Volume 1, No. 5, July 2000

 

PRESS STATEMENT

July 8, 2000

 

The Indian ruling classes, led by the genocidal BJP-led government at the Centre and megalomaniacs like Chandrababu Naidu in the states, have unleashed a campaign of extermination on the revolutionary forces in India. Revolutionary cadres and leaders are being brutally tortured and killed in fake encounters. Even top leaders of the Party, like the three Central Committee members of the People’s War, were meted out this same barbaric treatment. In just the past one year over 300 revolutionaries have been murdered in India and thousands more incarcerated in prisons throughout the country. The AP government leads in this brutality, with its continuing ban on the People’s War and its mass organisations. The centre, after the April 4 meeting convened by the central home minister and attended by the chief ministers, home secretaries and police chiefs of the five affected states, is now implementing a planned and concerted offensive against the Maoist forces throughout the country, in intensified attacks. The onslaught, though initiated against the revolutionaries, is slowly spreading to all sections of the struggling people.

While capitulating totally to the dictates of the imperialists and slavishly selling the country to the TNCs, the BJP and all other ruling class parties, are ruthlessly suppressing the masses with the aim of allowing a free hand to the foreign robber-barons. With this goal, they are re-introducing draconian black laws like TADA; buying highly sophisticated counter-insurgency equipment from Israel, France, US, etc., and are being trained by Mossad, Scotland Yard and US counter-insurgency experts.

The Indian rulers, in their hysteric world-wide campaign against so-called terrorism, seeks to crush the revolutionary forces of not only India, but also throughout South Asia. Acting as a regional gendarme of the imperialists, specifically the US imperialists, the Indian expansionists, together with their puppets in Nepal, are now planning further intervention in the sovereign state of Nepal, to crush the growing Maoist forces there.

The reactionary Nepalese government has already massacred more than 1,300 heroic sons and daughters, in the wake of the rapidly developing people’s war under the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The people’s war in Nepal, which has now become the hope of the oppressed masses, is growing to a high level, to establish base areas in the countryside, with the active participation of the masses. The people’s guerrilla army have already demoralised the government commando forces in big battles. Therefore, the present government of Nepal, led by Girija Prasad Koirala, the hated puppet of the Indian expansionists, is planning to create rivers of blood of the Nepalese people on their own soil, by deploying the army. Lakhs of revolutionary masses and prominent personalities are rising against this conspiracy of the enemy. Revolutionaries should be alert, and prepared for any eventuality.

In India too, in spite of the massacre of 1,500 revolutionaries in the past decade, the people’s war is advancing in extent and depth. The Guerrilla Zones are slowly developing to a higher stage and the organs of the new people’s power are taking shape in the villages of North Telangana and Dandakaranya, in a direction towards the establishment of base areas. Simultaneously the people’s guerrilla forces are being strengthened, and the Party is taking deeper roots in the masses. In addition, the Party has spread to ten states of the country.

The people of both countries, led by their Maoist parties, have been heroically fighting back the state offensive, and are advancing towards genuine liberation and freedom. While the revisionists and sham Marxists continue their policies of betrayal of the people’s struggles, it is the genuine Maoist revolutionary forces who are leading the people’s war for total emancipation.

We, of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) [People’s War], appeal to the people of both Nepal and India, to rise unitedly to oppose the fascist and genocidal policies of the Indian ruling classes and their lackeys, including the Nepali ruling classes, and fight for the freedom of both countries from the imperialists’ onslaught and against the strategies of Indian expansionism, and for the total liberation of the masses from the clutches of domestic reaction.

(Gaurav)

Central Committee,

Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)

 

(Ajay)

Central Committee (Provisional),

Communist Party of India (M-L) [People’s War]

 

 

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