PaRCha - JNU - PSU SFR SCB - 2012 ID-67253
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LATHORE ATROCITY : PRELIMJNARY OBSERVATIONS .
"hamari economic situation thik hai, kuchh ke paas zameen hei, educationally hum unse behtar hain, hum .
Ambedkarism ke tahat kam karte hain, temple meln entry ke /lye sangharsh kiye hain, unke liye baja bajana .
chlwd diye hain. hamara Srikrishna club development ka kam khud karla hai jmera Meher ki /adki ke sath .
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affair hai...in sab se Meher aur Agrawal bahuf jalte hain, . Laba Suna, Lathore.
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~~Maine 17 January ko Vanijya Sangha ke kala bajariyon aur Ghasiram ke mad (liquor) bhatti ke bare mein ek .
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news item /ikha tha. Jiske karan vo kaaphi baukhalaye fhe. Kapil Suna, Lathore.
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"22 January ko 3-3.30 baje 500-600 log jo kai gaon se the, Jitu da ke ghar ko jalane /age. Unke hath mein hafhiyar the-ta/war, pharsa, ku/hari, Jath1: sambhal, eint (brick). Jaggannath Agrawal petrol bant raha tha. Ghasiram mad(liquor) free kar diya tha. Bol raha tha ki Ganda /ogno ko mar do. Ma-behan ki sari khfnchi. Meri maa ko jab kandhe par lekar mein bhag rahi thi to unhe bhi eint (brick) lagi. Hum mein se .
kuchh Ghasi padamein bhage, jabki kuchh jungle ki taraf Ve torch lekarjungle mein bhi dhoondh rahe the. Mere kapde bhi phat gaye the. .
Hamne puri raat jungle mein guzaari kadakti dhand mein. "-Lalita Sun a, Lathore r;3.30 baje se lekar 12.30 rat tak hamare ghar ko ja/aya-loota gaya. Unhe pata tha ki kis ghar mein sona -chandi hai. Vo use loot liya.Hamare certificates ko nikal-nikal kar jala rahe the. Ve ghar ko jala rahe the aur nara de rahe--holi hai. Ve hamare micchil (goat), murge ko .
}ala kar kha rahe the aur mad (liquor) pi rahe the. Police ki maujoodagi mein ye sab twa. Damkat jo binapani ka tha ko bhi}ala diya. "-.
Geetanjali Suna, Lathore ('Hum nirdosh hain. Hamare 45/og arrest hain. Aap isse poliricise nal1i kariye. Bhagwan insaf karenge"-An Agrawal Youth, Lathore aHamare Jog Patnagarh jail mein hain. Election ke bad ve chhoof jaytmge. ·-Babita Meher, Lathore .
We could not do anything. Police were busy in the combing operation.,._ Loberto Kiro, SHO "OM called at 9.30 pm on 22nc1 January to reach the relief camp on 23rd morning."-CDPO "We are giving food to 195 people, but they are feeding 270 people.Their relatives are eating their food."-BOO DHamare school ki padhai yahan badhit ho rahi hsi is camp ke karan. Jati iss ghatana ka karan nahi hai." AN Mishra, Headmaster, .
Durgeshwari High School (a part of this school is 'relief camp now) .
" Humko Maovadiyon se bachane ke liye yahan deploy kiya gaya hai." A Para-Military Force Deployed in the Camp" Everbody is fit and fine here."-Medical Officer at the Camp, A Meher "Incident of Lathore is not an issue. It is part of life normal life . " -AK Panda, DSP (Establishment) .
"We are responsible for natural calamities and not for this."--Mr. Minj, ADM .. It has nothing to do with caste. We cannot register it under SC/ST Act. We cannot do anything now. We are busy in election."-AK Dey, OM "Cas~e is not the reason of this incident. People from different villages were part of this crime." Bhaj Meher, Samvad "h'um vote varyaan (boycott) karenge"-Seemanchal, Lath ore .
tiHumpehle to constitutional tarike se apna sangharsh kar&nge. Le~in agar hamein nayaya nahi mila to hum Maovadiyno ke safh ho jayenge~~-Rinku Suna, Lathore These are some of the excerpts shared with our ten membesr team from DU, JNU, IGNOU which were in Lathore from 15to 4th February.
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\"/hen Indian S~ate was gearing up for its 'Republic Day' celebrations on 22nd February, 2012 45 houses of Dalits in Lathore , Balangir.
district of Odisha were IGoted, burnt down by the Meher-Agrawal in collaboration with the RSS. Properties worth crores were looted. .
Women were harassed, sexua'ly abused. And now they are living in a camp, Durgeshwari High School, Lathore. The Administration .
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is busy in Panchayat election and have left the people on their own. .
The torching was well planned: The brahamanical media an-:i the Administration projected that the reason for the gutting down of .
