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	The Muthanga misadventure
		After Muthanga, the future of the agreement is in doubt, with the government terming the tribal leadership it had sought to legitimise as "extremist and prone to armed rebellion'', in effect questioning its credentials.
		As the events that followed the police action at Muthanga have indicated, on the basis of an aberrant incident in which the AGS leadership probably went wrong and unseen forces played a dark role to sabotage the Antony-Janu agreement of 2001, the entire tribal population in the State was sought to be penalised.
		Sadly, the Muthanga incident has at least for the moment derailed an effective group that had emerged from within the tribal community and had in a short period gained the potential to argue powerfully and credibly for Adivasi interests whenever the government showed signs of failing to deliver on its promises.
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl2006/stories/20030328002504200.htm (1748 words)

	The Return To Muthanga -An Affidavit
		Officially, the interpretation is that Muthanga is part of Nilgiri Biosphere and fall within the ‘core’ of Bandipur Reserve.
		After the complete destruction of the nature in Muthanga, this area was recommended by the State to the Centre for consideration to be brought under the category of ‘protected area’.
		It was indeed Ponkuzhi, Thakarappady and Muthanga that constituted the free base of the poachers and the liquor mafia.
	www.countercurrents.org /tribal-janu080703.htm (2442 words)

	Preliminary report on Muthanga
		This is the backdrop of operation Muthanga where a violent confrontation between the police and adivasis led to bleeding casualties.
		Thus came two judges of goodwill, willing to sacrifice their time and offer to enquire into the Muthanga affair before and after, so that the right of the people to know what the Adivasi problem was could be reasonably met without dilatory processes.
		That was followed by a demand and agitation of a group of people who claimed to belong to all political parties including the CPI(M) and BJP seeking release of hostages, arrest of Janu and Geethanandan and eviction of Adivasis from the occupied area, without suggesting any proper solution for their grievances.
	www.pucl.org /Topics/Dalit-tribal/2003/muthanga-report.htm (2664 words)

	The return to Muthanga
		The Adivasis who returned to Muthanga commenced implementing each of the provisions of the agreement one by one and began a life where all the civil rights are protected in an ideal manner.
		It was the beginning of integrating the diversity of the various tribes and commencement of a village life capable of self-rule.
		The Muthanga struggle arena was the cry for establishing social justice and rights over resources within the parameters of this law.
	www.pucl.org /Topics/Dalit-tribal/2003/muthanga.htm (2509 words)

	Freeindiamedia.com, Express your impartial, radical, grassroot views on current issues. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The People's Judicial Enquiry Commission probe into the Muthanga incident in Kerala sheds new light on this burning issue, which is causing plenty of turmoil for the Kerala government.
		Krishna Iyer prescribed a few terms of reference for the commission which include the history of the adivasi struggle, the reasons for the delay in restoring alienated adiavasi lands to landless adivasis, and the drawbacks and changes required in the adivasi land laws in the light of legislations passed in 1975, 1996 and 1999.
		When questioned by the commission, the district collector revealed that the decision to use force was taken by him along with government officials, on the basis of instruction received from the state and central governments.
	www.freeindiamedia.com /human_rights/19_may_03_human_rights.htm (1284 words)

	[India Thinkers Net]Muthanga: CBI To Question Police Officers - India Thinkers Net Archives at Zinester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Purohit was in charge of the commando operation to evict the Adivasi `encroachers' from the Muthanga Wildlife Sanctuary on February 19, 2003.
		Currently, three teams are probing the Muthanga incidents in addition to the inquiry into the alleged atrocities committed by the police during its operation to evict the Adivasis.
		Allegations relating to atrocities committed by the police on the tribals during the eviction-operation and the denial of medical treatment to the Adivasis after the incidents, harassment at hospitals and illegal confinement would also be looked into as per the terms of the inquiry.
	archives.zinester.com /76029/12161.html (431 words)

