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Gandhi Salt March: 1930
Mahatma Gandhi's biographer, Louis Fischer, once said that his greatness "lay in doing what everyone could do but doesn't". Gandhi's Salt March to Dandi in 1930 can be examined as a version of this message (Source: A Living Sermon/Tom Weber)
On 12th March 1930 Mahatma Gandhi, then aged 61, started walking from Sabarmati Ashram with a band of 78 handpicked volunteers. Their destination was a beachhead 241 miles to the south, Dandi. On the 5th of April 1930, when Mahatma Gandhi and his band of followers reached Dandi, thousands had joined him en-route; the eyes of the world were riveted on this tiny and as yet insignificant beachside village in South Gujarat.
The Salt March is today worldwide acknowledged as the one event that shook the British Empire to its core. The year 2005 was the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Great Salt March.
To commemorate this historic event on an international scale the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation proposed to organise a re-enactment of the Salt March. Click here for a report of the Salt March Event. (Source: saltmarch.org.in)
Photo: Gandhi on the Salt March. The Salt Satyagraha was a campaign of non-violent protest against the British salt tax in colonial India which began with the Salt March to Dandi on March 12, 1930. It was the first act of organized opposition to British rule after Purna Swaraj, the declaration of independence by the Indian National Congress. Mahatma Gandhi led the Dandi march from his Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi, Gujarat to make salt tax free, with growing numbers of Indians joining him along the way. When Gandhi broke the salt laws in Dandi at the conclusion of the march on April 6, 1930, it sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against the British Raj salt laws by millions of Indians. (Photo/caption source: Wikipedia)
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Birth place of Mahatma Gandhi
Porbandar on India's west coast is famous for being the birthplace of India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.
Sadly, many of Gandhi's dreams have disappeared.
There is another facet of Gandhi's vision which has disappeared from the land of his birth.
He believed in economic self-reliance, with the village as the centre of economic production.
That ideal appears to have disappeared in the smoke that belches out of the cement and soda-ash factories that dot Porbandar.
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The Pebble Pond
Extract from a piece by Gandhi's grandaughter:
"I was once told by my mother, who along with Father spent all her life working for nonviolent change, that there is a big difference between throwing a pebble in a pond and throwing a big rock. The pebble causes gentle ripples that go a long way. The rock makes a big splash that quickly disappears."- - -
Source: Gandhi photos/text from the archives of my personal blog ME AND OPHELIA
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UPDATE 23 January 2009: Laurent Nkunda arrested
"Ex-general" Laurent Nkunda was arrested on Thursday, January 22 at 2230 hours while he was fleeing on Rwandan territory after he had resisted our troops at Bunagana with three battalions," a Congolese-Rwandan official statement said.
Source: BBC report published 06:34 GMT, Friday, 23 January 2009:
DR Congo rebel leader 'arrested'- - -
Gen Laurent Nkunda, the leader of the main rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has been arrested, the military says.
He was arrested as he fled into Rwanda while trying to resist a joint Rwandan-Congolese military operation, the operation's joint command said.
Some 3,500 Rwandan troops crossed the border to help Congolese forces disarm Rwandan Hutu FDLR rebels there.
Gen Nkunda has been leading the rival CNDP Tutsi insurgency.
"The joint operations command... informs the public that the ex-general Laurent Nkunda was arrested on Thursday, January 22 at 2230 hours while he was fleeing on Rwandan territory after he had resisted our troops at Bunagana with three battalions," a Congolese-Rwandan official statement said.
Gen Nkunda is being detained in Rwanda, and is expected to be handed over to Congolese authorities soon, the BBC's Karen Allen reports from Goma in DR Congo's North Kivu province.
The CNDP launched a major offensive in August, which displaced more than a quarter of a million people in North Kivu and raised fears of a wider regional war.
Gen Nkunda and his group says they are fighting to protect the Tutsi community from attack by Rwandan Hutu rebels based in DR Congo, some of whom are accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide.
The Congolese government has often promised to stop the Hutu forces from using its territory, but has not done so.
However, others see the CNDP as a Rwandan proxy and the biggest reason why DR Congo is yet to benefit from landmark elections in 2006 intended to draw a line under decades of conflict.
