03-15-2007, 07:39 AM
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Saugar Sengupta | Kolaghat / Kolkata
Buddha's police slaughter 15; scores injured
Mamata stopped on way to killing fields, gheraoed by CPM cadre in Tamluk; West Bengal bandh on Friday
Drawing inspiration from Deng Xiaoping, West Bengal's Marxist Chief Minister <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday unleashed his police and party cadre on the farmers of Nandigram who have been resisting forcible acquisition of their land for a Special Economic Zone project. In the bloodbath that followed, at least 15 men and women were shot dead in cold blood and scores of others injured.</span>
<b>Eyewitnesses to this state-sponsored massacre, reminiscent of the slaughter at Tiananmen Square, have provided vivid details of how policemen, who were provided covering fire by CPI(M) cadre, marched on to this village in East Midnapore district, shooting protesters on sight. When wailing women came to retrieve the fallen, they were assaulted with ferocity that would shame wild animals.</b>
On June 3, 1989, tanks of Deng's Red Army had literally crushed peaceful demonstrators demanding democracy at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. That massacre occurred in the dead of night. Wednesday's slaughter of those protesting Marxist strong-arm tactics in Nandigram happened in broad daylight.
Soon after news of Wednesday's brutality spread, anger erupted into protests at Kolkata, Hooghly, East and West Midnapore, North and South 24 Parganas, Malda, Coochbehar and elsewhere. The Forward Bloc, an ally of the CPI(M), has called a dusk-to-dawn bandh in Cooch Behar. Another Marxist ally, the RSP, has sought an immediate meeting of the Left Front.
West Bengal has been shaken as never before by the mindless killings ordered by the CPI(M)-led Left Front Government.
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Saugar Sengupta | Kolaghat / Kolkata
Buddha's police slaughter 15; scores injured
Mamata stopped on way to killing fields, gheraoed by CPM cadre in Tamluk; West Bengal bandh on Friday
Drawing inspiration from Deng Xiaoping, West Bengal's Marxist Chief Minister <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday unleashed his police and party cadre on the farmers of Nandigram who have been resisting forcible acquisition of their land for a Special Economic Zone project. In the bloodbath that followed, at least 15 men and women were shot dead in cold blood and scores of others injured.</span>
<b>Eyewitnesses to this state-sponsored massacre, reminiscent of the slaughter at Tiananmen Square, have provided vivid details of how policemen, who were provided covering fire by CPI(M) cadre, marched on to this village in East Midnapore district, shooting protesters on sight. When wailing women came to retrieve the fallen, they were assaulted with ferocity that would shame wild animals.</b>
On June 3, 1989, tanks of Deng's Red Army had literally crushed peaceful demonstrators demanding democracy at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. That massacre occurred in the dead of night. Wednesday's slaughter of those protesting Marxist strong-arm tactics in Nandigram happened in broad daylight.
Soon after news of Wednesday's brutality spread, anger erupted into protests at Kolkata, Hooghly, East and West Midnapore, North and South 24 Parganas, Malda, Coochbehar and elsewhere. The Forward Bloc, an ally of the CPI(M), has called a dusk-to-dawn bandh in Cooch Behar. Another Marxist ally, the RSP, has sought an immediate meeting of the Left Front.
West Bengal has been shaken as never before by the mindless killings ordered by the CPI(M)-led Left Front Government.
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