*Venue: Bandhua Mukti Morcha office,
7, Jantar Mantar Road, New Delhi
Date 14th July, 2011 [Thursday]
Time: 3.00 pm
Subject - Press Conference on Apex Court Historic Judgement on terming Salwa
Judum as unconstitutional and disallowing the use of Special Police Officers
(SPO's) in ' Counter-Insurgency' Campaign
As we are already aware that on 5th July, 2011 the Hon’ble Supreme Court
delivered a historic judgment by terming Salwa Judum unconstitutional and
disallowing the use of Special Police Officers (SPO’s) in
“Counter-Insurgency” Campaign. It further directed the State government to
disarm the SPO’s and stop supporting vigilante groups like Salwa Judum by
any name. Since its inception in June 2005, the Salwa Judum, with tactical
support from Chhattisgarh Government and Union Home Ministry have been
involved in heinous crimes in the name of fighting the Maoists which
involved burning and emptying of more than 644 villages, murdering and
raping hundreds of innocents and rendering more than three lakh people
homeless especially in the Bastar region. In such a situation, the
intervention of apex court is indeed welcome for the restoration of justice
and peace in the region. However, the government is considering filing a
review petition when their priority should be to install confidence and
peace among the affected communities by filing FIRs and rehabilitating
victims as directed by the court. We urge both sides to initiate peace talks
on the basis of justice.
To elaborate further on the issue, we invite you to Press Conference
scheduled on 14th July 2011 at 3.00 PM at 7, Jantar Mantar Road, New Delhi.
The conference will be addressed by Swami Agnivesh, Prof Nandini Sundar,
Kavita Srivastava, Himanshu Kumar and Harish Dhawan.
Organised by
Campaign for Peace and Justice in Chhattisgarh; People’s Union for Civil
Liberties;
People’s Union for Democratic Rights; Delhi Solidarity Group;
National Alliance of People’s Movement
Contacts :
Abhay Xaxa (9811836249) DSG
Anil Tharayath Varghese (9971170738) DSG*
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"Sometimes — quite often — the same people who are capable of a radical
questioning of, say, economic neo-liberalism or the role of the state, are
deeply conservative socially — about women, marriage, sexuality, our
so-called 'family values' — sometimes they're so doctrinaire that you don't
know where the establishment stops and the resistance begins. For example,
how many Gandhian/Maoist/ Marxist Brahmins or upper caste Hindus would be
happy if their children married Dalits or Muslims, or declared themselves to
be gay? Quite often, the people whose side you're on, politically, have
absolutely no place for a person like you in their social, cultural or
religious imagination.That's a knotty problem politically radical people can
come at you with the most breathtakingly conservative social views and make
nonsense of the way in which you have ordered your world and your way of
thinking about it and you have to find a way of accommodating these
contradictions within your worldview."
-Arundhati Roy
ANIL
Anil Tharayath Varghese
New Delhi-110058
INDIA
Mobile -
email - [email protected]
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