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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:49:19 +0100 (BST)
From: anantakrishna maringanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have just received an electronic copy of the AP
Human Rights Forum report on Chattisgarh -- titled
"Death Destruction and Deprivation: the War in
Dantewara". It is about 55 pages long - and like many
HRF reports is written beautifully and with
passionate commitment to develop a critique of our
political culture from a human rights perspective. I
am putting the address to obtain hard copies (priced
at Rs10) from at the bottom of this email. The price
is only nominal -- HRF like most other civil
liberties/human rights groups depends entirely on
voluntary labor time and contributions. If any one
wants, I can send you the pdf file by email -- FOIL
does not allow attachments. HRF is also pushing for a
committee of concerned citizens kind of intervention
as was done in AP. The CCC intervention led to
mediated talks between the government and the Maoists
in 2004. Although the talks were infructuous by
themselves, both the Government and the Maoists were
restrained in violence for about 6 months -- which was
a very important breather for the rural areas in which
to some sort of normal life and democratic process
could be nurtured.
here is the first para of the report:
By Way Of An Introduction
"The attention of the whole country has been on
Chattisgarh for some time now. Some have
viewed it with trepidation and some with enthusiasm.
The trepidation and the enthusi asm
are responses to the same phenomenon: the
counter-insurgency strategy of arming the opponents
of the Maoists and letting them lose on society. It is
called Salwa Judum in Chattisgarh, and it
could more prosaically be called Village Self-Defence
Committees elsewhere. The ?success? in
Chattisgarh is being seen as the birth - at last - of
an effective societal answer to Maoism, even as
the lawless police death squads of Andhra Pradesh
called Greyhounds are being seen as an effec-
tive military answer to Maoism. There are reasons to
believe that the Union Government at the
highest level is endorsing this view.
We are not concerned with whether the State will
eventually find an ?answer? to Maoism. So
long as the people are the arbiters, and they are able
to decide freely and fearlessly, the argument
is at liberty to work itself out. We are concerned
rather with how the State's answer to Maoism is
sought to be devised and enforced, and how the Maoists
choose to respond to these efforts of the
State. Political battles are to be fought without
trampling upon the rights of the people - especially
the vulnerable sections of them - beyond the minimum
that may be unavoidable in any such
conflict. And at the end life must be better in the
sense of a greater security for the rights of the
most deprived sections. As for the trade off between
means and ends, no easy or nonchalant
answer can be accepted from either side."
For copies contact:
For Copies:
S.Jeevan Kumar
3-12-117/A-2/1, P.S.Colony
Ganesh Nagar, Ramanthapur
Hyderabad - 500 013
✆ : 040-27039519
Or
K.Balagopal
301 Sriram Residency
Prya colony, Gudimalkapur
Mehdipatnam - 500 028
✆ : 040-2353796
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Anivar Aravind
moving Republic
Global Alternate Information Applications(GAIA)
Peringavu.P.O
Thrissur-680018
Kerala
Ph. +91 9446545336
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