	Brutal killings of Adivasis at Wayanad - Demands and observations
		The excessive presence of the police forces in Muthanga should be withdrawn immediately.
		The police have since set fire to the tents in the Muthanga forests on which it opened gunfire on 19/02/03 at 5.25 PM.
		Between 12 in the noon and 5 in the evening, the police and other officials were engaged in planning out further attack without making any effort for mediation and peaceful settlement of the issue.
	www.pucl.org /Topics/Dalit-tribal/2003/wayanad-demands.htm (761 words)

	FOREST STRUGGLES IN WAYANAD
		Muthanga in Wayanad district is a place of rich bio-diversity.
		This move restricted the Muthanga adivasis from entering the forest area and led to alienation from the forests of more than 1,500 Muthanga tribal families who had in the past been "physically dislocated" from their homes in Muthanga.
		On 17th Feb. 2003, in a brutal and gory act, the Muthanga forest settlements were torched, gutting the tribal hamlets, destroying their source of livelihood, and 'murdering the tribals in their homeland.' The tribals caught the miscreants that included mostly mafia goons, forest department and police officials.
	www.struggleindia.com /?q=book/print/57 (3138 words)

	Keral.com
		The tribals were arrested in connection with the eviction-operation in Muthanga Wildlife Sanctuary in Wayanad district on Wednesday.
		The families of the tribals who were killed in the police firing at Muthanga will go on an indefinite fast before the Secretariat if the Government did not hand over the bodies to the kin for the funeral after post-mor tem examination, the adivasi and dalit leaders said.
		Though they were convinced by the reports of the witnesses that 20 persons, including two children and aged women, were killed, the Government should clarify the number of tribals killed in the action.
	www.keral.com /newsfeatures/tribal (393 words)

	Gulfnews: Kerala speaker fans row over evictions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		For the third consecutive day, the controversy over the eviction of hundreds of Adivasis from the Muthanga forest in Wayanad continued to top the political and social spectrum in Kerala, and if any more oil was required to fan the controversy it was provided by Speaker Vakkom Purusho-thaman.
		The senior opposition leaders were all in Muthanga yesterday and those present in the assembly staged a walkout today when their demand for a judicial inquiry into the Muthanga incident was turned down for a second consecutive day.
		The Muthanga issue has infused a sense of unity into several Adivasi groups and social activists to rise up in unison, and several protest marches against the police action was witnessed yesterday.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=78245 (500 words)

	Reporting local conflicts--a case study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The agitation by tribals in Kerala for land and the police firing at them in the Muthanga forests on February 19, 2003, is a case in point.
		The civilian causalities in Iraq and beating up and torture of women and children at Muthanga are described as unavoidable consequences of action intended to achieve higher goals.
		Muthanga firing: the unthinkable is happening in Kerala.
	education.vsnl.com /journalist/localcfs.html (1286 words)

	Adivasi-Tee-Projekt
		In this context, we demand that a team of local people, people's representatives, civil liberties activists etc. should be constituted to carry out a search for those who have been stranded in the forests and provide them with medical aid on a war footing.
		The police have in their possession all details on the people who had participated in the struggle in the Muthanga forests.
		We demand that all efforts to terrorise and persecute the tribal community people in their colonies as well as the physical torture by the police should be stopped forthwith.
	www.adivasi-tee-projekt.org /MAIL-04C.HTM (787 words)

	The Hindu : Kerala News : CBI report on Muthanga: tribals allege conspiracy
		Leaders of various tribal organisations today alleged that the charge-sheets filed in the Kerala High Court in connection with the Muthanga incident at Wayanad was the result of a conspiracy involving the State Government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
		There was reason to believe that top officials of the departments of police and forests as well as the forest mafia were involved in the conspiracy to `nail' only the Adivasis and to spare all the others.
		This investigating agency was expected to probe the whole sequence of events that led to the Muthanga incident in which a tribal youth and a policeman were killed.
	www.hindu.com /2004/10/20/stories/2004102005330400.htm (344 words)

