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 [...]

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The Serpent We Forgive And Forget

Tehelka
ENGAGED CIRCLE – civil violence
It is high time civil society owned up to and condemned the violence inflicted by revolutionary groups
APOORVANAND
Writer & Literary Critic

THE FIRST three phases of the 2009 Lok Sabha elections have passed peacefully. Not taking into account the Maoist killings of poll officials and police personnel [...]

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‘They just want to keep my husband in jail’: Interview With Ilina Sen

Labonita Ghosh
Home > India > Report
DNA

Mumbai: May 14 will be two years since Dr Binayak Sen, arrested for his alleged links with Naxalites, was put into a Chattisgarh jail. His complaints of ill-health – his doctors have said he could have a heart attack any minute — have finally got the Supreme Court to ask [...]

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Chhattisgarh CM alleges Sen had “close” relations with Naxals

‘If Dr Raman Singh knows something that his government’s prosecutors don’t then he should be brave enough to come to Binayak’s trial as one of the witnesses and present the evidence. Mere insinuations won’t do anymore’.  Editors
Bhopal , Apr 28 : Amid a demand by rights bodies for the release Binayak [...]

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‘I have always condemned violence, whatever the justification’ : Interview with Binayak Sen

Vinay Sitapati
Indian Express
Posted: Saturday , Apr 25, 2009 at 0026 hrs IST
Arrested for being a Naxal supporter, Chhattisgarh doctor BINAYAK SEN has been in Central Jail, Raipur for the last two years. His trial is currently going on in the Raipur sessions court. In the 47 degrees Celsius heat and under the watchful eyes [...]

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