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TURF WAR: Activists of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities attack the residence of a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) at Dharampur village in Lalgarh on Monday.
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Lalgarh: Even as the agitation and siege by tribals at Lalgarh in Paschim Medinipur entered its tenth day, a 12-hour bandh called by the SUCI in the adjacent area of Jhargram paralysed life. Some of the detained tribals have been released on bail.
While talks between the district-level administration and the leaders of tribal groups to break the deadlock and lift the road blockade at various points remained inconclusive, there were indications that the agitation may spread to fresh areas. However many of the agitators were resenting any attempt to label them as Maoists saying that it was their own agitation against the State government.
Local tribals have been on a warpath with the State government alleging police excesses in wake of the November 2 IED blast on the convoy of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee , Union Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, and brothers Navin and Sajjan Jindal . The police picked up and have started cases against some tribals which triggered a protest over harassment of men and women in the name of raids and searches. Bail was given to five of the 10 people against whom charges were being pressed by the Criminal Investigation Department. The agitators were demanding release of all those detained by the police. Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee, during a meeting at Singur, expressed her solidarity with the agitation.
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“Roads here are not suitable for cars, so we decided for auto-rickshaws,” said a district administration official. Interestingly, CPM flags were not displayed in the area, the only Red factor being a banner of the Mazdur Kranti Parishad — a Naxal party.
The CM announced that he would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on June 19 to discuss the relief package his government has demanded. “I know thatched houses will not last. If the Centre gives us funds, we will construct pucca residences and embankments,” Bhattacharjee told the gathering.
Bengal government sought more companies to assist the police.
He said two to three companies would soon arrive. Admitting that the police were under pressure at Lalgarh, Chakraborty said “Police at Lalgarh are under pressure but it cannot be said that they are demoralised.”
He said though normal life was disrupted at Lalgarh the area had not turned into a ‘free zone’.
The tribals and Maoists torched four police camps in Lalgarh on Monday after the police and CRPF left.
Paramilitary forces tried to go to Lalgarh on Tuesday but were stopped 35 km away from Midnapore town. District Magistrate N S Nigam said about 2,000 tribals stopped the forces and told them to return. Tribals also gathered at Goaltore, north of Lalgarh to march to Garbeta to bring the areas under their control.
This was stated by NSG director general N P S Aulakh after his meeting with union home minister P Chidamabarm on Tuesday.
“We have got land at all the four places — Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai,” Aulakh said. The four hubs for both anti-terror and anti-hijack operations will be operational by June 30, he said.
In the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks in November last year, the government had decided to set up NSG hubs in the four cities followed by more in the state capitals.
The NSG is faced with gigantic task of setting up the hubs as the 8,000-strong force is drawing men from its existing ranks.
The force, which gets its men on deputation from the Army and paramilitary forces, is still in the process of recruiting additional personnel needed for the new hubs. In the meantime, it was likely to operationalise it with existing strength.
Sources said batches of 200-250 army commandos (drawn from the Special Action Group) and 50-60 paramilitary troops (drawn from the Special Ranger Group) would be deployed initially who will be the first line of defence and offence in case of a terror attack.
Construction of commando barracks and training facilities have started at these hubs and the force, in coordination with the state governments concerned, is completing communication and other civic facilities at these camps.
Till the time the training facilities are developed at the new hubs, fully trained commandos from the Manesar (Gurgaon) garrison would be deputed to man these centres.
The new centres will be equipped with all facilities for launching counter operations, the sources said, adding that para-military commandos will provide backup support.
The decision to create new regional hubs was taken by the Centre after demands from various state governments for tackling major terror-related activities.
for “genuine” cooperation among countries on a global scale to resolutely defeat the menace.
Addressing the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit here, he said India is seeking a conducive external environment for its sustained high economic growth which is necessary to meet its developmental objectives.
“We wish to see peace, prosperity and stability in the region that the (SCO) Organisation represents. We have a lot to gain and learn from each other. It is in this spirit that we approach our engagement with the Organisation and its different organs and bodies,” Singh said.
“We seek an external environment that is conducive to meeting the aspirations of our people,” he said, marking the first address by an Indian Prime Minister at the six-nation grouping in which India is an Observer.
Talking about the security challenges in the region in presence of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari besides other leaders, Singh said the “spectre of terrorism, extremist ideologies and illicit drug trafficking haunt our region”.
He emphasised that terrorist crimes committed today are transnational in nature and no country is immune to these.
It is a great relief for the ruling Left Front that the Trinamool called off its 37-hour blockade of the Khejuri police station in East Midnapore on Saturday. The Trinamool and the state administration seemed headed for a violent confrontation on Friday with the state home secretary threatening to use force to lift the siege of the police station and Trinamool MP Subhendu Adhikary daring him to do so.
The Trinamool, which was protesting the arrest of 14 of its members, also announced police boycott on Saturday. Suvendu Adhikary, Trinamool MP from Tamluk, supported the boycott.
It is nothing to do with Writers`, in deep troubled water, adminiatrative will or Political capability of the state Government. The Sieze is withdrawn simply because Mamata Baneerjee, now the Railway Minister of India has to DISASOOCITE herself fromm the maoist Insuurection in Lalgarh, So that STATE Military Option may be justified. As the part of the RULING Hegemony Mamta may not disaasociate herself with the law and Order crisis as the Centre as well as Global Order looks on the Landscape as well as Humanscape.
On the other hand,after becoming operational, the Indo-US civil nuclear deal is moving “satisfactorily” with the government now negotiating with nuclear vendors, Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar said on Tuesday.
“The deal is moving satisfactorily. We are talking to the vendors and a lot of preparatory work is going on,” he told reporters after delivering the fourth Raja Ramanna Lecture at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre here.
“In order to start a project, you have to understand the technical and techno-commercial details and the regulatory aspects. You will have to understand the implementation. All these activities are on,” Dr. Kakodkar said.
Stating that construction of the heavy water reactor (HWR) would begin this year, he said large-scale deployment of thorium would be done later after sufficiently enhancing the capacity of the fast reactor.
