WHAT WERE THEIR FAULTS?

‘HE WAS AN ENEMY OF THE POOR.’ THIS WAS HIS PUNISHMENT

He is Baneswar Murmu. A
tribal daily wage earner. Killed
on 09.092009 by Maoists –
TMC cadres.
.
4 YEAR OLD SUMANA MANDI WAS ALSO AN ENEMY

Four yyear old had has jjust learnt to write her name. On February
y 17,,
2009, she was listening to fairy tales told by her mother Jharna Mandi.
The ‘liberators’ and ‘ushers of change’ came and poured kerosene on
them setting the mother and child on fire. Sumana and Jharna were
burnt alive.
alive Their only crime was that they are the family members of
Loncho Mandi, a CPI(M) worker.
He was taught the lesson. So were his students, all 6 - 10 years old.

Karamchand Singh g was the headmaster in a p primary

y schoolat Simulpal
p
in a heavily forested area of Belpahari in Paschim Medinipur. A noted
noted chhau-dance performer, he was dragged by the ‘liberators’ from
his chair, shot, and his head was smashed with a stone in front of his
students.
students
 Ramkrishna Duley, 52,
was a peasant in
Bankura. On August
15, 2009 was returning
h
home f
from hi field
his fi ld in
i
the afternoon when two
men cycled up to him on
a dirt road and opened
fire. Duley was killed
500 metres from his
home in Sarenga.
Sarenga

Perhaps his punishment was not enough.

enough Ranjit Duley,
Duley Ramkrishna
Ramkrishna’ss
brother and the headmaster of local Shibram Satpathy School was
abducted from the school compound by PCPA activists in front of his
students.
stude ts. He
e was released
e eased a
after
te five
ve days. Ra
Ranjit
jt aand
d Ra
Ramkrishna’r
s a
crime – Supporting CPI(M).
Dead bodies of tribal
villagers butchered and
kept in open for 5 days
without allowing disposal.
Their relatives were
neither allowed to come
near nor touch the bodies.
The Maoists and TMC
workers danced and sang
around the bodies.
All of them are payingthe
price of supporting
CPI(M).
CPI(M)
‘Winds of Change’?

No condemnation, no disapproval were heard when one after another CPI(M)

office were burnt, ransacked by TMC supporters in Purbo Medinipur.
Thousands fled. As media and the civil society y remained mute spectators
p to
the hooliganism, TMC MP Subhendu Adhikary, the comander of the violence
declared, “We will not allow Red flag in Purbo Medinipur”.
• Since
Si January 2009, over 300 CPI(M)
C ( ) supporters were killed.
kill d
• Among them teachers, students, children, women.
• Almost all of them belong to the weaker section.
No. There was no candle
No
light vigil for them. No
condemnation. No outcry.
No silent march.
Instead……
Think Again.
Again

Is this the ‘future ‘ you want?

Is this the ‘change’ you want?