Online petition: Stop Crackdown on Democratic Forces in Pakistan
[This message was first posted on 10.01.2008 and will be repeated later.]
At my homepage www.rolf-martens.com I've added today, under "News with
brief
comments", also adding information about this at my index page:
Thursday, 10 January 2008 (NWBC 339) Online petition: Stop Crackdown on
Democratic Forces in Pakistan
2008-01-10, 08:34 GMT:
In a message yesterday to the Modern Marxism mailing list at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/modern_marxism/,
marxist front
<marxistfront@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, under subject "Re: Fw: Crack down on
democratic forces by Musharraf government [Pakistan]":
"Suggestion we can start a petition online to condemn this atrocity...."
This is a good suggestion, I think, and therefore I've written and signed
today
the petition:
Stop Crackdown on Democratic Forces in Pakistan.
It's at http://www.petitiononline.com/CraDoPak/petition.html.
The petition is directed to the Government of Pakistan. Everybody can
sign.
Please help spread the word!
The full text of the petition is,
[QUOTE:]
Stop Crackdown on Democratic Forces in Pakistan
To: Government of Pakistan
We the undersigned strongly condemn the crackdown on democratic forces in
Pakistan by the government of that country, about which we have been
informed
on 09 January 2008, and demand that this stop immediately.
[INFORMATION to readers of this Petition, for which signatories are not
responsible:
The following message concerning the situation in Pakistan has been
received:
From:
Taimur Rahman
Date:
9 January 2008 09:47 GMT
To:
cmkp_pk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Crack down on democratic forces by Musharraf government
After the enormous reaction to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the
former
prime minister and a popular politician, the Musharraf government has
registered more than 3,000 cases against more than 500,000 people in one
province of Sindh alone. The government has started arresting and
threatening
them with arrests in cases of fire, murder, looting and provoking people
to
resort for violence. Up to now the government has arrested around 2000
persons
from the province and about 400 people from Karachi.
On the other hand the ruling coalition party of Musharraf’s government,
the
MQM, is instigating ethnic clashes between two major linguistic groups,
the
Sindhis and Urdu speaking people, prior to the coming elections. The major
ruling party of Musharraf, the PML-Q, has formed some camps in the Punjab
province to show that Sindhi speaking people are threatening the Punjabi
speaking people. This situation is leading to bloody clashes which will
ultimately help Musharraf’s government to further postpone the already
extended
elections.
When democratic parties belonging to the opposition started to demonstrate
the
provincial government arrested several activists and resorted to tear gas
and
baton charging the protesters in different cities of the province. The
arrested
people are being charged with murder, arson and looting on the charges of
already constituted cases during the period of mass protests after the
Benazir
Bhutto assassination in late December 2007.
In the latest development the leadership of the Pakistan Fisher Folk
(PFF), a
trade union of fishermen, was booked in the murder of seven workers of a
garment factory who died in a fire. The fire on December 29 was the sheer
negligence of the owners of the factory and the provincial authorities.
The son
of Mr. Mohammad Ali Shah, chairperson of the Pakistan Fisher Folk and Mr.
Akhter Shiekh, secretary of coordination of the PFF along with several
other
activists were falsely charged in the murder of the factory workers. Their
houses were fired upon by unknown persons.
CMKP Website:- http://cmkp.tk
CMKP YahooForum:- http://groups.yahoo.com/
CMKP News:- http://cmkp_pk.blogspot.com
END of the information to readers, for which signatories are not
responsible]
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
[END OF QUOTE]
_____________________
Message posted by:
Rolf Martens
Malmö, Sweden
Phone and fax:
+46 - 40 - 124832;
rolf.martens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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