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· houses is 'stealing' of a shirt by a dalit boy, Ganesh Suna from the shop of Bharat Meher. 'Ne must not forget that even in Mirchpurgenocide, where mere barking of 8 dog at Jat youths was stated as the reason for torching of the two dalits alive! Our interaction with the people in the camp proves that the reason behind it are many includi:1g the growing assertion of masses and their collective resistance waged against the Brahamanicel State. The Dalits of Lathore are comparatfvely in better situation. Some of them hold .
land. Economically, educationally they are better than their upper castes neighbours. They have rejected the caste based slaveryimposed on them. Politically they have started asserting thus have emerged as the enemy for the caste Hindus. Their militant assertion for entry into temples, collectively taking up the developmental tasks under the banner of 'l<rishna Club' (which is going to be renamed as 'Jai Shim Club') and many others are b!g threat for the RSS. .
Kapil Suna, a journalist whose house was also burnt told us thnt on 17th January he had written a news item in the The Samaya, Oriya daily, in which he exposed the black market and the illegal liquor business. The title this news item is 'kala bazaar ka shahar Lathore'. In addition to liquor, there is black-marketir.g of woods, kerosene, public distribution items such as wheat, rice etc. and also the minerals like coal. Along with the local mafia dons Jaggannath AgaiWal and Ghasiram Agarwal, the local administration is involved in this. Ghasiram AgaNJal has a Bear factory in Belpara (Odisha) and also one in Andhra Pradesh. The fact that'this was a planned torching was also substantiated by the infom1ation provided by the CDPO. She expressed that they were called by the DM on the 22nd night itself {\vhile the houses were still burning) that ihe Durgeshwari School ~hould be made as the 'relief camp and the OM asked her to be present with other Aanganwadi didis in the 'relier camp on 23rd morning. More so people from different villages .
were part of the attacking mob. .
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Admlnistration·not only spectator but a·.
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!so perpetrator: The observation of our team is that the Police"and Administration is hand-.
in-gloves in this heinous crime. It was reiterated by the people in the camp that the SHO Loberto Kiro was·present on the _spot when .
the houses were being burnt down. People unanimously said that the office of the OM SP was informed when the mob of more than .
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500 pe,ople gheraoed the Ganda Pada (name of the dalit's basti) but they did not bother to take any step..thhe looting and "tor<~~in._g o~ .
houses$farted at around 3 O'clock and went till midnight, but tbe casteist Administration did~ nothing. When ·meJ1ouses Were bei09 .
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PaRCha - JNU - PSU SFR SCB - 2012 ID-67253
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LATHORE ATROCITY : PRELIMJNARY OBSERVATIONS .
"hamari economic situation thik hai, kuchh ke paas zameen hei, educationally hum unse behtar hain, hum .
Ambedkarism ke tahat kam karte hain, temple meln entry ke /lye sangharsh kiye hain, unke liye baja bajana .
chlwd diye hain. hamara Srikrishna club development ka kam khud karla hai jmera Meher ki /adki ke sath .
.
11.
affair hai...in sab se Meher aur Agrawal bahuf jalte hain, . Laba Suna, Lathore.
.
~~Maine 17 January ko Vanijya Sangha ke kala bajariyon aur Ghasiram ke mad (liquor) bhatti ke bare mein ek .
11.
news item /ikha tha. Jiske karan vo kaaphi baukhalaye fhe. Kapil Suna, Lathore.
.
"22 January ko 3-3.30 baje 500-600 log jo kai gaon se the, Jitu da ke ghar ko jalane /age. Unke hath mein hafhiyar the-ta/war, pharsa, ku/hari, Jath1: sambhal, eint (brick). Jaggannath Agrawal petrol bant raha tha. Ghasiram mad(liquor) free kar diya tha. Bol raha tha ki Ganda /ogno ko mar do. Ma-behan ki sari khfnchi. Meri maa ko jab kandhe par lekar mein bhag rahi thi to unhe bhi eint (brick) lagi. Hum mein se .
kuchh Ghasi padamein bhage, jabki kuchh jungle ki taraf Ve torch lekarjungle mein bhi dhoondh rahe the. Mere kapde bhi phat gaye the. .
Hamne puri raat jungle mein guzaari kadakti dhand mein. "-Lalita Sun a, Lathore r;3.30 baje se lekar 12.30 rat tak hamare ghar ko ja/aya-loota gaya. Unhe pata tha ki kis ghar mein sona -chandi hai. Vo use loot liya.Hamare certificates ko nikal-nikal kar jala rahe the. Ve ghar ko jala rahe the aur nara de rahe--holi hai. Ve hamare micchil (goat), murge ko .
}ala kar kha rahe the aur mad (liquor) pi rahe the. Police ki maujoodagi mein ye sab twa. Damkat jo binapani ka tha ko bhi}ala diya. "-.
