अगर मेरा आरोप गलत पाया जाए तो मुझे जेल में डाल दिया जाय सलवा जुडूम शुरू होने के बाद नक्सली होने का झूठा इलज़ाम लगा कर बड़ी संख्या में आदिवासी लड़कियों को जगदलपुर और रायपुर की जेलों में ठूंस दिया गया है ! जेल के भीतर से खबर आयी है कि जेल भेजने से पहले ऐसी सभी लड़कियों के साथ पुलिस ने यौन दुर्व्यवहार किया है ! अनेकों लडकियां बारह से चौदह साल की बच्चियां भी हैं ! इनमे से कई बच्चियों के शरीरों पर बिजली से जलाने के निशान हैं ! मैं पूरे होशो हवास में छत्तीसगढ़ सरकार पर ये गंभीर आरोप लगा रहा हूं ! सर्वोच्च न्यायालय मेरे इस आरोप का संज्ञान ले और इस आरोप की सत्यता के लिए स्वतंत्र महिला जांच दल का गठन करे जिसमे देश की जानी मानी पत्रकार , सामाजिक कार्यकर्त्ता , वकील व महिला डाक्टरों को शामिल करे !जो जेल में जाकर इन महिला कैदियों से मिले ! और अगर मेरा आरोप गलत पाया जाए तो मुझे जेल में डाल दिया जाय !- हिमाँशु कुमार
On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 6:08:41 PM UTC+5:30, AYUSH Adivasi Yuva Shakti wrote: > > Urgent Call Alert: Dantewada villagers being forcibly stopped from > protesting against extra-judicial killing by police > <http://www.indiaresists.com/urgent-call-alert-dantewada-villagers-being-forcibly-stopped-from-protesting-against-extra-judicial-killing-by-police/> > January 17, 2015 4:24 pm > - See more at: > http://www.indiaresists.com/urgent-call-alert-dantewada-villagers-being-forcibly-stopped-from-protesting-against-extra-judicial-killing-by-police/#sthash.CG54ZTIR.dpuf > > By *Updates from Bastar*, > > Many of you are already aware that there has been an incident of > extra-judicial killing by the security forces in Village Rewali Tadpara, > district Dantewada. A contingent of security forces entered the village on > the morning of 6.1.2015, roughed up some women, looted some hens and eggs > etc., and a little while later, they shot dead a villager, Nupo Bhima, who > was bathing in the river. While the police has registered an FIR claiming > that Nupo Bhima was killed by Naxalites, the villagers including Bhima’s > wife, Nupo Budhri, the sole eye-witness to the killing, are claiming that > it was security forces who killed the unarmed Bhima in an act of unprovoked > assault. > > [image: JagLAG] > <http://www.indiaresists.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/JagLAG.jpg> > > Their dissent has been covered in the media as well. (See > http://epaper.patrika.com/c/4268251, > http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/villagers-accuse-police-of-killing-tribal/article6795543.ece?ref=tpnews > ) > > Yesterday, thousands of villagers from 20 gram panchayats close to Rewali, > led by Soni Sori and local panchayat leaders, came out for a foot march to > Dantewada to protest this killing and press for action. Some photos are > attached. The marchers include many women, small children and older > residents, carrying their provisions for an extended stay. Yesterday, the > police harassed them at multiple checkpoints on the pretext of “searching” > men for weapons, threatened others with arrest in imaginary cases, and held > up the march for hours, but the villagers pressed ahead. There was a > complete media blackout and the only piece that appears in the papers today > is how there was a “rumor” of a march and that a heavy police deployment > has successfully foiled all attempts of the marchers. See > http://epaper.bhaskar.com/detail/?id=709817&boxid=116232750187&ch=mpcg&map=map¤tTab=tabs-1&pagedate=01/17/2015&editioncode=357&pageno=1&view=image > > The truth is that there are thousands of people out there even today, as > evident in the attached photos, who are refusing to go back to their > villages. Last night, people camped out in the open close to Palnar > village, braving bitterly cold night temperatures. Today, the police are > out in large numbers and are not allowing them to proceed to Dantewada to > meet the SP or Collector. The SP and Collector are also refusing to come > down to meet with the villagers. The police are now threatening villagers > with lathicharge and are waiting for them in their battle gear. The > situation is very tense. > > *Please call Collector of Dantewada, Mr. Dev Senapati at 07587700111 and > demand that he allows the villagers to peacefully travel to Dantewada to > meet with him.* > > Demands from the Collector – > > 1. Inquiry by a Judicial Magistrate – The Collector must immediately > send official notification to the District Judge of Dantewada that this is > a case of custodial death, and an independent inquiry by a Judicial > Magistrate must be instituted immediately as mandated under section > 176(1A) > of Criminal Procedure Code. > 2. Compensation to the widow: Announce an immediate cash compensation > of Rs. 15 lakhs for the widow Nupo Budhri, a house for the family and take > full responsibility of the education of her 5 children > 3. Compensate people who have been beaten up and looted by forces. > > *Please call Superintendent of Police of Dantewada, Kamlochan Kashyap at > 09479194300, 09425254388 and ask him to allow the villagers to peacefully > travel to Dantewada and meet with him.