[Reader-list] On Communal Violence and its proximity to Census

[A.K. Malik]

Hi Taha, 
           Do you think people would be killed by matching fingerprints?
There are cases where a kitchen knife has been used for murders. So you mean we stop having kitchen knives!
Regards,

(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Thu, 5/27/10, Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] On Communal Violence and its proximity to Census
> To: "Sarai Reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 1:34 PM
> Dear All
> 
> I was wondering yesterday, why is it that in the last
> twenty years two
> of the most violent of communal clashes have erupted just
> the year
> after the census?
> 
> I am of course referring to 2002 and 1992.
> 
> 
>  Inquiries instituted to asses the riots have often
> accepted the use
> of voter lists by the rioters to kill specified persons
> with precision
> and planning. Could it be a reason, why the far right of
> India are not
> opposing the UID? Digital data. Fingerprint recognition.
> Even Spatial
> mapping too, who knows! Is that why people who could use
> this
> technology to murder others want this mapping of identities
> to happen
> at any cost?
> 
> Are we going to witness an unprecedented scale of mass
> murder in India
> in years to come?
> 
> I know these are probably stupid, totally unfounded,
> irrational
> thoughts and I really don't know where these thoughts came
> from.....
> 
> Warm regards
> 
> Taha
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