[Reader-list] Chengara: Update from Samkutty Pattomkary

[Anivar Aravind]

COMMUNIST RULERS THINK THAT DALITS AND ADIVASIS DON'T DESERVE ANY HUMEN RIGHTS

CITU, INTUC, AITUC, BMS, UTUC, KTUC all have conjoined to 'evict'
30,000 people fighting in the Chengara estate on 3rd September 2008.
For that purpose, the slogan raised by this united front of trade
unions is this "crowd of thieves, leave Chengara"

Which is this 'crowd of thieves'?
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When the Congress union of INTUC says this, one can ignore it as sheer
ignorance. If the BJP/RSS-led BMS is saying this, one knows for sure
that it is their brahmanical ideology behind this. Not only that, but
for any caste-religious reasons, the dalits and adivasis have not so
far stood by such a party or its ideology.

But when through the mouths of the left organizations of CPIM, CPI and
RSP, the dalits are clubbed as the 'crowd of thieves'....!!! Remember,
dalits are those who gifted martyrs to the Communist Party in
Kerala...it is in the blood of dalits and adivasis that the left
parties have been built up in Kerala. Those who had been oppressors
then, use the Party positions to attack the dalits and adivasis today.

On one side, the struggle for social justice led by dalits and
adivasis and on the other side, the violent repression led by the
political combination of CPI M, CPI, RSP and BJP...What does this
poliical combination represent? Isn't this politics of committing
violence on dalits and adivasis to protect the interests of the
monopoly companies, the Left's own final political suicide? The
Chengara struggle demanded that the 70 odd workers employed by the
Harrissons should also be assured of land and livelihood. But these
combinations have turned them as a shield to attack the dalits and
adivasis in their frantic moves to serve the interests of the company.

Harrissons have already sold out major portion of the leased land of
about 7000 acres against rules and none of these parties have come
forward to protect the interests of workers who lost work then. The
govt. had acquired land earlier and re-distributed to industrial big
shots and for other uses in Kerala. In the Aralam farm, about 350
workers were thrown out in the process. A concern for the workers that
the left didn't show in such instances, why invoke now in the
Chengara?

In 2000, the crowd of communists such as comrade Achuthanandan,
comrade Kodiyeri, comrade Thomas Isaac, comrade M A Baby, Comrade AK
Balan etc. have all sworn in power; today, while AK Balan and speaker
Radhakrishnan have become their official SCs,the rest continue 'as
comrades'...Anyway, can anyone of you explain who are these 'crowd of
thieves'?

When the CITU calls the dalits and adivasis who fight for land and
livelihood, the 'crowd of thieves', the communist consciousness of
attributing the dalits and adivasis the second class citizenship is
reinforced.

Friends,

The blockade and violence in Chengara continues. These trade unions
have blockaded all possibilities of providing food and medicines to
Chengara. 30,000 people are stranded there, surrounded by blockade and
violence. Yet, no human rights commission steps in...
When women are brutally raped, no women's commission intervenes...
Are they not human beings?

Yesterday, people who tried to reach Chengara were brutally attacked.
21 of them are admitted to the Pattanamthitta district hospital. 12 of
them are women including a pregnant woman. The child who was in her
arms was thrown away!! The child is also in the hospital now. The
Pathanamthitta police is doing nothing to prevent these.

Where has the prevention of atrocities Act gone?

When all human rights are continually violated in Chengara, We still
continue to say...
India is my country!!

All Indians are my brothers and sisters...!!!

Samkutty Pattomkary
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