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In 2009, the Indian Government launched a major anti-Maoist offensive
in forest areas Operation Green Hunt. Fact-finding investigations
have uncovered the atrocities security forces are committing in these areas,
but now those very findings are being questioned.

This is a two part 10-minute preview of a documentary film by Gopal Menon, contains interviews with victims and their testimony about what is happening in Chhattisgarh. The clear intention of the State - to wipe out all resistance through terror in the name of fighting the Maoists - is demonstrated in this film.

We the civil society groups from Jammu and Kashmir and the North East affected by militarization and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and other organizations in solidarity, having come together from 12 to 14 November 2009 at New Delhi and deliberated on the issues of AFSPA. We Call upon the people of India to support the ongoing campaign for the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and resist the increasing militarization of democratic spaces.

Enacted in 2006 and commonly known as Forest Rights Act (FRA), this law came into operation in January 2008. The FRA will thus have been given a short span of two years for its full implementation, which is ridiculously short in a country where laws can take decades to reach any level of satisfactory implementation.

Secular institutions of Nehru era are being replaced by boosting demand and supply of God market

Barely 20 persons have been convicted for murder in these 25 years as against the official death toll of 2,733 is a poor reflection on the integrity of India’s criminal justice system.