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*STATEMENT ON THE ARREST OF COMRADE ABHAY SAHOO*





We the undersigned are extremely appalled and outraged by the arbitrary
arrest of Comrade Abhay Sahoo at Bhubaneshwar airport by Odisha Police.
This outright despicable patently illegal act was made to appease the Posco
company’s blood sucking appetite to drain the life blood from Odisha, it's
land, water, minerals, forests and culture. Millions of people are filled
in false encounters, jailed, tortured and externed to suppress the peoples
struggle to save their land, forests, mines and undemocratic aspirations to
freedom and right to self-determination.



The men, women and children have been waging a heroic battle against Naveen
Patnaik since 2005 to save their land, water, seashore, rivers, field,
livelihood habitat and culture. The Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik
the sick imperialist bootlicker has unleashed the most brutal form of
repression against the struggling people led by Posco Pratirodh Sangram
Samitee.



This comprador cobra Naveen Patnaik on behalf of his imperial masters bared
his fangs again by arresting Comrade Abhay Sahoo. This favorite butler of
Uncle Sam Naveen Patnaik from the day one of the heroic anti-POSCO struggle
has created suffocating blockade around the anti-POSCO struggle villages
turning them into virtual concentration camps.  Hundreds of people were
arbitrarily arressted, false criminal cases are imposed on almost 90% of
the people in the area.  Such is the repressive stranglehold that people of
the area cannot go out for marketing, marriages or medical emergencies.
This lackey of imperialism Naveen Patnaik is so eager to please his
imperial masters that he has been overactive in brutally repressing the
people’s resistance to save their lands, livelihoods, mines, forests,
waters, culture and democratic aspirations. The trail of blood runs from
Kashipur to Kalinganagar, Narayanpatna to POSCO, Nyamgiri to South Odisha.



In the neoliberal era the Indian ruling classes have bared their fangs to
facilitate the imperial loot of the natural resources in this country. The
caste, class, and patriarchal nature of the Indian state is bared every
second in this country.  On the orders of his bosses in Washington, it has
unleashed the most cruellest form of white terror in POSCO, Nandigram,
Lalgarh, Chattisgarh, Dandkarnya, Telangana, North East and Kashmir.  Only
for the super profits of national and International big business. In fact
what we are witnessing today is obscene display of sadistic and ruthless
twenty first century primitive accumulation. In this process of violent
accumulation through dispossession millions of people are dispossessed from
their land, livelihood, culture and commons to join the rank of the
reserved army of labor who fill in the ranks of the urban underclass to be
equally exploited by the urban elite. This sick clown of the imperial
circus Manmohan Singh whose intellectual training was done in the Bretton
Wood institutions, as soon as he became the prime minister to declare a war
on the Indian people, to hand their lands, waters and mines for imperialist
exploitation. He declared the poorest of the poor in this country the
heroic adivasis who are resisting to defend their livelihoods as the
biggest internal threat. Another henchman of the Wall Street Chidambaram
unleashed a cruel war on the adivasis named as Operation Greenhunt. In the
process they have killed, tortured, maimed and imprisoned thousands of
adivasis and working people. During the combing operations women are
molested and raped and their jewelry looted. All this to play into the
super profits of the hungry finance capital and predatory industrialization!




However, the people of India have refused to cow down in front of the
Indian state. There is a fierce resistance going on from Dandakarnya to
Jangalamahal, from POSCO to Nagari, from Jehanabad to Ranchi. In fact we
salute the heroic men women and children of the anti-Posco struggle
villages, which have become an advanced outpost of the anti-imperialist
resistance in this country.  We condemn

1)    the arrests of Comrade Abhay Sahoo and demand his immediate release

2)    withdrawal of all false cases of the people of Antiposco struggle
villages

3)    crapping of the POSCO and all the MOUs in Orissa

4)    resignation of Naveen Patnaik who has unleashed brutal repression on
the struggling people of Orissa







1. Student for resistance
     DELHI

2.Chittaranjan Singh               National Secretary
                   PUCL

3. Dr. Anand Teltumbde                 CPDR- Mumbai

4. Kiran Shaheen                           Women for water democracy
            Delhi

5. Ranjana Padhi                          Women against sexual violence-

                                                            and state
repression (WSS)                   Delhi

6.  Kaveri Rajaraman                          WSS
                 BANGLORE

7.  Anirban Kar                                   SANHATI
          Delhi

8.  Rakesh Ranjan                             NAVROJ
          Delhi

9.  Sumati Pannikar                 Viplav Sanskritik Manch
           Delhi

10. Shweta Tripathy                SRUTI
                                Delhi

11. Swati Birla                                    SANHATI
                   Mumbai

12. Wilfred D costa                INSAF
                             Delhi

13.  P.K. Sundaram                 Research Scholar
                             JNU
14.  Usman                                  Research Scholar
                              JNU

15.  Asit Das                           POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity
                     Delhi







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