---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.arav...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:25 PM
*(P**ease Send your Endorsements to asit1...@gmail.com and circulate this statement widely) * * * *JOINT STATEMENT CONDEMNING ATTACK ON PEACEFUL PROTESTERS OF NUAGAON** * *(Anti-POSCO Struggle Area Odisha)* Today eight platoons of police attacked and lathi charged peaceful protesters in the village of Nuagaon, Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha. The protesters, despite being mainly women, were attacked by an entirely male police force, resulting in injuries to several and serious injuries to one woman, who has now been hospitalised. The protesters were seeking to protect their forests and trees from being cleared by the police as part of the government's land grab for the POSCO project. After the lathi charge the entire village joined the protest, eventually driving the police back and forcing them to retreat. We strongly condemn this brutal attack on a peaceful protest by people seeking to protect their legal and democratic rights. This attack disproves the Odisha government's brazenly false claims that "no force is being used" to take land for POSCO. Nuagaon, one must remember, is also one of the villages where the government claimed that "land takeover is proceeding peacefully" - a result not of consent by the people but of the overwhelming threat of force from the government. Today, when people have actually shown their will, the government has shown its true intent. One must remember that the people of Nuagaon, like all those affected by the POSCO project, have legal rights to their forest and also enjoy the legal power to protect these forests when they wish. This was upheld by three different committees of the Environment Ministry, which went on to, in an act of brazen illegality, clear the takeover of land anyway. Both the Odisha government and the Centre are engaged in a gross violation of law, a resource grab of land and forests that belong to the people for a private multinational company. This attack further comes at a time when the Odisha High Court is hearing, on a daily basis, the petition filed by the villagers against this illegal land grab. We demand: · An immediate halt to all police operations in the proposed project area and the withdrawal of the police from the area; · The cancellation of the illegal forest and environmental clearances granted to the POSCO project; · The implementation of the Forest Rights Act and all other pro people laws in the area; · Prosecution and punishment of the officials and police responsible for the atrocities and violations of law in the area; · A cancellation of the POSCO project and an end to the six year long attack on the people of the area for the purposes of this project. Sincerely Socialist Front Dr. Sunilum (Kishan Sangarsh Samity M.P.), INSAF Shankar Gopal Krishnan Asit Das (POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity Delhi) Anivar Aravind (Moving Republic) Orissa Concerns.org _______________________________________________ connect mailing list conn...@lists.orissaconcerns.net http://lists.orissaconcerns.net/listinfo.cgi/connect-orissaconcerns.net http://orissaconcerns.net -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1*< http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
