[Marxism] Fwd: Re: Land Struggle in South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh turns violent

[Marla Vijaya kumar]

The Police who had shot dead 7 poor agitators demanding land at  Mudikonda in Andhra Pradesh, had submitted an affidavit to the state  High Court claiming that the police had fired in to the air to disperse  the angry mob. The bullets, while falling down had killed 7 unfortunate  agitatorts, while injuring 16 others! 
  And the police had clamped criminal charges against 600 people who were  agitating on that fateful day of 28th July 2007 at Mudikonda, the site  of the police shootout.
  Most of the people were aimed straight and shot at, as the pictures  from the news papers reveal (as Sayan had referred). Video channels had  picturised the police shooting indiscriminately with SLRs and AK-47s  with their guns aimed horizantally  at the people. 
  Now, the issue of land struggle had become a peoples' issue and the two  Communist Parties have decided to spread the land struggle all over the  country.
  Vijaya Kumar Marla

Sayan Bhattacharyya <ok.president+marxmail at gmail.com> wrote:  Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:47:34 -0400
From: "Sayan Bhattacharyya" <ok.president+marxmail at gmail.com>
To: "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition" <marxism at lists.econ.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Land Struggle in South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh
 turns violent

  On 7/28/07, Marla Vijaya kumar  wrote:

>  The two Communist parties in the South Indian State of Andhra Pradesh  have been waging struggles for the last few decades demanding land  reforms and distribution of excess Government land to the landless poor  and allotment of house sites for hutments to the urban poor.

>  But suddenly, in the provincial town of Mudikonda in Khammam District,  the police had resorted to firing on the peaceful agitators sitting in  a tent on hunger strike with AK-47 rifles. Out of 300 or so agitators,  8 have been killed and 16 are in critical condition.


Photos:
http://landstrugglesinap.wordpress.com

Video:
http://www.prajasakti.com/mudigonda/mudigonda.htm

Petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/cpfap/petition.html

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