By TCN News,
Hyderabad: On the occasion of Minorities Rights Day that was observed on 18th December, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC) demanded the central government to present the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011 in the Parliament. It is Governments’ responsibility to protect religious and linguistic minorities, said Lateef Mohammed Khan, General Secretary, CLMC, and demanded the law without any further delay.
United Nations in the year 1992 recognized the Minorities Rights and released a declaration. It is mentioned that national and ethnic, religious and linguistic minority rights have to be protected by the concerned governments. In this chapter, it has been made clear that minorities protection is the responsibility of the state and the government is bound to safeguard minorities religion, culture and language. It is the duty of the government to protect the identity, heritage and promote their culture and language.
On the day, CLMC sent a fax to the Prime Minister of India, demanding tabling of the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill, 2011 in the Parliament. The group demanded the government to pass and implement it as soon as possible so that Minorities can get minimum safeguards whereby they can live their lives with human dignity.
In the letter, CLMC pointed out that at this moment Muslims and Christians in India are the target of Hindutva terrorism. The human rights violation is at peak level in the Kashmir and North East states. The group demanded repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and other draconian laws that are made to suppress the struggle of the voiceless Minority people.
“Hundreds of Muslim youth were targeted by the Hyderabad police officers by taking the advantage of Makkah Masjid bomb blast and in the name of investigation. Now the real terrorists are exposed. So, it is the duty of the government to compensate and rehabilitate those youth as well as punish the tainted police officers as per the law,” said Lateef Mohd. Khan.