viernes, 31 de marzo de 2017

Galiza: Campaña de axitación e propaganda da celebración dos 50 anos da rebelión de Naxalbari!


 A pesar das oscuras nubes que cubren os ceos de Bastar por mor da operación "caceria verde" e das últimas novas do encarceramento do profesor GN Saibaba e de outros activistas. O Comité Galego de Apoio a Guerra Popular na India, inicia unha campaña de axitación e propaganda para celebrar o 50 aniversario do  "trono de primaveira" da rebelión de Naxalbari.!
Dende o solpor vermello da Galiza, pasada a noite, sairá un sol vermello dende a India que guiará as Revolucións en todo o mundo.
Viva o 50 Aniversario da Rebelión de Naxalbari!


Despite the dark clouds covering the skies of Bastar because of the operation "green hunt" 
and the latest news of the imprisonment of Professor GN Saibaba and other activists. 
The Galician Committee for Supporting People's War in India begins a campaign of agitation 
and propaganda to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the "spring thunder" of rebellion Naxalbari.!
 From the red twilight of Galicia, last night, will leave a red sun from India to guide 
the worldwide Revolutions.
 Long live the 50th anniversary of the Rebellion Naxalbari!




miércoles, 29 de marzo de 2017

Galiza: Carta enviada pola Europarlamentaria galega Lidia Senra a Alta Representante da UE para Asuntos Exteriores, Federica Mogherini, vicepresidenta da Comisión Europea, sobre a situación do profesor GN Saibaba.

Temos coñecemento que hoxe a Eurodiputada galega de AGE Europa Lidia Senra e o Eurodiputado alemán de Die Linke Fabio de Masi enviaron unha carta a Alta Representante da UE para Asuntos Exteriores, Federica Mogherini, vicepresidenta da Comisión Europea, sobre a situación dramática que está a padecer o profesor GN Saibaba.

Open Letter to Federica Mogherini
To the attention of the VP / AR Federica Mogherini:

On February 29, 2016, I sentyou a written question E-001822-16about the situation of imprisonment  that Professor GN Saibaba was suffering in India, to which you replied that the EU "The EU has been closely following cases of human rights defenders arrested in India, including the cases of professor Saibaba, accused of having links with Naxal militants, and of Ms. Arundathi Roy, accused of contempt of court for her article defending the cause of Professor Saibaba. The EU Delegation in New Delhi has made appeals on humanitarian grounds with the National Human Rights Commission.
The EU attaches great importance to the issues at stake, most importantly to the freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial and the rights of human rights defenders. These issues are also addressed at the EU-India human rights dialogue.”
On March 7, 2017, Professor GN Saibaba has been condemned to life imprisonment with five other activists, all of whom have reported torture under police custody. The accusation is based on carrying out "illegal activities" under a draconian law called UAPA, denounced by all human rights organizations in India and internationally as a law that aim to prevent the exercise of freedom of expression and conscience.
Professor GN Saibaba, as you may know, has a 90% physical disability, aggravated in recent months with acute pancreatitis, and he was recommended the removal of his gallbladder. Because of this, this life imprisonment sentence is actually a death sentence for this professor, who has done nothing but defend the rights of the Adivasis and Dalits people with words, as well as denounce the counterinsurgency strategy "Operation Green Hunt”.
We are addressing you to ask the European Commission to adopt necessary measures to prevent GN Saibaba imprisonment, and call for all legal guarantees to be respected under the highest human rights standards for him and the rest of prosecuted people.
If this does not happen, and in line with the human rights advocacy that EU is committed to, we think it would be timely to halt all EU agreements with India.
Sincerely yours,

lunes, 20 de marzo de 2017

sábado, 18 de marzo de 2017

INDIA: Protest demonstration


Lokayat organized a protest demonstration against the conviction of Delhi University Professor G N Saibaba, Hem Mishra along with other four persons and also against the conviction of the Maruti Suzuki Workers on Wednesday at Sector 17. Apart from Lokayat, Students for Society (SFS), People’s Artist Forum (PAF), CPI (ML Liberation), AISA, ASA, PSU (Lalkar), PUCL, IAPL, Naujwan Bharat Sabha participated in the protest and expressed their solidarity.


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 La imagen puede contener: una o varias personas, personas de pie, calzado, multitud y exterior

miércoles, 15 de marzo de 2017

BRASIL: CEBRASPO; REPUDIAMOS A SENTEÇA DE PRISÃO PERPÉTUA DADA AO PROFESSOR G.N. SAIBABA!


