Remembering ‘Maha-Parlay’ (Kosi Flood-08) as Black Day
People’s protest at Kosi Headquaters, Birpur,
Supaul, Bihar
Dear All,
On 18th of August 2008, Kosi region, poorest region of Bihar witnessed
a great disaster in the form of massive flood due to breach in Kusaha
dam, a fully man made or one should say due to criminal negligence by
state authorities. It resulted in the form of loss of hundreds of
Lives and thousand crores of properties. The disaster, which was
later declared as National Calamity was widely covered by media- both
National and Local, Print as well as Electronic at that time. But
unfortunately, nothing has been done worth mentioning by the state for
the rehabilitation of the Flood Victims except lip service.
In this background, the people of Kosi region has decided to observe
18th August 2009 as BLACK DAY. To show their anger and put forward
their demands, they are orgnising a Mass Protest on 18th of August 09
at Kosi Headquaters, Club Maidan, Birpur, Supaul (Bihar), 11 am
onwards under the banner of Kosi Vikas Sangharsh Samiti.
You are requested to join the protest to show your solidarity with the
people of Kosi.
In solidarity,
Mahtab Alam
For detail Contact:
Nayyeruzzaman
Convener, Kosi Vikas Sanghrsh Samiti
09304269536
On 13/08/2009, Rights Support Centre <[email protected]> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: ahmed sohaib <[email protected]>
>
>
>
> *Dear all, *
>
> *The Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association has called for a
> co-ordinated national protest against the culture of 'encounter' practised
> and indulged with impunity by the various armed forces and state agencies.
> On Friday, 14th August please join us against such blatant crimes by state
> agencies. Friends and comrades who may not be able to make it (because of
> being not in Delhi) are requested to kindly circulate it others and urge
> them to participate.*
>
> *
> *
>
> *Sohrabuddin, Batla House, Manipur ….***
>
> *Say No to Encounter Killings!***
>
> *This Independence Day, Demand freedom from Encounters*
>
> *Observe National Day of Protest against Encounter Killings on 14th August*
>
> *Assemble at ITO Chowk, 3.30 pm, 14th Aug (Friday)***
>
> * *
>
> The Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association along with other organisations has
> called for a National Day of Protest on 14 August 2009 against the
> continuing trend of ‘encounter’ killings by state forces, the arbitrary
> arrests of Muslim youth and the blatant whitewashing of such crimes by state
> agencies. All this in the name of ‘national security’ and ‘war against
> terror’.
>
> The cold-blooded murder of Chungkham Sanjit, a 27-year old Manipur youth in
> broad daylight on 23 July by the Manipur Police Commandos, barely 500 meters
> from the state assembly building in Imphal, has once again highlighted the
> sordid truth about ‘encounter’ killings in India. While the MPC had claimed
> initially that Sanjit had been killed while escaping during a routine
> screening operation, their lie was nailed by a series of photographs
> published by the *Tehelka* magazine, which showed the unarmed, peaceful
> youth was shot by the commandos without provocation. In addition, a pregnant
> woman, Mrs. Rabina and the five-month-old child in her womb were also
> killed, while five others were wounded.
>
> Last year on 19 September the Delhi police had carried out a similar
> ‘encounter’ against alleged ‘terrorists’ of the Indian Mujahideen at Batla
> House in New Delhi. This would have been another routine ‘encounter’ if not
> for the nationwide outcry from human rights groups, students and academics.
>
> While the Delhi High Court appointed the National Human Rights Commission to
> carry out an independent and fair inquiry into the encounter killings, the
> NHRC has chosen to further sully its already stained reputation by
> presenting a partisan report absolving the Delhi Police of any human rights
> violation. The NHRC did not bother to visit the families of the two
> ‘terrorists’ killed by the Delhi police, talk to eye witnesses or even visit
> the site of the ‘encounter’, basing their conclusions on the statements of
> the Delhi Police, the accused party!
>
> This was only a repeat of the shameful exoneration of the security forces by
> the one-man enquiry commission in the brutal Shopian rape and murder case.
> In Gujarat the Sohrabuddin ‘encounter’ is returning to haunt the Narendra
> Modi government as evidence points to yet another cold-blooded murder by a
> highly communalized state police.
>
> These murders by the killers in uniform are then legitimized and glorified
> as ‘encounters’. Large sections of our citizenry—Muslims, Kashmiris, peoples
> from the Northeast, Adivasis and Dalits—are condemned to be ‘encounterable’.
> These are people who can be killed, and their killings justified and
> explained through recourse to a warped security discourse. These people
> exist not in the framework of fundamental human rights but in that of
> national security alone. The security forces are afforded impunity and
> immunity as long as they can introduce the “Terror” word. In different parts
> of the country, Muslim youth are still being arrested and tortured on
> trumped up charges of links to ‘terrorism’. The large-scale detentions of
> Muslim youth in Karnataka following communal riots in Mysore recently is a
> case in point of double standards followed by the state police, which is
> mysteriously soft on hardline-Hindutva advocates like Pramod Muthalik who
> openly advocates attacks on women and members of the Christian and Muslim
> minorities.
>
> To raise a concerted voice against the culture of encounters, which violates
> the fundamental rights provided by the Indian Constitution, to demand
> accountability of state forces, we call upon all those who value Indian
> democracy to come forward and join the National Day of Protest on 14 August
> in all parts of the country.
>
>
>
> Sd/- Manisha Sethi (9811625577), Adeel Mehdi (9990923027), Ambarien Al Qadar
> (9810946273) for *Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA)*
>
> Malem Ningthouja (9899925345) *Campaign for Peace and Democracy, Manipur
> (CPDM)*
>
> *All India Students’ Association (AISA)*
>
> *ANHAD*
>
> *The Other Media*
>
> >
>
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MD. MAHTAB ALAM
[email protected]
Phone:+ 91-9811209345
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