TURQUÍA:WE CONDEMN THE OPERATION TARGETING ESP! atik

 

WE CONDEMN THE OPERATION TARGETING ESP!

Turkey woke up to more operations on the morning of 3 February. In Antalya, Adıyaman, Urfa, Rize, Bursa, Van, Tekirdağ, Gaziantep, Samsun, Dersim, Malatya, Diyarbakır, Kocaeli, Yalova, Balıkesir,
Denizli, Ankara, İzmir, Sakarya, Adana and Mersin, the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), the Socialist Women's Assembly (SKM), the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF), the Active News Agency (ETHA), DİSK/Limter-İş, Polen Ecology, BEKSAV and many other institutions, a total of 96 revolutionaries were taken into custody during raids on homes and institutions. Among those detained were ESP Co-Chair Murat Çepni, ESP Central Executive Committee member Okan Danacı, SKM spokesperson Tanya Kara, ETHA editor Pınar Gayip, Oppressed People's Law Office lawyer Özlem Gümüştaş, and DİSK/Limter-İş General Secretary Beycan Taşkıran.

The fascist Turkish state, on the one hand, is carrying out massacres against Kurds, Alevis and Druze by working with the HTŞ government in Syria, and on the other hand, is intensifying arrests and detentions against democratic forces within the country. It attacks marches organised to stop the massacre in Rojava and to support the people's resistance, uses violence against those participating in the protests, and detains dozens of them. Today's operation is part of this.

The arrest of representatives of institutions and journalists who actively participate in actions supporting Rojava, who report on it, and who try to raise public awareness is a warning to mass actions. But we know that no matter how many are arrested, no matter how much torture is inflicted, the struggle of the oppressed peoples who resist cannot be suppressed. Because the struggle of the oppressed peoples and the working class in Rojava and in many parts of the world is legitimate. No fascist dictatorship has been able to suppress this legitimate struggle, nor will it be able to do so in the future. These legitimate struggles continue with the solidarity of workers and labourers around the world, and we firmly believe that this solidarity will continue in all areas in the future.

In Rojava, the fascist HTŞ; in Palestine, fascist Israeli Zionism; in Iran, the fascist Mullah regime; and in India, the fascist Modi government continue their attacks, massacres, and genocides against the local people with the support they receive from imperialist powers. However, in many countries around the world, particularly in Europe, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets to oppose these massacres and support the people's resistance.

As the Confederation of European Turkish Workers; the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), the Socialist Women's Council (SKM), the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF), the Active News Agency (ETHA), DİSK/Limter-İş, Polen Ecology, and BEKSAV. We reiterate our solidarity with the revolutionaries who have been arrested. We call on local and migrant workers and labourers in Europe, as well as democratic forces, to oppose this operation. Currently, let us oppose the attacks against the people in Turkey, Rojava, Iran, Palestine and India with street actions. Let us unite in solidarity with them by making the voice of the oppressed peoples' just struggle heard by the entire European public.

Detentions and Arrests Cannot Stop our Just Struggle!

Long Live the Legitimate Struggle of the Oppressed Peoples!

Long Live International Solidarity!

ATİK- Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe

NEPAL: Coalition Of Left Parties Staging Election Boycott Condemns The Arrest Of RCPN Leading Cadre Purna Bahadur Khadka -info

 

Kathmandu, February 3, 2026: A coalition consisting of six communist and left-wing parties that have been boycotting the March 5 House of Representatives (HoR) elections have demanded the immediate release of Purna Bahadur Khadka, who was recently arrested by Nepal Police following a public function in Dudhouli, Sindhuli, on Monday.

A central joint struggle committee of the coalition parties has warned the government of a stronger political movement if it interferes with their protest programmes. In a statement, the committee condemned the arrest of Khadka, who is also a leading cadre of the Mohan Baidya-led Revolutionary Communist Party of Nepal.

The committee accused the government of attempting to disrupt its peaceful struggle by detaining Khadka and issued a stern warning against further interference.

“We strongly warn the government not to interfere in our peaceful struggle programmes and to immediately release Comrade Purna Bahadur Khadka unconditionally,” the statement said.

The committee, which has been campaigning for the formation of an all-party government, comprises the Mohan Baidya-led Revolutionary Communist Party of Nepal, CPN (Bahumat), the Scientific Socialist Party, CPN (Janapakshya), the Nepal Communist Party, and the Socialist Communist Party.

