Hunting innocent Adivasis in thename of Green Hunt –Adivasis Bitten
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Viplava Rachayitala Sangham
May 2010
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3 Greenhunt: Let us unitedly fight back the fascist attacks against
women and people’s organisations of Dandakaranya!
Appeal of KAMS to fraternal people’s oragnisations, progressive democratic women, intellectuals, students and democrats
Dear Friends,
Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangham (KAMS) is working in the
Dandakaranya (DK) area having a population of 40 lakhs in seven
districts of Maharashtra and Chattisgarh. There are 19,88,000 women.
People belonging to several tribes like Madia, Muria, Dorla, Rajagond,
and Halba inhabit in this area. Women here take up all kinds of
work – agriculture, household, labour and collection of forest produce
– and work for 16 hours a day. Despite year-round work they are
exploited and do not enjoy any rights. Feudal patriarchy exploited
the woman and kept her off all her rights. She is marginalised as a
second grade citizen. The feudal and comprador bourgeois ruling
classes of this country directly lead the continuation of exploitation
and oppression of women by upholding patriarchy with the assistance
of imperialists. In this social backdrop, the revolutionary struggle
stepped into Dandakaranya in 1980.
The KAMS has been working for the past three decades in
Dandakaranya with the ultimate aim of women’s liberation. It has
mobilised women against the exploitation of labour, dominance and
atrocities by forest officials, managements of paper mills, beedi leaf
contractors, and businessmen from the plains. It has organised them
in their struggles. It led them from the forefront. It stood by young
women who fought against patriarchal values within their tribes. It
called upon them to fight for women’s liberation under the leadership
of Mahila Sangham. It united the women to counter and chase away
the police herds that attacked villages.
4 Greenhunt: The KAMS is playing an active role in the revolutionary struggle
being waged in the Dandakaranya with the goals of ‘land to the tiller’,
‘exclusive rights to Adivasis on the forest’, ‘state power to oppressed
people’ and ‘liberation of women’. In the armed struggle against the
exploitative government and its army and in the political campaign,
the KAMS is marching ahead on par with other people’s organisations.
Utilising fully the right not to vote for political parties and leaders
who lost their credibility, it is actively participating in the boycott of
elections carried out with the alternative aim of establishing people’s
state power. The ruling classes, intolerant of these actions, target their
inhuman violence against Adivasi women.
The KAMS defends the struggles of the oppressed people against
exploitative ruling classes not only in Dandakaranya but also across
the country and abroad. It supports liberation struggles of oppressed
nationalities. It expressed its solidarity to the struggle that sprung up
during the killing of Manorama in Manipur. It exposed the social
fascist left parties and “communists” that killed Tapasi Malik at Singur.
It has upheld the militant participation of women in Nandigram and
Lalgarh people’s struggles. It has congratulated the Kashmiri woman
who called for Azad Kashmir protesting the atrocities of the Indian
Army in Jammu and Kashmir. It has given a call to stand by the
people waging struggles in Andhra Pradesh. Condemning the arrest
of Budini Munda (Sheela Didi), founder-president of Nari Mukti
Sangathan who worked tirelessly for the emancipation of women,
the KAMS mobilized public opinion through collection of signatures
demanding her release.
Since 1991 an undeclared ban on the KAMS is being executed
in Maharashtra. The activities of the organisation were restricted using
the TADA from 1991 to 1993 and the POTA was brought into effect
in 2002. Under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act
(MCOCA) the undeclared ban is being continued since then in
Maharashtra. Before the separation of Chattisgarh State, the then
Madhya Pradesh government was observing May 21 as Anti-Terrorist
5 Greenhunt: Day since 1992 and continues the undeclared ban on all revolutionary
people’s organisations. On April 19, 2005 the Central Government
banned revolutionary people’s organisations like the KAMS, the
DAKMS and Children’s Organisations under the Control of Unlawful
Activities Act.
Within a month of its swearing in the Central Government
banned the CPI (Maoist) on June 20, 2009 under a new fascist
legislation – the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). The
revolutionary women’s organisation that believes in the politics of
that party also could not escape the ban. The ban is being executed
on our organisation also.
The state has unleashed its violence on us since 1990. There
were women among the thousands of Adivasis who experienced the
TADA oppression between 1990 and 1995. An ordinary housewife
Chaitipallo who was accused in a TADA case in 1991 was sentenced
to life imprisonment in October 2004. The Adivasi women who never
stepped out of their villages had to run from Rajnandgaon to Nagapur
and Chandrapur, implicated as they were in the TADA cases, and
suffered imprisonment. They went through indescribable suffering
in the prisons of Jagdalpur, Dantewada, Amaravathi, Chandrapur
and Nagpur. By 1993, the phenomenon of making the KAMS activists
‘disappear’ has started. The whereabouts of the KAMS activists like
Tara, Pramila, Sukbatti and Jayavanta who thus disappeared are still
not known.
Feudal representatives like Kalam Masalu (Mahendra Karma),
who could not tolerate the challenge posed by the KAMS to the
feudal and patriarchal power of their tribe, colluded with the state
and tried to suppress it in the name of Jan Jagaran. But the women
could counter and withstand the Jan Jagaran of 1990 and 1997. Jan
Jagaran changed its guise since June 2005. In the name of ‘Salwa
Judum’ it has been attacking us like a man-eater. It rendered us shelter
less in Dantewada, Bastar and Bijapur. No home, farm, hut, pathway,
mahua tree, date-palm bush could shield us. Judum attacked like a
6 Greenhunt: pack of wolves and left the women as bleeding pieces of flesh. Our bodies were slashed into pieces by Naga, Mizo and CRPF forces. Not a house remained where a woman was not raped. Such was the intensity of their sexual violence. Our bodies were cut to pieces, our
breasts severed, private parts pierced with knives, opened wombs with
bayonets. As though this is not enough the state is preparing for
massive attacks on us.
Several intellectuals and democrats stood by us in the process of
defeating the fascist Salwa Judum attack on us planned by the
exploitative ruling classes. ‘Committee against Violence against
Women’ and ‘All India Women’s Group’ came down to Dantewada
and issued press statements condemning the fascist violence unleashed
on us. The members of National Women’s Commission condemned
the sexual atrocities and violence against women in the relief camps.
Even a little help during these troubled times gave us a lot of courage.
It is said that oppression leads to resistance. We have no life if
we do not defeat Salwa Judum that is challenging our existence.
