NEW DELHI: Why does the debate on human rights only highlight the rights of terrorists and not the victims, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked.
In acts of terror, the victims are the biggest sufferers, but debates on human rights only highlight the rights of terrorists and the crime’s perpetrators, and not those of the victims, he said while addressing the Common Wealth Law Ministers’ Conference in the Bahamas.
Later, the meeting adopted in its outcome that “terrorism could have no justification and that acts of terror were the most egregious violation of human rights of victims”.
A release issued today by the Law Ministry said that this was for the first time that the meet adopted an outcome on terrorism.
Participating in the discussions on counter-terrorism and the use of information and technology, Prasad said that India had long been a victim of the most vicious terrorism unleashed from across the border. (AGENCIES)
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