Date: 17th July (Tuesday)
2012, Time: 11 AM
Place: Chattisgarh Bhavan,
Chanakyapuri, Delhi
Dear
friends,
Recently the
Indian state has intensified its eviction and extermination campaign against the
adivasis of central and eastern India under the rubric of Operation Green Hunt.
On the night of 28 June 2012 when the adivasi peasants of
Sarkeguda, Kottaguda and Rajpenta (Bijapur district of south
Chhattisgarh) gathered to plan the performance of the traditional festival Beej
Pandum (seed festival), they were surrounded by hundreds of Police and
Para-military forces of the Indian state. The armed forces resorted to
indiscriminate firing killing 17 adivasis (including 6 minors) cold-blooded. Two
other villagers were likewise killed near Jagargunda village of Sukma district
in the same night, and predictably, were shown as casualties of an ‘encounter’
between the Maoists and the armed forces.
As the
testimonies of the eyewitnesses coming through the Media, Fact Finding Reports
of different Civil / Democratic Right Teams and the statements of different
social-political forces (including the Congress Party of Chhattisgarh ) now
confirm that the killing of the adivasis was a heinous massacre committed by the
Cobra battalion of the CRPF and the Chhattisgarh Police, under the command of
top police officials. Even the Union Tribal
Minister Mr. K C Deo has said that ‘17 innocent citizens, who were
unarmed, who were wearing just a dhoti or
a baniyan and who did not even have a sickle or
a knife’ had been killed by the CRPF.
But still the central Home Minister and the top
officials of CRPF are claiming that these adivasis have been killed in a
"fierce" gunfight in the dense jungles of Dantewada on June 27-28 in a joint
anti-Maoist operation by the CRPF and state police. This is really a matter of
grave concern for all the justice loving progressive and democratic forces of
our country.
We, the under signed progressive, democratic and civil
rights organizations working in Delhi have decided to show our anguish and
concern in front of Chhattisgarh Bhavan, Chanakyapuri on
17th July 2012 at 11 AM, in the form of a Protest
Demonstration.
We earnestly appeal to you / your organization to join
us at Chhattisgarh Bhavan to make the protest programme successful. Hope your
positive responses.
PUDR, SFR, KYS, KNS, INKLABHI MAZDOOR
KENDR, People’s Front, AIFTU (New), REDICAL NOTES, MAZDOOR PATRIKA, SANHATI,
PDFI, PUCL, National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO),
Vidyarthi Yuvjan Sabha
Yours
Dr. Darshan Pal, M.B.B.S., M.D. (Anaesthesia)
Dr. Darshan Pal, M.B.B.S., M.D. (Anaesthesia)
President, B.K.U. (Ekta), [Dakaunda], Distt. Patiala
# 900 Adarash Colony, Bhadson Road,Patiala, Punjab
India
darshanpal1@gmail.com
Tel: +919417269294,
LL-+911752357694
# 900 Adarash Colony, Bhadson Road,Patiala, Punjab
India
darshanpal1@gmail.com
Tel: +919417269294,
LL-+911752357694
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