Similarly war became inevitable to protect the rights achieved after
25 years of struggles. We learnt how to wage war in the course of war
itself.
From the Chattisgarh Assembly elections held in November 2008
to the Parliamentary election held in April-May 2009, more than
500 companies of paramilitary forces were deployed in Dandakaranya.
Now Assembly elections are about to be held in Maharashtra. Chief
Minister Ashok Chawan and Home Minister Jayant Patil requested
the Centre to send 8 battalions of army. Further they declare plans to
build Adivasi and Koya battalions. There are already C-60 forces in
Maharashtra and STF forces in Chattisgarh. Grayhound forces from
the neighboring State continuously attack on the villages in a killing
spree. The cruel Grayhound forces that killed revolutionaries in
hundreds and people, including women, also in hundreds extend
their purview to the neighboring Orissa and Chattisgarh and resort
to encounter killings and gang rapes. At the forefront of suppressing
7 Greenhunt: women’s movement by killing women activists and leaders and having a ‘great’ history of committing atrocities against Adivasi women in Vakapalli, these Grayhounds are now moving forward to suppress our women’s movement here also. The COBRA battalions specially trained for elimination of revolutionary movement are now being deployed.
In the border area of Dantewada and Andhra two battalions
of forces have already been deployed. Sonia-Manmohan-
Chidambaram is the trio that masterminded this attack.
Rulers of the State and the country make statements that the
attack will start after Deepavali. The police and para-military forces
are indulging in many atrocities against us with the focus on
elimination of revolutionary movement. They are preparing for a
genocide with the evil plan of eradicating the existence of Koya tribe.
We appeal to all women, people’s organisations and people to
stand by us, condemning the unfair, inhuman, undemocratic and
cruel attack being planned against us by the exploitative governments.
October 2009
With revolutionary greetings,
Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangham
Dandakaranya
8 Greenhunt: Hunting innocent Adivasis in the name of
Green Hunt – Adivasis Bitten by Cobras
(Fact Finding Report on Singanamadugu Incident)
The ruling classes are intensifying repression day by day,
proclaiming that left extremism is a great threat before the country
and with the aim of suppressing the Maoist party. The massive attack
that is planned now as part of this process, with coordination between
the Centre and the State governments, has now become the point of
discussion across the country. As part of this country-wide offensive
planned by the ruling class, the repressive action taken up in the
Dandakaranya region in Chattisgarh is named ‘Operation Green
Hunt’. The government announced that as part of this ‘Green Hunt’
Cobra forces attacked an arms factory run by the naxalites at
Singanamadugu village of Dantewada district in Dandakaranya, that
in this attack six Cobra police including two assistant commandants
and 12 Maoists were killed. In spite of the loss of six policemen, the
government claimed, it was a victory for the government forces and
a massive loss to the Maoists. It claimed that this first operation of
Cobras was successful. Various news items with different versions
found place in the media about this incident.
Several newspapers, democratic organisations and the Maoist
party have revealed the real facts of this incident. It was made clear
that no naxalites were killed in this incident, but that the government
forces killed innocent people in a planned manner. In this background
we visited the villages concerned to gather more details about this
incident. We try to put down the information that we collected in
the following pages.
On September 17 hundreds of Cobra, CRPF, NPO forces
attacked six villages, namely, Singanamadugu, Palachelima,
9 Greenhunt: Gattapadu, Gatchampally, Etrajpadu and Endapadu. The attack of government armed forces meant indiscriminate firing and killing of whoever is around, torturing, raping women, kidnapping, burning houses and property, destruction, roasting and eating goats and pigs or taking them away, robbing money or any valuable material. In short their practice of creating a climate of terror is very familiar to
the people here since the days Salwa Judum came into existence. It is
difficult for the people there to believe that the police are also human.
They treat the police as a unique species created to torture and kill
human beings. On the night of September 16 these bloodthirsty forces
quietly surrounded the villages in Kishtaram area of Dantewada
district. They had the information that some guerillas had camped
in Singanamadugu village. So their aim was to attack on this camp in
the early morning and to raid some more villages to create terror.
Since Salwa Judum all these villages had been alert to such attacks.
Nevertheless they could not suspect the surrounding presence of the
forces who had arrived in the night clandestinely with the help of
informers well-versed in the routes in the forest.
On the morning of the 17 innocence. The people of Singanamadugu village were getting ready to go about their daily chores. Some villages on their way to farm work recognised the police boot prints to their alarm. They sensed the impending danger.
Even while they were thinking as to how to protect their villages, the surroundings of the village echoed with terrible firing. Villagers ran helter-skelter. They sensed that attack started on the guerilla camp near their village. All the guerillas safely escaped the attack.
A resident of this village, 30-year old Madivi Deval, had left for
a nearby village Chinna Kedwal the evening before to buy toddy
from there for his relatives who were visiting. He slept there that
night and started for his village with toddy. In the meantime the
police firing started in his village. The sounds were heard by people
at Kedwal also. They warned Deval not to go to his village. Whatever
th these villages woke up in their 10 Greenhunt he might have thought, he started on a bicycle to his village. The police caught him near his village. After a while they brutally killed him and took away his body.
Deval’s father had died. Madivi Bhime was his mother. He was
married. Marey was his wife’s name. He had three small children, the
youngest daughter being only four months old.
His mother and wife had thought that he might have stayed
back in Chinna Kedwal. In the evening they learnt from Kedwal
people that he had left for his village in the morning itself. They
anxiously suspected that he must have gone into police hands. His
bicycle lay where he was caught by the police. In a distance his slippers
lay scattered. They thought he must have run away at the sight of
police, or that he might have been taken by the police to carry the
material seized from the guerilla camp. They waited hoping against
hope that he would come back when the police release him. But on
Monday, the 21 On their way to Singanamadugu attack the police brought three people from Tummal village. They killed Deval in front of them and made them carry his dead body. The villagers were released at Chintaguppa village.
They came back to announce the killing of Deval. They also revealed that Deval’s body was interred at Chintaguppa. They also showed the members of Deval’s family the site where he was killed. Dried blood stains were visible there. Those were the memorabilia he left behind for his mother, wife and children.
Deval was the eldest son in the family. He had two younger
sisters and a younger brother. Only one younger sister was married.