Asked whether the Department of Atomic Energy had plans to construct a fourth generation reactor, he said, “The HWR will meet all the objectives of the fourth generation reactor. So it is all there.”
Earlier, delivering the Ramanna Lecture on ‘Technological Empowerment of India’, Dr. Kakodkar lamented the absence of initiative in the country to translate scientific research into commercially-viable technology.
“The police have behaved in a partisan manner. They did not arrest any prominent CPM leader after weapons were seized from their houses but put our innocent supporters behind the bars under non-bailable provisions,” he said. “From now on, the police will not get a school building to set up camps. Shopkeepers won’t sell them any item,” Adhikary added.
Lalgarh has been on the boil since last November when a landmine exploded on the route of the convoy of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and then central ministers Ram Vilas Paswan and Jitin Prasada near Bhadutala when they were returning after laying the foundation stone of a steel plant in Salboni.
One the other hand, Eyeing the 2011 Assembly elections, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee has prepared a two-pronged strategy to take on the CPM-led state government.
Her Delhi team, comprising the Union ministers, will push for the state’s development and highlight the state government’s failure at the Central level, whereas her Kolkata team of MLAs and state leaders will rejuvenate the party at grassroots and organise mass movements against the CPM. The decision was taken at a closed-door party meeting on Saturday.
Leaders like MoS Rural Development Sisir Adhikary and MoS Health Dinesh Trivedi have been asked to scan the state government’s performance and find loopholes in schemes like NREGS and rural health development projects. Already, Adhikary has drawn up a list of panchayats, where NREGS performance has been poor and he is supposed to pull up the state government on that issue.
The area has witnessed continuous clashes between cadre of the ruling Left and the Maoists. On Monday the tribals, led by the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), allegedly set fire to the house of Anuj Pandey – a top Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader in Lalgarh – and also forced the police to wind up three camps set up in the area.
“We have got two fire arms, 10 bullets, 17 bombs and some other material from the CPI-M party office,” Pallab Kanti Ghosh, East Midnapore superintendent of police, told IANS.
Tribal leaders said the bandh was called to protest against the atrocities by CPM cadres and to muffle the protest, CPM members unleashed violence injuring several of their supporters. “They said they wanted to teach us a lesson and set fire to the shops,” a PCPA leader said, adding that villagers sympathetic to the PCPA fled after the incident and were yet to return.
“We highlighted that relief material was not reaching remote areas and there was a lack of coordination among ministers. Even though the Centre was sending funds the money was not being properly used. We will take up the matter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi,” Bhattacharya said after the meeting.
Mr. Muniyappa has been entrusted with the important responsibility of looking after safety and security of railways besides level crossings, construction of roads over and under bridges.
Tribals also demolished the palatial house of a CPI-M leader Anuj Pandey with crowbars and hammers at Lalgarh, the sources said, adding that Pandey had fled the site.
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The Naxalite Movement that was Not in Naxalbari
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Yekaterinburg (Russia) (PTI) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday sought closer interaction between India and SCO members to convert the global economic crisis into an opportunity for greater economic cooperation as he highlighted the need for reforming global financial institutions.
He said the economic gains that have been made in the past are today threatened by the global meltdown.
“We should convert this crisis into an opportunity for much greater economic cooperation between the members of the SCO and India. Between us, we have a vast market, a large industrial base, a talented human resource base and above all, the political will,” Mr. Singh said, addressing the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit here.
The Prime Minister said the SCO member countries and observers should work together to reform the institutions of global governance, including financial institutions, to bring them in tune with the present and emerging economic realities.
“We can no longer delay giving concrete shape to the concept of sustainable development. The development world needs access to financial resources and environment friendly technologies, especially in energy, transportation, manufacturing and agriculture,” he said.
Kuala Lumpur (PTI) In a bid to enhance cooperation in the field of higher education, India and Malaysia on Tuesday agreed to set up a task-force to examine the issue of mutual recognition of each others university degrees.
Minister for Human Resources Development Kapil Sibal and Malaysia’s Minister of Higher Education Mohammed Khaled decided that the two countries should accelerate efforts towards signing a MoU in cooperation in the field of Higher Education.
The task force will give its recommendation to the two ministers in a time bound schedule. It will examine the issue of equivalence of degrees and their mutual recognitions.
The two ministers met here on the sidelines of the 17th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers, which began here on Tuesday morning.
Jaipal Reddy proposes cut in home loan rates
New Delhi (IANS) Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy on Tuesday sought to boost affordable housing, proposing an interest rate of 7.5 percent on loans for houses costing between Rs.5 lakhs and Rs.30 lakhs.
The proposal was made at a pre-budget discussion with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Reddy also advocated an interest rate of 6.5 percent for houses costing less than Rs.5 lakhs.
“It was a pre-budget meeting and we discussed budgetary issues,” he said after the meeting.
“The real estate is facing a crisis and so we have proposed a lower interest rate to boost demand. The interest rate cut will motivate more home buyers,” Reddy said.
At present, interest rates vary from 9.25 percent to 10.25 percent for loans up to Rs.30 lakhs for new customers.
Other proposed incentives include increasing the income-tax limit exemption on rental income from house from 30 percent to 50 percent.
As per the agenda presented to the finance minister, budgetary allocation for the urban development ministry will remain at last year’s level.
However, Reddy has asked for higher allocation for Commonwealth Games projects, extension of the Metro network in the national capital, and for projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
The ministry has also proposed that buses meant for urban transport with more than 20 seats be exempted from the value-added tax and the central excise duty.
Over 11,000 pilgrims leave for Amarnath shrine
Srinagar (PTI) Braving inclement weather, over 11,000 devotees, gathered at Baltal in South Kashmir, on Tuesday began their 16-km trek to the Amarnath cave shrine even as no fresh batch of devotees left Jammu for the pilgrimage.
Chanting “Bam Bam Bole” and “Har Har Mahadev”, the worshippers, including women and children, left Baltal, the base camp for the pilgrimage, on Tuesday morning, official sources said.
They stopped briefly at Brari Marg, en route to the holy cave shrine, following moderate snowfall, the sources said.
