Accountability for mass violence : examining the state's record

This detailed study aims to map, understand and evaluate how effectively the State in free India has secured justice for victims of mass violence. It focuses on the access of victims to protection, justice and reparation after communal violence. By excavating the State’s own records on documented events of mass violence, the report confirms that the State has largely failed to prosecute perpetrators, to account for its own failures, to compensate victims, and to inform citizens. While immediate relief and monetary compensation is not sufficient, it is necessary, and measures in this regard demand close scrutiny

An SU(3) model for octet baryon and meson fragmentation

The production of the octet of baryons and mesons in e^+ e^- collisions is analysed, based on considerations of SU(3) symmetry and a simple model for SU(3) symmetry breaking in fragmentation functions. All fragmentation functions, D_q^h(x, Q^2), describing the fragmentation of quarks into a member of the baryon octet (and similarly for fragmentation into members of the meson octet) are expressed in terms of three SU(3) symmetric functions, \alpha(x, Q^2), \beta(x, Q^2), and \gamma(x, Q^2). With the introduction of an SU(3) breaking parameter, \lambda, the model is successful in describing hadroproduction data at the Z pole. The fragmentation functions are then evolved using leading order evolution equations and good fits to currently available data at 34 GeV and at 161 GeV are obtained.Comment: 24 pages LaTeX file including 11 postscript figure file