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The Dandakaranya
Special Zonal Committee of the CPI (Maoist) issued a press statement on 10th
July on the decision of the Central government to deploy the Nagaland Special
Armed Forces in Baster on the demand of BJP government Chhattisgarh.
In the statement they
quoted that on an earlier occasion when the CRPF battalions and Gujarat
battalion were deployed the CPI(Maoist) appealed to the jawans not to join hands
with the oppressors because they all belong to the same class for which it has
been fighting. They too come from poor peasant families whose living conditions
are unbelievably miserable, and those families are always subject to oppression
and atrocities. They appealed to fight together against the existing system.
Further, the Maoist Party referred to the fact that the Gujarat police rejected
to enter the forests and stayed in the state capital for other duties. Whereas
the CRPF entered the battle front and got killed to safeguard the rulers.
They appealed to the
Naga jawans that "better to return to your native state. If you stay do not
open fire on us, better surrender our PLGA forces and pass on information to our
party on the movement of the top brass. Our Party has always supported the Naga
people’s just demands and we are comrades-in-arms".
On 7th July the
NSCN(I-M) issued a press release and condemned the Centre and Nagaland
governments’ decision to send Naga forces to fight the CPI(Maoist). From a base
camp near Dimapur NSCN(I-M)’s Home Minister informed the media that "The Peoples
War party is fighting for the genuine demands of the oppressed people of
Chattisgarh. The PW party is not a terrorist organisation. By sending the armed
forces form here the state government has been committing a serious mistake".
A number of
intellectuals, mass organisations in Kohima, condemned the decision of the
government to send the Indian Reserve Battalian to Baster on November 9, 2004.
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