[Reader-list] Fishing Community Leaders Condemn Attack on Medha Patkar

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PRESS RELEASE
9.11.2007


Fishing Community Leaders Condemn Attack on Medha Patkar

Thiruvananthapuram  -  The fishing community leaders have condemned
the attack on well known social activist Medha Patkar by a group of
hooligans in West Bengal.  T.Peter, President, The Kerala Independent
Fishworkders' Federation (KSMTF), Valerian Isaac, Dist. President,
KSMTF and Anto Elias, Dist. Secretary, KSMTF have expressed their strong
protest today on the attack on NAPM convenor Medha Patkar.
This deplorable action on an activist like Medha Patkar who has
Provided inspiration and energy to a number of struggles of the
adivasis, fisher people and farmers as well as generating pressures on
the governments on their issues, is in effect a challenge before the
marginalized communities in India, said the leaders of KSMTF. The
fisher people's union has demanded immediate arrest of those who are
responsible for violence and to generate peaceful democratic space for
social and political activists in West Bengal. The KSMTF has also
reassured their support and cooperation for the marginalised people's
movements led by Medha Patkar.

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