Since the younger brother was studying, Deval was solely responsible
for looking after his family. Now the burden fell on the shoulders of
the aged mother and the wife.We wanted to take photographs of Deval’s sons, so asked them to sit near their grandmother. The younger son Bhimal had no clothes on his body at that time. He came naked. Some one said let him st this hope vanished completely.
11 Greenhunt: wear some dress. The little one’s aunt was trying to get him dressed.
The grandmother then suggested, ‘Get him that new shirt his father
bought him’. Her sad face darkened further with these words. It must
have crossed her mind that this was the last shirt his father could
bring him or that his father could never bring him another shirt.
Every child feels proud of showing off a gift from parents. But this
shirt would not last long and the child would have nothing to show
as his father’s gift. Is this situation peculiar to little Bhimal? How
many more such little ones are there! The state is cruelly ravaging the
natural joy and fondness they have a right to.
Moreover, there is a culture of taking photographs in the society
outside. Even if the parents die young, at least there is a possibility to
preserve their image in a photograph. But here it is rare for people to
get photographed. As a result how abstract would be the concept of
parents to these orphaned children!
On the same morning, at 6 O’clock another batch of police
(about 300) raided Gatchampally village. Many villagers fled at the
sight of police entering the village. The ones who could not flee fell
prey to the bestiality of the police.
One such victim was an aged woman called Dudi Mooye. She
was about 70 years old. She was a mother of two sons and two
daughters. All the children were married and they also had children.
She lived with the eldest son Bhimal. Her two legs were paralyzed
due to some disease some years back. She could not walk. On the day
of the police raid, she had got up early and sat at the threshold. Sensing the police raid all the neighbors had fled. Unable to walk she remained where she was. As soon as the police came they started putting her hut on fire. The police had burnt the village once. She was asking, “You burnt us once. Why are you burning again?” Even while she was asking, the police bullets rained at her. A woman in the neighborhood who was hiding in the corn farm nearby remained the sole witness to this ghastly incident.
The old woman’s chest, thighs and legs were filled with bullets. The Cobras left marching forwards.
12 Greenhunt :with their hoods up leaving behind the dead body of the old woman. Madivi Andamal (45) and Jogi (40), man and wife, in the act of tilling their land, fell prey to the fangs of another batch of Cobras
coming from another side. They caught Andamal first. His wife saw
this and tried to run away in vain. The police surrounded her and
caught her too. With a knife they tore away the clothes of both of
them, brought them naked and beating them into the village. They
were brought to a place where traditional dances are held. At the
same time Madakam Chulal (45) also fell into the hands of police.
Chulal and his son Jogal had gone to till their land. There Chulal was
caught by the police. The son was able to escape. Chulal was also
brought to the dancing place. Unfortunately Chulal’s wife Mookey
also was caught at another place.
Kovasi Pojje (40) and Pojje’s daughter Bheeme (12) also fell in the hands of the police. Mookey and Pojje were also brought naked to the same place. They tore off 12-year old Bheeme’s clothes. She stood helpless in her short pettycoat. Andamal and Chulal were made to sit and shot dead in front of them. While killing they insisted – cursing “Look, you filchers!” – that their wives look at the inhuman act.
The women were dumbstruck with terror.
They could not even dare to beg them to leave their husbands alive.
After killing the two they cruelly cut off the private parts of Andamal.
The place that was normally used for rhythmic dances and festivities
of the young on moonlit nights for the first became a stage for the
horrific dance of death.
The house of Jogi-Andamal was burnt down after these gruesome
murders. The police then led away the three women beating them up
and raped them in the bushes in the middle of the village. Afterwards
they were dragged away.
Another police mob caught hold of Madivi Jogal, a 60-year old
man. He remained at home under the illusion that old people would
be spared. But he was caught. Seeing this, his wife stopped trying to
flee. They were thrown on the floor and indiscriminately beaten up.
Their teeth were broken by the impact of the blows. After the torture,
13 Greenhunt: Jogal was killed and Gangi was taken away and raped. The house was also burnt.
Another old man Gangal also fell prey to the bloodthirsty hounds. The 70-year old man had become blind, so could not move out of the house. The police beat him badly, broke his hand, stabbed with a knife. They left him on the brink of death and set fire to his house. By the time his children came back along with other villagers after the police had left, he was still fighting for life.
They gave him some water to drink. Groaning with pain, he died after some time. “They beat me to death. I cannot live. I will die” – were his last words. Thus in that small village of 70 households, the police killed five people. Dead bodies were left at the sites of killing. Houses of
four of the dead – Maye, Andamal, Jogal and Gangal – were burnt
down.
They also burnt down the houses of Madivi Idumal, Kovasi Ungi,
Kovasi Rajal, Kovasi Kosal, Mutchaki Bheema, Sodi Mangdu, Sodi
Aitha, Sodi Somal, Sodi Jogal, and Madivi Madal. Grains, clothers,
utensils and many more things were burnt in the houses. Three
bicycles and four radio sets were burnt. Cash was robbed from the
houses – Rs. 800 from Doodi Bhimal’s house, Rs. 1000 from Madivi
Jogi’s house, Rs. 500 from Kovasi Kosi’s house, Rs. 200 from Madivi
Madal’s house, Rs. 3,300 from Sodi Mangdu’s house, Rs. 200 from
Sodi Somal’s house, and Rs. 3,500 from Sodi Aithal’s house. About
Rs. 7,000 worth of gold in Kovasi Rajal’s house melted away and
could not be retrieved.
The food grains, clothes, money and other things that these
people lost may not be worth lakhs of rupees, but in a society of
primitive economy these are all very valuable to the people here. They
were all acquired by their sheer labour. There is no guarantee that
they can re-earn all these possessions. Even in normal circumstances
it would take a long time for them to earn back all these lost things.
It is much more difficult when the state is vengeful against them.
The police caught hold of Adamal’s wife Jogi, Chulal’s wife
14 Greenhunt: Mookey, Jogal’s wife Gangi, Pojje and her daughter Bheeme, another woman by name Sodi Kosi and her 4-year old daughter and Madivi Madal, a deaf old man. The two children of the couple Sodi Malle and Mangdu were caught but escaped. The police raided their house when the children were asleep. The 15-year old elder son was beaten up. The house was set on fire. When the police were busy burning and destroying, the elder one lifted his younger brother on to his shoulders and ran away.
Among the women caught by the police, Jogi, Mookey, Pojje
and Gangi were brutally raped. They were made completely naked.
