Very sad news indeed, particularly in this hour in which we needed more stalwarts of his kind who would vigorously articulate our love to see human rights and liberties respected and enforced in letter and spirit by the agencies of state,rather than trampled.
On Dec 30 2010, 9:57 pm, Sukla Sen <sukla....@gmail.com> wrote: > *People’s Union for Civil Liberties, New Delhi > * > > 30.12.2010 > > *Press Release* > > Dear Friends > > I have to inform you with a heavy heart that K.G. Kannabiran, former > National President of People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), leading > advocate of civil liberties and human rights and prolific writer breathed > his last this evening at his home in Secundarabad. He had not been keeping > well for the last few months. > > K.G. Kannabiran, a distinguished human rights activist, was instrumental in > mediating between the Naxalites and the State in Andhra Pradesh along with > K. Balagopal who also passed away some time ago. He was also the President > of the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee. He had filed more than 400 > public interest litigation (PIL) cases single-handedly. In spite of being a > prominent lawyer instead of running for money, he chose social service > instead and fought all these PILs and many more cases without charging any > money. He had worked in the PUCL in the company of Justice VM Tarkunde, > Justice Rajindar Sachar, Justice RB Mehrotra, Surendra Mohan and was for a > long time President of the PUCL with Dr. YP Chhibbar as its General > Secretary. For the tremendous amount of work done by him in the field of > civil liberties he was considered to be a one man army by his colleagues. > > Kannabiran was a prominent and most scholarly writer on civil liberties and > human rights. He regularly wrote articles for the PUCL Bulletin apart from > writing for various magazines and newspapers. He wrote many books. THE WAGES > OF IMPUNITY: Power, Justice and Human Rights published by Orient Longman in > 2004 is known to be his best and most read book. > > In Kannabiran’s death the civil liberties movement in the country has > suffered an irreparable loss. This loss is particularly shocking as it has > come within a fortnight of the passing away of Surendra Mohan, another > stalwart in the field. > > Mahi Pal Singh, National Secretary, PUCL > > Kavita Srivastava, Secretary, PUCL > > -- > Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
