Re: [PEN-L:1793] SHOCKING NEWS: INDIAN GOVERNMENT COMMITTED MASS MURDER IN 1980'S??

["Anthony D'Costa" <dcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Read a little bit before making such bombastic comments.

Anthony D'Costa

On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Jim Jaszewski wrote:

>
> 	I have received just about the most shocking news I have ever
> heard:
>
> 	A late-night programmer at a campus station in Canada (who shall
> remain nameless) played a found-sound, collage-type piece: `Calcutta Gas
> Chamber' created by composer John Waterman.  I missed the first part of
> what he said, but I called him up and confirmed it.  It is this:
>
> 	In the 1980s -- for six(?) years until 1989 -- the Government of
> India rounded up Calcutta's `untouchables' by the _THOUSANDS_ -- perhaps
> _HUNDREDS of thousands_ -- and gassed them to death in a Nazi-style
> eradication campaign.  Daily, there was _FOURTEEN TON(NE)S of `unusable'
> bone ash_ dumped from the crematorium which I assume was part of the
> apparatus.
>
> 	This monstrous crime was committed in the name of `population
> control' (Soylent Green, anyone??), and I'm sure that the Westerners
> concerned in aiding and abetting this perversion of `family planning' are
> as guilty of genocide and mass murder...
>
> 	Who was the Prime Minister then?  Rajiv Ghandi?  Desai?  Rao?
> There was supposedly an expose' in Time Magazine (1990?) (did I ever come
> across this B4?  Did anyone else?), and also apparently, the same monsters
> encouraged people to bathe in radioactive cooling ponds...  There were
> pictures of the facility taken, but later(?) at which time it appears that
> the `program' was being phased-out, and it was apparently (again) turned
> into a cinema...
>
> 	Now, it's just possible that this is part of a CIA disinformation
> campaign -- as India was allied with the USSR against China and the U.S.
> -- but I just _KNOW_ that those bourgeois bastards who rule India are
> capable of such attrocities...  :<
>
> 	Who the hell knows anything about this, and if it's true, what can
> we do to bring these criminals to justice??
>
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