No fresh batch of pilgrims left Jammu for Baltal, some 100-km from here, on Tuesday in view of inclement weather on the mountainous route, a Shri Amarnath Shrine Board spokesman said.
The annual two-month pilgrimage commenced on Monday when when the first batch of 900 devotees left Jammu amid tight security.
But the pilgrimage from Jammu was suspended owing to hostile weather and snowing on the route leading to Baltal.
The yatra has been restricted to the Baltal side as the traditional 46-km Pahalgam route to the holy shrine was buried under snow at many places.
The pilgrimage to 3,880-ft high shrine was to commence on June seven but was put off due to heavy accumulation of snow on the Pahalgam route.
Ahmadinejad arrives in Russia
YEKATERINBURG (AP): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has arrived in Russia to attend a regional security summit.
Mr. Ahmadinejad had been expected to arrive Monday and meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The Iranian leader postponed the trip for one day amid street protests in Iran following his re-election in a bitterly disputed vote. No reason was given for the postponement.
Mr. Ahmadinejad attended Tuesday’s session of the regional security summit in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg.
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New Delhi (PTI) Telecom Minister A. Raja on Tuesday said he expects revenue of at least Rs 25,000 crores from the auction of radio waves for third generation (3G) mobile, broadband and wireless services.
Mr. Raja, who met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, said his department had assured the government of an early service rollout.
“In connection with the 3G and WiMAX auctions, we assured (the Finance Minister) of an early rollout, an early auction and more revenue for the government,” Mr. Raja told reporters after meeting Mr. Mukherjee earlier on Tuesday.
Mr. Raja’s estimate is lower than what (Rs 30,000 crore) the government had forecast last year when the 3G auction process was announced.
Mr. Raja meets Mr. Mukherjee again in the evening seeking clarity on the number of licences to be auctioned and the reserve price to be set. DoT officials will also be there to discuss the issue with their counterparts in the Finance Ministry.
DoT plans to auction frequency for 20 of India’s 22 telecom service areas. The exercise has been delayed after the Finance Ministry suggested that the starting auction price of Rs 2,020 crores be doubled.
Bangladesh decides to join Asian Highway Network
Dhaka (PTI): The Bangladesh government has decided to join the ambitious rail transport network which will connect over 30 Asian countries, including India.
The decision to join Asian Highway Network (AHN) was taken at a regular cabinet meeting held on Monday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina said that the country does not want to get isolated from global development.
“For rapid socioeconomic development of our country, we need to be linked with the Asian Highway,” Ms. Hasina was quoted by her Press Secretary.
After the agreement Bangladesh will become a member of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP).
He said the decision on the country’s accession to UN-ESCAP-sponsored Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network (AHN) has been taken so that Bangladesh could take part in the process of fixing routes, as becoming a member is a prerequisite to negotiate for route changes.
The proposed network, comprises 114,000 km of rail routes of international importance, aims to offer efficient rail transport services for the movement of goods and passengers within the region. It will also connect Asia and Europe.
It will provide improved access for landlocked countries to major ports.
46 Indian students fled Australia in the past month
Thiruvananthapuram (IANS): At least 46 Indian students have fled Australia following a rise in the number of violent attacks against the community in the past month and many others are being asked by their worried parents to return home, the editor of a Melbourne-based magazine said Tuesday.
“Many students are being pressurised by their parents to return to India. Two universities here have decided not to admit Indian students and educational consultants are now faced with several cancellations by students from India who had secured admissions,” Thiruvallam Bhasi, editor of the Indian Student magazine, told IANS on phone from Melbourne.
Bhasi said two students from Kerala who were attacked had come to his home Tuesday morning and said they were getting ready to leave. The students, Monish Nair and Gautam, were into their second year MBA programme at the Burwood campus of Deakin University in Melbourne.
Nair told IANS that they were attacked by a group of Australians when they were returning to their home in Gillard Street near Melbourne May 23.
“The attack was uncalled for. We were kicked and punched. We filed a case with the police and their attitude made us even more sad. They said it is best not to pursue the case because we are students and there could be problems,” he said.
“When we told our parents about the incident they asked us to return. I will fly out early next month, while Gautam is returning home at the end of this week,” he added.
A two year MBA programme in Australia costs about Australian $60,000 (Rs.2.5 million).
“We are losing a lot of money because we have paid virtually the entire fees and we have one full semester to go. But enough is enough. Our parents are worried and they want us to return,” said Nair.
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India loses 2000 patents every year in US: Jairam Ramesh
Hyderabad (PTI) India was losing at least 2000 patents every year in the United States and Europe on traditional formulations as ‘our knowledge on these has never been documented,’ Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here on Tuesday.
Presiding over the UN-organised Convention on Biological Diversity, the Union Minister said Indians’ knowledge on traditional formulations and systems of medicine mostly remained oral and never documented.
“This has been depriving us of the patent rights which is a direct impingement on Indian traditional formulations. It happened earlier in the case of turmeric, neem and Basmati rice, wherein we fought and won the patents,” he recalled.
The Union Government has now made over two-lakh formulations related to Indian systems of medicine available online through the ‘Traditional Knowledge Digital Library,’ he said.
The European Patents Office was given full access to this library in February while the US Patents Office too would be given similar access shortly, he said.
“We now expect patent granting to be sensitive to traditional knowledge,” the minister remarked.
Mumbai (PTI): The CBI on Tuesday accused NCP MP Padamsinh Patil of conspiring to murder Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar due to political rivalry and fear of exposure of financial irregularities committed by him.
“Political rivalry and the exposure of certain financial irregularities was the motive,” Balwinder Singh, Additional Director (Western and Southern region) of CBI, told reporters.
“Patil is evasive but we cannot forcibly take his confession. We have evidence against him,” he said.
Mr. Patil, a NCP MP from Osmanabad constituency, was arrested on June 7 and is now in police custody till June 20.
Scientific tests like narco-analysis are normally done when there is little other evidence in a case, Singh said.
“However, we have vital and adequate clues in this case,” he said.
