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India Maoists release police hostages in Bihar

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:33:47 GMT

British Broadcasting Corporation

Police in the eastern Indian state of Bihar say Maoist rebels have released three policemen they were holding hostage for eight days.

Last week, the rebels killed one of the four policemen they had taken hostage in Lakhisarai district. They took the policemen hostage last Monday after a gunfight in which seven other policemen were killed. The rebels had threatened to kill all the policemen unless eight Maoist prisoners were released. Indian security forces have been battling Maoists in several states.

Tehelka Magazine on Azad

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:59:30 GMT

Are we living in a State that mouths peace but shoots its messengers?

OPINION: AZAD KILLING

FAKERY HAS always been a key instrument of power. But last week, as the President and Prime Minister of India made their Independence Day speeches, cocooned symbolically in towers of glass, the scale of that fakery shot skyward. Both leaders augustly urged the Maoists, yet again, to "abjure violence" and come for talks. Few among the millions of Indians who heard them would have caught the cynicism.

On the hostages in Bihar and the execution of Lucas Tete

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:11:23 GMT

[Note from G N Saibaba: The killing of Lucas Tete, one of the four policemen taken hostage by the CPI (Maoist), is regrettable. Killing people after taking them into custody is a pattern followed by the Indian state, as in the case of Azad, and Hemchandra Pandey, but is uncharacteristic of and unexpected from revolutionaries. It is imperative for the CPI (Maoist) to immediately release the remaining police personnel in their custody, as a gesture of their goodwill, and for the Indian government to respond by initiating talks with the CPI (Maoist) genuinely and seriously.]

G N SAIBABA

On the Killing of Umakanta Mahato

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:53:24 GMT

Report on a Fact-Finding Investigation by Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mansha (MASUM) on the killing of Umakanta Mahato

MASUM conducted a fact finding over the incident of Umakanta Mahato's killing. The fact finding came to a conclusion that Umakanta killed by the posted joint force comprising of Central Reserve Police Force, Local Police personnel, aided by armed mercenaries of ruling party (Harmad). Umakanta was not only deprived by his fundamental right to life; guaranteed by article 21 of Indian Constitution but the whole incident was contravening to Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials adopted by Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, in which India was a party. In our domestic legal domain there are several provisions and procedures with specific directives for minimum use of power and firearms with basic tenets that also should be used only for self defense. But in contrary to all, Umakanta was killed on 27.08.2010 at about 1.00 am while he was returning from adjoining village at Parulia forest in a motorbike with two associates.

Indian government rejection of Vedanta bauxite mine a “landmark victory” for Indigenous rights

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:14:45 GMT

Amnesty International :: 24 August 2010

Amnesty International today described the Indian government’s decision to reject the bauxite mine project in Orissa’s Niyamgiri Hills as a landmark victory for the human rights of Indigenous communities.

India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests today rejected the mine project proposed by a subsidiary of UK-based Vedanta Resources and the state-owned Orissa Mining Corporation, after finding that the project already extensively violates forest and environmental laws and would perpetrate abuses against the Dongria Kondh adivasi and other communities on the Hills.

Faking An Encounter: Killing the Peace Process

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:21:18 GMT

Preliminary Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey
Released to the media at Hyderabad on 22 August, 2010

CDRO put together a team of concerned citizens consisting of Prof. Emeritus Amit Bahaduri, J.N.U., Delhi, Senior Counsel of Supreme Court Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Kavita Srivatsava, Human Rights worker from Rajasthan, Gautam Navlakha writer & from PUDR, Delhi, Kranthi Chaitanya, Advocate and General Secretary of APCLC, D. Suresh Kumar, Advocate, APCLC, Ch. Sudhakar Rao, President of OPDR, D. Venkateswarlu, OPDR.

15 August: London Protest

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:13:21 GMT

“Indian Independence Day” in London turned into a day of militant protests of the crimes and atrocities committed against the people of India and the worsening national oppression by the Indian state.

On August 15, 2010, over 250 people converged in front of the Indian High Commission building in central London to protest the crimes and atrocities of the Indian state against the people of the country. They had gathered from across London and the Midlands to participate in a protest rally that was called by Alliance For People’s Right In South Asia, UK (AFPRISA) in order to express opposition to “Operation Green Hunt”, expose Indian expansionism and to condemn the recent assassination of Azad, the spokesperson of CPI (Maoist).

California Protest of Indian Gov’t. Attacks on People in India and Occupied Kashmir

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:02:11 GMT

San Francisco, California: On Friday, August 13, an action of solidarity with the people in India and Kashmir-a protest of the Indian government's "Operation Green Hunt" and the repression of the resistance of Kashmiri people's struggle-took place at the Indian Consulate in the San Francisco. It was endorsed by the Sanhati Collective, and participants included US and South Asian solidarity activists from the Bay Area and elsewhere.

