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JOINT STATEMENT ON THE BARBARIC ASSAULT IN MANGALORE
Bangalore: 9 p.m., 29 January 2009
We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the horrific and unprovoked assault by a group of 40 hooligans, reportedly members of the Sri Rama Sene, on young women in a pub in the coastal city of Mangalore, Karnataka, during the afternoon of Saturday, 24 January 2009. We are saddened by the inaction of the public who looked on as the brutal attack unfolded. But we appreciate the attitude and actions of the staff of the pub, who tried to intervene, and the young man who stood up to the attackers.
We are shocked by the tardy action of the State administration, police, and political leadership, some of whom have dismissed this is as a “minor incident”. We believe that violent threats to the democratic freedoms and human rights of citizens, whether women or religious minorities, cannot be trivialised as “unfortunate”.
We are deeply disturbed by the sharply escalating trend of political and social violence against women in public and private spaces as a means to enforce a particularly regressive interpretation of culture in the name of “religion and country” that has been seen in several parts of India. We condemn all such forms of gender-based violence against women and children and the attitudes that make such violence acceptable, whether in the family or in the social and public spheres.
We believe that the Mangalore assault was not an isolated episode by self-appointed “moral police” and their sympathisers who criminally took the law into their own hands, but that it is part of a pattern in the profoundly contested political struggle over what constitutes Indian traditions, religions and cultures. It is evident that in this instance the attackers were emboldened to carry out the unprovoked assault in a political environment that supports a particularly narrow and fanatical view of Indian culture as also a repressive attitude towards women.
We recognise the role of the media in bringing the assault to public notice and their unrelenting efforts to get the State to act against those immediately responsible for it. However, we are gravely concerned that those members of the media who had prior notice of the planned assault did not deem it their responsibility as citizens to inform the police.
We strongly believe that the State and democratically minded citizens must stand up to the violent targeting of women and re-affirm our commitment to the human rights and civil liberties of all people. There can and should be dialogues on what constitutes “Indian-ness”, but regardless of the interpretations of Indian culture and traditions, beating and molesting women cannot be condoned.
All Signatories — updated on 9 Feb 2009.
I strongly condemn the attack.
What a disgrace to India!
Dhivya Arasappan, Chennai
I endorse this petition
I endorse the statement. Please add my name to the list of signatories.
Madhav Badami, Montreal, Canada
As a parent of a child,I want to ask Renuka Chowdhary if she ever wish to go to Pub and get addicted to drugs and dance like the so called “Item No.”??? OR Do u ever wish your children go to pub and do whatever nasty they want??? or do you mean to say that all parents in this country should act like you as an irresponsible and idiotic person?? what do you mean by Pub Bharo??? We want to see you in pub ,consume alcohol and dancing till you are in power. We do not want our children go disarray,nasty and unproductive.Mind it. in my View as a citizen of this country,I deject you as a Minister…You are simply not eligible to be in that position. Where is your voice when wemen are repeatedly being raped in streets of Delhi??? where is your voice when Son of a Goa Minister raped a minor girl??? Be sure, you will be thrown out in the coming election,just because of your dirty politics.
At the same time, whatever sena it is, I have the advice for them , don’t just do moral policing on pub going girls. But fight against all discrimination in our society,fight against the tobocco barrons,smoking,gutkhas,drugs abusement…there are many such issues which our political spectrum deliberately ignores and that kills many in our country.Perform your duty peacefully, violence is not our culture.That will give you value addition and respect
Endorsing the petition.
I endorse this petition
The gap between showing the right path and assaulting someone in wrong path is horribly big.
Intentions of the violent can never be pure nor justifiable.
By the way, isn’t violence against women against Indian culture?!
Kerala,Thiruvananthapuram
sheeja rajagopal
NOIDA
Anand Varghese
Washington, DC
On that day in Mangalore not only women but even men were
beaten up,but media was more intrstd in showing only women
being beaten.i personally met a victim(a guy called
suresh),he was the most severely wounded among the
victims.That too some scratches on his right hand and a
small wound in his back.This incident shows how the media is
controlled by christians and this issue is used to cover up
the conversion activities taking place in mangalore and
whole of India.Renuka a christian puppet
I write with special respect to the comment of “Renuka A Christian Puppet”..
‘Puppets’ to the best of my knowledge are bereft of Intelligence …in fact they lack the human ability to think at all!!
So why is a ” Puppet’s” comment nserted in this Blog, meant ( correct me if I wrong) for ‘Intelligent Human Beings”.
Recently some RAM SENA .. . (or could it have been SHIV SENA OR MN SENA OR ANY ONE OF THE SENAS STILL BEING CONTEMPLATED AS BEING SET UP TO VOICE & REPRESENT ” VIOLENCE & DEPRADATION” AS THE THE TRUE AUTHENTIC VOICE OF INDIAN CULTURE) … “MARRIED” off some young couples , by forcibly “GARLENDING THEM HINDU FASHION” .
OF course any normal Indian , with even a the THINIKINK PROWESS OF A “RABBIT- QUALITY-BRAIN”, would know such an ACT will and can never constitute a Marriage .
