Chandan: We don't have to so magnanimous as to let someone go free who try to create problems for the North East in the name o Human Rights Protection Committee. The Assamese speaking people, need a public apology from BHRPC. A public apology means publishing the apology in all the Newspapers in Assam as a minimum. Otherise, we may use RTI or PIL or whatever law we can use against BHRPC. I still donot understand how and why the name of the Assamese speaking people are involved in the incident. Rajen Barua
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chan Mahanta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around theworld" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 7:48 AM Subject: Re: [Assam] [asom] Corrigendum to the Statement of BHRPC regardingClash in Guwahti > Well said. > > I will go a step farther. This so-called report from BHRPC had little > to do with human rights protection of Adivasis or anybody else's and > was all about attempting to beat up on Assamese speakers. While I > understand the Barak Valley people's grudge against Assamese language > speaking people, to use the Adivasi riot and counter riot at Guwahati > to give vent to its grievances had to be the brainchild of people who > obviously don't have much. > > Therefore, personally, I would not even care to seek an apology. > Because it was so mindless a piece to begin with. > > > > > > > At 1:12 AM -0600 12/2/07, Rajen & Ajanta Barua wrote: >> > "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." >> >>Dear Mr Laskar: >>The above sentence is not acceptable to the Assamese people. >>Probably you know that the term 'Assamese' is a linguistic term, it >>is not a racial term. >>Thus when you say, Assamese people, it actually means the Assamese >>speaking people. >>In the group of people who were involved in the violence, how do you >>know they were ALL Assamese speaking people? Without knowing, why >>you are picking only the Assamese speaking people? We think there >>were Bengali as well as Hindi speaking people also in the group. >>Also please note that these Adibasis were also Assamese speaking people. >>Overall your above sentence is not only objectionable but also self >>contradictory and grossly biased towrds the Assamese speaking people >>for no reason. >>This biasness speaks volumes for lack of creditability for a Human >>Rights Protection Commitee such as yours. >>We hope you on behalf of Barak Human Rights Protection Committee, >>would withdraw the sentence completely without further delay. >>Rajen Barua. >> >> >>> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "umesh sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >><[email protected]> >>Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:16 PM >>Subject: Re: [Assam] [asom] Corrigendum to the Statement of BHRPC >>regardingClash in Guwahti >> >> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> __._,_.___ >>>Messages in this topic (1) >>>Reply (via web post) | >>>Start a new topic >>> Messages | Files >>>| Photos | Links | Database >>>| Polls >>> >>> >>> Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! 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