03-10-2008, 04:37 AM
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The Pioneer Edit Desk
Marxist killers on the rampage
The killing fields of Kannur in Kerala are once again soaked with the blood of young men murdered by CPI(M) terror groups. The only fault of those slaughtered this past week by Marxist thugs was that they preferred the colour saffron over red. In a recrudescence of political violence in Kannur district, CPI(M) hoodlums hacked five young BJP activists in a span of less than 72 hours starting last Wednesday afternoon. Horror-struck people in the CPI(M)-dominated areas of Thalassery and Koothuparamba in this district, known for Communist brutality, are cowering in fear. More than a thousand police personnel, led by top officials, have been patrolling the streets, but that has neither inspired confidence nor restored peace. This is not surprising since the police force reports to CPI(M) top gun and State Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who hails from and represents Thalassery constituency. Marxist misuse of the police for political purposes is not unique to West Bengal; the situation in Kerala is no better. Indeed, not many people disbelieve reports that Mr Kodiyeri has all along played an active, albeit behind-the-scenes, role in his party's murderous campaigns to exercise control over Kannur district.
Even Marxist fellow travellers in Kannur will concede that the so-called 'liberated' villages in the district, especially in Thalassery and Koothuparambu, are nurseries that breed terror elements who, when ordered by their leaders, do not betray the slightest hesitation while killing 'opponents'. Since the late-1970s, the victims of this thuggery, which becomes particularly vicious whenever the CPI(M) is in power, have invariably been RSS workers and BJP cadre. The mass killings began in 1980 when the late EK Nayanar was the CPI(M) Chief Minister -- in the past three decades, there has been a spurt in Marxist violence every time the LDF has come to power, with the police remaining mute spectators. In 1999, the pattern of killings changed for the worse. Till then, leaders would be spared by the Marxists, but in 1999, Kerala was stunned when the State Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha vice-president KT Jayakrishnan, a school teacher, was hacked to death inside a classroom and in front of his students.
It's the law of the jungle that prevails in Kannur. The law enforcement agencies have abysmally failed in their task of ensuring safety and security for all. The criminal justice system has equally failed in ensuring the guilty get their just desserts. This is best exemplified by the shoddy investigation and shoddier prosecution that resulted in three of those accused of murdering Jayakrishnan walking free while the fourth accused has been sentenced to life imprisonment -- justice would have been seen to be done if all of them had been sentenced to death. Not surprisingly, the local CPI(M) committee organised a rousing welcome for the three men who were acquitted, heaping insult on the memory of the man they had so brutally murdered. There is no percentage in seeking the UPA Government's assistance, as has been done by Leader of Opposition LK Advani, to stem the Marxist violence. Such appeals will only be met with approving silence and indulgent inaction. Let us not forget the UPA Government's response to the butchery at Nandigram in West Bengal. There is no reason why it should react any differently to the plight of the people of Kannur.
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The Pioneer Edit Desk
Marxist killers on the rampage
The killing fields of Kannur in Kerala are once again soaked with the blood of young men murdered by CPI(M) terror groups. The only fault of those slaughtered this past week by Marxist thugs was that they preferred the colour saffron over red. In a recrudescence of political violence in Kannur district, CPI(M) hoodlums hacked five young BJP activists in a span of less than 72 hours starting last Wednesday afternoon. Horror-struck people in the CPI(M)-dominated areas of Thalassery and Koothuparamba in this district, known for Communist brutality, are cowering in fear. More than a thousand police personnel, led by top officials, have been patrolling the streets, but that has neither inspired confidence nor restored peace. This is not surprising since the police force reports to CPI(M) top gun and State Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who hails from and represents Thalassery constituency. Marxist misuse of the police for political purposes is not unique to West Bengal; the situation in Kerala is no better. Indeed, not many people disbelieve reports that Mr Kodiyeri has all along played an active, albeit behind-the-scenes, role in his party's murderous campaigns to exercise control over Kannur district.
Even Marxist fellow travellers in Kannur will concede that the so-called 'liberated' villages in the district, especially in Thalassery and Koothuparambu, are nurseries that breed terror elements who, when ordered by their leaders, do not betray the slightest hesitation while killing 'opponents'. Since the late-1970s, the victims of this thuggery, which becomes particularly vicious whenever the CPI(M) is in power, have invariably been RSS workers and BJP cadre. The mass killings began in 1980 when the late EK Nayanar was the CPI(M) Chief Minister -- in the past three decades, there has been a spurt in Marxist violence every time the LDF has come to power, with the police remaining mute spectators. In 1999, the pattern of killings changed for the worse. Till then, leaders would be spared by the Marxists, but in 1999, Kerala was stunned when the State Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha vice-president KT Jayakrishnan, a school teacher, was hacked to death inside a classroom and in front of his students.
It's the law of the jungle that prevails in Kannur. The law enforcement agencies have abysmally failed in their task of ensuring safety and security for all. The criminal justice system has equally failed in ensuring the guilty get their just desserts. This is best exemplified by the shoddy investigation and shoddier prosecution that resulted in three of those accused of murdering Jayakrishnan walking free while the fourth accused has been sentenced to life imprisonment -- justice would have been seen to be done if all of them had been sentenced to death. Not surprisingly, the local CPI(M) committee organised a rousing welcome for the three men who were acquitted, heaping insult on the memory of the man they had so brutally murdered. There is no percentage in seeking the UPA Government's assistance, as has been done by Leader of Opposition LK Advani, to stem the Marxist violence. Such appeals will only be met with approving silence and indulgent inaction. Let us not forget the UPA Government's response to the butchery at Nandigram in West Bengal. There is no reason why it should react any differently to the plight of the people of Kannur.
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