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A State must protect the lives and rights of its citizens. However, at times its own actions are a source of violence against some of-its citizens. Comment with the help of some examples.



Answer -

  1. Human beings created state for one’s own protection of honour and property.
  2. State maintains law and order.
  3. State protects the rights of its citizens by providing them a constitution, laws, police, judiciary and armed forces.
  4. State make efforts to end any type of violence created by social injustice and inequality based discrimination’s like untouchability, etc.
  5. A state should avoid those actions which may be a source of violence against some particular groups.
Some examples are:

  1. In 1984, a huge massacre of nearly 4,000 Sikhs took place in Delhi and the government could do nothing and even today, the victims feel that the guilty were not punished.
  2. Khalistan movement also forced Hindus to leave Punjab, Haryana and Delhi and Sikhs were forced to move to punjab and Hindu Kashmiri Pandits. Sikhs were also forced to leave Kashmir Valley. And they could not return their home.
  3. Several Hindus and Muslims were massacred in Gujarat in 2002 and still today these members could not go back to the villages in which they lived.
  4. During the communist rule in USSR, peoples faced violence not to like the authoritarian policies of state.

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