This from CNN-IBN:
Many refugees of Nandigram have confirmed that they had been brutally raped. Fear looms large in her eyes, the fear of [tag]CPI-M[/tag] cadres. Forty-year-old Akreja Biwi doesn’t want to go back home anymore.
Last Sunday, as the CPI-M recaptured Nandigram, nearly 100 of the party cadres allegedly looted her house, raped her and her daughters. All her daughters have gone missing.
Akreja says, “They pulled her and raped her mercilessly, I have lost my daughters.â€
This from NDTV,
Seventeen-year-old Sabina Yasmin is from Shatengabari, one of the epicentres of the turf war between the CPI(M) and the Maoists-backed Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee, saw her future go up in smoke when her house was torched on November 6.
A bright student, Sabina wanted to be a nurse and there are many story like hers.
”I dreamt of becoming a nurse one day which is why I used to work for the health department and go out for pulse polio campaigns. Now, there’s no hope. My dreams are shattered,” said Sabina Yasmin, resident, Satengabari.
And this from Brinda Karat
Asked about rape of women in Nandigram, the 59-year-old leader said if there is any veracity in these reports, the West Bengal government will take strict and stringent action against the culprits.
and …
There was “a conspiracy†to undermine the interests of the poor in Nandigram, she said.
Well I suppose that it is possible. the people of [tag]Nandigram[/tag] set them selves on fire, the women raped themselves and everyone else committed mass suicide to make the CPI (M) government look bad…
I am not sure what makes me sadder …. a party that is supposed to represent the poor and dispossessed turning against the people, or a woman questioning the veracity of rape….
A word of advice to Mrs.Gandhi & other seniors in the [tag]Congress Party[/tag] -if the only way that the UPA and its government can stay in power is with the support of a party as sullied as the CPI-M – maybe it is time to go back to the people……. the voters of [tag]India[/tag] have traditionally done what is right …… Let there be elections……
add a similar situation like this in karnataka, except of course people arent yet raping themselves! there are three mongrels and all of them fight over left over food (congress, jds, and bjp)
It is quite sad to see the political hypocrisy that exists in our country. From BJP, Communists and Congress alike.
Good blog, BTW.
Hi Srikanth
Karnataka was good fun….. how many times is the BJP or anyone else going to fall for the same Gowda trick 🙂
Hi Jo
at a certain level one expects all politicians to be hypocritical….but this is bare two faced duplicity.
atleast, with the BJP or the Shiv Sena you know that you will get bad behaviour towards the down trodden.
but, with the Communists… one didn’t expect this …against the poor and down trodden.
I have seen some people talking a different story about Nandigram. They have a new conspiracy theory about why TMC is opposing SEZ. As per them SEZ will bring education (and enlightment) to the region, and voters will stop voting for TMC. What is going to be taught in that education system? “How to Rape In More Efficiently”? “Effective Habits of a Great Rapist”?
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sad but true….
ideology is the opiate of the masses — and if they get educated, then they question the ideology !!! (and that includes Marxism 🙂