Passage 1
Prajwal Revanna, JDS MP and joint BJP-JDS candidate in Hassan, has reportedly fled to Germany after multiple video clips depicting sexual assault on women — some government employees — started circulating online and an FIR was registered on a complaint by a former employee. However, in this story of the disgraced MP, what is notable is not the protagonist but the context which empowered and protected him. It is now clear that there was knowledge of his behaviour. Yet not only was no action taken against him, he was made the joint candidate for the BJP-JDS alliance, with the Prime Minister himself campaigning for him.
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Passage 2
A U.N. resolution sponsored by Germany and Rwanda to establish an annual day to commemorate the genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs has sparked protests and a strong lobbying campaign against its adoption by Serbia’s President and the Bosnian Serb leadership.
The U.N. General Assembly has scheduled a debate on the resolution on the morning of May 23 to be followed by a vote in the world body.
The draft asks the United Nations to prepare an outreach programme and invites countries, organisations, civil society and others to observe the day with special observances and activities in memory and honour of the victims as well as “appropriate education and public awareness-raising activities”.