The blouse and upper cloth of Pojje’s daughter Bheeme was torn
away. Only a short petticoat remained on her. They pinched the breasts
and hit with guns the private parts of even this child. Only Sodi Kosi
remained untouched. “They might have done the same things to
me, but my little daughter used to wail whenever they approached
me. May be that is why they left me alone,” she said.
In this incident as in many more there is evidence of raping
middle aged and elderly women. In the war climate that descended
on the region since the formation of Salwa Judum, young women are
not being sent to markets or elsewhere. There was a general
understanding that young women may be raped and killed by the
police, who may at the most beat up and leave alone the aged women.
When police take away anybody, it is the middle aged and elderly
women who go to the police to get their people back. Even in this
incident it is only such women who went to get their people released
or to get back their dead bodies. Young women were not allowed to
go. But it appears that the police are stooping to rape older women
too in order to stop women from fighting altogether without leaving
them the hope that the older women would be spared, and to create
terror specifically in women and in all the people in general.
The police were in the village for only half an hour. Even in
such a short time they killed five people and raped four. 16 houses
belonging to 14 families were burnt down. A lot of property was
15 Greenhunt: destroyed. Thousands of rupees were robbed.
All the people who were caught were made to walk up to Kollai
village. They lost all hopes of living. Just as they were nearing Kollai
village, the militia started firing at the police. Heavy rain started at
the same time. The police were busy defending themselves and left
the villagers alone. Taking advantage of the situation they slowly
escaped behind the bushes and later ran away. On the way they fell
into a ditch with neck deep water and with difficulty swam back up.
After reaching the outskirts of their village, the women picked up
pieces of cloth thrown away by the police and tried to cover themselves
up as much as they could.
Jogi, Mookey and Gangi, who arrived home in the evening like
walking wounds, had to face the sight of the blood-strewn dead bodies
of their husbands and the burnt down houses. Sodi Kosi and Madivi
Madal, who also had escaped from the clutches of the police, approached their burnt out houses with heavy steps. Many of the villagers had gone away to cut bamboo when the police raided on the village. “We were not at home. We went to cut bamboo. Or else we also would have been killed,” the villagers told us again and again.
Those who escaped from the police said, “If the militia had not
attacked and if there had been no heavy downpour, the police would
have killed us too for sure.” All the five persons killed in this village neither worked in any sangham of them were old men – one of them could not walk, another could not see. Madal, whom the Police tried to take away, was deaf. How can the governments, which claim the aim of Green Hunt is to suppress naxalites, justify these killing of innocent and old people?
Though they took away all those killed in other villages, they did not
take away the dead bodies from this village. They must have left
them because they cannot cover up before the press the old age of the
killed even by dressing the dead bodies in uniform.
nor actively involved in any revolutionary committees. Three
16 Greenhunt: The raid occurred on September 17 and when we visited the village on October 13 the village still bore the look of a cemetery
eerie in its silence. No one lived in the village after that incident.
They scattered here and there in the forest. The village looked vast.
Every house was surrounded by corn plantations, vegetable plants,
and thick creepers of bottle gourd, pumpkin and beans. From each
house one could look at only greenery, not another house. Only in
summers perhaps one house would be visible from another. Weeds
thickly populated even the streets. Only narrow paths were available
for walk from one house to the other. Now that there was no
habitation, even these small walks were covered up by plants. We had
to make our way by disentangling these plants. With the help of a
village committee member we looked at each burnt down house. In
the midst of the refreshing greenery, the houses that turned into ash
and coal looked as ugly as scarecrows in a green farm.
After visiting the village, we arrived at the place where the
runaway people were taking shelter at five spots. Those who had
built huts away from the village in the fear of Judum attacks were
taking shelter in those. Each hut sheltered three to four families. It
was dark when we reached them. We talked to them, ate in their
houses and slept there itself. We noticed that mothers of infants,
children and old people were sleeping inside. The rest slept outside
spreading a lungi or a blanket on the ground. Many did not have
anything to cover themselves. How can the people who had to
abandon their village have cots? Those who had their houses burnt
also lost their clothes and blankets in the fire. They had nothing to
wear and cover themselves. Since these huts had no walls and doors,
if the food is forgetfully left on the floor instead of hanging it from
the top, there is fear that dogs eat it up. Uncooked rice packed in
bags is eaten by the dogs if left on the floor. Normally during
agricultural season all leave home as soon as they get up in the
morning. Where there are several members in the family, one of them
stays back to cook and look after other chores. We slept in the night
17 Greenhunt: and thought of interacting with some more of them in the morning.
However, we did not notice anybody leaving for work. Women got
up and started cooking. All members of the household started eating
at nine o’clock. To our query why nobody went to work, they answered
that in the village back there that used to be the case. Here they were
afraid of being home alone. Moreover, if you cook and go to fetch if
nobody is around at home the dogs might eat away the cooked food.
So they all eat together, clean everything and go to work together.
Thus the people suffer due to loss of their villages and permanent
habitats. The government talks of implementing development
schemes in naxal-dominated areas. We do not know what kind of
development they wish to bring, but what is happening here is
displacement of people, destruction of their livelihoods, decimation
of their food grains and even their clothes and annihilation of the
development achieved historically by the people. Then what is the
meaning of development that the government is talking about? What
kind of development does it want to bring about? Is it to destroy
them, make them paupers first and then to sprinkles a few morsels at
them in charity?
From Gatchmapally we went to Gattapadu. The police raided
the village on the morning of the 17. This village was also abandoned soon after by the villagers. When we visited the village on October 14 only about 40% people were living in the village. They also stayed in the village only during day time to cook and eat, and go into forest in the night.
The police shot dead Paddam Deval (25), Sodi Masal (20) and
Doodi Pojjal (15) here. Deval’s mother was Somdi, father Jogal, wife Deve, grandmother Bheeme. Deval was the father of a little girl of less than one year of age.
The police caught Deval in a street. Masal was also caught along
with him. Masal’s mother saw them apprehended by the police. She
told this to Deval’s wife Deve. Deval’s wife started immediately
th at around 11 or 12 o’clock.
