Land acquisition in Punjab: Lathi-charge killed one, hundreds arrested By Newzfirst Correspondent8/3/11
Email<http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/land-acquisition-in-punjab:-lathi-charge-killed-one-hundreds-arrested?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome> Print<http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/land-acquisition-in-punjab:-lathi-charge-killed-one-hundreds-arrested?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome>[image: SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend] <http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/>[image: Bookmark and Share]<http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=newzfirst> GOVINDPUR - One farmer was killed and several were injured as police resorted to indiscriminate lathi-charge in Barnala-Bhikhi road leading to Govindpur. In order to prevent the workers of 17 farmer-labour unions marching towards Govindpur, to protest against forcible acquisition of their fertile lands, the police resorted to brutal repression. In an overnight swoop, hundreds of activists were taken in custody throughout Malwas belt. The police put up barricades, on all roads leading to Mansa District and had deployed armed commandoes there. Speaking to newzfirst, NK Jeet of Lok Morcha Punjab, “the police resorted to brutal lathi-charge at village Dunneke on Barnala-Bhikhi Road. One farmer, whose name is reported to be Narinjan Singh of village Hamidi has been killed in this lathi-charge, while a large number of protestors have been injured. The police smashed all the vehicles on which the protestors were traveling.” “In another barricade near Maur Mandi in Bathinda District, police resorted to lathi-charge and firing, injuring scores of people. In village Daske, Sangrur District, protestors were successful in over-running the police barricade and marching ahead. There is curfew like situation in village Govindpur.” he added. According to NK Jeet, “It is nothing but brutal repression on farmers & agri laborers who are fighting for their rights by protesting forcible land acquisitions. Today’s events have shown that the SAD-BJP Govt of Punjab can go to any extent to safeguard the interests of Malik Bhagos. It can kill, maim, incarcerate, uproot any one to please industrialists and propertied people, MNCs and their Indian agents. In the process it can violate with impunity its own declarations and promises.” “We will not stop our struggle for Justice; until we repossess the forcibly acquired land and until the victim farmers get the justice” he added. Farmers across the state of Punjab are protesting the forcible acquisition of 166 acres of fertile and irrigated land by the administration to establish a thermal power plant, which will also lead to displacement of about 100 families. -- 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.