The six persons arrested in the case so far have been divided into three categories: facilitators, shooters and conspirators, he said.
The NCP MP was one of the conspirators and some more are still to be arrested, Singh said.
Nimbalkar was shot dead along with his driver on June 3, 2006 by gunmen in neighbouring Navi Mumbai.
Political rivalry behind Nimbalkar’s murder: CBI
Mumbai (PTI): The CBI on Tuesday accused NCP MP Padamsinh Patil of conspiring to murder Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar due to political rivalry and fear of exposure of financial irregularities committed by him.
“Political rivalry and the exposure of certain financial irregularities was the motive,” Balwinder Singh, Additional Director (Western and Southern region) of CBI, told reporters.
“Patil is evasive but we cannot forcibly take his confession. We have evidence against him,” he said.
Mr. Patil, a NCP MP from Osmanabad constituency, was arrested on June 7 and is now in police custody till June 20.
Scientific tests like narco-analysis are normally done when there is little other evidence in a case, Singh said.
“However, we have vital and adequate clues in this case,” he said.
The six persons arrested in the case so far have been divided into three categories: facilitators, shooters and conspirators, he said.
The NCP MP was one of the conspirators and some more are still to be arrested, Singh said.
Nimbalkar was shot dead along with his driver on June 3, 2006 by gunmen in neighbouring Navi Mumbai.
Lalgarh (Midnapore)
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| District(s) | Medinipur |
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22°35′N 87°03′E Lalgarh (Bengali: লালগড়) is a village in Binpur–I community development block under Jhargram subdivision of West Midnapore district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Lalgarh is the headquarters of Binpur–I CD block.[1] Midnapore Railway station is the nearest important station about 45 km from the village. It became the center of media attention since beginning of November 2008. The adivasi (indigenous tribal) population launched a massive movement against police atrocities which spread far and wide. / 22.58°N 87.05°E / 22.58; 87.05
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[edit] Demography
Lalgarh is a sparsely populated place with majority of population being adivasis, who are the indigenous tribal people.
[edit] Economy
The main occupation of the people here is cultivation, share cropping and selling disposable plates made of leaves. Most people do not own land but work on others fields. The region is dry and there are but a single harvest each year. At other times people work as daily labor, collect and sell leaves and wood from forest etc. Over all the economic condition of the people is poor, most people lie below the poverty line, under BPL category.
[edit] Shalboni incident
On the way back from laying the foundation stone of Jindal steel plant at Shalboni the convoy of chief minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and central minister Ram Vilas Paswan came under attack. A landmine exploded minuted after Buddhadeb Bhattacharya had passed and seconds before Rambilas Paswan arrived at the location.[2] It hit a police jeep in the convoy and 6 policemen were grievously injured. The CPI(Maoist) in a press release accepted the responsibility of the explosion and stated clearly that they were opposed to the steel plant on tribal land and that the target of the explosion was Buddhadeb Bhattacharya. Although no arrest could be made immediately, police activity increased many folds in the West Midnapore District as a whole, resulting in alleged torture, illegal detention, arbitrary arrests of the local tribal people.
[edit] Trigger at Lalgarh
Lalgarh police station has long been infamous for torturing and detaining adivasis at the smallest pretext on basis of speculation, or so allege the locals. On 4th November 2008 evening, four boys all studying in high school between standards 8 and 10, were going to their homes in Bashber Village on foot. They were returning from Katapahari, where a program of Baul Song was going on. On the way they were picked up by Lalgarh police for being suspected Maoists[3]. At the police station as their name address and other details were being note down, one of them mentioned that his father was in the armed forces. He was immediately released, and thus the news of this detention reached the village. The next morning, 4:30 am at dawn the police raided the village of Choto Pelia. There they detained several and even beat up the people mercilessly. Even the women who protested the police excess were not spared and hit with rifle butts. One woman even lost her sight as a result of beating. Many more were beaten up, detained from the nearby villages. This incident triggered massive protests across Lalgarh. The adivasis surrounded the Police station in demand of unconditional and immediate release of everyone arrested illegally.
[edit] The movement
[edit] The beginning
The police quickly understood the extent of mobilization that the adivasis have made and started making false promises about the imminent release of those arrested including the 3 school students. The police thought of buying some time with these lies, hoping that the mass will disperse with time. But the adivasi crowd around the Police Station only got thicker. Support and solidarity from surrounding and far off adivasi villages started pouring in. The otherwise omnipresent leaders of political parties were not allowed to negotiate. The adivais were rather happy about this as in the past the interference of these leaders in any mass protests have always resulted in confusion and withdrawing of the protests with unknown negotiations behind closed door meetings. This time the adivasis chose their representatives from amongst themselves who were communicators rather than leaders and took no decision on behalf of the mass but only communicated them. Soon the police understood that the adivasis were in no mood to return without a result and they disclosed that nothing was in their hands because the ones arrested had already been transferred to Midnapore jail the previous day.
[edit] The blockade
The road to Largarh from Medinipur and Jhargram had been blocked at several places with large felled trees[4].
The repeated lies by the Lalgarh police infuriated the mass who decided not to depend on the police for any results and to build up a movement to force the release of those illegally detained. They decided to prevent the deployment of reinforcement of police and paramilitary as previously many adivasi movements have been brutally crushed using paramilitary force. Thus roads were dug up[5] and blocked at several places by felled trees. This has uncanny resemblance to the Nandigram movement remained at the headlines throughout 2007 March to December. The Lalgarh village is connected with Jhargram and Medinipur towns by roads which are bordered on both sides by sparse to moderate forests. the roads have been dug up or blocked by trees at least in 25 places.
[edit] Solidarity
The road blockade was not just in and around Lalgarh but villages all around took initiative to do the same as they joined in the movement. Adivasi people all around West Bengal felt oneness with the movement as most have faced torture at the hands of police for suspected of being Maoists or their sympathizers. People from villages across West and East Midnapore, Bankura, Birbhum, Puruliya quickly joined in the movement[6].