Such Scamsters should be heavilt penalised for debasing a serious, i may even dubit as sacred, relationship committment like Marriage…
Marriages as envisioned by these antisocial curds, would demolish everything decent and noble in Indian Society, in no time!!
Religious Conversions, of the type envisaged by ” “Renuka A Christian Puppet”, and others of her ILK in India’s Legislature …( who have reduced the “LEGAL FRAME WORK OF INDIA” to a SHAM, by treating ‘Religious Conversions’ in similar manner, as the lowly roadside hooligans of India, have done with ” Marriage” ) , should be hauled up for denigration the Nation as one lacking in basic Intelligence and integrity of character!!
REGINALD VAZ.
an
I write with special respect to the comment of “Renuka A Christian Puppet”..
‘Puppets’ to the best of my knowledge are bereft of Intelligence …in fact they lack the human ability to think at all!!
So why is a ” Puppet’s” comment nserted in this Blog, meant ( correct me if I wrong) for ‘Intelligent Human Beings”.
Recently some RAM SENA .. . (or could it have been SHIV SENA OR MN SENA OR ANY ONE OF THE SENAS STILL BEING CONTEMPLATED AS BEING SET UP TO VOICE & REPRESENT ” VIOLENCE & DEPRADATION” AS THE THE TRUE AUTHENTIC VOICE OF INDIAN CULTURE) … “MARRIED” off some young couples , by forcibly “GARLENDING THEM HINDU FASHION” .
OF course any normal Indian , with even a the THINIKINK PROWESS OF A “RABBIT- QUALITY-BRAIN”, would know such an ACT will and can never constitute a Marriage .
Such Scamsters should be heavilt penalised for debasing a serious, i may even dubit as sacred, relationship committment like Marriage…
Marriages as envisioned by these antisocial curds, would demolish everything decent and noble in Indian Society, in no time!!
Religious Conversions, of the type envisaged by ” “Renuka A Christian Puppet”, and others of her ILK in India’s Legislature …( who have reduced the “LEGAL FRAME WORK OF INDIA” to a SHAM, by treating ‘Religious Conversions’ in similar manner, as the lowly roadside hooligans of India, have done with ” Marriage” ) , should be hauled up for denigration the Nation as one lacking in basic Intelligence and integrity of character!!
REGINALD VAZ.
Ajith Kumar N
Kochi
“ReI write with special respect to the comment of “Renuka A Christian Puppet”..
‘Puppets’ to the best of my knowledge are bereft of Intelligence …in fact they lack the human ability to think at all!!
So why is a ” Puppet’s” comment nserted in this Blog, meant ( correct me if I wrong) for ‘Intelligent Human Beings”.
Recently some RAM SENA .. . (or could it have been SHIV SENA OR MN SENA OR ANY ONE OF THE SENAS STILL BEING CONTEMPLATED AS BEING SET UP TO VOICE & REPRESENT ” VIOLENCE & DEPRADATION” AS THE THE TRUE AUTHENTIC VOICE OF INDIAN CULTURE) … “MARRIED” off some young couples , by forcibly “GARLENDING THEM HINDU FASHION” .
OF course any normal Indian , with even a the THINIKING PROWESS OF A “RABBIT- BRAINED -CREATURE “, would know such an ACT will and can never constitute a Marriage, in India or in other place in the CIVILISED WORLD.
Such Scamsters should be heavily penalised for debasing a serious, sacred, committed human relationship like Marriage, which is the harbinger and mainstay of “Family” in a country … demolish marriage and the” Institution of Marriage” … and the ” Institution O family” is also demolished… And in due course, so are the Societies of the Civilised World!!
ERGO : India will lead the WORLD back into it’s CAVE -MAN PAST.
Marriages as envisioned by these antisocial curds, would demolish everything decent and noble in Indian Society, in no time!!
Religious Conversions, of the type envisaged by ” “Renuka A Christian Puppet”, and others of her ILK in India’s Legislature …( who have reduced the “LEGAL FRAME WORK OF INDIA” to a SHAM, by treating ‘Religious Conversions’ in similar manner, as the lowly roadside hooligans of India, have done with ” Marriage” ) , should be hauled up for denigration the Nation as one lacking in basic Intelligence and integrity of character!!
REGINALD VAZ.
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endorsing the statement. Guwahati, Assam.
statement strongly endorsed. Guwahati, Assam.
please add my name.Dr. Chitralekha De; Guwahati, Assam.
Im too endorsing this petition …..it was a barbaric act just anyone cannot go and beat any girl so brutally…those mainly from the media industry should be punished who make pornographic movies and items number songs ….that is too exploitation of women ….why anyone doesn’t stop that
my name is Paarthivi I endorse this petition
It’s a shame!
its really a shame to see all this in a developing country.brutal act towards our women n girls should not be tolerated…what is wrong in going to the pub?afterall rights should be equal for men and women…y dint they beat up the men then??y only women were targeted?..violence is not in our culture….i add myself to the signature list..
priya karthikeyan,
mangalore
His name for this society was ‘communism’. ,