* > > *Demands from the SP:-* > > 1. Register a new FIR against security forces on the basis of the > testimonies given by the villagers and take prompt action against > responsible officials. > 2. In view of the attempts by local police to cover-up the killing, > the SP must take the investigation away from the local police and make a > recommendation to the state government for an SIT or a CBI inquiry into > the > matter. > 3. Police must immediately release information of which security > forces were traveling in the area on 6.1.2015, and the details of the > ammunition spent by them. > 4. The body of the deceased should be immediately exhumed, and a fresh > post mortem conducted in the presence of representatives of the victim’s > family, with a complete videotaping of the entire procedure. > > - See more at: > http://www.indiaresists.com/urgent-call-alert-dantewada-villagers-being-forcibly-stopped-from-protesting-against-extra-judicial-killing-by-police/#sthash.CG54ZTIR.dpuf > > > > On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 9:53:02 PM UTC+5:30, AYUSH - adivasi yuva > shakti wrote: > > > > *AYUSH** experience* > > This mail is sent to you to share experience > As we are working/staying at different location our individual experience > may helpful to each other. So we will be sharing our individual > experiences, it may help other peoples to learn good things. If you wish > you can send your experience which is useful to others > > माना महित आहे सगल्यन्चे वेग वेगलि परिस्थिति रेहेते, वेगवेगल अनुभव रेहेत, पन > जर अपले केलेल्य जुन्या चुका आपल्य नविन पोरा हि परत नाय कराया पहजत तय जर > तुह्यान तुझा अनुभव सन्गलास त फार बेस होल > > *Text of Himanshu Kumar’s speech (March 2010, Kolkata) on experiences in > Dantewada <http://sanhati.com/excerpted/2273/>* > > *April 18, 2010* > > *On March 9 2010, activist Himanshu Kumar gave a talk in Kolkata at a > public meeting organised by Ekhon Bisanbad, speaking about his experiences > in Dantewada over 18 years, and about the ongoing “Operation Green Hunt” > being conducted to ostensibly root out left wing extremists. The following > is his speech, transcribed and edited by Sanhati members Ishita Das and > Suvarup Saha.* > > Hi , I am Himanshu. I have been living in Dantewada since the past 18 > years. For the last 3 months I have been out of Dantewada. > > I went there with my wife in 1992. When we got our independence, Gandhiji > had said that if we really want an India to progress in the future, > considering that in a democracy the powerful lobbies can control all > resources and prosperity, we need to foster growth in every village, for > only then can there be an equal distribution of wealth or resources. Our > youth should go and live in villages and help achieve that development, or > else this nation will end up being ruled by hooligans. > > My wife and I went to Dantewada trying to follow his guideline. My father > had worked with Gandhiji before, he had set fire to the station in > Muzzaffarpur (which is where we are from) in 1942 and absconded. He had > then corresponded with Gandhiji and who invited him over to Sevagram, where > he lived till 1946. He had also participated in the Bhoo Daan movement led > by Vinobha Bhave. So working for the true development of the country runs > in the family. That was inspiration enough for us to go and live with the > adivasis. > > What we found there, talking to the adivasis, bewildered us. The adivasis > were in dire straits. They didn’t know what country it was that they were a > part of. Didn’t know its name or of its existence. It looked to us that the > British occupation had never reached them, they had continued to live in > their own world right through the period of colonization of our country. > Then we had got our independence, set up our government and unilaterally > declared that the adivasis were now Indians to be governed by people who > were as ignorant about them as the adivasis were about the government. > > The only way our government actually reached them, was as police. To take > away their land. I remember now, there is a village called Dhulli, where > Essar wants to install a steel plant. We have a law in the Bakhtar area, > which is a