AP protest of Human Rights Violations in Kashmir

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:12:02 GMT

A protest demonstration was conducted by the rights group of Andhra Pradesh at Indira Park, Lower Tank Bund road from 11 AM to 2PM. The demands which are made are:

1. Stop all violent actions immediately on people of Kashmir.

2. Withdraw all the Armed forces from civilian areas immediately and confine them to barracks.

3. Release all the people arrested during demonstration and agitations.

London: Protest against Indian Government's "Operation Green Hunt"

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:32:27 GMT

Where: Protest Rally outside Indian High Commission Office (Aldwych, Holborn, London WC2B 4NA)

When: Sunday 15th August 2010, 11:00am - 1:00pm.

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New York: Protest Against the Indian Government's "Operation Green Hunt"

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:24:14 GMT

Where: At the Consulate in New York City (3 East 64th Street)
When: On August 13 at 11 a.m.

NEW YORK CITY - Sanhati, and other organizations and individuals, are organizing a protest against the Indian government's insidious war, named "Operation Green Hunt," which has been unleashed on the inhabitants of the forested regions of East-Central India.

Press Note circulated in the Press Conference held in Press Club, New Delhi on 7 August 2010

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:52:08 GMT

Concerned Citizens:

Institute a Judicial Inquiry into the Killing of Azad, Polit Bureau Member of CPI (Maoist) and Freelance Journalist Hem Chandra Pandey!
Stop War on People, Take up Peace Process Genuinely and Sincerely!

Public Meeting in Delhi on 3 August Demanding Judicial Inquiry into the Killing of Azad

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:56:50 GMT

A Report on the Public Meeting in Delhi on 3 August Demanding Judicial Inquiry into the Killing of Azad, the Spokesperson and Polit Bureau member of the CPI ( Maoist), along with Journalist Hem Chandra Pandey

2 PM, 3RD AUGUST 2010,
RAJENDRA BHAVAN, DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAY MARG, NEW DELHI

Demand the Judicial Enquiry into the alleged fake encounter of Azad and Hem Pandey

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:38:55 GMT

CONCERNED CITIZENS & FORUM AGAINST WAR ON PEOPLE

B-57, Gulmohar Park, Ist Floor, New Delhi 110049

PUBLIC MEETING TO DEMAND THE JUDICIAL ENQUIRY INTO THE ALLEGED FAKE-ENCOUNTER OF AZAD, THE SPOKESPERSON AND POLIT BUREAU MEMBER OF THE CPI(MAOIST) ALONG WITH JOURNALIST HEM CHANDRA PANDEY

2 PM, 3^RD AUGUST 2010, RAJENDRA BHAVAN, DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAY MARG, NEW DELHI

Press Statement

The Public Meeting to demand the judicial enquiry into the alleged fake-encounter of Azad, the spokesperson and Polit Bureau member of the CPI(Maoist) along with journalist Hem Chandra Pandey at Rajendra Bhavan, New Delhi was addressed by a large number of prominent citizens in the presence of more than hundred-strong audience. Dr. B D Sharma, Gandhian activist former Chairman of the SC/ST Commission of Government of India started the proceedings of the meeting by calling upon the audience to observe one minute's silence in commemoration of the deceased.

G N Saibaba, chairing the meeting, told that when he was killed, Azad was in the process of preparing the grounds for talks on behalf of his party with the Government of India through Swami Agnivesh. In the manner and at the juncture in which he along with Hem Pandey has been killed has triggered a public uproar, and there is a strong demand to institute a judicial enquiry into the circumstances of the killing of Azad and Hem Pandey.

August 4th : Delhi Discussion on Search for Peace and State Violence

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:26:02 GMT

The Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

Invites you for a DISCUSSION (followed by Interaction)

THE SEARCH FOR PEACE AND STATE VIOLENCE

Speakers:

Swami Agnivesh, Social Activist

Vara Vara Rao, Revolutionary Poet

Date: Wednesday, 4^th August 2010

Time: 2 pm

Venue: Lecture Hall, 2^nd Floor, Faculty of Social Sciences Building, North Campus.

ICAWPI Feed

India Maoists release police hostages in Bihar

Tehelka Magazine on Azad

On the hostages in Bihar and the execution of Lucas Tete

On the Killing of Umakanta Mahato

Indian government rejection of Vedanta bauxite mine a “landmark victory” for Indigenous rights

Faking An Encounter: Killing the Peace Process

15 August: London Protest

California Protest of Indian Gov’t. Attacks on People in India and Occupied Kashmir

AP protest of Human Rights Violations in Kashmir

London: Protest against Indian Government's "Operation Green Hunt"

Where: Protest Rally outside Indian High Commission Office (Aldwych, Holborn, London WC2B 4NA)

When: Sunday 15th August 2010, 11:00am - 1:00pm.

New York: Protest Against the Indian Government's "Operation Green Hunt"

Where: At the Consulate in New York City (3 East 64th Street) When: On August 13 at 11 a.m.

Press Note circulated in the Press Conference held in Press Club, New Delhi on 7 August 2010

Public Meeting in Delhi on 3 August Demanding Judicial Inquiry into the Killing of Azad

Demand the Judicial Enquiry into the alleged fake encounter of Azad and Hem Pandey

August 4th : Delhi Discussion on Search for Peace and State Violence

Where: At the Consulate in New York City (3 East 64th Street)
When: On August 13 at 11 a.m.