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Attack On POSCO Protesters

By Prashant Paikary

14 December, 2011
Countercurrents.org

Dear Friends,

We are in terrible shock and disbelief having faced more than 500
armed goons engaged by one Mafia don Bapi Circle under the banner of
Paradip Industrial development Council and patronized by the police
and administration who forcefully entered the site of our peaceful and
non-violent protest around 1.30 pm today and started attacking us by
using bombs and weapons. As a result, at least eight villagers of PPSS
were injured and one of them has got serious injury.

From the morning onwards, more than 2000 villagers were making a
peaceful demonstration
against the construction of a coastal sea road
for POSCO. The private goons who had created a scene of terror
yesterday did a repeat show today. Their own bombs apart from injuring
our villagers did also result in killing a member of their own team.
We strongly condemn the conspiracy hatched by the Nabin Patnaik
government to engage private militia in order to create a situation of
crisis which would demand police intervention. We consider the act as
cowardice and no democracy worth its name should tolerate such an act
of violence perpetrated by hired goons.

Though the situation is grim and our people are shocked, we are
waiting with the same determination to protest peacefully even if the
police after creating such a scene tries to enter the village to
bulldoze our peaceful and democratic movement.

We request you to please stand up and expose the unethical, unjust and
undemocratic means that the state has been using to crush the movement
and to make the movement discredited in the eyes of public who don't
have a chance to know the real truth behind any act of conspiracy the
police and the mafia are hatching everyday. Please join hands with us,
stand by us and support our cause. Please circulate the message as
widely as possible. We shall inform you the ongoing development here.
Hoping for more solidarity from you.

Prashant Paikary
Spokesperson,
POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti
Mobile no - 09437571547E -Mail- [email protected]


Please Write and Call.....
1.Mr. Shri Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister's
Office, Room number 152, South Block, New Delhi, Fax: + 91 11 2301
6857; [email protected]

2. Mr. P. Chidambaram, Union Minister of Home
Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, 104-107 North Block, New Delhi 110
001 India, Fax: +91 11 2309 2979 / 23094221 E.mail [email protected]

3. Justice K. G. Balakrishnan, Chairperson, National Human Rights
Commission of India, Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 110
001, Fax: +91 11 2334 0016, Fax No. 23384863 Email:[email protected] ;
[email protected] , [email protected]

4. Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister,
Odisha, Fax 0674-2535100 E. [email protected]

5. Mr. S. K. Patnayak, Chief Secretary, Government of Odhisa, FAX:
0674 – 2536660 e.mail [email protected]

6. Mr. Narayan Chandra Jena, District Collectior,
Jagatsinghpur,Contact number +919437038401 Fax No :
+916724220299

7. Mr. Debadutta Singh, Superintendent of Police, Mobile No-
+919437094678 , [email protected]

 



 


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