Quepem Police took away Colamb villager and well-known anti-mining activist Motesh Antao from his truck and arrested him on the false charges of assault on government servant. He has been kept at police lock-up of Quepem Police Station since 10.00 am today March 20, 2009.One government servant was abused in colamb village some months ago while he he was distributing Court injunction orders against the villagers. Most interesting part is that Motes was not even present in the village that day. Government servant went ahead and filed police complaint against Motes Antao - clearly a handiwork of the marauding mining company in the village that is systematically destroying western ghats forests and livelihoods of the communities that has settled in the areas for thousands of years.
Motesh is one of the active voices of mining terrorism in Goa and has been frequently targeted by the mining industry. This is the latest instance.
Please call up the Quepem Police Station at the phone number 0832-2662253 and lodge your protest against the mining inspired arrests and police harassment of the villagers in Colamb and demand withrawal of the false cases against Motesh Antao and his immediate release.
Sebastian Rodrigues
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