The Gestapo General Says Sorry! With a Rider if any innocent person has been killed!Cong pegs Bastar act as massacre!

The Gestapo General Says Sorry! With a Rider if any innocent person has been killed!Cong pegs Bastar act as massacre!
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The Gestapo General, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday asserted that 17 suspected Maoists were gunned down in Chattisgarh late last month in a "genuine" gunfight, but said that he was "deeply sorry" if any innocent person was killed in the exchange of fire.Expressing surprise at allegations that it was a "fake gunfight", the minister said in the past, security forces were ambushed and suffered heavy casualties as they were taken by surprise and could not return fire.Contrary to Chidambaram's claim that the police could do no wrong, a Congress fact-finding team says there were seven minors among those killed in the encounter!In the biggest operation against Maoists in Chhattisgarh this year, security forces killed at least 20 insurgents in three encounters between Thursday night and Friday morning, official sources said.The operation by the security forces was launched on the basis of intelligence inputs that senior Maoists were to hold a meeting at a spot between Jagargunda and Basaguda, sources said. Undeterred by union Home Minister P. Chidambaram's cold response to its initial findings in the alleged staged Korasuguda gunfight, the Congress's Chhattisgarh unit Thursday indicated it would raise the 17 tribals' killing in the monsoon session of the assembly beginning July 12.
         

Mind you, Anti Naxal operations countrywide is co ordinated by the Ministry of Home and the Home Minister is responsible whatever happens during these Operations. Th Home Ministry never did oppose SALWA Judum!Now, he is criticising state Governments quoting law and order situation grim for which he is no less responsible. He feels sorry just because Raman singh is a BJP Ruled State Chief Minister and he has no sympathy with the Aborigine humanscape which is seized within and a war is declared by the State against its own pople who are by the way the most segregated Tribal People, deprived of Constitutional Safe Guards like Schedule Five and SIX, Excluded and excommunitted, chosen for the Kill for the best interest of corporate India,MNCs and Zionist Corporate Imperialism aligned with Ruling Hindutva Hegemony!

"If any innocent person has been killed, I am deeply sorry... if any girl, or boy or man or woman not involved with the Maoists at all has been killed, I can only be deeply sorry... I share Deo's sense of sadness and anguish at the loss of lives," Chidambaram said during the cabinet briefing on Wednesday.Under fire from tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo who has called the CRPF offensive in Chhattisgarh as "completely unacceptable" and the civil society, union home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday tried to steer the CRPF clear of the controversy while conveying deep regrets for the loss of innocent lives.Meanwhile,Home minister P Chidambaram was today appointed the head of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on spectrum auction that was reconstituted after Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar declined the job fearing controversies.ndia's telecommunications sector is under a cloud following a multi billion-dollar scam related to the sale of wireless licenses in 2008. Many licenses were canceled by India's Supreme Court this year and will have to be resold through auctions.The ministerial panel now decides on several crucial issues related to the auctions, including the starting prices, as the government races to complete the spectrum sale by Aug. 31. However, the final decision on the starting prices for the spectrums sale would be left to the cabinet, Mr. Chandrashekhar said.

Fearing violence during the bandh call given by the Maoist in south Bastar region, the union ministry of home affairs has also alerted Maharashtra, Odisha and Chhattisgarh.

"The media then said the security forces were incompetent. They were unprepared.. If that is called incompetence, as some people have described it, in a case where they have returned the fire, and inflicted casualties, I am surprised that you call it a fake encounter."

Chidambaram said it was not being highlighted that the security forces had suffered six casualties and that they were had evacuated by the same helicopter as also their injured adversaries.

He said at least three to four of the 16-17 people who died in the incident had criminal records associated with left wing extremists.

"Prima facie all these facts point to a genuine encounter," he said.

However, the union minister said it was for the Chattisgarh government to decide whether they would order an inquiry.

"That's a call the Chaittisgarh chief minister is entitled to take. The DG (director general) of CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) has told us clearly they have nothing to hide, nothing to fear. His men had suffered six casualties and they returned the fire."

Security forces had gunned down 17 suspected Maoists at Korsaguda village in Bijapur district of Bastar region, about 600 km south of Raipur, June 28.

While six Central Reserve Police Force troopers were injured in themidnight gunbattle, five injured Maoists were also nabbed in theoperation, but one of them later succumbed to injuries in hospital.


