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Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
With the passing away of Mr Tarkunde, India has lost the father of the Civil
Liberties movement in the country. He died on March 21 after a brief illness
at the ripe age of 94. Till the very end, despite his failing health, which
had confined him virtually to his house for the last year or so, he worked and
wrote tirelessly for the causes that he held dear, particularly the cause of
civil liberties.
Cultural Human Rights
I first met Mr Tarkunde in 1976 during the Emergency, when civil liberties had been extinguished and the
Habeas Corpus case was being heard by the Supreme Court, which would decide whether one could even approach
the courts against illegal detention by the State, during the Emergency. At a time when even four out of five
judges of the Supreme Court succumbed and got intimidated into holding that fundamental rights and civil
liberties got eclipsed during an Emergency, Mr Tarkunde with the blessings of JP founded the People's Union
for Civil Liberties (PUCL). |
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Tribal News
From then on, till he died, he worked with exemplary courage, dedication and personal
integrity, for the cause of civil liberties and human rights in the country, even when it was hazardous and not
fashionable. The assault on civil liberties and human rights did not end with the end of the Emergency. The
assaults were relentless and resurfaced in different forms, in different parts of the country-in Kashmir, Punjab,
the Northeast and indeed most other parts of the country-with various draconian laws like TADA, POTA, the Armed
Forces Special Powers Act etc.
Tribal Human Rights for Tribal
And, he fought relentlessly against every form of human rights abuse, not
hesitating to say what he believed in, even if that offended some of his friends. He was one of the first
outsiders to speak on behalf of the Kashmiri people, saying that they had the right of plebiscite.
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