JOURNALIST: Mr. Ambassador, the London based amnesty International, in its latest report, has confirmed that thousands of people, particular Sikhs, have been killed, tortured and unlaw fully detained by Indian: police and security forces.
AMBASSADOR: That’s right.
JOURNALIST: Dismissing the report with dictatorial arrogance, the Indian government told parliament that it takes no notice of amnesty reports,
AMBASSADOR: Very correct.
JOURNALIST: How long will the Indian rulers continue ignoring world opinion and yet pose to be a secular democracy? AMBASSADOR: Not in national interest to disclose.
JOURNALIST: Mr. Ambassador, Rajiv Gandhi described the new seven party opposition combine as a right wing alliance of vested financial interests.
AMBASSADOR: That’s right.
JOURNALIST: To counter the alliance he has urged his own part y functionaries to “take the fight to the streets or to the fields.”
AMBASSADOR: Very correct.
JOURNALIST: Will his party functionaries mobilize the congress (1) cadres or as usual instruct the police and para military troops to unleash terror both in the streets and the fields?
AMBASSADOR: Not in national interest to disclose.
JOURNALIST: Mr, Ambassador, the entire opposition staged a walkout from the parliament in protest against the unconstitutional act of promulgating president’s rule in Nagaland.
AMBASSADOR: That’s right.
JOURNALIST: The dissolution of Nagaland assembly was ordered when the interior minister Buta Singh failed to win back the MLA’s who had resigned from the primary membership of the congress (I).
AMBASSADOR: Very correct.
JOURNALIST; don’t you think Rajiy Gandhi is increasingly adopting the old approach of his mother late Indira Gandhi to keep the states under central subjugation?
AMBASSADOR: Not in national interest to disclose.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 19, 1988
