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security forces a license to kill without impooity, as AFSPA has Dear friends, been used in Kashmir and North East. This is in addition to the .
For a vast majority ofthe people ofour country, these are state's routine acts ofextra-legal murders through fake encounters .
indeed difficult times. It is not just because the prices ofevery · and custodial killings, ofusing torture, rape and arson as means to commodity in the market is rising sky high, not even because jobs crush the people's resistance against exploitation and repression in .
are being cut and workers are facing retrenchment, also not be-cause all these regions. The results ofthese acts by the government have .
health care and education are increasingly going out ofreach ofthe already started to take its toll. man on the street. In this period ofan all-encompassing crisis, when The war bas begun: After the war was started on 1st a vast majority ofthe people inthe cities and villages ofthis November this year, the casualty among the people is escalating by country are struggling to procl.ll'e even the basic necessities oflife each passing day, as grows the number ofburnt villages, persons and to make the ends meet, a greater and more immediate crisis is .
looming large on a section ofthe most oppressed people ofthis displaced, injured or arrested, as per the sporadic news from the war .
zone that through the media By mid-November, more than 12 .
country: the entire population ofcentral and eastern India This villages have been completely ravaged, their inhabitants forced to .
crisis is forced upon tbem because tbe Indian government led take shelter deep in the forests. Two separate incidents ofmass .
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by Manmohan Slngb and P Cbidambaram ~sdedared war on killings took place in Dandakaranya and one in Orissa, in which the people, a war not against any e~ernal enemy, but against more than 17 adivasis were murdered by the government's anned our own people. This war however is not going to be confined to forces. There are reports that thousands ofadivasis are abandoning .
the forested and far-otfadivasi regions alone. Itwill engulfthe their houses in Chhattisgarh and migrating to adjoining Andhra entire country and all its inhabitants, including each one ofus. In a Pradesh after the Operation Green Htmt was launched. The renewed desperate attempt to wriggle itselfand the big corporations out of the present economic crisis which has engulfed the entire capitalist offensive by the joint forces in Lalgarh too has left hundreds of .
protesting adivasis homeless. The brutalities ofthe government .
world and their dependent economies, the Indian government is at .
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forces are increasing by every passing day as can aLso be seen in .
war against the poorest and most exploited ofour . people, a war that Narayanpatna, Orissa. Last month, adivasi peasants demonstrating we must make all efforts to stop. for land rights were fired at by the police killing two oftheir .
A war against tbe people: As a result ofthe government's .
leaders. Seventy two people were arrested on cooked-up charges. war preparations, a civil war situation is building up in the regions Cantonments are being built and school buildings are being used to .
ofcentral and eastern India inhabited primarily by the adivasis station Security Forces in these areas. Likewise, three districts in .
which include Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, UP in adjoining Allahabad have been declared 'Naxal-in fested', and Maharashtra, Orissa, West Bengal and adjoining areas. After a meeting ofpeasants and workers was disallowed by the Kashmir and North East, where the Indian government has been .
government. No open meeting is now allowed in this region. And .
fighting the nationality movements for decades, it is now opening these are only two examples ofstate terror unleashed during the its third war front. The central government is drawing its troops present war. Given these developments, the number ofdead and from Kashmir and the North East for deployment in the regions injured people along with the displaced and destroyed vilJages will where Operation Green Hunt is presently going on. More than only mount in the coming weeks ifthe Indian government does not .
100,000 soldiers ofthe Indian security forces are already operating .
caJl for an immediate halt to this military offensive against the in these regions, and these forces are being increased to 2,50,000. people, against our fellow citizens. And the government is not .
Central paramilitary forces such as CRPF, IRB, ITBP, CISF, along going to stop this war on its O\vn, it can only be-stopped by building with Grey Hounds, CoBRA and other special forces, state police up a strong people's resistance against it. and Special Police Officers, state-sponsored vigilante gangs like Whose war and against whom? The declared aim ofthis Salwa Judum, Sendra, Nagarik Suraksha Samiti, Tritiya Prastuti ' by.
war is to 're-establish the sovereign rule ofthe Indian state.
Samiti, Harmad Vahini, Sunlight Sena etc., all are being pitted clearing offthese areas·frol'D: the Naxalites or Maoists. However, · against the adivasi people. The special tmits ofthe army such as the this war is being fought by the Indian government at the behest of Rashtriya Rifles are being readied for deployment, air force the corporates and for their benefit, targeting the life and livelihood helicopters and drone surveil1ance aircrafts are brought in to oflakhs ofadivasis. The worldwide imperialist economy presently strengthen the war operations. The government is taking help of faces its most severe crisis after 1929. The military-industrial intelligence inputs from US defense satellites too, as was revealed complex, which includes multinational and lndjan big business during thejoint paramilitary operations in Lalgarb, West Bengal. It interests, is looking for wars that have the potential to artificially .
is worth noting that many teams ofUS security establishment generate the much needed demand for their products in a crisis-.
ridden market. Moreover, this war is an attempt to forcibly displace.
secretly visited Chhattisgarh in order to assess and assist in the government's war preparations. Draconian laws like the UAPA, . the adivasis from their ancestral homeland and hand over their land NSA, Chhattisgarh Public Securities Act etc. has been put in place and forests to the multinational and Indian.corporations who will to silence all voice.s ofresistance and dissent and to giv~ the .
.
PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2009 ID-50247
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L-1 .