scheduled area, where in case there is any work to be done by > outsiders to the village - you need to occupy a piece of land or anything - > the adivasi gram-sabha makes the decision. But the gram-sabha turned out to > be CRPF patrolling in front of every house. Villagers couldn’t even go to > bring water for their children. If they ventured out, they were caught by > their necks and brought to the school in the center of the village. This > was overseen by a collector, SP and the MLA from Congress Mr. Mahendra > Karma. The adivasis were expected to come through one door, leave their > thumb print on a paper that dispossesses them of their own land and exit > through another. > > Now, if I were an adivasi and was in the same situation, it would seem to > me that the only reasons for losing my land and my resources were because > the “government” agents were not on my side and that they had guns. So the > only way to oppose them and save my resources, would be to have guns of my > own. > > If we had brought the constitution to the adivasis and taught them to > respect the law, in a lawful manner, they could have respected them both. > But they weren’t taught that, they were taught the power of the guns. > > When my wife and I were in there, we saw that the ration shops had no > rations, there were no teachers in the schools and no transportation. We > started to interact with the ladies of the village to tell them that the > constitution provides for all of that for them. But if they asked for any > of that, they were Naxalites. If we wanted progress, even then we were > called Naxalites. > > When the Chattisgarh state was formed, the government wanted to use the > land for mining and they got many MoUs. Then as an afterthought they > remembered there were many Naxalites in the area. One of my friends had > gone to a CII meeting. The businessman there were saying that while we have > a license to do work, the Naxalites are not letting us progress. > > An MoU was signed between the government and a very big iron company. > Within a day they started Salwa Judum. In Salwa Judum the government said > that the villagers were supporting the Naxalites. The adivasis were told to > leave their homes and live in the camps around the police station, in order > to cure the evil of Naxalites. These adivasis are not used to living in > confinement, they live in the open forests. > > Many government officials would go to them, carrying guns, to persuade > people to leave. People who didn’t want to go to the camps were coerced > using guns. Guns were given to a gang of hooligans who would fire at > fleeing adivasis. Many girls were raped. Little children were killed. > People who ran away were labeled Naxalites. Their homes were burned . The > poor adivasis tried to come back and rebuild their houses but they were > burned again and again. > > When that happened we went against the government. Our ashram was promptly > demolished. Our workers were arrested. Seven hundred villages were burnt, > about three- four lakh population. 50,000 were taken to the camp, 50000 > fled to AP and Orissa or Maharashtra, 3 lakhs fled to the forest where they > are still under attack. Our representative, Nandini Sundar went to the > Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ordered the government to rebuild all the > villages. Not a single village was rehabilitated by the government. The > Supreme Court ordered the government to give compensation to the adivasis, > not a single adivasi has received any compensation. > > Finally the SC asked NHRC to send a team to Dantewada. This team had a > hundred policemen. There is a village called Nendra which had been burned > four times. The adivasis from there went to give affidavits to the NHRC, > there were four girls missing from that village and ten people had been > killed. When these adivasis were trying to go back, they were held up in a > Salwa Judum camp for a whole day. They were beaten all day and forced to > place their thumbprints on papers stating that they had been forced to give > the affidavits, and that they had nothing to say against Salwa judum. The > village was burnt yet again four days later. > > We told the NHRC team about the atrocities the adivasis were facing, > because they had dared to come give their affidavits against Salwa Judum; > they refused to be of any help, saying that their job here was only to take > the affidavits. > > When I saw the state of the burned down village, I felt their deep sorrow > and that became my empowerment. It is true that we are Gandhivadis, who are > non-violent by nature. But I thought