	[India Thinkers Net]Manipur & Muthanga watch - India Thinkers Net Archives at Zinester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Rashtriya Maha Sabha general secretary M Geethanandan has said that the chargesheet on the Muthanga incident filed by the CBI in the Kerala High Court on Monday exposed the conspiracy by the police and the forest mafia to destroy the Adivasi movement in the State.
		Geethanandan, who is facing murder charge in connection with the Muthanga incident in which a police constable and a tribal activist were killed, accused the CBI of turning a blind eye to the police atrocities on Adivasis during and after the agitation.
		According to an affidavit, the CBI had said that though the agitation was peaceful initially, the agitators led by the petitioner had started placing impediments in the normal functioning of Forest officials by erecting check-posts and not allowing Forest officials entry into the forest.
	archives.zinester.com /76029/28455.html (1849 words)

	India: Interview with Ms. C.K. Janu , Leader of Tribals in Kerala
		It was not surprising that after the forcible vacation of the Muthanga forest range by the police and the loss of human life the famous activist-writer Ms Arundhati Roy had blasted the state government with her famous open letter "You have blood on Your Hands".
		But at Muthanga not a single penny was spent on either the deceased person's family nor on the injured despite the stated HRCs order.
		After Muthanga we are trying very hard to defend ourselves on the different cases filed against us in the courts.
	www.sacw.net /Nation/gatade18032005.html (2765 words)

	<< muthanga police firing>>
		Shankar Reddy, D.I.G of Police, Nadesan,Superintendent of Police Wayand, Sureshraj Purohit, K.A.P commandant, K. Gopalan, district collector of Wayanad, camped at the Muthanga forest range office and monitored the action.
		Women, children, men with sickles, bows and arrows, all come forward shouting slogans.The policemen contacted the officers camping at Muthanga and started to withdraw.
		With the relief that the policemen were withdrawing from the place agitators started to cook.
	www.countercurrents.org /hr-sharif.htm (2016 words)

	Muthanga issue: Antony govt orders CBI probe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Thiruvananthapuram: Jolted by the National Human Rights Commission's rejection of the state's report on the February 19 police firing on agitating adivasis at Muthanga in Wayanad district, the A K Antony government on March 21 night opted for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe as suggested by the Commission.
		While the government held that an adivasi and a police constable were killed at Muthanga, Human Rights bodies and tribal outfits had alleged higher casualty.
		On February 19 police fired on adivasis who occupied the Muthanga forest area under the Adivasi Gothra Mahasabha as part of the tribal land rights agitation.
	news.indiainfo.com /2003/03/21/21kerala.html (218 words)

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		Introduction :- This report is regarding the encroachment of forest land in Muthanga range of Wyanad Sanctuary in the first week of January, 2003 and the the early eviction of the encroachers from this ecologically fragile and biologically rich forest eco-system.
		DG (Retd.), Special Invitee, visited the forests in Wyanad District on 4th and 5th March, 2003 to get a first hand knowledge of the extent of encroachment and the damage caused by the encroachers to the forests of the ecologically fragile and biologically rich and important forest ecosystem.
		It was seen that the encroachments in Muthanga Range had begun on 5.1.2003 and were finally cleared on 19.2.2003.
	sanctuaryasia.com /resources/environlaw/visittowyanaddistrictkerala.doc (2062 words)

	VIGIL GROUP
		The ‘Muthanga Self Rule Rally’ is to be launched on 11th May at Sulthan Batheri in Wayanad where Muthanga is situated.
		After the Muthanga firing, 31 children were shut behind bars: a clear indication of the State’s fascist power soaring to maniacal heights.
		This act of stubbornness and the incidents around Muthanga make us all the more convinced that a prolonged struggle of democratic forces in Kerala is inevitable for ensuring basic land rights and the right to live in the homeland.
	groups.msn.com /VIGILGROUP/muthanga2.msnw (1831 words)

	Keral.com
		The Muthanga issue has left the United Democratic Front government headed by AK Antony in a sticky situation.
		Had the government had taken steps to check encroachment in the protected forest land of Muthanga Wild life Sanctuary, the situation would not have taken a revolting turn.
		The UDF government’s virtual abdication from its constitutional obligation of protecting the sensitive portion of the Muthanga Sanctuary from tribal encroachers at the very beginning of the invasion in January first week has contributed to the tribal action and the bloody tragedy.
	www.keral.com /newsfeatures/tribal3 (513 words)

