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rights organisations such as Association for the Protection of Thus, while asection of the 'civil society.

Democratic Rights (APDR) and Sandi Mukti Committee (BMC) of ' and the corporate media does.

choose to rightly highlight one blatant and obvious case of state.

Bengal, the rest of the civil society has maintained acalculated silence repression likethat of Dr. Sen, no such concern is visible for thousands..

on the two convictions. other less-known people who are undergoing imprisonment or areAnd similar are the stories of many others. Earlier this already dead. The civil society has been silent on not only of the.

month, Sudhir Dhawale, the well-known Dalit rights activist and editor of .

Maoists, but also of the religious and national minorities. The state.

Mar.a.thi magazine Vidrohi was arrested at Gondia and charged with had blindly hunted down innocent Muslims, linked them up with non-.

sed1t1on (Sec 124) and under Section 17, 20 and 39 of the UAPA. He .

existent 'terror modules', invented 'masterminds' and persecuted thewas returning after addressing 'Ambedkar-Phule Sahitya Sammelan' entire community as potential 'terrorists'. Countless Muslims have beennear Wardha. The Maharashtra police has linked him up with Maoists, harassed, tortured, illegally detained, implicated and in cases like theand as 'evidence' produced seized literatures which are nothing but the Batla House fake encounter, even killed. Many RSS leaders like.

writings of Marx, Lenin, Ambedkar, and Bhagat Singh. Likewise, Asit lndresh Kumar, who have been clearly named by Aseemanand are·still.

Sengupta, the editor of the internationally reputed journai'A World to at large while the incarcerated innocent Muslims are still languishing in.

Win' was illegally detained and later arrested by Chhattisgarh police in .

jail. The same is true for civil society's position on the oppressedJanuary 2008. On the same day when Binayak Sen, Narayan Sanyal nationalities, where their movement for self-determination includingand Piyush Guha were given life imprisonment, Asit Sengupta was .

secession from India is being crushed by most authoritarian means by.

convicted and sentenced to eight years of imprisonment for his work as the state. Repression of their political movements -be it in the North.

an editor and publisher. Kopa Kunjam, an activist of Vanvasi Chetna East or Kashmir-is however reduced by the civil society to violation ofAshram (Dantewada) who was working to resettle displaced adivasis in .

human rights or demand for withdrawal of draconian laws, etc..

Netra village has been falsely implicated in amurder case. Similarly, The civil-society presents the conviction of the three.

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nine activists including Kartam Jogaof the Adivasi Mahasabha who .

merely as an aberration, where one reactionary :udge in alower court.

were campaigning against land-grab in Lohandiguda have been can be blamed for meting out an unacceptahle verdict This however isimplicated and jailed in fabricated charges. .

yet another evidence -for those who still justifies the present.

The spokesperson of PCPA in Lalgarh, Chhatradhar Mahato .

oppressive system-of the fascist nature of the Indian state or its.

and its treasurer Sukhshanti Baskey were arrested and imprisoned for various organs. Sandwiched between afascist state and people's.

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more than a year. The police havetaken recourse to slapping false heroic resistance, they have played time and again an opportunistcharges including the draconian UAPA and tried to make malicious.

propaganda against them to_establish their charges, all of which were politics of creating afalse and impossible dream of 'democratising th"estate'. The parliamentary 'Left' parties like CPI(M) have alsolater found to be baseless. Similarly Prasun Chatterjee and Raja revealed their fascist colours by becoming the most faithful ally ofSarkhel of the Gana Pratirodh Mancha were arrested under UAPA and .

UPA and BJP in this war against the people. CPI(M) thus wantsare still languishing injail. The police charged them of being Maoist 'proportionate punishment' for Binayak Sen and has justified his earlier.

sympathizers. In West Bengal the first custodial death under UAPA was denial of bail. But when these murderers speak anything on Binayakalso recorded as Swapan Dasgupta, the editor of Bengali People.

's Sen's arrest, it tantamount to nothing but crass hypocrisy. Their.

March who was booked under UAPA and was suffering from cancer electoral ally CPI(ML)Liberation however has no other choice but to.

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died due to criminal negligence of the Police who refused to transfuse celebrate such double-speak. Liberation (and AI SA) which on papers.

him blood citing 'security reasons'.

! More than 200 people including 'condemn' CPI(M)'s gross carnages in Singur, Nandigram, Lalgarh or.

many women have been picked up from different places of the Jangal .

off late in Netai have allied with same CPI(M) in Bihar elections and.

Mahal in the last two years and booked under UAPA or with the saw 'new possibilities' in such opportunist alliance. So they have no.

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charges ·of sedrtion and 'waging war against the state' for daring to other options but to welcome, as they did in their last pamphlet, the.

resist the decades-long repression and poverty that has been opportunist stand of CPI(M) on Dr Sen! And that is the reason whynormalized in region for years. Asimilar kind of state repression Liberation cannot speak beyond Binayak Sen. Because then they haveprevails all across Jharkhand, Orissa, AP, MahardShtra and .

to accept how inherently fascist this Indian state is; how entrenched.

Chhattisgarh. In Orissa alone there are 700 people in different jails feudal forces are and how futile parliamentary politics is! Then they alsoincluding 120 people in Rourkela and 200 people in Koraput .

have to stand unconditionally with the resilient masses who are fightingThe 'civil society' is sil,ent on the ongoing fake-encounter this fascist brahminical system tooth and nail. But that is apolitics.

killings: The killing of Lalmohan Tudu the president of PCPA, Sidhu Liberation has left behind way back. It thus finds its alliance with the.

Soren Secretary of PCPA along with five others by the police in fake social fascist CPI(M), the reactionary Nitish Kumar, and with theencounters took place in West Bengal last year. In Metla for~st in apolitical civil society and NGOs. . ..

Lalgarh five people were shot dead by the CRPF and it was staged as .

It Is time the 'civil society' realize that there is no.

an 'encounter'. Wadeka Singhana, the president of Chasi Mulia Advasi .

'democracy' for the vast majority in India. The state repression is notSangha was killed in cold blood along another activist of the rooted in undemocratic functioning of today.

organisation in 2008. Around 130 people have been killed in 's UPA government, or any.

government of the day. In the name of dialogue and peace, what they.

'encounters' in Orissa. The Andhra Police also staged t~e notorious ar:1d .

have practiced is nothing but NGO-styled strategic int~rvention. Peacecold blooded fake encounter of Maoist spokesperson and PB member or dialogue can never be talked about in abstraction. People on the.

Azad and ajournalist Hem Chandra Pandey. The Supreme Court .

other hand are struggling against a svstem of inequality, oPpression by.

recently was forced to raise serious doubts on this particular encounter the ruling classes of India. We hope thatthe Indian civil society will.

as the 'evidence' provided by the police were flimsy. to overcome Its limitations and will.try to integrate more closelywith the ongoing peoples' movements in the·country. .

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