India: End State Support for Vigilantes – Human Rights Watch
Prosecute Rights Violators and Protect Internally Displaced Communities
Human Rights Watch
“The Chhattisgarh government denies supporting Salwa Judum, but dozens of eyewitnesses have described police participating in violent Salwa Judum raids on villages – killing, looting, and burning their hamlets. ” – Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch
(Raipur, July 15, 2008) – The [...]
Human Rights Watch says India backing violent vigilante group that has displaced thousands
Yahoo India News
Tue, Jul 15 05:28 PM
NEW DELHI (AP) _ Indian forces are collaborating with a vigilante group that carries out brutal attacks that have displaced tens of thousands of people in eastern India in an attempt to crush a communist uprising, a human rights group said Tuesday. Human Rights Watch called on the Indian [...]
The statesman Cover Story: THE EVIL WITHIN
The Binayak Sen story is more than just about the violation of individual rights, says Shoma A Chatterji
THE Binayak Sen story is much more than one of a gross violation of human rights. It goes far beyond the international appeals to release him from the unlawful detention he has been subjected to for more than [...]
The Indian Judiciary, the Salwa Judum Criminal Vigilantes, and Political Prisoner Dr. Binayak Sen
by Analytical Monthly Review
Analytical Monthly Review, published in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, is a sister edition of Monthly Review. Its June 2008 issue features the following editorial. — Ed.
When the issue is class struggle, everyone knows that today’s judiciary in India exhibits no qualitative difference from that of the British colonial regime. When [...]
June 25th: Raipur: National Convention on State Repression & Black Laws in India
Dear Friends,
Greetings!
Here is an UPDATE ON GROUP FASTING which began on 16th June 2008 at Raipur.
Hope some of you would definitely join, at least, the National Convention on 25th & 26th June at Raipur on STATE REPRESSION & BLACK LAWS IN INDIA.
The Outline of the Programme is as follows:
25th June, 2008 (Wednesday)
10 am to 11 [...]
