Mass protests against the proliferation of CRPF camps have been happening all over Bastar during the last two years, without attracting much media coverage. It is only because of the death of three protestors in police firing on 17 May 2021 that the Silger protest came to light.
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India: Facts and Fiction of Firing in Silger (Bastar, Chhattisgarh State)
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Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi by LTTE, One-eyed Sivarasan and the Indo-Lanka Accord | D.B.S.Jeyaraj
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India: Revoke suspension of Dr. Gilbert Sebastian - Letter to Education Minister
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India: Science, Not Fraud Can Counter the Covid-19 Pandemic - Selected Commentary, Reports | May 23, 2021
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In solidarity with those being silenced by HAF for resisting the Hindu right and Hindutva in America | Statement from academics and scholars (May 20, 2021)
20 May 2021Statement of solidarity from academics and scholars against HAF which is trying to silence alternate voices of Hindus and others who are resisting the Hindu right and Hindutva in America
