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> LIFE AND LIBERTY OF APCLC ACTIVISTS UNDER SERIOUS
> THREAT
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> Dear Friends,
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> In the backdrop of C.P.I.(M.L.) peoples War’s attack
> on the life of Chief Minister Andhra Pradesh Mr.
> Chandra Babu Naidu on 1st October 2003, near
> Tirupati Ghat Road (temple town), the APCLC
> activists have been targeted by the police and
> vigilante groups. The life and the liberty of the
> civil rights activists is under serious threat in
> Andhra Pradesh.
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> Mr. Hari Prasad (Advocate), Mr. M.V. Prasad, Mr.
> Kesava, Mr. C. Raja Ram of APCLC and their relatives
> Shankar, Mr. Uday, Eswaraiah and Chandrasekhar have
> been arrested in the early hours on 2nd October
> 2003. The police whisked away the APCLC members from
> their houses and detained in the station house and
> later released them by stating that their arrests
> are preventive arrests u/s. 151 Cr. P.C. During the
> custody the activists were subjected to
> interrogation and humiliation. In the early hours on
> the same day, the police in search of Mr.K. Kranthi
> Chaitanya (Advocate), the state joint secretary of
> A.P.C.L.C., forcibly made their way into his house
> and created panic and terrorized the family members.
> They left the house, as they could not find Kranthi
> Chiatanya in his house. Till today the police have
> been searching for some of the APCLC members and
> keeping close and continuous surveillance on their
> houses.
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> The police again on 17-10-2003 have arrested M.V.
> Prasad and Vijay Bhaskar convener for Revolutionary
> Writers Association, (RWA), tortured for 2 days and
> extracted confessions. Based on the involuntary
> confession a case is registered under AP. Public
> security Act. The family members of the activists
> are terribly afraid and suspected that the police
> may kill the detainees in false encounter. Further
> the police are planning to implicate Kranti chytanya
> and others in the above case.
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> As soon as the electronic media flashed out the news
> of attack on Chief Minister, at Hyderbad a group of
> persons in TATA SUMO vehicles reached Dr. Laxman’s
> (State President, APCLC) house and keep on
> surveillance till mid night. The next day some
> unidentified persons made an attempt to enter the
> house of Dr. Laxman, situated in the Osmania
> University Campus. They knocked the doors several
> times and terrorized his wife and children.
> Similarly some unidentified persons made their entry
> into the house of Mr. K.G. Kannabiran (PUCL), and
> his daughter received phone calls that she would be
> kidnapped. It is open secret that in A.P. the police
> are conniving with the surrendered Naxalites and
> using them to terrorize the Human rights activists.
> You might be aware of the brutal murder of
> Prushotham and Azam Ali by the state sponsored
> criminal gangs.
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> On 14-10-2003, the houses of APCLC activists Chilaka
> Chandra Sekhar, Ch. L.N. Murthy, in Guntur District
> are simultaneously attacked between 2-30 a.m. and
> 3-30 a.m.. The police ransaked the houses and
> attempted to enter and catch hold of the activists.
> But, the activists narrowly escaped death. After
> causing damage, the police claimed themselves as
> ‘Planadu Tigers’ and shouted slogans against APCLC
> and issued a death warrant to the activists.
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> It is common for APCLC leaders to receive
> threatening phone calls from the "Green Tigers or
> the Red Tigers". When ever a police man was killed
> or kidnapped by the CPI(M.L.) Pepoles War, these
> self styled ‘Tiger forces’ terrorize the APCLC., and
> other mass organizations. Immediately after the
> attack on the Chief Minister a press statement was
> released in the name of ‘Red Tigers’ warning Mr. G.
> Laxman and Prof. S. Sheshaiah, the APCLC State
> President and General Secretary, Ballad singer
> Gaddar, Revolutionary Writers Association secretary
> and Executive Member Mr. Pinaka Pani and Varavara
> Rao. Further the statement says if these leaders do
> no facilitate and help to nab or surrender the
> persons responsible for the attack on Chief
> Minister, all will be physically liquidated. The
> State police knew that the members of APCLC are no
> way concerned with the bomb blast. The Peoples War
> Party itself made it clear and owned the
> responsibility for the attack. But the police higher
> officials
> including the D.G.P. Mr. Sukumaran, talks like a
> private person and use the language of revenge and
> retaliation.
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> The APCLC will not subscribe to the theory and
> practice of Peoples War and never take part in its
> activity. It is an independent organization fighting
> for the defense and protections of people’s rights.
> APCLC has been pleading with the government that the
> Naxalite movement is a socio, economic and political
> movement and not a law and order problem. But the
> government, instead of dealing with the movement
> politically unleasing repression on the movement and
> in the process the state became a "Police State".
> During the Chandra Babu Naidu regime there are about
> 1500 persons killed by the police indiscriminately
> in false encounters. In the wake of bomb blast, the
> police have seized the opportunity to blame and
> delegitimise the activities of APCLC by branding it
> as one of the frontal organisation of People War.
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> Although the APCLC reacted against the Bomb attack
> on Chief Minister as unfortunate and sad and further
> explained the incident is nothing but an inevitable
> result of the increasing repression by the State on
> the Naxalite Movement. The APCLC has been urging the
> state Government that providing more and more
> democratic space would reduces the violence in
> society, including the counter violence by the
> Peoples War Party. It is the responsibility of the
> State Government to open a dialogue with the Peoples
> War and other revolutionary parties and provide a
> conducive atmosphere in the state. But the state
> Government is delaing with the single agenda of
> crusing the Naxalite movement and at present an
> absolute state lawlessness is prevailing in the
> state. Any kind of dissent or agitation could not be
> tolerated by the state Government. Now the state
> police have targeted human rights activists and
> determined to cripple their voice.
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> We therefore request all the human rights
> organizations and the democratic forces across the
> country to raise voice of protest and bring pressure
> on the state Government to give due respect for the
> human rights and ensure protection to the human
> rights defenders.
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> With regards
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> Prof. S. SESHAIAH
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> State General Secretary
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> A.P.C.L.C.
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> Mail to :
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> The Hon’ble Governor
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> State of Andhra Pradesh
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> Rastrapathi Bhavan
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> Hyderbad.
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> Email:
governer@ap.nic.in >
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> The Hon’ble Chief Minister
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> Government of Andhra Pradesh,
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> Secretariat,
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> Hyderbad.
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> Email:
cmap@ap.nic.in >
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