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From: Venugopalan K M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:16:01 -0700
Subject: Re: {greenyouth} Fwd: Attack on Satyagrahis
To: [email protected]Friends, The pending death warrant and the petition before the President of India in the case of Mohmed Afsal (not Afsal Guru,where the names of Asfan Guru ,the co-accused in the case and Mohamd Afsal sometimes were confused by many.) need to be urgently taken up as very important issues, without by any means mitigating the focus of the ongoing campaign against death penalty in general. Perhaps for the former, very short time might be left. The online petition and the article by Arundhati Roy appeared in Outlook Weekly may be taken to as many number of people as possible In Solidarity, K.M.Venugopalan On 10/26/06, Anivar Aravind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Women's Centre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Oct 25, 2006 3:33 PM > Subject: Attack on Satyagrahis > To: Dilip Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Saheli Women < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Rohini Hensman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Dear Dilip Raj, > Appending below a letter I tried to circulate to women's groups mainly > & a few others. > Not much response, but then Satyagrahis would be expecting that I guess. > Do please keep in touch. > sincerely yours, > Ammu Abraham, Mumbai > --------------------------- > > > > Friends, > We the undersigned are happy to know that there is a group of people > in Tvm, who are on > Satyagraha to abolish the Death Penalty in India. > > We are all opposed to the Death Penalty, whatever the alleged crime maybe. > We feel that it is very difficult to decide what is or is not 'rarest > of rare' crimes, the current criterion for > awarding the death penalty. There are no crimes known to human beings > which have not been repeated > over and over again, through human history. As such, the definition of > what is 'rare' may be linked to > contemporary socio-political predilictions of streams within a polity. > > Abolishing death penalty removes the danger of the State taking the > life of an accused, who may later > be proved innocent. Indian democracy must clear the path for South > Asia and abolish the Death Penalty. > > We condemn the attack on peaceful and non-violent Satyagrahis and > commend their courage in withstanding > such attacks. > > In solidarity, > > Ammu Abraham Women's Centre, Mumbai > Shweta Saheli Resource Centre, Delhi > Sukla Sen Ekta > Rohini Banaji Hensman Insaaniyat, Mumbai > > -------------------- > > dtd 21st October 2006, Kerala > > Friends, > > > Today, a group of yuvamorcha activists entered the satyagraha pandal > of anti death penalty committe at trivandrum and assaulted the > satyagrahi, Rajmohan K K. They were returning after "hanging" Muhammad > Afsal Guru's effigee. > > this is a grave development. Do think of ways in which we could > effectively condemn this fascist move and strengthen the democratic > movement. > > please forward this message to friends and suggest what you could > personally do in this > > The satyagraha movement is gaining momentum . K. K. Koch, T. K . Vasu, > Chandran. K. K, Anoop Chandran, Sanni Kapikkad, Shaju. V .V, Fr. > George Pulikkuthityil, Civic Chandran and Ambalathara Krishnan > observed hunger strike till now. > > The movement is against death penalty and for the rights of prisoners > in Kerala jails. > > loking forward to your response, > > Dileep Raj, > > > -- > Dileep Raj, > Kizhakke Chathen Velil, > N C C Junction, > Cherthala, 688532 > Alappuzha Dist, Kerala > Tel: 09447316701 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
