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Attack On The Village Of Badepalli
by Javed Iqbal
This article is based on witness accounts and interviews with villagers
Around the 25th or the 26th of April 2009, the village of Badepalli in Kuokonda Block of South Bastar in Chhattisgarh, was attacked by a joint force of the CRPF, BSF and the SPOs. At that moment, hearing gunfire, around 215 villagers [...]
RIGHTS-INDIA: Activist Doctor’s Incarceration Flouts Democratic Norms
By Keya Acharya
IPS News
BANGALORE, May 8 (IPS) – Even while India goes to the polls in a lumbering show of democracy, human rights activist-doctor Binayak Sen remains in prison on unproven terrorism charges.
Sen’s bail plea was finally admitted by the apex Supreme Court (SC) on May 4, 10 days short of his second anniversary in [...]
Letters from Medha to the DGP of Chhattisgarh police
Second Letter
To,
The Director General of Police,
Police Headquarters,
Raipur
Sir,
I am writing to you with regards to the correspondence between me and the Former DGP, Chattisgarh Shri Vishwaranjanji on the heinous killings of the three tribal of Kothrapal village of the 18th of March, 2008. I attach herewith the letter written by me to the DGP which [...]
Quashing the voiceless with state ruthlessness
Patricia Mukhim
North East page
The Statesman
IT is an insane system that puts behind bars a medical doctor whose heart is with the most impoverished sections of Indian society. It is two years since Dr Binayak Sen, the internationally renowned medical doctor and human rights activist has been jailed. He will complete two years on 14 May [...]
CSPSA Strikes Again!
This is an extremely enlightening case about how corporations (and by extension, other powerful interests in the society) can use the vague provisions of Chhattisgarh Special Public Safety Act to harass people they consider troublesome.
Sudha Bharadwaj
Pawan Verma was a worker – an expert cook in the Canteen and VIP Guesthouse of the erstwhile L&T [...]
