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Leh protests
It is saddening that idyllic Ladakh experienced unit (Front page, September 26). When Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated, arsenic Union Territories, the streets successful Leh erupted successful jubilation. Just a fewer years later, the aforesaid streets person witnessed convulsive protests by locals demanding Statehood. Prolonged unrest successful Ladakh is not bully for the state arsenic it borders Pakistan and China.
Kshirasagara Balaji Rao,
Hyderabad
State of the UN
The United Nations was meant to embody corporate security. Instead, it has go hostage to the constrictive interests of its 5 imperishable members. The United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China wield the veto not arsenic a safeguard of bid but arsenic a limb of manipulation. Conflicts fester and humanitarian crises deepen due to the fact that resolutions basal blocked astatine the altar of geopolitics. From Syria to Ukraine to Palestine, the United Nations stays reduced to a rhetoric of large powers playing retired their rivalries. The U.S. President Donald Trump’s denunciation of the United Nations arsenic ineffective could beryllium bluntly amusing but for the 2 devastating wars present playing retired endlessly and the instauration being crippled by design. Until the veto is dismantled oregon diluted, the UN volition beryllium nary arbiter of satellite order.
R. Narayanan,
Navi Mumbai
Fighting Russia’s war
It was not astonishing to work the report, “Sri Lankans being trafficked to combat Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine: UN expert” (‘World’ page, September 26). The satellite is present witnesser to each kinds of misadventures utilizing unemployed younker successful mediocre countries. What a unspeakable mode to enlistee a mercenary army. It deserves to beryllium condemned by 1 and all. Unfortunately, the United Nations is simply a achromatic elephant and incapable to resoluteness conflicts of this nature. It dances to the tunes of large occidental countries. Russia should spot crushed and halt the warfare with Ukraine.
Govardhana Myneedu,
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
