This was sent to us by Zafar Imam and other comrades of the IMT in Pakistan. ................. Gang Rape of a Female Comrade of IMT in Pakistan, Explusion
of Comrades and Related Questions
In Pakistan section of IMT, recently there has emerged a crisis, which is direct result of the wrong doings of Pakistani section's leadership. Comrades from Kashmir region, Islamabad and Hyderabad Region of Sindh Province were expelled during the month of November, December 2011 and January 2012, without any prior notice, warning or any chance of clarification. After such bureaucratic decision, many comrades gave resignations from their basic memberships or gone in-active in organizational activities. 8 out of 11 CC members of JKNSF were expelled bureaucratically by Adam Pal on a phone call. L.K and Adam Pal plotted the expulsion. The militant and hardcore leadership of JKNSF working in the difficult terrain of Kashmir were expelled because of the differences of opinion! Is this Marxism or a religion? Is this science or blind following of Adam Pal and L.K?
After the expulsion of comrades, including comrade Aadil (former JKNSF president), Shoaib Sham (CC member JKNSF) the position of JKNSF went very weak in Kashmir. The opposite nationalist group of JKNSF regained the majority in JKNSF and IMT lost the JKNSF. These bureaucratic policies of leadership have facilitated the fall of IMT in Pakistan and accelerated the process of its destruction.
The same happened in Islamabad and Lahore too. Key comrades were expelled from there too. Comrade Xulfi Marxist, Zafar Imam and Rashid were expelled from Hyderabad region of Sindh, and then comrade Haresh's expulsion followed them. A whole area of Gulab Laghari comprising of four branches dissolved itself in reaction to this decision, including the fall of active branches from Hyderabad, Shahdadkot and Ratodero Branch in Larkana.
These comrades were expelled because they used to ask questions related to political line of Pakistani section, which is unquestionably run by one man. These comrades had differences of opinion on national question primarily, Enterism in PPP, bureaucratization of organization by one man and many other undemocratic decisions.
These comrades had another objection over section's top leadership's role. Three of top leaders were involved in a gang rape of a female comrade. Organization gave cover to this crime, and instead of expelling the culprits, they were kept on leading positions. After whole two years of repeatedly demanding the expulsion of rapists, instead of punishing the culprits, those comrade were expelled who demanded explanation of such crime. These were the same comrades who have recently been expelled.
The leadership of Pakistani section is still in state of denial. Not only this, but IMT's International leadership too has kept silent. After repeated appeals for probe, comrades of International section kept unfriending these comrades from Facebook. Comrades have now concluded that neither of IMT's leadership is serious to probe into the matter. It just looks at the matter as if it never happened. They might be thinking of these comrades as 'some stupid third world loosers'.
The expelled comrades are given life threats by CC members of IMT's Pakistani section to 'shut their mouth' otherwise face the consequences. Evidences of such threats can be produced on demand. There was no other way left for these comrades, but to write each and every thing in detail publicly. This became necessary to face the character assassination tricks observed on these comrades by Pakistani section leadership. We are writing this account of the rape incident publicly because IMT's leadership failed to contact comrades and showed inserious attitude towards their grievances. Below is the account of gang rape of female comrade.
Gang rape of female comrade in Karachi Time: some where between 10.30 pm and 11.30 pm in night Location of Crime: Karachi Hawks Bay Related Event: National Winter Marxist School of IMT Pakistan Section Date: 04 December, 2010
Gang Rapists: 1. PJ ( CC member of IMT Pakistan section) 2. RL (CC member of IMT Pakistan section) 3. CK (CC Member of IMT Pakistan section)
Victim: Comrade 'F' from Karachi
At the night of 3 December 2010, National Winter School of Pakistani section was held. At the night of 4 December 2012, just before the dinner was served, three comrades belonging to national leadership in Pakistani section got fully drunk and entered the room of female comrades. There, they molested comrade 'F', belonging to Karachi. During the gang rape, the incident was reported to top leader of the section on phone by female companions of the victim, and the leader called back to culprits to get off and run away. They followed the orders.
At the night after incident and the other day that followed, the whole leadership of the section was mobilized to apologize from the victim, forgive and forget the incident. Moral tricks and psychological pressures were used to calm her down the next day, because ‘the school would get disturbed’. It was promised to her that strict and severe action will be taken against the rapists, but she should be silent the next day in the school.
However, despite such tricks and giving cover to culprits, next day at morning, the incident echoed in the words of comrade Amjad Laakhair's contribution. He, in his contribution in the school, condemned the event and asked for the immediate action. But...........the leadership kept silent. A criminal silence was maintained. Leadership is still silent to this day.
Eye Witness: Xulfi Marxist, Female Comrade Ishrat
Evidences: Almost all participants of the school that night, but to name a few: Comrade Xulfi Marxist, Comrade Tahir from KPK, Comrades from K.N.Shah Branch, Comrade Razaq Laghari, Comrade Fahad Memon, Comrade Ishrat, Comrade Amjad Laakhair.
Eye Witness Account by Xulfi Marxsit (as reported):
At the night of 4 December 2012, when I was passing by the female room in the wing, where comrades stayed at night during Hawks Bay Winter School in Karachi, I heard the sobbing voice of a woman. A slow weeping sound of a woman was coming out of room. I hurried to inquire what is wrong. I first knocked the door, no reply came. Then I opened the door. I was astonished at the sight of what I saw. Down the bed at mattress, was lying comrade 'F'. At one side of her was PJ, fully drunk. On the Other Side of Her was RL. CK was sitting nearby her. All the three men were fully drunk as I noticed it from their movements. Comrade 'F' was weeping, she too was drunk. I saw that P and RL were molesting her, and she was totally handicapped by them. On the bed was comrade R, sitting and weeping. When she saw me, she cried and yelled 'What the hell you people are doing. I am just now calling L.K, these drunk bastards are molesting her and giving us threats.
