Posted on 10/21/2003 8:13:26 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
During the last year, Communist terrorist organisations have registered an unusual increase of 36 per cent in their activities. The precision with which mines were blasted with the intention to take Chandrababu Naidu’s life speaks a lot about the preparedness of the People’s War Group (PWG).
Since the 1917 October revolution, violence has been an inseparable part of the Communist ‘practical party line’. From Stalin and Mao to EMS and Jyoti Basu, violence has always been the hallmark of Communist parties’ growth even as banners inscribed with the words ‘Peace, Harmony, People’s power, Condemn the Bourgeois, Long Live the Revolution’ continue to flutter on the graves of the ‘enemies of the working classes’ (read dissidents and opponents). Terrorism is used as a tool to perpetuate their hold on the masses as well as their own party workers. Another interesting facet of the Communist violent movements in this subcontinent is their presence in the only two Hindu majority countries, i.e. Nepal and India. They are, surprisingly, not active in any of the Islamic countries in our neighbourhood.
What is most worrying the government is the realignment and rejuvenation of Communist extremism and its spread to new frontiers. The close collaboration between the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) and the CPI(M-L) People’s War has almost crystallised into a broad ‘united front’ of Communist terrorism in India. This is one of the three pre-requisites laid down by Mao for a successful armed revolution, the other two being a ‘people’s army’ and a ‘strong Communist party’.
The main purpose behind the unity of the MCC, CPI(M-L) People’s War as well as the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [CPN-M] is to carve out a ‘compact revolutionary zone’ from Nepal through Bihar and the Dandkaranya region to Andhra Pradesh. This arrangement also involves imparting training and supplying arms and ammunitions to Nepalese Maoists, while maintaining close ‘fraternal relations’ with anti-national outfits like the ULFA and the NSCN(I-M).
Chandrababu Naidu is on the hit list of the PWG mainly because its cadres were attenuated by a series of debilitating losses inflicted upon it through the anti-PWG drive of the Andhra police. But the PWG still retains enough manpower, organisational network, arsenal and striking power to remain a major threat to internal security. It has raised companies on the army and paramilitary pattern by upgrading its existing military platoons.
It is also engaged in training its overground sympathisers in guerrilla warfare, development of capabilities to make wireless sets and form a ‘people’s guerrilla army’.
Intelligence inputs indicate that in pursuit of their efforts to evolve a united platform of Communist revolutionaries for strengthening their ‘armed revolution’ against the Indian State, the MCC and the Revolutionary Communist Centre of India-Maoist (RCCI-M) have agreed to merge into a single entity, to be christened the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCC-I).
It is significant that the erstwhile CPI(M-L)-PWG had been similarly formed in 1980 by the merger of seven splinter Communist outfits operating in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The CPI(M-L)-Party Unity of undivided Bihar merged with the CPI(M-L)-PWG in August 1998 in a new avatar called the CPI(M-L) People’s War. Since then, the outfit has acquired a national dimension and today accounts for about 64 per cent of country-wide Communist violence, with its activities being reported from 12 states.
In Kerala, the main targets of Communist terrorism have been RSS and BJP workers.
Recently, a local court awarded capital punishment to five CPI(M) workers who were found guilty of killing Jay Krishnan, a BJP worker. Since 1969, more than 60 RSS workers have been brutally killed by the Communists. And how! A teacher was hacked to death in front of his students in the classroom, students of the ABVP were drowned in a river, a former CPI(M) worker’s legs are knifed in front of his ageing parents for the ‘sin’ of joining a RSS shakha.
Similarly, in Bengal, Trinamool Congress workers have been the main targets of the Communist violence. Their hands were chopped off when found ‘guilty’ of ‘not voting for the CPI(M)’. More than one hundred cases of murders, rape and plunder have been reported by the Trinamool Congress, but the Communist government ensured that nothing happened to their ideological comrades. Neither the ‘secular’ parties, nor their fundamentalist Taliban-like ‘combative’ allies feel concern for the victims of Communist violence, which is as despicable as any other form of violence. According to home ministry sources, more than 9,773 (till June 2003) people have been killed by various Communist terrorist organisations active in 55 districts declared ‘Left-extremism affected’ in eight states. Those killed were mostly farmers, teachers and students coming from tribal, scheduled caste and low and middle-classes. All these murders were done in the name of janyuddha or revolution.
India, already bleeding under attacks by Islamist jehadis, cannot afford to tolerate another jehad of the red hue. Ironically, the ‘Marxist media’ and the so-called secular parties keep a studied silence over the barbaric Communist terrorism and try to romanticise the entire movement under the cover of some bizarre ideological shades. If this strange ideological apartheid continues to reign, the victims will feel driven to the wall. There just cannot be two kinds of responses to savagery in a civil society. When Hindus are killed, the response is a muted condemnation for the sake of ‘record’. If non-Hindus face a similar fate, ‘secular hurricanes’ arrive with global dimensions. If the faith in the fairness of our institutions has to be maintained, the murderers of 9,773 Indians should also be brought to justice.
Karimnagar, Jan 09 - The banned People's War may soon change the party name as All India Maoist Communist Centre and acquire a more militant `avatar' by merging with the Maoist Communist Centre which has a sizable presence in Bihar and Jharkhand.
The basic thrust of the unified new party would be fighting globalisation and liberalisation in the changed international scenario. In fact, these two extremist parties have been working in tandem for the last several years and have an identical ideology.
Though unity talks between these two organisations has been on the cards for over two years, they took a concrete shape only after the recent mediation of another north based Marxist-Leninist (ML) outfit, Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM).
According to sources, the MCC which is currently holding talks with PWG and a few other ML organisations in India as well as adjoining Nepal is ready to soften its militancy and work together with other parties. The MCC is known for earlier version of `Charu Mazumdar line which looks down upon an ML party having mass organisations. Though PWG too held a similar view till early 1980s, it changed the stance and opened up for front organisations.
The top leadership of the three organisations PWG, MCC and RIM, comprising their central committee members, have originally planned to hold a congress last October to formalise the merger but it did not take place. According to sources, the tentative time of the congress has now been fixed in March/April this year at an unspecified location in the country. The RIM leadership, which has been acting as a mediator for strengthening the revolutionary movement in the country, has assured both the organisations to provide full security for the participants in the meeting.
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