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Tehelka Magazine on Azad

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.

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On the hostages in Bihar and the execution of Lucas Tete

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On the Killing of Umakanta Mahato

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.

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New York: Protest Against the Indian Government's "Operation Green Hunt"

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. Leia mais...

Indian government rejection of Vedanta bauxite mine a “landmark victory” for Indigenous rights

Amnesty International :: 24 August 2010

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.

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15 August: London Protest

“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).

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Faking An Encounter: Killing the Peace Process

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.

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California Protest of Indian Gov’t. Attacks on People in India and Occupied Kashmir

San Francisco, California: On Friday, August 13, an action of solidarity with the people in India and Kashmir-a protest of the Indian government's "Operation Green Hunt" and the repression of the resistance of Kashmiri people's struggle-took place at the Indian Consulate in the San Francisco. It was endorsed by the Sanhati Collective, and participants included US and South Asian solidarity activists from the Bay Area and elsewhere. Leia mais...

AP protest of Human Rights Violations in Kashmir

A protest demonstration was conducted by the rights group of Andhra Pradesh at Indira Park, Lower Tank Bund road from 11 AM to 2PM. The demands which are made are:

1. Stop all violent actions immediately on people of Kashmir.

2. Withdraw all the Armed forces from civilian areas immediately and confine them to barracks.

3. Release all the people arrested during demonstration and agitations.

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London: Protest against Indian Government's "Operation Green Hunt"

Where: Protest Rally outside Indian High Commission Office (Aldwych, Holborn, London WC2B 4NA)

When: Sunday 15th August 2010, 11:00am - 1:00pm.

Do you know?

• According to the Indian government, they have deployed 150,000 troops in India's central and eastern states. Independent witnesses say the numbers are closer to 250,000. This is more than the number of US troops in Afghanistan. This is war on the Indian people. Leia mais...