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Demands raised by a fact-finding team:
1.A Judicial Enquiry with a seating Supreme Court
Judge into the whole
incidence of firing and associated atrocities on the
people of the
villages of Nandigram. Punish all the culprits who are
directly or
indirectly responsible for this barbaric act.
2.Immediate investigation into the missing cases of
people from each of
the affected village of this area, if necessary with a
household survey
by an independent agency. Digging up of the trenches
where people
suspect that the dead bodies have been buried near the
Canal of Bhangabera.
3.Immediate withdrawal of the police force not in
phases and restrict
the CPI(M) from any kind of protest, repression and
attack.
4.A formal and official announcement with written
notification of the
withdrawal of the proposal of the Nandigram SEZ,
Chemical Hub allotted
to the developer Salim group of Indonesia.
5.Withdrawal of all the proposals of SEZs across India
along with the
very SEZ ACT.
6.Constitution of the concerned citizens? committee
with prominent
democrats to start a process of establishing normalcy
in the affected areas
of Nandigram.
7.Adequate compensation package for the victims and
proper treatment
for the injured after shifting them to Kolkata
hospitals so that they get
sufficient care and medical facility.
8.The medical case profiles of the victims should be
protected and
deposited immediately with an independent and neutral
agency.
Members of the team:
Medha Patkar(NBA & National Alliance of Peoples?
Movements)
D. Thankappan (New Trade Union Initiative)
Dr. B. D. Sharma ( Bharat Jan Andolan)
Tridib Ghosh (People?s Democratic Front of India)
G N Saibaba (Preparatory Committee for the Formation
of Anti
Displacement Front, Ranchi Conference )
Arun Khote (National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights)
Rakesh Rafiq (Juba Bharat)
Ram Dhiraj (Ajadi Bachao Andolan)
Srimant (Kalinga Nagar Movement)
Meher Engineer (Scientist and Academecian)
II.
Punish Them!
Palash Biswas
(Contact: Palash C Biswas, C/O Mrs Arati Roy, Gosto
Kanan, Sodepur, Kolkata -700110, India. Phone:
91-33-25659551)
Email: palashchandrabiswas @gmail.com
I was wrong friends to assume that Nandigram SEZ is
capped to appease the Muslim Vote Bank!
The Ruling Classes are always well versed in
enslavement of underclasses and minorities. CPIM or
Left front have not to care for votes as long as its
Cadre base and scientific Election Machinery are
intact!
In fact, the poet in the helms dodged us all. He was
just buying time to accomodate Tata in Singur! As the
transfer of land for Tata Motors was done, Nandigram
had to be captured.
The Resistance continues!
A day after West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
took the blame for the police firing in Nandigram, the
state government on Monday ordered the shifting of
police camps from the trouble-torn area.The CPM- led
Left Front had on Saturday decided to immediately stop
land acquisition at Nandigram.The shifting of police
camps has already begun at Sonachura and Adhikarypara,
the two trouble spots in Nandigram block-I, where the
police had opened fire on March 14. The government has
already ordered a high-level probe to ascertain
whether outsiders also fired along with the police.The
Nandigram episode had sparked off a crisis in the
three-decade- old Left Front after Front partners CPI,
Forward Bloc and RSP threatened to pull out over the
police action.
On Monday, Home Secretary PR Roy told journalists that
the police camp from Sonachura would be shifted to
Bhangaberia, while another camp located at
Adhikarypara would be moved to Tekhali. All the areas
fall under Nandigram block-I. The exercise would be
completed by tomorrow, he said.He said an enquiry has
been order by a divisional commissioner- level officer
to determine whether outsiders were involved in the
firing on the villagers and under what circumstances
did the police open fire.He said the state government
would not order a judicial probe since a CBI enquiry
was already under way. Fourteen persons were killed in
the police firing.
Despite the resistance continued!
The criminals should be punished first!
Today on 19th March, Dozens of Muslim demonstrators
and policemen were hurt in clashes in the Indian city
of Kolkata on Monday during a rally to protest against
the killing of at least 14 villagers, police and
witnesses said. Anger has mounted in the eastern state
of West Bengal since Wednesday's killings in
Nandigram, 150 km (90 miles) southwest of Kolkata,
which occurred when police fired on villagers
protesting against a planned special economic zone
(SEZ).
Advertisement' We want Chief Minister Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee to resign immediately for slaughtering
innocent villagers,' said Siddiqullah Choudhury, head
of Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind, one of the biggest groups for
India's Muslims, which organised the protest.