18 Greenhunt: carrying her infant daughter on her shoulder. By then the police were on their way back with Deval, Masal and Pojjal. Deve followed them. The police stopped on the outskirts of the village. The three captives were made to sit there. Deve reached there. Her husband asked her to bring the child to him. She handed over the child to her husband and asked the police, “Why did you bring my husband who is only a labourer? What did he do?” In response the police asked her to reveal the whereabouts of the Committee in the village. She lifted up her husband, saying “I don’t know anybody. Leave my husband.” Deval
stood up holding the baby. The police pushed him down along with
the baby. In the meantime Deval’s grandmother, 60-year old Bheeme
reached there. She tried to pull her grandson from the hands of the
police saying, “I won’t allow my grandson to be taken”. The police
pushed hard and the baby fell down. The father fell on top of the
baby. The grandmother fell on top of him. She held to his waist,
wailing, “If you take away my grandson, who will look after me, who
will work for us?” Deval also held her tightly. Separating the two, the
police beat the weak old lady indiscriminately with butts of guns and
sticks. She was lifted up and thrown down several times. Undeterred,
she kept demanding, “Kill me, but don’t take my grandson”.
The police said, “We won’t take him. He will show us the route.” But the wife and the grandmother insisted that he not be taken. The police
held him by the neck with a piece and cloth and dragged him for a
distance. Picking up the baby from the ground, the wife shouted
angrily, “Why are you dragging my husband like that? Is he a dog?”
The police removed the cloth from his neck and tied it to his arm.
Deve angrily untied the cloth. Deval’s mother arrived in the meantime.
She also begged them to leave him. Deval’s father was alive. But with
the hope of arousing pity, she pleaded, “I am a widow. How can we
live if you take away my son?” There was no use. The police went
ahead with the captives. The three women went behind them. The
police stopped at a place, cooked and ate. The captives were made to
sit. Masal’s hands were bound at his back. But Deval and Pojjal were
19 Greenhunt: allowed to sit with binding their hands. But the police stood around them. Deval piteously told his women to follow them till Palem. While the police ate, the women kept pleading with them to release their men. When the police started after eating, they again followed them. The police strongly told them not to follow. They aimed their guns at them. But the women did not turn back. “We will go wherever you take Deval. We will go back only if you release”, they said firmly.
With this a batch of police stayed back and kept pelting stones at the
women. The other batch took the captives away. As there was an
infant also with them, the women had to finally turn back. “Only we
three fought. Had the families of all three fought, there might have
been some effect,” recalled Deval’s grandmother.
After returning home, the mother was restless and went back,
in vain. The next day these three women, the family members of
Masal and Pojjal, and some other villages together went to Kishtaram
police station. The police there feigned ignorance. But the villagers
came to know unofficially that the captives had already been shifted
from there. On the 20 people were killed and buried. The press reporters there showed them the photographs of the dead. The faces were unidentifiable. They recognised the persons by their shirts. Helpless, they went back to their village wailing.
Paddam Deval is the eldest son of his house. Doodi Pojjal (15)
is the adopted son of Deve and Jogal. Though they had daughters,
they adopted the son of Jogal’s brother. Learning that the police were
coming to his village, Pojjal, who was working in his farm, ran to his
house to hide away his belongings like the radio, bicycle, money, etc.
He quickly gathered some clothes into a bundle, picked up the money
and started on his bicycle. But he was caught by the police.
When she came to know about the capture of her son, Deve
went to Palem. She went only after Deval’s mother, wife and
grandmother had come back empty-handed. Though she knew that
there was no use, she went with some hope. By the time she reached
th they all went Konta. They heard that some
20 Greenhunt: Palem, however, the police had left the place. Afterwards, Pojjal’s parents went with the rest to Kishtaram and Konta. But they lost the son, whom they adopted in the hope that he would look after them.
Sodi Masal was the only son of Sangi and Ungal. He was married
to Idime in 2005. They had no children. Masal was on bed when the police came. His wife shouted saying the police were coming. She asked another woman to see which they were coming from. Masal got up and went out. In a few minutes he was captured by the police. Masal and Deval were caught at the same time. From behind the bushes, Masal’s mother saw them being caught by the police. But she did not dare to come before the police. Masal’s father was out of the village then.
He was not aware that the police took his son away until he came back home on the 19 father was not at home, the next morning the mother went with the other people to Kishtaram. Masal’s wife insisted that she too would come. But her mother-in-law stopped her saying, “If you come, you will also meet with the same fate. Don’t come.” The day after that also she cried and wanted to accompany them to Konta. But everyone stopped her.
Her words expressed the anguish she felt at her helplessness even
when her husband was taken away by the police. Masal’s sister said with a darkened face, “When the police caught my brother, the marks of his resistance are still there on the road.
They are not erased. How can we forget him? With all the signs. May
be the rains will remove them.” Rains may remove the signs on the ground, how can the bruises of the mind be healed?
The police who killed three people of the village beat up and
left Doodi Kosal and Doodi Ungal free. Let us talk about Palachelimi village. The police killed Tuniki Sinnal (Ramakrishna) (35), Sodi Sanesh (43) and Doodi Adamal (35) of this village. th. Though the
21 Greenhunt:The police came to this village around 10 or 11 in the morning. As soon as they arrived they caught 16 people (Tuniki Veeral, Vader Penchal, Vader Muttal, Vader Bhimal, Jogal, Vader Veeral, Tuniki Sinu, Parishka Dharmal, Tuniki Venkatesh, Tuniki Suri, Vader
Dharmal, Podiyam Kotesh, Tuniki Chitti, Sodi Veeral, Sodi Dharmal
and Tati Kamal) and beat them up badly. They tried to take away all
these people. But their mothers and wives reached the place and
protested strongly demanding their release. The women did not step
back undeterred by the threats from the police. They declared that
they would turn back without their people. “Who will work for us if
they are not around? Who will look after us?” they argued. The women
did not allow the police to move from about 10 or 11 am to 5 in the
evening. The police had to leave the captive free at last. The same
batch of police demolished the memorial in the village for a Maoist
leader Sukhdev. While the first batch of police was leaving the village,
from another side at around 5 pm another batch of police entered.
As soon as they came to the village they caught Sinnal, Sanesh and
Adamal almost at the same place. Adamal had gone to Sanesh’s house.
Both were caught there. In his house nearby Sinnal was caught. They
took away these three with them.
Veere was the wife of Tuniki Sinnal (Ramakrishna). His father’s
name is Ramulu. The couple had two children: 8-year old son and 1-
year daughter. When this incident occurred the wife was not at home.
