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Armed forces of the
reactionary Indian state in Bihar surrounded and killed 10 communist guerrillas
and one sympathiser in village Kachnawan which falls under Makhdoompur police
station in Jehanabad district of Bihar. Hundreds of armed CRPF, BMP and B.P. men
swooped on Kachnawan village on the morning of March 3, surrounding it from all
sides and blocking all roads leading to it. S.P. Abdul Gani Mir led this
dastardly operation after he got information from a police agent that guerrillas
of the People’s War were taking rest in a shelter in the village. The guerrillas
had entered the village in the pre-dawn hours, but a police agent happened to
spot them while they were entering. At about 9.00 in the morning the police
arrived and all village streets leading to the shelter were cordoned off till
9.30. The police reached the shelter at about 9.45. The sentry on duty could
only know when police reached the gate of the shelter. Though caught unawares
the guerrilla forces attacked the police and got the gate cleared by killing two
policemen. Then all the guerrillas made an organised effort of scaring away the
enemy, and thus, by clearing the streets got out of the village. In this attempt
comrade Vijay (Srikant) got killed, but the rest of the guerrillas succeeded in
leaving the village and proceeded to the river nearby. But the reactionary
forces had already surrounded the whole place. The battle continued till 2.30 in
the afternoon. All the guerillas heroically fought the enemy till the last of
them fell to the bullets of a highly outnumbered reactionary force. Along with
the two dead, three other policemen were wounded. Later on, the police caught
hold of young Manohar Paswan and killed him on the sopt only because he had
provided shelter to the guerrillas. The fighters of the people’s revolutionary
forces fought the enemy valiantly and in this way sacrificed their lives for the
struggle which has been going on in Bihar since 1980
State’s Armed Forces Do The Job For
Feudal Lords
The guerrillas of the
erstwhile Party Unity and now of the CPI (ML) [People’s War] have been fighting
against feudal exploitation and feudal terror let loose by the private armies of
the feudal lords. Many Senas of the feudal forces have been made to lick the
ground and abandon the battle field by the heroic resistance and onslaughts of
the revolutionary guerrilla forces. Although the feudal lords again raised their
notorious Ranvir Sena in 1995 and have since been attacking the unarmed
oppressed masses in Bihar yet the main job for the feudal lords is done by the
reactionary police and para-military forces of the state. In the name of
preventing massacres, the State has set up police camps throughout Central Bihar
with the real purpose of helping the Ranvir Sena and to prevent the
revolutionary forces from building up a resistance movement against the feudal
lords. It is clear from the fact that the state forces have never entered into
any "encounter" against the Ranvir Sena Goondas inspite of the latter’s heinous
acts of massacres of the unarmed oppressed people of the dalit Tolas. But
whenever they happen to learn about the revolutionary people’s forces moving in
an area they mass up heavy forces, conduct combing operations and attack the
revolutionary guerrillas. The resistance against feudal exploitation and
repression in Bihar faces a powerful enemy in the form of the state armed forces
which do the real defending of the exploiters’ interests. The private Senas have
been unable to cow down the oppressed.
The guerrilla forces
of the PW have been the main defenders of the interests of the exploited and
oppressed masses. The Naxalite movement has enabled them to rise up against
their oppressors and for the first time in history the down-trodden in rural
Bihar have gathered courage to defend their interests, speak against the
atrocities, and resist the onslaughts of the reactionary elements on their women
folk. This has lead to the emergence of a new political force through out south
and central Bihar which can challenge the centuries-old domination of the feudal
lords. The oppressed themselves have filled the ranks of the revolutionary
guerrilla forces as this is the only way with which they have been able to
defend their honour and opt for a respectful and dignified human life.
The purpose of the
State is to crush the resistance being organised by the People’s War Party with
the active help and participation of the people. Therefore, the killing of
guerrillas is not only an attack on the People War Party but also an attack on
the exploited, oppressed, dalit and minorities just struggle for land, forests
and democracy. This truth must be propagated and the people must be prepared to
build mass resistance against the killing of revolutionaries. The line of
demarcation is clear — on the one hand there are the revolutionary and
democratic forces on the side of the people, and on the other, there is the
police-administration on the side of the capitalists and feudal lords.
The martyred
revolutionaries had gone there to make sure that the Ranvir Sena be warned not
to attack again in that area and to enhance the confidence of the oppressed and
exploited masses. The guerrilla squad was conducting meetings of the people of
that area. Comrade Srikant was accompanying the guerrilla squad as he was the
Party Secretary of the Magadh region.
People’s March has come to
know that revolutionary organisations of the people of Bihar have decided to
organise dharnas at the district and Tehsil level head quarters throughout Bihar
on March 27th. A mass homage meeting is to be held in village Kachnawan on 29th
of March. And, on 6th April a demonstration will be held at Patna in front of
the Chief Minister to protest against the killings.
25-3-2000
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