Resolutions on the convention against draconian laws

Resolution on serial bomb blasts in bangalore and ahmedabad

This convention against draconian laws organised by Asha Parivar, INSAF, NCDHR, FDI, SAHR APDP (J & K Manipur forward youth front, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee Hyderabad and Reach out Condemns the serial bomb blasts at Bangalore and Ahmedabad.

In any civilised democratic society killing of innocents, women and children, whatever the demands and politics should be condemned. We condemn the barbaric acts of killing, maiming and sexual assaults in all forms of conflicts.

It should be noted that the serial bomb blasts will further vitiate the already communally charged atmosphere of Gujarat.

The country is yet to come over the Shock and Trauma of the Ghastly state sponsored communal carriage in Gujarat in year 2002, which is one of the blackest Spot in Post Independent India.

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July 30, 2008 | Filed Under statements | Leave a Comment 

Trail of violence: rights activists at risk

Opinion - Leader Page Articles
The Hindu
Mukul Sharma

Rights activists face a series of obstacles to their work. Rights violations also have wider repercussions. They create a climate of fear.

The Karnataka convener of the National Alliance for People’s Movement, A.D. Babu, was killed recently. He was on his way, along with two colleagues, to a NAPM meeting on an anti-liquor campaign at Ramnagaram, when a group stopped his vehicle at Mayanagram, a few km from the venue, and attacked him with knives and swords. He died on the spot. It is believed that a Karnataka liquor mafia is behind the gruesome murder.

In May, Lalit Kumar Mehta of Palamau district, Jharkhand, who fearlessly raised the issue of corruption in implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme , was murdered. So was Narayan Hareka — a naib sarpanch belonging to the Kandha tribal community — of Kambivalsa village in Koraput district, Orissa, who fought against liquor brewing, private money-lending, land alienation and corruption.
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July 26, 2008 | Filed Under Press Reports, articles | Leave a Comment 

How the Salwa Judum experiment went wrong: Live Mint

a11d4e2a-4de7-11dd-a550-000b5dabf636 How the Salwa Judum experiment went wrong: Live Mint

Krishnamurthy Ramasubbu
Live Mint, Wall street Journal

Conflict between the militia and Naxalites in the past 3 years has displaced thousands of tribals in Chhattisgarh

Dantewada, Chhattisgarh: It took five days for Gantala Baby and people from the 60 families in her small village in mineral-rich southern Chhattisgarh to cross the Dandakaranya forests and arrive at their destination, Khammam in Andhra Pradesh. Several people died during the 260km trek through unfriendly terrain, and Baby’s son Aadavi Ramudu was born en route.

That was in 2006. Baby, now all of 18, is still struggling to make ends meet at Charla in Khammam. She is among at least 150,000 tribals who have been forced to leave home in Chhattisgarh. Some have moved to Andhra Pradesh. Others live in camps run by the Salwa Judum, a state-backed militia formed around three years ago to fight Maoists (or Naxalites) in the region.

After criticism from several entities, including human rights organizations and India’s top court, the Chhattisgarh government, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) one, is disbanding Salwa Judum, which is translated as peace force by some people and cleansing water by others.

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July 14, 2008 | Filed Under Press Reports | Leave a Comment 

Chhattisgarh anti-terror law to go if Congress returns: Ajit Jogi

Sujeet Kumar, Indo-Asian News Service
Raipur, July 01, 2008

Chhattisgarh’s controversial anti-terror law will be repealed if the Congress is voted to power in the November assembly elections, former chief minister Ajit Jogi says.

“Repeal of the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act (CSPSA) will be the top priority of the Congress government (if it is formed after the polls),” Jogi told IANS in an interview in Raipur.

Mineral-rich Chhattisgarh’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government enacted the CSPSA, which has been likened to the defunct Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (POTA) that was repealed by the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh soon after it assumed office in 2004.

“There is no need for CSPSA as existing laws are more than enough to deal with any given situation,” said the Congress leader, who has been confined to a wheelchair since a horrific car crash in April 2004.

This is the first time any Congress heavyweight in Chhattisgarh has commented on the fate of the CSPSA, which human right groups describe as a “black law”.

Over 40 people have been arrested under the act since it came into force in 2005 and have been charged with Maoist links. The most prominent among those held is physician Binayak Sen, vice president of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).

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July 4, 2008 | Filed Under Press Reports | Leave a Comment 

Criminalising Activism: Tehelka

If you stand with the poor and fight for their rights, be ready to face the consequences — this seems to be the State’s message, writes GLADSON DUNGDUNG

If you stand with the poor, redress their grievances, raise their issues, support their causes and fight for their rights; be ready to face the consequences, because all these come under the purview of crime in democratic country like India. You can be abused, alleged, tortured, booked under the false cases and finally thrown behind the bars at anytime. A noted public health specialist Dr. Binayak Sen, a well known development economist Prof. Jean Dreze and a human rights activist Kirity Roy are paying the prices for their passion, courage and extraordinary work for the poor and marginalized people of Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
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June 21, 2008 | Filed Under Press Reports | Leave a Comment 

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