On
Sunday 21, more than 250 people were killed by bomb-attacks in Sri
Lanka. The international bourgeois media claims the „Muslims“ wanting to
kill the Christians and put it on the same level with the massacre in
Christchurch, New Zealand, to underline the „hatred“ against the
„Christians“ and spreading chauvinism and racism. By that the
imperialists try to hide their own massacres, Genozide and oppression
against the peoples of Sri Lanka.
Attacks
like the one now happened in Sri Lanka and the killing of the civilian
people have to be clearly denounced, but not in a way the imperialists
are doing it. The oppressed and exploited see, being against attacks
like this means to struggle against imperialism, which produces them. In
the so called „civil war“ in Sri Lanka the foreign Imperialists,
especially with the help of their lackeys in India, used the bloody
method of Genocide against the Tamil peoples, who struggled for their
national liberation. Even „rebel groups“ were implemented by the
imperialists and their servants to irritate the people in their
struggle. So the imperialists supported the most reactionary ideologies
to prevent a successful national liberation struggle, produced hatred
between different peoples and religions to mislead the masses.
Now
the imperialists use the attacks to spread once more racism and
chauvinism, use it as another reason for militarization and intervention
in the oppressed nations, strengthening their role as „world police“
like US-Imperialism does. The imperialists have no right to intervene in
the oppressed countries, because it means breaking the right of
self-determination of the nations.
On this occasion we want to link a statement of the Communist Party of India (maoist) from 2009, the end of the so called „civil war“. In this statement the vanguard of the Indian masses shows the role of imperialism in Sri Lanka, using Genocide against the national liberation movement of the Tamil peoples. The CPI(maoist) is a role model to unite and lead the oppressed nations and the masses in their struggle against imperialism, showing the real interests of the imperialists and their lackeys in the oppressed nations. The declaration helps the antiimperialists and revolutionaries to understand better the situation in Sri Lanka, in order to grasp an antiimperialist point of view and set on the struggle.
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Press Release: April 24, 2009
Condemn
the genocide of the Tamil people by the Sinhala chauvinist, neo-Nazi
fascist rulers of Sri Lanka! Let us unite to fight against UPA
government’s support to Rajapakse’s genocidal war
on Tamil nation!!
The situation in the LTTE-controlled areas in northern Sri Lanka has become extremely delicate and
dangerous
with an average of almost 500 Tamils being butchered every week by the
Sinhala chauvinist army since the past three months and the number
increasing with every passing day. The virtual silence by the so-called
International community is criminal to say the least, and its feeble
calls for a pause in the fighting, a cruel joke. In fact, it is
precisely based on the active support and military aid provided by the
various imperialist powers as well as by the Indian government that the
racist and fascist Rajapakse government had embarked upon the current
all-out brutal assault on the Tamil areas in July 2006 by unilaterally
breaching the 2002 cease-fire it had entered into with the LTTE.
The brutal onslaught by the Sinhala military had resulted in acute humanitarian crisis in the Tamil
areas
pushing hundreds of thousands of Tamil people into a state of
starvation and misery. The incessant and indiscriminate bombing of
entire areas had left thousands of civilians dead or wounded with no
scope for medical treatment. These sadists have not permitted any
independent observer into the conflict zone from outside, denied
permission to UN and other international aid agencies and observers,
even to Red Cross workers and media personnel. There has been a total
news blackout. It is obvious that the fascist Sinhala rulers do not want
their genocidal war and their crimes against humanity to be known to
the outside world.
Even as
they go about butchering, maiming and evicting tens of thousands of
people, the neo-Nazi rulers are putting forth cynical claims that they
are “freeing” the Tamil civilians from LTTE’s clutches, that their aim
is to crush the LTTE and not to harm the ordinary Tamils, and that
declaring
cease-fire would not be of any help to the civilian population and
would only help the LTTE, and so on. They shamelessly describe their
genocidal war as a “rescue operation” and give out figures of those
“rescued”. Having gained a series of victories over the LTTE with the
active aid and guidance of various imperialist powers and the Indian
expansionists, these bloodthirsty hounds do not want to give any
breathing space even if that meant the decimation of a significant
proportion of the Tamil population in the LTTE-held areas. The Sri
Lankan army has entered the no-fire zone—a small piece of territory
covering around 17 sq km - and is resorting to heavy bombardment leading
to huge civilian casualties.
