From: Pravin Patel <tribalwelfare@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Subject: {KBK OTable} Re: 'you're either with use or against us'
To: kbkroundtable@googlegroups.com
Dear Mr. Daniel and friends
The way the law keepers are behaving and speaking the dictatorial
language is strongly condemned. This is exactly what the people
behind the Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh speaks.
If there is no room for those peace loving people who strongly deplore
the violence be it practised by the Maoist or even by the Police or
State supported actors be it Salwa Judum or of any other name. We are
the largest democracy of the world where such dictatorial words have
no place. The way things are wrongly presented to misguide innocent
people or even create confusion amongst the community, as is seen at
Narayanpatna incidents in which innocents are killed by labelling them
as Maoists.
The actions of the Koraput police administration to coerce poor people
to create panic amongst the innocent tribals exposes that the state
police is not with the tribals but are acting as the agents of the
powrful corporate houses whose eagle eyes have fallen on the lands of
those poor tribals and when they agitate to protect their land
ownership rights, theyt are taught lessons, the way it has been done
within and outside the premises of Narayanpatna Police Station.
Now, we also find some people doing press conference in the guise of
peace loving people who are criticising activists and agitators as the
persons disturbing peace. We need to expose such dummies whose sole
action seems to glorify state sponsored terrorism.
Yes, the identity and culture of the tribal community is at risk.
After robbing them of the natural wealth, now eyes are on their land
at the cost of intruding in to the fundamental constitutional rights
of those poor tribals.
Questions comes in my mind, who will police the police who is now in
the habit of p[laying with the rights of the poor tribals??????
With best wishes
Pravin Patel
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Umi Daniel <umi.daniel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
> In his famous speech Bush once said, "There is no room for neutrality in the war against terrorism; you're either with use or against us in the fight against terror". The Koraput police has taken a leaf from the Bush theory and implementing the same principle with the tribal in Narayanapatna. It is reported that the police administration is coercing the poor and terrified tribal to testify before the police about their loyalty and say "either they are with them or against them". Tribal men, women and young people thronging in large number to Narayanapatna police station to give their written commitment guarantying tribal support, cooperation and loyalty for the cause of the police. In return, it seems, the police ensuring the villager full protection, treatment and freedom from arrest and harassment.
>
> Till recently the tribal broke their long culture of silence and have started asserting their voice through a collective process. The administration doesn't want the tribal to demand, argue and remain silence for ever as they were before. The coercion tactics is nothing but making the tribal submissive to the system prescribed by landlord, business mafia, police and administration.
>
> I am afraid; the same strategy may leads to reinforcement of Salwa Judum kind of oppressive strategy in Koraput district.
> Regards
> Daniel
> ===================
> Umi Daniel
> MiRC, Migration information & Resources Centre
> 3, Subhadra Enclave
> Jagamara, Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar
> Tel: 0674 6570455
> Mob: 9937019196
>
> visit my blog: http://orissamigration.blogspot.com/
>
>
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