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By Arresting Dalit Activists For Bhima Koregaon Violence, Govt. Wants To Brand Them As Maoists

By Arresting Dalit Activists For Bhima Koregaon Violence, Govt. Wants To Brand Them As Maoists

Youth Ki Awaaz / By Varsha Torgalkar

On June 6, six months after the FIR with regards to violence at Bhima Koregaon was filed, Pune police arrested five activists – Shoma Sen, Mahesh Raut and Surendra Gadling from Nagpur, Sudhir Dhawale from Mumbai and Rona Wilson from Delhi – stating alleged links of the Elgar Parishad with Maoists. However, Ravindra Kadam, Joint Commissioner of Police, Pune, said, “Whether speeches made at Elgar caused violence or not is yet to be investigated.”
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Why Sudhir Dhawale’s acquittal in a 2014 case of Naxal involvement is relevant to the Bhima Koregaon arrests

Why Sudhir Dhawale’s acquittal in a 2014 case of Naxal involvement is relevant to the Bhima Koregaon arrests

The Caravan Magazine / By Arshu John

On 6 June, in a joint operation across Delhi, Nagpur and Mumbai, the Pune Police arrested five individuals for allegedly being “top urban Maoist operatives” who incited the violence in Bhima Koregaon—a town in Maharashtra—this January. Sudhir Dhawale, one of the five accused, is a prominent Mumbai-based activist who has worked extensively on Dalit rights. He has previously been arrested, and subsequently acquitted, in another case of alleged involvement with Maoist rebels.
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Labelling Dalits and Adivasis as Maoists is an old state strategy for crushing dissent and criticism

Labelling Dalits and Adivasis as Maoists is an old state strategy for crushing dissent and criticism

Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde

In ‘Republic of Caste’, published this year, Anand Teltumbde writes about how Maoist and Naxalite labels make Dalits and Adivasis even more vulnerable.
Despite its mode of expression, the much-maligned Naxalite movement is essentially an act of dissent, a public protest, a fact occasionally acknowledged by the government itself, although the actions of the latter never reflect this admission.
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Sudhir Dhawale – The Radical Ambedkarite

Sudhir Dhawale – The Radical Ambedkarite

Mumbai Mirror / By Ramu Ramanathan

He is the eternal protestor. He protested when Dr Binayak Sen was in prison. In February 2017, he was part of the Rohit Vemula protest by Mumbai Students Solidarity at the Mumbai University. He also protested the three Dalit murders in Javkhede Khalasa-Kasarwadi in Pathardi Taluka.
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The Nava Peshwai Terror against the Dalits and State Repression

The Nava Peshwai Terror against the Dalits and State Repression

Statement by Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS)

WSS condemns the wave of state repression following the peaceful commemoration of the Ambedkarite community on the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon. The most recent wave of repression is a set of raids without a warrant conducted simultaneously at 6 am on 17 April, 2018, upon the homes of Kabir Kala Manch activists Rupali Jadhav, Jyoti Jagtap, Ramesh Gaichor, Sagar Gorkhe and Dhawala Dhengle in Pune; Republican Panther activists Sudhir Dhavale and Harshali Potdar in Mumbai; and Nagpur-based lawyer Surendra Gadling and Delhi-based CRPP activist Rona Wilson.
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IAPL condemns harassment of Advocate Surendra Gadling and Dalit activists in the name of ‘Search operations’

IAPL condemns harassment of Advocate Surendra Gadling and Dalit activists in the name of ‘Search operations’

Press Release by Indian Association of People´s Lawyers (IAPL)

In a shocking development, the Pune (Maharashtra) police today, April 17, 2018 at around 6.00 a.m. conducted simultaneous searches at homes of prominent activists in Maharashtra namely Sudhir Dhavale (Dalit activist, Republican Panthers), Harshali Potdar (Woman activist, Republican Panthers), Ramesh Gaychor, Jyoti Jagtap, Sagar Gorkhe, Rupali Jadhav and Dhawala Dhengle (all Kabir Kala Manch activists) in relation to the violence that ensued on the day of bi-centenary celebrations of the battle of Bhima-Koregaon on January 31, 2018 and the subsequent bandh.
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India’s justice system is biased against Dalits – the 9 deaths during Monday’s protest prove that

India’s justice system is biased against Dalits – the 9 deaths during Monday’s protest prove that

Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde

The actions of the police and the media during the April 2 bandh against changes in the Atrocity Act demonstrates that prejudice runs deep.
On April 2, in an unprecedented show of solidarity, Dalits across India observed a Bharat Bandh to protest against the March 20 judgement of the Supreme Court that effectively took away whatever teeth the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act had been left with.
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Marathas, Dalits Unite to Demand Arrest of Bhima-Koregaon Violence Accused

Marathas, Dalits Unite to Demand Arrest of Bhima-Koregaon Violence Accused

The Wire / By Sukanya Shantha

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Police’s inability to arrest Shiv Pratishthan Hindustan chief Manohar Bhide, the prime suspect in the attacks unleashed on Dalits visiting Bhima Koregaon near Pune on January 1, led to a massive protest with over 50,000 Ambedkarites pouring into Mumbai’s Azad Maidan on March 26.
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Bhima-Koregaon: Glimmerings of a Maratha-Dalit-Bahujan Alliance Against Fascism

Bhima-Koregaon: Glimmerings of a Maratha-Dalit-Bahujan Alliance Against Fascism

India Cultural Forum / By Harish S. Wankhede

The Dalits are angry again.
Another incident of caste violence and atrocity was registered in Maharashtra. This time Dalits were protesting against the planned attack by the Hindutvadi rightwing groups on an event, organized to commemorate the “victory of Mahar’s” over the mighty Peshwas at the battle of Bhima-Koregaon in 1818.
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