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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Barack Obama pays homage to Nelson Mandela on visit to South Africa.
US president calls Mandela 'an inspiration to the world and a personal hero' and meets members of his family
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| S president Barack Obama speaks at a press conference in Pretoria with South African leader Jacob Zuma. Photograph: Gary Cameron/Reuters |
Barack Obama has paid homage to Nelson Mandela in his first
visit to South Africa since coming to power, describing the country's
first black president as an "inspiration to the world and a personal
hero".
The US president praised the "moral courage" of Mandela, 94, who remains in a stable but critical condition in hospital, and encouraged other African and world leaders to follow his example.
Referring to Mandela by his clan name, Obama praised his role in steering the country through its historic transition from apartheid to democracy: "Madiba's moral courage … has been a personal inspiration to me. It has been an inspiration to the world."
Obama met members of Mandela's family privately in Johannesburg on Saturday.
The meeting at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, part of the former South African president's foundation, lasted for about half an hour. The White House said Obama had met two of Mandela's daughters and eight grandchildren.
Speaking earlier at a joint news conference with the South African president, Jacob Zuma, Obama said: "The outpouring of love that we've seen in recent days shows that the triumph of Nelson Mandela and this nation speaks to something very deep in the human spirit, the yearning for justice and dignity that transcends boundaries of race and class and faith and country.
"That's what Nelson Mandela represents, that's what South African at its best represents to the world, and that's what brings me back here."
Zuma paid tribute to Obama and Mandela, saying they were "bound by history as the first black presidents of your respective countries.
"Thus, you both carry the dreams of millions of people in Africa and in the diaspora who were previously oppressed," he said.
Zuma said Mandela was "critical but stable", adding: "We hope that very soon he will be out of hospital".
The prospect of a meeting between the first black presidents of the US and South Africa has receded since Mandela was taken to hospital with a recurring lung infection three weeks ago. But on Friday Obama indicated it had not been ruled out. "We'll see what the situation is when we land," he told journalists on board Air Force One.
"I don't need a photo op, and the last thing I want to do is to be in any way obtrusive at a time when the family is concerned about Nelson Mandela's condition.
"I've had the opportunity to meet with him. Michelle and the girls had an opportunity to meet with him. Right now, our main concern is with his wellbeing, his comfort, and with the family's wellbeing and comfort."
Obama is due to visit Soweto, the sprawling township where Mandela used to live, on Saturday. On Sunday he will head to Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years.
Eusebius McKaiser, a political analyst and radio talkshow host, said a meeting between Obama and Mandela would be undesirable. "Nelson Mandela is incredibly frail and in the process of possibly dying," he said.
His "bodily demise" should not be confused with his political legacy, McKaiser added, arguing that Obama should keep the latter alive through speech and action rather than "trying to engage his legacy by being physically present".
The leader of the world's dominant superpower can seldom have found himself reduced to a sideshow on foreign shores. McKaiser said: "Obama would never be overshadowed domestically in any country as he is by Madiba.
"Nelson Mandela is such a larger-than-life figure that the only way Obama seems to be able to get press coverage of his African tour is when he talks about Nelson Mandela. That's quite remarkable when you consider the geopolitical importance of the US presidency."
Obama and the first lady have a busy schedule over the weekend, but media reports said it could be torn up should Mandela die.
An Obama camp source quoted in South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper said: "If something happens, we're not going to continue with some of the events. At this point, we're watching the news closely on Mandela."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/29/barack-obama-nelson-mandela
The US president praised the "moral courage" of Mandela, 94, who remains in a stable but critical condition in hospital, and encouraged other African and world leaders to follow his example.
Referring to Mandela by his clan name, Obama praised his role in steering the country through its historic transition from apartheid to democracy: "Madiba's moral courage … has been a personal inspiration to me. It has been an inspiration to the world."
Obama met members of Mandela's family privately in Johannesburg on Saturday.
The meeting at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, part of the former South African president's foundation, lasted for about half an hour. The White House said Obama had met two of Mandela's daughters and eight grandchildren.
Speaking earlier at a joint news conference with the South African president, Jacob Zuma, Obama said: "The outpouring of love that we've seen in recent days shows that the triumph of Nelson Mandela and this nation speaks to something very deep in the human spirit, the yearning for justice and dignity that transcends boundaries of race and class and faith and country.
"That's what Nelson Mandela represents, that's what South African at its best represents to the world, and that's what brings me back here."
