NEW DELHI:
The world's premier human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has strongly indicted West Bengal and its ruling party, CPM, for the state-sponsored violence in Nandigram in 2007.
In its annual report, which was released on Tuesday, the global human rights NGO said private militias allied to the CPM committed "a range of human rights violations including unlawful killings, forced evictions, excessive police force and violence against women".
The report said, "In January and March, at least 25 mostly local residents, were killed in Nandigram, more than 100 were injured and at least 20 women were sexually assaulted by private militias allied to the ruling CPM."
The CPM has already been deeply indicted for the Nandigram violence last year as well as this year, with the result that the CPM suffered some of its worst defeats in these areas during the recent panchayat elections.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Amnesty_slams_Bengal_CPM_for_violence_in_Nandigram_/articleshow/3078297.cms
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