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Dr. Om Prakash Sudrania: I have been often baffled with the words “Ethics”, “Human Rights”, “Rights of Minorities” and such similar foggy expressions; as also the word “Religion”. I have also seen these words being used selectively by the groups with some underlying vested interests to express and hypothesise their own brand of “Human Rights” maliciously. I saw a similar reason in a report recently and I could not resist my temptation to analyse it. I just saw a Weekly Digest by the Asian Human Rights Commission of Week 27 which enlists a report on India under the caption: Military...

ABRIDGED SURVEY OF GENOCIDE OF CHRISTIAN MINORITIES BY TURKS 5/14/05 Modern day Turkey is a state striving towards democracy and desiring recognition and acceptance as an equal by the modern industrial democracies of Europe, America, and Asia. Turkey is a member of NATO, although its NATO function as the frontier bulwark against the Soviet Union is now defunct. Because of its frontier role, Turkey has been the recipient of over $32 billion in US financial aid. Now, Turkey is making a historical bid to become the first largely Muslim, mostly Middle-Eastern state to become a member of the European Union....

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain is doing everything possible to control Islamic radicalism in its prisons, Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said on Sunday, after a top judge said Spanish jails were a recruitment ground for militants. Spain's foremost investigative judge Baltasar Garzon ordered the arrest last week of 13 suspected members of a radical Muslim group, "the Martyrs of Morocco," formed largely from the fast-growing North African population of Spain's prisons. In his warrant, Garzon said the group, including 18 others arrested in mid-October, planned to blow up the High Court where Garzon is investigating Islamic militancy and another judge...