A Historical Study Of Keelavenmani Massacre In 1968

Abstract

There were 44 downtrodden agricultural labourers who lived at KeezhaVenmani, Keelvelur, Nagai District in 1968. They worked in the farm of Erinjiyur Kobalakrishna Naidu for generations. They found it very difficult to make their both ends meet on meagre wage they got. One fine day, under the leadership of Marxist Communist Party, those labourers demanded the farm owners to raise their harvesting wage from 4 ½  padi to 5 padi. The demand was denied. They were burnt alive at Ramaiyan hut on 25.12.1968 night by Kobalakrishnan, the two-legged animal, merciless and brutal.