Sunday, December 10, 2006
Singur slogan in train raid
Dec. 10: A second chapter was added to Singur’s Naxalite link today when 25 armed rebels raided a Kharagpur-bound local train in Jharkhand shouting slogans against farmland acquisition for the Tata Motors factory.
The attackers, who carried carbines and pistols, did not harm the passengers but robbed two Railway Protection Force jawans of their rifles, throwing one of them out of the train when he resisted.
The attack on the Tatanagar-Kharagpur Passenger came around 10.15 am minutes after it had left Chakulia station — about 110 km from Kharagpur — where some people had stuck posters warning the Bengal government not to snatch farmers’ land in Singur.
The posters bore the name of the SUCI, a party to the December 2 farmer-police skirmish at Singur spearheaded by the CPI (Maoist).
The above information was from the (Calcutta) Telegraph. Many other news reports did not mention the Singur matter in connection with the train raid but suggested that the Naxalites had simply raided the train to acquire more weapons. Maybe the journalists are afraid of being beaten by the police again in another lathi charge so they are keeping their mouths shut. Who knows ?
The attackers, who carried carbines and pistols, did not harm the passengers but robbed two Railway Protection Force jawans of their rifles, throwing one of them out of the train when he resisted.
The attack on the Tatanagar-Kharagpur Passenger came around 10.15 am minutes after it had left Chakulia station — about 110 km from Kharagpur — where some people had stuck posters warning the Bengal government not to snatch farmers’ land in Singur.
The posters bore the name of the SUCI, a party to the December 2 farmer-police skirmish at Singur spearheaded by the CPI (Maoist).
The above information was from the (Calcutta) Telegraph. Many other news reports did not mention the Singur matter in connection with the train raid but suggested that the Naxalites had simply raided the train to acquire more weapons. Maybe the journalists are afraid of being beaten by the police again in another lathi charge so they are keeping their mouths shut. Who knows ?
# posted by uv : 10:46 PM
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