When killers talk of human rights violation...

02-11-11

When killers talk of human rights violation...

By Kartik Lokhande
THE seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and highest form of revolution. But while the principle remains the same (for all countries), its application by the Party of the proletariat finds expression in various ways according to the varying conditions. -- Mao

The above principle is equally applicable to the Indian Revolution too. The Central task of the Indian revolution also is the seizure of political power. To accomplish this Central task, the Indian people will have to be organized in the people’s army and will have to wipe out the armed forces of the counter-revolutionary Indian state through war and will have to establish, in its place, their own state - the People’s Democratic State and will have to establish their own political authority. The very act of establishment of the state machinery of the people by destroying, through war, the present autocratic state machinery - the army, the police, and the bureaucracy of the reactionary ruling classes - is the Central task of the People’s Democratic Revolution of India. -- The Central Task of the Revolution - Seizure of Political Power Through Protracted People’s War, Strategy and Tactics document of CPI (Maoist)

Both these quotes from the said sources make clear certain things -- Maoists in India are not for change in governance; they just want to grab the power on the strength of arms and violence; they are acting against the lawfully elected Government in democratic country like India; they are operating with a specific design; and that they are into a full-fledged war against the nation-state.
Still, when so-called intellectuals ‘suspect’ that their top-ranking cadres are killed in ‘fake’ encounters, the Government succumbs to pressure and announces an enquiry. This has happened after death of Maoist Central Committee and Politburo member Mallojula Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji in the last week of November in Burisole forest in West Bengal. Succumbing to pressure from so-called intellectuals and ‘fashionable’ democrats, West Bengal Government announced a CID enquiry into alleged ‘fake’ encounter.
Unfortunately, in the Government also, people who know the ideology of Maoist outlaws are in a minuscule minority. Rest others get carried away by the pressures from human rights or other rights groups. Instead of countering these lobbies with facts, then, the Government ends up succumbing to pressure. One could easily ask the Maoists or their ideologues whether they denied that Kishenji was a Maoist. To this, their answer is an obvious ‘yes’. From the articles of pro-Maoist thinkers, it is also clear that Kishenji was involved in violent activities against the country. In a letter issued by Abhay, Spokesperson of CPI (Maoist), it is clearly mentioned that Kishenji had ‘led the guerrilla squads’. It is evidence enough to prove that Kishenji was involved in anti-national activities.
The mere fact that he was a Central Committee member of an organisation, which is the biggest internal security threat to the country, proves that he and his organisation had a disregard for the country’s law. Still, the pathetic bunch of Maoists’ sympathisers is dubbing the encounter, in which Kishenji was killed, as ‘fake’. Calling an encounter ‘fake’ implies that there is legal encounter, too. The argument implies that this reflects faith in the country’s laws. When the pro-Maoist intellectuals often show disregard and disrespect for the country’s laws, why is that they seek probe instituted under the same laws? It is nothing but a ploy to corner the lawfully elected Government and clouding the minds of countrymen.
Another point to be brought to fore is that the Maoists have a well-planned strategy of infiltrating various rights groups and furthering their own cause. In one of their founding documents ‘Strategy and Tactics’ they have made it clear, “The principle underlying the legal-illegal coordination is to form the widest possible legal organizations inside which the Party operates secretly.” Maoists have quoted Lenin who had stated, “The legal organizations are the points of support which allow taking to the masses the ideas of clandestine cells. That is to say that we modify the form of influence to the objective of which the prior influences continue in the sense of clandestine orientation.” Lenin had also mentioned, “By the form of the organizations the clandestine ‘accommodates itself’ to the legal. By the content of our Party’s work, legal work will ‘accommodate itself’ to the clandestine ideas.”
It is amply clear from Lenin’s quote and Maoists’ own document that they want to infiltrate legal organisations like the rights groups and then operate their party secretly within these groups so as to overthrow the lawfully and democratically elected Government. In fact, resolutions passed by the Maoists during their 9th Unity Congress held in early 2007 clear the misconceptions, whatsoever, regarding the outlaws’ intentions. As part of their strategy and tactics, Maoists had passed a resolution on what they called ‘prisoners’ struggles’. In the resolution, they stated that ‘Committee to Release Prisoners’ should be formed along with ‘intellectuals, democracy-lovers, and members of families of imprisoned comrades’. Besides, it gave a call of organising ‘progressive lawyers to provide legal support to prisoners’ and to ‘generate public opinion against draconian laws’.
However, general public is not ideologically equipped to understand these things and read finer print. As a result, people and a majority of those in the Government do not understand when Committee for Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) is formed soon after passage of resolution on prisoners’ struggles by Maoists. They fail to gauge seriousness of the matter when the same CRPP organises a convention ‘Azadi: The Only Way’ in Delhi. A majority of intellectuals get carried away by what is being discussed forgetting that the Maoist-promoted outfit is bringing together people or organisations who are secessionists in nature.
It is this naiveté of the general public, intellectuals, and the Government that rights groups infiltrated deeply by Maoists are successful in building pressure on lawfully elected Government. Maoists, or any anti-India organisation, capitalises on this failure of the people to connect the dots and ‘fluid memory’. Unless the nation equips itself with patriotic intellect, killing of any anti-national element, any goon, any terrorist would draw criticism for the Government. Till then, ‘killers’ would seek protection of ‘human’ rights.