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Date: 26/10/10

Condemn strongly fascist designs of the Indian government to silence
voices of dissent!

Condemn strongly the move to put Arundhati Roy and Syed Ali Shah
Geelani under charges of sedition!

Ever since the historic convention in Delhi titled "Azadi: The Only
Way" organised by the CRPP, the media is abuzz with reports of
possible cases of 'sedition' against some of the main speakers in the
convention. The names that are being cited keeps changing with the
imagination of the concerned media houses. The hype has become so high
that now rather than discussing the serious issues pertaining to the
political aspirations of the people of Jammu & Kashmir that was
deliberated by one and all in the convention the issue has got
subverted into a conflated, convenient binary of that what is
euphemistically called as 'seditious' or 'non-seditious'. The word
'sedition' itself is of colonial descent conveniently used by the
British colonisers to prevail upon and browbeat the freedom loving
people of the subcontinent into submission. Today the Indian
government along with an obliging media and a jingoist communal Sangh
Parivar led by BJP on tow is deploying the same words to force through
a pigeon hole sense of national chauvinism in the name of the vast
sections of the people of this subcontinent.

The act of the Government of India is best summed up by Arundhati
herself in her eloquent statement: "In the papers some have accused me
of giving 'hate-speeches', of wanting India to break up. On the
contrary, what I say comes from love and pride. It comes from not
wanting people to be killed, raped, imprisoned or have their
finger-nails pulled out in order to force them to say they are
Indians. It comes from wanting to live in a society that is striving
to be a just one. Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for
speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask
for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate
scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the
poor, roam free."

We at the CRPP strongly condemn these deliberate designs of the Indian
government to target writer activist Arundhati Roy and Chairperson,
All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Mr. Syed Ali Shah Geelani for
expressing their views which are grounded in the bedrock of history of
the relentless struggle of the people of Jammu & Kashmir for their
Right to Self-Determination that they have kept alive for decades
through their sacrifices. We strongly demand that instead of trying to
scuttle the voices of sanity the Government of India should come
forthright in addressing the issues that everyone in Jammu & Kashmir
is today fearlessly talking about.

In Solidarity,

Gurusharan Singh, President
Amit Bhattacharyya, Secretary General
SAR Geelani, Working President
Rona Wilson, Secretary, Public Relations

--
Palash Biswas
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