Dear Friends, Binayaksen.net completes 1 Year of its Campaigning for the Dr. Binayak Sen'e release . Please see the anniversary post at http://www.binayaksen.net/2009/05/first-anniversary/
~ Regards Anivar Hum Dekhenge, Woh Din Ke Jiska Wada Hei, Hum Dekhenge……….<http://www.binayaksen.net/2009/05/first-anniversary/> http://www.binayaksen.net/2009/05/first-anniversary/ Posted at May 1, 2009 1 May 2009 will mark the first anniversary of binayaksen.net. The site was born last year amidst an unprecedented surge of citizen activism worldwide calling for the release of Dr Binayak Sen, incarcerated on false charges in a Raipur jail since 14 May 2007. Nobel laureates<http://www.binayaksen.net/2008/05/nobel-winners-call-for-release-of-dr-binayak-sen/>, medical <http://www.binayaksen.net/info/medical-camps/> professionals<http://www.binayaksen.net/2009/04/letter-to-chief-justice-of-india/>, academics <http://www.binayaksen.net/2009/04/letter-to-the-guardian/>,journalists<http://www.binayaksen.net/info/press-reports/>, human rights <http://www.binayaksen.net/info/articles/> and health activists<http://www.binayaksen.net/info/protests/> , students <http://www.binayaksen.net/info/global-action/>, workers, rural folk <http://www.binayaksen.net/info/raipur-satyagraha/> – the sheer range of people who have got involved in this epic struggle to challenge the injustice done to Dr Sen - and through him to all of us- has been truly phenomenal. The forms of struggle adopted also have been diverse – there have been street rallies, satyagrahas<http://www.binayaksen.net/topic/raipur-satyagraha/>, signature campaigns, seminars, public lectures, medical camps<http://www.binayaksen.net/info/medical-camps/>, soliciting of media coverage <http://www.binayaksen.net/info/press-reports/>and representations to Indian state officials <http://www.binayaksen.net/info/statements/> at various levels. As a platform binayaksen.net <http://www.binayaksen.net/>, along with several <http://www.freebinayaksen.org/> other<http://www.aidboston.org/FreeBinayakSen/index.htm>similar<http://www.savebinayak.ukaid.org.uk/index.html>sites<http://gyanoprobha.typepad.com/gyanoprobha/dr_binayak_sen/>, was meant to help all those interested, to follow the course of protest, debate, the farcical trial in Raipur and media coverage of Dr Sen’s case. . In this we have, with varying degrees of efficiency, succeeded in our modest mission. What we have not succeeded in achieving, along with our fellow activists in India and around the world, is of course securing the actual release of Dr Sen- and in that sense the past year has been one of repeated disappointments too. Not only has he been arrested on trumped up charges and subjected to a painfully slow trial <http://www.binayaksen.net/2009/04/a-right-to-a-fair-trial-a-right-to-life/>in an allegedly ‘fast track court’, he has also been repeatedly denied bail and in recent weeks even his right to medical treatment at a facility of his choice in the country. What we are confronting through the case of Dr Sen is really the Indian Establishment at its brutal worst- where its contempt for democratic norms is openly visible for the entire world to see. It has indeed been a great lesson to many in the way Indian democracy itself really operates when it comes to dealing with people who threaten this country’s deeply exploitative system- masked as it is by the noisy circus of regular elections, bureaucratic procedures of law and the exercise of superficial freedoms. The worldwide efforts <http://www.binayaksen.net/info/global-action/>for Dr Sen’s release have not been in vain of course for in these two years he has also transformed into a universal symbol of both the triumphs and travails a person of conscience inevitably goes through in any part of our planet. The legions of those who never knew Dr Sen before his arrest, have never ever met him and yet are passionately involved in the fight for his release is indicative of how the mere iron bars of the prison his captors have put him behind can never contain the message of personal integrity, public service and steadfast opposition to social injustice he represents. So on our first anniversary and as we approach 14 May 2009, we sincerely hope that the people around the globe, just like last year and in even greater measure, will once again take to the streets demanding Dr Sen’s immediate release. And do so- if we may suggest- with these immortal words of Faiz Ahmed Faiz <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiz_Ahmed_Faiz>, as sung by Iqbal Bano <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqbal_Bano>, South Asia’s queen of ghazals - on their lips: *‘‘Hum Dekhenge, Woh Din Ke Jiska Wada Hei, Hum Dekhenge……….”<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3MIjoi381I>(We shall witness, Certainly we, too shall witness that day, That has been promised to us….)* -- Free Binayak Sen campaign http://binayaksen.net Follow Us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/binayaksen Follow feed: http://feeds.binayaksen.net/binayaksen Mobile version: http://m.binayaksen.net "The resources of the world are for us all to share. 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