(Peace be upon you)
Under the banner of Jamia Teacher’s Solidarity group, an open house conference was held at Batla House, New Delhi, a stone throw away from recent encounter site. The participants were Arundhati Roy, Swami Agnivesh, Kuldip Naiyer, MJ Akbar, Harsh Mander, Tripta Vahi, Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar, Kavita Srivastava and many more from Jamia, JNU and DU.Before the conference, the participants visited the site. As policemen are guarding the building 24*7 and no one is allowed to enter, they went to back side of the building and scrutinized the flat, albeit from a different flat. Thereafter they heard the testimony of the neighbours in public and then some of them lectured on the matter. They disagreed with police version of the incident. (Questions posed by them can be found in more detail on http://dailyalochona.blogspot.com/2008/10/mukto-mona-jamia-teachers-solidarity.html)
Swami Agnivesh said, “There was a person in Nazi Germany who used to write his Diary. The person writes that once Nazis captured a Jew, I knew what will be his fate but I did not protest because I was not a Jew. Then Nazis took away a communist but I did not say a word because I was not Communist. Now Nazis came and took me away but then no was left to speak for me.” He added, “I’m here to save Insaniyat.”John Dayal remarked that it’s not only against a single community, same thing is being done to Christians too, In Kandhamal and at other places.
Harsh Mander reminded the rights given in our constitution and dream of our freedom fighters to see a classless society.
Arundhati Roy demanded Judicial Enquiry into the matter and postmortem report to be made public. And if these demands are not met then we’ll demand for exhumation of the bodies.
On the encounter Swami Agnivesh announced that we will examine the testimonies given by witness and neighbours and then we’ll, in a day or two, make public our assessment.
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