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Visakhapatnam
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VISAKHAPATNAM: The Visakhapatnam District Police Officers' Association on Sunday took strong exception to the remarks made by the AP Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC) on the Gunukurai encounter and asked the panel to change its name into `Maoists Rights Protection Committee.' "As the APCLC is only concerned about the rights of Maoists and as they maintain a stoic silence whenever policemen and civilians are killed by the Maoists, it will be better if APCLC is renamed as Maoists Rights Protection Committee,'' the association president, Ravibabu, secretary, Srinivasa Rao and vice-president, A. Venkata Rao, said. Reacting to the observations made by a fact-finding committee of the APCLC which visited Gunukurai, the association office-bearers expressed anguish that the APCLC was silent when M. Venkatraju, husband of the then Minister for Tribal Welfare, Manikumari, was gunned down by the Maoists at Paderu a year ago. They also failed to react when the Maoists attacked an ambulance and killed a constable before his members during a blockade observed in Sileru area, the statement said.
One-sided
The police officers said that it was the duty of the police to contain the activities of any outfit, which takes law into its hands and the Communist Party of India (Maoist) was no exception, they said. Stating that the fact-finding committee's finding was `one-sided', they claimed that the number of policemen and civilians killed in the State in violence was more than the naxalites who died in exchange of fire with the police.
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