They were killed in Thoothukudi

Look at the people—their life and death—massacred while they protested or just stood or passed by when the state police—some of them in plain clothes—opened fire at them with weapons like semi-automatic rifles. Most of them were shot in the head and chest.

 

Antony Selvaraj, 46, a resident of Velankanni Nagar, worked for a private shipping company. His father Stalin said that Anthony was on his way home to eat lunch when he was killed. Anthony leaves behind a wife and a teenage son and daughter. Snowlin, 17 Snowlin was the youngest victim. She participated in the rally with her friends and family, which included young children. She was shot through the mouth as she was shouting slogans against Sterlite. She was 17. Funeral poster of JhansiSource: Newsweek Jhansi, 47, a homemaker and resident of Therespuram, was returning home after taking some fish curry she had cooked to her daughter’s house in the neighboring street when she was hit in the head by a police bullet. Witnesses say the police wrapped her in a banner and threw her in the van. Her family collected her brain, which was strewn on the street, and…


LockIcon

Join us