FORMAL STATEMENT: Women Fact-Finding Team Assaulted in Narayanpatna

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POLICE ASSAULT WOMEN FACTFINDING TEAM IN NARAYANAPATNA, ORISSA
Update at 2.45 p.m., 9 December, 2009

A 9 woman fact-finding team and their driver were assaulted in the Narayanpatna Police Station premises when they went to enquire into the conditions leading up to the police firing of 20 November, 2009, in Narayanpatna, Orissa.

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INVITATION to Dantewada Padyatra, Satyagrah and Jan Sunwai

DANTEWADA PADYATRA, SATYAGRAH AND JAN SUNWAI

For the People’s Right
to say No to displacement and Tribal Genocide

And to demand
the right to live with justice and peace

Raipur / Dantewada

In order to build public opinion and to support the tribal people in their demand to stop this displacement and genocide and to reclaim their right to live with justice and peace, several community based and people’s organisations, union and human rights groups from Chhattisgarh and outside are planning a series of activities in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh.

1.  Padyatra: 14 December to 26 December 2009

2.  Dantewada Satyagrah: 25 December 2009 to 5 January 2010

3.  Jan Sunwai: 6-7 January 2010 (the date may be advanced or postponed by a day)

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