O velho estado indiano através do Tribunal de Sessões de Gadchiroli (Maharashtra) condenou a prisão perpétua o professor G.N. Saibaba por conta de sua destacada militância em defesa dos direitos do povo. Além do professor Saibaba outros 4 militantes foram alvos desta absurda medida.

O governo indiano tem atacada cada vez mais o povo de seu próprio país. Com o intuito de expulsar os camponeses de suas terras, sob o mantra da "Operação Caçada Verde", as aldeias de povos advasis (povos originários) estão sendo dizimadas, sofrendo com ataques aéreos e com as ofensivas dos grupos de mercenários a soldo do governo. Tudo para defender os interesses das transnacionais, em especial as do setor de mineração. Nas cidades crescem os números dos processos baseados em leis draconianas que tem como alvo os militantes e ativistas dos direitos do povo. Além do professor Saibaba a renomada escritora indiana Arundhati Roy também é perseguida pelo velho estado.

Estima-se que na Índia o número de presos políticos seja cerca de 100 mil pessoas, ou seja, milhares de homens e mulheres que foram presos por suas posições e ações políticas em defesa do povo. Entre eles 10 mil são acusados de terem alguma ligação com o movimento maoista do país. Os maoistas estão em guerra popular contra o Estado indiano a décadas, e o Estado indiano têm declarado guerra total a todo o povo.
 
Esta sentença é mais um capítulo do ataque que as liberdades democráticas estão sofrendo na Índia. Sob a falácia de "combater os maoístas" o velho estado indiano tem perseguido e prendendo aqueles que se levantam em defesa dos direitos do povo indiano e das diversas nacionalidades que vivem sob o jugo da gerencia fascista do governo de Modi.
 
Inúmeras entidades de defesa dos direitos do povo e das liberdades democráticas da Índia e internacionais já manifestaram seu repúdio a sentença dada ao professor Saibaba, que além de possuir paralisia em 90% do corpo, também sofre com diversas complicações em seu estado de saúde. Organizações de estudantes, diversos sindicatos e movimentos populares em geral estão denunciando o julgamento como uma farsa e já estão convocando diversas manifestações por toda a Índia contra esta sentença.
Diversas ações serão tomadas em defesa do professor Saibaba e dos demais presos políticos que resistem bravamente nas masmorras da Índia. Convocamos a todas as entidades democráticas e revolucionárias a participarem dessa campanha.


Em breve teremos novas informações.


LIBERDADE INCONDICIONAL PARA O PROFESOR SAIBABA 


E DEMAIS PRESOS POLITICOS NA INDIA !

domingo, 12 de marzo de 2017

INDIA: Entrevista a camarada Vasantha Kumari en Rediff.com

'Why are they so afraid of someone who is 90% disabled?'/¿Por qué teñen tanto medo de alguen que está  discapacitado nun 90% ?'


'He has not done any harm to anyone. Yet you give him life imprisonment.'
'We were told to respect the Constitution. That is what Sai is doing; he is not doing anything beyond the Constitution.'

Professor G N Saibaba with his wife Vasantha Kumari

Delhi University Professor G N Sai Baba was convicted on March 7 to life in prison under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act -- UAPA -- for being a member of a banned terrorist organisation, the Communist Party of India Maoist.
The professor, who has undergone two spells of imprisonment in Nagpur jail as an undertrial, is 90 per cent disabled and wheelchair-bound.
After his arrest in May 2014, he was released on interim bail on medical grounds in July 2015, only to be rearrested in December that year, and released again on the Supreme Court's orders in April 2016.
Immediately after the conviction, the professor's wife issued a protest statement that summed up her outrage.
Two days later, Rediff.com contributor Jyoti Punwani caught up with Vasantha Kumari.
In between tending to a distraught mother-in-law and leaking taps in her Delhi home, Vasantha expressed her shock, bafflement and indignation at what she feels is a terrible injustice done to someone who has only fought for rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

Did you expect this conviction?
Not at all, I was shocked. There is nothing against him.
We have been closely observing the trial. Sai Baba has been attending the trial despite his ill health.
The prosecution had no concrete evidence.
Whatever they took from our house -- his computer hard disk, CDs, literature -- was taken in an open bag, it was not sealed as it should have been under the rules.
They produced letters signed by someone who they said was Sai Baba. But what's the proof of that?
The prosecution had only one independent witness, the rest were all policemen or officials.
Even that witness testified that he had been forced to become one by the police.
There were other reasons too, that made us hope he would be acquitted.
In similar cases, where people have been convicted of being members of Maoist organisations, the Supreme Court has set aside the convictions, upholding freedom of thought.
All this was pointed out by our lawyer. But none of his arguments are reflected in the judgment.
The proceedings of the year-long trial find no place in the judgment.
We were even bracing ourselves for a 'guilty' verdict, given the political climate.
In fact, they had posted so much security outside the court on the judgment day -- that itself was an indication.
But we thought the sentence would not be more than a few years, because of the lack of evidence.
Sai Baba had already spent almost two years in jail. We never expected life.

