Dear all The breaking news of three tribals killed and 15 injured due to the indiscriminate firing of live bullets on them by the police further exposes the anger of the tribal community towards atrocities committed by the police and the armed reserved forces who are behind the blood of innocent tribals who harass them in the name of combing. The very fact that without the presence of any magistrate, the way police have gunned down tribals is also unconstitutional.
At Lalgarh, during combing operation, women were forced to take off their clothes to prove that they are not male. At Mundabasti in Silpunji village in Gurundia block of Sundergarh district, all the male members were brutally assaulted in early morning in the name of conducting combing operations, minors were also not spared. Those who were sleeping , were pulled out the beds by catching their hairs / legs and pulled them out. Five to six persons were tied with ropes with a tree for three to four hours and then taken to Rourkela before they were pushed to jails. Yes, I am talking about the realities that has happened just few months back in the largest democracy of the world. Situation at Chhattisgarh is also the same. At Dantewada in particular, tribals are treated as insects that can be killed at will. Who denies police to combat Naxals, but is this the way to treat innocent civilians who have equal rights as all of us in urban areas. Are those tribals responsible for Naxals who have made their area as their area of operation? Are police or the developmental agencies not responsible for whose fault or mischiefs, those areas have become the nerve centre of naxal activites? Instead of treating innocent civilians, the need is to identify the corrupt faces and hand them in public, as was told by one of our justice of the Hon'ble Supreme court of India. We are sitting on a volcano of anger of poor people that can burst any day resulting in a big disaster if the current situation is allowed to go on like this. The way police is behaving as the judges, we are driving on a wrong way, this is not the way to arrive at a forceful solution or buy or snatch peace. Pravin Patel Human Rights Activist
