The victims of genocide have to stay quiet. Stay quiet as incompetent and corrupt governments use genocide to justify their claim to power. Stay quiet as poets and singers mourn the dead but ignore the living. Stay quiet as every single POW guilty of rape and murder is politely returned to Pakistan. Stay quiet as a few trials of symbolic value are hailed as great triumphs. Stay quiet as war criminals hide in AL and BNP. Stay quiet as those who did not fight in 1971 talk as if they did fight. Stay quiet while no one wants to find the dead bodies of their loved ones. Stay quiet while the educated classes mourn their own dead but pay lip service to the dead of the lower classes. Stay quiet while governments declare they will look for mass graves but actually do nothing. Stay quiet while an increasingly selfish and corrupt society walks barefoot to memorials in order to wash themselves clean of their hypocrisy. Stay quiet while the number of women raped is used in countless political speeches every year but not a damn single thing is done for them. Stay quiet while the living act as if they gave their own lives for the country. Stay quiet without hope of ever having a real voice. Stay quiet while a genteel and organised society descends into a crass and chaotic society. Stay quiet and watch their children fight to go abroad.
Stay quiet while Hasina and Khaleda turn Bangladesh into a toilet. Stay quiet while some intellectuals prop up the status quo and others just say it is unfortunate.
Stay quiet and suffer the hypocrisies of educated Bongus.
My extended middle finger to all blind supporters of AL and BNP.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid <farida_majid@...> wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:40:34 +0530
> Subject: [india-unity] Memorial to a Genocide (Gujarat 2002 - 2012) Nationwide Call to participate
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> Ahmedabad
> February 28,
> 2012
> 2 p.m.
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> How do we commemorate such
> a cataclysmic series of violences, lives torn asunder, narratives of depth and
> despair, callousness and courage, struggle and hope?
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> Together we hope. As we
> near the Ten year mark of the genocidal carnage in Gujarat we appeal and call to
> all of you to join us on February 28, 2012 in the Live Memorial at Gulberg
> Society, Ahmedabad, physically or through countrywide protests and memorials all
> over India. From 2 p.m. onwards that day we shall be observing the Memorial.
> Through Reminiscences and recordings, Panels and Exhibits, Music and Words,
> Acknowledgements and Tears.
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> Nationwide
> Resonance
> A Call and Appeal
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> When we do so in Ahmedabad
> we hope that each and all of you in different parts of India will share the
> experience and in turn interact with us through a technologically linked
> endeavour. We shall be linking the Memorial through live web cam links and
> internet connections so that it can be viewed and shared at a few minutes gap in
> faraway Kerala, Kashmir, Manipur, Lucknow, Delhi, Mhow, Faizabad, Ayodhya,
> Malegaon, Mumbai.
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> Requirements:
> All we ask is that you
> arrange Protest and Commemorations to mark this date. To enable an interactive
> sharing of the Live Memorial on February 28, 2012 at Gulberg Society,
> Communalism Combat and Citizens for Justice and Peace are in collective action,
> with individuals and groups, organizing a live relay of the Memorial by live
> Internet link. We request that each and all of you groups organize a Live
> Screening of this Memorial in different cities/locations all over the country on
> large projector screens. Participating in this memorial you organise your own
> special protest commemorations in every location. We shall also make
> arrangements that over three thousand survivors and activists at Gulberg will
> also view over the evening the protests and commemorations that you are
> observing in different locales.. Such an Interactive Live Memorial will be
> unique. It will ensure that there is a nationwide resonance to the Ten Year
> Commemoration of the Genocide.
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> The Ten Year Live Memorial
> will be up linked for permanent viewing on the Internet after February 28, 2012.
> The Memorial is part of week long observances Insaf ke Dagar Pe,
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> detailed below. The Citizens for Justice and Peace will also be organizing a
> Seminar Workshop on Lessons from Gujarat (Criminal Justice System and
> Accountability) at the Gujarat Vidyapeeth on February 27, 2012.
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> Memorial to a
> Genocide
> Gujarat 2002 – 2012
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> Manifesto of the Gulberg
> Society, Ahmedabad
> Over the past ten years, as
> protests, testimonials and meet have observed the traumatic events in Gujarat in
> 2002, a traveling memorial to all the carnage sites was also attempted by us in
> 2008. Instead of peacefully allowing victim survivors to pay respects at the
> Coach S-6 in Godhra we were, one hundred of us, arrested and forced to bide time
> at the police station. The site of the burnt remains of the S-6 Sabarmti Express
> Coach has sadly become the sole mourning preserve of the government and
> organizations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). Reconciliation and
> Reparation appear a faraway dream when collective memorials are thus forbidden.
> It took time and energy to get ourselves released from the police station before
> we could reach the sites of brute violence at Pandharwada village, Panchmahals
> and then Ode, Anand before traversing Sardarpura. At each site, locales of the
> violence and sites where dear and near ones were unceremoniously dumped, were
> remembered. The next day when we walked in silence towards Teesra Kuan in the
> Maidan at Naroda Patiya, where Missing Persons Bodies had been dumped in 2002
> and have not been recovered to date. A hostile neighbourhood and an edgy police
> barely allowed us to light candles there.
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> Given this painful past, we
> gave decided to collectively commemorate the 300 traumatic bouts of violence
> over 19 districts in a Live Memorial at Gulberg Society Ahmedabad. We earnestly
> appeal to each and all of you to participate in this endeavour.
