[Reader-list] JOINT STATEMENT ON BRUTAL CORPORATE ATTACK ON PEACEFUL PROTESTERS IN ODISHA. for endorsement

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William Nicholas Gomes     Human Rights Activist & Journalist , Bangladesh

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:10 PM, asit das <asit1917 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> *JOINT STATEMENT ON BRUTAL CORPORATE ATTACK ON PEACEFUL PROTESTERS IN
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> We appeal to all the progressive, democratic, Human Rights and Women’s
> Organizations to condemn the incidents and demand action against the
> culprits.
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> Prafulla Samantara                                NAPM / Lok Shakti Abhiyan
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> Sudhir Patnaik                                      Editor, Samadrusti
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> Ajit Jha                         Samajwadi Jan Parishad
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> Kiran Saheen                            Media Action Group, Delhi
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> Sehenaz Malek             Arman Mahila Sangathan, Ahmedabad
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> Mamata Das                             NFFPW / POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity,
> Delhi
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> Subrat Kumar Sahu                  POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity, Delhi
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> Asit Das                                   POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity,
> Delhi
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> Bhanumati Gochhait                  POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity, Delhi
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> Rita Kumari                              Pravasi Nagarik Manch, Delhi
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> Ranjeet Thakur             Journalist, Uttarakhand
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> P.K. Sunderam                         Research Scholar, JNU
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    William Nicholas Gomes     Human Rights Activist & Journalist ,
Bangladesh

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