[Marxistindia] Jharkhand: Police Firing Condemned

[news from the cpi(m)]

October 23, 2016

 

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the police firing in Seko
village in Jharkhand's Khunti district yesterday. A large number of tribal
people gathered at the village to proceed for participating in a rally at
Ranchi called by the Adivashi Sangarsh Morcha, consisting of around 40
adivsai organiations, to protest against the ordinance that seeks to amend
the Chotenagapur and Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act depriving the tribals of
their traditional and legitimate access to land.

 

According to reports the police fired around a hundred rounds to disperse
the gathering resulting in the death of one tribal leader Abraham Munda and
critically injuring five others. 

 

The BJP state government has during the last one month resorted to repeated
police firing against popular protests. There have also been two custodial
deaths during this period.

 

Jharkhand is a state carved out in the name of protecting the interests of
the tribals. The BJP government on the contrary is continuously threatening
the tribals and other weaker sections of Jharkhand to negate the very
purpose upon which the state was formed. 

 

The killing of tribals according to established parliamentary practice is
not considered merely as a state law and order subject. The central
government must intervene to ensure that the rights of the tribals are
protected, including their democratic right to protest, and no further
encroachment on their rights to land and forest produce must be permitted.

 

 

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