National Alliance of People's Movements
News Update/Action Alert
20 April 2008
CPI(M) GOONS GANG-RAPE RADHARANI ARI AGAIN IN
NANDIGRAM
OTHER WOMEN AND MEN TOO INJURED, HOUSES ATTACKED AND
LOOTED
The shocking news from Nandigram where the battle is
still on, is of
the gang
rape of Radharani Ari from the village of Gokulnagar
and the attack of
three
other women, all of whom are hospitalized at the
Nandigram Public
Hospital. The
men are said to be missing. In a fresh attack around
midnight and
beyond April
18th , known CPI (M) members and Harmad Vahini,
Party's armed force,
from
Khejuri, who are like goons attacked the house of
Radha Rani and Pratap
Ari,
threw Pratap Ari in the tank nearby and gang-raped
Radha Rani Ari for
the
second time, in her own house.
Radharani Ari is one of the women at the forefront of
the struggle.
Coming from
a dalit landless family, supported by Pratap Ari, her
husband,
Radharani was
always protesting against the SEZ chemical hub project
and giving away
the
land, houses, nature, and culture of Nandigram. Her
heart and soul are
in it
and she is one of the most articulate and courageous
women and had even
toured
the places of struggle in Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh,
Chattisgarh,
Maharashtra,
with us in Nandigram-Narmada- Gorai Jatha.
Narmada Sheet has also been a very committed and
outspoken agitator
from
Sonachura. Other women attacked, include Mona Pramanik
and few men were
also
missing when the news reached us early yesterday
morning. Till this
time, Radha
Rani, Pratap, Ari and Narmada Sheet and some others
are in the
Nandigram
Hospital and a few in Tamluk. At least 20 houses have
been attacked
since
yesterday and 100 members of the families, along with
houses, much
destroyed
and belongings looted, have become homeless, left to
be supported by
the BUPC
Committee. These atrocious incidents occurred in
Gokul Nagar,
Sonachura,
Gadhchakrabedia, under the leadership of Nabakumar
Samanta and other
CPM active
cadres and leaders from Garu Pada, Gokul Nagar, some
of whom came from
Kejuri.
Reportedly, there were also blasts in some houses,
including in the
house of
one Kokhon Sheet, who was just released, after months
long judicial
custody.
Nandigram continues to be one of the worst blot on the
face of Indian
democracy. These atrocities continue to happen and
recur in Nandigram
with the
active involvement of the local CPI(M) cadres and
leaders and tacit
approval
and blessings of the party leadership at various
levels. With most of
the
victims for earlier incidents of violence, not even
having received
just
compensation for atrocities perpetrated against them,
and in fact false
cases
foisted against the victims of violence, as against
the perpetrators,
these
fresh blows in their already scarred lives is nothing
short of a death
blow to
the constitutionally guaranteed rights of the valiant
residents of
Nandigram
Condemning the continuing violence in Nandigram in the
strongest
possible
terms, we immediately demand the following:
1. All the accused must be immediately identified,
charged and arrested
for gang rape, grievous hurt, intimidation, assault,
illegal
confinement and
wrongful detention and other relevant penal
provisions.
2. The National Human Rights Commission must take
immediate cognizance
of
the violations in Nandigram and recommend stringent
penal action
against all
those involved, including instituting an inquiry into
the involvement
of the
CPI(M) leadership and cadres in the
planning/abetment/execution of the
crimes
committed.
3. The National Commission for Women must immediately
constitute a
fact-finding delegation that must visit Nandigram and
submit its Report
to the
NHRC and also direct immediate payment of compensation
to all the women
raped
and all others injured.
4. Free legal, medical, psycho-social and other aid
and support must be
provided to the women and all victims of state and
party violence in
Nandigram.
5. Compensation to all the affected and attacked, with
houses destroyed
and rapes/molestation faced, must be paid immediately
as per the High
Court
orders.
Debjeet Shrikant Medha Patkar
NAPM,
West Bengal.
Annexure
Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee â€" Nandigram
B.U.P.C
Nandigram :: Purba Midnapur :: West Bengal
Ref No ............
Date: 19-04-2008
List of the persons injured by CPI(M) goons
Sl. No. Name Village Age
6.Radharani Ari (raped) Gokulnagar 50
7.Mani Pramanik Gokulnagar 35
8.Chabirani Pamanik Gokulnagar 50
9.Pratap Ari Gokulnagar 55
10.Nandu Mandal Gokulnagar 30
11.Phanindranath Mandal Gokulnagar 73
12.Sudarshan Pramanik Gokulnagar 37
13.Gopal Ari Gokulnagar 22
14.Subhendu Ari Gokulnagar 20
15.Sheik Golam Ahmed Nagekirachar 46
16.Sheik Nazrul Islam 7th Part,Jalpai 45
17.Sheik Mafijul Islam 7th Part,Jalpai 58
18.Hafeja Bibi 7th Part, Jalpai 28
19. Najma Bibi 7th Part, Jalpai 30
20.Sheik Rejaul 7th Part,Jalpai 28
21.Sheik Abdul Rashid 7th Part,Jalpai 45
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