INDIA FASCIST ATTACKS : HUNTING INNOCENT IN THE NAME OF GREEN HUNT

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Hunting innocent Adivasis in thename of Green Hunt –Adivasis Bitten

by Cobras Damayanti

Viplava Rachayitala Sangham

May 2010  

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Hunting innocent Adivasis in the name ofGreen Hunt – Adivasis Bitten

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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

Bajar (40), Madivi Subba (35), Madivi Mutti (10), Madivi Enka (50),

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

32 Greenhunt:

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 –

33 Greenhunt:

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 –

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