MAFIA: High time government protected whistleblowers!

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expressbuzz.com / The New Indian Express / Last Updated : 17 Aug 2011 11:13:25 PM IST.

Shehla Masood has joined the long list of whistleblowers who have had to pay with their lives for targeting the corrupt. She was shot dead by unknown assailants in Bhopal apparently because of her energetic investigation of tiger poachers. Although she had complained to the authorities about the threats she was receiving after she began inquiries into the death of a tigress in the Bandhavgarh National Park, no protection was provided. Yet, there was undoubtedly a need for the authorities to be alert about the danger she faced because, in addition to her pursuit of poachers, she was engaged in exposing illegal diamond mining in the state.

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GUJARAT RIOTS: Modi targets 2nd whistleblower cop!

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zeenews.india.com / Last Updated: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 17:14.

Ahmedabad: Days after the suspension of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Sanjiv Bhatt, the Gujarat government has acted against another senior Gujarat police officer for alleged indiscipline. 

As per reports, Thursday, a chargesheet has been issued against DIG Rahul Sharma for indiscipline and violation of Official Secrets Act (OSA).

As per the chargesheet cleared by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Sharma is being held guilty of passing information to the Nanavati Commission without seeking approval from the government. The Nanavati Commission was set up to probe the Godhra train burning incident and the riots that followed. 

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The Real-Life 'Whistleblower' - Bosnian exposes sex trafficking!

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Jessica Bennett, thedailybeast.com / Aug 5, 2011 3:38 AM EDT.

Rachel Weisz plays Kathryn Bolkovac, a United Nations peacekeeping officer, in “The Whistleblower.”, Sophie Giraud / Samuel Goldwyn Films.

In ‘The Whistleblower’ which opens this weekend, Rachel Weisz portrays a U.N. peacekeeper who exposes sex trafficking involving peacekeepers in Bosnia. Jessica Bennett talks with Kathryn Bolkovac, the woman who inspired the film.

They were peacekeepers: sent to Bosnia in the aftermath of the Balkans war, tasked with overseeing the local police force and restoring calm. In blue United Nations uniforms, they arrived from countries all over the world, roaming the hills near Sarajevo and Ilidza, trying to maintain order in a nation battered by civil conflict.

But as we learn in the first minutes of The Whistleblower, which opens in select theaters this weekend and stars Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, many of these men and women were ill-trained and unsupervised.

They landed in a foreign land with no clear mandate, and at times, little understanding of what they were there to accomplish. "No one knew what authority they had," says Kathryn Bolkovac, the Nebraska-cop-turned-U.N.-peacekeeper who inspired the film. "It was ridiculous."

Ultimately, when Bolkovac discovers that the men with "IPTF"—short for INTERNATIONAL POLICE TASK FORCE—stitched across their shoulders are involved in the brutal trafficking of underage girls, the response by a high agency commander in the film is: “Those girls are whores of war. It happens.”

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