Forget and Forgive Gestapo!

Forget and Forgive Gestapo!

Indian Holocaust My father`s Life and Time - One Hundred Fifty SEVEN

Palash Biswas


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Nandigram SEZ controversy
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NANDIGRAM MASS KILLING
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The Nandigram Massacre
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Joy Goswami reciting to protest Nandigram mass killing.
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Suman sings for Nandigram

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West Bengal's ruling Left Front and the main opposition Trinamool Congress, after weeks of slugfest, arrived at a consensus Saturday to hold the much-awaited all-party peace meeting on May 24 to restore normalcy in trouble-torn Nandigram.The meeting has been scheduled at Mahajati Sadan here to end the ongoing Nandigram crisis where at least 21 people died since the January flare-up over a special economic zone (SEZ).

Now it is Forget and Forgive time for the Ruling Brahminical Classes in Bengal. The Gestapo of capitalist Marxist CM Buddha is untoched. All ten armed CPIM cadres arrested by CBI have been released on bail. Violence in Nandigram is unabated as the area has to be captured and CPIM is adament. Peace talks continue, but no one is ready to give any space to opposition.The victims of industrialisation and urbanisation have to be forgotten as we are quite habitual to live in morgues!

The CPM rejected a draft resolution prepared by its allies for the all-party meeting on Nandigram.
The draft condemns the police firing on March 14 and demands punishment for those responsible for it and damages for the victims.The CPM feels only a court can decide the punishment. “The all-party meeting or the Left Front cannot decide who the culprits were or what punishment they deserve. The court has to say whether the police firing was unjustified or an act of compulsion,” CPM state secretariat member Benoy Konar said after its meeting.
The seven-line draft prepared by the RSP, Forward Bloc and the CPI, however, does not describe the firing that led to 14 deaths as a “massacre”. It calls it “unfortunate”.

The allies said the word “unfortunate” had the chief minister’s concurrence. But the allies tried to “accommodate” Mamata’s demand of “punishment for those responsible for the firing”.

The chief minister and his party had regretted the deaths, but they did not think the firing was “unprovoked”, as alleged by the Opposition as well as the CPM allies.

The allies’ draft has to be finalised in consultation with the CPM, Mamata and the state Congress brass.

Now , just analyse what this Peace Initiative actually means!

No less a person than Gandhian Lohiaite vetern social activist from Kolkata Mr Ashok Saxeria told me on phone that CPIM has drawn a well planned scheme to dismiss all charges of Genocide and atrocities in Nandigram. Hence , they have carefully shifted the focus on Mamta Bannerjee! He opined that Nandigram Uprising is a genuine mass movement and Mamta or any political leader has not any right to bargain with State Power!
CPIM has the precondition for the peacetalks that no question should be asked on Nandigram Genocide or gangrape! Biman Bose or Buddhdaev do not agree to attend a meeting by a left partner. Neither Jyoti Basu has agreed to preside the meeting as proposed by Ashok ghosh.Thoughit is decided that an all-party meeting will be held here on May 24 to restore peace in Nandigram, hit since January by violent protests against the acquisition of agricultural land for industry. This was decided at a meeting here between state Forward Bloc secretary Ashok Ghose, authorised by the state's Left Front government to mediate with opposition parties on the issue, and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata. The much-hyped all-party peace meeting to restore peace in Nandigram could lose its lustre as there are doubts whether CPI(M) State secretary Biman Bose and Krishi Jamin Bachao Committee leader Mamata Banerjee would at all participate in the talks.

CPI(M) State secretary has never attended an all-party meeting in the 30-year history of the Left Front government in Bengal. And the present CPI(M) State secretary Biman Bose will not deviate from this precedence set by his predecessors in this post.

Ashok Ghosh is also unable to get CPI(M) politburo member and former CM Jyoti Basu for the peace meeting. One, the CPI(M) has protested against Basu's presence in this kind of meeting because they feel that given his stature, Basu is too big to be involved in an all-party state peace meeting.It is also learnt that Jyoti Basu citing his frail health has told Ashok Ghosh that he cannot attend the all-party meeting with the leaders of the Krishi Jamin Bachao Committee leaders.

At least 14 people were killed and over a hundred injured and several women raped during a police operation in Nandigram on March 14 to establish an administrative control in the area that was inaccessible to cops after a flare-up in early January over a proposal to set up a SEZ, including a chemical hub, in collaboration with the Salim Group of Indonesia.


In January, six people were killed in clashes between the CPI-M men and the Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC), a platform of opposition parties and bodies including Trinamool Congress, the Congress and Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind.