She had gone to her mother’s house. She came to know about this
news on the 19 The younger one was studying in school. The father lost his eldest son who was the breadwinner for the family. His misfortune did not end here. Mutti was his daughter and Sanesh, his son-in-law. The police killed Sanesh also brutally along with Sinnal. Sanesh had two children. The youngest one is still breastfed. Sanesh’s mother is Budri.
Adamal was also caught at Sanesh’s house along with him. Adamal’s
mother is Aite, father Sukeram, wife Gangi. He got married seven
th. Ramulu had two sons. The eldest was Sinnalu.
22 Greenhunt: years ago and had no children yet.
The morning after these three were captured, the family members
of all three went to Kishtaram. The villagers warned them not to go
and that they would be killed if they went. But they insisted that that
they would go even at the cost of their lives.
Though they went, they remained at a distance from the police
station. They were afraid of going near. (We can understand how
much tyranny is hidden in this 60-year old ‘democracy’ from the
way people are afraid to step into a police station, which is supposed
to protect the people.) Somebody told them that the police brought
some dead bodies with military dresses and that they were claiming
they were naxalites. These people thought that since their men were
caught in shirt and reporter showed the photographs they identified them and started wailing.
The villages learnt that among the captives from Gattam and
Palachelimi, except Adamal all the rest were killed near the road
between Nallabelli and Gollapelli and went there to see the spot.
They saw pools of congealed blood and pieces of clothes of the victims.
They brought back these rags as keepsakes. Adamal was killed at
Paidagudem at a distance from this spot. His towel and other things
were found lying there. Adamal’s wife recalled painfully that they did
not even spare his underwear which was also torn to pieces. She also
painfully wondered what happened to the watch he was wearing.
The pain of not being even left with things that belonged to the man
echoed in her voice. The auction of Gandhi’s belongings is greatly
debated across the country. Adamal, Deval, Pojjal, Sanesh, Masal,
Sinnal may not be as ‘great’ as Gandhi. Their belongings may not be
the nation’s heritage. But are they not valuable and worth preserving
to their parents, spouses, progeny, friends and relatives?
“I got my son married young. They had no children. I consider
them as children. Now he is no more,” reflected Adamal’s mother
sadly. She was in tears when adding, “They should have killed him
lungi, it may not be them. But when the press
23 Greenhunt: near the house. I would have cried over his body and buried him. Now they killed like an orphan”. His wife also shared with us crying, “They should have at least handed over his body to us. There is no evidence of his death. It feels as if he has gone to another village, not died. How can we forget the pain?”
The people question, “Why are our people killed? What right
do the police and the government have to kill them?” They should
question like that. But people like Adamal’s mother and wife say,
“Let them kill. What right do the police have to make them into
orphan dead bodies?” This way of questioning itself is extremely
troubling. They are not referring to strangers or enemies when they
say ‘let them kill’. They refer to their beloved sons and husband, on
whom they anchored all their hopes – of continuing their clan, of
getting support in their last days, of sharing life for a hundred years.
One can understand how well they understood the inherent quality
of the state, which is to oppress, to kill indiscriminately.
We cannot go with the dead. Life has to go on. The dead will
not come back. We need to shoulder the responsibilities with a firm
mind. Only then will the household, children, family and the society
will get back to normalcy. But how can people like Adamal’s wife
make up their mind like this while waiting for a dead person as if he
has gone to a neighboring village? “At least give us the dead bodies,”
begged the friends and relatives of the dead in anguish. Their hope to
see their beloved at least for the last time flickered in this request.
They wanted to perform at least the last rites in their traditional way.
If the politicians or the rich are blasted to pieces in an accident, the
pieces of their bodies are picked up carefully, preserved in airconditioned boxes, airlifted and displayed for public tribute, even
when one is not sure as to whom the pieces of flesh exactly belonged.
Last rites are performed for these pieces pompously. Nobody thinks
of just burying those pieces wherever they were found. Just because
the people here are poor, because the state dislikes them, should their
bodies get unceremonious burial as if they had no identity? Should
24 Greenhunt: their near and dear have at least a last look at their bodies? Don’t these bodies deserve a fistful of earth from their people?
While going for Adamal’s body, his wife called her relative by
telephone on the way. He told her that the captives had been killed
and might have been buried. Since she thought they might not keep
the body till she came, she then begged him to see to it that the body
be given a proper burial and that she would pay for it.
If we see the way Adamal’s wife wanted a decent burial for her
husband even if she could not get back the body and perform last
rites amidst the family, we can understand how much importance
these people attach to the last rites.
The places of burial or cremation have some significance. If the
dead are ‘great’, the places of their death, burial or cremation are
turned into vast parks and tourist centres. To make them as such, a
number of ordinary people are displaced if necessary. Several people
visit the tombs, place bouquets on them and pay rich tributes. All
this process is duly telecast by media. Ordinary people build a small
tomb and tribals install a stone at the site. They look at the tombstone
now and then and speak to others about it. But these people do not
even know where their people lay buried. The places of the poor
dead need not be transformed into memorial centres. Nobody need
place bouquets at these places. But how inhuman can it be that no
possibility was left for the near and dear to pay visits to the places!
In fact, the desire for a last look at the dead is not just a personal
sentiment. It is the legal right that everyone should be entitled to.
Even when the dead body is not identified, its clear photograph should
be published in newspapers so that the dead individual’s body is
identified and taken away by the relatives. This is legally the bounden
duty of the police. But here even known people are declared
unidentified, their bodies buried hastily and their rights violated.
Courts that claim to be protecting law and justice also turn blind
in such matters. Even if the poor victims cannot go to courts, the
latter can intervene in such matters. There were indeed a number of
25 Greenhunt: cases when the courts made such interventions when it was not inconvenient to the governments.
Media, which sensationalise trivial issues and create news when
there is none, in order to attract viewers, also are indifferent to such
inhuman issues that ought to be brought to the notice of people.
They hide facts or distort them.
These are the lives lost, destruction done, blows received, hearts
ravaged, rights violated in a small operation carried out in a day as
part of the Green Hunt planned by the government in the name of
suppressing Maoists. All these most brutal and cold-blooded murders
were declared by the government as encounter deaths. The government is hunting innocent tribals in the name of the Green Hunt. Though initially the newspapers reported them as encounter deaths, following the government version, later when the facts came to light they wrote that the dead were innocent tribals.
