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Adivasi-Dalit groups plan justice push over 2003 Muthanga killings
The Muthanga Solidarity Committee will hold an Adivasi-Dalit gathering and Declaration of Rights at Sulthan Bathery on Sunday, marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The Hindu reports the event…
The Story in Brief
The Muthanga Solidarity Committee will hold an Adivasi-Dalit gathering and Declaration of Rights at Sulthan Bathery on Sunday, marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The Hindu reports the event demands a comprehensive inquiry into the 2003 police firing death of Yogi (Jogi) during the Muthanga land agitation and alleged human rights violations that followed.
The organisers said around 55 people, including an infant, died after police atrocities. They allege that a National Human Rights Commission order for a probe was never implemented. The push comes weeks after a court acquitted all accused in the murder of a police constable during the same agitation but convicted activist M. Geethanandan on lesser charges.
The Indian Opinion
The acquittal of the murder accused in the Vinod case has shifted the lens back to the alleged police firing on Adivasi protesters. The victim narrative often gets buried when the establishment closes ranks. Whether the National Human Rights Commission probe direction ever gets enforced will be the real test of institutional will versus political comfort.
Source: thehindu.com
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