[edit] Grass root democracy
The movement had no conventional leadership and often entire village population sat together and discussed for hours as to the steps to be taken in the movement. Men, women, youth, students all took part in these grand meetings. The traditional leaders were not stripped of the respect that they usually received but were given no more weight than anyone else at the meetings. A forum was thus launched which had no conventional political color and which united the entire adivasi society for a common cause after a long time. It gained immense popularity and most mainstream parties and their mass bases vanished altogether.
[edit] Village committees
Each Village formed a committee of 10 representatives who would with committees of other villages to communicate the decision of the masses of one village to another. Each committee further had two persons who had to be available at all times in case of urgent meetings at short notices.
[edit] Participation of women
Adivasi women have come forward in a big way to carry forth this movement. Each 10 persons committee has 5 women members. This involvement of women came naturally to the adivasis who have a more equal society when it comes to gender. The participation of women in meetings and rallies are also remarkable. The atrocities over the women of Lalgarh have been excessive, and the women since then never attend rallies unarmed. They bring along whatever is at hand. Bows, arrows, knives, swords, scythes, axes, sticks, brooms and so on. The attack on the dawn of 5th November has been most brutal on the women[7] with one of them loosing her sight, as the but of a police rifle landed on it. Another woman of Lalghar was manhandled and left unconscious in broad daylight as she tried preventing the police who dragged away her husband who happens to be a local Jharkhand Party leader while they were buying medicines. All this adding to the severe torture and repression of women have led to the present consolidation of the adivasi women, or so they claim.
[edit] The demands
The adivasis of Lalgarh sat together to decide upon eleven demands to be met by the government in order that the blockades be removed and police activity normalized. Press statement were given, leaflets distributed and posters in Bengali put up all around, stating the demands.
The English translation of the demands would be:
1) The SP has to hold his ears and ask for forgiveness. He has to say ‘Form now onwards I will stop illegally arresting the people and especially women.’
2) The police who were involved in the 5/11/2008 incident where women were beaten up have to rub their noses on the ground as punishment, from Dalailpur Chawk to Choto Pelia. 3) The women of Choto Pelia who were injured by the police torture have to be compensated with 2 lakh rupees each.
4) All suspects arrested or detained in relation to the Shalboni incident have to be released unconditionally.
5) All people arrested or accused in suspicion of being Maoist in West Midnapore since 1998 have to be cleared of all charges and should not be compelled to attend court sessions or police station enquiries regularly.
6) Arresting locals from anywhere, anytime without warrant have to be ended. 7) All paramilitary camps like those in Dharampur, Kalaimudi, Ramgarhhave to be removed immediately.
That Sasadhar Mahato planned the Shalboni explosion sitting in Bashber village – this allegation has to be withdrawn.
9) The practice of harassing clubs and organizations of independent people all over Bengal must be put to an end.
10) Police patrolling in villages from 5 in the evening to 6 in the dawn have to be stopped.
11) Schools, hospitals, panchayet offices cannot be used as police camps, the existing ones have to be removed.
Later two more demands were added in face of violent attacks by CPI(M) cadres on the adivasi people involved with the movement.
[edit] Traditional leadership
The traditional tribal leaders have been mostly disowned by the tribals of Lalgarh. The Majhi Baba or village elders had since November 10, 2008 proactively engaged in negotiations with the government authority. On the 13th November 2008 they declared that most of their demands have been agreed upon and thus they were withdrawing the blockade. Some blockades were removed as well, but the adivasis sat together to decide otherwise and decided to boycott the Bharat Jakat Majhi Marwa group. Their youth wing leader was even beaten up and made to apologise for removing a blockade[8].
[edit] Maoist connection
The government and the ruling party CPI(M) have throughout maintained that the movement of Lalgarh was instigated and somewhat led by Maoist agents, many of whom have come from Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh. The police from the beginning blamed the Maoists for the Shalboni blast and raided the villages and detained people for having suspected Maoist Links. The police alleged that Sasadhar Mahato and other Maoist action squad members planned the Shalboni blast while in Bashber village,Lalgarh. The Maoists soon accepted responsibility of the blast and congratulated the people of Lalgarh for their protest, but stopped short if claiming the movement to be under their control[9]. The people of Lalgarh however continually maintained that their movement was peaceful and for demand of basic democratic rights.
[edit] References
- ^ “Contact details of Block Development Officers”. Paschim Medinipur district. Panchayats and Rural Development Department, Government of West Bengal. http://wbdemo5.nic.in/html/asp/bdo_contact.asp?cd=ED. Retrieved on 2008-12-27.
- ^ NDTV, 2 November 2008
- ^ The Telegraph, 7 November 2008
- ^ The Telegraph, 19 November 2008
- ^ The Telegraph, 16 November 2008,Police clean chit to Lalgarh 7-Tribals step up demands
- ^ The Telegraph, 13 November 2008,Rage spreads to Bankura Terms set for Lalgarh talks
- ^ The Telegraph, 13 November 2008
- ^ The Telegraph, 13 November 2008,Tribals also beat up a member of the Bharat Jakat Majhi Marwa, a group of elders that was negotiating with district officials..
- ^ The Telegraph, 13 November 2008,CPI (Maoist) state secretary Kanchan said: “We are with the people of Lalgarh.”
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Gorkhaland and Lalgarh: dialogues, parallels, and a challenge to mainstream partiesMarch 21, 2009
By Koustav De, Sanhati
The Gorkhaland movement: A short background
The majority ethnic Gorkha population in and around the Darjeeling hills and Dooars plains of Northern West Bengal (North Bengal) have long been demanding their separate state from themselves.
By separate state it is not meant an independent country but an administrative division within India. The picturesque hill region has always been seen by the people of plains, as nothing more than a summer resort, a tourist spot. Before independence all British officials chose to move into Darjeeling to escape the summer heat of the plains, and Darjeeling came to be known as the Summer Capital of India. The Gorkhas have always been neglected, economically suppressed; the only development they have seen is to aid tourism.
