Mr Laskar,
It is good to note that you have overcome your bias and blamed only a section
of the local people why not go one step further in removing the bias and blame
the very people - the few hundred (??) out of the millions of Assamese
residents.
Umesh
umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That makes more sense.
Umesh
Waliulllah Ahmed Laskar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Group Members,
The Statement posted by me in this group regarding Violence in
Guwahati street on 24th November, 2007 on behalf of the Barak Human
Rights Protection Committee, in the capacity of Special
Representative of the organisation to the city, contained a sentence
to which our many friends in the group raised onjections. The
sentence was as follows:
"These speak a volume of the attitude of Assamese people towards the
tribals which also can explain the barbarity committed against the
Adibasis."
Here a mistake has been committed by me inadvertently in the
construction of the sentence. The sentence rather should be as
follows:
"These speak a volume of the attitude of some of the Assamese people
towards the tribals which also can explain the barbarity committed
against the Adibasis."
I sincerely regret this mistake and apologize to all the persons who
have gone through this statement.
Yours
With Sincere Regret
Waliullah Ahmed Laskar
Special Representative to Guwahati
Barak Human Rights Protection Committee,
15, Darandha, Panjabari Road, Guwahati-781037.
Re: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/3894
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/3879
--- "Waliulllah Ahmed Laskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Humanity Was Raped in Guwahati on 24th November, 2007
More than 20 people were killed, 3 women raped, one girl stripped off in the
highway and paraded, about 300 thousand injured of whom the condition of 10 is
critical and 45 persons simply disappeared when the demonstrators belonging to
Adibasi, as some tribal communities--mainly Kul, Santal, Munda--who work in tea
gardens are known here, were marching towards the state secretariat in Dispur,
Guwahati on the fateful day of 24th November as a part of their programme
formulated to push for the age-long demand of including the communities in the
list of scheduled castes.In the course of the march while police stopped them
before they reached the Last Gate of the MLA Hostel some of the demonstrators
turned violent and destroyed properties such as shops, vehicles etc. and
injured some pedestrians. Some local residents came out to retaliate the
violence, to take revenge and to teach the tribals a lesson. In the process
they got wild and savage so much so that they lost every
sense of humanity and unleashed the brute within them. The beast killed many
innocent persons, kicked the dead bodies with diabolic enjoyment, stripped many
women off all cloths, raped them and it raped the humanity. We saw in Guwahati
the wild dance of the beast.
Circumstances cry to yet another most diabolic fact that during the period of
4 to 5 hours of this wild dance of the beast in the political and
administrative power center of the state no worth mention state presence was
there. The beast danced with the tacit leave of the state. The state allowed
the beast to finish its horrendous ritual by making it self absent. It is
nothing but the naked parade of electoral politics in its worst.
The officials of the organisation which co-ordinated the programme told that
they did not have any intention to create a violent situation. They regretted
the fact of committing violence by some of their members.
The facts which indicate clearly towards direct and indirect abetment of the
government are:
1. When the tribal groups sought permission for a meeting and a demonstration
they were denied.
2. When they held the meeting and demonstration there was no adequate
arrangement of security forces.
3. After the mayhem started no forces sent to control the situation.
4. Government is trying desperately to show down the incident reducing the
number of casualties in its statement,perhaps in order to save the perpetrators
from the law.
5. The authorities of the medical college hospital where most of the injured
were admitted released many of them without proper treatment to show down the
enormity of the mayhem, perhaps in order to save the perpetrators from the law.
6. At first just an inquiry by an additional chief secretary was ordered and
later a judicial inquiry overlooking callously the demands of CBI probe.
7. More cases registered against the demonstrators that against the local
residents.
8. No case was registered regarding rape cases.
There some other more painful facts indicative of the callousness of the
so-called civil society which include the attitude of the media in covering the
incident. Most of the local media presented the story in such a way as if they
are justifying, or at least making an excuse of, the brutality meted out to the
demonstrators by making tacit statement of who-started-it-first. There are also
allegations that doctors raped a victim girl who was brought in Guwahati
Medical College.
These speak a volume of the attitude of Assamese people towards the tribals
which also can explain the barbarity committed against the Adibasis.
The Barak Human Rights Protection Committee categorically condemns the
violence and the mayhem. The committee demands:
1. A CBI probe into the whole incident.
2. Compensation of 5 lakhs to the family of deceased, 2 lakh to the victim of
rape, 1 lakh to the victim of abuse 50 thousand to the severely injured, 25
thousand to the other injured and adequate compensation to those whose
properties were destroyed.
The Barak Human Rights Committee urges the Assam State Human Rights Commission
to register a suo-moto case against the police and other government officials
for whose negligence in duty made the mayhem possible.
The Committee requests all people to maintain peace and harmony.
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