INDIA:Protest demonstration at the Kolkata book fair against Operation Kagaar remembering the martyrs

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INDIA: news from CPI (Maoist)

Statement:

We strongly condemns these indiscriminate and unannounced aerial attacks of Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) Director General (DG) Gyanendra Pratap Singh on 20th January 2026  attacks on the Maoists in the Saranda forests, since 21st January 2026 helicopter gunships have begun arbitrary and unannounced firing on the villages of Baliba, Tinilposi and Digge and the Babudera forests for hours every day. 

The lack of any information to the adivasi population of the forest villages before these sudden aerial attacks and indiscriminate firing has terrorized them. Many adivasis are now fleeing their villages in terror.

We condemn this heinous cowardice and barbaric stream of killings... extend the red salute to these beloved 17 comrades and pay them a tearful homage on behalf of the committee.n the other hand, on 22nd January 2026 the CoBRA 209 unit, Jharkhand Jaguars and the District Police Force at the Chotanagra police station area hatched a coordinated plot by setting GPS traps and poisoning the food of 20 comrades stationed between the Bahada and Kumti villages of Saranda forests, successfully trapping and attacking them. In the resulting encounter, 17 comrades including Central Committee member and Secretary of the Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee Com. Patiram Maji alias Analda alias Ramesh and Orissa State Committee Member Com. Lalchand Hembram alias Anmol alias Sushant were martyred. The survivors are being executed one by one. 

 We call on all sympathetic organizations, revolutionary and popular organizations, people, peasants, workers, students, youth, intellectuals and respected citizens to strengthen their resistance with great efforts against these unannounced aerial attacks and string of murders.

We denounce police action a heinous act of barbarity because the police and Cobra units have often sent GPS trackers to attack our rest stops and camps. Some attacks have resulted in grave losses while others have been defused. In other cases, many soldiers of the CoBRA 209 unit have fallen prey to their own GPS traps. They also resorted to sending food and medicines laced with poison. While our comrades have also fallen prey to these schemes, we have usually been able to save them. This time as well, these disgusting and heinous means of murder have been used. This is why casualty rates of first 10, then 15, then 16, and finally 17 individuals are being reported. These cruel authorities will likely also torture and then execute our surviving three comrades who are in their custody.

With revolutionary greetings,

Red Salute., 

Azad, Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee,

BELGICA: Brussels: Stop Operation Kagaar! - 1st Info/Report - photos and videos

The International Emergency Campaign against Operation Kagaar arrived on January 27 at the European Parliament, at the European Commission in Brussels, through a combative and representative sit-in, carried out by an international delegation of organizations, parties from different countries, and sustained by the support of many others, both with simultaneous sit-ins in Birmingham and in Italy, with statements and wide circulation on the internet and among the masses of the appeal of the Campaign.

The demonstration in front of the European Parliament was attended by organizations from Italy, Holland, Turkey, Tunisia, Galicia, Belgium and young people from the Indian community in Brussels.

Since the morning, four materials have been distributed at the entrance to the Parliament: the general appeal, a memorandum prepared by Indian comrades, a letter to individual parliamentarians, to the presidency of the EU Foreign Affairs Commission, of the Human Rights Section Commission, together with the letter from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which calls for urgent action in relation to the situation of indigenous peoples, Adivasis in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh.

These distributed texts are published in other posts.

In the square, in front of the entrance door of the European Parliament, the demonstration began with banners, signs, slogans and speeches, while leaflets were distributed with information and appeals for solidarity to citizens and people in cars, transport vehicles, buses, so to cause a traffic block for tens of minutes, with police intervention to interrupt it.

Two Italian deputies came to the rally to meet the delegation. With them, representatives of the Campaign had a meeting of over half an hour during which they asked for an urgent position of the European Parliament and an intervention by the Parliament's Commission, 'Human Rights' Section and 'Foreign Affairs' Section to stop Modi's regime in India, which with Operation Kagaar implements unlimited repression, with massacres, mass arrests against the indigenous peoples of the forests, Adivasis, in the name of the fight against "Maoist terrorism", but in reality at the service of the interests of imperialism and the large Indian multinationals that want to expropriate and drive the Adivasis from their land to appropriate the deposits of iron, coal, bauxite, uranium, and build mines, steel mills at the service of their profit.

The delegation also outlined the more general repression directed at journalists, student associations, democrats, magazines, with a massive wave of arrests, detentions including torture, and targeted killings.

