Appeal to stop police action in Lalgarh

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Appeal to stop police action in Lalgarh


We are deeply concerned with the police action in Lalgarh by the government of west Bengal led by CPM and the central government led by the congress party. The people of Lalgarh have been demanding drinking water, schools, hospitals, land and jobs. They have been opposing police atrocities, torture and killings in Jangalmahal. Under the leadership of Peoples Committee against Police atrocities, the Adivasis of Lalgarh organized a democratic mass movement and have been demanding justice and development in their communities.

Rather than meeting the legitimate demands of the masses, the state government led by CPM and the centre led by congress have deployed thousands of armed police, CRPF combatants, cobra death squads and encircled Lalgarh. These armed forces have attacked tribal villages, destroyed homes, spoiled food grains, molested women and engaged in brutal rapes. Under the pretext of fighting Maoists, police are harassing tribals. Central and state police forces occupied 14 schools buildings in Lalgarh and deprived education to 20,000 students. Thousands of people are forced to leave their homes due to the police raids and their brutality. Treating this as a law and order issue and banning Communist Party of India (Maoist) does not solve the problem.

We appeal to the CPM and congress governments to stop the police action in Lalgarh immediately. We appeal to all concerned citizens, students and press corps to express their solidarity with the people of Lalgarh and support their legitimate demands.


Signatories

Ari Sitaramayya
Chukka Srinivas
Narayana Swamy
Sajee Gopal

42 Signatures

  • Sajee Gopal
  • Krupa Raghunathan
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  • Avadh Bihari
    • Comments
    • people are innocent. please stop these atrocities
  • hrk
  • Amrita De
    • Comments
    • This is a people's movement against police atrocities, not a maoist activity as has been projected by the government and the mainstream media. Shouldn't be treated as a law and order problem but as a socio-economic one.
  • Sambaiah Gundimeda
  • dipti
  • Sridhar Deshpande
    • Comments
    • Armed forces should immediately be withdrawn from lalgarh and Govts both central and state should take initiatives to start dialogue with the lalgarh tribals to end the present crisis
  • D.V.Rama Krishna Rao
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    • Both the left (?) and central governments must respect the aspirations of the adivasis and all the oppressed. It is Shame on the part of CPI(M) and Central governments
  • vijay joshi
    • Comments
    • We have to stop this brutality.
  • Chandra Kanneganti
  • Swamy Venkatayogi
  • SEFI SAMUELOFF
    • Comments
    • VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE'S JUST STRUGGLE!!..
  • new democrat youth turkey
  • Sukla Sen
    • Comments
    • Reported police atrocities must be condemned in strongest terms. Hoevwer, what is the basis of the charge: "armed forces have ... engaged in brutal rapes"? Is it necessary to make unsubstantiated scandalous charges in order to condemn police atrocities in Lalgarh? This evidently demolishes the credibility of the petitioners and raises serious doubts about the motives. Has any known human rights organisation has levelled this charge as yet? On which date(s) the rape(s) took place? In which village(s)? How these came to be known? Any police complaint filed? The court approached in case of refusal of the police to file FIR? Complaint lodged with the SHRC/NHRC?
  • Sampath
    • Comments
    • Hope the petition has an impact
  • vidyadhar date
  • sandy singh
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    • with the people's movement in their epoch making struggle
  • Uday Chandra
  • AAM Fayez Hossain
  • pragnya
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    • it is understandable that the situation in Lalgarh is so precarious that it is difficult to put an FIR especially when the police authorities themselves are under scrutiny in regards to repression. It is well known that rapeis used as a weapon of repression...but it is important on our part to make detail enquiries and record the brutalities in detail to validate our allegations. by this i no way doubt the intention of the petitioners but just have an expectation of detail records of police atrocities to be attached with this petition to validate the point and charges.
  • Arunabh Singh
  • Vivek Sundara
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  • Satya
  • Babu
  • Movement for New Democracy
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    • What are the rights you have to sale the peoples' properties and their lives. Hand off theirs properties and lives.
  • P prabhat
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    • Bastar alone has more than 30000 forces messing the lives of peace loving indigenous people of that region.....
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