[Reader-list] Memorandum to the Prime Minister about the Gange-rape of a Deaf and Dumb woman in Assam

[asit das]

To



Dr. Man Mohan Singh



Prime Minister

Government of India



Dear Dr. Singh,





On 10th September 2011 Shrimati Deovari Basumatary wife of Amal Basumatary
of village No 1 Sonapur under Bismuri Police station in the Kokrajhar
District of Assam was gang raped by SSB jawans in the night of 10th
 September.



It is extremely shocking that Shrimati Deobari Basumatary who is both deaf
and dumb was raped in front of her husband; we hope you could understand the
magnitude of this bestiality. This act also pales the stories of medieval
barbarism.



All these happen in the din of India being the world’s largest democracy and
an emerging economic power house.



This incident exposes the criminality and insensivity of the armed forces,
the political executive and the degeneration of India’s state apparatus.
This shameful incident is repeated at regular intervals in Assam and the
North Eastern States one can not forget the brutal rape and Murder of
Monarama devi which created an National and International outcry the woman
in North East were outraged that shocking the conscience of the entire
nation, demonstrated naked before the army headquarters. The killing
machines of the arm forces in the north east were neither ashamed nor
shocked.



"Indian civilization* *has been degraded to abysmal depths by the atrocious
behaviour of the Armed forces in the north east under the protection of
Armed forces special powers Act, against the protest against this Act by the
people of the region."



We demand immediate arrest of the SSB Jawans booked for rape and tried in a
fast track court. And repeal the armed forces special power act in Kashmir
and North East.









Sincerely





Anjali Daimari   President BODO Womens’s Justice Forum, Assam



 Ramela Islary               President All Bodo Women’s Welfare Federation


Anjuman Ara Begum

Research Scholar Law Department University of Guwahati And Human Rights
Activist Assam.







Raj Kamal Goswami                 Research Scholar Assam



Malem Ningthouja                    Campain for Peace And Democracy In
Manipur



Sharmishta Choudhury,             General Secretary, All India Revolutionary
Women’s Organisation

Kavita Krishnan,           All Indian Progressive women’s Association.



Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression.



Noorjehan Safia Niaz               Bharatiya Mislim Mahila Andolan

 Ajit Jha             Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Delhi



Amit Chackrabarty       Research Scholar JNU


Arjun Prasad Singh     PDFI, Delhi

 Nayan Jyoti                  Krantikari Naujawan Sabha



Vijay Pratap                 Socialist Front



Willyfried De costa       INSAF



P.K. Sundaram    CNDP


Shah Alam        Independent Film Maker, Delhi


Rashid Ali                     Independent Film Maker, Delhi


Faisal Khan                  NAPM



Kiran Shaeen                Journalist, Delhi



Subhasini Shriya           Student, Center for Political Studies, JNU



Asit Das                       Posco Pratirodh Solidarity, Delhi



Laxman Singh               Research Scholar, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi



Sachidanand Mishra     Independent Film Maker, Delhi



Prakash Kumar Ray     Editor, Bargad.org



Pushkar Raj,           PUCL

Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj,          PUCL Chhatisgarh.

Subhash Gatade,          New Socialist Initiative.

Jagdish,                  New Socialist Alternative

Professor Arun Kumar,       Professor, JNU.

Jyoti Punwani,        Journalist, Mumbai.

Sumathi Sudhakar,        Author, Chennai

Pooja Shah,                  Social Activist.

Students for Resistance, Delhi.

Dunu Roy,        Hazards Centre, Delhi.

Pradeep Singh,       New Socialist Initiative, Delhi.

Amrapali Basumatary, New Socialist Initiative, Delhi.

Akshi Singh,           Student Delhi School of Economics.

Amartya Kanjilal,    Faculty of Law Delhi University.

Malay Firoz,           Research Scholar, Delhi School of Economics

Sanjay Kumar Chaudhary, Assistant Professor National Law School, Bangalore.

Ranjana Padhi,       Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression,
Pune.

Kalpana Mehta,      Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression,
Pune.

Babloo Loilongbam,     Human Rights Alert, Manipur.

Bondita Acharya,    Purva Bharati Trust, Jorhat, Assam.

Partho Sarathi Roy,      Assistant Professor IISER, Kolkata.

Sudipto Muhuri,      Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Physics,
Bhubaneshwar.

Rohini Hensman,     Independent Writer, Mumbai

Anand Teltumbde, CPDR, Mumbai

Pankhuri Dasgupta,       Student, Centre for Germanic Study JNU

Freny Manecksha, Independent Journalist, Mumbai

Meher Engineer,     Ex Director, Bose Institute, Kolkata.

Mamata Dash, POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity, Delhi.

Jaya Vindhyala,      President, PUCL, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad

S. Guna Sekharan, Assistant Professor, Hindu College, Delhi University.

Roma,              NFFIW, and Women’s Forest Right Committee.

Uma Chandru, PUCL, Bangalore.

Sudha Reddy,         Social Activist, Bangalore.

Tanushree Gangopadhy,     Journalist, Ahmedabad.

Priyanka Borpujari,             Independent Journalist, Mumbai.

Ranendra Pratap Swain,     Ex MLA, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha.

Madhu Bhaduri,            Ex Ambassador of India (Retired), Delhi

Noor Zaheer,               Author, Delhi

Pijush Manush,             Speak Out Salem, Salam, Tamil Nadu.

ICRA, Bangalore.

Mayur Chetia,        Research Scholar, JNU.

Himanshu Thakkar,             SANDRP, Delhi

Kabir Arora,                Social Activist, Delhi

Ranjeet Thakur,            Independent Journalist, Uttarakhand

Subrat Sinha,                Environment, Kolkata

Shashank Yadav,          Research Scholar, JNU

Saurav Banerjee,          Mazdoor Bigul, Delhi

Sawan Kumar Gupta,         MSW Student, TISS, Mumbai

Mohammed, Imran,            Social Activist Mumbai.

Bhupali  Vithal Magare,      Student, TISS, Mumbai.

Humane,                 Human Rights Organisation, Koraput, Odisha.

Dhirendra Sharma,        Retd. Professor, Dehradun.

Anjan Sengupta,           Social Activist, Kolkata.

Tan\ushree Kher,          Student, JNU

Shankar Gopalkrishnan,      Social Activist, Delhi

D.W. Karuna,              Researcher, Chennai

Biswajit Mohanty,         Assistant Professor, Delhi University.

Guman Singh,         Himalaya Niti Abhiyan, Himachal Pradesh.

Souparna Lahiri,           National Forum of Forest People And Forest
Workers.

Bhuwan Pathak,           Harit Swaraj Abhiyan, Uttarakhand.

Rajnikant Mudgal,        Socialist Front, Delhi.

Arya Thomas,               Research Scholar, JNU.

Rita Kumari,                 Pravasi Nagrik Munch, Delhi

Anand Krishna Raj,            Research Scholar, JNU

Kumar Sameer,            Social Activist, Delhi

Mohmed Usman,          Research Scholar, JNU.

Anushuya Bhattacharya,      Independent Film-maker, Delhi

Bhupen Singh               Teacher in Indian Institute of Mass Communication
Delhi





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*(Copy forwarded to the Home Minister of India, Secretary of Women and Child
Development Government of India, Chairperson National Commission of Women,
Chairperson Human Right commission for Necessary Information and Action.)*

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