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-----Original Message----- From: Wali Laskar <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:57:37 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [humanrights-movement:3832] Please endorse the Appeal : Justice for Survivors of Guj 2002 carnage I endorse it On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:26 AM, KN Panikkar <[email protected]> wrote: > I endorse the statement. > KNPanikkar > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:38 AM, shoma sen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We endorse it from Committee Against Violence on Women (CAVOW) >> Shoma Sen >> >> ------------------------------ >> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:24:59 +0530 >> From: [email protected] >> Subject: [humanrights-movement:3773] Please endorse the Appeal : Justice >> for Survivors of Guj 2002 carnage >> To: [email protected] >> >> Dear Friends, >> This is an appeal we would like to submit to the authorities mentioned >> here. After long struggle of nine years, the Gujarat 2002 carnage survivors >> are likely to get some justice soon, But State machinery is trying its best >> to vitiate the process. This is our attempt at supporting the survivors. We >> appeal to all Women's Organizations, Human Rights Groups and networks to >> endorse this appeal. >> Please respond as soon as possible. >> >> Hon’ble Mr. Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya >> 21st February 2011 >> Chief Justice, High Court of Gujarat >> Phone : 079-27664601-15 >> E-Mail : [email protected] >> >> Shri Manmohan Singh >> Prime Minister >> Fax: 011-23019334 >> Ph: 011-23018939/1156 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.H. Kapadia >> Chief Justice of India >> Fax: 011-23381508/1584 >> Ph: 011-23388922-24 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> *Victimization of Teesta Setalvad CJP, Advocate M.M. Tirmizi & victims >> survivors of 2002** * >> >> We the undersigned Citizens, Women’s Organizations, Human Rights >> organizations are gravely concerned at the continued persecution of human >> rights defender Teesta Setalvad, Secretary, Citizens for Justice and Peace >> (CJP). Further, Advocate Sohail Tirmizi, and several other human rights >> campaigners are also being harassed. These people have been in the forefront >> of the struggle to secure justice for the victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots. >> >> Ms. Teesta Setalvad is a human rights activist and journalist, whose >> unflagging struggle to secure justice for the victims of the mass violence >> in Gujarat 2002 evokes our admiration and support. Instead of awarding her a >> high place of honour in society, divisive elements are now attempting to >> stifle her voice, by organizing a malicious campaign. >> >> Elements in the State of Gujarat are trying to intimidate and threaten her >> through a series of *false cases and malafide prosecutions*. What is at >> stake is the conviction of over 350 accused in the nine major trials >> (Gulberg, Sardarpura, Odh, Naroda Patiya, Naroda Gaam) as also the inquiry >> into the role of the chief minister Narendra Modi and cabinet ministers, >> along with IAS and IPS officials who allowed the carnage to take place >> unchecked. The Citizens for Justice and Peace is co-petitioner in the >> petition that led the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate >> criminal charges of conspiracy to commit mass murder, destruction of >> evidence and subversion of the process of public justice. The attempts to >> implicate Teesta Setalvad in some criminal offence or other is an attempt to >> discredit the petitioners. >> >> Gujarat State's police is making false accusations of doctoring >> testimonies (FIR lodged under the IT Act, February 10 2011) and affidavits, >> and also of instigating victims to exhume the dead bodies of their loved >> ones (CR 3/2006), against MS. Teesta and CJP, an organisation that has stood >> for nine years supporting the legal battle of the survivors. >> >> There is no guarantee that more false cases will not also cooked up by the >> police who are pressurised by a vindictive state government. After Tehelka's >> exposure of the SIT report indicting Modi, "The Smoking Gun" (February 10, >> 2011), IPS officer Rahul Sharma was served with a show cause notice for >> placing crucial telephone records before the Nanavati Shah Commission and >> the SIT. Clearly the Gujarat government, worried by indications that >> offences could be registered against its chief functionaries for not just >> aiding a massacre in 2002, but also of destroying evidence and subverting >> the course of justice, is >> doing all it can do intimidate the victim survivors and the human rights >> groups who have stood by them. >> >> Earlier, in the Best bakery case which was shifted to Mumbai, a 'star >> witeness' was induced to change her testimony and claim false affidavits >> were filed, while all other witnesses stood by the case. Since September >> 2010, Mr. Rais Khan, a former CJP employee, whose employment with CJP was >> terminated for financial irregularities and suspicious conduct in January >> 2008, is being made to collaborate with the State agencies to implicate >> Teesta and others who are fighting legal battles along with the victims. >> >> We would like to respectfully point out that this sinister campaign has >> been launched at a time when crucial trials are nearing completion. These >> trials involve victims/survivors who have courageously testified against >> powerful Gujarati perpetrators, at grave risk to their lives. The evidence >> gathered against three hundred and fifty (350) perpetrators is extremely >> strong, and is expected to result in the conviction of a large number of >> accused. >> >> In the Best Bakery case mentioned above, the Honourable Court had ordered >> an inquiry by the Registrar General of the Supreme Court which cleared Ms. >> Setalvad of the malicious charges, and in fact punished the witness for >> perjury. It can be seen therefore that from the outset the government of >> Gujarat, through agent provocateurs, has subverted all efforts to punish the >> perpetrators of the anti minority pogrom of 2002. The current campaign was >> initially launched in May 2009, by the State of Gujarat’s counsel in the >> Supreme Court, and is now being echoed by Mr. Rais Khan. >> >> This vindictive onslaught against Ms. Setalvad and her lawyers is a >> determined bid to disrupt the trials, derail the course of justice, and to >> influence the course of conviction - in short, to >> derail the course of public justice. We respectfully and urgently request >> your attention towards this matter and to ensure that injustice will not >> prevail. >> >> FORUM AGAINST OPPRESSION OF WOMEN, MUMBAI >> AWAAZ-E-NISWAAN, MUMBAI >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "humanrights movement" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "humanrights movement" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "humanrights movement" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en. > -- W A Laskar Freelance Reporter and Human Rights Defender with Barak Human Rights Protection Committee <http://bhrpc.wordpress.com/>, http://bhrpc.wordpress.com 15, Panjabari Road, Darandha, Six Mile, Guwahati-781037, Assam, India Cell: +919401942234 Visit my blog <http://www.rightspeaks.blogspot.com> at www.rightspeaks.blogspot.com Skype: rights.defender -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. 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