India is a Rogue State

PakTribune Forum - South Asia Tribune, a Washington Based Online Weekly: "THE US policy makers define a "Rogue State” as one which supports terrorism and threatens its neighbors; displays no regard for international law and callously violates international treaties; discards basic human values; maltreats its own people and fritters away national resources for the personal gain of its rulers; is determined to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), along with other advanced military technology, to be used as threats or offensive designs of its regimes; and hates the United States and everything which it stands for.

This last definition has been apparently put there by the US policy makers in case all else fails to stick. In plain English, as Robert S. Litwak suggests, it means a rogue state is whoever the United States says it is. Litwak speaks from experience. He served on the White House's National Security Council staff during President Clinton's first term, as director for non-proliferation and export controls.

All India’s neighbors are ill-at-ease with her. India has a running dispute with each and every one of her neighbors. Be it Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or the smaller neighbors. In Pakistan’s case her interventionism has gone to the extreme of mid-wifing the birth of Bangladesh in 1971. It is a documented fact that India has been sponsoring cross-border terrorism in the Pakistani province of Sindh. India's implicit support for terrorist activity is consistent with its internal behavior. It has a record of repression of minorities that undermines its proclamation of democratic values.

Apart from India's State terrorism against Sikhs, Christians, Muslims, and all the other minority groups, it is funding terrorism in Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Bhutan. Among insurgencies funded and supported by India, Tamil Eelam of Sri Lanka and Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh are well known. India created and supported the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an organization the US government has called a "terrorist" organization. According to Internet journalist Justin Raimondo, the Indian Defense Minister, George Fernandes, raised money and arms for the LTTE. India is also guilty of intervention in the tiny Maldives Islands in broad daylight.

At the same time India has helped the Nepalese state in carrying out a genocidal war against Nepalese people who do not see eye to eye with the Nepalese government on various issues. With the help of Indian advisors the Nepalese state has carried out mass massacres, gang- rapes and inhuman torture on an expanding scale.

According to very credible numbers published by human-rights groups and the Punjab judiciary, the government of India has murdered more than 250,000 Sikhs since 1984, in excess of 200,000 Christians in Nagaland since 1947, almost 75,000 Kashmiri Muslims since 1988, and tens of thousands of Assamese, Tamils, Manipuris, Dalits, and others. In 1984, in the wake of assassination of Indira Gandhi, 10,000 Sikhs were murdered in a single day in New Delhi allegedly with state collusion. In 1994, the US State Department reported that the Indian government paid out over 41,000 cash bounties to police officers for killing members of the Sikh minority.

In the same year, the Indian newspaper Hitavada reported that the Indian government paid the late governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, the equivalent of $1.5 billion to stir up terrorist activity in Punjab and in Kashmir. Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra are some of the places, other than Jammu and Kashmir, where the mother of democracies is busy slaughtering its own children in absolute disregard for basic human values.

India currently has developed and deployed the Prithvi short range ballistic missile (SRBM), and is developing longer range, liquid- and solid-fueled missiles. They include the Prithvi II SRBM, the Agni, Agni-Plus and Agni-B IRBMs, a sea-launched ballistic missile and an SLBM, the Sagarika. India detonated a nuclear device in 1974, conducted a test series in May 1998, and it is clear that it is developing warheads for its missile systems. Indian leaders recently declared that India has developed nuclear weapons for deployment on the Prithvi SRBM and the Agni Plus MRBM. India has acquired and continues to seek Russian, US, and Western European technology for its missile programs.

India has a long record of Anti-Americanism. On May 18, 1999, The Indian Express reported that Mr. Fernandes, the Defense Minister, organized and led a meeting with the Ambassadors from China, Cuba, Russia, Yugoslavia, Libya, and Iraq to discuss setting up a security alliance "to stop the United States."

India has been voting against the United States at the United Nations more often than any country except Cuba. It had a long term friendship with the former Soviet Union and supported its invasion of Afghanistan, an invasion fought bitterly by United States and its allies to the finish. India remained aligned to the then USSR all this while. India always had, and continues to have, very close relations with Iraq. What else can be called “hating the United States and everything which it stands for?”
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