The People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) has from time to time drawn attention to the commission of heinous crimes by Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir as well as condemned the attempt of the authorities to deny that they flow out of impunity provided by the Armed Forces Special P
The derailment of the Gyaneshwari E xpress on 28 May, either due to sabotage or e xplosion as per media reports, in which, as reported, more than 150 people have already lost their lives, is highly reprehensible and completely indefensible.
The Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) strongly condemns the recent Communist Party of India (Maoist) attack targeting a local passenger bus resulting in the indiscriminate killing of 11 special police offi cers (SPOs) and 24 civilians in Dantewada.
The People’s Union for Democratic Rights believes that the death of over 70 jawans in Dantewada in the early hours of 6 April is an unfortunate fallout of the government’s wilful policy of pursuing “Operation Green Hunt”.
The Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) is outraged by the massacre of 12 people and the wounding of 50 others on 17 February in Phulwaria-Korasi village of Jamui district of Bihar, allegedly by the CPI (Maoist).
Shahid Azmi is no more. He led a turbulent and rebellious life. When he was in his mid-teens, he saw his co-religionist slaughtered in the 1992-93 anti-Muslim carnage in Mumbai.
The findings of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Shopian incident of 29 May 2009 appear to be yet another instance – a particularly blatant and strident one – of the mockery of justice that has repeatedly characterised the Indian state’s operations in Kashmir.
Debasish Chakraborty, news editor of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] newspaper Ganashakti, recently wrote (EPW, 14 November 2009) that according to reports Chatradhar Mahato had collected large sums and taken out a life insurance policy of Rs 1 crore for himself.
Display of military strength by the state, boycott calls by armed groups, lure of money to voters and horse-trading after the elections make Manipur's seventh assembly elections a mockery of democracy.
