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2010-12-25 India-Pakistan

Binayak Sen gets life in jail on sedition charge

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Posted by john frum 2010-12-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The Marxist left is really beating the drum for this guy, so I strongly suspect the conviction is not in error.

The case against Dr. Binayak Sen hinges on the arrest of one Narayan Sanyal who also goes by the name Prasad and Bijoy.

Sanyal is a 68-year-old Naxalite leader who was one of the members of the CPI (Maoist) Politburo and was chief of its central-eastern regional bureau monitoring the political affairs in Orissa and Chhattisgarh.

He was the planner of an attack on former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu at Alipiri in Tirupati in October 2003 and the Jehananabad jail break that resulted in escape of 340 prisoners, including several Maoist fighters in 2005, and as many as 21 serious cases of Maoist-sponsored violence in different eastern States.

The connection between the two men seems to be with Dr. Sen's leadership in the PUCL. It began in 2005, when Dr. Sen put out a press release from PUCL, informing interested parties that Sanyal had probably been arrested while seeking medical attention, though no official announcement had been made. This was seen by the government as giving a warning to the Maoists that the authorities might be preparing additional arrests of Maoist leaders.

Then, in May 2006, Sanyals elder brother, Radhamadhab, who lived in Kolkata, wrote a letter to Binayak Sen, who, as the general secretary of PUCL, forwarded it to international human rights organizations, asking for help in getting Sanyal a lawyer, as well as medical attention.

However, the government case against Dr. Sen is that he was attempting to set up an urban Maoist network. Whether or not this is a case, such a network would be of immense value to the mostly rural Maoists.

Perhaps the most damning thing are those in the international community who support Dr. Sen, such as Noam Chomsky, International ANSWER, Indian Workers Association (Britain) (The IWA(GB) supports the Communist Party of India (Marxist), IBON Foundation (Marxist), etc.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-25 09:45|| 2010-12-25 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 The Indian newspaper The Hindu, mouthpiece of the left, is running editorials decrying the verdict and calling for Sen to be granted bail.

Posted by john frum 2010-12-25 09:56|| 2010-12-25 09:56|| Front Page Top

#3 A sharp knife across his skinny neck would put an end to a lot of Marxist sh$$ in India.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-12-25 15:15|| 2010-12-25 15:15|| Front Page Top

#4 The rot has spread far

Posted by john frum 2010-12-25 15:45|| 2010-12-25 15:45|| Front Page Top

#5 To get involved with the issue of human rights then became a natural extension of a perspective that saw health work not merely as the provision of health care services but as any effort that counters the suppression of the socio-economic and political rights of the marginalised.

Waging war against the state, and unlawful activities, sections under which Binayak is being held, then get interpreted to mean any activity that opposes the immoral and unjust activities of the government and the capitalists who are under the protection of the benevolent eye of the law.

Posted by john frum 2010-12-25 15:46|| 2010-12-25 15:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Che was a doctor. So was Zawahiri. So was Mengele.
Probably a few more I can't think of right now.

Posted by tu3031 2010-12-25 16:09|| 2010-12-25 16:09|| Front Page Top

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