For over a year now, the Indian fascist state's attacks on the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, on members of the indigenous tribes and democratic people in India led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) have escalated to genocidal levels. Operation Kagaar, the title the central government has given to the large-scale massacre unleashed by the country's central government, has the declared objective of finally crushing the armed Naxalite movement and "ridding the country of Maoists by 31/3/2026", as Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah has openly stated.
As part of the larger Operation SAMADHAN-Prahar, launched in 2017 by the Modi government of the Hindu fascist BJP, the ongoing crackdown campaign is a continuation of Operation Green Hunt, launched in 2009, when the central command was headed by the — now opposition — National Congress Party. The target of the Indian state's attacks is India's heroic armed revolutionary Maoist movement, rooted in the glorious 1967 Naxalbari uprising, its struggle for liberation and social progress, as well as the struggle of the poor peasants and indigenous people (Adivasis) in central and eastern India against the land grab by the imperialist-capitalist monopolies, which this movement has led with considerable success.
In this context, recently, in the Kareguta hills, a major centre of the armed struggle on the border between the states of Chhattisgarh and Telangana, tens of thousands of military, police and paramilitary forces have been mobilised under the name of "Operation Sankalp", using even indiscriminate aerial bombardment and committing horrific crimes against party leaders, militants and ordinary citizens. This is happening at a time when the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has declared a unilateral ceasefire and is ready for peace talks.
According to a recent statement of the Coordinating Committee for Peace (16/5/2025), the victims are subjected to inhumane treatment even after their death, with the following description being typical: "When relatives arrived at the hospitals to identify the bodies, the media arrived there and revealed that the bodies were covered with worms and decomposing and were impossible to identify. The police made no effort to keep the bodies in a safe condition. Looking at the photos and details released by the police, it appears that some of the dead are as young as 16 years old." The committee demands that the ongoing war be declared a civil war and that the elementary rules of war be observed, which — on the lines of what the imperialist powers do in their "humanitarian" interventions and the Zionist state in its genocide of the Palestinian people — are being brutally violated by India’s fascist state.
At the same time, it is defiantly announced by the local government of Kerala state, led by the reactionary-revisionist Communist Party of India (Marxist) that extreme poverty will be immediately eradicated in the region. That is, in a country where 60 per cent of the population lives below the official poverty line and 250 million people survive on less than $2 a day, the ruling pseudo-leftists claim to bring prosperity. The subservient revisionists, more than a few brutal accomplices in the anti-Maoist repressive campaign of the state of India, are mocking the people of India and throwing dust in the eyes of the revolutionary-progressive forces in the rest of the planet.
Every progressive and democratic person should denounce the crime that is being committed against the revolutionaries and the people of India. Let us show our practical support for the struggle of the revolutionary movement in India, which is a source of inspiration and lessons for movements all over the world!
Stop Operation Kagaar!
The demands of the Coordinating Committee for Peace must be immediately met!
Hands off the revolutionaries and fighters!
Long live internationalist solidarity and the common struggle of the proletariat and the peoples!
18/5/2025
The Press Office of the KKE(m-l)