Some newspapers said that the police killed the people in retaliation to the naxal attack on the police. But this reporting suggests to the public mind that the police would not have killed the people, had not the naxals attacked the police. Leaving aside the fact that even if the naxals were the first to attack, the police had no right to kill people or the naxals in retaliation, it is worth noting that it is only while the police were returning after creating mayhem and bloodshed in the villages that exchange of fire took place between the Maoists and the police forces.
It was in this exchange that six police, including two officers, died.
We gathered these facts directly from the family members of the
dead and other victims. However we also heard from them many
such recent gruesome acts. Though we have not directly met the
victims we wish to briefly mention here what we heard.
After failing in the attempt to suppress revolutionary movement
in Dandakaranya by planning an offensive on a large scale in the
name of Salwa Judum, the ruling classes initiated national level
offensive with coordination among different States. As part of the
26 Greenhunt: Green Hunt, first they took up an operation for 3-4 days in Mirtur area of Bijapur district. They raided on Vetchem, Oukyam and Urem villages in this operation. On August 10, they shot dead six people who were going to a shandy. The victims were Oyam Sagar (30) of Vetchem village, Telugu Pandral (25) of Oukyam village, Hapka Lingu (25) of the same village, Tati Lakmu (25) of Etepadu village, Tati
Aitu (45) of the same village, and Karam Somli (16) of Timmenar
village, Only Karam Somli among them is a member of the
The rest were innocent tribals. Somli was also unarmed and in civil
dress when the police captured her. Though it was very well possible
to arrest her, the police brutally shot her dead.
Kunjam Bhima was shot dead in Duvvalkarka village in
Dantewada district on September 7. Sodi Sannal (25), Sodi Bhimal
(30), Sodi Aite (30), Madivi Deval (60) were shot dead when
Gollagudem village was raided in Jegurugonda area on September 7.
In this incident Madivi Deval’s body was left at the place of incident
and the rest were declared dead in an encounter. These three were
also relations of each other. Since it is difficult to show that the 50-
year old Madivi Deval as a naxalite, his body was not taken and his
death was not made public.
The police raided on Gompadu, Chintaguppa, Nulakatogu,
Velipotcha and Bandarupodaru villages on October 10. Gompadu is
a village that was strongly influenced by the politics of revolutionary
movement. So the raid was conducted to create terror among people
here and thereby distance them from the revolutionary movement.
The forces that came in 4 batches (600-800) from Vinjaram police
camp, Bejji and Konta police stations made this raid. On the day of
the police raid, the villagers were celebrating some festival. Relatives
also came to the village from neighboring villages on this occasion.
The entire day was spent in festivities. The raid occurred even before
the celebrations concluded. In the police firing during this raid Madivi
Soyam Subba (20), Soyam Jogi (18) and Kartem Kanni lost their
Dalam.
27 Greenhunt: lives. Soyam Subba and Soyam Jogi had been just married a month ago. Their lives ended before the end of their wedding celebrations.
Kartem Kanni was the mother of an infant. Mutti was only ten years
old. There was an indiscriminate firing on children, old people and
others. Along with these people of the village, Madivi Deval who
had come here on a visit from Gopalapuram the border village in
Andhra Pradesh was also shot dead. Kartem Mutta died in the raid on Chantiguppa. Musaki Deva who had come on a visit to Chintaguppa from Kunadabba village also died. He used to be the Sarpanch of Kunadabba. Kunjem Arli died in the raid on Velupotcha village, Musaki Mooka, in the raid on Nulakatongu village.
The police who killed Kartem Kanni during the raid also behaved
like beasts with her 9-month old child. They crushed the infant’s
fingers against the ground with their boots, hit her on her mouth
with the butt of their gun badly bruising her lips. The baby who had
lost her mother’s milk now found it difficult to drink any milk at all.
The police also injured another woman called Sodi Santo. They
burned two houses and took away Rs. 19,000 cash. The police also
took away several poultry. In Chintaguppa also 13-year old Madivi
Bheema is on the verge of death with a bullet stuck in her neck. The
police looted a total of Rs. 60,000 from the village and burnt down a
house. Though they killed so many people in a day, they did not
even announce it as encounter.
In Kamuluru village the police caught Madakam Raju (20), an
activist of Revolutionary Students Union and a resident of Timmenar
village, and shot him dead on October 7. On October 13, Podiam
Somdu (45) of Kutul Lakma village was shot dead. Kovasi Sukram
(45) and Madakam Sannu (45) of Kankagudem village were shot
dead on October 17.
On October 24, the police raided on the villages of Pujari Kanker,
Gunjuru, Marudubaka, Poosubaka, Murukum, Gaganpalli and
Singam in Usuru area of Dantewada district. Four batches of Cobra,
28 Greenhunt: Koya Commandos and SPOs raided the villages. During this raid, they shot dead a youth, Madivi Ungal, of Gundam villae while he was going to Poosubaka. Another person by name Kamulu also of
the same village was also injured in this incident. Kalumu Gangi and another woman of Pujari Kanker village were raped and brutally killed. Similarly, Musaki Chukka of Gunjuru village was killed along with another young man.
The police killed five people but took away the bodies of only
three, dressed the bodies in military fatigues and declared them as
naxalites slain in two different encounters. The women killed were
not mentioned. The two women were middle-aged and each with 5-
6 children. They did not disclose the bodies perhaps since their age
betrays the fact that they were not naxalites.
Among the dead, Ungal of Gundam village is the only son of
his parents. His father had died of snake bite the previous year, when
he was sleeping in the forest due to fear of Judum attack. The mother
had only Ungal since then. She has lost this support also now with
Ungal’s death. She went to Basagudem to get her son’s dead body.
She stayed there two days begging and fighting for the body. Finally
they demanded a bribe of Rs. 15,000. The mother who could not
pay that sum had to return with a heavy heart without even having a
last look at her son.
The two young men killed at Gunjur were shown as killed in an
encounter at Kondapalli. It was also claimed that they found a motor
bike during the encounter. The motor bike in fact belonged to one
Satyanarayana, a shopkeeper of Poosubaka village. Satyanarayana’s
son Ganesh was going to his village on the motor bike when he saw
the police and left the bike there and ran away. The police stole the
motor bike and gave a statement that it belonged to naxalites.
The police thus not only killed five people but also made five
others ‘disappear’. Two of them were residents of Singam village and
two belonged to Pujari Kanker village.