Zuma paid tribute to Obama and Mandela, saying they were "bound by history as the first black presidents of your respective countries.
"Thus, you both carry the dreams of millions of people in Africa and in the diaspora who were previously oppressed," he said.
Zuma said Mandela was "critical but stable", adding: "We hope that very soon he will be out of hospital".
The prospect of a meeting between the first black presidents of the US and South Africa has receded since Mandela was taken to hospital with a recurring lung infection three weeks ago. But on Friday Obama indicated it had not been ruled out. "We'll see what the situation is when we land," he told journalists on board Air Force One.
"I don't need a photo op, and the last thing I want to do is to be in any way obtrusive at a time when the family is concerned about Nelson Mandela's condition.
"I've had the opportunity to meet with him. Michelle and the girls had an opportunity to meet with him. Right now, our main concern is with his wellbeing, his comfort, and with the family's wellbeing and comfort."
Obama is due to visit Soweto, the sprawling township where Mandela used to live, on Saturday. On Sunday he will head to Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years.
Eusebius McKaiser, a political analyst and radio talkshow host, said a meeting between Obama and Mandela would be undesirable. "Nelson Mandela is incredibly frail and in the process of possibly dying," he said.
His "bodily demise" should not be confused with his political legacy, McKaiser added, arguing that Obama should keep the latter alive through speech and action rather than "trying to engage his legacy by being physically present".
The leader of the world's dominant superpower can seldom have found himself reduced to a sideshow on foreign shores. McKaiser said: "Obama would never be overshadowed domestically in any country as he is by Madiba.
"Nelson Mandela is such a larger-than-life figure that the only way Obama seems to be able to get press coverage of his African tour is when he talks about Nelson Mandela. That's quite remarkable when you consider the geopolitical importance of the US presidency."
Obama and the first lady have a busy schedule over the weekend, but media reports said it could be torn up should Mandela die.
An Obama camp source quoted in South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper said: "If something happens, we're not going to continue with some of the events. At this point, we're watching the news closely on Mandela."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/29/barack-obama-nelson-mandela
Baluch Youths and the Baluch Liberation Movement - Part 3.
One of the salient features of colonialism is the
monopoly of education. Provision of education in the language dictated
by the imperial authorities can also synergistically reinforce the
colonial rule. In a manner reminiscent of the extinct nations, delivery
of education completely in the language of the colonial state is another
calculated policy to obliterate the invaded nation gradually.
Substituting the native language with a colonial language is a malignant
expedient policy.
By destroying the native language of the subjected nation, the colonial rulers are well aware that they can steadily weaken the subjugated nation’s resistance and their demand for breaking free from the bondage of colonialism. They are conscious of the fact that language is the interconnecting network of a nation’s cultural, moral, aesthetic, legal, social and economic identity. The occupying states know well enough that a national identity would not be annihilated easily without destruction of the native language of the occupied nations. They know that the youths of the subjugated nations cannot be indoctrinated with a false history and identity without the destruction of their native languages.
Underachievement and low skills of children under occupation are the inevitable concomitant of giving unfair disadvantage to these children by denying them to be educated in their mother tongue. From the account which has been given it follows that colonial rulers in pursuing this policy will proactively undermine the potential abilities of these children and will damage their future prospects forever. One matter of great importance that bears the full force of this impervious malicious design is that the potential contributions of these children to their homeland will be lessened severely. In addition, they cannot express their demands and democratic rights fully when they reach at their rebellious age. They will be less confident and even may show a sense of inferiority complex about their origin, culture, language and the past history. This will be followed by being engulfed by a gloomy cloud of capitulation, despondency, failure, dependency and servitude behaviour.
Another instrument of prolonging subjugation is by means of spreading addiction among the youths of the subjected nation. Baluchistan is a tragic case where thousands of Baluch youths are the victims of this deliberate criminal policy. Traditionally Baluch have been strongly against the use of addictive drugs.
This terrible malaise in Baluchistan has taken root in the last thirty years. During the same period we see the birth and growth of a whole new nationwide national democratic liberation movement in Baluchistan. Both the occupying Islamic states of Pakistan and Iran have been using this instrument of destruction to undermine the potential power of Baluch youths from playing a role in the liberation movement.
