Emeutes étudiantes à Hyderabad – janvier 2010

Osmania univ turns T-war zone

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

TNN, 21 January 2010

HYDERABAD: Osmania University turned into a battle zone on Wednesday with over 1,500 students going on the rampage. They hurled stones at the

police, damaged the university buildings and set ablaze police vehicles parked on campus, demanding a public condolence meeting for ‘martyr’, K Venugopal Reddy, the MCA student found dead on OU campus on January 19. The fresh round of violence is once again threatening to paralyse the administration.

The clashes left 30 students and 10 police personnel injured and several buildings including Central Facilities Building and OU Academic Staff College damaged. TRS MLA E Rajender and his gunman also got hit. As an upshot, the Telangana Joint Action Committee has called for a bandh on Thursday as well.

Agitated students set burned down three police vehicles including one van and two trucks. They also set fire to a vehicle carrying food for police personnel stationed on campus. Meanwhile, over 30 students were injured and were shifted to nearby hospitals after police lathi charge.

All hell broke loose when over 600 students lead by OU Joint Action Committee (JAC) and political JAC members tried to take a rally around 10.30 am carrying the body of Venugopal from Arts College Building to the Gunfoundry. The students, who were walking along with the ambulance carrying the deceased, weren’t able to cross the heavy police cordon on campus for over 45 minutes. The rally then turned violent when students were stopped at the ladies hostel while on their way towards the OU main gate. At this point, 20 girl students who joined the protesters from the hostel, threw sandals at the police personnel which triggered chaos with the police and Rapid Action Force personnel dispersing the crowd with a lathi charge.

The RAF later fired around 50 rounds of tear gas shells on students to disperse the crowd. The police also fired 10 rubber bullets but this injured one student, Satyanarayana, seriously. However, city police commissioner B Prasada Rao maintained that minimal force was used.

Meanwhile, JAC called for yet another bandh on Thursday in protest against what they called ‘unwarranted’ police action against the OU students. »We have given a bandh call on Thursday in protest against the police action in OU campus on Wednesday. Only vehicular traffic including public and private buses going for the Sammakka Sarakka jatra in Warangal district’s Medaram will be exempted from the bandh, » Telangana political parties JAC convener M Kodandaram told the media after an emergency steering committee meeting here on Wednesday evening.

The fresh unrest in the region is once again threatening to derail the state administration. While the conference of collectors was held as scheduled here on Wednesday, the meeting of all district SPs scheduled for Thursday has been put off for a later date in view of the Telangana agitation.

Government sources said it was not clear whether chief minister K Rosaiah will undertake his visit to the Telangana district of Mahabubnagar on January 23 as announced earlier. »Everything hinges on how things develop over the next two to three days, » said an official.

Manifestación separatista deriva en disturbios en Hyderabad

sp.rian.ru

20/ 01/ 2010

Nueva Delhi, 20 de enero, RIA Novosti. Una manifestación estudiantil que exigía separar la zona histórica de Telangana del actual estado hindú de Andhra-Pradesh derivó este miércoles en enfrentamientos con agentes del orden en la ciudad de Hyderabad, reportaron las cadenas de televisión locales.

Los estudiantes salieron en masa a las calles después de que dos alumnos se quemaron a lo bonzo protestando contra las dilaciones en la división de Andhra-Pradesh en dos estados. Sus compañeros improvisaron una marcha en Hyderabad portando los cuerpos de ambos difuntos, en un intento de activar inmediatamente los trámites constitucionales para la creación de dos entidades territoriales en lugar de una.

La Policía usó la fuerza para dispersar a los manifestantes que a su vez empezaron a romper las ventanas de autobuses y coches y protagonizaron varias reyertas con los agentes del orden.

La zona histórica de Telangana, perteneciente otrora al Principado de Hyderabad y poblada actualmente por 35 millones de personas, ocupa nueve distritos administrativos del estado de Andhra-Pradesh, que tiene un total de 75 millones de habitantes. Fue incluida en Andhra-Pradesh en 1956, tres años después de que dicho estado se separó del de Madrás.

La población de Telangana piensa que las autoridades de Andhra-Pradesh desatienden esta región rica en recursos minerales y no invierten suficiente dinero en su desarrollo.

La anterior oleada de manifestaciones separatistas, a finales de noviembre pasado, hizo al Gobierno regional anunciar el próximo inicio de trámites legales para la creación del nuevo estado pero los sectores unitaristas de Andhra-Pradesh protestaron y la dirección del Congreso Nacional Indio, que controla la mayoría de los escaños en la asamblea local, dio un paso atrás al afirmar que es necesario sopesar otra vez todos los « pro » y los « contra ».