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Dwarikanath Rath <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:09:42 -0700 (PDT)
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--===============86630288944957456== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-2143555481-1090609782=:52728" --0-2143555481-1090609782=:52728 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii (We enclose copy of a letter dated 23rd July 2004 addressed to the honourable prime minister by Shri Nihar Mukherjee, General Secretary of the SUCI, expressing grave concern at the news of abduction of three Indians by a radical Iraqi outfit which is a fallout of the policy of appeasement of the US regime that the erstwhile BJP-led NDA government had adopted and the present Congress-led UPA government has been continuing, and urging upon the UPA government to forthwith reverse this policy and stand by the side of the Iraqi freedom fighters.) Socialist Unity Centre of India CENTRAL Committee 48 Lenin Sarani, KOLKAta 700013 PHONE : 22441828, 22442234 FAX : 22465114 E-mail : [email protected] Ref..................................... Date 23 July, 2004 To The Prime Minister Government of India New Delhi Dear Sir, We are gravely concerned at the news of three Indian citizens, Antaryami, Tilak Raj and Sukhdev Singh, having been taken hostage by an Iraqi radical group, for, what it said, transporting goods, weapons and military equipment that backs the US army. You are well aware that when the previous BJP-led NDA government showed inclination towards sending troops to Iraq in support of the US-led occupation army, the whole country rose in protest and demanded of the government to abandon any such move forthwith. In the face of severe public outrage, the BJP-led NDA government did not dare to deploy forces. But when the report of beheading of captured occupation army soldiers by Iraqis made the headlines, it was revealed that besides regular army, the US-led invaders had employed a large number of mercenaries recruited on contract basis from private army operators. At that time, it also came to light that several hundred Indians are also forming part of this private army let loose on the patriotic Iraqi people. This back-door help and assistance extended to the US-led invaders who defrauded the whole world by launching a unilateral armed aggression on sovereign Iraq under concocted pretext of destroying WMD, also received severe indignation and wrath from the countrymen. Now there is a change at the centre and the UPA government under your stewardship has taken over. But we regret to observe that your government too, apart from indulging in some apparent demagogic exercises, did not announce any reversal of policy on the Iraq issue. On the contrary, your government by allowing the puppet regime of Iraq to open a consulate in Mumbai, accorded de facto approval to the heinous crime perpetrated by the US-led occupiers. Moreover, when the Bush administration, under public pressure, had to, as a face-saving device, bring UNO into the picture and sought to impress as if UNO would henceforth handle the affairs in Iraq including installation of a government compliant to US dictates, Shri Natwar Singh, honorable Minister of foreign affairs, in utter disregard to the nefarious US design, remarked that there was a change in the context and hence the que stion of sending Indian soldiers to Iraq could be re -examined. This, you know, created a furore among the people, expressively anti-imperialist in their views and the government, in the name of providing clarifications had to subtly dissociate itself from what Shri Singh had uttered. Further the subservient Allawahi government of Iraq also made requests to a few countries including India for deployment of troops. All these have naturally infuriated the Iraqi freedom fighters engaged in a fierce battle to free their motherland from the tentacles of alien invasion. The recent incident of abduction of three Indians connected with transport service provided to the US-led occupation army is a fallout of turning the patriotic Iraqi people hostile by pursuing a brazen pro-US policy. We demand that your government honours the voice of the peace-loving democratic-minded Indian citizens, pulls out all the Indian personnel pressed into action in favour of US-led brigands and puppet government of Iraq, withdraws all assistance and suspends all services committed to the occupiers and their protege government. We urge upon your government to compel the US-led invaders to unconditionally release Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq and withdraw from Iraq forthwith. We also call upon your government to wholeheartedly stand by the freedom-fighters of Iraq waging a heroic battle to oust the aggressors and restore the sovereignty of their motherland. Expecting early action and a reply. Sincerely yours, Nihar Mukherjee General Secretary S U C I --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! --0-2143555481-1090609782=:52728 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">(We enclose copy of a letter dated 23rd July 2004 addressed to the honourable prime minister by Shri Nihar Mukherjee, General Secretary of the SUCI, expressing grave concern at the news of abduction of three Indians by a radical Iraqi outfit which is a fallout of the policy of appeasement of the US<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>regime that the erstwhile BJP-led NDA government had adopted and the present Congress-led UPA government has been continuing, and urging upon the UPA government to forthwith reverse this policy and stand by the side of the Iraqi freedom fighters.)<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 17pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Switzerland; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Socialist Unity Centre of </SPAN></B><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 26pt; LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Switzerland; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">India</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: Switzerland; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 17pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: Switzerland"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">CENTRAL<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Committee<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 17pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: Switzerland"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">48 Lenin Sarani, KOLKAta 700013<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; tab-stops: right 