http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-11/india/30141674_1_open-fire-stone-pelting-dalits
Three killed in police firing in caste-sensitive south Tamil Nadu
Jaya Menon, TNN Sep 11, 2011, 03.30pm IST
RAMANATHAPURAM: Three persons were killed in police firing in
Paramakudi in Ramanathapuram district in caste-sensitive south Tamil
Nadu while several others including senior police officials were
injured in stone pelting incidents that lead to the firing on Sunday
afternoon.
In Madurai too police opened fire to disperse a crowd of protestors
demanding the release of John Pandian, founder of Tamizhaga Makkal
Munnetra Kazhagam, who was detained on the way to Paramakudi to
participate in the 54th memorial day observation of Immanuel Sekaran,
a dalit leader.
The detention of John Pandian sparked an immediate agitation by dalits
who thronged Paramakudi for the memorial and turned violent moments
later. The dalits, who staged a protest, soon started pelting stones
on the police injuring Ramanathapuram DIG Sandeep Mittal and Deputy
Commissioner of Police KA Senthilvelan prompting the police to open
fire. The three protesters were killed after police fired at
stone-pelting dalit agitators following reports that their leader John
Pandian had been detained.
As the news of the firing and the death spread more dalits started
converging at the spot fuelling further unrest. Police had cordoned
off the entire district and stopped vehicles at the entry points of
the district to prevent escalation of violence. About 5,000 such
vehicles that brought dalits from across the state are lined up
outside the district.
Police said that many police vehicles were damaged and set on fire by
a mob. ``We are not even able to go near the memorial, the epicentre
of the violent incidents now,'' said a police official. The firing
occurred around 1 pm at a distance of about one km from the memorial
of Immanuel Sekaran. The bodies of the victims are now with the
agitators, police said, adding that no women were injured in the
firing.
In Madurai, two persons were injured in a police firing at Chintamani
area. The firings have sparked tension in the entire southern Tamil
Nadu and heavy posse of police have been posted at sensitive spots.
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