On 2/1/12, Niloufer Bhagwat <[email protected]> wrote: > No right thinking person supports the larger war for seizure of land and > water resources > and the habitat of the Indigenous people of the region and the peasantry . > > Indiscriminate arrests and police repression whereever they occur are > unacceptable . > > Niloufer Bhagwat > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kavita Krishnan > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:45 PM > Subject: Re: [humanrights-movement:5519] Garhwa update from Kavita ...she > is travellling > > > 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 in any case, the struggle to get the cases against them withdrawn is on...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. > 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. > >
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