Since before independence the Gorkhas have worked as laborers in tea and cinnamon plantations or as porters or as drivers or as jawans in the army. The main industry, tourism is largely being owned by non-Gorkha Bengalis, North Indians or bigger corporate groups. Although in terms of rolling capital the tourism industry is disproportionately larger than any other economic sector of the hills, the majority of the working Gorkha population is employed in as laborers in plantations and small factories. The Gorkhas arrived or were brought in the region during the British period in order to work as laborers.
It is their blood and sweat that created the entire place, as we find it today, out of a scantily populated mountainous region.
The list of the deprivation of Gorkhas is a never ending one. Through all these years their basic necessities have been grossly neglected. Poverty has stayed with them like shadows, health care is costly business, they have never had a single university to call their own, electricity is rare except in hotels, and often drinking water becomes difficult to access. The schools of the region for the locals are often in pitiable conditions, while the glamorous campaign about famous Darjeeling schools is all about profitable business. Some super expensive boarding schools for the rich, owned by famous brands have come up or have carried forth their colonial tradition. Admission is reserved for the sons and daughters of those who can afford, mostly from across India and also other countries of South Asia. These boarding schools surrounded by high walls in middle of beautiful hills have turned into big business but have failed to produce much economic let alone educational gains of the locals.
The Gorkhas have repeatedly demanded their right for self determination, a place to call their own. In this quest for a Motherland they have wholeheartedly supported whoever pledged to stand by them, be it the CPI(M), the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) and recently the Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha (GJMM).
But till now their experience has been a bitter one, one of betrayal, even though the Gorkhas never hesitated to even lay down their lives for the cause. At one point the CPI(M) fully endorsed their cause and the Gorkhas accepted them with open arms, but the CPI(M) was not in power then and of the only two member of parliaments that they had, one Mr. Ratan Lal Brahmin was a Gorkha from the hills.
Later after coming to power the CPI(M) was no longer in mood to follow up their promises with actions and so the left force in the hills broke away from them and launched their separate Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM) which is currently whole heatedly into the Gorkhaland movement, and their red flags fly as high beside traditional Gorkha colors in rallies for Gorkhaland. The present ongoing movement under the banner of GJMM has up to now been carried more maturely and once again the Gorkhas have not shown an iota of hesitation to speak for and stand by what they believe is rightfully theirs. They have accepted certain hardships on their part for the sake of the movement and have also shown how they can carry on self sufficiently by launching a parallel administration, almost completely boycotting and shutting down the state mechanism. Much has been achieved without bloodshed, but then there are certain trends appearing which are not comforting.
The contradiction with the Bengalis and lately the Adivasis of the plains is a disturbing feature and a violent one. The Adivasis of the Terai-Dooars region are like the Gorkhas an immigrant population and mostly have been brought there by the British colonialists in order to exploit their cheap labor especially in the tea plantations. This common history of colonial exploitation could well have brought the Gorkhas and the Adivasis close together to form a united movement which is basically against their lack of development and continued exploitation, but the demand of ‘Gorkha’land was too exclusive and thus failed to uphold the Adivasi cause, although the Adivasis constitute a considerable section of population. The conflict came to the forefront when the ruling party of West Bengal CPI(M) used this fact to fuel the fire. (The Telegraph, January 19 2009.) Things quickly turned ugly and violent conflicts took place between the Gorkhas and the Adivasis. And quite predictably the worst sufferers were the Gorkhas of the Adivasi dominated plains and the Adivasis of the Gorkha dominated regions.
Earlier, the conflict with the Bengalis of the plains although discontinuous was but an ugly one. Here the conflict was fanned and carried out mostly by hired mercenaries of CPI(M) and was supported morally by the elite section of the Bengali society in the foothill region (Terai-Dooars) who had direct business interests linked with Darjeeling and were facing troubles because of the Gorkhaland movement.
The ‘Communist’ Party and the elite section managed to mobilize the sentiment of almost the entire Bengali section of the region by projecting a threat poised to their very existence by the Gorkhaland movement. But as is the case with a counter movement launched by hired mercenaries, they failed to match the enthusiasm, motivation and wholeheartedness of the Gorkhas and it remained an unsustainable one. But the Adivasi counter movement against the Gorkhas was genuine, based on their separate right of self determination. A thesis out of this contradiction was just ahead, but the Gorkha leadership failed to grasp the moment and the leadership of the Adivasi agitation quickly passed into the hands of CPI(M) and Congress.
The entire focus of CPI(M) was to carry out violence to the extent that the Gorkhaland movement becomes unjustified. The CPI(M) vote base has been completely wiped out from the hills in this phase of the Gorkhaland movement. In Terai and Dooars the CPI(M) were already fighting for their vote base with the Congress when the Gorkhaland movement rallied a major section of Gorkha population away from them since the demand of Gorkhaland included these regions. Thus the CPI(M) in desperation to hold on to their non-Gorkha mass base of North Bengal turned to ethnic polarization.
Gorkhaland leadership extends hand of solidarity for Lalgarh movement
This is when the Gorkhaland leadership realized that it was important to have the Adivasis on their side, but locally the contradictions were too bitter to take any sort of reconciliatory initiative.
So they chose the next best option, which was to stand in solidarity with the Lalgarh Adivasi movement which has after a long time united a major section of the indigenous population of Bengal for a common cause.
From the initiation of the Lalgarh movement, the Adivasis of Terai-Doors have expressed their admiration and support towards it. So it was sort of a gesture of convenience more than anything else for the Gorkha leaders. Earlier in February 2009, GJMM had initially called a strike to protest the murder of three members of the Peoples’ Committee Against Police Atrocities in Lalgarh by armed mercenaries of CPI(M) on February 2. The Gorkha leaders then attended an Adivasi rally in Lalgarh where they expressed their solidarity to the Adivasi movements. (The Telegraph, February 19 2009) The points of similarity were of course police atrocities and the CPI(M)’s handling of the situations by violence.
Even as the Gorkhas met the Adivasis, the CPI(M) made an all out effort to polarize the sentiments of the Terai and Dooars Adivasis in their favor. They tried to create a divide between the Adivasis of the west and the north, by using the contradictions between the Gorkhas and the Adivasis. Soon the Adivasis leaders of the foothills with the fuel from CPI(M) started condemning the ‘evil’ union between the Gorkhas and the Lalgarh agitators.