Further, the police burnt some houses, took away poultry and
29 Greenhunt: pigeons, robbed Rs. 33,000 of cash and even good clothes.The police disappeared two DAKMS leaders – Dulal and Bandi
– in Katte Kalyani area in Dantewada district. They raided on Bellam
Nendra and Gottodu village in Madded area of Bijapur district on
October 14 and burnt down 15 houses. They also burnt some houses
in Mankeli and Korma village in Ganguluru area. In end-September
they burnt some houses in Darbha area in Dantewada district. After
the Operation Green Hunt was declared, in the raids that were
conducted from August 10 to October 24, the police brutally killed
44 people in Dantewada and Bijapur districts. There were 8 women,
a girl and a boy (Pojjal) among these. Among those killed by the
police only two (Karam Somli and Madakam Raju) were professional
revolutionaries. They were killed while they were unarmed. The rest
were innocent rural folk. Many such rural people were disappeared
by the police. Six women were raped. Many were beaten up and
injured by bullets. 13-year old Madivi Bheeme was also thus injured.
Their cruel torture of a 9-month old baby was the height of their
bestiality. Apart from cruelly torturing and injuring people they burnt
down many houses and other property, robbed goats, poultry and
thousands of rupees of cash. Whenever they raided robbing cash,
valuables, good clothes, goats and poultry became a routine.
The police are meant for apprehending criminals, murderers
and thieves. But police all over and thieves. Here the police
and thieves.
The situation is this worse even before the offensive is intensified.
If it intensifies, without doubt genocide of tribals will take place.
The ruling classes began this offensive only because the tribal people
are opposing the transfer of the forest resources to imperialists and
multi-national companies, and are asserting their rights over the
forests. The ruling classes are vengeful of the Maoist party because
the Party stood by these people. Even after 60 years of so-called
independence never did the ruling classes think about the
also behave like criminals, murderersonly behave like criminals, murderers
30 Greenhunt: development of tribal areas. But now they talk of development and say the Maoists should be suppressed since they obstruct development.
In fact the country is facing a number of major challenges today.
Poverty is increasing day by day and living standards are on the decline. Unemployment, inflation, hunger deaths, diseases, illiteracy,
insecurity, corruption, scarcity of food, famine, scarcity of water and
many such issues are deeply troubling people’s lives. The country is
going through a major financial crisis. The ruling classes that don’t
have the capacity and integrity to resolve these issues indulge in the
malicious propaganda – by projecting naxalite issue through a
magnifying glass – that left extremism is the only challenge facing
the country, to divert people’s attention from these issues. The
governments have plotted, with the help of imperialists, to evict people
from this land by deploying armed forces with the excuse of
suppressing the Maoists, killing people indiscriminately, destroying
everything, and creating a terror regime. The responsibility of
defeating this plot now lies with the people of this country and all
democratic-minded people. The Adivasi struggle for their resources
is not theirs alone. Nor is it confined to a region. The struggle that is
targeted against the imperialists and comprador ruling classes relates
to the sovereignty, independence, self-determination and autonomy
of this country. Therefore we should stand by this struggle, become
part of it and oppose the suppression of this struggle by the ruling
classes.
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31 Greenhunt: Details of the people killed in the hands of police in the name of “Greenhunt” from 10 th August 2009 to 24th October 2009
S.No Name / Age Village District Date of Incident Place where Type of
they were killed killing 1 Oyam Sagar (30) Vechham Bijapur August 10th In between Tekkam – Shot dead Vechham
2 Telugu Pandral (25) Oukyam – do – – do – – do – – do –
3 Hapka Lingu (25) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
4 Tathi Lakku (25) Yetepadu – do – – do – – do – – do –
5 Tathi Ithu (45) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
6 Karam Somli (16)
(Dalam member) Timmenar – do – – do – – do – – do –
7 Kunjam Bheema Duvval Karka Dantewada September 7th Duvval Karka – do –
8 Sodi Sannal (25) Gollagudem – do – September 10th Gollagudem Shot dead in Ambush
9 Sodi Bheemal (30) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
10 Sodi ietai (30) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
11 Madivi Deval (50) – do – – do – – do – – do – Shot dead in
Ambush, not
declared as encounter
12 Madivi Deval (30) Singanamadugu – do – September 17th Singanamadugu shot dead in custody
and not declared
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13 Dudi Muye (70) Gachhampalli – do – – do – – do – – do –
14 Madivi Adamal (45) – do – – do – – do – Gachhampalli – do –
15 Madakam Chulal (45) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
16 Madivi Jogal (60) – do – Dantewada September 17th Gachhampalli – do –
17 Madivi Gangal (70) – do – – do – – do – – do – Beaten to death and
not declared
as encounter
18 Paddem Deval (21) Gattampadu – do – – do – In between Shot in custody
Nallabelli-Gollapalli
19 Dudi Pojjal (15) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
20 Sodi Massal (20) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
21 Tuniki Sinnal (35) Paalachelima – do – – do – – do – – do –
22 Sodi Sanesh (43) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
23 Dudi Adamal (35) – do – – do – – do – Pydhagudem – do –
24 Madivi Bazar (40) Gompadu – do – October 1st Gompadu Killed in
Indiscriminate firing,
not declared as
an encounter
25 Madavi Subba (35) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
26 Madavi Enka (50) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
27 Soyam Subba (20) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
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28 Soyam Jogi (18) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
29 Karnam Kanni – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
30 Madivi Muthi (10) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
31 Madivi Deval Gopalapuram Khammam – do – – do – – do –
32 Karnam Mutha Chintaguppa Dantewada – do – – do – – do –
33 Musaki Deva Kunadabba Dantewada October 1st Gompadu – do –
34 Kunjam Arli Velpocha – do – – do – – do – – do –
35 Musaki Muka Nulka Thongu – do – – do – – do – – do –
36 Madakam Raju (20) Timmenar Bijapur – do – Kamulooru Shot in custody
(Student’s Union Activist)
37 Podium Somdu (45) Kuthul lakka – do – October 13th Kuthul Lakka – do –
38 Koovasi Sukram (45) Kankagundam – do – October 17th Kankagundam – do –
39 Madakam Sannu (45) – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
40 Madivi Ungaal Gundam – do – October 24th Pusubaaka – do –
41 Kalumu Gangi Pujari Kanker – do – – do – Pujari Kanker Raped and killed,
not declared as
an encounter
42 Another Woman – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –
43 Musaki Chukka Gunjuru – do – – do – Gunjuru Shot in custody
44 Another Young man – do – – do – – do – – do – – do –