PaRCha - JNU - JNUSU - 2008 ID-63754
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Terrorand Witch..Hunt Of Minorities: PublicMeeting.
State, Media and Issues Before Indian Democracy .
speakers Aziz Burney A. Rahman.
Group Editor, Rashtriya SeniorAdvocate, Supreme Court ·. .
Sahara (Urdu Edition) Amit SenguptaRajesh Ramachandran .
Former President JNUSU, noted journalist,Associate Editor, Mail Today Hard News.
27.9.08(Tonight).
Tapti Mess Harsh Mander Adil Mehdi .
9.15pm social activist Dept of English, Jamia Millia lslamia .
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JNUSU condemns in strongest terms today's bomb blast in the city which has claimed at least 5.
innocent lives and left at least 50 people injured. Such recurrence of blasts is costing innocentJives is indeed shocking. JNUSU expresses condolences for the families of those killed in the.
blast. lnspite of all the professed alacrity on the part of the govt. the real terrorists seem to have.
a free run. We appeal to the student community to peace and harmony at all cost and not give.
ensure with impartiality that the real culprits are nabbed. .
space to any form of frenzy. JNUSU demands of the govt to desist from sensationalism and.
JNUSU will observe condolence for the victims oftoday-s blast before beginning the Public Meeting..
Terror and Witch-Hunt Of Minorities: State, media and the Issues before Indian democracyThe newspapers today have all brandished asingle photo on theircover page: the image of the Indian Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh warmly.
embracing the U.S.President, George Bush.This warm embrace is no ordinary action:this warm embrace for Manmohan is astranglehold.
for people of this country. On the eve of Bhagat Singh's birth anniversary, it is indeed a crude irony on all democracy loving people.
and sacrifice of our martys who lived and died fighting the colonial rule. Manmohan Singh told Bush,"The peopleof Indiadeeplylove you:· .
.
of this country to see their Prime Minister hugging the most cruel imperialist warlord of the present and trampling upon the dream.
Manmohan Singh's statement of surrender that began in Oxford, where he declared that the Briti?h gave India ·goodgovernance' has now been.
completed.111 keeping with this alliance of renewed slavery to US, both in India and in the US,the "war on terror' hasnow taken on an eenesimilarity..
.
Why is itthatterror investigations initially claim they know the culprits but almost always end inconclusively?.
The USinitially stated thatAI Qaeda was behind the altack on the twin towers on September 11, andlaunched the war in Afghanistantofind Osama.
.
bin Laden.Six years later,the Bushad~1nistrati~n is~oclos~r~o findi~g Osa~abin Laden, but .
~wocountrieshave been invaded andtheirpeopleare.
still bearing the brunt of US occupat1on and 1nvas1on. S1m1larly, m lnd1a, time and agam bomb blasts occur and the state and police.
machineries declare that they know who is behind the blasts and names like Huji, SIMI, Lashkar etc. are recycled without caring for 0any consistency even in terms of their own logic. But we have seen that they never manageto reach the logical conclusion of anyof theseinvestigations after the first round of media-hyped arrests and encounters.The state machinery seems tobeinterested only in imprinting an.
from occurring,sothat innocentciviliansonceagain arethe hapless victims, left behindwith asenseof shock,grief and anger. .
image of the'terrorist' in people's minds, but the real terrorists are nevercaught. Nor are stateor centralgovernments in Indiaableto stop these blasts.
Why are Claims made, but never substantiated?.
The Bushadministrationclaimedthat thecausefor launching the war inIraqwas SaddamHussein'sstock of hidden nuclear arsenal that proved.
athreat to the world. TheUNInspectors found no such evidence of an immi·1ent threat,but Bushwasnotdaunted.Now,Saddam'sdictatorship has.
.
been replaced by apuppet regime, but nuclear missiles have notyetbeen uncovered inIraq. .
,.
Heretoo, in India, claims are made butthere is no needforsubstantiation.Investigating agencies hardly ever come up with any evidence to back.
.
uptheir claims. In the recentarrestsmade,if the Delhi police isrightandthese boys arethe 'masterminds'behind the Ahmedabad and Jaipur blaststoo_what is the status of those who were earlier arrested by Gujarat and Rajasthan police as the 'masterminds'? Last year, Aftab,agovernment.
employee from Kolkata,was arrested as a'HuJImast~rmin~' behind UP's.se~ial ~la~ts. Lat~r, i!was proved that completely innocent. There are many.
unanswered questions about last Friday'sencounter mJam1aN,agar.!h~1nd1scnmma~era1ds mAzamgarh have not revealed any facts to strengthenthepolice case.They had claimed that the bank accounts of the terronsts wouldcontam many hundreds ofcrores-that also stood to be patenUy false..
Why are we told only one side of the story?.
Often,instead of holding the government and invest~gati~g agen~ies accountable, the media t~n~s ~obe selective in its reportage. In times suchasthese we often see the .wholes~lecollusion.of the medta.wlththe v~.
1ceof the state a~ ~t en~ages1n 1ts~waron.terror'.This has been c:rn,tal clearin.
the us,where the right-wmg med1a has contributed hand-m-glove w1th the Bush admm1stration to present the 1mage ofacountrY under siege..
InIndia,too,we have seen how the police and mediatold lies ~nd indulge~ ~~ c~aracterassassina~n-.and'Yetcould notcome upshred of proof.The media, like the state agencies,cannot escape 1ts respons1b1llty mthe monumental Injustice ofbranding and .
.
PaRCha - JNU - JNUSU - 2008 ID-63754
.
