Stepping up their activities, Maoists Thursday sent a letter to Sukma district collector P Dayanand threatening to kill 15 Salwa Judum leaders besides demanding stopping of Operation Green Hunt, removal of CRPF Jawans from Bastar and release of Maoists from jail.
According to Sukma Collector P Dayanand informed the press that Darbha Division Committee sent a post on Thursday around 4 pm which threatened to kill 15 Salwa Judum leaders as well as those helping the police. The letter said that in Darbha Valley the State Government has been given the answer of Salwa Judum and will not spare those who were associated with the movement and are presently helping the police besides harassing innocent people.
The letter mentioned the names of Rambhawan Kushwah, Soyam Mukka, Bodu Rama, P Vijay, Korpa Mannu, Rajendra Verma, Joga Balwant, Ayata Manjhi of Dubbatota, Padam Nanda, Rameshwar Tapadiya, Manoj Yadav, Vinod Tiwari, Umesh Singh Dipak Chouhan, Ali, and Pramod Rathod accusing them of indulging in harassing innocent tribal people and earning money through illegal means besides supporting police and threatened to kill them.
The letter also demanded removal of CRPF Jawans deputed in Bastar, stopping of Operation Green Hunt, stopping harassing innocent tribal people of Bastar, stopping Vikas Yatra and Parivartan Yatra, filing murder case against CRPF Jawans who killed villagers at Edasmeta and release of tribals lodged in jails.
Cases filed against 200 for Darbha carnage
The Darbha police registered cases of murder and assault against 200 Maoists cadre who were involved in Jheeram valley attack on Congress convoy Saturday last which resulted murder of 28 people including CGPCC Chief Nand Kumar Patel, Mahendra Karma, Uday Mudliyar, Patel's son Dinesh and others while 30 people including former Union Minister Vidya Charan Shukla were injured grievously. The police filed report naming Maoist leaders Ramanna, Ganesh, Vinod, Pandu, Sumitra and two others as the main accused of the massacre.