BHUBANESWAR: The Maoist-selected mediators who held negotiation for the safe release of the then Malkangiri collector R Vineel Krishna after his abduction in February, said on Wednesday that violence would subside in Orissa if the State Government redeems the agreement made during the hostage crisis.The mediators and some Maoist sympathisers addressed a convention here on the implementation of the 14-point agreement signed with the State Government.Professor Haragopal, one of the mediators, said tribals were agitating across the State as the government did not solve their problems. State repression by police will not stop violence, he said and added that peace can be established only through talks.Haragopal’s view on the Maoist violence came a day after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik asked Maoists to shun violence. “We should talk about violence from both sides, the State Government and the ultras. If the State stops violence, Maoists will be forced to stop it,” he said.The State, on the other hand claimed that the Maoists gunned down at least eight innocent persons in the last 90 days when the State had stopped any kind of coercive action against ultras as per the agreement with mediators. Besides, the ultras have also killed at least nine security personnel of neighbouring Chhattisgarh at a place bordering Orissa.Two mediators Haragopal and Dandapani Mohanty and Maoist sympathiser VV Rao, said it would be wrong to blame the Maoists alone for the violence. The Prof said the Government should redeem the agreement it had reached with the mediators. The Maoists released Krishna by the good faith of the mediators, he said and added that if the State fails to honour the agreement, a complicated situation would develop.Revolutionary poet Vara Vara Rao said the Government was abetting violence by depriving tribals of their rights. Stating that nobody wants violence, Rao advised the government to come forward to solve the problems faced by the tribals. The government should try to solve issues through talks, he said and added that steps should be taken to implement the agreement. Mediator Dandapani Mohanty spoke.Earlier, Prof Haragopal, Mohanty and VV Rao met Subhashree Panda, the wife of Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda at the special jail, Jharpada in Bhubaneswar.
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