What is his health like now?
Precarious.
In fact, he had been discharged from hospital only on February 28, and advised 10 days' bed rest. Doctors had ruled out travel.
He had been admitted for breathlessness and chest pain, and was in the ICU for a day.
They also found stones in his gall bladder caused by his first long spell of imprisonment.
He was to have surgery to remove his gall bladder; there was a risk of infection of his pancreas.
We gave these reports to the court. Yet the court insisted that he be present for two hours as judgment was to be pronounced.
His health has only deteriorated since he was first released on interim bail.
Earlier he was mobile; he could move around on his own in his wheelchair.
But his first stint in jail damaged the muscle and nervous system of his left hand and he could no longer operate his wheelchair.
Ever since he came out, he has been in and out of hospitals and physiotherapy centres in Delhi and Hyderabad.
He has had breathlessness, lung infections, heart problems.
Despite this, the court refused to pass an order directing the jail authorities to immediately provide him health care, medicines and attendants.
The court asked our lawyer to make this application to the jail superintendent.
But this very superintendent had denied him all this in his second stint in jail, despite court orders.
We had to get a high court order to make him comply.

How did you cope with all this on 50% salary (Professor Sai Baba had been suspended from his college after his arrest and received only half his salary all this while)?
I appealed many times to the Ram Lal Anand college and the university that he be given 75% of his salary since we were all dependent on him -- his mother, our daughter and I. But they refused.

Why is he being punished so severely? Did he do something while out on bail?
What could he do? He was too ill.
Even I can't understand, what's his crime?
Why are they so afraid of someone who is 90% disabled?
Someone who is in front of you 24 hours, in college, teaching. He is not underground.
He has not done any harm to anyone. Yet you give him life imprisonment.
There are goondas roaming around the university campus, beating up women, you do nothing to them.
There's Aseemanand, accused of planning bomb blasts and supplying RDX, who is acquitted.
It only means that the State cannot tolerate anyone who speaks up for the rights of the aam aadmi.
Along with many others, Sai Baba raised his voice against State violence against Adivasis.
It is this ideology they cannot tolerate.
But even black laws like UAPA cannot wipe out our fundamental right to freedom of thought and freedom of speech -- the Supreme Court has said this.
The State cannot impose its ideology on citizens. This is supposed to be a democracy, but the democratic space to express yourself is shrinking.
In Bastar today, the repression is too much.
If an Adivasi speak outs, the security forces can just shoot you.
If you are a woman, they can sexually assault you, rape you, take away your brother on a false case, burn your village.
But they can't shoot Sai Baba for speaking out, so they have been harassing him for the last five years.
They have seen to it that his health is ruined and finally they have thrown him behind bars for life.
What is his power? His capacity is only to write and speak.
And his conviction cannot wipe out the thought he expresses.
Everyone is speaking up against his conviction.
Osmania University students held a press conference, Jamia Milia students are holding a public meeting.
When he was on bail, wherever we went, students would come up to him and say, 'Sir, we are ashamed, we have done nothing but you have fought. You are an inspiration to us.'
After his conviction, his students have been more inconsolable then I am.

How have his mother and your daughter taken the conviction?
His mother cries a lot. She has seen his physical condition since childhood, but was happy he had come such a long way despite it.
But now she says she cannot bear seeing him suffer any more. She feels her heart will give way.
My daughter is 19, but since the last five years, she has borne too much for such a tender age.

Your husband has paid a heavy price for his beliefs. Did he or you ever feel he could have simply kept quiet, instead of speaking out?
No. from childhood, in school, we have been taught certain values. We learnt that our Constitution says everyone is equal.
We were told to respect the Constitution. That is what Sai is doing; he is not doing anything beyond the Constitution.
What he learnt in school, that's what he is implementing.
Had he wanted to give up, he could have.
After they first took him away from home, they told him at the airport -- 'sign this paper, we'll let you go.'
He did not know what was written on that paper, but he refused to sign it.
Last year also, after they had denied him medical care and he had applied for bail, they had pressurised him.
They had told him, it's still not too late, you can be free if you just sign.
But there is something like values. He teaches literature; that literature embodies certain values.
It is values that keep us alive. Would we able to live if we forsook them?
There would be no difference between us and a corpse then.

