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Dr Binayak Sen urges Maoists to release Collector Menon unconditionally |
Human Rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen on Saturday reiterated
his call for unconditional release of Chhattisgarh’s abducted Sukma District Collector
Alex Paul Menon. Dr. Sen, who has been working in the tribal belt of Chhattisgarh
for the past many years also appealed to the Maoists to resume peace talks with
the government. “Alex Menon should be released immediately with no pre-conditions
and I express sorrow at the death of the two security personnel, who were guarding
Mr Menon, so I have already issued that statement and I stand by the same,” said
Dr. Sen. In an audacious operation, Maoist rebels abducted Menon, an IAS officer
of 2006 batch, from the middle of a meeting with villagers from Majhipara village
in Keralapal area of the Naxal-infected district last week. Menon, who is the
first collector of the newly-created Sukma District, was known to be proactive
in undertaking development work in the backward region. The Naxals have demanded
the release of eight colleagues: Markam Gopanna alias Satyam Reddy, Nirmal Akka
alias Vijay Laxmi, Devpal Chandrashekhar Reddy, Shantipriya Reddy, Meena Choudhari,
Korsa Sunny, Markam Sunny and Asit Kumar Sen. The ultras also want anti-Naxal
Operation Green Hunt to be cancelled, security forces to be withdrawn from the
region and persons against whom they allege "fake cases" have been registered,
released from the jails. |
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