“Being Neutral is Our Biggest Crime” - Global Coalition to Protect ...

for this reason we are compelled to attack those who are snatching
away people’s right to live. 369
None of these statements provide a lawfully acceptable justification for unfair trials
and summary executions—they are instances of abuse for which those responsible
should be held to account.
Notably, the CPI (Maoist) statement does not deny Naxalite use of landmines,
though it claims landmine use is limited and attempts to shift the blame for its use
of such an indiscriminate weapon onto the Salwa Judum campaign:
It is a baseless allegation that we had laid mines all over. People, to
defend their very existence, are compelled to plant mines here and
there in order to check the influx of hundreds of state forces and SJ
[Salwa Judum] goons who are creating a reign of terror in the villages.
Neither is this indiscriminate or on an extensive scale. 370
369 Ibid, para. 2.
370 Ibid, para. 4.
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