April 30, 2015
D Bandyopadhyay speaks on the killing of woodcutters by Andhra Pradesh Police | Full Transcript
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Sir, I rise with heavy heart to speak on the issue of the killing of 20 woodcutters from Tamil Nadu by the Andhra Pradesh Police in the jungle. It is not a case of ordinary police firing. Every police manual of every State clearly lays down that in squashing of illegal mobs they should use the minimum force.
What we see is the use of maximum force. Twenty people were killed. Sir, it is a miniature Jallianwala Bagh. The difference is instead of a Britisher – General Dyer was an officer of the Colonial Power- we are killing our own people by our own armed forces. This is highly reprehensible.
Sir, in our State, we also witnessed such atrocities for a pretty long time. Police fired on peaceful farmers in Nandigram where 14 farmers were killed back in March, 2007. This resulted in such popular unrest that the government in power was voted out.
We have only one set version. We want to know the other version. The other version will never come because there is no one to tell the tale. Therefore we demand a judicial inquiry by a Supreme Court Judge or a Chief Justice of the High Court to look into the whole thing. We cannot allow such wanton killing and people involved to go unpunished.
Thank you very much.