Geetanjali Suna, Lathore ('Hum nirdosh hain. Hamare 45/og arrest hain. Aap isse poliricise nal1i kariye. Bhagwan insaf karenge"-An Agrawal Youth, Lathore aHamare Jog Patnagarh jail mein hain. Election ke bad ve chhoof jaytmge. ·-Babita Meher, Lathore .
We could not do anything. Police were busy in the combing operation.,._ Loberto Kiro, SHO "OM called at 9.30 pm on 22nc1 January to reach the relief camp on 23rd morning."-CDPO "We are giving food to 195 people, but they are feeding 270 people.Their relatives are eating their food."-BOO DHamare school ki padhai yahan badhit ho rahi hsi is camp ke karan. Jati iss ghatana ka karan nahi hai." AN Mishra, Headmaster, .
Durgeshwari High School (a part of this school is 'relief camp now) .
" Humko Maovadiyon se bachane ke liye yahan deploy kiya gaya hai." A Para-Military Force Deployed in the Camp" Everbody is fit and fine here."-Medical Officer at the Camp, A Meher "Incident of Lathore is not an issue. It is part of life normal life . " -AK Panda, DSP (Establishment) .
"We are responsible for natural calamities and not for this."--Mr. Minj, ADM .. It has nothing to do with caste. We cannot register it under SC/ST Act. We cannot do anything now. We are busy in election."-AK Dey, OM "Cas~e is not the reason of this incident. People from different villages were part of this crime." Bhaj Meher, Samvad "h'um vote varyaan (boycott) karenge"-Seemanchal, Lath ore .
tiHumpehle to constitutional tarike se apna sangharsh kar&nge. Le~in agar hamein nayaya nahi mila to hum Maovadiyno ke safh ho jayenge~~-Rinku Suna, Lathore These are some of the excerpts shared with our ten membesr team from DU, JNU, IGNOU which were in Lathore from 15to 4th February.
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2012. .
H****************** .
.
\"/hen Indian S~ate was gearing up for its 'Republic Day' celebrations on 22nd February, 2012 45 houses of Dalits in Lathore , Balangir.
district of Odisha were IGoted, burnt down by the Meher-Agrawal in collaboration with the RSS. Properties worth crores were looted. .
Women were harassed, sexua'ly abused. And now they are living in a camp, Durgeshwari High School, Lathore. The Administration .
.
is busy in Panchayat election and have left the people on their own. .
The torching was well planned: The brahamanical media an-:i the Administration projected that the reason for the gutting down of .
.
· houses is 'stealing' of a shirt by a dalit boy, Ganesh Suna from the shop of Bharat Meher. 'Ne must not forget that even in Mirchpurgenocide, where mere barking of 8 dog at Jat youths was stated as the reason for torching of the two dalits alive! Our interaction with the people in the camp proves that the reason behind it are many includi:1g the growing assertion of masses and their collective resistance waged against the Brahamanicel State. The Dalits of Lathore are comparatfvely in better situation. Some of them hold .
land. Economically, educationally they are better than their upper castes neighbours. They have rejected the caste based slaveryimposed on them. Politically they have started asserting thus have emerged as the enemy for the caste Hindus. Their militant assertion for entry into temples, collectively taking up the developmental tasks under the banner of 'l<rishna Club' (which is going to be renamed as 'Jai Shim Club') and many others are b!g threat for the RSS. .
Kapil Suna, a journalist whose house was also burnt told us thnt on 17th January he had written a news item in the The Samaya, Oriya daily, in which he exposed the black market and the illegal liquor business. The title this news item is 'kala bazaar ka shahar Lathore'. In addition to liquor, there is black-marketir.g of woods, kerosene, public distribution items such as wheat, rice etc. and also the minerals like coal. Along with the local mafia dons Jaggannath AgaiWal and Ghasiram Agarwal, the local administration is involved in this. Ghasiram AgaNJal has a Bear factory in Belpara (Odisha) and also one in Andhra Pradesh. The fact that'this was a planned torching was also substantiated by the infom1ation provided by the CDPO. She expressed that they were called by the DM on the 22nd night itself {\vhile the houses were still burning) that ihe Durgeshwari School ~hould be made as the 'relief camp and the OM asked her to be present with other Aanganwadi didis in the 'relier camp on 23rd morning. More so people from different villages .
were part of the attacking mob. .
· · · .
Admlnistration·not only spectator but a·.
.
!so perpetrator: The observation of our team is that the Police"and Administration is hand-.
in-gloves in this heinous crime. It was reiterated by the people in the camp that the SHO Loberto Kiro was·present on the _spot when .
the houses were being burnt down. People unanimously said that the office of the OM SP was informed when the mob of more than .
.
I . .
a.
500 pe,ople gheraoed the Ganda Pada (name of the dalit's basti) but they did not bother to take any step..thhe looting and "tor<~~in._g o~ .
houses$farted at around 3 O'clock and went till midnight, but tbe casteist Administration did~ nothing. When ·meJ1ouses Were bei09 .
.
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