422.35pt" align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: Switzerland">PHONE : 22441828, 22442234 FAX : 22465114 E-<SPAN style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase">mail</SPAN> : [email protected]</SPAN><SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 17pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: right; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=right><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line">Ref..................................... <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Date </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN><st1:date Year="2004" Day="23" Month="7"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">23 July, 2004</SPAN></st1:date></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>To</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The Prime Minister</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Government of <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><st1:City><st1:place><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>New Delhi</FONT></st1:place></st1:City></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Dear Sir,</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>We are gravely concerned at the news of three Indian citizens, Antaryami, Tilak Raj and Sukhdev Singh, having been taken hostage by an Iraqi radical group, for, what it said, transporting goods, weapons and military equipment that backs the <st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region> army. You are well aware that when the previous BJP-led NDA government showed inclination towards sending troops to Iraq in support of the US-led occupation army, the whole country rose in protest and demanded of the government to abandon any such move forthwith. In the face of severe public outrage, the BJP-led NDA governmen t did not dare to deploy forces.</FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>But when the report of beheading of captured occupation army soldiers by Iraqis made the headlines, it was revealed that besides regular army, the US-led invaders had employed a large number of mercenaries recruited on contract basis from private army operators. At that time, it also came to light that several hundred Indians are also forming part of this private army let loose on the patriotic Iraqi people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This back-door help and assistance extended to the US-led invaders who defrauded the whole world by launching a unilateral armed aggression on sovereign <st1:country-region><st1:pl ace>Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> under concocted pretext of destroying WMD, also received severe indignation and wrath from the countrymen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Now there is a change at the centre and the UPA government under your stewardship has taken over. But we regret to observe that your government too, apart from indulging in some apparent demagogic exercises, did not announce any reversal of policy on the <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> issue. On the contrary, your government by allowing the puppet regime of Iraq to open a consulate in Mumbai, accorded de facto approval to the heinous crime perpetrated by the US-led occupiers. Moreover, when the Bush administration, under public pressure, had to, as a face-saving device, bring UNO into the pict ure and sought to impress as if UNO would henceforth handle the affairs in Iraq including installation of a government compliant to US dictates, Shri Natwar Singh, honorable Minister of foreign affairs, in utter disregard to the nefarious US design, remarked that there was a change in the context and hence the question of sending Indian soldiers to Iraq could be re -examined. This, you know, created a furore among the people, expressively anti-imperialist in their views and the government, in the name of providing clarifications had to subtly dissociate itself from what Shri Singh had uttered. Further the subservient Allawahi government of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> also made requests to a few countries including <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> for deployment of troops. All these have naturally infuriated the Iraqi freedom fighters engaged in a fierce battle to free their motherland from the tent acles of alien invasion. The recent incident of abduction of three Indians connected with transport service provided to the US-led occupation army is a fallout of turning the patriotic Iraqi people hostile by pursuing a brazen pro-US policy.</FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>We demand that your government honours the voice of the peace-loving democratic-minded Indian citizens, pulls out all the Indian personnel pressed into action in favour of US-led brigands and puppet government of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, withdraws all assistance and suspends all services committed to the occupiers and their protege government.</FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>We urge upon your government to compel the US-led invaders to unconditionally release Saddam Hussein, the president of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> and withdraw from <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> forthwith. We also call upon your government to wholeheartedly stand by the freedom-fighters of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> waging a heroic battle to oust the aggressors and restore the sovereignty of their motherland.</FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Expecting early action and a reply.</FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: right; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=right><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Sincerely yours,</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: right; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=right><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Nihar Mukherjee</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: right; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=right><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>General Secretary</FONT></I></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: right" align=right><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>S U C I</FONT></B></P></DIV><p> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br> <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/hm/100/*http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail/static/efficiency.html">New and Improved Yahoo! 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