Walliullah:
I am incensed about the venomous lies, the statistics and. The whole posting is 
hyperboled poisonous lies. Why don't we look for the truth, and let the chips 
fall where they may.

Barada Sarma
Station Guahati

----- Original Message ----
From: Shantikam Hazarika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2007 8:19:54 AM
Subject: [asom] Corrigendum to the Statement of BHRPC regarding Clash in Guwahti

Waliullah:

It was NOT only single phrase that was offensive. The whole statement was 
offensive.

Inshallah, wisdom will one day dawn on you and you will realise the folly of 
your mischievious intents.

Shantikam Hazarika

----- Original Message -----
From: Waliulllah Ahmed Laskar
To: assamonline@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:41 PM
Subject: [asom] Corrigendum to the Statement of BHRPC regarding Clash in Guwahti

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" <wlllhlaskar@ ...> 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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