TV--INDIAN channels particularly -is total waste of time and a( mostly)
mental health hazard.
We should ban these forever.
mm
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007
> 10:17:32 -0500> Subject: [Assam] CNN-IBN- NDTV news report on Assam - 27th
> Nov'2007> > > NDTV video news report on todays Assam bandh->
> http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/videopod/default.aspx?id=19977> > also
> read this , Assam govt gags TV channels for showing torture--> >
> http://www.ibnlive.com/news/assam-gags-tv-channels-for-showing-tribal-torture/53130-3.html>
> > > great to have web TV access these days for folks like us living far away
> from home !> > > > > > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:21:34 -0800From: [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Assam] Mob strips woman protester in
> Guwahati - Times of India> Shame on Beltola residents who let it go to this
> extent!> > Read the report from the Telegraph and see for yourself who have
> taken over the streets of Guwahati, in this case the street vendors. Does
> that hold true for all of Guwahati? I hope that is not the case in Uzanbazar
> where I grew up.> I suspect this is how the sequence/chronology went:> The
> front line of the processionists got violent, damaged property all along and
> ran.> The business owners and their employees started revenge on the next
> batch of processionists that consisted of the non-violent weaker members
> including this woman.> The local residents and reinforcement of security
> forces got into action and controlled the street mob to bring an end to the
> fury.> > Unfortunately I felt many years ago this is how Guwahati will turn
> out to be due to uncontrolled growth. What can I say?> Dilip Deka>
> ===================================================> > > > > > FROM THE
> TELEGRAPH> Shame on Guwahati streets> > A STAFF REPORTER> > > > > > >
> Guwahati, Nov. 26: A young Adivasi woman ran down a Guwahati street naked,
> stripped by ethnic rioters, while leering city youths clicked away with their
> cellphone cameras.> As television today brought to Assam homes one more scene
> of Saturday’s street horror — when hundreds of tribals were attacked over a
> 3.5km stretch of the city — police arrested the woman’s three tormentors.>
> “The three had pounced on her like a pack of dogs and started stripping her.
> All her pleas fell on deaf ears till they had stripped her naked. Only then
> did they let her go,” said a police officer quoting eyewitnesses to the mob
> retaliation to a violent Adivasi students’ march.> The woman sprinted away
> from a large group of jeering men and ran on in panic till somebody threw her
> a piece of clothing.> The sight left homemaker Ananya Baruah dumbfounded on
> her second-floor balcony at Beltola, the epicentre from where the rioting
> spilled over several localities.> “She was running like mad. Some people were
> clicking pictures with their cellphones. It was one of the worst crimes any
> civilised society could have committed. I felt so helpless just watching. The
> girl disappeared into one of the by-lanes.”> The victim was probably a
> participant in the armed Adivasi procession in demand of Scheduled Tribe
> status that had turned violent and damaged private and public property,
> including cars.> As the police began dispersing the tribals, angry local mobs
> chased down the stragglers among them. Adivasi men, women and children were
> dragged across streets and mercilessly beaten up with the police refusing to
> intervene. The violence left some 300 injured and a 12-year-old boy dead. >
> The ethnic conflict claimed a second life this morning. Santosh Kumar, 17,
> was dragged out of a vehicle on a highway for “defying” an Adivasi-enforced
> bandh that was yet to begin, and hacked to death.> Chief minister Tarun Gogoi
> announced the arrests of the trio who had stripped the woman and offered the
> victim Rs 1 lakh in compensation. Prasenjit Chakravarty, Sandip Chakdar and
> Ratul Barman were nabbed on the basis of video footage and eyewitness
> accounts.> Ratul, a waiter at Mahalaxmi Hotel in Beltola, is barely 18. The
> main accused is Prasenjit, 28, owner of Dainty Fast Food restaurant in the
> same locality. Sandip, 20, owns a paan shop near the hotel where Ratul
> works.> The charges against them range from outraging a woman’s modesty to
> attempt to murder. > Gogoi announced a judicial probe into the violence by
> the All Adivasi Students’ Association of Assam as well as the mob backlash.
> The state government has announced a compensation of Rs 3 lakh for the
> families of the dead.Ram Dhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > infact it did
> happen ..Please note - you may find this video content very very
> disturbing.Really shocked to see this happening in our Gauhati. CNN-IBN
> video-
> http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/53043/guwahati-residents-strip-beat-up-women-protestors.html>
> > > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:10:55 -0600From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]: [Assam] Mob strips woman protester in Guwahati - Times of India>
> This news, IF TRUE, is a darn shame, and if it is NOT, then we should all
> join hand in vehemently protesting to the TOI, and demand that the publish
> clarifications prominently and apologize to Assam & her people. > > > >
> --Ram> > > > Mob strips woman protester in Guwahati27 Nov 2007, 0001 hrs IST
> ,TNNSMS NEWS to 58888 for latest updates > > > > > > GUWAHATI: Like in most
> bandhs and protests, poor adivasi workers from the once lush tea gardens of
> Assam did dent business and damage some property as they marched through
> Guwahati to demand inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes list which will help
> them get easier access to education and jobs. But it was one adivasi woman
> who bore the brunt of the anger of local residents. She was attacked, her
> clothes were ripped off and a mob chased the naked woman along the streets.
> Ducking from prying eyes and TV cameras and terrified by screams of a mob
> chasing her, the woman ran until some other residents rescued her on Saturday
> and gave her clothes and cover both from the lathi-wielding police and the
> assailants. Two days later, after the protests spiralled as news of the
> attack on the woman got out, Assam's CM Tarun Gogoi said he was enraged by
> the crowd behaviour and police said three of the assailants had been
> arrested. He announced a Rs 1 lakh compensation for the woman, whose identity
> was not disclosed. "I am horrified by the incident. I cannot believe how
> people can be so inhuman and barbaric. Everybody seems to have lost their
> sense," said Gogoi on Monday. The CM also announced a judicial inquiry into
> Saturday's violence. Police said three men were picked up from their houses
> early Monday. They were identified as Prasenjit Chakravorty (28), owner of a
> fast food joint, Ratul Barman (18), a hotel waiter, and Sudip Chakdar (20), a
> pan shop owner. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief Sibu Soren, who has pitched in
> for Assam's adivasi migrants, said the incident demonstrated the racial
> hatred for tribals. "I have also led many agitations, but never had we
> targeted women. Adivasis across the country are always looked down upon and
> do not get the respect they deserve from people and the government as a
> whole," Soren said on Monday after visiting injured protesters. Former
> Jharkhand CM Babulal Marandi also waded in as the bandh took a tribal vs
> non-tribal hue. He flew into Guwahati Monday afternoon and went straight for
> a press conference with the main opposition party Assam Gana Parishad (AGP).
> "This is a conspiracy hatched by Congress government," he charged. Although
> Guwahati remained largely peaceful in the last phase of the 36-hour protest
> that began on Saturday, the stripping incident gave it a new impetus in many
> areas where the sponsors, the All Adivasi Students' Association of Assam, had
> clout. Sporadic violence was reported and bandh supporters attacked one
> vehicle at Karigaon in Kokrajhar district, killing one person and injuring
> two others. So far, at least six people have been killed in clashes between
> adivasi activists and local people. About 250 people have been injured in
> police action or clashes. > > Share life as it happens with the new Windows
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