The world’s largest democracy witnessed its police force killing 25 of its citizens in two encounters in Andhra Pradesh. “Encounters”, for the uninitiated, are a euphemism for killing unarmed civilians in staged gun battles. The police version of both the alleged encounters is such that it could be laughed-off had they not been about the deaths of civilians.
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India: Two encounters and a democracy | Avinash Pandey
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India: Rein in the trigger-happy police force in Andhra and Telangana -statement by JTSA
9 April 2015JTSA condemns the killing of over 20 woodcutters in the Seshachalam forests and the 5 under-trials in Nalagonda (Telangana). In the first case, reports are already emerging that 7 of those killed, were taken in police custody a day before the encounter. This, along with other details such as bullet injuries on the chest, head and face, contradict the police version of the events. The scale of this violence is unprecedented and suggests how entrenched the culture of impunity is in the state police.
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Ever More Gas
by , 9 April 2015We are to believe that the ass is actually a horse because Modi and his people choose to call it that.
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Wo Mera Ghar - 2007 BBC radio documentary on India-Pakistan partition of 1947
9 April 2015A documentary by BBC Hindi correspondent Mukesh Sharma in 2007. This radio documentary focuses on India-Pakistan partition of 1947
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India: A poster & card on the threats to our freedoms to read, write and think
by , 8 April 2015This new poster and card was released in late March 2015 on occasion of a festival of the History society of Ramjas college in Delhi.
