January-February 2000

 

Joint Statement of

 THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY/MARXIST-LENINIST ON THE COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF INDIAN COMRADES BY THE FASCISTS

 

 December 10, 1999

The Communist Party of the Philippines and the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist express their deepest sorrow and condolences to the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) [People's War] and condemn in the strongest terms the cold- blooded murder of Comrades Nalla Adi Reddy (Shyam), Yerramreddy Santosh Reddy (Mahesh) and Seelam Naresh (Murali), leaders of the Party, and Comrade Arun, a Red tighter of the people's army.

The proofs are very clear that the martyred comrades were arrested in Bangalore, tortured and then murdered in cold blood by the fascists of the Indian reactionary state. Their bodies were later brought to Koyyur forest of Karimnagar district to make it appear that the comrades were killed in an armed encounter.

The reactionaries in India perpetrate the most brutal crimes like torture, disappearances, and extra­judicial killings especially against communists and revolutionaries who are fighting for the interests of the toiling masses. But the revolutionaries and the masses are not cowed by reactionary violence. They fight back and use all methods of struggle, chiefly the armed struggle, to overthrow the oppressive rule of the exploiting classes and build a society that is independent, democratic, just and progressive.

The Communist Party of India (ML)[PW] has distinguished itself by waging people's war along the line of the new-democratic revolution in preparation for the socialist revolution. Under the leadership of the Party, the Indian working class, peasantry and the rest of the people have valiantly fought for their national and democratic rights and interests against foreign monopoly capitalism and the l6cal reactionaries. In the process, they have scored significant victories in destroying reactionary political power and building the organs of democratic power.

The Communist Party of the Philippines and the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist are confident that the comrades in the CPI (ML)[PW], the Red fighters in the people's arm)' and the revolutionary Indian people turn their grief into revolutionary courage and raise the revolutionary struggle to a new and higher level. The martyrs inspire them to fight ever more resolutely and to win ever greater victories.

Under the great red banner of Marxism-Leninism-­Maoism, the Communist Party of the Philippines and the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist 'unite with the Communist Party of India (Marxist­-Leninist)[People's War] in fighting imperialism, revisionism and all reaction and in leading our respective peoples towards the bright future of socialism and ultimately communist in the new century and new millennium.

 

ETERNAL GLORY TO COMRADES SHYAM, MAHESH, MURALI AND ARUN!

RESOLUTELY ADVANCE THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION!

LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (ML)[PW]!

 

 

CENTRAL COMMITTEE

COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES

 

CENTRAL COMMITTEE

COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY/MARXIST-LENINIST

 

 

(A similar statement was jointly signed by the Communist Party of the Philippines and

the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.)

 

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