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Kolkata, India – “If I go, they will kill me,” says the voice of an Indian police officer fearful of retribution from left-wing rebels. He regrets not being able to visit his family in a village in central India. In another audio recording, a poor local tribeswoman says her brother was jailed by the police last year after being falsely accused of being a guerrilla. “Why has he stopped farming? Why does he sleep in houses other than his?” she says, parroting the police’s charges. These are two of the many accounts recorded in an ongoing civil society effort to document the testimon...

Search Accounts of victimisation by Maoists and State’s agencies in Chhattisgarh tumble out 5,000 testimonies in less than a month: NGO Thousands of accounts of victimisation by Maoists and the State’s agencies in Chhattisgarh have tumbled out in days thanks to an NGO’s initiative of recording the victims’ testimonies. Three slum dwellers from Bijapur have said they pay the municipality Rs 300 to Rs 900 annually for the public land they have been squatting on since being evicted from their ...