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It is indeed amusing to see such reports just 10 days after the PLGA had carried out the biggest ever action in the history of the Maoist movement by eliminating 68 police personnel including SPOs in Rani Bodili in Chattisgarh and after we had declared that more such actions would follow if the reactionary ruling classes do not give up the brutal campaign of mass murder and destruction in the name of salwa judum.

Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007

We call upon the democratic organizations and individuals and the vast masses of the country to condemn state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism on the adivasi people of Dandakaranya, to demand immediate disbandment of salwa judum and the mercenary SPO force, to fight for the withdrawal of the notorious central forces from the region, set up a judicial enquiry into the killing of over 500 adivasis by the police-salwa judum mercenary combine.

Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007

The Maoists killed his father in a truck blast... the young boy is all set to become a part of salwa judum.

Rape of Chhattishgarh - 60 years of Slavery Abhay N 2007

Q: Recently your PLGA had inflicted one of the biggest blows to the police force and the salwa judum by killing a huge number of police and SPOs in Rani Bodili in Chattisgarh.

Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007

The atrocities in Chattisgarh especially since the launching of the state-sponsored salwa judum two years ago, outstrip the Gujarat fake encounter.

CPI(Maoist) statements on Gujarat fake encounter Abhay N 2007

They demanded the withdrawal of the salwa judum initiative.

Forest dwellers demand more rights over forests Abhay N 2007

The activists felt that in the absence of more rights for local people was a major reason why Maoists had made deep inroads into the forested parts of India and that the reaction of the state - by forming the salwa judum militia by the Chhattisgarh government, for example - had only worsened the situation.

Forest dwellers demand more rights over forests Abhay N 2007

Just a month ago, on March 31, seven tribals were picked up from Ponjer village in Bijapur district and murdered in cold blood by the police-salwa judum gangs.

CPI(Maoist) statements on Gujarat fake encounter Abhay N 2007

And do you believe the salwa judum can be stopped through such actions?

Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007

Over 700 villages had been razed to the ground, almost 60,000 people were uprooted from their homes, over 400 were murdered, several women were raped and property of the people was destroyed by these salwa judum vigilante gangs accompanied by the police and central forces.

Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007