Dears,
Manohar-bab Parrikar has called Seby [Sebastian Rodrigues] a NAXALITE. The
other "Naxalites" with him were FOUR post-graduate students of MSW [Master of
Social Work] from Nirmala Niketan's College of Social Work, Mumbai, on their
summer assignment work doing a survey of water sources used by the villagers of
Colomb.
That Colomb has become a news media "bomb" for the District Administration ...
and, by extension, the Government of Goa, that directs it ... that badly
handled the Citizens' protest on 25 March, 2008. Police men and women, in full
uniform, were HIRED for personal security of mining staff. There is a legal
provsion for this and the amounts are payable as per routine process. Police
men, in the same uniforms as the 'hired' policemen arrested men and women who
were standing in Government property under forest that was being cut to make
way for the trucks to transport ore out of a private mine operating illegally.
The Government was protecting the wrongdoer and arresting those who wer, in
fact, helping the Goa Government to prevent a crime in broad day light. For
their efforts these poor villagers, most of them women, have ben charged with a
Chapter case No. 25/2008 under Section 107 of the Criminal Procedure Code or
Cr.P.C. The policy is simply to give the
dog a bad name and then shoot it.
Now it is claimed that using women to fight ones battles is a Naxalite tactic
and Seby is to blame. One ex-Editor [NOT Rajan Narayan] is even claiming
...surreptiously and without byline ...that Seby is a CPI-ML "Card Holder"
[apparently the Communist equivalent of the American "Green Card"]. I wonder
why he did not ask this question of Seby when he was at Don Bosco's Farm and
School in Sulcorna on 05 June to celebrate "World Environment Day". I thought a
journalist asked questions, found the answers and reported faithfully and we
had cooks to make masala curry and recheiado fish. Now some journalist have
stepped out and are making something fishy ....with lots of masala in it!
The time to Speak up is NOW. If you are in Goa, keep your Monday afternoon free.
If you are not convinced, read what Pravin Sabnis has written and quoted below.
The Fascists are here ...facetiously telling us that we are Naxalites!
Mog asundi.
Miguel
--- On Sat, 21/6/08, Pravin Sabnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Pravin Sabnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: 23rd June (monday) 4 pm at Panaji
> * *
>
> *"First they came…" is a poem attributed to
> Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German
> >intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their
> >chosen targets, group after group.*
>
> * *
>
> First they came for the Socialists,
>
> and I didn't speak up,
>
> because I wasn't a Socialist.
>
>
>
> Then they came for the Trade Unionists,
>
> and I didn't speak up,
>
> because I wasn't a Trade Unionist.
>
>
>
> Then they came for the Jews,
>
> and I didn't speak up,
>
> because I wasn't a Jew.
>
>
>
> Then they came for me,
>
> and there was no one left
>
> to speak up for me.
>
>
>
> Innocent, peacefully resisting Goan villagers
>
> Have been labeled as Naxalites…
>
> We must lend voice and solidarity to the collective
> denouncement
>
> * * *
>
> Cheers
>
> *Pravin*
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