Falling in the dungeon of addiction will also give spurious self-justification to the colonial rulers. These rulers would claim in their propaganda machine that if it were not for their presence in Baluchistan a larger number of Baluch youths would descend into this quagmire. In other words they imply that Baluch people are irresponsible, unreliable and unable to remedy their social defects themselves. By splitting this fabricated deceit down the middle, the colonial establishment hang the both sides of this falsehood over the neck of the Baluch nation. They lay the blame all together on the Baluch as the cause and effect of their devastation. But this accusation is far from reality. The truth, in its totality, is obviously more complex but the hand of occupying states in spreading this malaise at the same time is undeniable. There are many historical records, cases and conclusive evidence of colonial powers direct involvement in employing addiction as an instrument of suppression.
One of the main causes that some Baluch youths are turning to illicit drugs is due to the presence of chronic level of unemployment. The Baluch youths live in a real predicament that is designed and implemented by these states. On one hand the Baluch youth are unable to acquire proper education and hence cannot get a proper job. Out of desperation these youths resort to drugs and petty crime.
The shattered state of education is so apparent that even the occupying establishments have been admitting their gross negligence and underinvestment in this sector. The crisis is so big that it cannot be hidden. The rareness of educational institutions and the poor quality and paucity of resources allocated to this sector is too visible that it cannot escape one’s attention. Compounding this problem is the fact that as Baluchistan is kept so poverty stricken - only very few Baluch families are able to afford even the type of education that is currently available. Among Baluch students there are also those students who are prevented from continuing their education since these youths or a member of their families are known to be a member of Baluchistan resistance movement.
Furthermore, the occupying states, their security forces and their proxies have created an unstable and insecure environment that is not conducive for Baluch youths to peruse their education in Baluchistan. The degree of insecurity and prospect of not getting anywhere with one’s education is such that their education will not just help them in their social, economic, intellectual, cultural well-being - instead it may bring them more misery, unemployment, poverty, displacement and conflict with corrupt Sardars, colonial and religious authorities. The causal consequence of this policy comes to nothing less than the negation of an effective culture of learning.
Even if you pass all these stages and you happen to be a well-qualified for the few jobs that are offered in the public sector your chance of getting one is almost second to none. These jobs tend to go to the cronies of the occupying states and security forces who tend to be non-Baluch. For those small numbers of Baluch that happen to get a job in this sector, they either get it by accident or are carefully selected. The number of these individuals is usually insignificant. Those who are selected by the colonial rulers are among specific social groups. The hard core of this group is tend to be selected from the most timid, subservient, religious, ignorant, corrupt, and criminal section of Baluch society. These individuals are not at all concern about the human and democratic rights of Baluch people and nation.
A little reflection on the stringent conditions of colonial policy of education in Baluchistan shows that it is fragmentary and replete with contradictions. This can hardly be called a satisfactory educational system. Many of its functions run counter to the interests of Baluch youths and Baluchistan. After all, its underlying purposes consist of two complementary elements. The primary purpose is to keep educational system as underdeveloped as possible and secondly to employ the scanty education provided to promote their colonial beliefs.
The prevalent colonial geopolitical systems in Baluchistan can maintain their domination so long as the Baluch youths are not legally, socially and politically informed about their democratic rights, interests and well-being. That is why, at one level, most of those lucky Baluch youths who completed their education find themselves in a dead-end situation. Soon after completion of their education they discover a life that involves isolation and unemployment. At another level, they are lacking the skills that their parents and grandparents employed for their survival. So they are being barred from both worlds. The severe economic hardship then leaves not many options in their disposal. The struggle for bare necessities and survival will unavoidably distract their thoughts and daily activities away from their rights and their opposition to subjugation. This is exactly what the colonial powers and establishment wish for. The end result of this policy only prolongs the period of bondage and subjugation.
To be continued…
Dr Shahswar K is a Baloch political and Human Rights activist, and the co-ordinator of International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons in United Kingdom. He is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of "Money and its Origins".
http://balochwarna.com/features/articles.82/Baluch-Youths-and-the-Baluch-Liberation-Movement---Part-3.html#.Uc9oCscukws.facebook
By destroying the native language of the subjected nation, the colonial rulers are well aware that they can steadily weaken the subjugated nation’s resistance and their demand for breaking free from the bondage of colonialism. They are conscious of the fact that language is the interconnecting network of a nation’s cultural, moral, aesthetic, legal, social and economic identity. The occupying states know well enough that a national identity would not be annihilated easily without destruction of the native language of the occupied nations. They know that the youths of the subjugated nations cannot be indoctrinated with a false history and identity without the destruction of their native languages.
