The Story So Far
Over 3,000 Dalits, under the Sadhu Jana Vimochana Munnani (Liberation Front of the Poor), encroach upon a part of the RPG Group’s rubber plantation on August 3, 2007.
They demand 5 acres of farm land from the government for each.
The court asks the govt to evict them, without using force.
Police, greeted by suicide squads, return without evicting them.
Estate employees affected by the agitation take on the protestors, cut off roads to the settlement, impose blockade.
Police stop their march to evict the encroachers on September 3, 2008.
Estate employees give September 10 as deadline, say if the government does not evict them, they will.
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