that attachment to that tenet was not > as important as rebuilding the hopes and lives of villages full of innocent > people, who are also citizens of this democratic country, but are not being > treated as such. I decided that we will help rebuild their village. If the > government says that anyone who is not with Salwa Judum is a Naxalite then > that is fine. > > Then we started living in Nendra. When we addressed the villagers in a > gathering, telling them that we were going to live there and do whatever we > could to help them re-establish their homes, one villager in the gathering > got up and said that they could rebuild their homes themselves, the only > thing they asked from us was to make sure that once they did start living > in those homes and farming, no one would come and kill them. To an open > letter to the Chief Minister I wrote that even now, the only thing these > adivasis want from us, is to spare their lives. Nothing more. When asked if > there was anything more we could do, one old man got up and said my > daughter was kidnapped two yrs ago by Salwa Judum and the police, she is > still being held in the houses of one of the leaders of Salwa Judum, can I > bring her back home? > > In the same letter to the CM, I asked, is his heart or mind also not bound > to our great Nation as our anthem says it is for all Indians? *Jana Gana > Mana Adhinayak Jaya he*? Are all these people in their tattered clothes > and burned homes not one of “We, the people of India”? > > Our number one priority was to bring back the daughter of the old man. > What scared me was she was taken not by the dacoits, but government > officials on government duty. For a minute I thought, can my daughter also > be taken forcefully by law officials? But then the constitution of India > gave me some consolation, as I knew and understood the constitution and my > rights and its power, perhaps no one could take my daughter in the same > way. Since the officials know that the adivasis don’t know the law, they do > as they please with no respect for humanity or people’s lives. > > While two girls had been killed with no trace of their bodies, two girls > were still alive in the Salwa Judum camp. We were able to bring the girls > back to the village, back to her father. The next day a tree trunk lay on > the road, blocking the way into the village. When we saw that we went > around asking why, the villagers had uncharacteristically resorted to > something symbolically linked to Naxalites. It turns out that one of the > girl’s father had cut the tree to prevent the police to come back to the > village and take her again. > > A lot of these mis-happenings there are linked to innocuous reasons. Kopa > Kunjam is our associate from the adivasi groups who has helped rebuild > thirty villages, like Nendra. He is a young adivasi who is not with the > Salwa Julum or in the other camp. He is absolutely neutral. He works for > the adivasis. > > Then one day we were sitting in a village, a young girl came towards us, > hiding something from us. When we asked her what it was, she showed us a > wooden pistol. She was carrying it to scare the Salwa Judum’s SPOs police > officers when they attacked her. Girls that carry wooden pistols to > preserve their virtue are being called Naxalites by the government, which > is actually supposed to be protecting them. > > I met Mr. Gopal Pillai, griha sachiv. He gave me his mobile number and > told me to call him whenever there was an indication of a problem caused by > the police officers. Four adivasi girls had been gang–raped by the > officials of Salwa Judum. We tried to file a report in the police station, > but of course how can they take a complaint against their own people. Even > the SP refused to take down an FIR. After a lot of dilly-dallying by the > courts in accepting the complaints of the girls, official warrants were > taken out against responsible police officers or Salwa Judum leaders. But > the official report said that the police officers were absconding and there > was no way of ever catching them. This, when the very same officials hold > meetings along with the aforementioned SP, trying to instigate the > villagers against me. > > December 19th, 2009, the incriminated officials went to the village and > forced the four victims to give their thumb impressions on papers. As soon > as we came to know of that incident, I SMSed the Home Minister Mr. P > Chidambaram and the Chief Secretary to tell them that these girls were rape > victims with ongoing court cases against the officers who are apparently > absconding, but were clearly able to force