India, Feb. 10 -- Sahib we have nothing left with us . they have taken our lands - forcing our men to migrate to Chennai as migrant labourers, our Ijjat (honour) and our money, everything," complains a housewife who has fled with her young children to her brother's house at adjacent Dhamakhali.

"We have to work on their lands and fisheries - which once belonged to us before their gunmen forcibly occupied them - for days on end without being paid . and if we ask for our wages our men are lifted away and return with broken limbs or nose," says Purnima Malik one of those hundreds of women who have gheraoed the Sandeshkhali police station in demand of justice.

Sample a third and more horrible a story. "Many of us have no honour left the TMC g...