How many people actually died in Nandigram? Kafila posts a report, dated March 15, by Sanjay Sangvai, NAPM activist, from Nadigram:
Linked by kuffir. Join Blogbharti facebook group.About 125-130 men, women and children were killed by the police and the cadres of the ruling Communist Party of India (CPM). Many dead bodies were thrown by police into the nearby river. The dead bodies of children were thrown onto the trenches dug by the villagers to stop any encroachment, and they were filled with soil to make roads much like carnage in Gujarat. According to the people the cadres and police have devastated the Sonachura village; they killed the people, drove them out, looted the houses and raped scores of women.
The CPM’s recourse to the plea of “maintaining law and order” is pathetic! The party is the biggest violator of law and order. The law is disregarded when the interests of party members is concerned. If the state govt wants to restore law and order, let it first stop the criminal extortions, illegal building constructions, privatisation of public space etc etc indulged in by its protected members. The “law” becomes important only when party members are at the receiving end.
It is not only in the wake of Singur and Nandigram that people have started speaking out against the CPM. Grassroots activists in rural and urban Bengal have been crying hoarse against the anti-poor fascist thugs for at least 2 decades. But now the middle- and affluent classes too are beginning to see and understand what the CPM is about behind the veil of “bhadra” that people are so enamoured of.