.. .
I J -::~. !.
··· ., .
·l .
' .
i IJ .
Terrorand Witch..Hunt Of Minorities: PublicMeeting.
State, Media and Issues Before Indian Democracy .
speakers Aziz Burney A. Rahman.
Group Editor, Rashtriya SeniorAdvocate, Supreme Court ·. .
Sahara (Urdu Edition) Amit SenguptaRajesh Ramachandran .
Former President JNUSU, noted journalist,Associate Editor, Mail Today Hard News.
27.9.08(Tonight).
Tapti Mess Harsh Mander Adil Mehdi .
9.15pm social activist Dept of English, Jamia Millia lslamia .
.
JNUSU condemns in strongest terms today's bomb blast in the city which has claimed at least 5.
innocent lives and left at least 50 people injured. Such recurrence of blasts is costing innocentJives is indeed shocking. JNUSU expresses condolences for the families of those killed in the.
blast. lnspite of all the professed alacrity on the part of the govt. the real terrorists seem to have.
a free run. We appeal to the student community to peace and harmony at all cost and not give.
ensure with impartiality that the real culprits are nabbed. .
space to any form of frenzy. JNUSU demands of the govt to desist from sensationalism and.
JNUSU will observe condolence for the victims oftoday-s blast before beginning the Public Meeting..
Terror and Witch-Hunt Of Minorities: State, media and the Issues before Indian democracyThe newspapers today have all brandished asingle photo on theircover page: the image of the Indian Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh warmly.
embracing the U.S.President, George Bush.This warm embrace is no ordinary action:this warm embrace for Manmohan is astranglehold.
for people of this country. On the eve of Bhagat Singh's birth anniversary, it is indeed a crude irony on all democracy loving people.
and sacrifice of our martys who lived and died fighting the colonial rule. Manmohan Singh told Bush,"The peopleof Indiadeeplylove you:· .
.
of this country to see their Prime Minister hugging the most cruel imperialist warlord of the present and trampling upon the dream.
Manmohan Singh's statement of surrender that began in Oxford, where he declared that the Briti?h gave India ·goodgovernance' has now been.
completed.111 keeping with this alliance of renewed slavery to US, both in India and in the US,the "war on terror' hasnow taken on an eenesimilarity..
.
Why is itthatterror investigations initially claim they know the culprits but almost always end inconclusively?.
The USinitially stated thatAI Qaeda was behind the altack on the twin towers on September 11, andlaunched the war in Afghanistantofind Osama.
.
bin Laden.Six years later,the Bushad~1nistrati~n is~oclos~r~o findi~g Osa~abin Laden, but .
~wocountrieshave been invaded andtheirpeopleare.
still bearing the brunt of US occupat1on and 1nvas1on. S1m1larly, m lnd1a, time and agam bomb blasts occur and the state and police.
machineries declare that they know who is behind the blasts and names like Huji, SIMI, Lashkar etc. are recycled without caring for 0any consistency even in terms of their own logic. But we have seen that they never manageto reach the logical conclusion of anyof theseinvestigations after the first round of media-hyped arrests and encounters.The state machinery seems tobeinterested only in imprinting an.
from occurring,sothat innocentciviliansonceagain arethe hapless victims, left behindwith asenseof shock,grief and anger. .
image of the'terrorist' in people's minds, but the real terrorists are nevercaught. Nor are stateor centralgovernments in Indiaableto stop these blasts.
Why are Claims made, but never substantiated?.
The Bushadministrationclaimedthat thecausefor launching the war inIraqwas SaddamHussein'sstock of hidden nuclear arsenal that proved.
athreat to the world. TheUNInspectors found no such evidence of an immi·1ent threat,but Bushwasnotdaunted.Now,Saddam'sdictatorship has.
.
been replaced by apuppet regime, but nuclear missiles have notyetbeen uncovered inIraq. .
,.
Heretoo, in India, claims are made butthere is no needforsubstantiation.Investigating agencies hardly ever come up with any evidence to back.
.
uptheir claims. In the recentarrestsmade,if the Delhi police isrightandthese boys arethe 'masterminds'behind the Ahmedabad and Jaipur blaststoo_what is the status of those who were earlier arrested by Gujarat and Rajasthan police as the 'masterminds'? Last year, Aftab,agovernment.
employee from Kolkata,was arrested as a'HuJImast~rmin~' behind UP's.se~ial ~la~ts. Lat~r, i!was proved that completely innocent. There are many.
unanswered questions about last Friday'sencounter mJam1aN,agar.!h~1nd1scnmma~era1ds mAzamgarh have not revealed any facts to strengthenthepolice case.They had claimed that the bank accounts of the terronsts wouldcontam many hundreds ofcrores-that also stood to be patenUy false..
Why are we told only one side of the story?.
Often,instead of holding the government and invest~gati~g agen~ies accountable, the media t~n~s ~obe selective in its reportage. In times suchasthese we often see the .wholes~lecollusion.of the medta.wlththe v~.
1ceof the state a~ ~t en~ages1n 1ts~waron.terror'.This has been c:rn,tal clearin.
the us,where the right-wmg med1a has contributed hand-m-glove w1th the Bush admm1stration to present the 1mage ofacountrY under siege..
InIndia,too,we have seen how the police and mediatold lies ~nd indulge~ ~~ c~aracterassassina~n-.and'Yetcould notcome upshred of proof.The media, like the state agencies,cannot escape 1ts respons1b1llty mthe monumental Injustice ofbranding and .
.