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Dr Binayak Sen:

A medical visionary:

His life and work for people inChhattisgarh,& for public health in

India.


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College Day, Bagayam, late 1960s


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Academic qualifications

D.C.H. Pediatrics: Christian Medical College,Vellore.

M.D. Pediatrics: Christian Medical College,Vellore.

One of the top students of the college.

Winner of IDPL National Award for best essayon medical education.


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What did such a bright person do

after qualifying as a specialist?

I. Worked for Tuberculosis patients in ruralHoshangabad district Friends Rural

Centre, Rasulia.


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II. Worked towards creating a hospitalunparalleled in India and possibly the

world.


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Dalli Rajhara, District Durg.

Casual workers of the iron ore mines at

Dalli Rajhara.

Pathetic living conditions.

No access to healthcare.


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Woman leader Kusinbai died during

childbirth on the road to Bhilai after being

denied care in Steel plant hospital in Dalli

Rajhara.


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Shaheed Hospital -Dalli Rajhara

Outcome workers determination, and

cooperation. Raised Rs. 3 lakhs out of

their own daily wages.

Vision of Shankar Guha Niyogi, and

doctors like Dr. Binayak, Dr. Kundu, Dr.

Jana.


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A UNIQUE HOSPITAL IS BORN


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Hospital of the workers, by the workers,

for. everybody

Dispensary

10 bedded hospital in 1983

90 bedded hospital in 2004 with Operationtheater, laboratory, pharmacy.

150 km radius

Major emphasis on demystification, rationality,

cost reduction and equity.


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Shaheed HospitalOf the workers, by the workers

for everyone .


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Observations by a Doctor on

Binayak in Shaheed HospitalI met Dr Sen first in August 1984. He was examining a

child in the verandah of the Shaheed Hospital when thechild passed stools. Binayak went and fetched a mop

and cleaned up the mess.He told me that he was as qualified as anybody else to

handle a mop- so why not?

I cannot understand how that quiet and polite gentleman

can be considered seditious.?

Prabir Chatterji, CMC post-graduate


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III. Worked with under-served village

communities to develop programs toimprove their health, education and

agriculture.


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1989: Rupantar

Raipur: Nagri Sihawa Block.

People displaced by dam-building in the upper

Mahanadi catchment area.

Previous health services practically non-existent.


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A people


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And their doctor


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The first school in Kekrakholi..


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Improving yields.


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Protecting Chattisgarhs rich

biodiversity


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Womens issues


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IV. Worked to strengthen primary and

secondary health care in Chhattisgarh


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Member , State Advisory Committee on

Health Sector Reforms.

Implementation of the Mitanin Programme

in 2 blocks of the state.


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Mitanin Programme


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Chhattisgarh State Drug Formulary


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Standard Treatment Guidelines for Medical Officers, Chhattisgarh


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V. Worked for provision and protection of

human rights of the poor and the

marginalised in Chhattisgarh and India.


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Peoples Union for Civil Liberties

(PUCL) http://www.pucl.org

National Seminar in October 1976(during the NationalEmergency) inaugurated byAcharya Kripalani.

An organization free frompolitical ideologies, so thatpeople belonging to variouspolitical parties may come

together on one platform forthe defence of Civil Libertiesand Human Rights.

Accepts no money from any

funding agency, Indian orforeign.

Founder: Jaya PrakashNarayan

President: K.G. Kannabiran

6 Vice Presidents

Binayak Sen (Chhattisgarh)

Mathew Manakattu (Kerala)

Prabhakar Sinha (Bihar)Ravi Kiran Jain (UP)

Yogesh Kamdar (Mumbai)

Sudha Ramalingam (TN andPuduseri)


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Protecting Human Rights in

Chhattisgarh Right to Food campaign: Binayak is onExecutive committee for Right to Food

petition.

Chhattisgarh Bio-diversity Security Forum:

Protest against Syngenta.

Probes into custodial death: Supela

episode.


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Probes into land acquisitions by corporates.

Legal aid to undertrials.

Investigations into the human rights issues

related to the crisis in Bastar.

Protests against the Chhattisgarh Special Public

Security Act.


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Frontline,

March 2006

"These senseless killings are unfortunate andmuststop.

