>X-Confirm-Reading-To: "MR JAVIER BERNAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG >Subject: Militant Protest against Clinton Visit > > > > >>From India News Network(INN) > > > > > Militant Protest against Clinton Visit > > > > > >New Delhi, March 21: Hundreds of women and men defying the >blockade set up all over the city under the Home >Minister’s instructions marched in a militant >demonstration against the Clinton yatra. Organised by the >Committee Against US Imperialism comprising of the four Left >Parties the CPI(M), CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc, the >procession started from Mandi House at noon. Earlier tempos >and vans of the demonstrators had been stopped in different >places the police but the workers managed to reach the place. >There was a huge bigger than life size effigy of Clinton followed >by numerous banners. Some of them read "Clinton hands off >the India sub-Continent," " Clinton Go Back India is not >for sale", "Clinton-Killer of hundreds of Iraqi Children Go >Back", "Clinton – India says not to CTBT", >"Clinton India Says no to US Hegemony". Shouting slogans >the procession marched through Barakhamba road. In the lead >were CPI(M) Polit Bureau members Prakash Karat, S. R. Pillai, >Dr. M.K Pandhe, CPI central executive member Atul Anjan, >RSP leader Abani Roy, Forward Bloc leader Devrajan, leaders >of mass organisations including Brinda Karat(AIDWA) P K >Ganguly (CITU0 N K Shukla (Kisan Sabha) JNU students union >president Siddheswar Shukla, CPI(M) MPs Suresh Kurup, >Sarla Maheshwari, Sunil Khan, Swadesh Chakravarty and Delhi >CPI(M) secretary Pushipinder Grewal and Jogendra Sharma, >CPI(M), central committee member. > > > >The procession marched through Tolstoy Marg to Kasturba >Gandhi Marg towards the American Centre. The police had put >up barricades. The leaders informed the police that the >procession would go peacefully to the centre and a meeting >would be held, but without any warning the police started water >cannoning the processionists. In the first assault several people >were injured including the SFI president Siddheswar whose eye >was damaged as well as Kusuma Devi who was thrown back >with the force of the water. However the processionists refused >to disperse, the police water canoed them seven times and >later lathicharged the processionists. However there was a >regrouping and a meeting was held addressed by the leaders >of the four parties. Prakash Karat speaking on behalf of the >CPI(M) reflected the mood of the demonstration and indeed that >of the majority of the Indian people when he said that India >would not tolerate being dictated to by Clinton the killer of >human rights in Iraq, in Cuba, in Yugoslavia and in numerous >third world countries. He said it was a shame that the >government of India was appealing to the country responsible >for global terrorism to declare Pakistan a terrorist state. He said >this was an invitation for US intervention which India opposed. >He demanded that the Vajpayee government demand the >removal of all sanctions, and stop giving concessions to US >multinational companies. He warned the government that the >India people would not accept any surrender to US pressure. >Others who spoke were Atul Anjan, Abani Roy and Devrajan. >The demonstrators defied Sec. 144 and were arrested. > >eom > > > >-------------------------------------- >La Historia es nuestra >y la hacen los pueblos. > > Salvador Allende > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >______________________________________________________________________ >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
