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Let's Stand Against the Indian State's War on People “Let’s Stand Against the Indian State’s War on People” [A speech by Jan Myrdal, (internationally well-known writer for his support for the people’s movements world-wide), at a public meeting sponsored by the Forum Against War on People, New Delhi, 6 February 2012.] Dear friends, any man’s death diminishes me, about this war. It is a war against the I want to say something on the because I am involved in mankind. people for simple economic reasons. international solidarity movement with And therefore never send to know Greed and profit. That is a truth even the peoples of India. for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for officially documented by the We are here because there is an thee. Government of India. See “Committee ongoing war against the peoples of There is nothing secret about the on State Agrarian Relations and India by the Indian state itself or – to present cruel war against the peoples Unfinished Task of Land Reforms”, put it more charitably – by dominant of India. I could myself witness and Ministry of Rural Development, sections of the Indian state machinery. hear about the war against dalits and Government of India. Volume 1 (Draft You as Indian citizens want to stop this adivasis when I was in Andhra Pradesh Report), March 2009) Conclusion – war. I and other friends of India abroad in 1980 (see India Waits, Sangam “The Biggest Grab of Tribal Lands are trying to organize an international books, Hyderabad) and now 2010 in after Columbus”. solidarity movement with the people Chhattisgarh (see Red Star over India, In India this is well known, the war of India against the horrors of this war. Setu Prakashani, Kolkata). as I said is no secret. But abroad, in To try to do that is not interference In this war armed gangs and groups our countries, that which is well known in the internal affairs of India. We do from ruling elites and land grabbers are and reported in India is kept strangely not tell you in India how to conduct attempting to drive people from their unknown – or only known in a partial your affairs. That is for you to decide. homes their lands and forests. Villages and obfuscated manner. There is a very No foreigner can prescribe for you. are being burned. Women are raped. simple reason for that. The official Even if many from the imperial camp Not as an expression of male sexual media are either owned by the large – governments, media, NGO’s – lust but as a cold conscious attempt economic private interests that are always try do so. thus to destroy the dignity and self- greedily implicated in the exploitation respect of the people. Those who of the resources of India or by This respect is a matter of principle. governments that for their own imperial You – not we – are in your actions defend themselves are branded as terrorists. interests are against any public responsible to the peoples of India. As discussion about the realities of India. we said during the solidarity movement This war is not only in this way with the peoples of South East Asia in traditionally cruel but is on the formal This is in our age normal. Any study their struggle against US imperialism: state level by the government of international politics this last century “Support the peoples of Cambodia, conducted in open disregard to the shows that the media can be rather free Laos and Vietnam on their own terms.” existing laws and regulations of the in minor questions. But when it comes to great and decisive questions of war, But there is a truth that was Indian state itself. Encounter is in India a word with a different meaning to that colonialism or imperialism then the formulated in 1624 by John Donne and media become mouth pieces and has been quoted and used by those of which you find in a normal dictionary. In India it is the specific word for the sounding boards for the powers that us in different countries that have taken instigate war and defend exploitation. a stand against oppression and social planned underhand murder by cruelty – as during the Franco war governmental agents of important There have been and there are against the people of Spain. A truth that political undesirables. Last summer individual journalists and writers who is the base of international solidarity: Azad was thus lured to his death by try and now and again succeed to get the political promise of a discussion true information spread through the big No man is an island entire of with the government about a ceasefire. media. This we know. But the editorial itself; every man is a piece of the Just now Kishenji was “encountered”. gate keepers serving the interest of the continent, a part of the main /…/ But there is also nothing strange owners are vigilant. The honest PEOPLE’S MARCH Jan-Feb-Mar 2012 3 reporters have not only been and are US and other governments are trying United States war against the people few but every time the situation to suppress the relative freedom of the of Iraq were among the largest I have becomes acute they are gagged. net. But as yet we can still use these seen in my life. But still our Remember that an American writer as outlets to spread information to our governments – and also the parties that well-known and as popular as Edgar public. called themselves “left” – then Snow only survived by translating In this we need your co-operation. supported the destruction of Iraq. comics during the cold war when he We do not, and you need not, trust Yes we were not strong enough to was black-listed in the large US media the official reporters. After all even if hinder that. It is possible to criticize us. precisely because he was well they want to be different and report But during the decades we have also informed and knowledgeable. honestly they are employed to sing as been successful. We were so with the As the conflict is well-known inside they are paid to sing. If they are honest world-wide campaign for the India the ruling circles have in their own and also strong enough to overcome “Stockholm appeal” in stopping the interest to accept news and some the gate keepers: Good! If not, it is more than possible US nuclear war discussions on this war against the necessary for us to use other ways. But against the then Soviet Union in 1952. people. But outside India there is a what is needed the world around is We were of importance in building a general silence. The reason for this is concrete information. You have to see people’s support in our countries for not that the Government of India has to it that it is spread. The net is still the peoples of South East Asia in their erected an official censorship curtain rather open even if the media are armed struggle against US imperialism. around India. That is not needed as controlled. In Sweden the government sent out long as the gate keepers in the official I have my political opinions. Biased, riding police against us on 20 media in the imperial countries do their the Swedish government would call it December 1967. But we got such a job. if they did not condemn me by using a large popular support that a couple of I don’t know those who are far stronger word. Also I am a part of weeks later Olof Palme from the same reporting from India. What they have the solidarity movement. But this government that had its police beat us to say about monuments and folk art international solidarity movement with up now marched in the front of the and the economic and scientific the peoples of India is not monolithic. mass demonstration against the US expansion in India is often interesting. It is a very broad and often disparate war. That new position of the Swedish They might be the best of reporters for movement. That is its strength. It is not government was a product of the all I know. They are, I believe, all a party. The participants do not agree solidarity movement (“If you can’t beat honourable men and women. Yes, they in religious or social questions. They them – join them!) and became a great are all honourable men. But as we can might not all make the same analysis help to the struggling peoples of South see they do not report to the public in of imperialism or of the character of East Asia. their home countries – the imperial the Indian state as I do. But they agree countries – much about the real Sweden is a country far away from on the specific question of the need of India. But that there is a growing situation of the peoples of India, of the support for the peoples of India. adivasis and dalits for instance. It might popular solidarity movement with the be that the reporters are not interested. It is important to remember this. peoples of India, demonstrations, But the real explanation I believe is that The solidarity movement with the meetings study groups, leaflets and that the editors back home do not allow peoples of India has and must have a literature is not an expression of a them to. very broad base. You might say that feeling for “others”. I did quote John during this last century we who have That is why the international Donne just because he expresses a been active in the political work against solidarity movement with the peoples truth.
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