The following is a message received from Prashant Paikary, Spokesperson, POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti:
Dear Friends,
In the wee hours today (at around 4 am) the police has
entered into our villages and beaten up women and children, arrested some of
our villagers (number is yet to be known).
As we have intimated you earlier that the police force has
been gradually swelling in our area amidst our continuing human chain and
Dharana in the Balitikira-the boarder of Govindpur and Dhinkia villages of
Jagatsingpur district, the police has deceptively entered to the villages with
full force at 4 a.m. today. Our people sensed their possible move at around 2 o
clock night and alerted the villagers by ringing bells. Gradually women,
children, male members started getting accumulated at the Dharana place. At 4
a.m. the police entered and attacked the women and children first. The male
police have ruthlessly beaten our women who were lying on a human chain. Some
women have been severely inured. The Police have thrown our children like
flowers, some of whom are injured. Some villagers have been arrested by the
police and been taken to custody. At the moment we do not have exact numbers as
the situation is too tensed on the spot. The police have started breaking our
betel vines and cutting the trees forcefully. More and more numbers of our
villagers have come to the spot and a war like situation has arisen. Our
committed villagers are facing a mighty 12 platoons of police force.
We fail to understand the decision of the state to acquire
land when the National Green Tribunal has already suspended the environment
clearance to the proposed POSCO project in our area. Naveen Patnaik is behaving
like an agent of the POSCO company.
As the situation is too alarming, we appeal all our friends
to protest against the barbarism and call/write/fax to the Prime Minister,
Chief Minister of Odisha and Chief Secretary of Odisha, Home Minsitry, Odisha appealing
to immediately stop the police brutality and withdrawal of the force from our
area. Please call to your respective MPs and MLAs and raise your protest
against them urging them to oppose the illegal move. Write to NHRC also.
We request our media friends to rush to our villages and see
the situation in their own eyes and report.
We will intimate further developments soon.
Please widely circulate this mail.
In Solidarity,
Prashant Paikary
Spokesperson, POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti
Mobile no-09437571547
E-Mail - prashantpaikary@gmail.com
Spokesperson, POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti
Mobile no-09437571547
E-Mail - prashantpaikary@gmail.com
The contact address
of the authorities
1. Naveen Patnaik
Chief Minister, Odisha
Tel. No.(O) 011 91 674 2531100,011 91
674 2535100,
011 91 674 2531500, Epbax 2163
Tel. No.(R) 011 91 674 2590299, 011 91
674 2591099,
Fax No- (91)6742535100
E Mail: cmo@ori.nic.in
2. Muralidhar Chandrakanta Bhanadare,
Governor of Odisha, Fax
No- (91)6742536582
Phone no - 0674 - 2536700
0674 -
2534300
0674 -
2322196
Fax No - 0674 - 2536660
3. S.K.
Mallick , District
Collector, Jagatsinghpur, Contact number 09437038401
5. Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
Tel no- +9111-23016857
e mail: manmohan@sansad.in
6. Sonia
Gandhi: Tel Phone no - (91)11-23014161
7. Chairperson, National Human Rights
Commission of India, Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 110 001, Tel: +91 11 230 74448 , Fax: +91 11 2334 0016, Email: chairnhrc@nic.in
8. Shri. V.Kishore Chandra Deo
Minister of Tribal Affairs
Ministry of Tribal Affairs,
Room No. 400 ‘B’
Wing, Shastri Bhawan,
New
Delhi- 110001
9. Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan
Minister of Environment & Forests
Ministry of Environment & Forests
Paryavaran Bhawan,
CGO Complex, Lodhi
Road
New Delhi-110003
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