Human rights group have accused CNDP forces, along with those of the government, of numerous killings, rapes and torture.
Talks in Kenya aimed at ending the conflict became deadlocked last month, with UN mediator Olusegun Obasanjo complaining that the CNDP's negotiators lacked the authority to make concessions.
Snapshot of Google's newsreel 23 January 2009 19:00 hrs GMT
DR Congo warlord Laurent Nkunda seized by Rwandan army
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UN special envoy: Nkunda's arrest not to affect mediation in DR Congo
Xinhua, China - 4 hours ago
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Video: Nkunda arrested in Rwanda; Kinshasa demands extradition
france24english - 4 hours ago
IN THE FIELD: Congolese Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has been arrested in Rwandan territory by the Rwandan army. The former army general, ... Show video
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Rwanda: why former military hero was disowned after rampages in Congo
guardian.co.uk, UK - 5 hours ago
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Video: Former Rwandan allies arrest Tutsi leader Nkunda - 23 Jan 09
AlJazeeraEnglish - 5 hours ago
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BBC News, UK - 6 hours ago
By Peter Greste By almost any measure, it has been a spectacular reversal of fortune for General Laurent Nkunda. Two weeks ago, he was widely regarded as ...
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Xinhua, China - 6 hours ago
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Bloomberg - 6 hours ago
By Franz Wild Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic Republic of Congo renegade General Laurent Nkunda, who led a rebellion against the government that extended ...
DR Congo requests extradition of Nkunda from Rwanda
AFP - 7 hours ago
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Profile: Laurent Nkunda, the Tutsi rebel leader toppled from power
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 8 hours ago
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DEM. REP. CONGO: LEADER OF TUTSI REBELS NKUNDA ARRESTED
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Italy - 8 hours ago
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Times Online, UK - 8 hours ago
Depending on who you talk to, General Laurent Nkunda has either spent four years protecting his Tutsi tribemates from Hutu genocidaires or he is a ...
WORLD BRIEFING
Los Angeles Times, CA - 10 hours ago
A joint Rwanda-Congo force converged Thursday on Nkunda's stronghold in the Congolese town of Bunagana on the Ugandan border, said Capt. ...
Rebel Leader Nkunda Arrested in Rwanda
Washington Post, United States - 11 hours ago
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International Herald Tribune, France - 12 hours ago
HONG KONG: Laurent Nkunda, the feared and flamboyant Congolese rebel leader, was apprehended Friday by a joint force of Rwandan and Congolese army troops, ...
Concerns Grow in DRC as Joint Operation With Rwanda Continues
Voice of America - 20 hours ago
By Derek Kilner Rwandan and Congolese troops are trying to disarm a Rwandan-Hutu militia in a joint operation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
Congo says Rwandans could open fire on militias
eTaiwan News, Taiwan - 22 hours ago
By EDDY ISANGO AP AP Rwandan troops deploying in Congo this week are part of an effort to peacefully demobilize Rwandan militias, but they will fight if ...
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AFP - Jan 22, 2009
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Economist, UK - Jan 22, 2009
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UN force demands role in Congo anti-rebel push
Reuters - Jan 22, 2009
By John Kanyunyu GOMA, Congo, Jan 22 (Reuters) - United Nations peacekeepers in Congo demanded on Thursday to be given a role in joint military operations ...
Rwandan, Congolese troops heading for Nkunda stronghold
AFP - Jan 22, 2009
RUTSHURU, DR Congo (AFP) — Congolese and Rwandan troops in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo are on Thursday heading towards the stronghold of Tutsi ...
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Xinhua, China - Jan 21, 2009
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UN: Rwandan troops in Congo for joint operation
CNN International - Jan 21, 2009
(CNN) -- Rwandan troops have crossed into the Democratic Republic of Congo to prepare for a joint operation with Congolese forces against a Hutu militia, ...
The World
TIME - Jan 21, 2009
By Harriet Barovick Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009 1 | Congo Cooperation Amid Chaos Nearly 1500 Rwandan troops have joined the Congolese army to hunt down Hutu ...
Christian Science Monitor Will Rwandan troops help in Congo?
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