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Check out the murderous rage on his face! Check out the hand that has bludgeoned many heads! Check out the strained forehead that explain his years committed to bloodshed! |
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Final Two Parts Of The Interview With SP Dantewada, Amresh Mishra on the 4th of Jan regarding the whereabouts of Sodi Sambo. |
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Operation Green Hunt to flush out the Maoist rebels from central India may have begun only last November, but the hapless tribals of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region have been at the receiving end of official hostility for years before that. |
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Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Professor of Political Science, Delhi University and I have just returned (January 1st) from a visit to the police state of Chhattisgarh. |
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Priyanka: I am a journalist and I need to speak to you about Sodi Sambo? Where is she now? Why was she illegal detained last night? |
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Witness to ‘fake encounter’ detained by police
- Javed Iqbal
Sodhi Sambo (age 28) of the village of Goompad of Dantewada district is a witness and a victim of the October 1st killings in the village of Goompad, where nine people, including an eight-year old girl were killed, allegedly by security forces. Eighteen-month old Madvi Mukesh (name changed) lost three of his fingers on the same day, along with his mother and his maternal grand parents. According to her testimony, she was apprehended by security forces on the 1st of October, 2009 and taken to the house of Soyam Sensa, where Soyam Sensa’s wife Soyam Bali was, with her infant baby. Allegedly, the security forces had raised their rifles to shoot her but were prevented from doing so by other security forces. She was not so lucky, as she was lined up against the house and shot in her leg. Seeing this, her two children Sodi Raju (age 3) and Sodi Nago (age 5) had thrown themselves on her and began to cry. Other security forces then prevented the shooter from carrying out his act and left them.
As of the 2nd of January, she was at Dantewada town, convalescing and waiting for her operation dates for her leg injury. Police had regularly inquired into her presence at Dantewada Hospital where she was receiving treatment for malaria when it was decided by social activists that she should be taken out of Dantewada for her safety. On the way to Raipur, she was forcibly picked up at Kanker district by the police without a warrant and without any charges against her. Meanwhile, the matter of the unlawful killings on the village of Goompad was taken to the Supreme Court, against the State Of Chhattisgarh, Respondent no.1, Central Bureau of Investigation, Respondent no.2 and the Union of India, Respondent no.3 via social activist Himanshu Kumar of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram and the victims of violence of another village of Gachanpalli. Sodhi Sambo is petioner no.13 of the said Writ Petition (Criminal) No.103 of 2009. An earlier magisterial inquiry was ordered into the killings of Singaram where 19 tribals were allegedly shot dead by the police, by the Chhattisgarh government and was carried out by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate Ankit Anand, who had arrived to collect the testimonies of the victims and witnesses along with the accused SPOs and police personnel. Allegedly, statements were recorded incorrectly, no real investigation was done, no chargesheet was prepared. The current forced detainment of Sodhi Sambo has been ordered by the Superintendent of Police Amresh Mishra under the pretext of collecting her testimony. |
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Witness to ‘fake encounter’ detained by police
- Javed Iqbal
Sodhi Sambo (age 28) of the village of Goompad of Dantewada district is a witness and a victim of the October 1st killings in the village of Goompad, where nine people, including an eight-year old girl were killed, allegedly by security forces. Eighteen-month old Madvi Mukesh (name changed) lost three of his fingers on the same day, along with his mother and his maternal grand parents. According to her testimony, she was apprehended by security forces on the 1st of October, 2009 and taken to the house of Soyam Sensa, where Soyam Sensa’s wife Soyam Bali was, with her infant baby. Allegedly, the security forces had raised their rifles to shoot her but were prevented from doing so by other security forces. She was not so lucky, as she was lined up against the house and shot in her leg. Seeing this, her two children Sodi Raju (age 3) and Sodi Nago (age 5) had thrown themselves on her and began to cry. Other security forces then prevented the shooter from carrying out his act and left them.
As of the 2nd of January, she was at Dantewada town, convalescing and waiting for her operation dates for her leg injury. Police had regularly inquired into her presence at Dantewada Hospital where she was receiving treatment for malaria when it was decided by social activists that she should be taken out of Dantewada for her safety. On the way to Raipur, she was forcibly picked up at Kanker district by the police without a warrant and without any charges against her. Meanwhile, the matter of the unlawful killings on the village of Goompad was taken to the Supreme Court, against the State Of Chhattisgarh, Respondent no.1, Central Bureau of Investigation, Respondent no.2 and the Union of India, Respondent no.3 via social activist Himanshu Kumar of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram and the victims of violence of another village of Gachanpalli. Sodhi Sambo is petioner no.13 of the said Writ Petition (Criminal) No.103 of 2009. An earlier magisterial inquiry was ordered into the killings of Singaram where 19 tribals were allegedly shot dead by the police, by the Chhattisgarh government and was carried out by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate Ankit Anand, who had arrived to collect the testimonies of the victims and witnesses along with the accused SPOs and police personnel. Allegedly, statements were recorded incorrectly, no real investigation was done, no chargesheet was prepared. The current forced detainment of Sodhi Sambo has been ordered by the Superintendent of Police Amresh Mishra under the pretext of collecting her testimony. |
In my own “coy” ways, I would terrorise my friends and family. But thanks to the Dantewada police, I have been declared a dacoit. No, this anointment didn't come in easy – it took several hours of mayhem and confusion and conspiracy. And so the story of the practical joke begins....
On January 5, the inmates of the Vanvasi Chetna Ashram (VCA) in Dantewada woke up to find that Himanshu Kumar was missing. We panicked a bit, but realised that what he had done must have been the best. He couldn't afford to languish in jail for having raised his voice for the scores of tribals whom the government plans to eliminate to be able to hand over their land to profit-hungry mining companies. It was essential that the gory David versus Goliath battle for survival continue to be fought, and new ways had to be found. That's how we understood the rationale behind Himanshu's disappearance.
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
The Oxford Dictionary defines “police” as “an organised civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws”.
The Oxford Dictionary defines “breach of trust” as “violation (either through fraud or negligence) by a trustee of a duty that equity requires of him”.
In Chhattisgarh, the whole idea of “semantics” is redefined. Language is not merely something that can be associated with the dictionary here; it has much to do with survival and death.
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Sambo misses her four children; and has long stopped smiling. The petite woman’s eyes are vacant; she has already seen enough. She has already had enough. © Javed Iqbal
October 1, 2009, 7 am, Gompad:
Security forces and SPOs (special police officers) of the Salwa Judum enter the village of Gompad, which is on the Chhattisgarh-Andhra Pradesh border. Sodi Sambo is shot on her leg. Witnesses the murder of six other villagers by the security forces and SPOs.
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