Both sides should sit down to talk and find a way topeace"

saidBinayak Sen, a PUCL activist in Raipur

(source: PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. Writing inthe magazine FRONTLINE, Volume 23 - Issue 05 :: Mar. 11 - 24, 2006)


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What was Binayak Sen doing in Chattisgarh,for the

people of Chhattisgarh, for 30 years?

Building hospitals still being successfully run

by mine & factory workers.

Training people in villages to look after thehealth of their own communities.

Running free clinics in areas where medical

facilities are not available.

Providing education to tribal children.


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What was Binayak Sen doing in Chattisgarh,for the

people of Chhattisgarh, for 30 years?

Improving agriculture, protecting biodiversity.

Helping, advising, contributing to the StateGovernments Community Health Programmes.

Defending the rights of citizens, especially the

poor and the marginalised.

Ensuring proper treatment of under-trial

prisoners.


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What did he get inreturn?


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From his college in 2004

The Paul Harrison Award for outstanding

contribution to health care in rural areas.


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Paul Harrison

Award

CITATION


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From the Government of

Chhattisgarh in 2007

Arrest under the Chattisgarh Special

Public Security Act 2005

M 14 2007


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May 14, 2007:

Dr. Binayak Sen Arrested in

ChhattisgarhUnder Public Security Act

WHY ??!!


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Binayak Sen

Worked constructively and untiringly forthe poor living in some of the most difficult

regions of the country.

Worked in the public domain, and with

constructive engagement with the

Government


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With democratic institutions

Spoke against violence.

Never committed a single unlawful act.


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Binayak Sen

Raised not onlythe issue of health as a

basic human right.

But also

The protection of human rights as a criticaldeterminant of the health of a people.


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Binayak raised issues without

fear or favor Against the Congress Government : Theprotection of land and livelihood rights of

tribals to be displaced by the Steel plant at

Nagarnar

Against the BJP Government : For human

rights violations in the ongoing Salwa

Judum campaign in Dantewada.


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What is the price to be paid for voicing

dissent peacefully and raising issuesdemocratically in a free country ?

Detention under an Act which considersany kind of dissent, or disobedience, even

unlinked with any violence as an

Unlawful activity. General tendency to disobedience can

be punished. No overt act is necessary.


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The protests against Binayak Sens arrest.

Widespread and continuing.

Numerous organisations,

Hundreds of leading citizens, intellectuals,and medical academics.

Thousands of doctors, medical students,

common people in chattisgarh,

Protests in tens of Indian cities and across

the world.


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Honourable President of India

Honourable Prime Minister of IndiaPresident, National Human Rights Commission

Honourable Governor, Chhattisgarh

Subject:Safetyandliberty ofDr. BinayakSen, GeneralSecretary of

the Chhattisgarh PUCL and Vice-President ofthe National PUCL

who hasbeenimprisoned.

Respected Sirs,

This letter is to request your good offices on behalf of a very respected and beloved old

student of Christian Medical College, Vellore who has been imprisoned this afternoon (May

14, 2007) at Bilaspur for activities in defense of the rights and liberties of tribal people in

Chhattisgarh.

His name is Binayak Sen. He had a distinguished academic career in Vellore, graduating in

Medicine and later acquiring an M.D. in Paediatrics. From 1976 to 1978, he was a faculty

member at the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health at the Jawaharlal Nehru

University, New Delhi. He left his academic appointment to work in a community based rural

health centre in Hoshangabad district of M.P. focusing on problems of tuberculosis.

http://home.cmcvellore.ac.in/petition/petitionpage1.html

Online Petition Started at CMC


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ORGANIZATIONS Supporting Binayak Peoples Union for Civil Liberties

Christian Medical College, Vellore

Medico Friends Circle

Jan Swasthya Abhiyan

National Alliance ofPeoples Movements

Peoples Union for Democratic Rights

All India Drug Action Network

Amnesty International International Federation of Health and Human

Rights Organizations.


