The following is a bunch of news items, related to unearthing of dead bodies, dug in difference places (other than cemeteries) of Nandigram and Khejuri, by the CRPF.
The state government - certainly under instruction from the Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, promptly sent a CBI team ostensibly for investigation. He has been handling police portfolio officially since 1996, but actually since 1993).
What is our experience with the CBI under the Left Front regime? When Tapasi Malik, daughter of a landless agricultural labourer, was killed and raped in the wee hours of 18 December last year, CBI sleuths went there basically to hush up material evidence (when the sniffer dog was trying to go in a particular direction, the sleuth didn't allow it to freely smell and spot crucial evidence. CID, Biman Bose, LF chairman and CPI(M) polit bureau member, Ganashakti, CPM morninger, and Chobbis Ghanta TV channel infamous for suppressing anti-CPM news and concocting facts against the opposition were in tearing hurry to say that Tapasi had an affair and might have committed suicide. CBI probe -based on a PIL petition to the High Court - found that Tapasi was killed and this had led to arrest of Singur Zonal Committee secretary of CPI(M) Suhrid Dutta, for alleged involvement in the murder along with Dibakar Malik, who ,an accused too, told a TV channel that Tapasi killed herself as a result of an illicit love affair. He too has been a strong CPI(M) worker and sympathiser.) After 14 March when 14+ were killed at Nandigram by police and CPI(M) activists, CBI found arms at a brick kiln of Khejuri, proved to be a CPM bunker, and arrested ten CPM local toughs (almost all party members) and handed over to the police, the police mysteriously failed to form chargesheets within 90 days, facilitating their bail. They are now fugitives while the CBI has reopened the case under HC order.
A six-member team of CPM MPs, led by the group leader, will go to Nandigram, on the plea of meeting the people. But it is obvious that these MPs will try to create a case against CRPF's normal functioning until 12 Feb. If the CRPF are there, more skeletons are very likely to come from the cupboard.
By the way, there are a few scribes to support the CPM for reasons not difficult to guess. One such is carried in the Mumbai-based Daily News and Analysis. She was at the JNU, friendly to Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury. But her father was the late Dilip Mukherjee, a powerful and eminent journalist of the 1950s and the 1960s. She was in charge of Times of India's Calcutta edition. Now she is with the APJ group, very friendly to the LF government. Read her piece too -http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1138876.
Please judge the situation on the basis of the following. By the way, RSP state secretary Debababrata Bandyopadhyay said to local Bengali IV channels after discovery of seven graves at Nandigram, "I hang down my head in shame. Such things took place in Kampuchea under the Pol Pot regime.
Sankar Ray
Body recovered from another Nandigram grave Express News Service 13 Dec 07 (http://www.indianexpress.com/story/249785.html)
KOLKATA, DECEMBER 12: A decomposed body was unearthed on Wednesday from the second grave found by the CRPF in Maheshpur in Nandigram. The wife and neighbours of Haren Pramanik, a 32-year-old resident of Takapura in Nandigram, claimed the body was his.
Pramanik was last seen on November 7, a day after armed CPI(M) cadres started entering Nandigram and engaged in bloody skirmishes with the Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC). At least 35 persons had been reported missing during the period.
"We looked everywhere, but failed to trace him. A few people say he was last seen running away from the site of a clash. Today, I and his wife Shyamali identified him," said Swapan Mondol, the victim's neighbour. According to police sources, the body had injury marks on the back and on the shoulders.
The CPI(M) was guarded in its reaction to the discovery. "Let there be more tests. Four or five people are missing there, some are our supporters. Our rivals can claim anything, let the investigation be completed. One must remember that the area was under their control for 11 months," said CPI(M) central committee member Shyamal Chakraborty.
But the Trinamool Congress claimed it was indeed the body of Pramanik. "He was our supporter and was abducted from Maheshpur on the day CPI(M) cadres fired on our rally.
Later, he was murdered and put in a grave in the middle of a paddy field. His father died days after he went missing. It is because of the strict CRPF vigil and our mass support that the truth is coming out. This validates our claim," said Sisir Adhikary, TMC leader and MLA from Contai.
