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The colour of blood

Tarun Vijay





A close collaboration between Communist terrorist

organisations from different parts of the country is

strengthening their ‘armed revolution’ against the

Indian State

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.