After Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Director General K. Vijay Kumar on Thursday apologised for the deaths of innocent civilians, if any, in the recent encounter with Maoists in Chhattisgarh.
“It is a concern and regret if they were innocent civilians. This information [that some of them were Maoists] was based on police records shared with us...we have said that seven of those killed were Naxalites,” Mr. Kumar told journalists here.
It is alleged that in the encounter between Maoists and the CRPF-Chhattisgarh police in Bijapur district last month, 20 people were killed which included many innocent villagers.
The Chhattisgarh government has already ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident.
Refusing to further “speculate” on the controversy, Mr. Kumar said an inquiry has been ordered and would not like to talk more about the identities of those killed. The CRPF is also conducting an internal inquiry into the incident.
The CRPF has maintained that its troops returned fire after Maoists ambushed them in the middle of night.
WELL i think there is lot's of thing's in this case,in my opinion both
the crpf & villager's are correct.look at the whole context in
chattissgarh area like bijapur,kanker,narayan & sukma are very densely
forest's area,any police man of the world could scare in that area.The
visibility of that area in the evening is very low,so just imagine what
happen in the night.i thing at that night naxalities were fired on the
police official and they escaped from the forest & rest of the
villager's were killed in the crpf encounter
The BBC article on these deaths stated "Police now admit civilians
were killed - but say they died in crossfire and were used by rebels
as human shields." In no other democratic country on this planet
can police open fire when "human shields" are present. It is the
"human shields" they are paid to protect. It is a common excuse
used by war criminals who falsely claim they are trying to stamp out
terrorists. Invariably the people who are killed are lumped
together with their real targets.
These very people had patted themselves for the encounter,hailing
the CRPF,soon after the mission,where innocent tribals were killed
for nothing.Like dual sims being used in mobiles,these politicians
have dual tungs that always twists as per the whims and fancies of
theirs.A case be booked against the CRPF personnel involved in the
encounter for their mindless act,that devoured many a valuable
lives of the innocent tribals for no fault of theirs.Merely
expressing regrets is not suffice,as it is for the authorities to
compensate the loss to the bereaved families.
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