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To,
1.Honourable Chairman , National Human Rights Commision
(NHRC) , New Delhi.
2.Justice THAKUR , Honourable Chief Justice of India , SUPREME
COURT OF INDIA , New Delhi.
Honourable Sir,
Previous CJIs and present Honourable Chief Justice of India
Justice THAKUR have failed in their constitutional duties. It is the duty of
Supreme Court of India to Protect , Guard the constitutional rights ,
fundamental rights of every Indian citizen . Since 25 years I am appealing to
SCI about issues concerning public welfare , national security , etc and as a
result suffering injustices , my constitutional rights , human rights are
repeatedly violated but SCI is mum even when repeated appeals were made
to it. Paradoxically , after these appeals for justice , I have suffered more
injustices , attempts on my life were made , physically assaulted , livelihood /
jobs were denied , news publication closed , press accreditation denied ,
received threatening calls , blank calls, even to date rough elements follow
us , rough elements scout near home at mid night. Does not these indicate
some ties between rough elements & SCI Judges ?
I ,NAGARAJA.M.R. Editor , SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e
Voice for Justice ( web news papers ) hereby do declare that information
given above are true to the best of my knowledge & belief. If i am repeatedly
called to police station or else where for the sake of investigations , the
losses i do incurr as a result like loss of wages , transportation , job , etc must
be borne by the government. prevoiusly the police / IB personnel repeatedly
several false and fabricated criminal cases are foisted upon them and they
remain incarcerated for several years. Anyone who supports such tribals and
questions the policies of the state are branded as terrorists or antinational. In such a situation, the judicial system is their last hope. Hence, it
is vital that the judiciary be allowed to carry on its functions in accordance
with law and without any interference from the police, it has said. That the
dismissal coincides the recent briefing by the National Security Advisor (NSA)
Ajit Doval for the Supreme Court Judges at a retreat at the National Judicial
Academy, Bhopal, has led to concern among the observers. If police
excesses in the name of security concerns in conflict zones are to be
tolerated by the judiciary, and the judiciary meekly accepts such advice from
the Government, then the signs are ominous, according to an activist
lawyer, who has been fighting cases involving civil liberties. The IAPL has
alleged that executive interference in judiciary in this manner militates
against the basic structure of the Constitution which emphasises separation
of powers and independence of judiciary. Lawyers point out that if the
Executive is unhappy wih Gwals decisions, it has the option to appeal
against them in the higher courts. Dismissing a Judge, soley on the ground
of his decisions which were in favour of citizens, is inconsistent with the
concept of independence of judiciary, they suggest. IAPL has called upon all,
especially those from the legal fraternity to resist these moves to prejudice
the judiciary and also demanded the immediate reinstatement of Prabhakar
Gwal as the Sukma CJM. The press statement has been signed for IAPL,
among others, by wellknown advocate from Raipur, Sudha Bharadwaj.
Salwa Judum is illegal, says Supreme Court
In a blow to both the Chhattisgarh government and the Centre, the Supreme
Court has declared as illegal and unconstitutional the deployment of tribal
youths as Special Police Officers - either as 'Koya Commandos', Salwa Judum
or any other force - in the fight against the Maoist insurgency and ordered
their immediate disarming.
The ruling - issued on Tuesday by Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice S.S.
Nijjar on the writ petition filed by social anthropologist Prof. Nandini Sundar
and others - strongly indicted the State for violating Constitutional principles
in arming youth who had passed only fifth standard and conferring on them
the powers of police.
The Bench said the State of Chhattisgarh shall forthwith make every effort
to recall all firearms issued to any of the SPOs, whether current or former,
along with any and all accoutrements and accessories issued to use such
firearms. The word firearm as used shall include any and all forms of guns,
rifles, launchers etc., of whatever calibre.
Many Salwa Judum members were civilians who received arms training from
the state government. The young tribal members who were trained by the
government came to be known as Special Police Officers (SPOs) and Koya
Commandos.
"It was clearly a state-sponsored counterinsurgency programme," said
Nandini Sundar, an academic who petitioned India's Supreme Court against
Salwa Judum in 2007, a case that led
.02to the organisation's banning four years later.
About 670 villages in the Bastar region were affected by the ensuing
violence, and although the residents have by now rebuilt their homes, many
of them remain destitute.