Even
those who are fleeing are shot dead by the Sinhala chauvinist soldiers
in sharp contrast to thephotographs aired in TV channels showing how the
Sinhala soldiers are helping the Tamil civilians. The reality is that
every refugee coming out from the so-called no-fire zone is treated as
an enemy, as a probable LTTE “terrorist”, and is subjected to intense
interrogation and even eliminated under the slightest suspicion. Tamil
women are being sterilized forcibly to check the growth in Tamil
population.
Hospitals,
orphanages and refugee shelters are bombed and the trucks carrying
relief supplies are blocked by the Lankan army. The aim of the Sri
Lankan rulers is to drive out the Tamil population from the area and
herd them into concentration camps so that they do not again unite to
wage war for a separate Tamil Eelam. It is with this crooked aim that
they have been exerting continuous pressure through uninterrupted
bombing of the areas held by LTTE.
The Indian ruling classes had always backed the Sri Lankan state in its war against the Tamil nation.
In
fact, it had even sent the Indian army in the name of peacekeeping
force in 1987 but had to turn back after three years when it lost a few
thousand soldiers in the hands of the LTTE. The ruling Congress party
even had to pay the price by losing its leader, Rajiv Gandhi. The Indian
state has been giving all sorts of aid to the Sri Lankan government in
crushing the LTTE. The shifting of some of the defence personnel injured
in the fighting in Tamil areas to Chennai for treatment reveals the
extent of involvement of India in the war aimed at the extermination of
the Tamil nation in Sri Lanka.
While these are the facts, the spokespersons for the Indian government, and the various political
parties
in Tamil Nadu have been claiming that they fully sympathise and stand
by the Tamil people, that they support their demand for a separate
Eelam, and that they are exerting pressure on the government of Sri
Lanka to resolve the humanitarian crisis arising out of the war.
With an eye on the impending elections in Tamil Nadu, every political party is pretending to be
sympathetic
to the cause of Tamil Eelam and putting up postures opposing the
attacks by the Lankan army. All this is mere eye-wash. Parties like
Jayalalitha’s AIADMK and Congress had all along been bitter opponents of
the struggle of the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Karunanidhi’s DMK has always
pursued a dubious stand, on the one hand posing to be supporting the
Tamil cause, while on the other, extending support to the UPA govt which
has been assisting the Sri Lankan govt in the genocidal war against
Tamils. Moreover, the DMK has crushed people’s protests against the Sri
Lankan govt. All these parties wish to see the LTTE decimated as they
know how strong is the influence of the Eelam struggle for
self-determination on the people of Tamil Nadu. At the same time they
know they would be isolated if they did not support the right of the
Tamil nation in Sri Lanka for self-determination and condemn the war of
genocide unleashed by Rajapakse’s Sinhala racist regime in Sri Lanka.
The
CC, CPI(Maoist), calls upon the people of India to wage a united
struggle demanding immediate halt to the aid given by the Indian
government to the Sri Lanka rulers, to sever all diplomatic relations by
India with the Sri Lankan government if it does not stop its war of
genocide immediately, and to allow all the refugees from the war-ravaged
areas into Tamil Nadu without any harassment.
The people of Sri Lanka should realize that the current war against the Tamil nation is an unjust war
waged
by an oppressor nation over an oppressed nation. Besides, it is a ploy
of the Sri Lankan rulers to divert the people’s attention from the deep
crisis afflicting the country. Giving legitimacy to the war would mean
lending legitimacy to the further strengthening of the Sri Lankan
fascist state machine that is going to be increasingly directed against
the vast toiling masses of Sri Lanka who dare to wage struggle against
oppression and exploitation. It is the duty of the working class and
oppressed people of Sri Lanka to unequivocally oppose the war of
genocide and force the government to immediately halt its brutal crimes
against the Tamil nation. The aspirations of the Tamil nation cannot be
crushed through brutal fascist means. Even if the LTTE suffers a setback
today, the unfulfilled aspirations of the Tamil nation will give rise
to a more militant national liberation movement.The central committee,
CPI(Maoist), demands:
*An immediate declaration of cease-fire by the Sri Lankan Army and end to the genocidal war
it had unleashed on the Tamil nation!
*An end to all aid and support by the Indian government to the terrorist regime in Colombo!
*An impartial enquiry into the war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan military such as mass
murder, use of cluster bombs and other chemical weapons, bombing of civilian targets etc!
*Recognition of an independent, sovereign Eelam which is a legitimate inalienable right of the
Tamil nation in Sri Lanka!
sd/-Azad,
Spokesperson,
Central Committee, CPI(Maoist)
[From: CPI(Maoist) Information Bulletin, #8, May 15, 2009, pp. 46-48.
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