President Barack Obama has quietly reversed a policy initiated by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to get Narendra Modi — ostensibly for the 2002 Gujarat riots, but in actuality for taking stands that may be different from that favoured by the US administration — in the words of a senior analyst in New York. Hillary Clinton likes to operate through NGOs, which are given funding through indirect channels, and which target individuals and countries seen as less than respectful to her views on foreign and domestic policy in the target countries, a retired US official now based in Atlanta said. He claimed that rather than US NGOs, (the former) Secretary of State Clinton favoured operating through organisations based in the Netherlands, Denmark and the Scandinavian countries, especially Norway as these were outside the radar of big power politics. These NGOs were active in the agitation against the Russian nuclear power plant at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, with funding coming mainly from a religious organisation based in Europe that has close links with France. Incidentally, French companies are in direct competition with Russian rivals in seeking to expand the market for nuclear reactors in India. The senior official, now on a visit to India, claimed that your (i.e. the Manmohan Singh) government has full details of the religious organisation involved in funding the Kudankulam protests, but is keeping this secret as the organisation has high-level backers in the UPA. These present and retired officials claimed that during the tenure in office of Secretary Clinton, several expert teams in the guise of NGOs were sent to Gujarat to try and find mass graves. The purpose was to then take the matter to the Office of the UN Commissioner of Human Rights in Geneva as an example of genocide. In 2011, some bones were discovered in a Gujarat field by one of the search teams and there was much excitement, but these were later found to be buffalo bones, an official said. The official added that no evidence whatsoever of mass graves was uncovered in Gujarat despite six years of clandestine searching for them by undercover experts posing as representatives of NGOs. He added that five politicians, three from the state and two in Delhi, assisted the search teams, but the information given by them proved unproductive. Finally, now that Secretary Clinton had stepped down from office, by end-2012 orders were given to stop wasting time on the search for mass graves in Gujarat, much to the dismay of those NGOs who were getting significant funding as a consequence of the search operations. Interestingly, the senior official claimed that because of Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs inability to water down the Nuclear Liability Act and Defence Minister A.K. Antonys decision to prefer the French Rafale fighter to its US rival, orders were given to activate the Khalistan file so as to create embarrassment for Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:25:44 +0000
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