Date: 2008/12/2
* K.G. KANNABIRAN National President, Peoples Union For Civil Liberties ______________________________________________________ * * * * * *PRESS STATEMENT* * * * * I am deeply shocked to hear of the said demise this morning of my dear friend and colleague in the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties Dr. Yashpal Chhibbar, after a brief illness. Dr. Chhibbar, a Professor in Economics in Delhi University, was a founding member of the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties and its General Secretary for over two decades. He was a follower of Jaya Prakash Narayana and a Sociologist. From 1978 onwards Dr. Chhibbar managed the National Office of Peoples Union for Civil Liberties located in his residence and edited the *PUCL Bulletin*. He was responsible for advising State Units, building the archive of the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties and organizing its Annual Lecture Series. The Civil Liberties Union of India and Peoples Union for Civil Liberties has lost a committed leader and a campaigner of Human Rights. Regrets, K. G. Kannabiran National President Peoples Union for Civil Liberties 02 December 2008 ** -- In grief, Vijayan MJ Delhi Forum F-10/12 (GF), Malviya Nagar, New Delhi INDIA - 110017 Phones: + 91-11-26671556 (Direct), 26680914/883 Fax:26687724 Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://updatecollective.wordpress.com/ http://delhisolidaritygroup.wordpress.com/ "Beware of the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry, [who] infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How will I know? For this I have done. And I am Julius Caesar."