Underachievement and low skills of children under occupation are the inevitable concomitant of giving unfair disadvantage to these children by denying them to be educated in their mother tongue. From the account which has been given it follows that colonial rulers in pursuing this policy will proactively undermine the potential abilities of these children and will damage their future prospects forever. One matter of great importance that bears the full force of this impervious malicious design is that the potential contributions of these children to their homeland will be lessened severely. In addition, they cannot express their demands and democratic rights fully when they reach at their rebellious age. They will be less confident and even may show a sense of inferiority complex about their origin, culture, language and the past history. This will be followed by being engulfed by a gloomy cloud of capitulation, despondency, failure, dependency and servitude behaviour.
Another instrument of prolonging subjugation is by means of spreading addiction among the youths of the subjected nation. Baluchistan is a tragic case where thousands of Baluch youths are the victims of this deliberate criminal policy. Traditionally Baluch have been strongly against the use of addictive drugs.
This terrible malaise in Baluchistan has taken root in the last thirty years. During the same period we see the birth and growth of a whole new nationwide national democratic liberation movement in Baluchistan. Both the occupying Islamic states of Pakistan and Iran have been using this instrument of destruction to undermine the potential power of Baluch youths from playing a role in the liberation movement.
Falling in the dungeon of addiction will also give spurious self-justification to the colonial rulers. These rulers would claim in their propaganda machine that if it were not for their presence in Baluchistan a larger number of Baluch youths would descend into this quagmire. In other words they imply that Baluch people are irresponsible, unreliable and unable to remedy their social defects themselves. By splitting this fabricated deceit down the middle, the colonial establishment hang the both sides of this falsehood over the neck of the Baluch nation. They lay the blame all together on the Baluch as the cause and effect of their devastation. But this accusation is far from reality. The truth, in its totality, is obviously more complex but the hand of occupying states in spreading this malaise at the same time is undeniable. There are many historical records, cases and conclusive evidence of colonial powers direct involvement in employing addiction as an instrument of suppression.
One of the main causes that some Baluch youths are turning to illicit drugs is due to the presence of chronic level of unemployment. The Baluch youths live in a real predicament that is designed and implemented by these states. On one hand the Baluch youth are unable to acquire proper education and hence cannot get a proper job. Out of desperation these youths resort to drugs and petty crime.
The shattered state of education is so apparent that even the occupying establishments have been admitting their gross negligence and underinvestment in this sector. The crisis is so big that it cannot be hidden. The rareness of educational institutions and the poor quality and paucity of resources allocated to this sector is too visible that it cannot escape one’s attention. Compounding this problem is the fact that as Baluchistan is kept so poverty stricken - only very few Baluch families are able to afford even the type of education that is currently available. Among Baluch students there are also those students who are prevented from continuing their education since these youths or a member of their families are known to be a member of Baluchistan resistance movement.
Furthermore, the occupying states, their security forces and their proxies have created an unstable and insecure environment that is not conducive for Baluch youths to peruse their education in Baluchistan. The degree of insecurity and prospect of not getting anywhere with one’s education is such that their education will not just help them in their social, economic, intellectual, cultural well-being - instead it may bring them more misery, unemployment, poverty, displacement and conflict with corrupt Sardars, colonial and religious authorities. The causal consequence of this policy comes to nothing less than the negation of an effective culture of learning.
Even if you pass all these stages and you happen to be a well-qualified for the few jobs that are offered in the public sector your chance of getting one is almost second to none. These jobs tend to go to the cronies of the occupying states and security forces who tend to be non-Baluch. For those small numbers of Baluch that happen to get a job in this sector, they either get it by accident or are carefully selected. The number of these individuals is usually insignificant. Those who are selected by the colonial rulers are among specific social groups. The hard core of this group is tend to be selected from the most timid, subservient, religious, ignorant, corrupt, and criminal section of Baluch society. These individuals are not at all concern about the human and democratic rights of Baluch people and nation.
A little reflection on the stringent conditions of colonial policy of education in Baluchistan shows that it is fragmentary and replete with contradictions. This can hardly be called a satisfactory educational system. Many of its functions run counter to the interests of Baluch youths and Baluchistan. After all, its underlying purposes consist of two complementary elements. The primary purpose is to keep educational system as underdeveloped as possible and secondly to employ the scanty education provided to promote their colonial beliefs.
