The Indian state’s war on its most impoverished and marginalized
populace in the form of Operation Green Hunt is now continuing for
almost a decade killing hundreds of Adivasis in the vast forest areas of
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharastra, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana
and Bengal. Initiated by the former UPA government, the operation
reached a new height in terms of violence and brutality during the rule
of present communal fascist government led by BJP. The intensity of the
war
has escalated in leaps and bounds with the declaration of the present government to “flush out” the Maoists before 2021.
has escalated in leaps and bounds with the declaration of the present government to “flush out” the Maoists before 2021.
In the recent incident in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, at least
39 Maoist activists are reported to be killed by the security forces in
two different “encounters”, while there is no casualty on the other
side. The first encounter took place near Kasansur village in Tadgaon
Police station area of Gadchiroli. The Maoist activists went to the
village to attend a wedding ceremony, the police surrounded them while
having the breakfast and killed 31 of them. Although the police claimed
it to be a gun battle between the two sides, some important questions
remain unanswered, as in a gun battle one side lost 31 people and the
other side remained unharmed.
According to the police, the second “encounter” took place at Nainer
forest near Rajaram Khandla in Aheri taluka, but local tribals failed to
recall hearing that many gunshots. The Times of India reports,
“Though senior officers claimed it was a genuine gun
battle, there are speculations about it in the hamlets surrounding
Nainer. TOI on a visit in the remote region met tribals of Nainer and
eight hamlets in a range of five kilometres. Starting from Rajaram
Khandla, TOI visited Korepalli, Kapevancha, Korchepalli before taking a
U-turn for Pallekasa, Madgu and Nainer passing through the forest
trails.
A family at Kopevancha claimed to have heard only
couple of gunshots. Another prominent tribal of that hamlet also said he
could not recall hearing continuous bullet shots in the forest. Police
have claimed they came under “heavy and indiscriminate fire” from
Naxalites.
A villager from Pallekasa said he spotted a police
vehicle pass through but returning soon. “I had seen the vehicle go but
it did not leave the village. We heard that there were bodies in the
vehicle,” he said.”
Killing the political activists and dissenting voices in staged
encounters is nothing new in India, the Indian state has always openly
sided with the corporate capitalists in waging war on its people. The
state and central government act as active henchmen of the corporates to
facilitate land grab and mineral loot destroying the lives of thousands
of Adivasis. In this process they are determined to suppress all the
resistance movements and Operation Green Hunt is their license to kill
the Adivasis who oppose the unjust development process, protest the
state oppression and are determined to protect their ancestral
heritages. Clearly, the Indian state sees the Maoists as a severe threat
to the investment climate rather than a security threat to the nation.
Bastar Solidarity Network (Kolkata Chapter) condemns this mass
killing in Gadchiroli and demands judicial probe of the incident. We
appeal to all the democratic individuals and organisations to join hand
against this vicious design and build resistance against Indian state’s
war on people.
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