Gujarat 2002 Justice Delivery : A Fractured Process
Please do attend and give wide coverage to the event The struggle for justice against the perpetrators of the Gujarat genocidal pogrom is at a critical stage with eight of the post Godhra cases reaching conclusion. There is possibilities of conviction of more than 350 plus perpetrators. A process made possible for the first time in the prosecution of mass crimes in India. In parallel, the historic complaint by a woman survivor Mrs Zakia Ahsan Jafri backed by a legal rights group Citizens for Justice and Peace against the chief minister and 61 others has also reached a crucial stage. Over the past nine years, grit, determination, depression and satisfaction have meant highs and lows for the battle. But what has the nitty gritty of the justice delivery process meant for women and men survivors? People who have been deposing with courage and conviction as eye witnesses in the trial process of courts in Ahmedabad, Anand and Mehsana within Gujarat – they had to struggle to get their voices heard, evidence recorded and had to go up to the high court to ensure legal representation under Section 24(8)(2) of the Cr. PC. A hostile atmosphere, non empathetic judicial officers and prosecutors have not deterred survivors from stating their case. For the women's movement, the narrative of sexual violence has returned, re surfaced despite the best efforts of the Gujarat State and Perpetrator Accused to use propaganda to state that brute gender violence was never the sub text of the pogrom. To share these experiences and to reveal the correct face of the democratic judicial system in Gujarat we have a few survivors coming from Ahmedabad to talk of these and other struggles they are waging everyday of their life. They are, · Rupaben Modi, Survivor & Eyewitness of Gulberg Society Massacre, · Jannatbi Kallubhai Shaikh, Survivor & Eyewitness of Naroda Patiya Massacre, · Shakila Ferozbhai Pathan, Survivor & Eyewitness of Naroda Patiya Massacre, · Farzana Aiyub Shaikh, Survivor & Eyewitness of Naroda Patiya Massacre, · Sairaben and Salimbhai Sandhi survivors of the Gulberg Massacre, · Shabana Mansuri advocate for CJP and before Nanavati Comission · Teesta Setalvad Secretary Citizens for Justice and Peace Date: 23rd March 2010 Time: 3.00pm to 6.00 pm Venue: Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Mumbai Please do come in large numbers. -- 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.