The Supreme Court of India banned Salwa Judum in 2011, in light of the
human rights violations it found it had committed.
But in May this year, shortly after the Chhattisgarh government signed
agreements to build massive steel plants in the Bastar region, a group called
Vikas Sangharsh Samiti was launched by Chhavindra Karma, with the aim of
continuing Salwa Judum's struggle.
Salwa Judum had been led by Karma's father, the late Mahendra Karma, a
Congress party leader assassinated by Naxalites along with 12 others as
their convoy traveled through a forest in May 2013.
Chhavindra Karma claims that the Naxalites have killed 93 members of his
extended family.
"Salwa Judum started with peace marches in villages. The objective of these
marches was to make the people aware of Maoist excesses," said Karma. "It
is the state that began to train tribals with guns."
The militia's critics say it is impossible to think of Salwa Judum as separate
from the state. The SPOs and Koya Commandos drew their salaries from the
state, earning as much as 9,000 rupees ($138) per month.
The Supreme Court ruling banning Salwa Judum forbids the creation of
similar groups, but Vikas Sangharsh Samiti hopes to get around this by using
a different name and a different structure.
Authorities in the Home Ministry in Delhi and the state government in
Chhattisgarh did not respond to Al Jazeera's repeated requests for comment.
Chaitram Attami was a central figure in Salwa Judum, and used to call the
shots in the mineral-rich Dantewads region.
there. On March 20 and 21, the Times of India and The Hindu reporters were
prevented from going to the area. They could only reach there through a
longer and difficult alternate route. The All India team of members from the
democratic rights organisations who went there on the same dates as Swami
Agnivesh could reach and conduct a fact finding could do so because they
took a third route to get there. This the first fact-finding team that visited the
area after September 2009, since the PUDR team had gone to Gompad area
when 16 people were killed by CRPF and other forces in its Operation Green
Hunt intervention. And subsequently teams were not allowed to go to the
affected areas (A women's team was not allowed to visit Samsetti village to
study a gang rape case on December 15, 2009. Professors Nandini Sundar
and Ujjwal Singh of DU were chased out of Dantewada and Sukma, were not
allowed to stay in any hotel on the eve of the new year of 2010. Then Medha
Patkar and Sandeep Pandey led a NAPM team of 40 people in early January,
2010 and they too were harassed and were not allowed to move freely into
the areas to hear the woes of tribals and then in May 2010 a team led by
Prof. Yashpal and 40 other intellectuals met the same fate).
Urgent questions
Now suppose the SC Commissioners are taken by chopper from Raipur to
these villages, then they will have to go alone and not with a local team of
journalists or villagers who can be objective local guides for such visits. And
then having gone once will they be able to sustain the access of supplies
with the help of the Supreme Court? Who will monitor it there? Till public
access of these villages is not assured nobody will know what is happening
there.
The news of how a Government lets its lesser people be killed, raped, their
houses and granaries burnt, allows them to live in conditions of food scarcity,
perhaps even die of starvation does not even make it to the national
channels. Soon this will be forgotten, till the Maoists strike back and then we
will only see channel after channel breaking news, calling the poor tribals,
terrorists, monsters and killers. And the human rights workers will be verbally
flogged with the pitch of the anchors going higher and higher on these very
channels.
Would not the Chhattisgarh Government be responsible for that eventuality,
if it ever happens? We should all raise our voices and stop this from
happening.
Kavita Srivastava is a national secretary of the People's Union for Civil
Liberties, Rajasthan and is the petitioner in the Supreme Court in the PUCL
petition on the Right to Food.
having gone once will they be able to sustain the access of supplies
with the help of the Supreme Court?
Chaitram Mattami, P. Vijay and Mr. Chhavindra Karma would be leading the
new anti-Maoist outfit and its first major event will take place in Karmas
ancestral village Faraspal in Dantewada on the second death anniversary of
Mahendra Karma on May 25. He died in a Maoist attack in 2013.
All Salwa Judum leaders from Konta block in Sukma to Bhopalpattnam block
in Bijpur district of Bastar attended Mondays meeting, claimed Mr. Karma.
A decade after Mahendra Karma launched Salwa Judum, the slain Congress
leaders son Chhavindra is trying to start another movement against Maoists
in Chhattisgarh.
