On January 26 and 27, the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee - Human Rights Subcommittee will meet in Brussels. We call on all sincere democrats, progressives, human rights groups, and those advocating for freedom of expression and religion, as well as revolutionaries of all political tendencies, to participate in a sit-in protest in front of the European Parliament and the Indian Embassy in Belgium.
In fact, since January 2024, the Indian regime of Narendra Modi has launched a full-fledged military operation called "Operation Kagaar" in central India, in the states of Chattisgarh, Talengana, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, and Jharkhand, the so-called "tribal belt" where the Adivasi populations live.
With the deployment of 60,000 paramilitary forces, air forces, drones, and armored vehicles, officially mobilized against the Communist Party of India (Maoist) with the goal of eliminating it "by March 31, 2026," Adivasi populations are being attacked to forcibly evict them from their lands for mining companies to establish.
Human rights groups in India denounce indiscriminate killings (including newborns and pregnant women) and rapings.
Operation Kagaar follows a similar military operation called "Operation Samadhan-Prahar" (2017-2023) in the same areas and using the same methods. This means that this military operation against Adivasi populations has been ongoing for seven years, with indiscriminate massacres in which entire villages are targeted and razed.
The Hindutva brahminical regime of Narendra Mondi directs such massacres by waving the bogeyman of "Maoist terrorism" using the draconian UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act) of 1967, i.e. the anti-terrorism law to target all voices of dissent and political opponents. Just to name a few cases:
-For more than three years, journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh has been under arrest for his articles opposing the military campaigns parties or the Operation Samadhan-Prahar against the Adivasi people in the state of Jarkhand.
-the political prisoner Sanjoy Deepak Rao, a member of the CPI (Maoist) Central Committee, has been imprisoned for two years without trial and is denied basic prisoner rights, such as the right to leave his cell between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., while being granted only two hours a day. Sanjoy Deepak Rao went on hunger strike on October 28th.
-In May, journalist Rejaz Sydeek, 26, member of the Democratic Student Association, was arrested for his articles criticizing the Indian military operation against Pakistan and accused of various charges, including terrorism.
-Between July 11 and 21, nine people, mostly students, were arrested without warrants and taken to an undisclosed place where they were tortured and threatened with rape. These arrests were to obtain information about Vallika Varshri, editor of Nazariya (a leftist magazine), wanted by the police.
-Recently, approximately 50 people protesting at Indian Gate in New Delhi against the government's anti-environmental policies and Operation Kaagar, were arrested on charges of having ties with the Maoists.
-Finally, 97 percent of people arrested in India under the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). remain in prison without trial, sometimes for years.
Human rights groups report that Communist Party of India (Maoist) militants, once arrested, are often interrogated and tortured in secret locations and then killed in cold blood in isolated forest locations in fake clashes. This recently happened with Hidma and Ganesh militants, last November and December, respectively.
A report was recently published on the systematic use of torture against ordinary and political prisoners in prisons in the state of Bihar.
The Modi regime seeks to impose a single identity, "Hindutva", in a country of over 1.5 billion people, where 23 of the 179 official languages are officially registered (not counting over 1,650 dialects), various religions (including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism), and various nationalities.
Hindutva is a supremacist ideology that advocates the establishment of a political regime throughout the Indian Union in which there should be a single religion, Hinduism, and a single language, Hindi. In a country as diverse as India in terms of ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity, Modi's Hindutva government, led by the BJP, sponsors even more extremist groups such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (of which Modi himself was a member) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, which carry out attacks.
Indiscriminate against all minorities, particularly in the last 11
years since Narendra Modi came to power:
- pogroms
targeting religious minorities have multiplied. The Muslim community
has been affected in two major incidents: in Muzzaffarnagar in 2013,
shortly before the elections, the local BJP orchestrated a massacre
in which 42 Muslims lost their lives, and in 2020, just a year after
the re-election of the Modi II government, 36 Muslims were killed in
another similar incident in Delhi. Christian communities have not
been spared too: they have faced ongoing intimidation and acts of
violence, such as the desecration of a church in a locality near
Ranchi in the state of Jharkhand.
- Other nationalities
besides Hindus have been harshly repressed, particularly Kashmiris,
who now live under military occupation. In 2019, the former federal
state of Jammu and Kashmir was downgraded to a "union
territory," meaning it is directly administered by the central
government. In June 2018, a United Nations human rights report
highlighted serious human rights abuses, which were confirmed in a
subsequent 2019 report. Over 47,000 deaths have been recorded over
the past 20 years. But also the nationalities of the northeast, such
as in Assam and Manipur, and the Tamils in the south.
In
addition to the violent attacks against these minorities, Hindutva
ideology, being the expression of the upper Brahmin caste, attacks
Dalits (the so-called casteless), who number 65 million in India. The
Hindu religion holds Dalits separate from the rest of society and
therefore suffers forms of segregation.
Modi's India,
approaching a theocracy rather than a modern state, is implementing
discriminatory state policies against Dalits, who, like the
aforementioned social groups, are victims of discrimination,
violence, and murder.
For all these reasons, the following are
called for Tuesday, January 27:
-a sit-in protest in front
of the European Parliament in Brussels at 10:00 AM;
-a
sit-in in front of the Indian Embassy in Brussels at 14:00 PM.
Stop
Operation Kagaar!
Armed forces out of Adivasi areas!
International Emergency Campaign Against Operation Kagaar
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