Comrade R also forced me to get out and get lost. She was angry, weeping. I immediately returned back to report the thing to other comrades nearby and do something.
Eye witness account by comrade Ishrat as reported:
Female comrades participating in Winter School in Karachi were given separate room for living. My companions in the room were comrade Raheela, Myself, comrade 'F' and some others. At the night of 4 December 2010, when we had yet not taken dinner, I was still in my bed in the room. Comrades outside had drunk and were singing, dancing and crying. During this hoopla, Comrade 'F' entered the room and lied on mattress down the bed. She was heavily drunk. Immediately after her, three men entered our room. I could see they were fully drunk and were not able to talk properly. At first I thought that comrades might have got some immediate work with us, that is why they have entered our room unwelcome. But I quickly understood that there was something wrong with them.
RL opened his arms and stretched them to comrade 'F', who was lying totally dozed on mattress. He cried in zeal, "I love you 'F', I love you" and suddenly broke into her bed over her. He was quickly followed by the other two, who forcefully entered her bed. For me, it was unbelievable. We resisted and shouted at them to get lost of our room. But they could hardly listen to us. They kept on molesting comrade F, who was unable to resist them by force because of her condition, though she was abusing them to get off her body. I and my other companion started to abuse them, shout at them and then kick them to get away from F. This resulted in threat by PJ, who asked us to keep silent otherwise he will beat us. This was unbelievable and tormenting.
Before us, comrade F was weeping and abusing them to get away from her, but neither she nor we were in position to get off with those drunk monsters. We started to cry and weep, totally feeling helpless. To whom could we ask for help? We were frightened from all of the male comrades present that night in the School. Because most of them were drunk, and who knows how will they react? Will they too do the same with us? There were enormous doubts. We were fearful. My companion comrade Raheela called comrade L.K from her cell phone to report to him the incident and help us. She could hardly talk to him.
Quickly after she talked on phone, the mobile phones started to ring and one of the monsters talked on the phone. They then quickly got off from 'F' and ran away out of our room. After about half hour of the incident, almost every body in the School came to know what had happened. Different comrades kept knocking our door and expressing their grief with us regarding the incident. But to be honest, we were really frightened. We could hardly sleep that night.
Post-incident Remarks of some comrades:
Comrade Taahir from KPK: Comrade Tahir was present at the occasion that night, who witnessed the whole thing. He was a newly recruited comrade, who had come first time to attend the Marxist school. After this gang rape incident, he was highly disappointed by IMT and left the organization. Currently he lives in Kohat. Contact details of Tahir can be provided on request.
Taahir: It was unbelievable for me to witness such crime committed by those who preached for a just society. I couldn't believe that the Marxists could do so? For days, the incident disturbed me mentally. I could not get along with such organization, where the leadership was raping its own comrades. At that night, after I knew about the incident, I wanted to beat the rapists. But somebody told me that they had escaped from the scene. I left the organization. I was totally disappointed.
Comrade Ishrat: Comrade Ishrat was a female comrade, who was companion of the victim that night. After coming back from school, she left the organization immediately. To this day, she abuses the organization because it did nothing to punish the rapists. Contact details of comrade Ishrat can be given on request.
Ishrat: I had seen the rape with my own eyes and I couldn't help my companion. This feeling of helplessness had torn me apart. From that night, I can't figure out how those can do such a crime who advocate a society of justice, peace and free from chains? I simply couldn't believe my very own eyes that night. I hate those bastards. They were monsters. I decided to leave this organization, where female comrades are too much insecure. In fact, they are male chauvinists.
The Moral Trick
After the incident of rape came to surface, first time publicly on Facebook, comrades were replied with threats of facing serious 'consequences'. One CC member, namely Anwar Panhwar, in branch meeting of Shahdadkot, clearly gave death threat to comrade Haresh - the expelled one. After that, such tricks continue to date.
One special trick that Pakistani section leadership of IMT did was: Why didn't these comrades went public about the gang rape at that time when the gang rape was committed? Why do they now openly 'allege' on Facebook and break the discipline of organization? Isn't against the 'discipline' to 'allege' comrades and true 'Marxists' publicly? Why did they not contact the organization before coming public?
Well, it is hypocrisy at its best in the first place. Why did not the organization bothered about the rape incident for whole two years? Why, we ask, did it not take action against the rapists even after repeated demands of probe by different comrades at different times? Why, in the first place, did it give cover to rapists and kept them on the highest possible leading positions of the section till date?
And, what about this advice that the 'discipline' of the organization should have been followed? To your knowledge, the matter was being discussed within the organization for whole two years. Leadership didn't bother to take an inch of step ahead against these culprits. This moral trick of 'discipline' can not be imposed on the expelled comrades, because they followed the discipline for whole two years and kept trying to solve the matter - along with some other political differences - within the organizational discipline. But when they were kicked out of the organization, how could they keep silent? Which discipline to follow?
Further, did the organization itself cared a little of 'discipline'? From giving cover to rapists to expelling the comrades, it kept on breaking its own discipline. Why should the expelled comrades now respect the discipline of a dead skeleton, which has no meaning for them now? We now think that the time is over to appeal before IMT's International leadership. It played the wait and see game for long. It didn't intervene. It kept itself aloof, as if it was a supernatural structure resting on the Mars, knowing nothing of the world near it!!
Even then, if IMT's International leadership is a bit serious about it and wants to probe into the matter, we are ready to provide access to all eye witnesses and evidences. But in our understanding, we think that the time for IMT is over. A Marxist organization can not keep itself aloof from the crimes of leadership of its section. If it does so, it is accountable to history. Long Live Socialist Revolution! Long Live the voice of truth
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