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playing for his country. welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us i imagine for a moment having to undergo any of the following your nails plucked out being hung upside down electrocuted in your private parts stripped naked these are just some of the 31 types of torture human rights groups allege being employed by indian security forces in the disputed region. located in the north of india the entire state is claimed by both pakistan and india long running resentment against indian rule led to a full blown insurgency in the late ninety's that brought with it

a heavy presence of indian troops now a report by 2 n.g.o.s the association of parents of disappeared persons and then made coalition of civil society says the government has been using torture against the local population indiscriminately since 947 and that for the most part the abuses are going unpunished a professor at neil's is the un special rapporteur on torture and he joins me now from geneva professor meltzer glad you could join us now these allegations and new these allegations of torture have been made against the indian government before does this report changed anything. well i think the allegations that the reporters looking obviously are very very serious and suggest that there might be. very grave violation of the permission of torture now i'm not in a position to assert the accuracy of all these allegations but i unfortunately was

not that into visit india myself despite several requests to conduct if it was what is it that the indian government says every time you bring up this request that you want to visit india and my understanding is that no un special rapporteur on torture has ever been able to visit india to verify any such claims. unfortunately despite several requests to the official requests letter to the indian government i have not received any response so far in days also significative the united nations convention against torture but it hasn't yet been ratified is that a way for the international community to pressure india to read to find this convention so that india can be held accountable under this convention the ratification of the international legal instrument readers into sovereign decision of concerns state so no state can be forced to ratify

a treaty however the prohibition of torture is not dependent on the ratification of the treaty because it is considered to be the fundamental christian regime and right which is even. means you cannot even be. your change through a separate treaty so it is one of the strongest custody human rights those recognized university one of the strongest customer to human rights as your portrait yet we keep getting report after report which accuses the indian government of using torture in jump when me how can change be brought about. oh because that is not the only context they receive unfortunately regular allegations of torture a little treatment the the experience shows that however that real change is all this brought about from within the country through public opinion true of public

pressure through reform institutions in the policies of the state it is also important to understand that torture is an effective tool of providing security or a finding to truth in criminal investigations it really is a tool to break people through people and that destroys not only directed but also the perpetrators and in the end the humanizes even the society itself to tolerate such abuse so in a sense torture a is counterproductive but states do not seem to understand that and yet persist but that practice. unfortunately takes a long time for the consciousness and the understanding to come through of how destructive torture really is again i cannot assert to what exactly the facts are in india because i have not and it will be true to investigate myself i have

received our crews myself as well may have smells of a un special rapporteur on top i thank you very much 1st big news asia and very much. now these 2 faces have become a symbol of press freedom in asia and around the world they are of balon and just to reuters journalists who were imprisoned and for their reporting on the crisis in northern rock and states in particular the 2 journalists exposed a massacre of 10 men and boys by government forces and their arrests were widely seen as an attempt to hide the crimes committed by the army after more than $500.00 days behind the journalists are now free again wallowing in jurors who were released this month as part of a blanket presidents of the new spot celebrations around the world and 1000000 miles of government praise but the story at the heart of this isn't over because it

has just been revealed that granted an early release to 7 soldiers who'd been jailed for the very massacre the journalists had exposed. it means that the perpetrators of the crime spent less time in prison than the men were exposed to it to talk more about this i'm joined by journalist dave in yangon dave good to see you now about a yacht ago the commander in chief of men must military spoke about the conviction of these soldiers what did he say then and does it seem consistent with this week's news about their release. yes so you don't want to a year ago the senior general men on the commander in chief of the army or he said that these soldiers they were sentenced to 10 years in prison and he said that we will not forgive anyone if they commit a crime those were his words well this certainly does not seem consistent with that at all when you consider that they as you said they served less than a year in prison and the reuters reporters who exposed what happened there serving almost a year and a half in jail there was

a press conference called yesterday after this news broke about the release of the soldiers and spokesman for the ministry of defense and the ministry of home affairs said they could not account for why these soldiers had been released so it just you know it seems like we're getting we continue to get facts coming out by great investigative work by the reuters bureau and then we seem to have uncertainty coming out at least publicly and certainly coming out from the military and all this i'm curious what is the reaction been inside me to news about the soldiers raise. so if you look at social media it's been overwhelmingly in support of the release of the soldiers you have to look at the narrative in this country most of the people they did not see the evidence that came out in the course they did not really read all this detail descriptions of what came out so they're not seeing that these suppose that state secrets of the world as reporters had were really not secrets of this information already been released publicly they are not necessarily

saying that this police captain testified that the police were ordered to plant documents on those reporters and ordered to entrap the minarets them so they're getting this false narrative and so much of the public really believes that these workers journalists are traitors many of them believe that they still believe in jail so it's really just that they believe an alternative reality here in this country but these are a journalist motorboating about doing a crisis and extrajudicial killing. and what does what do these victims developments say about the myanmar government's attitude toward sort of. yeah you know i mean human rights activists in the new investigators have said not only is the military never been serious about holding any soldiers accountable for committing any crimes up there but they continue to say they say this just supports that leaders are behind a brutal campaign to put so many americans are out of the country we've seen more than 700000 me since august 2017 i mean i was recently in those refugee camps in

southern bangladesh and i spoke to so many were hidden who told me that they do want to come back to yemen but they want to come back when conditions are conducive when they will be able to live and be a part of a community not live apart from the community when they will have equal access to education and health care and freedom of movement and equal access to jobs for livelihoods this is not going to encourage any of them to want to come back they're going to have to be even there for the time being different. don't think about it much. excitement is building ahead of the cricket world cup which gets under way this thursday england and wales the host of the tournament but half the teams are from asia where cricket enjoys huge popularity one can tend to as a potential dog horses of god as with susie hasn't for the sport has been growing they take on one of the favorites australia in their 1st match on saturday we meet one fan will be following that match a young afghan who is hoping to represent his country one day

putting on his helmet strapping up his gloves it's all part of the ritual for apatow i mean the 14 year old lives and breathes cricket practicing regularly so that one day he can follow in the footsteps of his idols. it's one of my dreams to become a cricket player i want my countrymen my family and my relatives to watch me on t.v. one of the chemists and win trophies for afghanistan. i had him on show all cricket has helped bridge divides in war torn afghanistan the sport was once banned by the taliban but attitudes have now changed afghanistan has emerged as a hotbed of cricket talent but poor facilities and a lack of affordability still hampered progress. vons out that it was

a lot of afghan players have financial problems because the financial situation of most afghan families is not good. also we don't have good cricket pitches all the family doesn't have much money i come here so i have to go. the saw the money you know how. those goals are undoubtedly driven by the success of the afghan team on the international stage a team whose future may well rest in the hands of players like capital. good luck to the team in the world cup that's it for now be sure to check out our other stories on did. or on facebook and twitter as well. now with images from in didn't. have steamrolled about 18000. they destroyed the confiscated. not to drink the.

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