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Grievances around land – including military occupation, the normalisation of land titles and permits, displaced squatters on lands of other displaced people and persistent landlessness of historically marginalised communities – have been surfacing since the end of the war. While these issues gained attention in the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission’s proceedings between 2010 and 2011, it is with the opening of democratic space in January 2015 that the people in the North became increasingly vocal

SLT first began hiring contract workers from manpower agencies in the 1990s. Initially, only drivers were hired through manpower agencies. Over time, SLT also began hiring technical officers this way from around 2002. The contract workers were supposed to be hired to fill positions that were not part of SLT’s core operations.

a recording of the award acceptance speech in Hindi by TV journalist Ravish Kumar on 19 March 2017 at India International Centre, New Delhi

We reject the falsehood that this is an ‘objective judgement’. The Prosecution Case and Judicial Sentence is based on no evidences, false-witnesses and pure class hatred.

statement by People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism on 19 March 2017