The Modi regime, in the name of Hindutva identity, strikes masses of other religions and other oppressed nationalities, in particular in Kashmir which lives under military occupation.

The parliamentarians have collected this complaint and the Dossier prepared by the campaign and have ensured that it will be forwarded to other parliamentarians of different tendencies and to the members of the Human Rights Section Commission.

The importance of the initiative went far beyond this issue, because on the very same day as the demonstration, a major meeting was held in India between the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, and Modi, to achieve a huge commercial, diplomatic and military agreement between the European imperialist states and the Indian regime, within the inter-imperialist world dispute that is developing, is deepening and accelerating also as a result of Trump's US imperialism.

This agreement is being unloaded on to the proletarians and the Indian masses, as well as to the proletarians and the European masses; just in the days before the sit-in, the same square had been the scene of the strong protest of farmers against the Mercosur agreement.

The Dossier delivered contained documents of denunciation from all the organizations fighting against repression and the Kagaar operation in India, as well as the document of solidarity of the Palestinian organizations that join in denouncing the genocide of the Adivasis, launching the slogan: "From Gaza to Bastar", "solidarity is our weapon", and reaffirming the commitment to the liberation of all oppressed peoples who struggle for justice and dignity.

In the end, the delegation entered the square of the Parliament decisively, shouting slogans, with the police trying, in vain, to prevent it.

After the successful demonstration in front of the Parliament, in an atmosphere of camaraderie and internationalist solidarity, the delegation reached the Indian embassy.

And here there was going on a strong protest by the Kashmiri community against the Modi regime and the massacres, the persecutions that provide for the death penalty for renowned members of the community.

The delegation immediately greeted this protest, with enthusiasm on the part of the Kashmiri demonstrators, rejected the intention of the police to prevent the unity of the two demonstrations, which in reality were strongly united with interventions, common slogans, raising the bar against the fascist and terrorist government of Modi.

An additional banner appeared in support of the people's war and in honour and glory of Comrade Basavaraj.

A heavy blow to Modi's regime, the unity of these two protests that reflect what is happening in India to build the unity of all the oppressed against Modi's fascist regime.

An important day that we certainly would have liked with greater attendance to give even more strength to the Emergency Campaign, which in any case marked a stage in this international campaign that will see further initiatives in other cities, embassies, institutional headquarters and which prepares the ground for the clamorous challenge of a delegation in India as soon as the conditions have matured.

Al Parlamento europeo

All'Ambasciata dell'India

Birmingham: 27th of january twinned demonstration with Bruxelles against Operation Kagaar and the Adivasi genocide

 

On the 27th of January 2026, the Joint Committee to Stop Repression in India (JCSRI) and other organisations protested outside the Consulate General of India in Birmingham. These organisations did so in protest of the Indian state's genocidal "Operation Kagar" which, under the cover of fighting communism, has involved severe abuses and displacement of Adivasi/Tribal communities alongside repression of progressive activists across India. The mineral-rich and forested region of Bastar has been turned into one of the world's most militarised zones.

This was the first protest against Operation Kagar in Britain and coincided with protests at the European Parliament and the Indian Embassy in Brussels the same day and comes following the Indian Republic Day on the 26th. These protests in Birmingham and Brussels have been conducted to oppose EU-India Free Trade Agreement negotiations the same day as well as ongoing meetings of the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights. The call from protestors is that instead of enabling and supporting human rights abuses in India under Operation Kagar, global institution should condemn these. The UK-India Free Trade Agreement has been opposed by groups for similar reasons.

International resistance to Operation Kagar is not only needed but has been shown to work, with especially academic pressure helping to end "Operation Green-Hunt" in 2014. The JCSRI was founded with the explicit goal of furthering the mounting international pressure for the end of these operations. The struggle against Operation Kagar is deeply linked to the world struggle against militarism, with Adani Group being a major beneficiary of the displacement of Adivasi communities while also being deeply involved in the genocide in Palestine through owning Haifa Port and having arms manufacturing collaborations with Israel's Elbit Systems. It is in this context we only see our work growing as movements against militarism, imperialism and genocide only continue to flourish everywhere.

Long live the people's call for Jal, Jangal, Jameen. Long live the people's resistance to genocide, down with Imperialism, down with Operation Kagar!