A decade after Mahendra Karma launched Salma Judum, the
slain Congressleaders son Chhavindra is trying to start another movement
against Maoists in Chhattisgarh, looking for police and government support
and raising fears of a rerun of the violence. Ashutosh Bhardwaj reports
from Bastar
The coincidence is stark. Exactly a decade ago, on June 4, 2005, the
Chhattisgarh government signed an MoU with the Tatas for a mega steel
plant in Bastar, with Maoists being the only hurdle. The following day, Salwa
Judum was launched to evict Maoists from the region, a move that went on to
define the last decade of the insurgency.
Last month in Dantewada, in PM Narendra Modis presence, the Raman Singh
government signed MoUs for an ultra mega steel plant and a rail line in
Bastar. Meanwhile, a front similar to Salwa Judum has been taking shape.
The earlier movement was led by the late Mahendra Karma; the new one,
called Vikas Sangharsh Samiti, is headed by his son Chhavindra.
The beginning of the Samiti too sounds eerily familiar. In 2005, Karma began
padyatras across South Bastar urging tribals to come out of their villages and
live in camps for a decisive battle against the Maoists. Now, Chhavindra
plans similar campaigns with former Judum commanders. He has sought
government support and police protection, and said he is ready for any
qurbani.
The possibility of what this will lead to chills many people. In the 30 months
of Salwa Judum before it fizzled out in 2007, Chhattisgarh saw the deaths of
325 security personnel, 609 civilians and 165 suspected Maoists. Thats
1,099 deaths, or a death a day; Judum leaders say the number is far higher.
A little away from the Faraspal home of Karma stand a series of monuments
built in the memory of his relatives. Near the home is Karmas statute with
folded hands.
Including my papa, 95 people of my family have been killed in this battle.
They say I am doing raajniti. I carry the family responsibility of freeing this
area from Naxals, says Chhavindra, 34. He insists there wont be any
violence this time, but with police already declaring support, he knows what
hes preparing for. Is ladai men qurbaniyan deni hi padengi (this war wont
be won without sacrifice). Let the first bullet hit my chest.
As of now, Chhavindra or the new front has little popular support or military
strength. It hopes the government support will turn things its way. The plan is
to go on padyatras and tell villagers to stop supporting Maoists just like
Karma had done once.
Remains of Salwa Judum
At its peak, Judum had around 100 major leaders. Just around 15 are alive
today.
Mahendra Karma had three chief lieutenants heading a district each
Soyam Muka in Sukma, Chaitram Attami in Dantewada and Mahadev Rana in
Bijapur. Rana was killed. Attami, uprooted from his village a decade ago, lives
in a Salwa Judum camp, while Muka, also uprooted, says he has lost more
relatives than anyone else. You will find maximum Soyams in the list of the
killed, he adds, as he mentions his deceased elder brother Soyam Mukesh.
A primary teacher, Muka had picked up the gun at the call of his mama,
Karma. Chhavindra wants him to join the new movement, but Muka says,
After Karmas death, I lost faith. When he was alive I thought if he could
defeat death, so could I.
Another Judum leader, Sattar Ali, was in Karmas vehicle when Maoists
attacked the Congress convoy in May 2013. When the Maoists opened fire,
Karmaji came out. He offered his life and saved all of us.
Chhavindra, who accompanied his father during the Judum campaigns, is
banking on his fathers stature. When Salwa Judum was on, whose
statements were published? The CMs? No, it was Karmajis, he says.
During the assembly election campaign for their mother Devti, Karmas sons
had accused Raman Singh of betraying their father. It was a mistake to have
taken the support of the government during Salwa Judum. Raman Singh
withdrew later, they had said. Of late, Chhavindra has been making public
calls for government support again.
The government imprint
Dantewada stands at the confluence of rivers Dankini and Shankhi, names
with diametrically opposite meanings. Dankini means a sting, Shankhi the
holy conch. Led by a Congress leader, supported by the BJP government,
Salwa Judum too had dichotomy as an intrinsic part.
That continues. Dantewada BJP zilla panchayat member Chaitram Attami was
on stage when Chhavindra, a Congress secretary, and others announced the
formation of the new Samiti. Days later, Attami was overseeing laying of a
helipad in Dantewada for PM Modi to land on.
