Re: [IAC#RG] Fwd: IAC and NCPRI international cooperation with YACC, Yemen anti-Corruption Committee

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Re: [IAC#RG] Fwd: IAC and NCPRI international cooperation with YACC, Yemen anti-Corruption Committee

Thanks for the info, Sarbajit Roy.

Even though our own RTI Act looks good on paper we know how it has been subverted so thoroughly that one abhors to think of the consequences of missing the boat to real democracy without bloodshed!

regards n bw

ravi

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Friends

Recently India Against Corruption "IAC" and National Campaign for Political Reform in India "NCPRI" were part of an anti-corruption conference along with CBI and CVC to meet delegates from Arab nations like Yemen.

IAC was shocked to observe that the US imperialists have managed to impose not only a horrible Freedom of Information "RTI" law on an economically weakened Yemen, but also imposed a Lokpal style "Ombudsman" Commission which they call as "SNACC". Like Lokpal, this "Supreme National anti-Corruption Commission" is made with retired judges, lawyers and some financial auditors to act like some sort of Spanish Inquisition Star Chamber.

Since the helpless citizens of war-torn Yemen are equally apprehensive about their deadly and Satanic World Bank agenda imposed RTI law, which even allows foreigners to apply for information, gives first preference to journalists to get info, imposes 3 months imprisonment on PIOs and also crippling financial penalties, and all the other usual World Bank claptrap, and has hardly any safeguards to protect govt. like our RTI law has in section 8 and 9, they have organised themselves as YACC or "Yemen anti-Corruption Committee" to protest and were also granted a token World Bank grant.

So we independent IAC and RTI anti-coruption veterans like myself, Subhash Chandra Agrawal, Pradeep Gupta ie. pan-IIT, etc. had a very frank talk and explained all the plus and minuses of their deadly RTI law to them and shared all our own experiences, and shared how all our organisations like CBI, CVC were only an eyewash and muzzled agencies of Government. I also explained to them how certain foreign financed advocacy groups had self appointed themselves as guardians of India's RTI and claimed to represent the citizens and to be careful of such persons, who were encouraging widespread misuse of RTI to ensure that government cannot function and citizens "rise up in arms" to dismember our respective nations.

IAC, and especially Subhash, were so convincing that the other paid advocacy sections of the NCPRI movement and the CBI introduced to present the government side faced a rather sceptical YACC the next day.

IAC also had excellent interactions with the members of SNACC which is receiving millions of US dollars to somehow "show" the international community of nations that World Bank can reduce the massive corruption in Yemen which has caused civil war in many parts with sectarian, ie. Sunni-Shia violence like which had ripped Iraq earlier.

Sarbajit
National Convenor
India Against Corruption

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India Against Corruption "IAC" with Yemen anti-Corruption Committee "YACC"
[Ebrahim al-Dhuhra, Subhash Chandra Agrawal, Yahya al-Shirki, Sarbajit Roy, Mohammed al-Taweel, and other YACC members]

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