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Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:28 am (PST)
Dear Sanjeev
thanks very much for the translation. am attaching the official transltion which is even 'cruder' since instead of displaced families, it says uninhabited families. Sanjay Pillai saus they are basically responding to point 9 in the nhrc reccomendations.
nandini
Sanjeev Mahajan < veejnasnajaham@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks, Nandini. For those, who cannot read Hindi, here is an admittedly crude
translation of the annexure 5.
Chhattisgarh Administration
Home Department (Unit-C)
Ministry, D.K.S. House,
Raipur, Chhattisgarh
No./F/4/46/2- C/08
To,
The Collector,
Bijapur and Dantewada,
Chhattisgarh
Subject: Necessary Proceedings with regard to the report of the National Human Rights Commission
Reference: Petition no. 250/07 filed by Nandini Sundar et al against the Chhattisgarh Government, and Petition no. 119/07 filed by Kartam Joga against the Chhattisgarh Government with the honorable Supreme Court of India, related to Salwa Judum
The following program must be carried out based on the recommendations of the report of the National Human Rights Commission whose investigation was conducted under a directive of the Supreme Court of India in response to the above petitions.
1) A district level rehabilitation committee should be constituted under the chairmanship of the Collector. This committee should be responsible for laying out a definite and clear program of rehabilitation of displaced families. The Collector should send state level rehabilitation related points/proposals to the state level rehabilitation committee.
2) Financial aid should be given to people affected not just by Naxalite violence, but, after a proper review, also to people whose property was damaged by Salwa Judum activists or security forces.
3) Security forces must not be allowed to stay in schools or ashrams. Special barracks must be built for the security forces, and their construction must be authorized by the Police Department.
4) Rations, Public Distribution System, health care, and clean toilets should be made available in the relief camps.
5) Investigation of complaints of blackmarketing in rations and kerosene oil distribution, including surprise inspections, must also be carried out. Discriminatory practices must not be tolerated during the distribution process.
6) Proceedings should begin immediately on above points, followed by a monthly review and a monthly report of these proceedings.
Sanjay Pillai,
Chhattisgarh Administration,
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Nandini Sundar <nandinisundar@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Friends
I am attaching the relevant annexures in Hindi (see esp. R 5) which the CG Government has submitted in court, where it says that they will compensate all those whose properties have been damaged by salwa judum and security forces; and also that security forces should move out of schools and ashrams.
When the government has admitted illegalities by the Salwa Judum, how can the Chief Minister continue to justify an illegal movement?
The non-seriousness with which the CG government is treating its own promises is evident from the fact that when we met the Collector of Dantewada on 24 December, he had not even seen these letters dated 17 October. We had to give him a copy. he promised to call an all-party meeting in Sukma to discuss how best to compensate/rehabilitate, but went back on his promise, and last heard was planning to call a meeting in dornapal camp!
The situation in Bijapur is likely to be even more abysmal. The Government has to submit an ATR on this and other issues by the end of January - God knows what kind of ATR they will submit!
Please note that the compensation is a matter of right since it is ordered by the Court; that it is not restricted to those in camp, but includes everyone in villages as well as refugees in AP or elsewhere; and that villagers do not have to prove who burnt or looted their property.
According to one estimate, in some of the refugee settlements in AP, 50% of the children are suffering from 3rd grade malnutrition.
nandini
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:13 am (PST)
In a major set back to Hyderabad-based Athena Power Projects (APPL) public hearing had to be cancelled midway on 15th January due to strong people agitation.
Athena Chhattisgarh Power Pvt. Ltd signed MoU with Chhattisgarh Government to set up 1200 MW Coal based TPP with investment around six thousand crore INR. Company decided to set up plant in Raigarh district but due to agitation and demand of high price for land they had to shift in another District Janjgir-Champa. Accordingly Public Hearing was organized in village Singhitarai of Tehasil Dabhara.
Thousand of men & women from nearby villages approached at the venue shouting and banners posters in hand “No information No hearing” “Need land but No Company”.
As usual administration did nothing to know the people about hearing and EIA reports were not made available to Panchayats. Venue too was fixed at remote place about 2-3 KM inside from main road. Due to unanimously strong protest and procedural lapses raised by activists of ‘Jan Chetana’ presiding officer had to acknowledge lapses publicly and cancel the public hearing.
Even after announcement of cancellation people did not leave the venue and company representatives hardly could leave safe under police force.
Green Regards
Ramesh Agrawal
JAN CHETANA
Raigarh (C.G.) 496001
Mobile No. - 09301011022
Telefax - 07762-222710
Email - ramesh.agrawal@gmail.com
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:13 am (PST)
impoverishment, terror, torture and false progaganda can be used to brainwash people of all ages. my point is that it is wrong to think that it is easier to brainwash children. in fact we are all labouring under some delusion or other and myths of all kinds abound. the biggest one being that of the prevalence of the rule of law in democratic societies. and if you ask me we adults are more brainwashed than our children.
Rahul Banerjee
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Cell no: +919926791773
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--- On Sat, 17/1/09, sri venkat <ahvenkitesh@gmail.com> wrote:
From: sri venkat <ahvenkitesh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [chhattisgarh-net] Chhattisgarh Maoists recruiting minor girls: Police
To: chhattisgarh-n...@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, 17 January, 2009, 4:05 PM
Rahul
The mistake you might be making is comparing your child (presumably of
middle class background) with that of highly impoverished tribal
children. I don't think these children have the convenience of
argument and intellectual reasoning when they are suffering from basic
necessities . Throw in the terror element also (when even their
parents may have been killed off). These vulnerable children can be
coerced, tempted, induced to do anything. And as below link shows we
have plenty of examples in other terror movements be it the tamil
tigers, moro islamic front of Philippines.
Children In War Zones Are Being Maimed, Murdered, Or Forced To Fight
http://www.europawo rld.org/week152/ childrenin71103. htm
Children in war zones have sometimes been murdered or disfigured and
many thousands have been recruited into government and rebel fighting
forces, according to a new report from United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the UN General Assembly and Security
Council.
"Children in war zones have been deliberately killed or maimed by
parties to conflicts, often in extremely brutal ways," the report
says.
It notes such murders and maiming of children in Rwanda, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador and Uganda. Some of the children
targeted had fled rural areas and gone into towns to avoid recruitment
by government or rebel armies, it says.
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