[The following is an Interview of Comrade Azad, Spokesperson of the Central Committee,
CPI(Maoist), given to the Maoist Information Bulletin (MIB) on October 19, 2009. In this Interview,
Comrade Azad answers a whole range of questions dealing with the current centrally-planned
massive offensive against the Maoists and the counter plans of the Maoists, the question of state
violence and revolutionary counter-violence, the issue of Talks with the government, the real meaning
of Chidambaram’s campaign for recapturing territory from the Maoists, and several misconceptions
regarding: Maoist stand on development, on the charges of extortion, on recruitment of child soldiers,
on the beheading of Francis Induvar, and so on.]
Q: There is lot of talk about an unprecedented massive
military offensive due to begin anytime now. How will your Party
confront it?
Azad: The fact is, the unprecedented massive offensive has
already begun. In the Chintagufa area in Dantewada district almost
4000 police and central forces led by around 600 elite commandos of
the anti-Naxal CoBRA force had carried out their biggest-ever counterrevolutionary
operation called Operation Green Hunt in the third week
of September. Some media reporters described it as Operation Red
Hunt. Whatever is the name, it was the first major attempt by the
central and state forces to wrest a part of the territory from the hands
of the oppressed people led by the Maoists. This operation was a sort
of a rehearsal for the forthcoming centrally-planned country-wide
simultaneous offensive on all our guerrilla zones.
When the enemy attack took place near Singanamadugu village,
our forces present there were hardly 50 or 60 in number. But they
fought heroically, and successfully repulsed the attack by a superior
force, by totally relying on the people. It was the people who gave us
the information regarding each and every movement of the enemy
force. Hence our guerrillas could deal the first biggest blow to these
so-called CoBRAs who were specially trained in jungle warfare and
sent to wage an unjust war against the Maoist revolutionaries. Six of
their men including two assistant commandants—one from Manipur and another from UP—were
wiped out in the real battle. These brave CoBRAs demonstrated their heroism and courage by
murdering seven unarmed adivasi villagers, including two aged men and a woman, and burning four
villages. Not a single Maoist was killed contrary to the false claims of the police that 22 Maoists were
killed. Our forces chased them for about 10 kilometers. The people of the entire area stood with us in
this counter-attack on the thugs sent by Manmohan-Chidambaram’s khadi gang at the Centre and
Raman Singh’s saffron gang in Chhattisgarh. This heroic resistance by a handful of Maoist
guerrillas underscores the superiority of the tactics of guerrilla war and the massive mass
support enjoyed by the Maoists. It demonstrates the ability of our Maoist guerrillas to confront
and defeat a numerically far superior enemy force equipped with all the sophisticated
weaponry, aerial support and what not, by relying on the sea of people in which we swim like
fish.
In the second week of October once again Chidambaram’s men unleashed another massive
offensive by amassing 10,000 men in Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra with MI 17 choppers
surveying the area from the skies. It was as if an army from an enemy country was waging war on the
Indian people. In the face of it our forces had successfully carried out a massive political campaign
against the farce of the Assembly elections that were held on October 13 in Maharashtra.
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“All our plans, policies,
strategy and tactics will
be based entirely on the
active involvement of the
vast masses of people in
this war of self-defence.
The enemy class cannot
decimate us without
decimating the entire
population in the regions
we control. And if it dares
to go into an all-out war
of extermination of the
tribal population the
entire socio-politico
scene in India will
undergo a fundamental
shift and will witness a
radical realignment of
class forcE
Here I shall not go into the concrete details of our precise tactics to confront and defeat the
unprecedented, massive, brazen offensive on the most oppressed people being unleashed by the
Indian ruling classes on behalf of the imperialists and the comprador big business houses. I can only
confidently say one thing for the present: All our plans, policies, strategy and tactics will be based
entirely on the active involvement of the vast masses of people in this war of self-defence. The
enemy class cannot decimate us without decimating the entire population in the regions we
control. And if it dares to go into an all-out war of extermination of the tribal population the
entire socio-politico scene in India will undergo a fundamental shift and will witness a radical
realignment of class forces. All peace-loving, democratic, patriotic, secular forces, all the
downtrodden sections of the society will polarize into one pole while the most reactionary, anti-people,
authoritarian, traitorous, jingoist counter-revolutionary forces will end up at the opposite pole. Such a
polarization is bound to take place as the war advances and the enemy’s mercenary forces attempt to
turn central and eastern India into a graveyard. The war-mongers will be isolated and will face
unprecedented social and political crises. However, on behalf of our Party, PLGA, revolutionary mass
organisations and organs of people’s democratic power, I can assure the people of our country that
with their support, direct as well as indirect, we shall deal crushing blows on the enemy’s mercenary
forces and defeat their plans to hand over these regions to the international and domestic bandicoots.
Q: But your forces had killed around 20 policemen, most of them C-60 commandos, in
Laheri in Gadchiroli district on the eve of the elections in Maharashtra. Is it not due to
incidents like this which is provoking the government to deploy huge forces in these areas?
Azad: No, no. It is the other way round. It is because of
the indescribable atrocities perpetrated by the speciallytrained
anti-Naxal forces that we are compelled to carry out
such attacks. If they do not harass the poor, unarmed
adivasi population; if they do not arrest, torture, murder
them, and rape their women; if they do not engage in
destroying the property, burn villages and crops of the
adivasis, if they do not indulge in cold-blooded murders
of abducted Maoists and declare them dead in socalled
encounters, then why will our forces undertake
such attacks? How can this be a provocation? You know
who the C-60 commandos are? They are specifically formed
as an elite anti-Naxal force whose one and only task is
to kill Naxalites and Naxal sympathisers. If no Naxalite
is found they pounce on hapless adivasi villagers, arrest
them, torture them, and murder them. And adivasi women
have become their objects of rape. You might have heard
of the heart-chilling story of a 13- year-old girl from Pavarvel
village in Dhanora tehsil who was gang-raped by 5 or 6
commandos led by the notorious Munnasingh Thakur in
March this year. Or the case of the gang-rape and murder of
52-year-old Mynabai from Kosimi village by several policemen
in Gyarapatti PS in the same Danora tehsil in May last
year. For the directors of this war on adivasis—Manmohan
Singh, Chidambaram, GK Pillai and others—the gang-rapes
of a 13-year-old girl or a 52-year- old woman are only
collateral damage in their larger war for capturing the region
to plunder its wealth. These rapists are immune from the
“rule of law” advocated by Chidambaram & Co. Even
after this poor little adivasi girl had identified Munna Singh
Thakur by name, you know! Notwithstanding such solid
evidence, the loud-speakers of the reactionary rulers—
Arnab Goswamys, Chandan Mitras and others—had never bothered to raise a voice against such
crimes against humanity perpetrated by these brutes. And what is worse, they even venture to
describe these rapists as “brave commandos”! So what these brave commandos are doing in
Dhanora tehsil is nothing but creating terror in the hearts of the people. That is why we wiped out
around 50 policemen, most of them C-60 commandos, in the past eight months since February.
No right-thinking citizen of this country would condemn these heroic offensives by our PLGA
against murderers and rapists in police uniform against whom no criminal case will ever be filed under
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