Thousands of people were rendered homeless since the flare-up and they were living in camps.


Shootouts, bombings and arson between rival groups continued in Nandigram as part of battle for control of villages claiming one life April 29.

Renowned Poet Joy Goswami warned yesterday in the same language a Mass Convention attended by forty five organizations of scientists, social activists, human right organs including APDR, doctors who arrenged health camps in nandigram, students, artists, lawyers, writers and poets,teachers,officers and forces of resistance in the University Institute Hall, Kolkata. Joy warnedthat we have to be aware lest the much hyped All Party Peace Talks should not turn out to be en escape route for the Killing Squad! Mahashweta Devi voiced the house to continue the resistance! Shaibal Mitra, the writer and film maker, Sabyasachi Deb, poet, Nabarun Bhattacharya, Nabo dutta, Debdulal Bannerjee, the Land revenue and reform commissioner of Jyoti Basu Regime ,Pratul Mukherjee and Pallab Kirtunia, the eminent singers Were present on the dias. The convention demaned to arrested all those persons who surfaced in videoclippings as killers. It demanded to suspend the DGP, DIG, DM, SP and other officials. It also demanded to arrest CPIM leader Binoy Konar for his provactive speech prior to January Massacre! The Convention opined: SEZ must be scrapped. The Killers of Nandigram, Singur and Kaling Nagar must be punished. Without punishing these global criminals , there won`t be any peace! Peace Talks should not be the ground of Forget and Forgive Campaign to dilute people`s resistance countrywide! The speakers spoke on the Systematic Misinformation campaign also!

The convention appealed that Singur and Tapasi Malik should not be forgotten! We have to resist all attempts of State sponsored VIOlence!
APDR also demanded to try the state government for its false statements on Nandigram and Singur. APDR also alleged that it has become a well set trend in the LEFT Regime , the total Eviction of Opposition as we have seen in Kesh PUR, Garghbeta and elsewhere !

NGBPU along with another organisation Sanhati Udyog organised this mass convention.

Today Nandigaram witnessed a Cultural festival and Petry Recitation progrramme with Language Martyres` and Land Aquistion Resistance Martyres` day celebration. A SHAHHEED BEDI is erected in memory in Nandigram!
Mahashweta devi, Tarun Sanyal, Bibhash Chakrobarti, Sunando sanyal, Shaoli Mitra, Joy Goswami, Nabarun Bhattacharya, Kabeer suman, Swapno Maya Chakrabarti,Sujat Bhadra,Amar Mitra, Raghava bandopadhyaya, Nitish Bhattachraya fro barak valley in Assam,Rajoo Das. and scores of artists and poets were present on this occassion!

An independent citizen's forum in West Bengal decided to organise the people's convention to protest the killings in Nandigram even as Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is desperately trying to woo back disgruntled intellectuals to the communist fold.The tribunal, to be held May 26-28 in Nandigram and Kolkata, will focus particularly on the March 14 massacre that claimed 14 lives and left over hundreds injured in the trouble-torn Nandigram in East Midnapore district.This convention is the curtain raiser of nandi Gram Convention!

Magsaysay Award winning writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi, who will represent the forum, told a press conference here Wednesday that for a long time Bengalis had forgotten to take up cudgels to fight for social issues."I am very happy that now a large section of people have reacted against the March 14 genocide in Nandigram. They are neither doing it out of any election interest nor are they affiliated to any political party," she said.

Mahasweta Devi was addressing the media on behalf of Nandigram Ganahatya Birodhi Prachar Udyog (NGBPU) - a coordination of 42 mass organisations.The people's tribunal comprises many eminent people like former chief justice of Sikkim High Court Justice Bhargav, peace activist Lalita Ramdas, former chairperson of women's commission of the Tripura government Meenakshi Sen Bandhopadhyay among others.


'We have called an all-party meeting on May 24 at Mahajati Sadan to discuss with an open mind how to solve the Nandigram imbroglio and restore peace there. We would request all senior leaders from different political parties to participate in the talks,' Ghosh told a press conference here.


He said the Left Front would be informed in detail of his discussion with Banerjee.


'We always welcome peace process to restore normalcy in Nandigram. But we also want punishment of the perpetrators of the mayhem of March 14 in Nandigram,' said Banerjee.


In the meeting, she also demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry to end their investigation process into the March 14 police firing.


Earlier, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front had arrived at a consensus to hold an all-party meeting at the state level to initiate peace process in Nandigram.

