Jul 20, 2013 | Adivasis, Encounters, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
On November 14, 2012, media reported that five Maoists had been killed and one red rebel captured during an encounter between the security forces and the Sabyasachi Panda faction in the Bhaliaguda forest area of Gobindapur panchayat of Gajapati district (bordering...
Jan 30, 2013 | Adivasis, Encounters, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws
It has been over a decade since Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar into a separate state. In this period the state has witnessed a new face of people’s movements against displacement and armed repression by the state. News of the multitude of growing people’s movements...
Jan 15, 2013 | Adivasis, Custodial Death, Encounters, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations
PUDR deplores the bestial deeds of the two warring sides in Latehar district of Jharkhand, during the early hours of Tuesday, 8th January 2013.Mutilating the body of a dead is unacceptable under any circumstance. To do so in war on the body of a dead combatant is...
Dec 19, 2012 | Adivasis, Encounters, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations
Following an outcry against the alleged killing of five tribals/Maoists in an ‘encounter’, near Bhaliaguda village of Gajapati district of Odisha, a six-member team of individuals representing CDRO and Women against Sexual Violence and State Violence (WSS) visited...
Nov 22, 2012 | Encounters
The recent incident of paramilitary forces murdering five villagers and saying that they were Maoists in the Gajapati district of southern Odisha on the 13th November 2012, is yet another instance of a serious malaise of the body politic which PUDR has repeatedly...
Sep 25, 2012 | Armed Conflict, Encounters
The Co-ordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO) strongly condemns the gruesome murder of Manoj Konwar fellow civil rights activist and member Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS) on 22nd September in Sivasagar district Assam, allegedly by ‘unknown...