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*JOINT STATEMENT ON BRUTAL CORPORATE ATTACK ON PEACEFUL PROTESTERS IN
ODISHA.*

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We are extremely shocked and distressed over the barbaric inhuman violence
on peaceful protesters especially woman by the security guards and hired
goons of Jindal steel plant in Angul, Odisha.  There has been series of
attacks on unarmed peaceful protesters against forcibly land grab all over
Odisha. On 25th January 2012 when the entire Nation was gearing up for the
Republic day celebrations and the Indian ruling classes, the big business
and the corporate media was busy trumpeting the arrival of India major
economical power house these recurring brutal violence by the corporate
goons on mass movements in ODISHA exposes the hollowness of our rulers
claim of India being the world largest democracy.



On 25th January 2012 around four thousand men and women went to Jindal
Steel Plant, Angul to demand a justified compensation for the land forcibly
grabbed from them and also to demand jobs which was promise to them both by
the Company and Odisha Government. When the procession arrived in the
factory security guard of the Jindal Steel Company and hired goons brutally
attacked men and women especially women who were in the front against the
struggle. The barbaric scene is difficult to explain to in words. In front
of a large posse of police the hired goons in the security guards of
Company attached them with iron rods and stick. Fatally injuring more than
two hundred men and women, many of them are now admitted in SCB Medical
College, Cuttack and different hospitals in Angul. Women were beaten
ruthlessly with iron rods their cloths were torn, they were bleeding
profusely, the bestiality of the goons reached most shocking and appalling
limits when some of them inserted iron rods into the private parts of the
women. There is nothing much to say after this about the great proclamation
of Odisha Chief Minister about the so called great peaceful
industrialization of Odisha. When an FIR was lodged the local police
station, none of the senior executive of the company including the CEO was
arrested except the token arrest of the security officer. This incident is
a horrifying indicator of the growing state and corporate attacks on
peaceful mass movement of Odisha. In November 2011, the hired goons of
POSCO in front of a large contingent of police men attacked the peaceful
protesters of the Anti-POSCO struggle in Jagatsinghpru District Odisha,
with bombs killing one an injuring many.



We strongly condemn this dastardly attack on peace protesters against
Jindal Steel Company in Odisha, we demand immediate arrest of the CEO and
other senior executive of Jindal Steel Plant registering criminal case
against them for brutally attacking people injuring men and women. We
demand the dismissal and trial of all the policemen, who was present during
this inhuman shameful incident including SP of the district.



We appeal to all the progressive, democratic, Human Rights and Women’s
Organizations to condemn the incidents and demand action against the
culprits.







Prafulla Samantara                                NAPM / Lok Shakti Abhiyan



Sudhir Patnaik                                      Editor, Samadrusti



Ajit Jha                         Samajwadi Jan Parishad



Kiran Saheen                            Media Action Group, Delhi



Sehenaz Malek             Arman Mahila Sangathan, Ahmedabad



Mamata Das                             NFFPW / POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity,
Delhi



Subrat Kumar Sahu                  POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity, Delhi



Asit Das                                   POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity, Delhi



Bhanumati Gochhait                  POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity, Delhi



Rita Kumari                              Pravasi Nagarik Manch, Delhi



Ranjeet Thakur             Journalist, Uttarakhand



P.K. Sunderam                         Research Scholar, JNU