Singur Resistance has been a flop as Tata Motors has got the land. If nandigram resistance also end in political baraging, what happens next!

on the other hand, Tata Motors on Friday expressed hope that its Singur project in West Bengal would become operational by the middle of next financial year.Tata's initiative to launch the Rs one lakh car, ran into rough weather as stiff resistance mounted over land acquisition from Trinamool Congress, the main opposition party in West Bengal.Tata Motors would be investing Rs 1,500 crore and that apart, vendors would invest a sizable amount.Tata Motors said that the plant would create at least 10,000 jobs directly and indirectly and the company has already initiated training programmes for locals.

"Construction of the company's small car plant at Singur is progressing apace. The plant will be commissioned in 2008 and we hope the project will be operational by the middle of 2008-09 financial year," Tata Motors Managing Director Ravi Kant told reporters in Mumbai announcing the company's financial results here.

The Tatas are going to get tax concession worth Rs 18,000 for every 1,00,000 units sold via its small car project. This was the incentive earlier offered by Uttranchal, which the West Bengal government matched to bring the project to Singur, reports CNBC-TV18.The Bengal government has offered a refund of VAT for 10 years and a Rs 200 crore loan at 1% for 20 years. It has also offered a concession in lease rent for a 645-acre plot. Tata Motors is to pay Rs 1 crore a year for the first five years.

Ahead of the all-party meet, TNC chief Mamata Banerjee will hold a one-to-one discussion with a veteran Left leader to discuss issues related to the meeting.

This was decided after Forward Bloc leader Ashok Ghosh, entrusted by the Left Front to organise the all-party meet, held a telephonic talk with the Trinamool chief.

Banerjee said, "Ashok Ghosh rang me up and wanted to come to my office. He is a senior leader. I told him that I will meet him on Saturday. Since he wants to speak to me I am going there. It is nothing but a courtesy meeting."

The TC chief declined to reveal what would be discussed but sources in both the ruling and opposition camps said the date, venue and modalities of the meeting were likely to be discussed at Saturday's talks.

Meanwhile, Calcutta High Court has ordered that the government cannot vest any land unless there is provision for proper compensation in the West Bengal Land Reforms Act.This may stall the government's pre-panchayat poll bid to vest above-ceiling land and distribute those among the landless. The court order, however, doesn't prevent acquisition of land for industry or other public purposes. The Land Reforms Act has provisions for compensation to those whose lands were vested. The rate is 15 times the existing land rent. But the Act doesn't provide for different rates for separate categories, such as irrigated land, fallow land or marshland.A few years ago, the court had described the provision (Section 14V) as "illusory" and struck it down. The reason given by the Bench of Justice S B Sinha and Justice S N Chakraborty was that the Section made no difference between the kinds of land being vested. Even waterbodies were being treated as land.

The state government had then moved a special leave petition before the Supreme Court, challenging this order. Even while the matter was pending before the Supreme Court (as it still is), the state continued to vest land, without paying any compensation. The logic was that "the Supreme Court had stayed the vesting process". Even the West Bengal Land Tribunal had held that the process of vesting of land in the state may continue as the interim order of the Supreme Court had not stayed it.

Recently, the high court division Bench of Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice K K Prasad started hearing a fresh petition on the issue. On Monday, the judges gave their verdict.

"There will be no vesting of land in the state under the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, in the absence of any provision for payment of compensation," the Bench ordered. Once the provision has been incorporated (through necessary amendment), the vesting process can restart, the court held.

This issue first came up before the high court in 1993 when some people challenged the 1981 and 1986 amendments to the LR Act. The court had then upheld the amendments, but struck down the provision for payment of compensation. While the state had challenged this before the apex court, another SLP was moved by the petitioners challenging the amendments.

Land and land reforms minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah hinted that the state might move SC against the order. He also rejected claims that the state won't be able to distribute land. "The government already has 56,000 acres of vested land at its disposal, free from litigation. We will distribute them. These are over and above 1.8 lakh acres of vested land under litigation in the apex court," he said.

Violence Continue!
Seven houses of CPI (M) supporters were attacked and damaged by Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee activists at Tulaghata village in Nandigram in East Midnapore district on Saturday.

BUPC Core Committee member Bhawani Prasad Das said that its supporters attacked the houses as there had been firing from there on Friday night.

East Midnapore Superintendent of Police GA Srinivas confirmed that there had been firing in the area on Friday night and that a number of houses had been attacked and damaged on Saturday.

SEZ DRIVE!

