On 21-05-2012, NILOUFER BHAGWAT wrote:
> Thank you for this incisive and detailed case study of the seizure of the lands and villages of the dalits,adivasis, and small peasantry in Odisha on the same pattern as what is happening in Central and Eastern India , where communities who had lived independently of any government support or development are being systematically pauperized by private companies Indian and foreign with the support of political parties in government representing these very interests. > > Land which is being degraded will see even more hunger stalk these areas , a genocide of these communities by internal colonization and deliberate policies of neoliberalism and a global alliace of anti humanity forces in violation of the Constitution of India . > > In his monumental and contemporary study of the similar devastation of Latin America by Companies Eduarado Gaeleano in > his " OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA - Five centuries of the pillage of a Continent " has described the same pattern once again taking place which took place in colonial India , the decimation of large tracts and local communities for the indecent and repulsive affluence of a few the internal and foreign collaborators , WHICH RESULTED IN THE PAUPERIZATION OF ALL THESE COUNTRIES WITH ONLY POCKETS OF AFFLUECE WHILE THE INDIGENOUS WERE WIPED OUT BY GENOCIDAL ECONOMIC POLICIES OF THE PRIVATIZATION OF LAND AND PUBLIC RESOURCES . > > This is the most important human rights issue of contemporary India the genocide of marginalized communities the Adivasis, Dalits and peasantry and the denial of constitutional rights of labor and marginilized sections of the minority communities who belong to weaker sections . > > This article on the village in Odisha in Countercurrents facing devastation and the conditions in Central India for immediate seizure of mines, resources and land is recolonization post 1947 and we are seeing in these regions " THE OPEN VEINS OF INDIA " even as the economically and politically marginalized are being denied the right under ARTICLE 21 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA OF THE RIGHT TO LIFE . > > A wider alliance and new political movements is required to TAKE BACK THE REPUBLIC as Mahatma Gandhi would have mandated , with a manifesto for the enforcement of the Constitutional mandate in the Directive Principles of State Policy and the provisions for the protection of the land and habitat of marginilized communities . This cannot be accomplished by NGOs or organizations receiving funds from Corporate Foundations directly or indirectly . > > As the global recession spread by capitalist mismanagement widens , with Indian companies going the same way , example the civil aviation sector among others , with unemployment widening , middle and lower middle classes will also be affected with privatization of education and public utility services affecting them .Therefore ask not " For Whom the Bells Toll", > > What is required is an independent path of economic development free from the clutches of global capital in the interests of Indian society, > > THE ISSUE IS DEVELOPMENT FOR WHICH CATEGORIES , THOSE ALREADY DEVELOPED ? > > Niloufer Bhagwat -- 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.