It is claimed that The Congress party is at loggerheads with Home Minister P Chidambaram over the Naxal operations by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Chhattisgarh on June 27, in which 19 people were killed. While the home minister has stoutly defended the action and said those killed in the encounter were adults, the Congress party's internal report on the incident contradicts the government's version.A preliminary report of the Congress unit in Chhattisgarh has specifically listed seven minor children among those killed, with the youngest being 12 years of age. The 14-member committee, headed by the Pradesh Congress vice-president, has found that villagers and tribals were among those killed in the operation, and the dead were not just Naxals as was being claimed.The AICC general secretary in charge of Chhattisgarh said, "We have strong objection to the way tribals are being victimised in the crossfire between the forces and the naxals. We want the tribals of the Bastar region to be protected and not victimised."

In a political move, an 11-member Congress fact-finding team in its report listed seven minors among 19 people killed by Central Reserve Police Force in an encounter with Naxals in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh last week.

The fact-finding team headed by Chhattisgarh Congress legislator, Kawasi Lakhma, had found seven minors - aged between 12 and 16 - among those killed in the encounter.

"We cannot allow innocent tribal lives to be lost in the cross-fire between CRPF (the police force) and Naxals," said general secretary of All India Congress Committee B K Hariprasad, disclosing details of the team's report to him.

He refused to comment on the clean chit given by union home minister P Chidambaram to the police force. "All I can say is that Chidambaram is home minister of the country. He has every right to defend the CRPF. But as a political party, we have to speak for the people."

Clearly, the Congress's stand sharply contradicted the position of Chidambaram who even on Wednesday maintained that the police force could simply do no wrong.

Refusing to comment on the Congress's stand, the minister said there was one minor killed in the encounter. "Most persons killed were adults; the youngest was 15 years old. At least three of them have been identified as having a criminal record," said Chidambaram.

He said the jawans returned fire when they were fired upon. "It is part of their standard operating procedure. Six jawans were also injured in the firing. The CRPF will soon be sharing with you details of their injuries."

Defending the force, Chidambaram said the encounter was "transparent" and "upfront" but he was "deeply sorry" if any innocent person has been killed. He said "I am the home minister and the CRPF is under me. We have been absolutely candid, frank and upfront."

Chief minister of Chhattisgarh Raman Singh who met the prime minister in connection with the antinaxal operation, was quiet distraught by the Congress's moves. Singh said that the Bijapur encounter was not planned. "Such sensitive issues should not be politicised," said Singh, who has already ordered a probe into the incident.

The Congress maintains that the force's operations were carried out on the basis of faulty state intelligence provided by the local police and the state government.

Party sources, however, admitted that the high-voltage campaign in the tribal area of Bastar will help the Congress prepare ground for the assembly polls next year. Of 12 seats in the region, Congress has just one seat. These seats are crucial to capture power in Raipur, said the sources.

Another reason for the Centre's worry is that a fact-finding team comprising of activists Swami Agnivesh, BD Sharma and Himanshu Kumar is expected to visit the place of the incident — Sarkaiguda village, approximately 3 kms from Basaguda —on July 6. Moreover, the state unit of the Congress has claimed that seven innocent minors were killed in the CRPF attack.In an attempt to muster up defence for the CRPF, Chidambaram said, "The CRPF DG has said that he has nothing to fear. I do not think any central force has been so transparent… I am not going into the political controversies. I am the home minister and the CRPF is under me. We have been absolutely candid, frank and upfront."He quoted the CRPF DG as saying that if in the dark jungle, if the CRPF is facing casualty, the Standard Operating Procedure requires it to open fire.

The Congress report lists the names of the seven children who were killed. They include: Irpa Suresh (13), Dilip Markam (14), Ekka Mittu (15), Kunjum Mala (16), Kaka Rahul (14), Markam Ram Vilas (14) and Kumari Kaka Saraswati (12).The Congress is very clear on the fact that the intelligence report was wrong, and to a large extent, it was a miscalculation of the state government, as the CRPF in a state acts on the directions of the state government.

The contradictory stand between the party and the government is out in the open. Ironically, Chief Minister Raman Singh was singled out for praise by the PM yesterday when the latter met him accompanied by 150 students from Naxal-affected areas of the state.

No wonder that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tonight contested Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's statement about spurt in inter-party clashes in the state saying his information was "incorrect".In an apparent conciliatory signal to chief Mamata Banerjee ahead of Presidential poll, Congress on Friday chose to ignore Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's criticism of Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal on the issue of political violence.At a function in Kolkata, Chidambaram was critical of Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal, an UPA ally, saying 82 people were killed in 455 cases of inter-party clashes in the last six months, which was 'a matter of concern', drawing protest from TMC calling it as a 'threat'.Sharply reacting to this, Panchayat Minister and senior Trinamool Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee had said "it's an unwanted statement and can be treated a threat from the Centre. It's a ploy to create pressure before the presidential elections."

"From where did you get such information? Such information is incorrect," she said in a letter to Chidambaram, claiming that incidents of political clashes had gone down considerably under the present dispensation and the state was now peaceful.

