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Within a week after the gruesome murder of 11
members of the CPI (ML)[People’s War], including a senior member of the state
committee (Comrade Srikanth), at Kachnawan village in Jehanabad district, the
guerrillas struck back with a vengeance killing nine policemen of the Bihar
Military Police (BMP) near Chaurathi hills at Lamari village under Majhiaon
police station limits in Garhwa district.
The BMP jawans who were on a combing mission to nab
the revolutionaries and had conducted several raids on the villages in the area
on March 11, were just returning in their vehicle when the guerillas triggered
off a land mine killing all the nine policemen on the spot. They belonged to the
BMP-9 battalion with headquarters at Jamalpur. The guerrillas carried away eight
rifles and a huge quantity of ammunition from the enemy forces. The annihilation
of the policemen and the seizure of arms comes as a big rebuff to the Centre and
state governments both of which have been scheming to crush the revolutionary
movement led by the CPI (ML)[People’s War] and had chalked out concrete measures
towards that end. In fact, barely five days prior to the ambush, the police
chiefs of the five states — AP, MP, Bihar, Maharashtra and Orissa met along with
home ministry officials under the chairmanship of the Union Home Secretary,
Kamal Pande, and announced elaborate measures to be adopted by the five states
and the Centre to check the fast-spreading revolutionary movement led by the CPI
(ML)[People’s War]. And no sooner had the BJP-Samata alliance government headed
by Nitish Kumar come to power in Bihar (though lasting for a mere 8 days), that
the attacks by the state police were stepped up.
The killing of the BMP jawans in Garhwa, coming as
it is within days after the brutal murder of 11 members of CPI (ML)[[PW], has
enthused the revolutionary forces and the oppressed masses not only in Bihar but
all over India. It is yet another pointer to the fascist ruling classes that any
brutal act would be paid back in blood and that they cannot halt the onward
march of the people’s war in India through fascist measures.
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