DANTEWADA PADYATRA, SATYAGRAH AND JAN SUNWAI

Announcement Letter
For the People’s Right to say No to displacement and Tribal Genocide And to demandthe right to live with justice and peace
Raipur / Dantewada
1 December 2009

Dear Friends,
You are aware that the tribals of Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh State are continuously facing large-scale displacement from their homes, fields and forests a well as a genocide [...]

announcements

Killing of 6 tribal- message from Himanshu

Police claimed on 12th August that it has killed six dreaded naxalites in an encounter near Bhairamgarh reserve forest & they named it operation ‘Green Hunt’. According to the police sources in this operation CRPF, dist police & STF combined of both Dantewada & Bijapur district were included. Police sources further claimed that they have [...]

announcements

Chhattisgarh Government’s Self-destructive Act

by Sandeep Pandey
Mainstream, Vol XLVII, No 26, June 13, 2009

Akin to George Bush in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attack who, while declaring his war on terror, proclaimed that if one is not on the side of US Government then one is with the terrorists, the Chhattisgarh Government thinks that if one is [...]

Salwa Judum, articles, repressive laws

Himanshu’s statement over the phone from Bhadrachallam

as told over the Phone to Kavita Srivastava
Dear friends,
As many of you are aware Himanshu and Kopa of VCA managed to escape Lingagiri in the early hours today through the forest area of that region and got into Bhadrachallam AP more than a hundred kilometres away. The distance between Bhadrachallam and Dantewada is a good [...]

Salwa Judum, announcements, articles, repressive laws

Govt acquired land with gun on farmers’ head: Sen

Kartyk Venkatraman
Indian Express

Noted human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen has said most of the land in Chhattisgarh was acquired at gun-point for big industrial houses. In the packed confines of the historic Students’ Hall in College Square, Sen, released recently on bail from the Raipur Central Jail after two years, made his first public appearance [...]

Public Health, Salwa Judum