Have been sleeping in the office fearing arrest if they leave the shutdown provoked an outcry from human Rights Groups of journalists but despite the ruling the t. V. Stations are still off their Catherine Sawyer reports. Lunchtime news at n. T. V. One of three t. V. Stations switched off by the communications of foreign of kenya on tuesday the news bulletin was only Available Online cutting off millions of iranians nationwide race who cant afford the internet repeatedly was heres why Opposition Leader right loading the taking an informal oath swearing to be as he called himself the peoples president tens of thousands of his supporters rather more cannot gratian the tuesday government wants t. V. Stations against providing live coverage because of security reasons the directive was ignored by some the government allowed the event took place so i dont get the sense of what is legal but is allowed to take place. And then it will be. An offense i dont understand the ministers. Why they are allowed the event but cannot allow coverage the high court has now ordered the resumption of t. V. Services until a challenge to the government ban is had in two weeks the cabinet secretary in charge of security to sit in this office of the president says that tuesdays symbolic swearing in of rollo dinka was an attempt to overthrow the government and a threat to National Security he say the t. V. Stations that were taken off air while facilitating that illegality. Police have also arrested the lawyer who presided over the whole thing and have declared the National Resistance movement an organized criminal and the Opposition Coalition started the Movement Last year to push for electoral reforms through peaceful resistance these Opposition Leaders say plans to intimidate them wont work really for for a long time to give this country a new constitution and twenty. The new constitution really with all the freedoms that you do. Is owned serious talk. But this is he doesnt recognize who are looking at is president because he won the president ial election last august the result was invalidated by the Supreme Court it remains unclear what his next steps will be or even what he states will peoples president really means Catherine Sawyer jazeera Nairobi Kenya at least five previously im reported by hinge of muslim ask graves have been uncovered in me in ma thats according to the Associated Press the un special rapporteur has called for a Fact Finding Mission to be given access to the sites where than six hundred ninety thousand were him to have fled me in moscow as a military crackdown was launched in august last year around one hundred fifty miners in south africa stuck underground after a storm not type power the beatrix gold mine is near the city of welcome in central freestate the company says the mine is a not in danger and that sixty four people have already rescued the f. B. I. 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Ok donna claimed the front photo of british as mr jinnah governor general of the new dominion arrives at the constituent assembly in karachi. August nine hundred forty seven. A century of british rule over its indian empire comes to an end guest of honor in the muslim capital while older laid him out of bed carrying out one of our loves buys regal guilt is all the partition of india took effect. The new nation of pakistan his school. Meanwhile in the stage was set all british role to give pays for the bill dominion of india. A date leader across a newly drawn border leaders celebrate the birth of the republic of india. Freed from colonial rule the creation of these two countries completes a long struggle for independence and here is the door we believe that we did to name. And now the time can then been shown to be mild. But even before the celebrations are over chaos erupts. Panic and fear sets in as neighbor turns on neighbor unleashing mass violence. Millions to leave their homes. The celebrations were or was marred by the blood this took place against the backdrop of perfect violence. And. People who a year before we tended to each others wedding parties and each other raping each others daughters roasting each others babies on the spit. With human passions are unleashed. None of us can can foresee what could happen. While historians recount the horrors of the past for those who lived through them its like yesterday. Were going to the world to move or have been lucky when the yardbirds or our monday when the new monitor. Eighty six year old Joginder Singh called it was a young teenager in india at the time. Seventy years on he still remembers how muslims hindus and sikhs turn on each other. Or when they walk a little if you will go through. They rated movie things. With the word in the out. Of work. Again that of the moon. Or when the world was he would want to go to. The locus of. The world would you they walk all over. Here could very well move forward over. Where we were. Or who were here to live who would go. On the other side of the border in pakistan the memories are just as strong in one thousand nine hundred seven saladin colleagues family were muslims in india hes never forgotten how he escaped the killing but others didnt. We were staying in our house on six september one thousand nine hundred eighty seven six oclock when my mother was saying a spear i heard a shriek cowing somebody. I turned and i saw