*Statement by Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression *
*Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS)* strongly condemns the raid on the house of Ms Kavita Srivastava, General Secretary PUCL, in Jaipur, in the early hours of 3rd October 2011, by the Chhattisgarh Police, along with the Rajasthan Police. The raid was supposedly in search of a naxalite being shielded in her house. The manner in which this search was undertaken, by arriving with a truckload of Special Task Force police, is equally reprehensible. Clearly, it is meant to intimidate Kavita and her family members, as well as serve as a warning to other human rights defenders. Nothing was found in the house during this search in which Kavita’s 84-year old father was pushed around and the domestic workers ill-treated. Among many tasks as an office-bearer of PUCL at the national and state levels, Kavita Srivastava has been tirelessly highlighting the violations of democratic rights in several parts of the country, including Chhattisgarh. Recently PUCL-Rajasthan brought out the case of the missing Dalit nurse Bhanwari Devi, in which several powerful politicians are being implicated. PUCL-Rajasthan had also exposed the facts in the recent shooting and killing of Muslims in Gopalgarh. We stand by Kavita Srivastava and protest against this relentless targeting by the state of human rights activists. We would also like to again draw attention to the grave situation in the state of Chhattisgarh, where people protesting against forcible land acquisition and displacement, police atrocities, violations of civil liberties and human rights, are either arrested or detained, and branded as naxalites. While the rights of adivasis are being denied, security personnel including the Indian army is being sent there in full force to facilitate the exploitation of the mineral resources by multi-national companies. *Many brave adivasi women and men have raised their voices against such policies of the state, and against the police and salwa judum, including people such as Kopa Kunjam, Sodi Sambhu, Kartam Joga, Lingaram Kodopi, Soni Sori.* All these people are being hounded by the police. Threatening petitioners, intimidating eye witnesses, branding the victims of police atrocities, have all become common practices of the Chattisgarh police. We strongly oppose and condemn such practices. *4.10.2011* WSS contact: againstsexualviole...@gmail.com - -- 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.
