Students to narrate to PM Ranibodli massacre

Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, Apr 10 (UNI) Six girl students of Ranibodli Ashram will narrate to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh how the Naxalites massacred 55 security personnel in Ranibodli police camp in the Bastar region on March 18.

Thirty students from Dornapal and Ranibodli areas in Dantewada district and 'Salwa Judum' relief camps will take part in a UNICEF programme in New Delhi. The group includes six girls from Ranibodli Ashram, where the police camp was located.

Fifty-five police jawans, including Special Police Officers (SPOs), were killed when naxals had attacked the police camp on March 15.

About 30 students, who were present in the ashram at the time of the attack, are still terrified.

UNICEF's Akhilesh Gautam said an eight-day workshop on dance and threatre will start in New Delhi on April 11 in which students from India, Afghanistan and the US will take part.

Mr Gautam said Dr Singh would be present on the last day of the programme. After the workshop, the students would be taken out on a tour to various parts of the country.

Sunita, Lakshmi, Neeta and Meena -- class V students in Ranibodli Ashram and about eleven year old -- told UNI that they will meet the Prime Minister and tell him about the incident.

The students said they have not bee able to forget the ghastly scene with corpses of jawans strewn everywhere. They said they could not perform well in the examination due to bad mental condition after the incident.

UNI