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On 4th January night the fascist forces of the
CPI(M) and police encircled a small village called Chhota Angaria in Garbeta and
attacked the house of Abdul Rahaman where some People’s War sympathisers were
holding a meeting. They surrounded the house from 4 sides and began to spray
bullets from semi-automatic weapons, thereby killing all 10 People’s War
sympathisers and MKSS (Mazdoor Krishak Sangram Samiti) activists with
unparalleled barbarity who had gathered there for a meeting from the surrounding
villages and some other villages. Vestiges of their cruelty are all around the
house which was burnt after the massacre to hide the evidence of the savage
crime committed by the rulers of Bengal. Finally the social fascist CPI(M)
removed all the villagers of Chhota Angaria to their ‘safe custody’ so that none
could speak the truth. After the massacre the criminal gang of Sushanta Ghosh
and Tapan Ghosh, the mafia leaders of the CPI(M), along with the police has
removed all the dead bodies to some unknown place, the number of which may be
ascertained only after an independent enquiry.
Earlier on 31 December, a 250-350 mob of armed CPM
gangsters on motor cycles and trekers, with 5 van-loads of police, Special Armed
Police and RAF made a similar raid in the Garbeta villages bordering Hoogly and
severely beat up some PW sympathisers in villages Shovagar, Raikha, Charal and
Bechachua. But that was a day time raid and our village defence squad, along
with our local armed squad, could resist the attack with the help of the
villagers. In these regions our comrades earlier fought a marathon battle with
the BJP-TMC marauder forces in last May-June and defeated their attacks. After
their defeat, the CPM leaders again entered the villages and since then they are
trying to regain their lost territory, this time from the People’s War Party,
which has deeply penetrated the masses, braving the terror tactics of both the
CPI(M) and the BJP-TMC combine. Despite several attacks and regular threats our
squads and mass organisations functioned there and expanded their base which
caused panic to the CPI(M) leaders.
Since the last few months, particularly after the
fall of the TMC citadel in Keshpur, the CPI(M) is concentrating its forces more
and more on eliminating the forces of the CPI(M-L)[People’s War] which is the
last remaining opposition to it in the entire region of
Garbeta-Keshpur-Chandrakona-Goghat. As more and more people were gathering under
the banner of the People’s War and MKSS to resist the CPM goondaism and to fight
for their legitimate demands, the CPI(M) leaders, like Sushanta Ghosh and Tapan
Ghosh of Garbeta and Abhoy Ghosh of Goghat became furious to see their
continuously loosing grip on the area.
Hence to create mass terror they ultimately chose
the heinous method of mass killings and fleeing with the dead bodies, as
happened in AP by the grey hounds, in Kashmir by the Indian military and para
military, and earlier in Punjab. This exposes the fascist character of not only
the CPI(M) and Bengal state police but the whole Indian state and all the ruling
class parties, who have sold out our country to the imperialists lock, stock and
barrel, and are now fighting the people of the country particularly the
revolutionaries to suppress all opposition to their loot and plunder.
We urge the democratic people of West Bengal to
intensify their struggle against the criminal CPI(M) rule, get organised to
change the killer system once and for all, by joining the on going People’s War
in India that is raging in Andhra-Bihar-Dandakaranya. Our party pledges to
avenge the killing of our comrades and the innocent villagers by striking at the
heart of the CPI(M) fascist gangs and pay our blood-debt to the heroic martyrs
of Garbeta.
Thanking you,
Shankar
West Bengal State Committee
Date : 7-1-2001
CPI (ML) [People’s War]
(Note :
In view of the intense battles between the CPI(M) and TMC in Garbeta which has
received national headlines, as also the growth of the PW in the same region, we
will be printing a first hand account of the history of the political
developments in the area, in the next issue of People’s March.
— Editor)
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