The report, which was released world-wide today, blames the West Bengal government for patronising a private militia which, it says, had unleashed a reign of terror on Nandigram and the BJP-ruled Gujarat for "sitting pretty on 2,000 killings during the 2003 riots".
According to Amnesty International's India Director Mukul Sharma, "we are meeting the Vice President on June 2, while the Prime Minister's Office has sounded us for an appointment next week".
So far, India, like many other countries, had ignored the New York-based organisation's findings. However, today Sharma presented the report to the National Human Rights Commission chairman.
The report says that the country's land acquisition policy has displaced poor people and snatched their livelihood options. "Existing constitutional provisions were ignored as resource-rich areas, demarcated as