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Binayak Sen accuses C'garh govt of exercising violence on adivasis

Source: PTI
May 31, 2009 18:20 IST
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Civil rights activist Binayak Sen, who walked free from the Raipur jail after two years of incarceration on May 26, has accused the Chhattisgarh government of "exercising structured violence" on poor adivasis to transfer their land to industries.
    
"The Chhattisgarh government has become guarantor of the transfer of the state's mineral and forest resources from the poor to the rich," he said in during an interaction with the media persons in Kolkata on Saturday.
    
Citing an example, Sen, who was in jail for allegedly colluding with Maoists, said a company had wanted to acquire land in Chhattisgarh for a steel plant. "The government, instead of calling a gram sabha to ascertain the views of the land owners about the acquisition, imposed section 144 CrPC and compelled the adivasis to agree at gunpoint to give away their land."
    
"Most of the government's claims of encounter deaths were false," Sen said, adding that "all people have to get together
and de-legitimise this military option and influence the government so that political engagement takes place. Human rights organisations will have to take a lead on this."
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