Many of the farmers in Nandigram are Muslims. Human
rights groups say the toll from Wednesday's clash
could be higher as several people are still missing.
On Monday, tens of thousands of Muslim protesters,
many wearing white skull caps and white tunics,
crammed into Kolkata's streets, causing massive
traffic jams. Baton-wielding policemen hit
stone-throwing demonstrators who broke through
barricades and moved towards the state's
administrative headquarters. Teargas smoke was visible
over many blocks and protesters scaled boundary walls
of buildings to escape policemen
Some policemen were dragged away and beaten up by
protesters.
The killings in Nandigram also echoed in India's
parliament in New Delhi, where opposition MPs
disrupted work in both houses.
'Hang Buddhadeb, he is a murderer,' opposition MPs
shouted.
India's communists provide crucial support to the
federal coalition headed by Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh.
The Nandigram violence is the worst yet over moves to
acquire land for SEZs and could undermine broader
efforts to push farmers off their land to make way for
factories, analysts say. hough the West Bengal
government said on Saturday it had permanently dropped
its plan to build an industrial hub in Nandigram,
anger is widespread.
'Stop the people's movement if you can,' shouted
several Muslim demonstrators in Kolkata. 'We will
teach you a lesson.'
Armed Maoist rebels, who operate across a huge swathe
of eastern, central and southern India, have called a
strike in five states, including West Bengal, to
protest against the Nandigram deaths.
But Trade Minister Kamal Nath was quoted on Sunday as
telling a TV channel there would be no 'political
wriggling out' of plans to build SEZs to boost growth
and close the manufacturing gap with China.
In New Delhi on Monday, leading environmentalist Medha
Patkar led protesters who blocked a busy road near
parliament.
'Wherever there has been globalisation, it has killed
people,' Patkar said.
Buddha used party cadrebase as hitler used Gestapo.
His Gestapo tried itys best in misinformation campaign
with undeclared Press censor ship and Undeclared 144!
The homework was still incoplete as the feedbacks
Buddha got from his administration proved to be
destructive. Suddenly the pet media revolts!
Revolts the pet Intellentsia!
And Nandigram showed Determination! Hindu Muslim unity
is Intact!
Nandigram Resisted!
SEZs vital for development, President Kalam defends
his government understandably. But Nandigram police
firing has descredited the Indian polity and society
so much so that Rural India is not going to listen
teir Clean Image Scientist President. SEZ faces
resistance anywhere in India and Manmohan Singh and
Buddhadev, Narendra Modi and Naveen Patnaik , Narendra
Modi and vR Deshmukh and all the chiefministers and
political parties are responsible for the Blood Bath
of mother India unprecendented and the ensuing Civil
War!
Amidst a raging controversy over Nandigram killings,
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Monday backed setting
up of special economic zones but suggested use of
wasteland for the purpose.
"Special economic zone is vital for the development of
a region where economic prosperity has not reached,"
he said in reply to a query from a student at the 81st
Annual Day function of the Shri Ram College of
Commerce (SRCC) in New Delhi.
Kalam said the country had got nearly 60 million
hectares of uncultivated wasteland. "A part of that
should be used for development, " he said.
Noting that there would be expectations of the people,
he said the same "should be utilised keeping in mind
people's prosperity as the prime factor."
Thus, despite a notification issued by the West bengal
government stalling SEZ drive, there is more trouble
for Buddha!
In fact, it is the double speak that has landed the
state government in trouble.
And here you are!
CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat today denied that
his party cadre were in any way involved.
But ten people arrested over the weekend apparently
belong to the party. Flags of the party and weapons
were found from the site of their arrest.
While defending his cadre, Karat said the Nandigram
area had become a free for all in recent times and
rumours had been floated that land would be acquired.
He said the party is in favour of a judicial inquiry
to identify police excesses and take action.
"We are not concerned about self-serving politicians.
We would like judicial inquiry to pinpoint police
excesses and take action. We are concerned about all
democratic people who have not approved the firing,"
he said.
Refuting allegations of rape and looting against
CPI(M) workers, he said relatives of CPI(M) workers
had themselves been targeted.
The Nandigram violence meanwhile, continues to
dominate the Parliament.
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Anivar Aravind
Global Alternate Information Applications(GAIA)
Peringavu.P.O
Thrissur-680018
India
Ph. +91 9446545336
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