Genocidal education in India

By Adolfo Naya*

For years, we have been denouncing the genocidal Operation Green Hunt and its strategy of "Hearts and Minds" to carry out genocidal policies and practices against the Naxalite movement, Dalits, Adivasis and religious minorities.

On 24 November 2021 we denounced and condemned in many parts of the world the continuation of the genocidal Operation Green Hunt, now called Operation Prahar-3, as a new and brutal offensive of the Hindu regime to stifle the revolution in India with its well-known genocidal practices: killings, torture, cold-blooded assassinations of leaders, so-called "fake encounters", rape and abuse of women, burning of villages, expropriation of land, concentration camps and imprisonment of anyone who dares to denounce the regime's atrocities.

Within this framework of savage repression, another of the points of this genocidal strategy is that of psychological warfare, where propaganda, lies, intoxication, disinformation, and manipulation play a crucial role.

Recently a document has been released, which we would like to treat with all caution. This security document aims to implant a script against the Naxalite movement in the public school curriculum, with the clear aim of winning the "Hearts and Minds" of the younger population of India and with total manipulation, in order to demoralise and demobilise the Indian youth in a moment when the contradictions are sharpening and more and more people are coming out to protest against the political and economic measures of the fascist and genocidal government of Modi and his puppets in the different states of the country.

A couple of years ago, in Gujarat and Rajasthan, the history book included Hitler as a role model and Modi as the best reference of who was a worthy successor to him, was later withdrawn due to social pressure, but the discourse of legitimisation of genocide continues and in fact, recently the most radical Hindu organisations have called for the extermination of Muslims. The issue has even been debated in the US Congress.  In this context of legitimisation of genocide and the Hindu offensive, it’s logical that the government of the fascist and genocidal Modi intends to use it against the only political movement that can really stand up to it, which are the Maoists.

This government document says that the Naxalite movement is on the decline thanks to the government and its counter-insurgency measures, giving a series of totally biased statistics and listing the history of the government's counter-insurgency measures and the central government's strategies to counter Naxalism.

So, for example they say in their history of counter-insurgency measures:

       -    The government between 2004 and 2014 established the building blocks for India's anti-Maoist response with Counterinsurgency Strategy (COIN).

       - The current National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has accelerated its pace.

       - Governments at the Centre have adopted a mix of people-centric and enemy-centric methods to quell the Maoist movement.

- The Indian government has adopted a holistic approach focusing on development and security-related interventions to deal with the problem of the radical left (LWE).

It is also interesting to note the government's denial of Operation Green Hunt.

 Operation Green Hunt

     - Operation Green Hunt is the name used by the Indian media to describe the "all-out offensive by paramilitary and state forces" against the Naxals.

     - The operation is believed to have begun in November 2009 across five states in the "Red Corridor".

     - The term was coined by Chhattisgarh police officials to describe a successful campaign against the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in the state.

    - Subsequently, the media misused the term to describe broader anti-Naxalite operations.

    - On the other hand, the Union Government doesn’t use the term Operation Green Hunt to describe its anti-Naxalite offensive.

It is quite remarkable that the government claims that the name "Operation" was misused by the (bourgeois) media. This text would show that the campaigns in India and around the world against the genocidal Operation Green Hunt were so important that the government itself is not interested that people talk about it, denying the brutal repression and genocidal practices applied in this operation.

The document continues in the same vein, full of lies and misinformation, and finally, as if it were an exam or schoolwork, the last section appears as follows:

Shape your thinking: Why has the Naxalite movement in India declined? What has been the Indian government's strategy to counter Left-wing extremism?

Getting closer to the answer:

     - Introduction

     - Indicate the statistics on the decline of the Naxalite movement in India.

     - Mention the reasons for the downward trend.

    - Discuss the strategy used by the Union government.

    - Mention the different components of the strategy

    - Conclusion

This seems like a ghoulish joke, but this document is part of the strategy "Hearts and Minds" to exterminate the revolutionary movement. Therefore, against the lies, intoxication, and manipulation of the fascist and genocidal Modi government, it’s more necessary than ever to fight tooth and nail against the new genocidal Operation "Prahar-3" and to show our full support and solidarity with the People's War and the CPI(Maoist).

 

 *Adolfo Naya.

Social anthropologist and trade unionist. Author of “Operation Green Hunt in India: genocidal social practices, counterinsurgency strategy ‘Hearts and Minds’ ". Publisher: Foreign Languages Press (2021)