[Reader-list] Personal Identity Data and Mass Murder in India

[Shashidhar]

Dear Taha
Indian government passing on information to RSS and Jehadis through the UID project is Mr. Taha's fear, RSS is a creator of mass murder, butchering, loot and rape of Indian Population! 

Please address the issue of identity for him, so that people's religion, age, sex, work, location, language, height, weight, nothing is ever recorded for every piece of information can be abused. Citing an article from a  magazine and holding it aginst a test of fire!! My my if you are so sure file a PIL on the election commission for sharing information of the voter lists with VHP (Not once does RSS figure in the essay given by him). Send us some more links please show us how inefficient and inept and mass murdering our government is, I am sure for him Nandan must be the same as hitler or stalin, computers black boxes which capture the free spirit of individuals. Cmon ....

Why this obsession with a piece project, nothing will change boss do not worry.... there have been no mass murders by the state somebody has singled out you for all malicious information in this country. Now we will get a rhetoric on Kashmir, Punjab, north east, central provinces, tamils, adivasi's, Kashmiri pandits. 

Shashi

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From: reader-list-bounces at sarai.net [mailto:reader-list-bounces at sarai.net] On Behalf Of Taha Mehmood
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 3:46 PM
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Subject: [Reader-list] Personal Identity Data and Mass Murder in India

Dear All

While it cannot denied that personal identity data may have some utilitarian aspects but one doesn't know how to deal with its alleged role in orchestrating mass violence. The UID is collecting digital identities of a billion Indians. These identities are going to be collect by contractual agencies. The UID does not guarantee the safety of data related to the personal identities of people instead it holds the sub contractual agencies responsible for its safety. How do we know that data will be securely transferred? Who guarantees that this data will not find its way to RSS and their jehadi counterparts. Could you please read an excerpt from a report titled,  “We Have No Orders To Save You”, State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat and decide for your self whether UID project is a responsible way to go out alleviating all social ills of India or not?
 While continuing with this UID project, is the government of India not doing homework for RSS to create more horrible instances of mass murder, butchering, loot and rape of its population?

Warm regards

Taha

Human Rights Watch interviews with eyewitnesses to the attacks revealed that that the attackers were carrying voter lists as well as listings of Muslim businesses, along with cell phones and water bottles "so as to be fully prepared for a long day's work."69 According to a report in Outlook  magazine, attempts to pinpoint the exact location of Muslim businesses began months before the attacks:

            In Ahmedabad... one official recalled how for the last few months, there had been concerted attempts to get lists of Muslim business establishments from the Ahmedabad municipal corporation....
VHP volunteers have also been making the rounds of professional institutions and universities, seeking the names and addresses of Muslim students. Some government sources say VHP members have drawn up lists of government departments (for example, the Food Corporation of
India) and their allied agencies, and identified "undesirables" and their addresses.70

Professor Keshavram Kashiram Shastri, ninety-six-year-old chairman of the Gujarat unit of the VHP denied the charge that the VHP prepared lists in advance of Muslim shops to loot. To the contrary, he said "the list of shops owned by Muslims in Ahmedabad was prepared on the morning of February 28 itself."71

Voter lists were also reportedly used to identify and target Muslim community members.72 A senior police officer told rediff.com, a leading Internet news site on India, on conditions of anonymity that, "[The attackers] hardly failed to lay hands on their targets, thanks to documents like the voters' list.... The mission was accomplished with clinical precision."73

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/india/India0402-03.htm#P384_67492
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