Stop Operation Green Hunt

Campaign
India wages war on its people
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In Hindi Adivasi means first people and is used also as a self-description. Since the Indo-european settlement the mostly Dravidic Adivasis have been oppressed. They either remain below the Hindu caste system or got integrated at its lowest rank – like untouchables or Dalits. The Indian constitution deliberately avoided the notion Adivasi to ward off possible political claims emanating from the meaning.

Neo-liberal globalisation of the last decades rendered the situation of the indigenous people untenable. The government sells out their habitat to large co-operation who are keen to exploit the mineral riches. Dam projects, savage plunder and destruction of nature, special economic zones (SEZ) – the Adivasis are being driven from their land and livelihood by millions and forced into starvation.

But resistance is rising mainly led by Maoists (in India called Naxals). The rebellion of the autochthon people is being confronted with brute force: by big landowners, Hindu chauvinist forces, government sponsored tribal militias (called Salva Judum) and all kind of governmental armed services. Unison New Delhi and Washington are trumpeting about the war on terror. In the “largest democracy of the world” laws are being instituted which bring you for years behind bars should you dare to politically support the uprising. The corporate media remains silent. They care about democracy only in enemy states.

In some regions of extreme poverty there are pockets of liberated zones which are being administered by self-organisation thanks to Maoist leadership. Based on collectivist traditions self-sustained development is undertaken: common work for irrigation, ecologically adapted agrarian techniques, small craft, education, health care, people’s judiciary. We are in front of a non-capitalist path of development.

The Adivasi struggle as well for the preservation of their culture, the recognition of their languages and the creation of new states within the Indian union.

Despite the very fact that the conflict is secular it assumed the form of an open full-fletched war only recently claiming up to a 1.000 victims per year. And the Indian government is only starting its campaign called “Green hunt”. The outcome of the struggle is unclear. It can only be won if other oppressed sections of society can be drawn inside the struggle.

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Solidarity call
18/03/2017
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) condemns in the strongest terms the highly anomalous conviction and sentencing for life of Professor GN Saibaba, Hem Mishra, Prashant Rahi, Mahesh Tirki and Pandu Narote for their alleged links to the Indian Maoists.
18/05/2014
Logo Free Saibaba
G.N. Saibaba is in judicial custody in a remote place called Gadchiroli in Maharashtra state in western India.
Indigenous People's Vision Document on Ethos, Education & Livelihood
07/05/2013
Calling All Activists-Scholars with interest in Tribal Rights, Ecology, Conflict Resolution-Peace, Development Studies or Anthropology to join in the unique Bastar Study Tour.
12/08/2012
Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) has been banned by the Andhra Pradesh government on 9 August 2012 through Government Order No.430 under Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act 1992. This comes as the latest of the anti-people repressive measures that the Andhra Pradesh government have persistently adopted to over the last few decades to crush democratic voices and peoples’ movements under the garb of fighting Maoism. This comes as another glaring example of the hollowness of Indian government’s claim as ‘largest democracy of the world’.
Lakshimpeta, Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India
25/06/2012
Punish the Culprit Upper Caste Brahmanical Forces Including their Abettors, the Ruling Party Leaders.
We demand punishment for the guilty police personnel who illegally Detained Uttpal
17/05/2012
Uttpal (23), an adivasi revolutionary cultural activist who was elected to the All India Executive Committee in the First Conference of Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) held on 22-23 April 2012 in Hyderabad, has been illegally detained by Jharkhand Police. He was detained in Dumuri Police station area of Giridih District on 7th May 2012 while he was travelling in a road transport bus. Till date, the Jharkhand police has not released him nor produced him in any court of law.
Operation Green Hunt
13/05/2011
Operation Green Hunt is a multi-pronged attack on the people and their movements - 'Forum against War on People' appeals to the progressive and democratic sections of the society to raise a strong voice of protest and opposition to this genocidal war on people
19/03/2011
Persecution of contract workers union Pragatisheel Cement Shramik Sangh by the multinational corportation, Holcim in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh
04/01/2011
Dr Binayak Sen is a pioneer of health care to marginalized and indigenous communities in Chhattisgarh, and he has reported on unlawful killings of Adivasis. India has sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Azadi - the only way
23/11/2010
When people are being killed in hundreds; maimed, tortured, raped and put behind bars in thousands, it was of necessity to stand up for the fundamental right of the people of Jammu & Kashmir - their Right to Self Determination.

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