Dear Gautam, Yes, I am in touch with Jharkhand people, and you are right, efforts are being made at various levels. The police is being adamant too, and is making little serious effort to mediate. The two missing CPI(ML) comrades have now been released. But the two who are said to be in jail - Ramdas Minz and Fida Husain - their families have not been allowed to meet them. So they too are operating on the assumption that these two are presumed missing till families are allowed to meet. And in any case, the struggle to get the cases against them withdrawn is on... I recall the report you mention very well, and it is an admirable one - one among the very many appreciable efforts made by PUDR and other organisations and individuals to bring reason to a war that is, as you say, not of our making but imposed by the State alone, and that we are all resisting according to our rights... Kavita
On 31 January 2012 19:44, gautam navlakha <[email protected]> wrote: > kavita, > your anxiety is justified. i spoke to shashi bhushan pathak > just before he left for meeting the local leadership of maoists party > at garhwa. police and maoists have agreed to 14 hours ceasefire. he > told me that he would be asking the maoists to immediately and > unconditionally release the guard (a police personnel). maoist demand > was for removal of police pickets from three villages as well as > cessation of the operations. he was told by police that this was not a > matter they could decide on their own since civil administration is > unwilling. but they wanted the mediation to go on to see what could be > done. so my plea is when the mediation is on let us wait and see what > comes of it. > can we also give some attention to the cpi(ml) activists who have been > arrested and discuss how best to highlight this case...? > having said this please i draw everyone's attention to a report which > pudr, pucl and swami agnivesh released after the release of 5 police > personnel in bastar (2011) where we talk about hostage taking and the > challenge it poses to democratic forces. please check it out on > pudr.org. > beyond all this even when we critique the maoists there is a larger > war that still goes on. > gautam > > On 1/31/12, Kavita Krishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > > According to the mediator asked for by the Maoists, there have not been > > death threats. But there have indeed been demands in exchange for release > > of the hostage. If these demands are not met by the state, what will be > the > > fate of the hostage? Not sure. > > > > On 31 January 2012 12:30, Niloufer Bhagwat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> ** > >> Threatening to kill hostages, if true , is not revolutionary activity . > >> > >> Niloufer Bhagwat > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> *From:* Kavita Krishnan <[email protected]> > >> *To:* [email protected] > >> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:13 PM > >> *Subject:* Re: [humanrights-movement:5514] Garhwa update from Kavita > >> ...she is travellling > >> > >> Actually, it's difficult to verify the demands of the Maoists vis a vis > >> the guards - all one has is what comes out in the name of their > >> 'spokesperson' in the media, which may well be wrong or planted. But the > >> guard is still a hostage, that's for certain. And I don't think the > >> Maoists > >> have refuted the demands being attributed to them - viz, lifting of > Green > >> Hunt in the zone and removal of a police picket. If indeed there is some > >> effort at mediation that's very welcome. > >> > >> On 29 January 2012 17:12, gautam navlakha <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> the information regarrting the guard is wrong. indeed maoists have > >>> asked shashi bhusahn pathak of pucl to act as a mediator in this > >>> matter. this is being flashed in ranchi and anyone can call and > >>> confirm.the rest of the info. is however cause for much concern.there > >>> is NO statement from maoists threatening to kill him were their > >>> demands not met. > >>> gautam > >>> > >>> On 1/29/12, Ranjana <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > * Some of the arrested comrades are in jail but two of those > >>> arrested on > >>> > January 21st, Budlal Kerketta and Mahfuz Ansari, are missing from > >>> > custody.There can only be speculation that they might be so badly > >>> injured > >>> > that the police is treating them before producing in court. > >>> > > >>> > * The guard is still being held hostage by the Maoists. And > there > >>> have been > >>> > threats to kill him if demands are not met - demands of lifting the > >>> green > >>> > hunt operation in the zone, mainly. His wife and mother attempted > self > >>> > immolation outside the thana in Garhwa yesterday the 28th. > >>> > * The 'lathicharge' during the bandh on 24 Jan was no ordinary > >>> one, but a > >>> > particularly vengeful and brutal assault. The DSP himself stamped > with > >>> boots > >>> > on Kalicharan Mehta, and similar brutal assaults resulted in severe > >>> injury > >>> > and broken arm of 70-year-old Kishore Kumar, a broken leg for another > >>> > comrade, and severe injuries for Comrade Rahina, another elected > woman > >>> > representative of Danda panchayat. > >>> > * Since Sushma was released, the police are now implicating > >>> her as part of > >>> > the plot, and trying to get the guard's family to do dharna at > >>> Sushma's > >>> > house etc demanding that she be booked for the conspiracy to > perpetrate > >>> the > >>> > blast and the abduction. > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > 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. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Kavita Krishnan > >> 9560756628 > >> > >> -- > >> 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. > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Kavita Krishnan > > 9560756628 > > > > -- > > 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. > > -- Kavita Krishnan 9560756628 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. 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