified that multiple bodies were often burned on firewood meant for one.
The Supreme Court called it a flagrant violation of human rights on a mass scale.
The NHRC identified 1,513 of those bodies and compensated their families, including 195 people who were in police custody immediately before they died.
Jaswant Singh Khalra, who found these bodies in the firewood registers, was abducted by the Punjab police and killed for it.
The Supreme Court upheld life sentences for the officers who did it. Not one of these facts appears in your article. Not one.
Your table of monthly killings does not answer any of this, because the charge against Gill was never the maths of the body count. It was what the state did in the dark, under his command. It was what he did in the shadows of bureaucratic cover.
And you know it. You write that accusations of custodial torture in Punjab are likely true, and that such excesses were just ordinary Indian policing. Read that sentence again, bhai.
You have admitted the torture. And your defence is that it happens everywhere. That is not a defence. That is a confession.
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At least we don’t have stuff like this in cricket, would be raging if one country had an overwhelming influence over the sport or had important figures in positions of power
@RohithNair Gabriel defo should have done better with the cross. Giving a run up to Haaland for the header is criminal . Gotta be more physical than that
Cowards strike again. Within 24 hours, Satluj/ Punjab 95 has been taken down from ZEE5. This is the state of free expression in India. Films that spread hate/ propaganda are made tax free while films that expose the reality are banned. Welcome to the world’s largest democracy
Usual routine for Brazil now. Win the group, get past non-European sides, lose to the first European side they face in the knockouts. Six in a row. Three of the usual powers (France, Netherlands & Germany) then three "outsiders" with a great generation (Belgium, Croatia, Norway).
Dear @harbhajan_singh , "Bitta : The Butcher" shown in #Satluj was later officially appointed as Security Advisor to Gujarat CM Narendra Modi on 2 May 2002.
Bitta praised Modi, Modi praised Bitta, and Modi even wrote a note for Bitta's autobiography.
You also show some courage.