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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | As Land Acquisition Continues Unabated, Gujarat Farmers Seek Permission to Die -Damayantee Dhar

As Land Acquisition Continues Unabated, Gujarat Farmers Seek Permission to Die -Damayantee Dhar

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published Published on May 14, 2018   modified Modified on May 14, 2018
-TheWire.in

Fearing that their land will be taken away by the government, over 5,000 farmers from Bhavnagar have sought permission for mass euthanasia along with their families.

Bhavnagar (Gujarat):
On April 1, about 100 heavily armed police personnel marched into a nondescript village, Badi in Ghogha taluka of Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district, and fired tear gas shells and lathi-charged locals, injuring about ten persons, including women, and detained more than 50. All of this was to disperse about 11,000 farmers who were sitting in protest to try and keep their land, which is to be taken over by the Gujarat Thermal Power Corporation (GPCL).

For the past four months, Badi and its neighbouring 11 villages, where villagers depend largely on farming for their livelihood, have turned into something of a conflict zone. Since February this year, police have been camping in agricultural fields in these villages. To add to that, from April 1 this year, the Bhavnagar police has declared a state of emergency in the 12 villages opposing GPCL’s land acquisition, banning the assembly of four or more people at one place.

Fearing that their land will be taken away from them, 5,229 farmers from the 12 villages have sought permission for mass euthanasia along with their families. “We have decided to travel to Gandhinagar and then to Delhi with our plea. However, we have not decided on the dates yet,” said Pravinsinh Gohil of Khadsaliya village.

Krupa, an 18-year-old woman from Malekvadar village who travels 25 km daily to Bhavnagar town for college, said, “Ever since we have been protesting against GPCL, our lives have been turned upside down. Villagers who never had to deal with the police all their lives are now living with hundreds of police personnel. Women and children have also joined the protest, because if they take away our land we have no source of livelihood.”

“On April 1, male police hit women who were protesting. I was hit on the head and had to get five stitches. I could not sit for one paper of the semester examinations. It still hurts,” adds Krupa.

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TheWire.in, 14 May, 2018, https://thewire.in/agriculture/land-acquisition-gujarat-farmers-mass-euthanasia


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