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State to blame for ryots' killing: ex-naxal

By Our Staff Reporter

VISAKHAPATNAM, MARCH 2. The judiciary, executive and legislature should own responsibility for the killing of the eight farmers at Vempenta village in Kurnool district by the Maoists, a former naxalite leader, Achanta Lakshmana Rao, said here on Wednesday.

The slaying of the farmers was a fallout of delay in doing justice to the kin of the nine persons who were murdered in a clash between two groups in 1998, he said and added that the naxalites had avenged the killing of the nine victims who belonged to the Madiga community.

``Had the Government acted promptly and done justice to the victims, the Maoists would not have taken up their cause. Any delay in the disposal of such an important case was unpardonable as it would dilute the case and witnesses might be influenced, could change their mind or some of them could have even died,'' Mr. Lakshmana Rao said.

Peace talks

"When the police continue combing operations, where is the question of talks''? he asked.

When his attention was drawn to the ghastly killing by the naxalites, he felt that the murder of the nine Madigas in 1998 was all the more gruesome. "Charu Mazumdar had recommended the use of traditional weapons and not firearms by revolutionaries. The brutality of the killing would increase their thirst for revenge.''

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