[Assam] Invite: Release of Book "Secret Killings of Assam"

[Chan Mahanta]

My best wishes on your book Utpal.

Tell us a little more about it.  Did you do your own research or is 
it a compilation of existing available info, including the Inquiry 
Commission's report, evidence etc.?

Also I will be very interested in learning WHY the Inq.Comm's. 
findings were not acted upon?  That also makes me curious of other 
such IC reports in Assam. Have any ever been acted upon? What about 
elsewhere in India, are they acted upon? What about the Center's such 
IC reports , what is the history of their findings and being acted 
upon?

Please let us know if it can be purchased from Amazon or such internet outlet.



c-da












At 12:58 PM -0700 3/23/09, utpal borpujari wrote:
>The Human Rights Law Network
>&
>The Nanda Talukdar Foundation
>
>Invite You To The Release of
>
>"Secret Killings of Assam",
>A Human Rights Document
>
>The Book Will Be Released By Justice (Retd) Rajinder Sachar, which 
>will be followed by a discussion on the issue.
>
>Participants:
>Justice (Retd) Sachar, Senior Supreme Court advocate Colin 
>Gonsalves, eminent journalist Praful Bidwai.
>
>Venue: Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC); 5, Windsor Place, New 
>Delhi-1 (Near Le Meridien Hotel)
>
>Time: 4 P.M.
>
>Date: Thursday, 26th March, 2009
>
>
>About the book: In the late 1990s, after an attempt at a peace 
>process with the banned ULFA had fallen through, a series of 
>'secret' killings had taken place in Assam, the targets being 
>relatives of ULFA leaders and cadre. The allegation was that a band 
>of 'secret killers' backed by the state government was targeting 
>these innocent people, their only crime being relatives of 
>insurgents, to put pressure of ULFA to come forward for 
>negotiations. The Justice K N Saikia Commission, set up by the 
>government to probe into the killings after two other similar 
>commissions fell through, gave a voluminous report on the series of 
>killings after a long inquiry. Like the reports of many such other 
>inquiry commissions across the country, this report too has not been 
>acted upon. This book is a compilation of the most famous and the 
>most horrific cases of secret killings, sieved from the witness 
>accounts contained in the Saikia Commission report. The effort by
>  three journalists from Assam - Mrinal Talukdar (UNI-Guwahati), 
>Utpal Borpujari (Deccan Herald-New Delhi) and Kaushik Deka (India 
>Today-New Delhi) - is to bring, in a comprehensive manner, the 
>nature of the incidents to the outside world which more or less 
>remains oblivious to this sordid series of political killings, 
>victims of which were innocent citizens.
>
>
>Utpal Borpujari
>Special Correspondent, Deccan Herald (New Delhi Bureau)
>9811631034; 23719471-2; 23731535
>utpalb21 at gmail.com, utpalb21 at yahoo.com, uborpujari at deccanherald.co.in
>
>
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