Kalinga Nagar: Chandia people’s anger is reaching the tipping point as all houses on Anabadi land are threatened to be demolished
Update from Surya Shankar Dash
‘Goondaism’ is the real ideology of the Govt in Kalinga Nagar. At 7.30 AM Chandia village was quiet but prepared for yet another long day of repression & humiliation. By 9 AM police forces arrived to carry on with the demolition because the real agenda of this mission is yet to be accomplished, i.e. to provoke the people. And it seems the masterminds of repression are losing their patience because in what seems to be a planned strategy to push the people towards a final showdown, the police is trying all sorts of tricks to start a fight. Firstly they bullied the people into not assembling where they have been doing so since day before yesterday because the police forces have decided to assemble at that particular place. Then people from neighboring villages like Gobarghati and Baligotha were on their way to stand by Chandia people but the police stopped them midway. And then the final part of the strategy was played out as houses of people who have not been displaced were targeted for demolition, and ultimately it was declared that all houses not having record of rights ((which tribal people rarely have) would be demolished. The simmering anger of the people has reached a boiling point today. They have been pushed to the point of desperation and the blame for any untoward eventuality will not rest entirely on the proponents of State goondaism but also on the cowardly silence of the opposition parties and the media.
Most recent update: the women of Chandia bravely resisted all attempts to demolish the houses built on Anabadi land. The police first lathi charged at the women and then when they refused to be scared they were shot at, most likely with rubber bullets and plastic pellets. The people have taken refuge from the bullets (steel, plastic, rubber or whatever they are) in the nearby Baligotha forest. Some of them are trapped in the village where the police is terrorising them. There is no clear confirmation of the number of people injured as everybody is scattered and yet to assemble at one place.
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