The grave was discovered by locals working at the paddy field on December 10. They informed CRPF men, who then cordoned off the area. Following the discovery, a huge cache of bullets, both live and used, were also unearthed from near the grave.
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Dissidents in CPI(M) helping find more graves in Nandigram by Gyan Varma 12 Dec 07 (http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1138930)
NEW DELHI: After the recovery of several human bones and seven graves in Nandigram, the men in uniform are now being helped by CPI(M) dissidents to uncover more graves. Explosives, live bombs and weapons have also been seized in the past few days.
"We have so far uncovered seven graves, but there is a strong possibility there could be many more. What we have found could be the tip of the iceberg," said a senior official involved in the operations in Nandigram.
The officer added that since the paramilitary force was new to the area and did not know the terrain, it was relying on CPI(M) dissidents to locate new graves and recover weapons.
"We have no option but to rely on the inputs given by them. This is not our job but we are doing it considering the extent of the problem," said the officer, adding that they have prepared a list of people who have gone missing after the violence.
"The list was prepared on the basis of complaints made by people. We gave the list to local police since it is not our job to find missing people," he added.
The paramilitary force has also recovered 44kg of IEDs.
v_gyan@dnaindia.net
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'CPM sponsored Nandigram violence, LF heading for split' –Agencies 12 Dec 07 (http://www.indianexpress.com/story/249109.html)
Kolkata, December 11:: Charging West Bengal's ruling CPM with sponsoring violence in Nandigram, its ally Forward Block on Tuesday claimed the ruling Left Front in West Bengal is heading for a split following CPM's 'mishandling' of Nandigram and Singur issues.
"After thirty years, the Left Front in on course for a split over CPM's unilateralism and the Nandigram and Singur issues," All India Forward Bloc general secretary, Debabrata Biswas said.
"Leftists are facing embarrassing questions from people across the country for what happened in Nandigram. The violence there was sponsored by CPM and other partners had nothing to do with it," Biswas, a Rajya Sabha member, said.
Biswas, who is now in Dhanbad to attend the two day block-level party workers meet at Nirsa, said over phone that CPM's mishandling of the Nandigram issue, had led to Trinamool Congress and BJP to gain ground.
He also charged that there was major change in policy and attitude of CPM. "CPM has been deviating from its anti-capitalists and anti-imperialism ideology."
Biswas said his party state secretary Ashok Ghosh would lead a march of party supporters to Singur and Nandigram to protest the state government's policies soon.
He said his party was sticking to its decision to go it alone in the panchayat polls next year.
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CRPF to stay in Nandigram, CPM demands CM's intervention –Agencies 12 Dec 07 (http://www.indianexpress.com/story/249549.html)
Kolkata, December 12:: West Bengal's ruling CPM demanded that West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee intervene against alleged atrocities perpetrated on its supporters in Nandigram by the CRPF even as the government said the Central forces would remain there till February 12.
Home Secretary P R Roy said 'the CRPF will stay in Nandigram till February 12 as scheduled'. The CRPF were deployed in Nandigram on November 12 after CPM's recapture of the area.
Raising the issue in the House, senior CPM MLA Robin Mondal alleged the CRPF during raids in Nandigram on Tuesday 'inhumanely' harassed women and children and a 90-year-old freedom fighter was also not spared.
''The people also complained that three CRPF personnel are supporters of Trinamool Congress and helping supporters of that party in unleashing atrocities,'' he charged.
The CRPF should act under strict guidance of the state police. It was a serious matter and the Chief Minister and the state administration should act against CRPF atrocities, Mondal said.
The CPM attack of the Central forces came after the Chief Minister had said in New Delhi on December 4 that the CRPF were doing a good job in unearthing arms and ammunition stockpiled by Maoists in Nandigram.
Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi, who visited Nandigram on December 2, had pitched for presence of CRPF for some more time.
Chief whip of ruling Left Front Syed Md Masih said the Chief Minister would reply on Thursday to a call attention notice by a CPM legislator on the role of CRPF in Nandigram.
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