[Reader-list] A Tale of Two Encounters: Statement by the Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Group

Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi rajen786uppinangady at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 20:29:45 IST 2009


Dear all,

 now that National Human Rights Commission has given clean chit to the
encounter and the deaths as a result of that encounter at Batla
House,Delhi,  what is the response from all the rights activists who have
always different take on different "faiths" and religions." and the human if
belonged to different faiths.?

The hue and cry raised for the youths for detention was so immense, but not
even a whimper for Prajna Thakur who is detained with false "accusations"?
Why the human rights activists who were hoarse in crying for Binayak Sen
have lost the voice for the detention of these 11 humans without evidence,
is it because the faith do not teach violence but relifion and men who are
religious have a role to impose their will on others in any guise, be it
"human right" or vote bank.?

Is the rights of the terror accused different from those involved in
terror.?

Regards,
Rajen.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:47 PM, ambarien qadar <ambarien at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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> From: manisha sethi <manisha.sethy at gmail.com>
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> Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:58 PM
> Subject: A Tale of Two Encounters: Statement by the Jamia Teachers'
> Solidarity Group
> To:
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> Jamia
> Teachers Solidarity Group
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> A
> Tale of Two Encounters: Dehradun and Batla House
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> Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Group extends
> its heart-felt condolences to the family of Ranbir Singh, the youth who was
> killed in a police encounter in Dehradun last week. This encounter again
> brings
> to the fore the trigger happy ways of the Indian police who kill and
> torture
> for medals and promotions. We demand exemplary punishment for the guilty
> policemen.
>
>
>
> However, the manner in which the Indian
> State and the mainstream political parties have responded to the encounter
> in
> Dehradun is in striking contrast to the reaction to the shooting down of
> two
> young men in Batla House in Delhi last September. Both encounters were
> followed
> by mass anger and upsurge which spilled onto the streets of the capital
> cities
> of Uttarakhand and the country. While the ‘secular’ Congress has put its
> weight
> behind the agitation in Uttrakhand, joining the peoples’ demand for fair
> probe
> and crying foul over human rights violation, the BJP not to be left behind
> in
> the Human Rights race sent its emissary in the form of BJP President’s and
> Ghaziabad MP’s son to the family of the slain youth to reassure them that
> the
> probe into the encounter would be fair and independent, without the
> involvement
> of the accused Dehradun Police. A CB-CID enquiry has already been ordered
> and
> all police men involved in the shootout have been charged for murder.
>
>
>
> Recall now the jingoist hysteria created by
> Congress and BJP alike, aided by a section of pliant media, in which all
> calls
> for independent and impartial enquiry in the Batla House encounter were
> branded
> as unpatriotic and downright insulting of the bravery of Special Cell cops.
>  The Congress, which today preens on the
> retrieval of its minority vote, persistently bulldozed all demands for a
> probe
> into the Batla House ‘encounter’. So much so, that even the simple,
> procedural
> requirement for a magisterial enquiry was subverted through the Lieutenant
> Governor, who refused to grant permission for an enquiry on flimsy grounds.
> The
> post mortem reports of the deceased—the killed boys as well as Inspector
> Sharma—have been accorded the status of State secret.
>
>
>
> So, what could be the reason for this
> speedy demonstration of justice for Ranbir Singh, and the obstinate refusal
> to
> concede to the widespread demand for an enquiry into the killings of Atif
> Ameen
> and Mohammad Sajid? Except that Atif and Sajid fall in that unfortunate
> category of ‘encounterables’—those whose killings can be justified,
> explained,
> and remain unmourned by our society and polity. It is all right to snuff
> out
> the lives of young men as long as they are drawn from a certain demographic
> and
> reside in areas identified as ghettoes. What we are being told here is that
> Atifs
> and Sajids cannot claim the framework of democratic rights—the only
> framework
> that they must exist in is that of national security.
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>
>
> JTSG reiterates its demand for a judicial
> probe into the Batla House incident, and the application of the same
> standards
> of justice for Atif and Sajid as those applied in the unfortunate and
> tragic
> case of Ranbir Singh.
>
>
>
> Sd/
>
> Manish Sethi and Adeel Mehdi for JTSG
> (9811625577 and 9990923027)
>
>
>
> --
> Ambarien Al Qadar
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Rajen.


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