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<http://kafila.org/author/nivmen/> Heading for a Bloodbath: Rohini
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*Nivedita Menon <http://kafila.org/author/nivmen/>* | April 26, 2010 at 9:11
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*This post by ROHINI HENSMAN is an article published in Outlook on April
22, 2010.*
To people desperately trying to avert a bloodbath in the forest belt, the
recent PUDR statement on the massacre of 76 CRPF jawans in Dantewada caused
considerable consternation, and Sumanta Banerjee’s response to it even more
so. According to the PUDR statement,
‘As a civil rights organization we neither condemn the killing of security
force combatants nor that of the Maoists combatants, or for that matter any
other combatants, when it occurs’.
Sumanta Banerjee objected to the equating of Maoist violence and state
violence, saying that
‘these soldiers, by being cannon-fodders of the Indian state, however tragic
it might be, suffered the fate that – I’m sorry to say – they deserved…To
come back to the latest incident of the Maoist attack on the CRPF camp in
Chhattisgarh…. if we accept it as a part of a civil war, such killings are
inevitable (just as the CRPF killings of Maoists) in a violent system that
has been institutionalized by the Indian state. The difference between the
CRPF violence (involving ‘false encounters’, raping of tribal women, burning
their homes, etc.) on the one hand, and the Maoist violence on the other
(which means attacks on oppressive landlords and the police and
para-military forces like the CRPF which come to the aid of the landlords) -
has to be distinguished by civil society groups’
Both the statement and the response assume that a civil war is already in
progress, and therefore the killing of combatants is not illegal.
Continue reading on Outlook.<http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265184>
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