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> Digital Installations and
> Exhibits in English, Gujarati and Hindustani
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> TIMELINE in content and
> chronology tracking the rehabilitation and justice process with a
> PHOTO RETRO of the lives of
> internally displaced persons in various transit camps
> STATISTICS of a human
> tragedy, an installation
> MISSING PERSONS remembered
> through a ritualistic Wailing Wall
> ACKNOWLEDGMENTS to Saviours
> of Lives, Activists, Jurists, Photographers and Media People in wall
> panels
> SURVIVOR'S LEAD US THROUGH
> THE MEMORIAL AND SPEAK
> HIDDEN
> NARRATIVES brute targeting of women and
> children
> DIGITALISED
> MEMORIALS News Coverage and Parzaania on large side
> screens
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> MUSIC IN
> MEMORIUM
> Shubha Mudgal (vocal),
> Aneesh Pradhan (tabla), Sudhir Nayak (harmonium)
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> We shall
> be digitalizing the exhibit installations with text and photos and sending it
> out on CD to all of you to enable you to reproduce these in different cities. Do
> revert back to us on the nature of the protests and commemorations that you
> plan. Already, on youtube you may view Survivor lines link on
> YouTube http://youtu.be/xcomQuyEHtM
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> Rupa
> Modi Tanvir
> Jafri Salim and Saira
> Sandhi Teesta
> Setalvad Javed Anand
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> Shiv
> Vishwanathan Binita
> Desai Ram
> Rahman Rajendra
> Prasad
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> Insaf Ki Dagar
> Pe
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> 2002 Carnage
> is completing its 10 years in this Feb.2012. Issue of Justice to the victims is
> not tackled fully. Livelihood, education, housing rights is some of the pending
> tasks. Security and dignity are still a far cry. In the name of development,
> state govt. is playing with the lives of the poor. Globalization and market
> forces are looting these sections of the society everywhere. Especially
> marginalized minority is suffering in many ways.
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> To
> commemorate 10nth anniversary of the carnage and to rekindle the light of hope
> we -civil society organizations of Gujarat are joining our hands. Two meetings
> of these organizations have already held and thought about such
> efforts.
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> Again we held a meeting at
> PRASHANT on 10-1-2012, Tuesday at 4.30 to plan the programme and decided some of
> the events tentatively, yet with certain approach to make the society to remind
> and re-organize to fulfill the uncompleted tasks of Justice and Peace. Insaf Ki
> Dagar Pe is a title unanimously chosen for the events.
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> List of the
> events:
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> 1.
> 27-2-2012: (Half
> day event) A Seminar on `Status of Justice of the carnage
> victims'.
> Organized by -CJP [Center for
> Justice and Peace].
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> 28-2-2012: Exhibition and Sufi
> Sangeet at Gulberg Society. [Organized by CJP].
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> 3.
> 29-2-2012:
> A Seminar on Internally Displaced people in which not only 2002
> victims but victims of violence, development-projects of
> Gujarat and other regions of the country[Like Kashmir, Kandhmahal,
> and N.E etc.] will share their experiences and a panel
> discussion to analyze the situation is planned
> tentatively.
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> 4.
> 1-3-2012: Sharing
> by the representatives of Peoples Movements [like
> Mahuva,
> Mundra, Mithi Virdi, and Tribals of South Gujarat etc.] Against
> Unjust Development in Gujarat; and panel discussion on the
> issue.
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> 5.
> 2-3-2012: A
> National Multilingual `Kavi Sammelan' on the issues
> of commemoration carnage and against unjust
> development.
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> 6.
> 3-3-2012: `Bich
> Shaher' -a play by Delhi-based theatre-group `Allaripu' -based
> on carnage-2002, written and directed by Ms.
> Tripurari Sharma.
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> 7.
> 4-3-2012: One-act
> plays on the issue of unjust development, organized by
> local theatre groups of youth.
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> 8.
> 5,6,7-3-2012: A Documentary film festival on the
> issues of Human Rights. [Like -Jashn-E-Azadi by Sanjay Kak, Saffron
> Encounters by Subhradeep Chakravarthi. etc.]
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> A Call to
> all.....
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> These are some of the
> `decided events'. But we are always open to add in this list. If you suggest
> something relevant and effective to achieve our goal to make the society aware
> and active on the path of justice; you are always welcome. Add your input to
> make more effective events like "Seminar on Internally Displace People" or
> "Peoples Movements Against Unjust Development"... by suggesting the unsung
> struggle and people or any other ways. You can also organize similar event at
> you own place under this title during same period by just informing
> us.
> We will have to join our
> hands and hearts to give larger perspective to the issues of Human Rights,
> Development, Justice and Peace. In the civil society of Gujarat we will have to
> keep the fire on and on until the flame of this fire does not the lit the lamp
> of Compassion, Understanding, Sympathy and Remorse in the hearts of the people
> of Gujarat and the world.
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> So
> please, give your approval/suggestions for this big event. We are waiting for
> that till 25-1-2012. Immediately after 25th Jan-2012, we will have to rush to
> arrange all the events. Your co-operation is requested to mobilize the audience,
> resources and venues. You can fund partly/fully any of these events.
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> For more details and
> co-operation please contact `DARSHAN'.
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> We
> have to create the publicity material like Posters, Banners, Pamphlets, and
> Invitations etc. You can contribute or take responsibility for any of
> these.
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> *
> Organizations participated in the meeting of 10th January-2012:
> `DARSHAN',
> PRASHANT, SAFAR, DARPANA, ST.XSSS. JAN
> VIKAS,
> PARVAZ, CJP, LOKNAD, AISF, IRC, INSAF.
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> PRASHANT
> (A Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace)
> Street Address : Hill Nagar,
> Near Kamdhenu Hall, Drive-in Road, Ahmedabad - 380052, Gujarat, India
> Postal
> Address : P B 4050, Navrangpura PO, Ahmedabad - 380 009, Gujarat,
> India
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> Phone : 91 79 27455913,
> 66522333
> Fax : 91 79 27489018
> Email: sjprashant@...
> www.humanrightsindia.in
>
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