The recent cricis in South Asia highlights the importance of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui Case. The same tactics which were used for denying justice to one rape victim are now being used for creating a regional crisis. Chief among these are dirty media, inquisition trial and 'Zeroland' policy:
- dirty media is the tool with which an individual or nation could be declared guilty without trial
- inquisition trials give legal cover to extrajudicial practices
- 'Zeroland' (term taken from the novelist Ibne Safi) is an approach of disregarding sovereignty of other states while avoiding to be called imperialist
I shall try to explain these in latter posts, but the importance of the Aafia Case now becomes greater. As has been pointed out in Don't Blame the Victim, an analytical report released by a rights group in Pakistan, a clearer understanding of this case can help us understand what's going wrong with our world, and by acquiring justice for this single victim we could go a long way in redressing the wrong policies affecting the world peace today.
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