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Aman Sethi, The Hindu / SUKMA, August 15, 2011.
A set of well thumbed photographs are being passed around by protestors gathered outside the Sukma post-office in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district. The first is passport-sized, of a well-built, thirty year old man called Madkami Massa in a pale blue shirt smiling into the camera, the other grainier image shows Mr. Massa’s contorted corpse on a white slab – his right arm severed at the elbow, his chest pierced by a bullet.
For the past week, Mr. Massa’s violent end has brought residents from his village of Chikpal out onto the streets. On August 6, the Chhattisgarh police claimed to have killed an armed and uniformed Maoist guerilla and recovered his body during an early morning raid in Neelavaram village in Dantewada district. Two CRPF constables were injured during an exchange of fire and were admitted at the government hospital in Sukma. The body of the slain guerilla was kept at the morgue, autopsied and buried. Four days later, the body was identified as Mr. Massa on the basis of police photographs.
Chikpal’s residents insist that Mr. Massa was picked up from his village on August 5, a day prior to the alleged firefight, taken to the Central Reserve Police Force camp at Kerlapal and shot the next day in a staged encounter. Villagers say that Mr. Massa was the ‘Mukhiya’ of Chikpal, a hereditary social position like a village headman, and had no connections with the Maoists. While Dantewada’s Superintendent of Police, Ankit Garg, and the CRPF maintain that the operation was genuine, the villagers are supported by statements from local politicians, their Congress MLA, Kowasi Lakma, and former MLA Manish Kunjam.
If the allegations are true, Dantewada’s security forces could be responsible for the illegal detention and summary execution of a young adivasi man.
“CRPF soldiers from Kerlapal came to Chikpal at about 12 o clock on August 5,” said resident Irma Ram Markami in a recent interview, “They gathered everyone and shouted at us for not helping build the new CRPF camp. They warned us not to support the Maoists and then started searching some of the men.”
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