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Circumstantial evidence is to corroborate the crime.
If the crime is not proved. the corroborative evidence is to be thrown out.That’s all.
Unwanted non sequitur observations may be quoted out of context in cases and the culprit,especially in a case like sedition, shall go scot free.
In a terrorist case, literature of fundamentalist/violent literature is used to prove sedition.
Now that can be quashed by quoting this observation.
True.possession of Gandhian literature does not make one a Gandhian,nor the absence of it makes a man violent.
Sometimes Their Lordships go overboard with clichés.
http://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/binayak-sen-bail-sc-observation-unfortunate/Circumstantial evidence is to corroborate the crime.
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Duch Testifies and Asks for Forgiveness
In Phnom Penh today, the head of the notorious Khmer Rouge prison system took the stand today.
The prosecution kicked off the proceedings against Duch today in the capital of Cambodia.
Duch, the former chief of the notorious Khmer Rouge's S-21 prison took to the stand and testified.
The born-again Christian expressed remorse for the victims, and asked for forgiveness.
[Duch, Former Khmer Rouge Prison Chief]:
"I know for sure that my crimes committed against the people, in particular women and children, are serious crimes that cannot be tolerated. So I plea for you to leave an open window for me to seek forgiveness."
Duch, now 66-years-old, is charged with committing crimes against humanity and war crimes, as well as torture and homicide.Duch Testifies and Asks for Forgiveness
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Trial of Kaing Guek Eav (alias "Duch") before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia March 31, 2009 - Part 1 The Cambodia Tribunal Monitor www.CambodiaTribunal.orgTrial of Kaing Guek Eav (alias "Duch") before the Extraordinary Chambers in... more
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Khmer Rouge jail boss begs for forgiveness
Comrade Duch makes impassioned speech to genocide tribunal
By Andrew Buncombe, Asia Correspondent
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
The man who was in charge of a notorious prison operated by the Khmer Rouge in which thousands were tortured and dispatched for execution has offered his "heartfelt sorrow" for his actions 30 years ago.
Appearing in front a genocide tribunal in Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Comrade Duch, said he did not expect the families of those who died to forgive him now but he hoped that at some point they would.
"My current plea is that I would like you to please leave an open window for me to seek forgiveness," he said. He would give his full co-operation to the UN-sponsored tribunal, he said, adding: "This is only the remedy that can help me to relieve all the sorrow and crimes I have committed."
Up to 1.8 million people died or were murdered by the Maoist Khmer Rouge regime, which ruled from 1975 to 1979. Duch, 66, was the head of the Tuol Sleng prison in the capital, Phnom Penh. Also known as S-21, the converted school was used to interrogate and torture so-called "internal enemies", namely regime members suspected or accused of dissent. Of the 14,000 prisoners sent to the jail, only a dozen survived. Just a handful are still alive today.
Duch is one of five senior Khmer Rouge leaders being tried for genocide. While his statements amounted to a confession of guilt, defendants are not required to enter pleas. A panel of judges will deliver a verdict.Khmer Rouge jail boss begs for forgiveness
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Members of Nepal's parliament have overwhelmingly elected the Maoist leader Prachanda as the country's new prime minister.
The 53-year-old won 80% of votes to defeat his only rival, the Congress Party candidate, Sher Bahadur Deuba.
Maoists won a surprise victory in April elections, and two other key parties supported Prachanda in the vote.
Last month, Nepal swore in a mainly ceremonial president, Ram Baran Yadav, after the monarchy was scrapped in May.
'Lenin or Napoleon'
It is only two years since Prachanda emerged from more than two decades underground as a militant communist leader.
"I am very happy and very emotional," he said as he left the constituent assembly after the vote, reported AFP news agency.
What the Maoists called their "people's war" had left 13,000 people dead, tens of thousands displaced and much of the country's infrastructure destroyed.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Kathmandu says that now the former guerrilla will be the most powerful politician in the Himalayan country, after 464 lawmakers gave him their vote and only 113 rejected him.
The Maoists' deputy leader, Baburam Bhattarai, said: "Today is a day of pride and it will be written with golden letters in the history of the nation."
He predicted earlier that Prachanda would be a leader "for a new era", comparable to Lenin or Napoleon.
Friday's ballot ends months of political deadlock that had followed the sacking of the unpopular King Gyanendra and the abolition of the 240-year-old monarchy.
Our correspondent says that Prachanda's elevation had long seemed inevitable after his party scored its convincing win in April.
Prachanda was almost guaranteed victory because he had the support of three parties - his own, the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) and the MJF (Madheshi Janadhikar Forum).
The Maoists' Congress Party rivals accused them before the vote of plotting to set up a totalitarian communist regime, a suggestion they strongly denied.
A former agricultural science teacher-turned-revolutionary, Prachanda was originally named Pushpa Kamal Dahal, but he still uses his guerrilla nom de guerre.
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I find it interesting that even today, a whole people dislodge a monarch and democratically choose Maoist communism. I personally find Maoism pretty abhorrent, especially in view of all the horrific abuses committed under Mao Tse Tung and after him, in China.Members of Nepal's parliament have overwhelmingly elected the Maoist leader... more
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