But these criticisms of a grass-root movement that had practically captivated the imagination of Adivasi masses across the state proved too sharp.
Soon the stance softened and the leaders had to start stating that their brothers in Lalgarh were being misled by Gorkha leaders. Some opinion floated around the Adivasis of North Bengal that there were certain forces that were preventing a peaceful solution to the Adivasi Gorkha conflict in the North. The GJMM were not late to take the cue this time, and made statements that the solution to the Adivasi-Gorkha conflict was achievable through dialogue and the two concerned parties must sit across a table to solve it, not through some third party, not even the government. But the path to this will be difficult and full of hurdles. There are also speculations that a team from Lalgarh might visit the hills as well as the Terai and Dooars soon. The Adivasis of Terai and Dooars are open to the idea but they have clearly stated that they would not allow the team form Lalgarh to hold rallies in Dooars in support of Gorkhaland.
Exchanging views: A challenge to vote equations
Importantly though, these parties meeting and exchanging views have become a problem for most mainstream political parties, and none have dared come forth and take sides thus far, as clearly they have less and less to gain out of this. Dangerously for the CPI(M) the Adivasis of the North Bengal are increasingly letting their anger about ‘Left’ Front well known, while maintaining their stance about Gorkhaland. (The Statesman, March 8, 2009)
This coming out of CPI(M) or Congress influence and not choosing the ‘enemy’ of their ‘enemy’ as a ‘friend’ has messed up the vote equations for almost all mainstream parties of North Bengal. Recently the Adivasis of the foothills went as far as stating that none of the mainstream political parties have ever cared to take up their cause and they might move towards boycotting the election altogether. It can only be a nightmare for the powers that be if the agitating Gorkhas and Adivasis come to an agreement of sorts and start coordinating. The two largest movements of recent times, the Adivasi movement around Lalgarh and the Gorkhaland movement around the hills have remained a hot potato for the mainstream parties, even a month before parliament elections.
The State’s divisive tactics
Being in power for continuously for more than 30 years, it has been clear to the people that CPI(M) do not have any agenda of uplifting the have-nots, which happened to be their main slogan while coming to power. On the contrary a ‘New Class’ right out of the Milovan Dilas’s thesis, have come up which has so benefited from the CPI(M) that they with go to any extent to keep them in power. This section is in addition to the traditional upper class section of all the cities and villages, the landowners, the hoarders who simply switched their allegiance from Congress to CPI(M) in 1977 when they took over the office.
The repeated electoral victories have been made possible with the lack of alternative parties with proper agendas to vote for and tremendous terror. Any developing opposition has been efficiently and ruthlessly nipped in the bud. The strategy to regain influence over Adivasi region of the West, Gorkhaland region of the North has been similar to that of Nandigram, the use of armed mercenaries to create terror amongst the masses. It has been a time tested method and presently the only method known to CPI(M) which it seems is not working any more.
This failure has been mainly because the rise of these movements has been meteoric. Entire populations have stood for a common cause and in a short span every mainstream party has dissolved away and new organizations or consolidations have sprung up. Thus most of the mercenary bands have had to be formed out of people who were not locals. They have nevertheless continued with their efforts to terrorize villages, the latest effort being towards the end of February in Madhupur, where about a thousand armed CPI(M) cadres and mercenaries rode bikes and trekkers into Madhupur firing in the air all along and finally surrounding selected houses to beat up and humiliate the women and children of those ‘leaders’ who allegedly organized people against the CPI(M).
After all this as soon as the Adivasis under Peoples’ Committee regrouped themselves to march against the mercenaries, they made an escape and the police arrived to ‘diffuse tension’. After all this CPI(M)’s local committee secretary Bikash Ukil said to the Press: “The rally was organized to bolster the morale of our supporters before the upcoming election.” (Times of India Feb 27, 2009 ).
Such acts serve twin purposes, firstly if by some means the Adivasi movement can be made to retaliate with violence of similar measures, they can be branded as Maoists and further state terror can be unleashed with ‘justification’, moreover this continuous terror and violence can break the morale and force Adivasi to abandon the movement just to seek a peaceful existence. However it is well known from history that the Adivasis have rarely been intimidated by such violence. The Adivasis have had a brilliant revolutionary history and have time and again waged fearless wars against much better equipped enemies. In fact this violence might unite them even strongly and gradually choke out any remaining legitimacy of CPI(M) amongst the indigenous population of West Bengal.
The violence on Gorkhaland activists have been of a different kind. It is impossible to take them on in the hills so regular attacks are carried out in the plains where at places they happen to be a minority. And these attacks are carried out by the mercenaries from behind the mass rallies of Adivasi or Bengalis, in order to break down the movement along ethnic lines and wrestle back Terai and Dooars of North Bengal away from the Gorkhaland demand. By doing this, the proposed Gorkhaland can be shrunk to minuscule geographic area and more importantly be left without any major railway station, business areas, which in terms might deem a Gorkha state economically unfeasible and at the mercy of West Bengal.
However the Gorkhas do not seem to be deterred by violence and are calling successful strikes in the plains simply to demand the democratic right to organize rallies and meetings in the Terai-Dooars which has been denied by the government. Moreover since 1980s, when 1200 Gorkhas laid down their lives and army had to be summoned, it has been established that the Gorkhas are too reckless and sentimental when it comes to their demand for motherland, so violence cannot deter their movement in any form.
Looking forward
Many negatives of the two movements are becoming apparent, like the possibility of the leaders rising above the movement itself; trying culprits or betrayers of movement in public courts where decision and punishments are often decided in the heat of the moment and the scope of self defense of the accused in front of large opposing mass is a matter of debate; the use of violence on opposition of movement which often remains unclaimed, unverified and are mostly disowned by the leadership as acts of sabotage; and the growing proximity of the GJMM to fascists like BJP.