IMAGE: Professor G N Sai Baba with his wife Vasantha Kumari.
Jyoti Punwani

viernes, 10 de marzo de 2017

INDIA: Nota de imprenta da camarada Vasanta Kumari, esposa do Dr. Saibaba.



 PRESS STATEMENT issued by VASANTA in Delhi:.... (via facebook)

Our advocates will move high Court soon. This judgement is shocking. In the history of Maharashtra this is the first case in which all the person's charge sheeted were are convicted in all the sections with life imprisonment. Saibaba brother attend most of the arguments of our advocates before the hon. Judge and found that the judgement seems has not taken those into consideration. No evidence has been proved by the prosecution, electronic evidence not sealed. It seems the state and Central governments have put a lot of pressure on the judiciary to implement anti people and undemocratic policies at the behest of corporates and MNCs. The governments have selectively to suppress the voice of people to plunder the resources of this country. The BJP govt. Wants to push nakedly the agenda of RSS by through such people like saibaba behind the bars.
The government has chosen this case through courts to silence the voice of Dr. Saibaba. By honoring the , Court saibaba has been attending the Court all these years and today also despite his deteriorated health. As a wife I will fight in the higher courts to seek justice. The government has been putting relentless pressure ony family for the last four years by raiding my house in Delhi. I appeal to Democrats, peoples organizations, intellectuals, students to condemn such undemocratic character of the government. After the pronouncement, judge has rejected to issue any order on the appeal of our advocate. Advocates asked to issue an order to direct the Jail authorities to give required medicines, help of assistants for saibaba movement, operation to perform for gall bladder etc. The minimum requirements previous the Court has given when saibaba was in jail as under trailed are also not given

- Vasanta

miércoles, 8 de marzo de 2017

O profesor G.N. Saibaba condeado a cadea perpetua.


 
LIBERDADE PARA O PROFESOR SAIBABA 
E DEMAIS PRESOS POLITICOS NA INDIA !

Ao Pobo Traballador galego:

Con grande preocupación e indignación internacionalista temos recibido a noticia da condea, xunto a tres camaradas, a cadea perpetua por un tribunal do vello Estado da India do profesor G.N. Saibaba.
Os cargos, todos eles, baixo leis excepción baséanse na ideoloxía maoísta do profesor Saibaba e demais encausados e amosan o carácter antidemocrático e de represión que exerce o vello Estado contra quenes loitan por unha nova sociedade na India que rache coas cadeas da explotación a semi-feudalidade dos brahamans eo imperialismo.
Amosamos o noso cariño e simpatia  pola esposa do profesor Saibaba e os familiares e amigos dos condeados neste novo xuízo farsa carente de toda garantía.
Milleiros de Presos Políticos e Prisioneiros de Guerra atópanse nas cadeas por toda a India, non só maoistas como os camaradas Ajit ou Kobad Ghandy, mesmo tamen da Cachemira ou de Manipur.
Temos o deber internacionalista de defender a vida destes homes e mulleres que seu único delito é loitar polos dereito do pobo.
Temos o deber internacionalista de erger unha poderosa campaña internacional de solidariedade na súa defensa que lle recorde a eles, mesmo tamén ao réxime tiránico de Modi que non están sos, que xunto a eles están os pobos do mundo e tamén noso pobo galego.

Galiza, a 8 de marzo, Día internacional da Muller Traballadora.

Comité Galego de Apoio a Guerra Popular na India.

viernes, 3 de marzo de 2017

India: Preocupación pola saude do Prof. Saibaba.

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correovermello-noticias
New Delhi, 02.03.17
Fontes da familia do profesor N.G. Saibaba, coñecido intelectuai maoísta, informan que despois de permanecer sete días no Rockland Hospital foi dado de alta dunha pancreatite aguda.
O profesor Saibaba terá que ser operado nos vindeiros meses para extirparle a vesicula biliar pois hai risco que reproduzcase a pancreatite.
Así mesmo informase que tera que suspender as viaxes e actividades previstas e descansar.
Dende CV desexamos a pronta recuperación do querido profesor Saibaba unha referente da loita revolucionaria na India.