Fwd: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Fwd: statement for signatures

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From: Saibaba G N <gnsaibaba@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:51 PM
Subject: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Fwd: statement for signatures

 

Dear Friends,
Please read the following statement which I received from
Prof Amit Bhadhuri.

Please let me know if you agree with it.

Send me your response and your details to add as signatories.

Hope you would respond quickly
Saibaba

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From: Amit Bhaduri <amit.bhaduri@gmail.com>
Date: 14 April 2010 11:15
Subject: statement for signatures
To: Saibaba G N <gnsaibaba@gmail.com>


I am sending you the statement without signatures. Our target is a 100
from different parts, deadline until 15th would be a good idea.Amit






We, the undersigned, mourn the death of 74 jawans in Dantewada on
April 6, 2010. Regrettably, it is a direct fall out of  the
government's wrong-headed policy of declaring a war on the poorest
sections of its own people. We have been urging the Indian government
that the issues arising out of the opposition of adivasis to MOUs
signed by the state governments with mining and other industrial
conglomerates, resulting in grab of land and common resources like
forest and river, and massive forceful displacement and dispossession,
leave them in a desperate state, with no possible alternative, thus
depriving them of   dignified livelihood. They are our fellow
citizens, with as much right to life as any one of us, and the issue
has to be resolved through dialogue rather than force of arms. The
apparent intelligence failure on the part of the government machinery
is a symptom of how little local popular support these aggressive
policies of the government, embodied in Operation Greenhunt, enjoys.

We urge the government of India not to pursue further this disastrous
option, or fall prey to the illusion that stepping up this war on our
own people would solve any of the fundamental problems facing the
people of this area. It would instead degenerate into an
uncontrollable civil war, as more people dispossessed of land and
livelihood will be driven to take up arms.

Dialogue and not arms is the only way forward: not an option but a
compulsion of the situation. And dialogue can never start merely with
abstract discourse on violence versus non-violence, but transparency
on immediate issues affecting the lives of millions, such as
dispossession and displacement through signing of MOUs, and violation
of constitutional rights of adivasis under the Fifth Schedule. This
initiative can only come from the government

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G N SAIBABA

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G N SAIBABA

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Palash Biswas
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