Operation Green Hunt: Is giving lisence to molest our sisters

Maoist Liberation Army, Manipur strongly condemned the torture of innocent people and molestation of two girls by the Indian forces in the name of counter insurgency operation so called Operation Green Hunt at Panchangi Village, Chhattishgarh.

We have common enemy here and we have to fight until and unless the imperialist thrown out from the power. We appeal to unite the revolutionary groups which are working in same sprit based on Marxist, Leninist and Maoist. This will be the only means to gain the victory of the oppress people of the world.
KANKER: A hillock is strewn with empty bottles of whisky and sticks — remnants of what tribals allege was a 48-hour torture session by drunk BSF men. The enraged people of Panchangi village have accused the paramilitary force, along with Chhattisgarh police, of brutally beating nearly 40 men. Two teenage girls have also alleged that they were sexually molested.

One of them says she was stripped, while another provided a detailed account of both mental and physical harassment. "One of them grabbed me around the chest and said, 'you are a Naxal, haven't you been touched by a man before'," says the 16-year-old girl who lives and studies in a government residential school and had come home to recuperate from illness.

The village has filed a written complaint with the district collector and a magisterial inquiry has been ordered.

Panchangi village is 15km from the site where a Maoist attack left three BSF jawans and two policemen dead on August 29. Exactly a week later, in the early hours of Sunday morning, villagers say a 100-member team of security forces landed up in the village.

"They went from home to home, pulling people out. Everybody was made to gather near the panchayat building. They wanted to know where we were hiding the guns. We told them no one in our village kept guns but they refused to believe us," says Shidre Ram, the village sarpanch.

What began then, according to detailed testimonies of several people, is a cycle of horror. "I was pulled by the hair and dragged to the hillock. I was stripped and told to lie down on stones. Then, they began beating me with sticks," says Amal Singh, a young man.

Villagers say several men were beaten up in a similar fashion all through Sunday and Monday. Narsingh Kumar, one of the five men who was brought to the district hospital at Kanker, shows his bruised back and swollen feet. "They thrust a stick inside my anus," he said.

"The BSF has ordered a court of inquiry into the allegations and it will be completed shortly," said Ram Awtar, DIG BSF. Villagers say another girl, Dhansu, was picked up from Aalor, a nearby village. She is among the six schoolgirls arrested on Wednesday and charged with being involved in attack on BSF. "Some of them are Bal Sangham members," says Kanker SP Ajay Yadav. But the girl's family insists they are innocent.

Meanwhile, another round of arrests have taken place, with 10 men being produced in court on Friday. Four of them are from Panchangi village. The police claims the men were arrested with weapons. "They kept asking us for weapons as they beat us, and we kept telling them we didn't have any," says Sukram Netam, an old man, recovering in hospital. "The police is free to arrest Naxals, but what gives them the right to treat us like animals," asks the village sarpanch.

Fake Encounter In Manipur

First step towards justice ?
7/23/'09 ghost catches up, CBI charge sheets 9 cops, including two Inspectors

The sequences of photographs on July 23, 2009, which was published by Tehelka and the lifeless body of Rabina-File
IMPHAL, Sep 9 : The first step towards justice may have just started with the Central Bureau of Investi-gation, filing charge sheets against nine policemen including two Inspectors in connection with the con-troversial killing of Chung- kham Sanjit Singh, a former militant and a young preg-nant woman, Th Rabina on July 23, 2009 at BT Road. Five others were also in-jured on the day, which the police claimed was a shoot out with armed militants.
The nine cops named in the charge sheet include the then OC of City Police, Inspector Munal Singh, Com- mando Inspector H Deven-dra, Head Constable Thou- naojam Herojit Singh, Rifleman Ngangom Toyaima Singh, Constable W Binoy- kumar Singh, Havildar Th Jagat, Rifleman Md Imran Khan, Head Constable Oinam Keshor Singh and Constable Makan Kan-chung Chothi.
Taking cognizance of the charge sheet filed by the CBI, the Chief Judicial Magistrate has issued warrants of arrest against the nine accused cops.
The cops have been charged sheeted under 302, 218, 203 of the Indian Penal Code as well as substantive offences, said a statement issued by the CBI late today evening.
Following a writ petition filed by the mother of the late Sanjit, the Gauhati High Court had roped in the service of the CBI to investigate the FIR lodged at City Police station here.
“As per the Manipur police version, the FIR was lodged in the City Police Station against an unknown youth on July 23, 2009, who was allegedly shot dead in retaliatory firing by police commandos on BT Road,” said the statement further.
“Pursuant to the High Court order, the CBI registered a case against some personnel of Manipur police commandos on January 16, 2010. However, during the investigation, another case was registered by CBI corresponding to Manipur City Police Station,” added CBI in the statement.
Giving details of the investigation conducted by the CBI, the statement said on July 23, last year, the police commandos were on their routine frisking duty on BT Road and then came across one youth, who fired at them and ran towards the eastern direction of the road and mingled with the crowd.”
The police also fired back and in the process, a young pregnant woman Th Rabina was killed while five others sustained injuries of varying degrees
Police cordoned the area and started search operations. “The youth who was present on BT Road, was picked up by the police inside the store room of Social Time Emporium/Maimu Pharmacy. He was not armed at that time and was accosted by the commandos and shot dead by them and a pistol was shown falsely as recovered from him, said the CBI in the charge sheet.
The CBI minced no word in stating “there was no such pistol in possession of the youth and police planted the same after it was picked up from the nearby Gambhir Singh Shopping Arcade.”
Initially the killing of Sanjit and Rabina did not create a public uproar, other than the perfunctory char-ges of custodial killing, but after Tehelka came out with a series of tell tale photographs, which were pu- blished in the Imphal papers on August 2, 2009, which showed Sanjit being accosted and pushed inside Maimu pharmacy and then later the police carrying the corpse of Sanjit, Manipur, especially Imphal rose as one to condemn the incident and demand appropriate incident. The July 23 incident also created a flutter in the then ongoing Mon-soon session of the Assembly, with the Opposition, un- wittingly throwing their weight behind the Chief Minister's remarks in connection with the killing. Post July 23, 2009, life was paralysed, especially in Imphal, with the Apunba Lup spearheading the movement.
Demand for the resignation of Chief Minister on moral ground reached a crescendo so also befitting penalty for the top rung of the Police Department. Classes were boy-cotted in Imphal for about four months, which severely hampered their academic calendar, forcing many parents to send their children outside Manipur for further studies.
However the Chief Minister stuck on and in the first press conference held after the uproar started, Ibobi had clearly mentioned that CH Sanjit was a “pucca” PLA cadre at the time of his death, while the general belief was that he had retired from the outfit.
The CBI's statement too says that Sanjit was a former rebel.
The uproar ended abruptly and in an anti-climax, with the Apunba Lup calling off their agitation, without achieving any of their major demands.
The two JACs formed in connection with the death of Sanjit and Rabina also disbanded.