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...provide healthcare to prisoners as evidence of his connections to illegal organizations. Dr. Sen’s patients included a convicted Naxal leader who required hand surgery, and all those visits had been approved and monitored by prison officials. It is difficult to work in Chhattisgarh, particularly in rural areas and in prisons, and not come into contact with Naxalites. This can hardly be considered proof of terrorist proclivity. As many of his close associates, friends and family have attested, Binayak Sen, as a medical professional, is committed to non-violence in his work...
...Last summer, I had planned to work with the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, a non-ideological organization dedicated to the protection of human rights in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. This region is known for its large number of rural and forest-dwelling communities as well as for its rich mineral deposits. The day before arriving in Chhattisgarh, I learned that Dr. Binayak Sen, the human rights activist and doctor I had been planning to work with, had been arrested on counts of terrorism. He is still in jail today, nearly one year later...
...accomplished physician, whose primary interest is pediatrics, particularly the impact of widespread malnutrition and poverty on children’s health in places like rural Chhattisgarh. He and others had created the worker-owned and -run Shaheed Hospital in the mining town of Dallirajhara, premised on the idea of demystifying medicine and making affordable healthcare accessible to all classes and castes. He and his wife, Ilina Sen, continued this work but also turned their attention to growing health and security threats in the state, especially escalating economic inequality. Over the last decade, an unstable economic situation has resulted...
...Salwa Judum has unclear origins. Some allege it is a government creation to drive rural communities off their land; government officials claim it is a spontaneous movement of people to defend themselves against the excesses of Naxalite violence. In either event, one certain point is that Salwa Judum has increased violence in the state to unprecedented levels, forcing communities out of their forest dwellings and into crude, and by most reports sub-human, camps. Moving back is often not a choice for these communities, kept off their traditional land by the government in the name of public safety...
...India. The organization was set up in 2006 by the government, NGOs like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and private health providers to influence policy and research, and to set up world-class public-health schools around the country. The government has also promised more money for rural health through its ambitious National Rural Health Mission. The Congress Party, which leads India's coalition government, says it will increase public-health spending from the current 1% of India's GDP to up to 3% by 2010, but that's still just half the rate at which countries with comparable...