their victims and complainants > in the village to get their thumb impressions, without being seen or caught > by the police. Next day, the same girls were taken to jail and imprisoned > for four days. One of them was not even allowed to wear her saree. None of > them were fed. They were forced to leave thumb impressions on many more > documents. On the fifth day they were left (or rather tossed) in the > village with the threat that if they were to ever meet me again their > village would be burned down. > > On Dec 25th, some of us went to the village and I SMSed the same people > about what had transpired. No official steps were taken. I got only one > reply from the Chief Secretary of Chhattisgarh, saying, “We have verified. > Stop this ugly motivated campaign against the state.” > > Just two days ago, Gopal Pillai has said that the Naxalites want to take > over the Indian government by 2050, to that my response is, had I been the > father of those girls, I couldn’t wait till then, I would want my right to > justice today. (applause) > > The government, the democracy that can’t protect my daughter’s from > getting repeatedly humiliated and punished for no fault of theirs, I would > not want any part in that democracy. For me, a democratic India has no > meaning, if there isn’t a democratic Dantewada. > > There is religion and there is blasphemy and then there is false-religion. > False religion is worse than blasphemy. If the government says that it is > trying to salvage democracy by acting in this way, I want to know why > “democracy” doesn’t exist for the adivasis. When we were there in the > villages, all we wanted was democracy. Universal respect for the law. > > What these adiviasis got was discrimination by the law, which allowed the > Tatas to build a plant there, with no regard to their welfare. I talked to > the DCP there, you want the end of Naxalism here, but you saw that because > of the plant there people are forced to give their land away. People are > being cheated off their land or simply coerced to give it up. You are here > to hold up law, you should be telling the CM to follow the law in the > transfer of property. Or else you would arrest him. The day the police > raise their guns for the poor and the victimized, there will be no need for > Naxalism. > > Mr. Chidambaram told me that he doesn’t want to talk to the Naxalites. I > said fine, talk to the people of the villages. For the past fifteen years, > no one has come to Dantewada. No one has heard about the crimes being > committed there, that the poor villager has no defense against. While he > tried to relegate the responsibility to the state government, I reminded > him of the atrocities committed against the numerous girls and the innocent > lives being taken. The fact that the Chief Minister had accepted bribes of > four thousand crores and forgetting his real job, started to overlook all > the crimes of the industrialists. Under the assault of his corrupt > government, villagers were being cheated out of their lives and livelihood. > Unrest of such a high order in any part of the country would affect the > whole country and would soon become directly his problem. He said that he > would come. But then he signaled Raman Singh and all our associates started > getting arrested and the victims who could have told their stories were all > picked up. I was surrounded by the police all the time. I wanted to go > around the villages informing them of the upcoming visit from the home > minister, who they could tell their problems to. To prevent us from doing > just that, trees were cut and roads were blocked. The collector forbade me, > in writing, from leading any kind of peaceful procession or “shanti-poorna > padayatra”. > > Today, no acitivist can go to any tribal village. No reporter can go to > any such village. Why? What are you doing in those villages that needs to > be hidden away? This has happened many times in history. We all know of the > old tales when the gods defeated the dark devils, originally living in this > land. The dark devils described seem a lot like the adivasis of today, who > are in danger of being robbed off their land. In this day we need minerals > for progress and wherever the adivasis live there are minerals. So now the > adivasis are the enemies of progress. Just like killing Muslims is > justified by calling them traitors, we find excuses to condone the > atrocities committed against the adivasis. The only way we know of solving > a problem is to kill the enemy. Though all over history we have seen that > killing anything has never solved the problem or ended