The Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Government in the State of West Bengal unleashed a bloodbath on the protesting farmers of Nandigram Block near the port of Haldia with its police force and party workers.
On 14th March 2007, a 5000 strong contingent of police personnel assisted by more than thousands of CPI-(M) party workers attacked the farmers who had been protesting against the acquisition of their land for the controversial Special Economic Zone. Cadres of CPI-(M) blocked entry into the conflict zone and journalists were prevented from reaching the scene of the massacre.
While the media reports say that 14 farmers were killed and many injured, the latest statements of the farmers indicate much higher losses - with hundreds of protesters missing and not included in the list of dead or the injured. Some survivors have even alleged that CPI-(M) cadres went inside the homes of the farmers and butchered children and raped women.
The Calcutta High Court called the firing as “wholly indefensible” and “wholly unconstitutional” and ordered the CBI to conduct a probe and report to it.
The Asian Age reports that a large number of students are missing from the villages:
"The question now comes from the 40 anguished mothers whose children failed to return home after the firing on Wednesday. Sources revealed that all the 40 children, aged between four and nine, were students of Ramakrishna Sarla KG School, a morning school in Sonachura.
Headmaster of the school Debasish Pradhan informed that the nearly 240 students who study in the school were asked to go home earlier than the usual time. "Sensing trouble, I had asked for classes to be called off around 6.30 am. I don’t know where they went. I have heard that they have gone missing," said Mr Pradhan.
"There are complaints of several children missing... We have come across reports from the field that many children have been torn apart, some have been slaughtered... However, not a single body had been recovered," Contai MLA Subhendu Adhikari of the Trinamul claimed."
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On 14th March 2007, a 5000 strong contingent of police personnel assisted by more than thousands of CPI-(M) party workers attacked the farmers who had been protesting against the acquisition of their land for the controversial Special Economic Zone. Cadres of CPI-(M) blocked entry into the conflict zone and journalists were prevented from reaching the scene of the massacre.
While the media reports say that 14 farmers were killed and many injured, the latest statements of the farmers indicate much higher losses - with hundreds of protesters missing and not included in the list of dead or the injured. Some survivors have even alleged that CPI-(M) cadres went inside the homes of the farmers and butchered children and raped women.
The Calcutta High Court called the firing as “wholly indefensible” and “wholly unconstitutional” and ordered the CBI to conduct a probe and report to it.
The Asian Age reports that a large number of students are missing from the villages:
"The question now comes from the 40 anguished mothers whose children failed to return home after the firing on Wednesday. Sources revealed that all the 40 children, aged between four and nine, were students of Ramakrishna Sarla KG School, a morning school in Sonachura.
Headmaster of the school Debasish Pradhan informed that the nearly 240 students who study in the school were asked to go home earlier than the usual time. "Sensing trouble, I had asked for classes to be called off around 6.30 am. I don’t know where they went. I have heard that they have gone missing," said Mr Pradhan.
"There are complaints of several children missing... We have come across reports from the field that many children have been torn apart, some have been slaughtered... However, not a single body had been recovered," Contai MLA Subhendu Adhikari of the Trinamul claimed."
Click here to sign a petition condemning the terror.
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