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The cruelty and brutality of the AP police can be
seen from the fact, that in order to cover their tracks, regarding the murder of
the three central committee members, an ordinary peasant was picked up and shot
dead and his body thrown with the three CCMs. The police then went on to
propagate, though they were well aware of the identity of the fourth person,
that he might be the secretary of the Tamil Nadu People’s War Party or a top
leader of the LTTE. Thereby they sought to create confusion and demoralisation.
In order to maintain their hoax and fraud, the body was hastily disposed of,
without so much as informing the family. This heinous crime was perpetrated on
an innocent peasant, on instructions from the very top. DGP Dora and Chief
Minister Naidu, are the prime accused.
It was only on December 9th, a week after the fake
Koyyuru encounter, that the photo of so-called Arun was published in Telugu
Newspapers on the directions of the AP High Court. It was only then that the
relatives were able to identify Singam Laxmirajam (who the police called Arun)
as one of the victims of the Koyyuru encounter.
It is now clear that the conspiracy was hatched by
the top echelons of the AP police on the very night the three CCMs were brought
from Bangalore to Hyderabad. The details were given by the family members of
Laxmirajam to a fact finding committee of various civil liberties organisations,
that visited his village — Garjanapalli.
The team met Singam Venkati, Singam Narsaiah,
(father and brother) and Singam Poshani (mother). They informed the team members
that the police had come to the house at night in search of Laxmirajam, on 1st
December. Scared by the police and apprehending danger to the life of their son
they refused to tell anything to the police. The police beat them severely, and
Singam Narsaiah, the brother of the victim was threatened that he would be
killed in an encounter, if he did not reveal the whereabouts of his brother. The
police left the house along with Narsaiah and proceeded to the field where
Laxmirajam was sleeping. Being the harvest season, Laxmirajam went that night to
Kummari Lingaiah’s field. Kummari Lingaiah, his son Ramesh, and Laxmirajam were
found sleeping on the thatched platform. On seeing the police, they woke up but
suddenly the police pounced on Laxmirajam and tied his hands at the back with a
towel and took him to the jeep waiting near the Gandhi statue in the village.
Kummari Lingaiah and his son were also beaten up when they questioned the police
and their high handedness. While leaving the village, the police stopped the
vehicle at Singam Venkati’s house and asked them to go to the Yellareddy police
station !
The next morning the family members of Laxmirajam,
along with the Sarpanch of the village, went to the Yellareddy police station
and enquired about Laxmirajam. But the police questioned the very presence of
them and said that they had no knowledge of yesterday’s incident and were not
aware of Laxmirajam. The journalists of Karimnagar told the team that usually
the encounter operation would be carried out by the special task force or the
Greyhounds keeping the local police in the dark. Only the higher police
officials decide which police station or officer should own the responsibility,
to complete the formalities.
Such then are the ways of the AP police who kill,
murder and butcher at random, even ordinary peasants. They thereby seek to
spread terror amongst the masses. But with such brutal methods, the masses can
only be further angered, and drawn deeper towards the revolution.
Laxmirajam was an ordinary peasant. The liberals
try to portray, as though it is innocents who are being caught in the cross-fire
between the PW and the police. This is a gross mis-representation. The relation
between the communist guerrilla and the masses is like that between fish and
water. The police know that if the fish is removed from the water it will die.
Their terrorisation of the masses, is part of well-known counter-insurgency
strategy, to separate the fish from the water. To isolate the guerrillas from
the masses, and thereby facilitate their task of striking at the revolutionary
forces.
So the martyrdom of Laxmirajam and of the ordinary
peasant masses, are of no less significance to the ongoing revolutionary
movement. No doubt the family members and villagers, though grief-stricken by
the tragedy, will avenge the death of their beloved son of Garjanapalli village,
by participating in and advancing the revolutionary movement in their area.
People’s March shares their grief and pays solemn homage to the
memory of Com. Laxmirajam. The masses are the real heroes and it is they who
make history. Laxmirajam’s martyrdom is part of that history in the making.
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