शोमा सेन, सुधीर धावले , सुरेन्द्र गड्लिंग, रोना विल्सन और महेश राउत की महाराष्ट्र पुलिस द्वारा गिरफ्तारी की wss द्वारा भर्त्सना

शोमा सेन, सुधीर धावले , सुरेन्द्र गड्लिंग, रोना विल्सन और महेश राउत की महाराष्ट्र पुलिस द्वारा गिरफ्तारी की wss द्वारा भर्त्सना

यौन हिंसा और राजकीय दमन के खिलाफ महिलाएं (WSS) देश भर में नागरिक अधिकार कार्यकर्ताओं पर कठोर दमनकारी  कानूनी कार्रवाई के तहत अपनी सक्रीय  सदस्य, प्रोफेसर शोमा सेन के साथ-साथ अन्‍य प्रमुख दलित और मानव अधिकार कार्यकर्ताओं की मनमाने ढंग से की गयी गिरफ्तारी से स्तंभित है और सरकार के इस कदम की घोर निंदा करती है.

Condemn the State Sponsored Massacre Scripted as ‘Encounter’ in Gadchiroli and Bijapur in Central India

Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) condemn the recent spate of genocidal violence unleashed by the Indian State on the adivasis of Central India in the form of ‘encounter’ killings in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra and Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. The alleged ‘encounter’, a term used in the subcontinent to describe the extra-judicial killing of citizens by the armed forces and police, in Gadchiroli district took place in the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border in the Rela-Kasnasur forest in the intervening night of 22^nd-23^rd April 2018. With more bodies being fished out of the Indravati River, the death toll of this alleged encounter has reached 39, nineteen of whom were women, all of whom killed by the Commando-60 (C-60) Squad of the Maharashtra Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). This was quickly followed by another encounter in the neighbouring state of Chhattisgarh on the 27^th of April 2018 where eight more were killed in an operation led by the notorious Greyhound force of the Telangana Anti-Naxal Unit along with Chhattisgarh Police and the CRPF. This alleged encounter took place near the Ipenta village in Bijapur district with six women among those declared dead. These extra-judicial killings have resulted in the death of 47 persons, several of whom are unidentified, and with fears of more persons, including minors, missing from the districts of Gadchiroli and Bijapur. Reports coming out of area reveal heartbreaking accounts of how villagers including children gathered for a marriage function were rounded up and killed without provocation by the security forces.

The Nava Peshwai Terror against the Dalits and State Repression

WSS condemns the wave of state repression following the peaceful commemoration of the Ambedkarite community on the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon. The most recent wave of repression is a set of raids without a warrant conducted simultaneously at 6 am on 17 April, 2018, upon the homes of Kabir Kala Manch activists Rupali Jadhav, Jyoti Jagtap, Ramesh Gaichor, Sagar Gorkhe and Dhawala Dhengle in Pune; Republican Panther activists Sudhir Dhavale and Harshali Potdar in Mumbai; and Nagpur-based lawyer Surendra Gadling and Delhi-based CRPP activist Rona Wilson. Rupali and Jyoti are also members of WSS and staunch feminist activists.

WSS Statement on Sexual Violence and Police Impunity in Gadhchiroli District

Sexual Violence and Police Impunity in Gadchiroli District

Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS)

The impunity with which police forces have been operating in south Gadchiroli has become a matter of grave concern. The mountain of Surjagad which has been leased to Lloyd’s Chemicals for mining will destroy the mountain which has religious and cultural significance to the highly marginalised Madia Gonds residing in the area. who have opposed the lease. Police repression on the tribals has been intensifying, with random picking up, illegal detention and inhuman beatings of tribals, Things really however, took an extremely murky turn on January 20th, 2017 when two tribal women of Gonwara Village of Bande Block of Chhattisgarh were picked up by C-60, Maharashtra police personnel near Todgatta village while they were on their way to Gadchiroli district.