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Do you believe what Ms. Roy says?
by Rishi Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:45 pm
While the preparations for deployment are being made, the jungles of Central India continue to remain under siege, with villagers frightened to come out, or go to the market for food or medicine. Hundreds of people have been jailed, charged for being Maoists under draconian, undemocratic laws. Prisons are crowded with adivasi people, many of whom have no idea what their crime is. Recently, Soni Sori, an adivasi school-teacher from Bastar, was arrested and tortured in police custody. Stones were pushed up her vagina to get her to “confess” that she was a Maoist courier. The stones were removed from her body at a hospital in Calcutta, where, after a public outcry, she was sent for a medical check-up. At a recent Supreme Court hearing, activists presented the judges with the stones in a plastic bag. The only outcome of their efforts has been that Soni Sori remains in jail while Ankit Garg, the Superintendent of Police who conducted the interrogation, was conferred with the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry on Republic Day.
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?280234
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?280234
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Re: Do you believe what Ms. Roy says?
by Rishi Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:52 pm
>>>What should all indians do according to this woman?
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Re: Do you believe what Ms. Roy says?
by truthbetold Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:02 pm
Rishi,
Human rights are for everyone. If this women's rights were trampled upon, justice must be done. if not why have democracy?
Human rights are for everyone. If this women's rights were trampled upon, justice must be done. if not why have democracy?
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Re: Do you believe what Ms. Roy says?
by Merlot Daruwala Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:01 am
Rishi wrote:While the preparations for deployment are being made, the jungles of Central India continue to remain under siege, with villagers frightened to come out, or go to the market for food or medicine. Hundreds of people have been jailed, charged for being Maoists under draconian, undemocratic laws. Prisons are crowded with adivasi people, many of whom have no idea what their crime is. Recently, Soni Sori, an adivasi school-teacher from Bastar, was arrested and tortured in police custody. Stones were pushed up her vagina to get her to “confess” that she was a Maoist courier. The stones were removed from her body at a hospital in Calcutta, where, after a public outcry, she was sent for a medical check-up. At a recent Supreme Court hearing, activists presented the judges with the stones in a plastic bag. The only outcome of their efforts has been that Soni Sori remains in jail while Ankit Garg, the Superintendent of Police who conducted the interrogation, was conferred with the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry on Republic Day.
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?280234
Not entirely. Police excesses are a known problem, but Ms Roy is the least-credible figure to take up the issue. Her advocacy can only result in loss of popular support, so those hapless adivasis would have been better off without her high-decibel intervention.
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