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On October 29th three
bomb blasts in Delhi saw 62 people killed and 210 injured. Most were women and
children. The finger, after much delay, is being pointed at a Kashmiri group
with Pakistan backing. Ironically as with most earlier blasts, the government
has said from the very first day that it suspected the hand of the
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), and it has now found ‘evidence’ to prove it. Whoever
conducted this attack on innocents in no way helps the cause for which they are
fighting. In fact it turns the people against their cause. Instead of targeting
the real enemies of the people and that of Kashmir such acts of cowardice serve
no purpose but to help the state in whipping up its anti-terrorist hysteria. It
helps further the ruling class propaganda to portray the nationality and
revolutionary struggles as acts of terrorism. As such acts help only the rulers
often it is they and their intelligence agencies that in fact sponsor them. This
is well know to be done from the times of Hitler who himself burnt down the
parliament and blamed the communists, in order to launch a massive attack on
them.
Quite naturally the
CPI(Maoist) in a press release soon after the blast has condemned this action.
It stated: The Central Committee(Provisional) of the CPI (Maoist) strongly
condemns the gruesome killing of innocent people in the New Delhi serial bomb
blasts at three places on the evening of 29th of this month. ….Who ever carried
out this ghastly act of killing innocent people for what ever reason cannot be
justified it under any pretext. We deeply condole the death, injury and lose of
property of these innocent people. We share the grief with those families of the
victims and express our deepest sympathy with their families. We demand the
Central and state government should give appropriate compensation to families of
the deceased and the injured and for the loss of property immediately and
provide medical treatment to the injured without any delay.
The statement further
adds: We also urge the people not to get diverted by the malicious propaganda
made by the ruling classes and their media which portrays all the militant
struggles waged by the oppressed masses and oppressed nationalities are
terrorist violence. The struggling people who resort to revolutionary violence
as a response to the white terror/state terror unleashed by the big landlord big
bourgeois ruling classes and their armed forces in order to put down their
legitimate struggles. It is the ploy of the imperialists and their running dogs
all over the world in their ‘war against terrorism’ to utilize the killing of
innocent people to ruthlessly crush the peoples struggles under the ‘sacred’
banner of "war on terror". It is these gangsters who are the real culprits
causing death of millions of people not only through direct aggression over the
sovereign states, killing millions of children, women and aged through economic
sanctions but also through their policies of Liberalization, Privatization, and
Globalization. The CC(P) calls up on the workers, peasants, women, youths, and
all other oppressed people to fight unitedly against these draconian policies of
the imperialists and the Indian ruling classes.
It may never get to
be known who actually conducted this act of terror. But if we look at the attack
on Parliament we find that the case against Prof. Gelani was totally fabricated
by the police and he has now been acquitted by the courts. Ofcourse, the police
tied to kill him through hired assassins outside the residence of his lawyer.
The other accused, Afsal, who has been given a death sentence, was a known
surrendered militant who had been regularly reporting to the military. Besides,
only one of the ten phone calls on the cell phone has been used as evidence;
what happened to the other nine? Why are they not being raised? The murky goings
on in this case raise many an unanswered question.
So also in the
present case we may never get to know the real culprits. But the only
beneficiaries can be the government that seeks to increase its anti-terror
hysteria, or sections within the ruling classes that hope to foil the growing
relations with Pakistan to serve some geo-political interests. There is no doubt
that after this attack there have been some sections particularly from the army
and intelligence who have been saying ad nauseum that it is necessary to
re-think the steps being taken with Pakistan. |
