Who attacked Parliament

Notes and References

1 Revolutionary Democracy, Vol. IX, No.2, September 2003, p.51.

2 Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "A Parliament Adjourned", Economic and Political
Weekly, 29 December 2001, and "Teachers and War on Terrorism", Economic and
Political Weekly, 25 October, 2003.

3 Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance,
Henry Holt, New York, pp. 115-21.

4 This is not to rule out the possibility that some internal inquiry on this
matter has been conducted by the government in secret.

5 Judgment of the Sessions Court, Sessions Case No. 53/2002. 16 December 2002.

6 Judgment of the High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, Murder Reference No.
1/2003. 29 October 2003.

7 For media coverage of the case, see All India Defence Committee for Syed
Abdur Rehman Geelani, www20.brinkster.com/sargeelani.

8 Nandita Haksar, A Presumptuous Judgment; A New Concept of Democracy? A
critique on the lower court judgment on Dec 13 Parliament attack, All India Defence
Committee for Syed Abdul Rehman Gilani; Trial of Errors: A Critique of the POTA
Court Judgment on the 13 December Case, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights,
Nagari Printers, Delhi, February 2003; Nandita Haksar, "The Many Faces of
Nationalism", Seminar, January 2004.

9 Trial of Errors: A Critique of the POTA Court Judgment on the 13 December
Case, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Nagari Printers, Delhi, February 2003,
p. 17.

10 Trial of Errors: A Critique of the POTA Court Judgment on the 13 December
Case, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Nagari Printers, Delhi, February 2003,
p. 15.

11 Vijay Nagaraj, Amnesty International (India), in Blurred Lines, a film by
Sujata Venkateswaran and Ruksh Chatterjee, and "Use of POTA against Dalit and
Adivasi’s in District Sonbhadra, U.P.", UP Agrarian Reform & Labour Rights
Campaign Committee – both presented before People’s Tribunal on POTA, New Delhi, 13
March 2004.

This paper grew out of detailed conversations, spread over many meetings, with
Prashant Bhushan, Uma Chakravarti, Ali Javed, Svati Joshi, Neeraj Malik,
Nandita Narain, Madhu Prasad, Vijay Singh, Tripta Wahi, and many others. It has been
a co-operative effort really.

Nirmalangshu Mukherji
www.revolutionarydemocracy.org

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