[Assam] [asom] Corrigendum to the Statement of BHRPC regardingClash in Guwahti

Rajen & Ajanta Barua barua25 at hotmail.com
Sun Dec 2 06:56:15 PST 2007


Chandan:
We don't have to so magnanimous as to let someone go free who try to create 
problems for the North East in the name o Human Rights Protection Committee.
The Assamese speaking people, need a public apology from BHRPC. A public 
apology means publishing the apology in all the Newspapers in Assam as a 
minimum.
Otherise, we may use RTI or PIL or whatever law we can use against BHRPC.
I still donot understand how and why the name of the Assamese speaking 
people are involved in the incident.
Rajen Barua

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chan Mahanta" <cmahanta at charter.net>
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Subject: Re: [Assam] [asom] Corrigendum to the Statement of BHRPC 
regardingClash in Guwahti


> Well said.
>
> I will go a step farther. This so-called report from BHRPC had little
> to do with human rights protection of Adivasis or anybody else's and
> was all about attempting to beat up on Assamese speakers. While I
> understand the Barak Valley people's grudge against Assamese language
> speaking people, to use the Adivasi riot and counter riot at Guwahati
> to give vent to its grievances had to be the brainchild of people who
> obviously don't have much.
>
> Therefore, personally, I would not even care to seek an apology.
> Because it was so mindless a piece to begin with.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 1:12 AM -0600 12/2/07, Rajen & Ajanta Barua wrote:
>>  > "These speak a volume of the attitude of some of the Assamese people
>>>  towards the tribals which also can explain the barbarity committed
>>>  against the Adibasis."
>>
>>Dear Mr Laskar:
>>The above sentence is not acceptable to the Assamese people.
>>Probably you know that the term 'Assamese' is a linguistic term, it
>>is not  a racial term.
>>Thus when you say, Assamese people, it actually means the Assamese
>>speaking people.
>>In the group of people who were involved in the violence, how do you
>>know they were ALL Assamese speaking people? Without knowing, why
>>you are picking only the Assamese speaking people? We think there
>>were Bengali as well as Hindi speaking people also in the group.
>>Also please note that these Adibasis were also Assamese speaking people.
>>Overall your above sentence is not only objectionable but also self
>>contradictory and grossly biased towrds the Assamese speaking people
>>for no reason.
>>This biasness speaks volumes for lack of creditability for a Human
>>Rights Protection Commitee such as yours.
>>We hope you on behalf of Barak Human Rights Protection Committee,
>>would withdraw the sentence completely without further delay.
>>Rajen Barua.
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "umesh sharma" <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
>>To: <umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu>; <assamonline at yahoogroups.com>;
>><assam at assamnet.org>
>>Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:16 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Assam] [asom] Corrigendum to the Statement of BHRPC
>>regardingClash in Guwahti
>>
>>
>>>  Mr Laskar,
>>>
>>>  It is good to note that you have overcome your bias and blamed
>>>only a section of the local people  why not go one step further in
>>>removing the bias and blame the very people - the few hundred (??)
>>>out of the millions of Assamese residents.
>>>
>>>  Umesh
>>>
>>>  umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote: That makes more sense.
>>>
>>>  Umesh
>>>
>>>  Waliulllah Ahmed Laskar <wlllhlaskar at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>Dear Group Members,
>>>
>>>  The Statement posted by me in this group regarding Violence in
>>>  Guwahati street on 24th November, 2007 on behalf of the Barak Human
>>>  Rights Protection Committee, in the capacity of Special
>>>  Representative of the organisation to the city, contained a sentence
>>>  to which our many friends in the group raised onjections. The
>>>  sentence was as follows:
>>>
>>>  "These speak a volume of the attitude of Assamese people towards the
>>>  tribals which also can explain the barbarity committed against the
>>>  Adibasis."
>>>
>>>  Here a mistake has been committed by me inadvertently in the
>>>  construction of the sentence. The sentence rather should be as
>>>  follows:
>>>
>>>  "These speak a volume of the attitude of some of the Assamese people
>>>  towards the tribals which also can explain the barbarity committed
>>>  against the Adibasis."
>>>
>>>  I sincerely regret this mistake and apologize to all the persons who
>>>  have gone through this statement.
>>>
>>>  Yours
>>>  With Sincere Regret
>>>  Waliullah Ahmed Laskar
>>>  Special Representative to Guwahati
>>>  Barak Human Rights Protection Committee,