anything. Modi > thought that the Muslims were an enemy for all Hindus and decided to commit > genocide against all Muslims. Which didn’t really solve the problem but > actually increased communalism. Mr. Chidambaram now thinks that all the > adivasis are Naxalites and they should also be killed. > > When the first five–year plan was made, the planners said that we can > forget about 20% of the people. We can’t provide them with food, clothes or > homes or education. In the 90s, the figure rose to 40% who don’t benefit > from the economic development, if there is any. Now the figure has risen to > 60%. > > My question is, when the figure rises to 80%, what are we going to do with > all those people? Are we going to kill them all too? We will just let them > die, out of hunger and deprivation. In the fight of 20% rich and the 80% > poor, the poor are likely to lose. Gandhiji had forecasted that this type > of economic planning could only lead to conflict. In our time, the biggest > problem is because of social conflict. As the fight for resources gets more > skewed, more problems and insecurity will arise. Insecurity for the rich is > because of the poor, they think that they will be killed by the poor. > > Today the main fight is for the minerals under the ground. Who do these > minerals belong to? Do they not belong to the next generation as well? Why > do we need to take them all out now? Because that is what is being done to > a certain extent. As an example, there is a company that mines iron, which > is imported to Japan at the cost of four hundred rupees per ton, whereas an > Indian industrialist would have to buy it for six thousand rupees per ton. > Japan, is running out of space to store things and is dumping a lot of it > into the ocean. If we don’t estimate how much mining, for how many people > at what cost, correctly, there is bound to be conflict. Inequality always > gives rise to conflict, it is not just the Naxalites that create violence. > It is something we call structural conflict. > > For us, everything is good, we eat twice a day, our children go to school. > We are respected. All’s well with the world. Then where is the problem? > When we think about it, really think about it, all the natural resources of > this planet, sunlight, water, should be equally distributed among everyone. > But in reality that doesn’t happen. We create our superiority by instilling > the feeling of inferiority in others. What started with the caste system > thousands of years ago, ostracizing all the people of low caste from > respectable society is now being carried on by status due to education or > which side of town you were born in. The higher castes and the educated or > rich claim more than their fair share of all resources, leaving very little > for the poor. All these ways of keeping the disparity alive make sense to > us - the beneficiaries of the skewed distribution of resources. We want it > to stay that way so that we keep getting our meals without having to work > in the fields. After all, we are good, civilized people and “they” are low > caste people who don’t work hard enough. > > But for the poor man, who lives in Lalgarh or Beriyaghat, this is > violence. He works all day and yet doesn’t have enough to eat, while you > have never been in a field. His houses are being burned down, his wife is > being raped, so that the disparity stays as it is. The government and the > police work for the rich to maintain this structural violence, which is > deeply rooted in the Vedic system and the value system. > > But one day this will all be challenged and this value system will get > broken. As Gandhiji had said that if the poor don’t revolt, we should tell > them to stop accepting this inhumane treatment and declare war against it. > If they don’t then they will get decimated because the twenty percent > minority is all set, armed with the media, the police and the army to kill > the rest of the eighty percent just to maintain status quo. However, they > find ways to camouflage it by stating that all the adivasis are causing > unrest. They are beheading government police officers in their villages. > > ... -- Interested Candidates for Tribal Entrepreneusrhip Training Program submit form at :www.event.adiyuva.in (share with your friends) Learn More about AYUSH online at : http://www.adiyuva.in/2013/10/ayush.html --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AYUSH | adivasi yuva shakti" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adiyuva+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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