Thursday, April 30, 2009

Can BJP call for sanctions on Sri Lanka?

Latheef FAROOK

(DN)Yashwant Sinha, senior leader of Baharatiya Janata Party, (BJP), the political face of Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, (RSS), has demanded that India imposes sanctions on Sri Lanka for its treatment of Tamil civilians trapped in the war zone.

No doubt and no question that these civilians, as citizens of this country, deserve safety and protection. However, the question is whether India, of all countries, and the BJP, of all the political parties, can ever speak of minority rights in view of their treatment of the largest minority of around 150 million Indian Muslims. Full text