[Reader-list] Fwd: Police beats our women and children, arrested villagers and cuts trees

[Anivar Aravind]

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From: alter nate <noposco at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:40 AM


*Police enters our village, beat women and children, arrested villagers and
cuts trees*



Dear Friends,



In the wee hours today (at around 4 am) the police has entered into our
villages and beaten up women and children, arrested some of our villagers
(number is yet to be known).



As we have intimated you earlier that the police force has been gradually
swelling in our area amidst our continuing human chain and Dharana in the
Balitikira-the boarder of Govindpur and Dhinkia villages of Jagatsingpur
district, the police has deceptively entered to the villages with full
force at 4 a.m. today. Our people sensed their possible move at around 2 o
clock night and alerted the villagers by ringing bells. Gradually women,
children, male members started getting accumulated at the Dharana place. At
4 a.m. the police entered and attacked the women and children first. The
male police have ruthlessly beaten our women who were lying on a human
chain. Some women have been severely inured. The Police have thrown our
children like flowers, some of whom are injured. Some villagers have been
arrested by the police and been taken to custody. At the moment we do not
have exact numbers as the situation is too tensed on the spot. The police
have started breaking our betel vines and cutting the trees forcefully.
More and more numbers of our villagers have come to the spot and a war like
situation has arisen. Our committed villagers are facing a mighty 12
platoons of police force.



We fail to understand the decision of the state to acquire land when the
National Green Tribunal has already suspended the environment clearance to
the proposed POSCO project in our area. Naveen Patnaik is behaving like an
agent of the POSCO company.



As the situation is too alarming, we appeal all our friends to protest
against the barbarism and call/write/fax to the Prime Minister, Chief
Minister of Odisha and Chief Secretary of Odisha, Home Minsitry, Odisha
appealing to immediately stop the police brutality and withdrawal of the
force from our area. Please call to your respective MPs and MLAs and raise
your protest against them urging them to oppose the illegal move. Write to
NHRC also.



We request our media friends to rush to our villages and see the situation
in their own eyes and report.



We will intimate further developments soon.



Please widely circulate this mail.





In Solidarity,




Prashant Paikary
Spokesperson, POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti
Mobile no-09437571547
E-Mail - prashantpaikary at gmail.com



*The contact address of the authorities*

* *

1. Naveen Patnaik

Chief Minister, Odisha

Tel. No.(O) 011 91 674 2531100,011 91 674 2535100,

011 91 674 2531500, Epbax 2163

Tel. No.(R) 011 91 674 2590299, 011 91 674 2591099,

011 91 674 2590844, 011 91 674 2591100,

Fax No- (91)6742535100

E Mail: cmo at ori.nic.in





2.  Muralidhar Chandrakanta Bhanadare, Governor of Odisha,  Fax
No- (91)6742536582



3. Shri B K Patnaik, Chief Secretary, E-mail: csori at ori.nic.<csori at ori.nic.in>

Phone no -             0674 - 2536700

            0674 - 2534300

            0674 - 2322196

Fax No - 0674 - 2536660



3. S.K. Mallick , District  Collector, Jagatsinghpur, Contact number
         09437038401      ,   Fax no - : (91)6724220299



4. Superintendent of Police, Debadutta Singh. Mobile no-09437094678,
dmjsp at ori.nic.in



5. Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India

Tel no-            +9111-23016857

e mail: manmohan at sansad.in



6. Sonia Gandhi: Tel Phone no -             (91)11-23014161      ,
(91)11-23012656,
Fax- (91)112301865, soniagandhi at sansad.nic.in,



*7.* Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of India, Faridkot
House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 110 001, Tel:             +91 11 230 74448
      , Fax: +91 11 2334 0016, Email: chairnhrc at nic.in



8. Shri. V.Kishore Chandra Deo

Minister of Tribal Affairs

Ministry of Tribal Affairs,

Room No. 400  ‘B’ Wing, Shastri Bhawan,

New Delhi- 110001

vk.deo at sansad.nic.in



9. Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan

Minister of Environment & Forests

Ministry of Environment & Forests

Paryavaran Bhawan,

CGO Complex, Lodhi Road

New Delhi-110003

mosefgoi at nic.in









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