[Reader-list] UNITED PROTEST AGAINST CRACKDOWN AT KOODANKULAM

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UNITED PROTEST
AGAINST CRACKDOWN AT KOODANKULAM





22 MARCH 2012

TAMINL NADU BHAWAN, CHANAKYAPURI

12.30 PM

JNU STUDENTS' UNION (JNUSU)

invites all groups and individuals to join an urgent protest demonstration
at Tamil Nadu Bhawan, 22 March, 12.30 PM, against the unfolding crackdown
on the Koodankulam movement, in the wake of TN CM Jayalalithaa's Cabinet
decision to commission the plant.

Please join with your banners, placards, leaflets...

Sucheta De,

JNUSU President,

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Abhishek Yadav,

JNUSU VP,

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Resist UPA and Tamil Nadu Government's Lethal Design to Foist Koodankulam
Nuclear Plant On Local People Using the Might Of State Repression!

An Urgent Call for Protest at Tamil Nadu Bhawan, 22 March, 11am

· Against the Intensifying Police Repression on Villagers and Activists
Resisting Disastrous Koodankulam Nuclear Project!

· Demanding Release of All Protestors and Leaders and

· Withdrawal of Tamil Nadu Cabinet Resolution Giving Go Ahead for the
Koodankulam Project!

Tamilnadu CM Jayalalithaa, who had earlier 'distanced' herself from the
Koodankulam project and 'sharing' people’s safety concerns, has made the
expected about-turn to give green-signal to the Koodankulam Nuclear
project, as soon elections in the neighbouring assembly constituency of
Sankarankoil got over on March 18. Her cabinet has just declared that its
safety concerns have been allayed, and that the TN government will soon
commission the plant.

On cue, 6000 armed policemen, led by Tamil Nadu’s Additional Director
General of Police (ADGP), 3 DIGs (Deputy Inspector Generals) and 20 SPs
(Superintendents of Police) have unleashed a massive crackdown operation
that can turn up into a state-sponsored carnage of its own civilians.

Thousands of police have surrounded Koodankulam and Idinthakarai. Hundreds
of villagers marching to Koodankulam are being threatened, harassed and
arrested. Also several key leaders of the movement including Advocate
SivaSubramanyam, and Rajalingam have been arrested and charged with
sedition including Sections 121, 121A and 153A.

According to the posts from local people, police and para-military forces
are terrrorising people by marching into the villages every now and then.
Police have clamped down Section 144 in our area prohibiting people from
congregating in any manner. Despite this curfew, people keep coming to
Idinthakarai by boats and on foot.

In view of this unfolding crackdown, which is intensifying every moment,
JNUSU is calling for a United Protest Demonstration at Tamil Nadu Bhawan at
Chanakyapuri in Delhi, on 22 March (Thursday) at 11 am in solidarity with
the fighting people in Tamil Nadu. JNUSU demands the withdrawal of the
Tamil Nadu cabinet resolution giving sudden green signal to the Koodankulam
project. JNUSU demands an immediate end to all forms of crackdown,
harassment and arrests of villagers, peaceful protestors and leaders of the
anti-Kundankulam movement and scrapping of this disastrous project.

We appeal to and invite all concerned individuals and groups to participate
in the Protest of 22 March with their banners, placards and handouts.

Let all of us in Delhi register a resounding protest against the police
brutalities, repression and nuclear jingoism that is being played out in
Koodankulam today.

Sucheta De,

President, JNUSU