Auditorium, India International Centre (IIC),40, Lodhi Estate, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi - 110003
14 September 2010, 11 AM 6 PM
Forum for Promoting Inclusive Growth which has been addressing issues pertaining to the inclusion of the remotest citizen of the country into our economy. We, through this Forum, aim at reaching the benefits of good governance to the remotest areas. The proposed one day National Seminar on Development, Maladies and Remedies addresses the question of sustainable and inclusive growth.
The recent times are marked by upsurges across the country on different issues. People across the country having lost faith in the system had been resorting to such methods that find them instant justice and completely ignoring the present system of governance. The resentment towards the government policies has often turned violent. In this whole milieu the most used and abused word is the idea and practice of what we know today as development. Increasingly, development denotes prosperity for a few and misery for the multitudes.
Following is a note circulated in a Press Conference held in Delhi on 31 August 2010 by Manik Mandal, a Bengal Writer arrested and incarcerated in a prison along with two other intellectuals by the West Bengal government for visiting Jangalmahal region under the brutal deployment of joint security forces of the Union and West Bengal government.
There are a few other letters attached here which were circulated by Manik Mandal in the same Press Conference. These letters from the political prisoners speak volumes of facts about the most brutal war atrocities of the Indian government on the poorest of the poor. They were received by Manik Mandal from his fellow prisoners. The original Bengali versions are scanned and attached along with their English translations.
Police in the eastern Indian state of Bihar say Maoist rebels have released three policemen they were holding hostage for eight days.
Last week, the rebels killed one of the four policemen they had taken hostage in Lakhisarai district. They took the policemen hostage last Monday after a gunfight in which seven other policemen were killed. The rebels had threatened to kill all the policemen unless eight Maoist prisoners were released. Indian security forces have been battling Maoists in several states.
Are we living in a State that mouths peace but shoots its messengers?
OPINION: AZAD KILLING
FAKERY HAS always been a key instrument of power. But last week, as the President and Prime Minister of India made their Independence Day speeches, cocooned symbolically in towers of glass, the scale of that fakery shot skyward. Both leaders augustly urged the Maoists, yet again, to "abjure violence" and come for talks. Few among the millions of Indians who heard them would have caught the cynicism.
[Note from G N Saibaba: The killing of Lucas Tete, one of the four policemen taken hostage by the CPI (Maoist), is regrettable. Killing people after taking them into custody is a pattern followed by the Indian state, as in the case of Azad, and Hemchandra Pandey, but is uncharacteristic of and unexpected from revolutionaries. It is imperative for the CPI (Maoist) to immediately release the remaining police personnel in their custody, as a gesture of their goodwill, and for the Indian government to respond by initiating talks with the CPI (Maoist) genuinely and seriously.]
Report on a Fact-Finding Investigation by Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mansha (MASUM) on the killing of Umakanta Mahato
MASUM conducted a fact finding over the incident of Umakanta Mahato's killing. The fact finding came to a conclusion that Umakanta killed by the posted joint force comprising of Central Reserve Police Force, Local Police personnel, aided by armed mercenaries of ruling party (Harmad). Umakanta was not only deprived by his fundamental right to life; guaranteed by article 21 of Indian Constitution but the whole incident was contravening to Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials adopted by Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, in which India was a party. In our domestic legal domain there are several provisions and procedures with specific directives for minimum use of power and firearms with basic tenets that also should be used only for self defense. But in contrary to all, Umakanta was killed on 27.08.2010 at about 1.00 am while he was returning from adjoining village at Parulia forest in a motorbike with two associates.
Where: At the Consulate in New York City (3 East 64th Street) When: On August 13 at 11 a.m.
NEW YORK CITY - Sanhati, and other organizations and individuals, are organizing a protest against the Indian government's insidious war, named "Operation Green Hunt," which has been unleashed on the inhabitants of the forested regions of East-Central India. Read more...
Amnesty International today described the Indian government’s decision to reject the bauxite mine project in Orissa’s Niyamgiri Hills as a landmark victory for the human rights of Indigenous communities.
India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests today rejected the mine project proposed by a subsidiary of UK-based Vedanta Resources and the state-owned Orissa Mining Corporation, after finding that the project already extensively violates forest and environmental laws and would perpetrate abuses against the Dongria Kondh adivasi and other communities on the Hills.
“Indian Independence Day” in London turned into a day of militant protests of the crimes and atrocities committed against the people of India and the worsening national oppression by the Indian state.
On August 15, 2010, over 250 people converged in front of the Indian High Commission building in central London to protest the crimes and atrocities of the Indian state against the people of the country. They had gathered from across London and the Midlands to participate in a protest rally that was called by Alliance For People’s Right In South Asia, UK (AFPRISA) in order to express opposition to “Operation Green Hunt”, expose Indian expansionism and to condemn the recent assassination of Azad, the spokesperson of CPI (Maoist).
Preliminary Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey Released to the media at Hyderabad on 22 August, 2010
CDRO put together a team of concerned citizens consisting of Prof. Emeritus Amit Bahaduri, J.N.U., Delhi, Senior Counsel of Supreme Court Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Kavita Srivatsava, Human Rights worker from Rajasthan, Gautam Navlakha writer & from PUDR, Delhi, Kranthi Chaitanya, Advocate and General Secretary of APCLC, D. Suresh Kumar, Advocate, APCLC, Ch. Sudhakar Rao, President of OPDR, D. Venkateswarlu, OPDR.
The Indian government has declared a war against the people of India. More than 100,000 members of the paramilitary forces, special forces and air force have launched this unprecedented military offensive--code named Operation Green Hunt-- in the forest regions of eastern and central India. This is where millions of adivasis (tribal peoples), the poorest of India's poor, live. While the government claims that this war is solely aimed at the Maoists, in reality its objective is to grab the rich minerals and natural resources of those areas and hand them over to multinational corporations who will exploit them for their own superprofits.
People in those regions are getting organised and have already started to fiercely resist this attack on their life, land and livelihood by the Indian state. As this brutal offensive is rolled out, the government is clamping down on access to these regions by the media, civil liberties activists and other democratic minded citizens. Flagrant violations of the democratic rights of the people are on the rise.
We have launched this website to bring news and analysis of these events to people across the world, as well as to provide organizing tools for the campaign.
Let us join together to expose the Indian government's war on the people in India, to build a worldwide storm of criticism, to participate in protests against this war and to forge links of solidarity with the struggling people in India.
