A twelve year old adivasi girl raped by security personnel. State apparatus found most proactive in shielding the rapist and intimidating those daring to speak up.
Thereafter a 21 year old adivasi woman dragged into the forest, gangraped by security forces through the night and shot dead in the morning claiming her to be a Maoist. State apparatus most active in ensuring that not Soni Sori, none reaches the spot, no one digs out the gory details, no one tears apart the fragile façade of the supposed "encounter" dressed up by the police.
The horrors that are unfolding in this war without witness are horrific, the crimes horrendous. But why doesn't these shake our "collective conscience"? And who decides what would shake it and what wouldn't? What does it say about this supposed "collective conscience of the nation"?
Our silences make us stand with the corporate backed state machinery desperate to clear the land, to crush the resistance so as to make way for easy loot and call it "development". Our silence makes us complicit in this genocide.
The adivasis are not just fighting a war of resistance to save their jal-jangal-jameen. They are also fighting against the idea of development that rains death, destruction and displacement on the oppressed and trillions of dollars in a few powerful pockets. They are fighting to define what real development should entail, what should be the contours of real democracy.
They have resisted Jangaran 1. They have resisted Janjagaran 2. They have fought against Salwa Judum. They are resisting Green Hunt. They will fight back "Mission 2016". It is for us to decide whether we are with the handful of fattening pockets or with those brutalised bodies.
#FightBackBastar
- Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Students Organization (BASO)
#FightBackBastar
- Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Students Organization (BASO)
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