Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey stopped from seeking truth * PEACE MISSION TEAM CONFRONTED BY EGGS, GOBAR, DUST & STONES IN DANTEWADA BY 800 SALWA JUDUM SUPPORTERS AS POLICE WATCH ON THE SPIRALLING VIOLENCE Team sits in Dharna before SPs office 5:30 p.m, January 6th, 2010 According to latest news pouring in, a citizens peace [...]
So what is the story behind today’s detention of Sambho Sodi? Priyanka Borpujari provides a step-by-step update.
Himanshu Kumar was on his way to Raipur by road since this morning, at 7 am. He was going there to drop Sodi Sambo, who has a bullet injury on her leg and needs a second surgery in Delhi. Sambo would have taken a train to Delhi from Raipur, along with two other people. Himanshuji [...]
The state of Chhattisgarh has been witnessing massive displacement of adivasis because violence by Salwa Judum and other forces deployed by the Central government. Nearly 3,00,000 adivasis in 700 villages have been displaced while this resource rich land is being sold off to mining corporations, both Indian and foreign. Accompanying this displacement is an equally [...]
When a daughter of the nation has her dignity stripped by the country’s vigilante militia, which doors are left to be knocked upon, to get justice? The country currently is debating over a case of “justice delayed is equivalent to justice denied”, thanks to the numerous TV channels. But four women in Chhattisgarh have not [...]
Dear friends, In a country ,where most Adivasi men, women and children suffer from chronic hunger and are often starved, hunger can hardly be a form of protest. I can only express solidarity with their sufferings. So as I decide to go on voluntary self purificatory fast as long as my strength permits. I am [...]
After the Chhattisgarh Government and the Salwa Judum successfully prevented Himanshu Kumar from taking out his pre-announced padyatra in Dantewada with the objective of restoring peace and normalcy in an area suffering from dual violence of the naxalites and security forces, a drama was played out at the temporary premises of the Vanavasi Chetna Ashram. [...]
A snapshot of the various activities undertaken by Jurmil Morchha in Bangalore, to kick start the Campaign for Justice and Peace (Karnataka), including but not limited to folk music, puppetry and theater!
DANTEWADA PADYATRA, SATYAGRAH AND JAN SUNWAI For the People’s Right to say No to displacement and Tribal Genocide And to demand the 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 [...]
Who Is the Problem, the CPI (Maoist) or the Indian State? Seventeen years ago I went to Dantewada following Gandhiji’s belief that the real India lies in the villages, and young people must go there to rejuvenate them. The villagers gave me land to build my ashram. Under the Fifth Schedule, the gram sabha was [...]
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