India was one of the first in Asia to recognize the effectiveness of the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) model in promoting exports, with Asia's first EPZ set up in Kandla in 1965. With a view to overcome the shortcomings experienced on account of the multiplicity of controls and clearances; absence of world-class infrastructure, and an unstable fiscal regime and with a view to attract larger foreign investments in India, the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Policy was announced in April 2000. More

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Initiatives taken to restore peace at Nandigram: CM

SARISHA: The government is taking all initiatives to restore normalcy in Nandigram and win back the confidence of the people of the area, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee said here Friday.

Expressing resolve to pursue the state's industrialisation drive relentlessly, Bhattacharjee said: "There had been Rs 74,000 crore investment proposals till now in the current year as against Rs 18,000 crore proposals in 2006. We have to keep the momentum while safeguarding farmers' interests."

“United we stand, divided we fall” was the mantra behind the Left Front’s success in emerging as the ruling front in the state seven consecutive times. But on the first anniversary of the seventh Left Front government, there’s a twist in the tale. Differences between chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and some of his Cabinet colleagues, particularly from the smaller Left parties, are now clearly visible. This conflict within the government has become more evident after various ministers criticised the government’s stand on several issues over the past year.
The growing chasm between Mr Bhattacharjee and his colleagues first came to light when Mr Kshiti Goswami, PWD minister, and Mr Nandagopal Bhattacharya, water resources minister, raised their voices against police atrocities on protesting villagers in Singur. Post-Singur, differences became more visible over acquisition of land for setting up industries. Apart from the PWD and water resources ministers, Mr Bhattacharjee’s land and land reforms minister, Mr Abdur Razzak Molla, also expressed his dissatisfaction over forcible acquisition of farmland. And he did so repeatedly.
When 14 residents fell to police bullets in Nandigram while protesting against land acquisition, the chinks in the Cabinet became wider. After the Nandigram episode, a number of ministers criticised the state government’s policy openly. Differences over other policy ~ and personality ~ issues too were evident. Veteran Forward Bloc leader and agriculture minister Mr Naren Dey offered his resignation after the chief minister criticised his department’s “failures” at a public meeting.

Governor lauds peace initiative

The Governor, Mr Gopal Krishna Gandhi, today congratulated “all political personalities for their sagacious initiative” in beginning dialogue for restoring peace and normalcy in the trouble-torn East Midnapore. He expressed his happiness over the progress being made for the peace process as “it’s important that women and children in the area should feel that their homestead areas and villages are free of tension.”
The Governor stated in a Press release that over the past few weeks he had received several communications from the people of East Midnapore and their common refrain was that they want peace and normalcy in their areas.
The Governor said he hoped the dialogue would “open a chapter of mutual trust where people live and work in their areas with confidence, where essential commodities are bought and sold without any hindrance, where there is ease of access and movement, where children are able to attend school and where people go about their day to day activities as normally as anywhere else.”

Biman welcomes 'positive outcome' in Ashok-Mamata talks
The CPI-M today welcomed the "positive outcome" of the talks between Forward Bloc leader Ashok Ghosh and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee for an all-party meeting on May 24 to restore peace at troubled Nandigram.Stating that the Front had initiated the peace process at Nandigram, Bose said it had entrusted Ashok Ghosh with the task of arranging an all-party peace meeting "because we want restoration of peace there."


Nandigram: Buddhadeb must take responsibility for peace

Malda: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee should take full responsibility for the return of peace to Nandigram, senior Congress leader Priyaranjan Dasmunsi said on Saturday.


"The chief minister is responsible for at least 80 per cent of the unrest in Nandigram and he has to take responsibility for the return of peace there," Dasmunsi, the Union information and broadcasting minister, told reporters in Malda.

Dasmunsi said that apart from the chief minister, the CPI-M and the state's ruling Left Front had to play a significant role for the return of peace to Nandigram, hit by violent protests against the acquisition of land for industry. "Everybody should pray for peace in Nandigram," he said.

Alleging that the violence in Nandigram was a result of "CPI-M provocation," Dasmunsi said, "It is to be regretted that no one was arrested and no condemnation made. This has led people in Nandigram to lose confidence.


SEZ’s not enough for sustained development
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19 May 2007, Saturday

While SEZ’s can propel economic growth, if our government is not able to provide a safety net for rural livelihoods and respond to their development needs, then it would be the surest recipe for social disaster and instability.

INDIA IS THE fastest growing democracy in the World. Our so-called consumer class will soon overtake US and EU put together. But we must also ponder on the mistakes made by them. India Incs must remember that many people in our country earn less then US$ 2 per day. Thus it is very important that the focus must shift on narrowing wide gaps.
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India's hastily created SEZ system under fire
Special economic zones have run into problems, especially over land development policy


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ONE key characteristic of a developed economy is that its service sector is more productive than its manufacturing sector. India is decidedly still a developing economy, but the country's service sector has long outstripped its manufacturing sector.

