[Reader-list] Join National Protest Day against Encounter Killings on 14th August

[ambarien qadar]

                  Dear all,

Please join us at 3.30 pm at ITO Chowk, 14th August, (Friday) to protest against 'encounter killings'.



This Independence Day, Demand freedom from Encounters



Observe National Day of Protest against Encounter Killings on 14th

August



Assemble at ITO Chowk, 3.30 pm, 14th Aug (Friday)



 



The Jamia Teachers

Solidarity Association along with other organisations has called for a National

Day of Protest on 14 August 2009 against the continuing trend of ‘encounter’

killings by state forces, the arbitrary arrests of Muslim youth and the blatant

whitewashing of such crimes by state agencies. All this in the name of

‘national security’ and ‘war against terror’. 



The cold-blooded murder of Chungkham Sanjit, a

27-year old Manipur youth in broad daylight on 23 July by the Manipur Police

Commandos, barely 500 meters from the state assembly building in Imphal, has

once again highlighted the sordid truth about ‘encounter’ killings in India.

While the MPC had claimed initially that Sanjit had been killed while escaping

during a routine screening operation, their lie was nailed by a series of

photographs published by the Tehelka magazine, which showed the unarmed,

peaceful youth was shot by the commandos without provocation. In addition, a

pregnant woman, Mrs. Rabina and the

five-month-old child in her womb were also killed, while five others were

wounded.



Last year on 19 September the Delhi police

had carried out a similar ‘encounter’ against alleged ‘terrorists’ of the

Indian Mujahideen at Batla House in New Delhi. This would have been another

routine ‘encounter’ if not for the nationwide outcry from human rights groups,

students and academics. 



While the Delhi High Court appointed the

National Human Rights Commission to carry out an independent and fair inquiry

into the encounter killings, the NHRC has chosen to further sully its already

stained reputation by presenting a partisan report absolving the Delhi Police

of any human rights violation. The NHRC did not bother to visit the families of

the two ‘terrorists’ killed by the Delhi police, talk to eye witnesses or even

visit the site of the ‘encounter’, basing their conclusions on the statements

of the Delhi Police, the accused party! 



This was only a repeat of the shameful

exoneration of the security forces by the one-man enquiry commission in the

brutal Shopian rape and murder case. In Gujarat the Sohrabuddin ‘encounter’ is

returning to haunt the Narendra Modi government as evidence points to yet

another cold-blooded murder by a highly communalized state police. 



These murders by the killers in uniform

are then legitimized and glorified as ‘encounters’. Large sections of our

citizenry—Muslims, Kashmiris, peoples from the Northeast, Adivasis and

Dalits—are condemned to be ‘encounterable’. These are people who can be killed,

and their killings justified and explained through recourse to a warped

security discourse. These people exist not in the framework of fundamental

human rights but in that of national security alone. The security forces are

afforded impunity and immunity as long as they can introduce the “Terror” word.

In different parts of the country, Muslim youth are still being arrested and

tortured on trumped up charges of links to ‘terrorism’. The large-scale

detentions of Muslim youth in Karnataka following communal riots in Mysore

recently is a case in point of double standards followed by the state police,

which is mysteriously soft on hardline-Hindutva advocates like Pramod Muthalik

who openly advocates attacks on women and members of the Christian and Muslim

minorities. 



To raise a concerted

voice against the culture of encounters, which violates the fundamental rights

provided by the Indian Constitution, to demand accountability of state forces,

we call upon all those who value Indian democracy to come forward and join the

National Day of Protest on 14 August in all parts of the country. 



 



Sd/- Manisha Sethi

(9811625577) , Adeel Mehdi (9990923027) , Ambarien Al Qadar (9810946273) for Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association

(JTSA)



Malem Ningthouja

(9899925345) Campaign for Peace and

Democracy, Manipur (CPDM)



All India Students’ Association (AISA) 



ANHAD



The Other Media 



 



 thanks



Ambarien Al Qadar 

on behalf ofThe Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association.



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