cauvery river riot relief help: Kaveri River Water Dispute

CAUVERY RIVER RIOT RELIEF HELP

CAUVERY RIVER INTRODUCTION.
Cauvery is a sacred river of southern India, rising on Brahmagiri Hill in the Western Ghats in Coorg district of Karnataka state, flowing in a south-easterly direction for 475 mi (765 km) through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states, and descending the Eastern Ghats in a series of great falls. Before emptying into the Bay of Bengal south of Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, it breaks into a large number of distributaries describing a wide delta called the "garden of southern India." Known to devout Hindus as Daksina Ganga (Ganges of the South), it is celebrated for its scenery and sanctity in Tamil literature, and its entire course is considered holy ground. The river is also important for its irrigation-canal projects.
Kaveri River Water Dispute
The waters of the river Kaveri has been the bone of contention of a serious conflict between Karnataka and the state of Tamil Nadu . Over the years, the dispute has become increasingly complex both due to the stubborn stances of the parties involved, particularly those of the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and also due to petty politicking that has come to dog the dispute. The dispute at its root is a question of the sharing of the waters of the river Kaveri. While the state of Tamil Nadu has historically enjoyed a vastly greater usage of the waters compared to Karnataka, Karnataka on the other hand, sees it as a grave historic injustice[1] that has been forced upon it. The genesis of this disparity itself, lies in a two controversial agreements signed in 1892 and then in 1924 between the Madras Presidency and the Princely State of Mysore.
Karnataka claims that these agreements were skewed heavily in favour of the Madras Presidency. It claims that these agreements dealt its own interests a very heavy blow and therefore wants a renegotiated settlement based on equitable sharing of the waters. Tamil Nadu on the other hand, pleads that it has already developed almost 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km²) of land and as a result has come to depend very heavily on the existing pattern of usage. Any change in this pattern, it says, will adversely affect the livelihood of millions of farmers in the state. both states had unilaterally continued to expand their irrigated area without any consensus. While Tamil Nadu's irrigated area had grown to 2,800,000 acres (11,000 km²), Karnataka's had grown to 1,120,000 acres (4,540 km²).

The constitution of the tribunal

Soon after the tribunal was set up, Tamil Nadu demanded a mandatory injunction on Karnataka for the immediate release of water and other reliefs. This was dismissed by the tribunal. Tamil Nadu now went back to the Supreme Court which directed the tribunal to reconsider Tamil Nadu’s plea.
The tribunal reconsidered Tamil Nadu’s plea and gave an interim award on 25 June 1991. In coming up with this award, the tribunal calculated the average inflows into Tamil Nadu over a period of 10 years between 1980–81 and 1989–90. The extreme years were ignored for this calculation. The average worked out to 205 billion ft³ (5.8 km³) which Karnataka had to ensure reached Tamil Nadu in a water year. The award also stipulated the weekly and monthly flows to be ensured by Karnataka for each month of the water year. The tribunal further directed Karnataka not to increase it irrigated land area from the existing 1,120,000 acres (4,540 km²).[12]

Karnataka deemed this extremely inimical to its interests and issued an ordinance seeking to annul the tribunal’s award. The Supreme Court now stepped in at the President’s instance and struck down the Ordinance issued by Karnataka. It upheld the tribunal’s award which was subsequently gazetted by the Government of India on 11 December 1991.

The Cauvery Dispute Riot Started

Incidents of violence on Karnataka Tamils during the Black December 1991.

This is a piece of an account of the genocidal violence which the Government of Karnataka unleashed in December 1991 on the pretext of showing the State's resentment on the Government of India gazetting the Interim Order of the Cauvery Waters Tribunal. It was unbecoming of a State Government to have lit fire to the keg of the explosive chauvinist ethnic hatred, which the State's politics had nurtured over two decades. Mercenary goons looting, burning, killing, raping and molesting women, and throwing tiny babies into raging fires were the marks of the level to which the chauvinist psyche could dip the human values.
In December 1991 anti-Tamil riots in Karnataka with our homage to the fellow Tamil who were martyred. Chauvinism had taken toll of many lives. A few of those who died in the police firings are known. Unknown remains the actual count of those felled by the choppers, knives and clubs, which the chauvinist marauders wielded. How do we console the Tamil womanhood, which was subjected to the heinous crimes of rape and molestation. Infants of a few months old were also reported to be victims! We mourn them all and do weep mutely for them. But we have to tell the fellow humans, all over, as to what happened to the Karnataka Tamils in the bloody December of 1991. We have to tell so, in order that it should not happen again.
Violence Spreads at Dec 1991..,

On the pretext of opposing the exodus of a few Kannadigas from Tamilnadu, violence of unprecedented scale had been let loose on the Tamils in Gundlupet, Nanjangud, Chamarajanagar, T. Narasipura taluqs of the Mysore district. In the Mysore district alone, Tamils in 348 villages were affected by the anti-Tamil violence.Many Tamils had been burnt alive in these places when the riots renewed from December 23, 1991. Story of looting and arson on hundreds of shops and houses and on thousands of huts belonging to Tamils repeat. Under the very farce of curfew, all these outrages had been committed.

Burnt Lorries..,

Scores of lorries and other vehicles with Tamilnadu registration are reported to have been abandoned to be looted by the chauvinist hordes at Nanjangud and other places. On the way to Nanjangud, and 22 Kms from Mysore, 11 lorries of Tamilnadu registration were totally burnt. In one case the very numberplate was not there. The numbers of the other trucks were TCG 8550, TDF 2339, TNM 4300, TVJ 1125, TN33Z3389, TN 33Z3496, TN 47Z3699, TN R7619, TN 33Z5788,TNB 3886 and TNS 6288.
A lorry carrying coffee seeds worth Rs.5.5 lakhs was burnt at Nanjangud.One lorry carrying rice bags was burnt worth Rs 2.0lakhs.One lorry carrying breeding ducks was totaly burnt worth Rs 2.75 lakhs.One lorry carrying timber woods fully burned worth Rs.1.25Lakhsand other lorry carrying maize grains was fully burned worth Rs.0.75 Lakhs. The above Said vehicles are totaly burnt the total vehicle worth Rs 55 lakhs.

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The Following pictures are shown the lorries are burned by CAUVERY RIVER riotters!

The picture shows one lorry fully collapsed and burned and put in to one cannel by Cauvery rioters.

The above lorry burned with rice bags completly burned by Cauvery river rioters

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