-The Hindu JAGDALPUR: With semi-automatic weapons slung over their shoulders, these soldiers are more than just patrolling arterial village roads. They are in the midst of full-scale battles in which several people, mostly non-combatants, are getting killed. Forces have been mobilised in their thousands; dehydrated soldiers are getting evacuated by the Indian Air Force; corpses are removed in huge tractors meant for transporting farm produce; and Maoists are intensifying coordination at...
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NHRC gives Rs 5 lakh to encounter victim's kin
-The Indian Express Ghuwati: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Assam government to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the next of kin of one Rajib Basumatary of Doimoguri village in Sonitpur district, who was killed in an encounter between suspected NDFB Militants and a joint patrol of Assam Police and CRPF personnel in June 2010. While the police claimed that Rajib was killed when it had...
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-The Hindustan Times Far from the neatly trimmed lawns of India Gate that so often reverberate with cries for justice, far also from the corridors of power where ministries recently squabbled over the right age for consensual sex, lie 197 districts - yes 197, read the figure again - where children are regularly abused. In these districts -- all ridden by conflict -- words like illegal detention, arbitrary arrests, sexual violence, torture...
More »Indian security forces killing Indians: SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India Reflecting the grievances of people in Jammu and Kashmir and north-eastern states, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said prolonged deployment of armed forces in disturbed areas was bound to result in extra-judicial killings. Dealing with the issues raised by public interest litigations alleging 1,528 extra-judicial killings in Manipur in the last three decades, a bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana P Desai said, "Manipur's woes must...
More »Promise of paradise that didn’t come true -Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
-The Hindu The absence of a comprehensive rehabilitation policy for surrendered Militants has made life hellish for those who decided to give themselves up and join the mainstream Jammu & Kashmir's first "Surrender Policy" was floated by Governor Gen. (retd.) K.V. Krishna Rao's administration in 1995. It was almost identical to the policies introduced for Militants involved in the North East and Naxalite insurgencies: Rs.1.5 lakh worth of fixed deposit receipts payable...
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