>>>  15, Darandha, Panjabari Road, Guwahati-781037.
>>>
>>>  Re: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/3894
>>  >     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/3879
>>>
>>>  --- "Waliulllah Ahmed Laskar" <wlllhlaskar at ...> wrote:
>>  >
>>>  Humanity Was Raped in Guwahati on 24th November, 2007
>>>
>>>  More than 20 people were killed, 3 women raped, one girl stripped
>>>off in the highway and paraded, about 300 thousand injured of whom
>>>the condition of 10 is critical and 45 persons simply disappeared
>>>when the demonstrators belonging to Adibasi, as some tribal
>>>communities--mainly Kul, Santal, Munda--who work in tea gardens are
>>>known here, were marching towards the state secretariat in Dispur,
>>>Guwahati on the fateful day of 24th November as a part of their
>>>programme formulated to push for the age-long demand of including
>>>the communities in the list of scheduled castes.In the course of
>>>the march while police stopped them before they reached the Last
>>>Gate of the MLA Hostel some of the  demonstrators turned violent
>>>and destroyed properties such as shops, vehicles etc. and injured
>>>some pedestrians. Some local residents came out to retaliate the
>>>violence, to take revenge and to teach the tribals a lesson. In the
>>>process they got wild and savage so much so that they lost every
>>>  sense of humanity and unleashed the brute within them. The beast
>>>killed many innocent persons, kicked the dead bodies with diabolic
>>>enjoyment, stripped many women off all cloths, raped them and it
>>>raped the humanity. We saw in Guwahati the wild dance of the beast.
>>>
>>>  Circumstances cry to yet another most diabolic fact that during
>>>the period of 4 to 5 hours of this wild dance of the beast in the
>>>political and administrative power center of the state no worth
>>>mention state presence was there. The beast danced with the tacit
>>>leave of the state. The state allowed the beast to finish its
>>>horrendous ritual by making it self absent. It is nothing but the
>>>naked parade of electoral  politics in its worst.
>>>
>>>  The officials of the organisation which co-ordinated the programme
>>>told that they did not have any intention to create a violent
>>>situation. They regretted the fact of committing violence by some
>>>of their members.
>>>
>>>  The facts which indicate clearly towards direct and indirect
>>>abetment of the government are:
>>>
>>>  1. When the tribal groups sought permission for a meeting and a
>>>demonstration they were denied.
>>>  2. When they held the meeting and demonstration there was no
>>>adequate arrangement of security forces.
>>>  3. After the mayhem started no forces sent to control the situation.
>>>  4. Government is trying desperately to show down the incident
>>>reducing the number of casualties in its statement,perhaps in order
>>>to save the perpetrators from the law.
>>>  5. The authorities of the medical college hospital where most of
>>>the injured were admitted released many of them without proper
>>>treatment to show down the enormity of the mayhem,  perhaps in
>>>order to save the perpetrators from the law.
>>>  6. At first just an inquiry by an additional chief secretary was
>>>ordered and later a judicial inquiry overlooking callously the
>>>demands of CBI probe.
>>>  7. More cases registered against the demonstrators that against
>>>the local residents.
>>>  8. No case was registered regarding rape cases.
>>>
>>>  There some other more painful facts indicative of the callousness
>>>of the so-called civil society which include the attitude of the
>>>media in covering the incident. Most of the local media presented
>>>the story in such a way as if they are justifying, or at least
>>>making an excuse of, the brutality meted out to the demonstrators
>>>by making tacit statement of who-started-it-first. There are also
>>>allegations that doctors raped a victim girl who was brought in
>>>Guwahati Medical College.
>>>
>>>  These speak a volume of the attitude of Assamese people towards
>>>the tribals which also can explain the barbarity committed against
>>>the Adibasis.
>>>
>>>  The Barak Human Rights Protection Committee categorically condemns
>>>the violence and the mayhem. The committee demands:
>>>
>>>  1. A CBI probe into the whole incident.
>>>  2. Compensation of 5 lakhs to the family of deceased, 2 lakh to
>>>the victim of rape, 1 lakh to the victim of abuse 50 thousand to
>>>the severely injured, 25 thousand to the other injured and adequate
>>>compensation to those whose properties were destroyed.
>>  >
>>>  The Barak Human Rights Committee urges the Assam State Human
>>>Rights Commission to register a suo-moto case against the police
>>>and other government officials for whose negligence in duty made
>>>the mayhem possible.
>>>
>>>  The Committee requests all people to maintain peace and harmony.
>>>
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