---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kavita Krishnan <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:16 PM Subject: [IHRO] Editorial of ML Update (28 Dec 2010 - 3 Jan 2011) of CPI(ML) Liberation on Binayak Sen To:
Binayak Sen's Conviction: Travesty of Justice and Criminalisation of Dissent The conviction and life sentence on sedition charges of Dr. Binayak Sen along with two others has met with shock and outrage across the world and all over India. The Raipur Sessions Court, royally disregarding the paucity of evidence, the glaring holes, contradictions and even unmistakable signs of planted evidence in the prosecution's case, delivered a political verdict. However, this verdict itself, and with it the entire politics of Greenhunt-related witch-hunt, has landed itself in the people's court. In particular, the Chhattisgarh police exposed itself to public ridicule for its attempts to link Dr. Sen's wife, scholar and activist Ilina Sen with terrorism based on her email to the well-known Indian Social Institute of Delhi, which the prosecution mistook for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). In its account of the place of arrest of one of the accused from whom documents incriminating Dr. Sen are supposed to have been seized at the time of the arrest, the Chhattisgarh police's testimony in the Sessions court contradicted its own earlier statement in the Supreme Court - another crucial fact which the verdict ignored. Confronted with the failure of a key piece of 'evidence' (a letter supposedly sent by Maoists to Dr. Sen) to find a mention in the list of articles seized from Dr Sen's home, the police airily explained it away by saying 'chipak gaya tha' - 'it must have stuck to some other documents.' The verdict, without any questions, accepted this flimsy excuse for planted evidence. The term 'comrade' has also been unquestioningly accepted as 'proof' of being a Maoist. Another Sessions Court in Raipur on the same day, sentenced a publisher to 11 years in prison for possession of "banned literature" - which included the works of Marx, Ambedkar and Bhagat Singh. This is not the first time that courts have delivered such political judgements criminalising communist literature. Some years ago, the Supreme Court had upheld the life sentence to 14 CPI(ML) activists (including elected mukhiya Shah Chand as well as a minor) convicted under the draconian TADA on no evidence barring the possession of Bihar Pradesh Kisan Sabha literature, Mao's works and other Marxist literature. With Binayak Sen's conviction by the Raipur Sessions Court, it seems that faked evidence and farcical trials are joining fake encounters as the Indian State's weapons of mass intimidation. Recently, Ratan Tata declared that if tapes exposing how corporations loot resources and undermine democracy were allowed to be available to the public, it would make India a 'banana republic' where people "go to jail without evidence." In reality, the Raipur Sessions Court verdict indicates that India is turning into a 'banana republic' for the likes of Binayak Sen who expose and challenge corporate loot and state repression, while the governments protect the 'right' of Tatas and Ambanis to loot in 'privacy'. In a recent speech to IPS probationers, the Prime Minister laid stress on the fact that if "naxalism in the Central India parts where the bulk of India's mineral wealth lies" is not controlled, "we have to say goodbye to our country's ambitions to sustain growth rate of 10-11% per cent per annum." Clearly the Prime Minister is equating mass movements of adivasis and peasants against land grab and mining loot by corporations with 'naxalism.' Obliquely admitting that such land grab and loot are crucial to India's 'growth rate,' the Prime Minister is calling for the continued and intensified police repression of mass resistance. No wonder that the Congress has responded to Binayak Sen's unjust conviction in BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh by disapproving of any criticism of a court verdict! The verdict convicting Binayak Sen for sedition is a calculated threat to each and every voice of dissent. But the travesty of justice in Binayak Sen's case, however inadvertently, added fuel to the fire of protest and all-out rejection of the State's policy of silencing and criminalising dissent. The struggle against draconian laws, against the State's war on people's movements, against the silencing of public intellectuals, and for the freedom of all those including Binayak Sen who are jailed on fake charges and political grounds will continue and grow in the days to come. -- Kavita Krishnan 9560756628 __._,_.___ Reply to sender<[email protected]?subject=re%3a%20editorial%20of%20ml%20update%20%2828%20dec%202010%20-%203%20jan%202011%29%20of%20cpi%28ml%29%20liberation%20on%20binayak%20sen>| Reply to group<[email protected]?subject=re%3a%20editorial%20of%20ml%20update%20%2828%20dec%202010%20-%203%20jan%202011%29%20of%20cpi%28ml%29%20liberation%20on%20binayak%20sen>| Reply via web post<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IHRO/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJyYnQ2Z3JjBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE3MjY3NjQ2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARtc2dJZAM1MjgyOARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNycGx5BHN0aW1lAzEyOTM2NDMwMjI-?act=reply&messageNum=52828>| Start a New Topic<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IHRO/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJmOGlqczQ4BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE3MjY3NjQ2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNudHBjBHN0aW1lAzEyOTM2NDMwMjI-> Messages in this topic<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IHRO/message/52828;_ylc=X3oDMTM3Mzc2Z2VrBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE3MjY3NjQ2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARtc2dJZAM1MjgyOARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawN2dHBjBHN0aW1lAzEyOTM2NDMwMjIEdHBjSWQDNTI4Mjg->( 1) Recent Activity: - New Members<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IHRO/members;_ylc=X3oDMTJnbXJ1amU0BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE3MjY3NjQ2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2bWJycwRzdGltZQMxMjkzNjQzMDIy?o=6> 1 - New Links<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IHRO/links;_ylc=X3oDMTJobXRwbjc1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE3MjY3NjQ2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2bGlua3MEc3RpbWUDMTI5MzY0MzAyMg--> 1 Visit Your Group<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IHRO;_ylc=X3oDMTJmOHN1c2diBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE3MjY3NjQ2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzEyOTM2NDMwMjI-> International Human Rights Organisation (IHRO), of the Indian subcontinent, is a NGO, with national focus and overseas lobby network. 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