Attami had controlled Judum operations in Dantewada the last time too,
earning Z category security. Guarded by 16 cops, he lives with his wife and a
baby in a camp at Kasauli.
Editor of daily Bastar Impact Suresh Mahapatra recalls the Rani Bodli attack
of March 2007, when 55 policemen and SPOs were killed. This incident was
the defining point in my life. When I saw half-burnt and beheaded bodies, it
occurred to me that this war had no rules now, he says.
Attami, among the earliest SPOs to sign up, says: You talk about police
atrocities, but do you know what the Naxals did? Agar beta ko maarna hai to
maa aur baap ko us par patthar marne ko bolte the (If they wanted to kill
someone, they forced his parents to throw stones at him). Accusing the
Maoists of dragging them into battle, Attami adds, They had a grudge
against capitalists. Why didnt they kill them themselves? We tribals knew
nothing about the world, but they made us fight their battles. Is it janvaad?
Sukhdev Tati reflects they were left with little choice: either become Maoists
or fight with police. We wanted it to be peaceful, but Salwa Judum had
aggression. It failed as we could not tell people what our aim was.
However, many of the tribals have no enmity towards the Maoists. Adivasi
log hi to mar rahe hain. Yahan bhi adivasi, wahan bhi, says Janaki. Teacher
Mandavi says it emphatically. They (Maoists) are our own people. We dont
want this violence.
Once again the terror and oppression of Salwa Judum is going to start.
Bastar could be protected only if this campaign is defeated, said a recent
Maoist statement urging people to rise against the proposed Salwa Judum2.
Where they are now: Key survivors from Salwa Judum
Soyam Muka: Congress member, lives in Konta away from his Gaganpalli
village he left during Judum. Farming. Moves without vehicle.
Karma family: Mahendra Karmas wife Devti Karma is a Congress MLA, two
of her four sons hold positions in the Congress.
Chaitram Attami: Dantewada BJP zilla panchayat member, uprooted from
his village, lives in a Salwa Judum camp in Kasauli, Dantewada.
Kashmiri militants claim they are fighting for kashmiris, when the
very same kashmiris were suffering from loses due to earthquake
why didn't the so-called jihadis didn't make any relief efforts?
Why didn't their foreign master Pakistan didn't make any relief
efforts? Within the pak occupied Kashmir ( pok) itself, Pakistan
didn't make appropriate relief efforts. It is government of India &
international community who provided proper & timely relief.
The foreign powers are not at all interested in your well being. They
are ready to spend millions of dollars for aiding terrorism, but
not ready to spend a few hundreds for your education , health
care or self employment schemes through NGOs. The fact is they
don't want your well being, they don't want you to prosper, live
peacefully. The ultimate objective of these foreign powers is to
take you on the path of self destruction, destruction of your
motherland & to finally usurp the power, to subjugate you into
slavery in turn looting the resources of your country.
Ofcourse, in India there is rampant corruption. Still democracy is
live & kicking in India, it is the best form of governance. You
have got real examples of countries in Africa, latin America,
wherein the countries have secured independence through
separatist / terrorist movements. The terrorist leaders
themselves have become prime minister / president of newly
independent countries. Now, they are more corrupt & barbaric
than their predecessors . even after getting independence, the
lives of commonfolk has become bad to worse. By
independence , only leaders have benefited. Will you lead
another struggle ? this is endless, as the selfishness , greed of
leaders knows no bounds.
Yours sincerely,
Nagaraj.M.R.
These think tanks & IAS lobby, consider themselves as most super
brains on earth & gives out suggestions . the present state of affairs
is a barometer of their brilliance. Take just one case for the
brilliance of our cabinet ministers & IAS babus , In India nearly 50
crore people are barely surviving on a single piece meal per day ,
hundreds of people are dying due to HUNGER & MALNUTRITION at
one end at the other end thousands of tonnes of food grains are
rotting away , wasted in FCI Godowns (ie the food procured by the
government) , what brilliant ministers & IAS officers ? These think
tanks & IAS lobby are the hand maidens of lobbyists / bribers.
Now consider the following example :
Asserting that all stakeholders should first ensure the legal rights of the
tribals are not violated, Justice Patnaik said their rights must be settled in
accordance with the provisions of the law.
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