	Sunday Kaumudi-Inside Kerala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		An ideal destination to watch herds of wild elephants, the Muthanga wildlife sanctuary is contiguous with the protected area network of the Nagarhole
		Muthanga, which is 16kms east of Sulthan Bathery, is located very near to the Karnataka border.
		Muthanga Sanctuary is rich in fauna and flora and is the biggest abode of wild animals in Malabar.
	www.sundaykaumudi.com /insidek/muthanga.stm (233 words)

	The Hindu : `UDF leaders speaking in different tongues on Muthanga'
		The BJP State president, C.K. Padmanabhan, has said that the UDF leaders were speaking in different tongues on the police action against Adivasis at Muthanaga in Wayanad district.
		According to reports in the media, the Minister for SC and ST Welfare, M.A. Kuttappan, had observed that the number of casualties in the violence at Muthanga had been five, said Mr Padmanabhan.
		He noted that reports that some missionary groups were behind the extremist elements among the Adivasis needed to be investigated.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2003/03/06/stories/2003030604400300.htm (345 words)

	The Hindu : Entry to Muthanga banned
		In view of the first anniversary of the Muthanga uprising on February 19, the Forest and Wildlife Department has prohibited the entry of tourists into the Muthanga wildlife sanctuary in Wayanad district from February 16 to 21.
		The decision was taken by forest officials after considering the possibility of some untoward incident taking place in the wildlife sanctuary on the anniversary of the Muthanga incident.
		Security would be tightened at Muthanga in the coming days, he said.
	www.hindu.com /2004/02/16/stories/2004021603280500.htm (248 words)

	protests over muthanga
		CPI(M) workers participated in a statewide protest action against the brutal persecution of Adivasis by the UDF government, especially the recent police firing at Muthanga.
		The covering of Muthanga incidents by Shaji is a feat in itself.
		Meanwhile parleys are on by the UDF to escape the entanglement.
	pd.cpim.org /2003/0309/03092003_kerala.htm (668 words)

	Tender Coconut - Kerala, Holidays, Wildlife, Kabini River Lodge, Tholpetti, Muthanga, Parambikulam, Rajiv Gandhi ...
		Muthanga Part of the Nilgiri Biosphere, this sanctuary in Wayanad is a rain forest reserve and is connected to the Bandipur National Park in Karnataka and the Mudumalai Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu.
		Muthanga is a Project Elephant site and is home to herds of Pachyderms.
		The flora and fauna is similar to that of Muthanga.
	www.tendercoconut.com /wildlife.htm (543 words)

	[India-ej] Kerala workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		=20 The Muthanga uprising of the tribal people of Kerala and the violent = state repression that it was met with has left its marks on the = socio-political map of Kerala.
		=20 In the process however the message of Muthanga is at risk of being lost.
		We welcome you to be part of consultation = to=20 which have been invited the Dalit and Tribal activists and = intellectuals,=20 representatives of political parties, academicians, cultural leaders and = social=20 activists.
	puggy.symonds.net /pipermail/india-ej/2003-July/000883.html (495 words)

	VIGIL GROUP
		On FEBRUARY 18, 2003 the police launched a brutal attack on a few hundred Adivasis of Kerala who had occupied a forest area at Muthanga in Wynad district a few weeks earlier as part of their agitation demanding land.
		Many hundreds (it is believed that 1100 families had occupied parts of Muthanga at the time of police actions).
		It is with deep regret that we have learnt of the launch of a massive police action by the government to evict the Adivasis who have occupied forest land in the Muthanga area.
	uk.msnusers.com /VIGILGROUP/campaign2003.msnw (1200 words)

	VIGIL GROUP
		An estimated 500 policemen entered the Muthanga forest, and at 9.45 am they started indiscriminate firing of teargas shells, followed by brutal lathi-charge.
		For the above reasons we conclude that the police firing at Muthanga was unjustified and avoidable.
		The State government is duty bound to ensure that all Adivasis who went to settle in Muthanga forest have returned to their respective places.
	groups.msn.com /VIGILGROUP/muthanga.msnw (1201 words)

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