Chain reaction: Indian students during a protest demonstration in New Delhi against police firing on villagers in West Bengal which left 14 people dead. The villagers were demonstrating against government's plans to build a special economic zone on their land
In recent years, there has been pressure on the government to take steps to increase activity in manufacturing, which calls for rapid improvements in infrastructure. Because the development of such facilities could not easily be achieved via a single nationwide initiative, the government announced in 2000 that it was establishing a decentralised system of special economic zones (SEZs) around the country.

The idea gained momentum after the late Murasoli Maran, then India's commerce and industry minister, visited Beijing that year and saw how well China's SEZs had been performing. These had been established back in the eighties, when the country had started seeking foreign investment.
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Sachin, Sourav finally ton it up
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On the grand trunk road...

A journey across installations, object-art & performances
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It’s a unique idea, one that’s dedicated to the martyrs of Nandigram and the recent attack on Chandramohan, a student of MS University, Baroda. Curated by Nirupama Dutt, Shumita Didi and Parnab Mukherjee, the two-day show begins on May 22 at Chandigarh Museum Art Gallery, with performance of a short story reading by Poonam Singh and Shumita Didi. The second day is a theatre performance of Sham Da Rang, an exploration of Lal Singh Dil, Joy Goswami and Mahasveta Devi, collaborated by Dutt, Saif and Rohit and directed by Parnab Mukherjee.

This two-day long exploration is a journey across memories of micro-histories and struggle. It’s journey of four trunks (used as a metaphor), and each trunk brings back memories. The recent suspension of Shivji Panikkar in Baroda, memories of Nandigram, Lahore, Tapashi Mullick’s mangled dead body in Singur, objects that remain testimony to violence-shattered, torn and ripped apart. The short story performance explores the idiom and looks into individual memories of isolation, while the theatre performance is an ensemble piece of larger memories of the struggle, the dot below each question mark. The aim of the narrative is look the internal displacement of an individual in struggle and admission of the fact that we all carry our private wounds in our bodies there are wounds in the trunk stacked up wounds.


Navdeep Singh

from: Navdeep Singh
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subject: media not showing truth about present Punjab crises

1. This is not an issue of Akalis going for a revenge. Anyone in power would not ask for the trouble. This is a case of Sikh sentiments being hurt.

2. The instigation has deliberately been done by the Dera Baba who has tried to imitate the tenth Master of the Sikhs.

3. Its not just dress code, he has tried to play and mimic with the teachings of the Guru Sahib- instituting his own style amrit, just the way it happened in 1978 that led to operation bluestar and then 84 riots

4. Anyone Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian who has slightest knowledge of Sikhism can easily make out the intentions behind the ads.

5. The Dera followers were aware of the instigation and were prepared for the Sikh reactions. within hours of Sikh Protest 12000 Dera followers came armed and created havoc in Bathinda.Most of them were armed with same size of lathis as reported by News Channel.

6. The congress behind these instigations and trouble is factually proven by photgraphs and videos, as almost 6 congress MLAs were part of the mob which created havoc in Bathinda.

7. Tolerance does not mean that you demean the prophets of any religion and then ask the people not to react. And mind it the reactions by Sikhs have been democratic and mostly peaceful.

8. There were 1.5 lakh Sikhs yesterday at Sabo ki Talvandi to protest against the Deras misendeavors. Has there been any violence or damage to public property? What more can be the tolerance?

9. There are hundreds of Deras running in Punjab and never ever the Sikhs harassed or protested against them. Yes unless these Deras have tried to deliberately play with Sikh sentiments.

10. I would request all to support Sikh sentiments and expose this Dera and the Congress.

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11. I would also request Sikh bretheren to not to play in the hands of politicians. Let us maintain our composure and peacefully protest against the Dera Head's misadventure.


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People's Tribunal on Nandigram

NOTIFICATION


WHEREAS on 14th March, 2007, a large section of people/local residents
protesting against the entry of the huge armed contingent of police
and other categories of armed forces in Nandigram area, Purba
Medinipur, West Bengal, were allegedly attacked, and injured and
killed in the police firing;

AND whereas 14 people including women (according to the government
version) were officially confirmed as being killed in the violence
while many women and men were severely injured by firing, lathi-
beating and /or use of toxic materials;

And whereas there were also incidents of arson, carnage, violence,
killing and flight from affected villages starting from the month of
January 2007, including the incidents of violence on 6 / 7th January
2007