a stick with the sword in the hand coming in my sisters wedding and. It was the enter the. Room of my mother killed her and they ran toward us this is the house saladin fled his home in fear of his life when he returned the horror lay in front of him when i enter the house it was just making the euro the future holds nothing sort of holds. Then you see your own mother. Drenched in blood. And stomach open. Then starting coming up how would. How did it all come to this. Many point the finger at indias then colonial masters. When britain ruled india it was the jewel in the empires crown plundered for its natural resources. But in the devastating aftermath of World War Two britain had its own problems on the home front. The list was returned to london with renewed feeling of universal opinion in the country and bankrupted itself fighting itself to death of the nazis. And so british Authorities Say that it was the exhaustion of them power and the bankruptcy of the mother country that led to the realization that the simply no way the british could keep this enormous empire in chains the moment to come to head back home to a land of rationing drizzle low light and leave the exotic plagues of india behind. After decades of crushing any Movement TowardsIndian Independence postwar britain had not had the will nor the might to fold on to its home. There is massive demonstrations across india. And there was. An awareness that the leaders the figure struggle could call strikes and protests which would paralyze the country. Seizing the moment of british weakness three leaders spearheaded the push for independence. You are allowed nehru Mohammad Ali Jinnah and one hundred gandhi. At first they shared the goal of a free and united india one country one people regardless of religion. Thousands of National Great turned to hear the message of gandhi. Leader of the demands for indias independence. Was mark mcgann you mobilize the masses who gave them the language of things like civil disobedience and nonviolence who spoke of the national a struggle is a struggle for truth he gave it a strong modernistic fervor and he completely inspired the masses to rise up behind him or gandhi himself a lifelong preacher of nonviolence and gandhi when tom fairly quickly to establish himself as the spiritual leader of the Indian National congress led freedom struggle. The Indian National congress was a Political Party made up of the elite of hindu and muslim society. It had been pushing for self rule since the turn of the twentieth century. With gandhis mobilization of the masses the party transformed into a populist movement and attracted new leaders with new ambitions men like to warlow ne root never was very attracted to my gandhi and gandhi was very impressed with and he was gone these handpicked provision to lead the the sort of Political Part of the National Movement gandhi himself never took any political position didnt want one and nearly everything from leading the Indian National congress as one of its youngest ever president s to becoming eventually the first Prime Minister of independent india mr nader presided over the first Cabinet Meeting both nehru and gandhi were hindus but the third member of the influential trio was a Muslim Mohammed generally one of the legion or was an extremely interesting man educated very anglo file in fact culturally far more on your file than the new the new rule gandhi over his dressed in western clothes had western habits in your discussion and a sausage is in his ham sandwiches. He wasnt particularly strongly Observant Muslim and a man who was hailed. As the ambassador of hindu muslim youth. A lawyer jinnah began his political life within the hindu dominated Indian National congress. Later on he also joined the muslim me a group protecting the Muslim Minority. Both parties were fighting for an independent india which at the time was ginas ultimate goal jinnah in strongly opposed to the idea of a separate muslim nation and indeed he is saying this is british divide and rule they want us to be divided weve got to stand together weve got to fight for our freedom if we dont fight for our freedom to get that we will never be free but he increasingly gets sidelined by a new Younger Generation of leadership among whom particularly there is there is never who is his nemesis handed no who calls for an indian republic is accused by the league of working for domination over the Muslim Minority but are making everyone with britains grip on india weakening nehru and the Indian National congress grew in power nehru wanted a new india to have a strong Central Government run by his party this alarmed general who argued muslim majority regions should govern themselves. It was a losing battle you know realized that given the imbalance in Political Support between the league and the congress the only way the league was ever going to actually come to any significant power was by advocating a separatist plan. Thousands of kilometers away in London Records revealed deeper insights into the fallout between general any room and this is one of the repository of which there are a number in the. At the National Archives private letters jinnah sent to british officials shows a relationship beyond repair at this point is extremely suspicious of the congress and he feels as its purpose it would be prepared to seize power by force that the maven