Stop Disappearances, Detentions, Demolitions, Deportations, Disenfranchisement..!

‘I will never allow chauvinism to triumph over humanity for as long as I live’

Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali Nobel Laureate poet and philosopher.

78 years on from the hard-won independence of India and Pakistan from British colonial rule, the peoples of the region continue to struggle for real freedom and justice. They are facing repressive, majoritarian, warmongering governments, communal, Brahmanical and patriarchal social forces, and ongoing imperialist plunder by corporates.In India, Modi’s Hindu supremacist government has been carrying out mass demolitions of Muslim and Dalit homes and mass deletions from electoral rolls through its Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

Now it has launched a new drive for ethnic cleansing, detaining, torturing and deporting its own citizens to Bangladesh for the crime of being Bengali-speaking and Muslim. Kashmir remains occupied by both powers, its people’s right to self- determination brutally suppressed. Disappearances are rampant, from Indian-occupied Kashmir to Balochistan. Pakistan’s government has been carrying out mass deportations of families who originally fled Afghanistan decades ago, with no regard for their safety or human rights.

We will gather at Tagore’s statue in Gordon Square, Central London on the cusp of 14th and 15th August in South Asia, Pakistan & India’s Independence Days (6.30-8.00pm UK time). Join us to listen to poetry of resistance and revolution from India, Kashmir and Pakistan. Reflect with us on how we in the diaspora can build solidarity and support people’s struggles for liberation.

See the Facebook Event page here.