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Human rights defender detained amid harassment

of adivasi indigenous rights activistsAmnesty International is concerned over the apparently arbitrary arrest and detention of Dr. Binayak Sen, ahuman rights defender at Raipur in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, and the police harassment of twoother human rights defenders in the state.Dr. Sen is the general secretary of the Chhattisgarh unit of the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties, one ofIndias foremost human rights organizations, and has been instrumental in working on access to health foradivasi communities in the state. On 14 May 2007, he was detained at the Tarbahar Police Station, Bilaspurdistrict, when he was returning from Kolkotta to Raipur. On May 15, he was lodged in Raipur prison. Policeofficials later sealed his residence and searched his clinic. His organic farm in a nearby village was also

searched.Reports say Dr. Sen has been detained under provisions of the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2006(CSPSA), and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967), which was amended in 2004 to include keyaspects of the Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (POTA), 2002. The POTA was repealed in 2004 followingwidespread criticism of abuse and human rights violations. The CSPSA and UAPA allow for arbitrary detentionof persons suspected of belonging to an unlawful organization or participating in its activities or givingprotection to any member of such an organization.The PUCL has stated that, apart from Dr. Sen, two other PUCL members, Rashmi Dwivedi and GautamBandopadhyay, have been facing harassment and threats of arrest from the police. The three have beenactively protecting the rights of adivasis (indigenous communities) in the face of escalating violence inChattisgarh between armed Maoists and Salwa Judum, an armed anti-Maoist campaign widely regarded assponsored by the state government. They have been instrumental in bringing to light unlawful killings ofadvisis , sexual assault of adivasi women and disappearances of adivasi youth. The latest instance was theunlawful killing of seven adivisis in Santoshpur village in Bastar-Dantewada area on 31 March. While the state

police had earlier claimed that those killed were Maoists, the state government recently ordered an inquiry intothe killings after which the bodies have been exhumed last week.The PUCL has stated that police allege that Dr. Sen had passed letters from Narayan Sanyal, a detained leaderof the banned CPI (Maoist) who he had met in the Raipur jail last month, to Piyush Guha an alleged member ofCPI (Maoist) under detention since 1 May. Dr. Sen, at the time of his arrest, told the media that this chargehad no basis since the prison authorities were present during for all the meeting with Narayan Sanyal.Amnesty International urges the Government of Chhattisgarh to immediately release Dr. Sen unless he ischarged with a recognizable criminal offence and take urgent steps to end the harassment of the other humanrights defenders in the state.


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Support Pours In ForDr. BinayakSen


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http://savebinayak.freeforums.org/portal.php

An online community dedicated to the

Save Binayak Campaign


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Prominent Citizens Call

for Binayaks ReleaseNoam Chomsky

JusticeSachar

Irfan Habib

Arundhati Roy

Medha Patkar


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Prominent Citizens Call for Binayaks

ReleaseHabib Tanvir

Girish Karnad

Shyam Benegal

Anand Patwardhan

ProfessorPrabhat Patnaik

Romila Thapar

Dr. B. Ekbal


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Demonstration in Coimbatore The Manchester of South India


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Wide Media Coverage

NDTV

Times of India

The Hindu

Frontline Outlook

Deccan Herald

Economic & PoliticalWeekly

MRZine Chennai Vision

Economic Times

Tehelka

Countercurrents

CNN/IBN

Deshbandhu (Hindi) Dinakaran (Tamil)

News International (Pakistan)

KhaleejTimes (Pakistan)

Netherlands RadioWorldwide

Truthout (USA)

Reuters TV


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Dinakaran Daily News (Vellore district), May 23, 2007


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Presumed Guilty


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Owen Dyer (London)

Indiandoctorheldunder

controversialantiterrorismlaw

9 June 2007

Vol 334, No 7605

p 1184-1185

WriterArundhati Royattendsa

rallyforBinayakSen

BinayakSen,anotedcivilrightsactivist,

wasarrested on 14 May .....

DrSenworked onbehalfofindigenous

communitiesfor30 years. Hehelpedto

foundacooperativehospitalformineworkers,theShaheedhospital,andplayeda

bigpartinevolvingastatewideprogramme

oftrainingcommunityhealthworkers.


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When I give food to the

poor, they call me a saint.

When I ask why the poor

have no food, they call

me a Communist.

-Dom Helder Pessoa Camara, former

Roman Catholic archbishop of Olinda and

Recife, Brazil


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First They CameFirst they came for the

Communists, and I didnt

speak up because I wasnt aCommunist.

Then they came for the Jews, and

I didnt speak up because I

wasnt a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,

and I didnt speak up because I

was a Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by

that time there was nobody left

to speak up.

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