infiltrated the Indian National army. And that he regrets thats the Muslim League hadnt organized in the same way so were talking a serious mistrust at this point yet i think this in the Case Complete breakdown in trust between between the two poles season and the you know its the leadership of those policies new delhi and although the scene looks quite gina and nehru had first come together to fight the british now they were fighting each other disturbances against the Muslim League to reach the light by nine hundred forty six any hope of a united india had evaporated water with god but beneath the surface enmity between muslim and him the breakdown at the top of indian politics was mirrored on the streets as tension spilled over into violence. Chaos erupted in major cities first because of a grim audio post by british an indian probe during the worst drought in the history of calcutta. Road vantec in many places higher pitched battles continued between muslims and window for muslims the fear of being ruled by hindus convinced them they needed their own separate nation. Even jr the man once hailed as the symbol of hindu muslim unity now demanded an independent pakistan. After a sentry a british power in india the empires hand was finally forced. Charged with overseeing the withdrawal was a decorated while officer one who would go down in infamy. Now battered. New delhi airfield and the arrival of the viceroy designate mo batten is a sort of vaguely comic character looking back. Prancing peacock who loved his roads and costumes and love to appear as the viceroy not particularly. A man of some christmas. Of great sort of personal selfworth he was received i think he you know whatever little homework he did was fairly modest and when he got to india i think it was a crash course he started meeting the various leaders had his own likes and dislikes inevitably but very quickly decided that this thing had to be this hot potato had to be dropped as quickly as possible and mr byrd his hands and those of his or those of his masters as his in the english government lauder led him on battle have taken their places on the grounds that it became viceroy of india in march nine hundred forty seven britain had originally planned to leave india more than a year later in june one thousand nine hundred eighty eight but mountbatten wasnt going to wait that long monbiot misheard to accelerated even faster partly because he found his control on the control of the british soldiers over india slipping and so here turner a tribute to august fifteenth one hundred forty seven and with that headlong rush into disaster happened with the british unable and unwilling to prevent some of the horrors that were unfolding before their very eyes horrors unleashed by hastily drawn lines on a map the north west state of punjab was home to hindus sikhs but mostly muslims it was split with one side forming the bulk of pakistan in the northeast of india the state of bengal was cut into the predominantly muslim eastern half made up another part of pakistan separated by nearly two thousand kilometers of indian territory it would eventually become the independent country of bangladesh was a well thought i was ill thought out. When the british had to draw a line they pulled in the Civil Servant who had never been to india before and was sitting in his cultural garden when he was told that he had to fly next week to india and divide the country into. And no one was pleased with the line he drew inevitably. The stage was set for british road again in august one nine hundred forty seven as the flags of india and pakistan were raised ordinary citizens were left in the dark as to what this meant for them. On that day of partition in august that show boundary had been announce a b. With a no whether they were in india or pakistan where they could stay where they lived for centuries where theyd have to move and its only after the people tune into their ideas to hear whether they will now be part of pakistan or india everyone. Suddenly people found themselves on the wrong side of a new border muslims in india are hindus and sikhs in pakistan. There had been ethnic fighting between muslims hindus and sikhs before the partition set off an unimaginable massacre out of the hordes on fires like the blitz the the villages are all burning hayricks are on the platforms to literally wash with blood because hello to hindus waiting on the platform to travel to india to be massacred on another platform was covered in blood because the training just arrived from india full of dead muslims. Total chaos. In the rural areas hideous scenes of pregnant women lying with their bellies ripped open babies literally rested on the beds and journalists in ninety four to seven who had covered the opening of the nazi concentration camp there were two or three journalists who had covered that and then they ended up covering partition and they said that they saw more gruesome things in the punjab punches side than they ever did in the concentration camps muggle born white the photographer writes a graphic description and she says yeah i saw shit but what i saw in the punjab was a million times. At the time the british estimated two hundred thousand died in the violence the consensus today among most historians is that the death toll was at least a million and the british had lost control long before par