---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jaison C. Cooper <[email protected]<notification%[email protected]> > Date: Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:05 AM Subject: Jaison C. Cooper added you to the group "1 Million Strong Against 'Operation Green Hunt'" To: Kandamath Manayilvalappil Venugopalan <[email protected]>
Jaison C. Cooper added you to the group "1 Million Strong Against 'Operation Green Hunt'" Group description: Operation 'Green Hunt' is a murderous, scandalous massive military operation, launched by the corrupt Indian State, in late 2009, with an array of military forces, hi-tech support and utmost cruelty, on its own people. This unprecedented internal military offensive is taking place in the forests and hills that are the homeland of many different Adivasi tribes in the central and eastern Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkand, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal. Indian and international corporations like Mittal, Vedanta, Tata, Essar, Jindal, Posco are itching to tear up these lands to get their hands on the riches that lies under them, minerals like bauxite, coal and iron ore. Operation Green Hunt’s precursor was the Salwa Judum, vigilante militias funded by the governing parties and local state governments, launched in 2005. The leaking of a draft government report stating that Salwa Judum was first funded by Tata and Essor Steel created an outburst in the press; that part was subsequently edited out of the final version.The official figure of emptied villages in Chhattisgarh is 644. Thousands of villagers were murdered and numerous women raped. Thousands were arbitrarily arrested and left rotting in jail. Over 3,50,000 people were displaced. In attempting to separate the people from the CPI (Maoist), nearly 50,000 were forced to live in Vietnam-style strategic hamlets. Independent journalists and intellectuals who tried to report on these atrocities were beaten, jailed or otherwise prevented from investigating Salwa Judum’s actions. The Salwa judum had the 'opposite effect' to the state's motive. People joined the CPI (Maoist) in large numbers, than ever before, to fight the state terror and oppresion. The Salwa judum failed in the face of resolute resistance from the people and world wide criticism from the civil society. During this same period Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared the CPI (Maoist) the “gravest internal security threat” to India. The “land to the tiller” views of CPI (Maoist) are in contradiction to India’s rising capitalist development at its most competitive and cutthroat. The present Government, which is desperate to upgrade their partnership with global imperialism, cannot tolerate the fact that large swaths of the country are no longer under their control, and are determined to crush anything that stands in their way, especially the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the masses hungry for radical change who make up the army they lead. With Operation Green Hunt the burning, killing, looting, torturing and raping has increased exponentially. Unlike Salwa Judum this operation is coordinated by the central government, which predicts a long and bloody war until the tribal area is “sanitized” and the Maoists defeated. More than 100,00 military and paramilitary troops are being sent into the Adivasi areas. The plan is for the occupiers to gradually spread from one “sanitized” area to another. Twenty Warfare Training Schools are being built in India. Mahmohan Singh recently spent $18 billion in the U.S. to buy huge amounts of military supplies and munitions, including the latest state-of-the- art global positioning systems and night-vision- capable automatic rifles. Drones are being provided by Israel. And the Israeli Mossad is training Indian police as snipers. Media reports suggest that their mission is to assassinate leaders of the CPI (Maoist) and the mass movement. According to numerous well-documented reports from sources not necessarily friendly to CPI (Maoist), 30 to 40 tribal people are being killed each week in the Adivasi belt. Despite its regional and global ambitions the Indian state failed to provide public services like health care and education, minimal employment, safe drinking water, food, seed plant credits or even law and order for the Adivasis and the rest of the “poorest of the poor”. Instead the state has served them daily humiliation, oppression and superexploitation. The grim life-and-death character of what Operation Green Hunt means to millions of tribals in India’s heartland is not lost on many thinking individuals, irrespective of their views on Maoism. A movement against Operation 'Green Hunt' is gaining momentum in many parts of the India, despite the risk of being tarred with the “terrorist” brush or labelled a Maoist by the Indian government. This opposition and resistance comes from a wide-ranging political spectrum. Operation 'Green Hunt' has created significant polarization in society. Within this, there are contrasting views. However, it must be clear dat If the operation continues, the civilian death toll is liable to rise from several hundred to several thousand a year, as had happened in Argentina and Peru, where 50,000 to 100,000 people ‘disappeared’ in decades-long counter-insurgency operations. ” (Frontline, issue 6, 13-26 March 2010). Hence we must Demand that the Operation 'Green Hunt' must be stoped immidiately, all the forces must be withdrawn. Let the state make its plans transparent and call for a wide range of discussions, debate over the developmental issues. The state must take the intiative for talks with the CPI (maoist) and facilitate for a 'sieze-fire'. Let us stand in Solidarity with the most dispossessed and poorest people, against the most powerful, profit hungry Mining Corporations and the Scandalous Indian ruling class. 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