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Communal clashes rock Karnataka town [September 2002]

09.28.2002 · Posted in Communal Violence, Human Rights

[Source] [From September 2002] New Delhi: South Indian city of KR Nagar witnessed a rise in communal temperature on September 13 evening following a clash between two youths taking on a communal colour. The tension led to communal clashes in the Karnataka state town the following morning and police resorted to lobbing of teargas shells ...

Police firing during VHP Chief’s birthday celebrations [September 2001]

03.08.2002 · Posted in Communal Violence, Human Rights, Minorities, Report

This report appeared in PUCL Bulletin of March 2002 [Read Full Report] Police firing during VHP Chief’s birthday celebrations A report by South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring and People’s Union For Civil Liberties Karnataka Fact-finding Report on the incidences of rioting and police firing which followed VHP Chief Ashok Singhal’s 75th ...

|Report| Police Atrocities and Human Rights Violations at Katipalla [2002]

01.01.2002 · Posted in Communal Violence, Human Rights, Minorities, Report

PUCL Bulletin, January 2002 Karnataka: Mangalore PUCL Police Atrocities and Human Rights Violations at Katipalla By P.B. D’Sa Thursday 23rd 2001 morning about 100 men in uniform stormed the Katipalla town with Lathis, Tear Gas cells and guns to the utter shock of the unsuspecting citizens of this locality .The Police personnel beat up every ...

|Report| Bababudangiri and communal situation in Chikamagalur town [January 2000]

02.08.2000 · Posted in Communal Violence, Human Rights, Minorities

[From the Archives – Januray 2000] [Read the full Report] Bababudangiri and communal situation in Chikamagalur town a PUCL-Karnataka Report A joint fact-finding team commissioned by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties – Karnataka (PUCL), which included members from Citizens For Democracy – Karnataka, and South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring (SICHREM), ...

The Killing Fields: Communalism in Karnataka

07.09.1993 · Posted in Communal Violence, Human Rights, Minorities

THE KILLING FIELDS: Communalism in Karnataka The Constitution of India (1950) guarantees both the freedom of speech and expression (Article 19 (1) (a) and the right to freedom of religion and religious worship (Article 25). Each of these fundamental rights are expressly made subject to public order; Article 19 (2) and Article 25 (1) i.e. ...

|REPORT| Events of December 1992

05.08.1993 · Posted in Communal Violence, Minorities, Report

From the Archives [Read the full Report] A Report by: Citizens for Democracy- Karnataka, People’s Union for Civil Liberties- Karnataka, Karnataka Civil Liberties Committee and Karnataka Ekta Karnataka has the dubious distinction of being ranked third in India and the first state in the South in the riots that broke out all over the country ...

“Dargah versus Peeta”

01.01.1993 · Posted in Communal Violence, Minorities, Report

[From the Archives] [Full Paper] “Dargah versus Peeta”: Hindutva’s Politics of Appropriating Syncretic Culture in Karnataka A paper by : Dr.Muzaffar Assadi Dept of Studies in Political Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore 570 0006, Karnataka For the past couple of years, Karnataka is witnessing the growth of communal politics, manifested in the form of ...