The prevalent colonial geopolitical systems in Baluchistan can maintain their domination so long as the Baluch youths are not legally, socially and politically informed about their democratic rights, interests and well-being. That is why, at one level, most of those lucky Baluch youths who completed their education find themselves in a dead-end situation. Soon after completion of their education they discover a life that involves isolation and unemployment. At another level, they are lacking the skills that their parents and grandparents employed for their survival. So they are being barred from both worlds. The severe economic hardship then leaves not many options in their disposal. The struggle for bare necessities and survival will unavoidably distract their thoughts and daily activities away from their rights and their opposition to subjugation. This is exactly what the colonial powers and establishment wish for. The end result of this policy only prolongs the period of bondage and subjugation.
To be continued…
Dr Shahswar K is a Baloch political and Human Rights activist, and the co-ordinator of International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons in United Kingdom. He is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of "Money and its Origins".
http://balochwarna.com/features/articles.82/Baluch-Youths-and-the-Baluch-Liberation-Movement---Part-3.html#.Uc9oCscukws.facebook
"میر محمد علی تالپور کا بلوچ نوجوانوں کےنام 1 پیغام"
"میر محمد علی تالپور کا بلوچ نوجوانوں کےنام 1 پیغام"
بلوچ نوجوان اپنی جوانی ضایا نہ کریں بلکہ اپنی جوانی کو آزادی کے عظیم
مقصد کے لیے سرف کردیں، پڑھئے اور اچھی اور معیاری تعلیم حاصل کریں، کیونکہ
آننے والے دنوں میں بلوچ قوم کو شعوری و تعلیمی لوگوں کی سخت ضروت ہوگی،
ہماری عقل، تعلیمی صلاحیتں، قابلیئت ذاتی اثاثہ نہیں بلکہ قومی اثاثہ اور
قومی امانت ہیں، لہٰذا ان کو قومی زندگی کی تعلیم اورمقصدیت کے لیے بروئے
کار لائے اور نوجوان اپنی تمام تر عمل تعلیم اور شعور کے زریعے۔۔
جدوجہد کو ایک قومی فرض سمجھ کر اسے بخوبی نبانے کی کوشش کریں اور ان کو
سمجانا ہوگا ہماری محنت کا ایک ہی ثمر ہے وہ آزادی، " "We Can Nom Afford
To Relex" ہم یہ نہیں کرسکتے کہ کام چل رہا ہے بس چلنے دو بلکہ بلوچ نجوان
کو محنت کرنی ہوگی اور ہر گزرتے دن کے ساتھ وہ نئی تعبیر اور بہترین حل کے
بارے میں سوچے اور اس کو درایافت کریں، بہترین علم حاصل کریں، متعدد رائے
اور ایک دوسرے کو ساتھ ساتھ لے کر چلیں۔۔!!!
بلوچ نوجوان اپنی جوانی ضایا نہ کریں بلکہ اپنی جوانی کو آزادی کے عظیم مقصد کے لیے سرف کردیں، پڑھئے اور اچھی اور معیاری تعلیم حاصل کریں، کیونکہ آننے والے دنوں میں بلوچ قوم کو شعوری و تعلیمی لوگوں کی سخت ضروت ہوگی، ہماری عقل، تعلیمی صلاحیتں، قابلیئت ذاتی اثاثہ نہیں بلکہ قومی اثاثہ اور قومی امانت ہیں، لہٰذا ان کو قومی زندگی کی تعلیم اورمقصدیت کے لیے بروئے کار لائے اور نوجوان اپنی تمام تر عمل تعلیم اور شعور کے زریعے۔۔
جدوجہد کو ایک قومی فرض سمجھ کر اسے بخوبی نبانے کی کوشش کریں اور ان کو سمجانا ہوگا ہماری محنت کا ایک ہی ثمر ہے وہ آزادی، " "We Can Nom Afford To Relex" ہم یہ نہیں کرسکتے کہ کام چل رہا ہے بس چلنے دو بلکہ بلوچ نجوان کو محنت کرنی ہوگی اور ہر گزرتے دن کے ساتھ وہ نئی تعبیر اور بہترین حل کے بارے میں سوچے اور اس کو درایافت کریں، بہترین علم حاصل کریں، متعدد رائے اور ایک دوسرے کو ساتھ ساتھ لے کر چلیں۔۔!!!
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