[Reader-list] Vachathi: Triumph of a courageous struggle

[A. Mani]

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Vachathi: Triumph of a courageous struggle

Nearly two decades after a tribal hamlet in Tamil Nadu, Vachathi, was
attacked by police and State forest officials, under the guise of a
crackdown on alleged sandalwood smuggling, last week a lower court
convicted 215 government officials, including 17 held for rape.
Subsequent cover-ups, in collusion with the State government, were
exposed after the investigation was handed over to the CBI after a
writ petition filed by the then CPI (M) State secretary, A. Nallasivan
in the Madras High Court. R. VAIGAI documents the scale of atrocities
and the role of the Left, both the CPI(M) and mass organisations like
the AIDWA, in supporting the struggle of the people of Vachathi. This
article first appeared in People's Democracy.
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