Again all these negative aspects are subject to verifications, claims and counter claims. These aberrations if any can easily be ignored as minor in face of something so vast and positive, however it must be kept in mind how history has time and again shown that these seeds although small might not be impotent. One can only hope that with time and experience, the people will once again take the initiative to cleanse the movement of these tendencies. If the Adivasis and Gorkhas come together to forge an alliance not just of convenience but of ideals it will be an important event without precedence. They clearly have the potential and through dialogue and political exchange they might be able to lay the corner stone of a new trend in the politics of the region, that of mass participation and grass-root democracy.
4 Responses to “Gorkhaland and Lalgarh: dialogues, parallels, and a challenge to mainstream parties”
- UPENDRA Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:18 amDear Koustav….Million thanks for your very well written and thoughtful article…
If only the majority of people understood the true essence of what CPI(M) is all about… West Bengal.. would not be Wasted Bengal as it is today…
Hope to read more from you… seems like the Renaissance of Bengali intellect is going to start from you…
Jai Hind and Jai Gorkhaland
- S Sarkar Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 4:37 pmIt seems that your sympathy for the Gorkhas has obfuscated your sense of history of North Bengal – and how much you know about that part of Bengal is highly suspected.The Darjeeling hills and the Dooars were not terra nullius, such that a particular ethnic group will take upon itself the great task of creating a civilisation. Any geographical space is in a constant process of change and transformation – these areas not an exception.
Political analysis is a complex subject, not a simple normative exercise of sorting out the good, bad and the ugly. Furthermore, it requires responsibility of not excaberating the tension – North Bengal’s future lies in finding out means of co-existence and justice for all, not in slicing up the region. If it is indeed fragmented, then people, whom your ideology loves to hate – the banias and semi-feudal lords – will reign over. Social justice cannot be simply obtained through territorial autonomy – there is an array of instruments and modalities available to resolve the present crisis.
- yogesh Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 10:52 amSure there is an array of instruments and modalities available to resolve the present crises.Unfortunately, we’ve not seen any of them in use for the past 60 years.
So Mr. Sarkar, perhaps it’s time to give Territorial Autonomy a chance; a real chance. If it doesn’t work too well, am sure big brother West Bengal will be more than willing to help its neighbors. Won’t it?
As i write this, almost EVERY citizen in Kalimpong is BUYING water…for needs as basic as drinking and cooking. Even in the ones living in the countryside. And soon, they will have to start worrying about their crops, their futures. Not something that’s likely to knock down a door in Calcutta, is it?
We’re way past the time for instruments and modalities– It’s time to hand over the future to people of the land.
- Anonymous Says:
June 12th, 2009 at 5:25 amSrkarkar’s comment is reflective of clever strategy of addressing issues through rhetoric and not in terms real serious effort that is typical of the Bengali intellegntsia. If territorial fragmentation is not an answer, we must immediately merge present West Bengal with the parts of Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Assam. Since geographical space is in constant process of transformation so why should Bengal be subjected to the great task of civilising processes by the Bengalis alone. Let it be shared by the Bengal, bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand and Assam and then try to find answers to greater goals like social justice and other ends from among the array of instruments and modalities available. I am sure Mr. Sarkar would welcome the proposal if at all what he said was with commitment and not with the vicious intention of playing with vacant words and cliched rhetoric.
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Email this storyRomping home to victory: Rajwinder Kaur Bhullar who won the Nurmahal by-election in Jalandhar on Monday. CHANDIGARH: Punjab’s ruling Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday retained the Nurmahal seat in the Assembly with its candidate Rajwinder Kaur Bhullar …
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Email this story16 Jun 2009, 1720 hrs IST, PTI ALLAHABAD: Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Tuesday appeared to be taking potshots at the party leadership on its gag order on leaders but made clear it cannot give up its ideology or sever ties with the sangh …
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Email this storySurat: The Surat police detained around 50 office bearers and leading activists of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal on the eve of the Surat Bandh call on Monday given by the outfit to protest the gang-rape of a schoolgirl by three Muslim youths.
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Email this storyHYDERABAD: The crisis in TRS has further deepened and the party appears to be heading for a split. Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters witnessed high drama on Monday.
TRS meet proves mere KCR endorsement show Express Buzz KOLKATA: The “social boycott” of the police by the local people, with the backing of the Trinamool Congress, continued at Khejuri in West Bengal’s Purbo Medinipur district on Monday.
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Email this storyISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Top foreign ministry officials from India and Pakistan will meet soon and their political leaders will follow that up with a round of talks, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Tuesday.
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Email this storyBHUBANESWAR: Vice-chairman of National Commission for Minorities MP Pinto here on Monday said “complete normalcy” is yet to return to riot-ravaged Kandhamal even though the situation has improved in the district.
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Ahmadinejad challenger calls off Tehran rally to avert further …
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Israeli envoy hopeful for solution on settlements The Associated Press
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North Korea worries overshadow trade as Obama, Lee meet
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Obama terms high health care costs a ‘time bomb’ Hindu
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BRIC not ready to bat down dollar yet: Agnes T. Crane
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Pakistan tribal operation in ‘early stages’ The Associated Press
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Campaigning Begins in Afghanistan Voice of America
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Independent body needed to investigate Sri Lankan abuses – Amnesty Reuters India
Sri Lanka rejects torture claims BBC News
Reward offered as fears rise for Briton kidnapped in Yemen Times Online
Gabon, Cameroon match postponed BBC News
Anger over ’secret Iraq inquiry’ BBC News
Brown criticised over ’secret’ probe into Iraq war AFP
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ILO chief stresses need for adopting jobs pact, social protection
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Sarkozy raps globalised economy BBC News
French President Calls for Regulation of Globalization Voice of America
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PREVIEW-EU seeks summit deals on Irish referendum, Barroso Reuters
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Report highlights plight of war zone refugees CNN International
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Obama’s Message to Iran Washington Post
Envoy cites ‘extraordinary’ ties of US with RP Muslims Manila Bulletin
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World Blood Donor Day observed Indian Express
Blood Drives June 22-24 at Cameron Center Honolulu Advertiser
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Outsider Sir John Sawers appointed new head of MI6 Times Online
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Uighurs ‘like Tibetans, but without a voice’ ABC Online
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