Letter from Free Binayak Sen Campaign
Dear friends,
Along with Kavita Srivastava, Dipankar and Pranhita (Binayak’s brother and daughter) my friend and colleague Dr Abhay Shukla had a chance to attend the hearings of Binayak’s trial on 30 and 31 July at Raipur.
Following is the verbatim report from him of the hearing.
As expected we witnessed the bizarre […]
India should take action against state-backed vigilantes active in the central state of Chhattisgarh, US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.Since 2005, security forces and members of the Salwa Judum militia group have killed and raped villagers, HRW says.
Salwa Judum was launched in 2005 to fight the Maoist rebels in the area.HRW also says the Maoists […]
Vikalp@Prithvi to screen the work of arrested filmmaker
Two and a half months have passed. Ajay TG, journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist remains behind bars in a Chhattisgarh prison. His crime? He made a film about and attended the trial of Dr. Binayak Sen. Dr. Binayak’s crime? He worked for decades as a doctor amongst […]
A photo essay on the plight of tribals in Chhattisgarh because of the conflict between militia and the Naxalites
Harikrishna Katragadda, Mint
New Delhi On a cloudy evening, Madkam Kose prepares to leave Durla village in […]
15/07/08 NEW DELHI :At least 100,000 villagers in eastern India have been forced to flee their homes in spiralling violence spurred by a state-backed anti-Maoist vigilante group, a US-based rights group said on Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch accused government forces of taking part in some of the violence, in which vigilantes allegedly attacked and killed […]
World Proletarian Revolution Starts From the Third World
