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NOVANEWS Lalgarh - Massive protest by women against rapes committed by security personnel Rajeesh | July 24, 2010 at 8:41 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Qk Sanhati.com by Partho Sarathi Ray July 22, 2010 On 20th July, around 50,000 women under the banner of “Committee to save honour of women” tried to march into Jhargram town to protest against the recent incidents of raping of women in Sonamukhi village by the joint security forces. Such a huge, and militant, mobilization of women has not been seen in Jhargram in recent times. The marchers, including school students in uniform, teachers, housewives and even many elderly women tried to enter Jhargram town via four different routes. Even the vice-chairperson of the CPI(M) controlled Jhargram panchaya...

NOVANEWS ALAN HART: INDIA AT WAR WITH ITSELF July 22, 2010  by Gordon Duff   A GLOBAL NUCLEAR TINDERBOX FUELED BY ISRAEL By Alan Hart  (LISA Seminar on 14 July 2010) “Among the questions open and honest dialogue would need to address is the extent to which outside forces are having a significant influence on India’s drift to war with itself. It’s not too much of a secret that for more than a decade (and perhaps much longer) Israel’s Mossad has been advising, some say directing, India’s intelligence agencies. The cover story is co-operation in the “war against global terrorism”. But it’s not unreasonable to speculate that agents of Zionism and its neo-con associates are complicit in stoking Hindu-Muslim tensions…. because of the disparity between Indian and Pakistani conventional forces, P...

  NOVANEWS Maoists want peace: Swami Agnivesh Rajeesh | July 15, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Q6 Social Activist Swami Agnivesh, the interlocutor appointed by Home Minister P Chidambaram for talks with the CPI (Maoist), is at a loss. He has not been able to sleep ever since Maoist leader Azad’s death. Azad’s letter to Swamiji was replete with optimism and promise towards ending violence. But before that could happen, Azad was killed by the Andhra police in an alleged ‘encounter’. Swamiji is unable to shrug off some accountability as he feels responsible, being the one to have played the pivotal role in trying to bring the Maoists to the talk table. Disappointed at the Home Minister’s rejection of his demand of conducting a probe into Azad’s killing, ...

'My son sold veggies to cops, but they killed him' Rajeesh | July 20, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Qh BIJAPUR (Chhattisgarh): A 15-year-old boy who sold vegetables in Awapalli, a small town of Bastar, was killed by a CRPF patrol party late night on June 3 this year. "He was a member of the Naxal Sangam and was planting a bomb when he was killed,'' says V P Chauhan, the officer in charge of Awapalli police station. But two facts make closure difficult for Unga Ooyam, the boy's father. One, the policemen who killed his son, Lalu, knew him well. "Wo mere bete se hi to nimbu khareedte thhey (they used to buy lemons from my son). Worse, once they killed him, they called Lalu a Naxal. My son was a devout follower of the Shivananda Ashram at Gumargunda. Ho...