INVITATION
MUZAFFARNAGAR RIOT VICTIMS
IN KAIRANA PAINED
AT BEING LABELLED CRIMINALS
BY NHRC
NHRC Report on Kairana Prejudiced and Partisan
WHAT: Press Conference to share the truth about Kairana, demand apology and withdrawal of NHRC Report
WHEN:
Thursday,
September 29, 2016 at 4pm
WHERE: Indian Women Press Corp, Ashoka Road
The findings of NHRC’s investigation into
the so-called ‘exodus’ of families from Kairana, Shamli District (UP) because
of increasing crime, was made public in a Press Release of Sept 21, 2016. We
are deeply dismayed and shocked, as this report is based on dubious facts and
makes prejudiced and communally charged assumptions, blaming the very riot-victims
it should seek to protect.
We therefore call upon the NHRC to
provide evidence for these ‘findings’ and, failing to do so, to apologize and
withdraw this prejudicial report, which amounts to labeling and stigmatizing of
an entire community.
Speakers:
Muzaffarnagar Riot Victims living in
Kairana,
Harsh Mander (Aman Biradari),
Farah Naqvi (Independent Writer and
Activist),
Akram Chaudhury (Afkar India),
Madhavi Kuckreja (Sadbhavana Trust) and
others
