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What Your TV Doesn't Show You?
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 27 August 2011, 03:59 IST |
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Unmarked Mass Graves in Kashmir
In a shocking revelation, Rights group Human Rights Watch said it has found 38 unmarked sites with thousands of bodies in Indian-administered Kashmir. The organization also urged the India government to hold an independent inquiry into the unmarked graves. It's believed that several-hundreds of these bodies are of the civilians who went missing ever since the uprising of ethno-religious insurgency in Kashmir. Although these news could make it into the Indian media, it's a painful fact that the ongoing anticorruption upsurge killed the news. A Srinagar-based 'Association of Parents of Displaced Persons' revealed that at least 8,000 people had disappeared since the start of insurgency. Many believe that this frightening news that shook the human conscious needs to be highlighted rightly so that it forces the truth out and put an end to the large-scale human rights violations in the Kashmir valley.
These are just a few of the news that the leading electronic media conveniently ignored to have their nonstop coverage on Anna Hazare and his protest. The mining scam in Karnataka, the CWG scandal haunting Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, the political crisis in Andhra Pradesh etc have been out of the news channels' radar for a while now. Do you think Anna's protest is overhyped? Or is it ethical for the media to ignore such important news?