I'(tt_ (o~ .
security forces a license to kill without impooity, as AFSPA has Dear friends, been used in Kashmir and North East. This is in addition to the .
For a vast majority ofthe people ofour country, these are state's routine acts ofextra-legal murders through fake encounters .
indeed difficult times. It is not just because the prices ofevery · and custodial killings, ofusing torture, rape and arson as means to commodity in the market is rising sky high, not even because jobs crush the people's resistance against exploitation and repression in .
are being cut and workers are facing retrenchment, also not be-cause all these regions. The results ofthese acts by the government have .
health care and education are increasingly going out ofreach ofthe already started to take its toll. man on the street. In this period ofan all-encompassing crisis, when The war bas begun: After the war was started on 1st a vast majority ofthe people inthe cities and villages ofthis November this year, the casualty among the people is escalating by country are struggling to procl.ll'e even the basic necessities oflife each passing day, as grows the number ofburnt villages, persons and to make the ends meet, a greater and more immediate crisis is .
looming large on a section ofthe most oppressed people ofthis displaced, injured or arrested, as per the sporadic news from the war .
zone that through the media By mid-November, more than 12 .
country: the entire population ofcentral and eastern India This villages have been completely ravaged, their inhabitants forced to .
crisis is forced upon tbem because tbe Indian government led take shelter deep in the forests. Two separate incidents ofmass .
.
by Manmohan Slngb and P Cbidambaram ~sdedared war on killings took place in Dandakaranya and one in Orissa, in which the people, a war not against any e~ernal enemy, but against more than 17 adivasis were murdered by the government's anned our own people. This war however is not going to be confined to forces. There are reports that thousands ofadivasis are abandoning .
the forested and far-otfadivasi regions alone. Itwill engulfthe their houses in Chhattisgarh and migrating to adjoining Andhra entire country and all its inhabitants, including each one ofus. In a Pradesh after the Operation Green Htmt was launched. The renewed desperate attempt to wriggle itselfand the big corporations out of the present economic crisis which has engulfed the entire capitalist offensive by the joint forces in Lalgarh too has left hundreds of .
protesting adivasis homeless. The brutalities ofthe government .
world and their dependent economies, the Indian government is at .
.
forces are increasing by every passing day as can aLso be seen in .
war against the poorest and most exploited ofour . people, a war that Narayanpatna, Orissa. Last month, adivasi peasants demonstrating we must make all efforts to stop. for land rights were fired at by the police killing two oftheir .
A war against tbe people: As a result ofthe government's .
leaders. Seventy two people were arrested on cooked-up charges. war preparations, a civil war situation is building up in the regions Cantonments are being built and school buildings are being used to .
ofcentral and eastern India inhabited primarily by the adivasis station Security Forces in these areas. Likewise, three districts in .
which include Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, UP in adjoining Allahabad have been declared 'Naxal-in fested', and Maharashtra, Orissa, West Bengal and adjoining areas. After a meeting ofpeasants and workers was disallowed by the Kashmir and North East, where the Indian government has been .
government. No open meeting is now allowed in this region. And .
fighting the nationality movements for decades, it is now opening these are only two examples ofstate terror unleashed during the its third war front. The central government is drawing its troops present war. Given these developments, the number ofdead and from Kashmir and the North East for deployment in the regions injured people along with the displaced and destroyed vilJages will where Operation Green Hunt is presently going on. More than only mount in the coming weeks ifthe Indian government does not .
100,000 soldiers ofthe Indian security forces are already operating .
caJl for an immediate halt to this military offensive against the in these regions, and these forces are being increased to 2,50,000. people, against our fellow citizens. And the government is not .
Central paramilitary forces such as CRPF, IRB, ITBP, CISF, along going to stop this war on its O\vn, it can only be-stopped by building with Grey Hounds, CoBRA and other special forces, state police up a strong people's resistance against it. and Special Police Officers, state-sponsored vigilante gangs like Whose war and against whom? The declared aim ofthis Salwa Judum, Sendra, Nagarik Suraksha Samiti, Tritiya Prastuti ' by.
war is to 're-establish the sovereign rule ofthe Indian state.
Samiti, Harmad Vahini, Sunlight Sena etc., all are being pitted clearing offthese areas·frol'D: the Naxalites or Maoists. However, · against the adivasi people. The special tmits ofthe army such as the this war is being fought by the Indian government at the behest of Rashtriya Rifles are being readied for deployment, air force the corporates and for their benefit, targeting the life and livelihood helicopters and drone surveil1ance aircrafts are brought in to oflakhs ofadivasis. The worldwide imperialist economy presently strengthen the war operations. The government is taking help of faces its most severe crisis after 1929. The military-industrial intelligence inputs from US defense satellites too, as was revealed complex, which includes multinational and lndjan big business during thejoint paramilitary operations in Lalgarb, West Bengal. It interests, is looking for wars that have the potential to artificially .
is worth noting that many teams ofUS security establishment generate the much needed demand for their products in a crisis-.
ridden market. Moreover, this war is an attempt to forcibly displace.
secretly visited Chhattisgarh in order to assess and assist in the government's war preparations. Draconian laws like the UAPA, . the adivasis from their ancestral homeland and hand over their land NSA, Chhattisgarh Public Securities Act etc. has been put in place and forests to the multinational and Indian.corporations who will to silence all voice.s ofresistance and dissent and to giv~ the .
.