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"I’ve heard about it, but from this distance cannot presume to make any judgments with any confidence, though I would certainly support a call for a serious independent investigation" - Noam Chomsky

March 14, 2007 marked the 124th death anniversary of Karl Marx. The day also witnessed mass killings of the people who till their land and feed us all. This happened in Nandigram. This happened in West Bengal. This happened under the careful and preplanned supervision of Communist Party of India (Marxist). We went there. We saw and touched what the media often failed to deliver. We touched the people. We felt helpless, ashamed, heartbroken. These pictures (001 to 031) are all I could bring back. I intend to go there again.
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Know about Nandigram:
sanhati.com/
sacredmediacow.com/?cat=44
url.uploadr.com/156e

"The news of deaths from the police firing in Nandigram ... has filled me with a sense of cold horror. ......"

"...... The thought in my mind, and all sensible people, is whether this spilling of human blood was avoidable?......"

"...... What is the public purpose served by the use of force we witnessed ... ?"
- Gopal Krishna Gandhi (Honourable Governor of West Bengal, India)

Note: In the IRS-1D Pan+L3 images, bright red, smooth-textured areas (e.g. above the Bhanagabera Bridge in the image) indicate cultivation of boro paddy. Coarse textured brownish red patches (e.g. along both the sides of the Talpati creek) stand for settlements and/or village orchards.

IRS-1D Pan+L3 images (Courtesy: S. Bandyopadhyay)

Nandigram bus stand. A middle aged woman spoke to us at length. She narrated the stories and horrifying details of the killing spree along with the kind of torture the women encountered, not to mention the children hacked and ripped apart. Too many people have been killed and their bodies disposed, she said. Someone remarked that she was slightly deranged (perhaps from what she witnessed). She said she was fed up with the political parties and their unfulfilled promises. The only one she now considers taking refuge is in the hands of Almighty Allah.