Banerjee said the information provided by Chidambaram on law and order in the state was incorrect, and that the actual figures would speak differently.

Providing statistics, Banerjee, who holds the Home department portfolio, said that in 2011, which included five months under Left Front rule, 62 people were killed in political clashes.

Of these 62 victims, 35 belonged to the Trinamool Congress and 27 to other political parties, the letter, according to Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Kunal Ghosh, said.

Banerjee said that in 2012 so far, only five persons were killed in political clashes in the state. Of these, four belonged to Trinamool Congress.

Chidambaram had yesterday said that 82 people were killed and 1,112 injured in inter-party clashes in the last six months in the state which was a matter of concern.

Panchayat Minister and senior Trinamool Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee earlier described Chidamabaram's statement as a 'threat and conspiracy' against the state government prior to the Presidential election.

In a decision that was attacked by the BJP, Chidambaram, a former finance minister, will head the seven-member group that also includes defence minister A K Antony, telecom minister Kapil Sibal, I&B minister Ambika Soni, law minister Salman Khurshid, Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy and Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia. The ministerial panel is to decide on the minimum or the base price for auction of telecom spectrum vacated from cancellation of 122 licenses by the Supreme Court earlier this year.

Pawar, who earlier this week recused himself from chairing the group fearing he would be dragged into controversies, is not a member of the reconstituted EGoM, sources said. Sources said no date for the meeting of the EGoM has been fixed yet. The EGoM was last week reconstituted after Pranab Mukherjee, who was heading it, resigned as finance minister to contest the Presidential elections. Reacting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's decision, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said it was not only regrettable and condemnable but downright scandalous.

"The Prime Minister is not concerned about propriety," he said while his party colleague Yashwant Sinha was sarcastic about the appointment.

However, Congress spokesperson Renuka Chaudhary strongly defended the decision saying opposition allegations against Chidambaram were not substantiated. The government has to govern and cannot be held hostage to opposition allegations.

Six-year-old Shiva Yadav sang softly to Shahid Khan, about two-and-half-year-old, trying to lull him to sleep. Their mothers - Vime Yadav and Kureshia Begum — were busy chopping vegetables for dinner of 250 children at Dantewada's Aastha hostel in south Chhattisgarh. Vime is a cook and Kureshia works as a peon at state government-run Aastha. They landed the jobs after their husbands were killed in a landmine blast in 2009.Rakhi Chakrabarty reports for time of India.The report follows:

Like Shiva and Shahid, their fathers were friends. "They had gone to Kerlapal to buy fowls. While they were returning home, the vehicle carrying four persons blew up in a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists," said Vime.

Aastha is home to 127 girls and 123 boys who are orphans from villages of Dantewada and surrounding districts of Chhattisgarh ravaged by Maoist violence. Parents of many of the children were killed by the Red ultras.

Kamla Curram (14) studies in class IX. She left her home in Konta's Chittalguda village in the Maoist heartland and came to Aastha in 2007 after her father was killed by Maoists and her mother died of malaria in 2006.

Kamla said, "The Maoists came to the village at night and took away my father along with five other villagers to the jungle. They were hacked to death. We found him next morning."

She is scared every time she returns to the village during summer vacation. She is determined though not to let the fear get the better of her. "I sing when I feel depressed," she said. She dreams of becoming a doctor.

Sushma Das, in-charge of the girls at Aastha, said, "She has a good voice. So, we arranged for a teacher to give her music lessons."

After the children come to Aastha from villages they are coached for admission to schools. "We want to make use of the Right to Education in case of these children," said Dantewada collector O P Chowdhury.

Aastha inmates currently study in various schools, including Kendriya Vidyalaya. "The older children are coached for various entrance tests," said Ramesh Baghel, in-charge of the boys at the hostel.

In 2011, Chowdhury started a project called, Chhoo lo Aasman, to coach children from remote Maoist-hit villages in science and mathematics. "In Bastar, there is an acute shortage of good science and mathematics teachers. So, we selected teachers with proven track record in these subjects and housed them at residential schools for those who want to study science after class X," said Chowdhury.

Currently, around 180 girls and 140 boys are coached in science subjects at residential schools at Karli and Balood in Dantewada. All expenses are borne by the state government.

At Karli, Veena Podiyam is among the girls who cleared the pharmacy entrance test. She also appeared in the medical entrance test. In January, her brother was died in police custody in Sukma. He was picked up by the CRPF on the suspicion that he was a Maoist and handed over to district police. It was alleged that he committed suicide in the police lock-up. Rights activists alleged he was killed by police who tortured him.(http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-05/india/32550969_1_maoist-violence-kerlapal-maoist-hit)