BANGLADESH: Revolutionary Student Unity statement against Operation Kagaar

ITALIA:, report: Sit-in in Ravenna against the Operation Kagaar and to denounce UE-India economic, political and military agreements

January 28, 2026

Demonstration in Ravenna against "Operation Kagaar," the war against his own people that the fascist Modi is waging in India with the complicity of US/EU imperialism.

On January 27, Slai Cobas organized a sit-in in Ravenna's Porta Adriana district in support of an international delegation, including our union, that traveled to Brussels to protest in front of Parliament. The delegation, which includes the European Commission's Human Rights and Foreign Affairs Sections, called for a stand and intervention against the ongoing arrests and deportations of the indigenous Adivasi forest peoples in India.

Today, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Modi to reach economic agreements that will result in increased human rights violations in India, the killings, arrests, and deportations of indigenous Adivasi peoples, and the fierce repression of opposition, with the Hindutva fascist Modi's goal of annihilating the people's war led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

From the international appeal: "As part of the Italian delegation, this initiative is part of a plan of further initiatives denouncing the genocide in Palestine and the false truce in Gaza, and the dramatic situation of siege and bombing of the Kurdish masses in Syria and Turkey, against imperialist and neocolonialist military interventions in Latin America and elsewhere around the world, against repression and freedom-killing decrees in Italy regarding security, and against the trials of the Palestine solidarity movement."

Report by Partizan on Atik comrades joining the international demonstration of 27th january of Bruxelles and organizing a twinned demonstration in Vienna on the same day

January 28, 2026

 

Actions in Europe Against India's ‘Kagaar Operation’

The reactionary Indian state's ‘Kagaar Operation’ against India's indigenous peoples and the Communist Party of India (Maoist) was protested in Vienna and Brussels, Europe.

‘Operation Kagaar’ Protested in Vienna

The fascist Narendra Modi government, together with imperialist powers, has been conducting operations under various names since 2009, particularly in the states of India where the Adivasi peoples live. Thousands of people have been killed in these attacks, and tens of thousands have been displaced from their homes. While people are being killed to hand over valuable minerals to mining companies, those who survive are being forcibly expelled from the lands they have lived on for centuries.

Since January 2024, under the name of the ‘Kagaar Operation,’ the Modi government has been propagating that it will eliminate the Communist Party of India (Maoist) by 31 March 2026, with tens of thousands of paramilitary forces and advanced technical equipment, and continues its brutal attacks.

To condemn these attacks and expose them to the Austrian public, an event was held in front of the Indian Embassy in Vienna by organisations including ADİF and ATİK. The event, held on 27 January 2026, began at 5 p.m. with the screening of footage revealing the scale of the brutality of the operations.

The action, held in Karlsplatz, one of Vienna's busiest areas, featured a jointly prepared speech read in German and English, followed by speeches on behalf of the organisations.

In the speech delivered on behalf of ADİF–ATİK, the operations carried out by the Indian state were exposed and condemned, and the speech concluded with the following call:

“As ATİK – European Confederation of Turkish Workers, we strongly condemn the operations carried out by the fascist Modi government in collaboration with imperialists and declare our solidarity with the struggling peoples of India. We call on all democratic forces in Europe to take a clear stand against these attacks. Long live the Indian people's legitimate resistance against fascism! Long live international solidarity!"

The event concluded with slogans denouncing the atrocities of the Kagaar Operation and strengthening solidarity with the struggling peoples.

Kagaar Operation Protested in Brussels

The attacks carried out by the fascist Modi regime in India against the Communist Party of India (Maoist) for two years under the name ‘Kagaar Operation’ were protested in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.

During the action, held in response to discussions on India at the EU Parliament's Human Rights Committee on 26–27 January, the fascist Modi regime, which continues the Kagaar Operation, and the EU Parliament, which continues to support these attacks, were exposed.

It was stated that since January 2024, the Indian state has been conducting operations in many states with an army and paramilitary forces of 60,000 personnel; that hundreds of members of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and indigenous people living in the states have been killed in these attacks, and that large-scale arrests have been carried out. It was emphasised that India is in clear violation of international treaties and fundamental human rights.

BELGICA:t Towards Bruxelles 27th January - Stop operation Kagaar - stop Genocide Adivasi people

INGLATERRA: From Bastar to Palestine - End the massacres! from Birmingham to bruxelles 27th january

INGLATERRA:🪧 'Stop Operation Kagaar' Protest Indian Consulate, 2 Darnley Rd, Birmingham B16 8TE 🕰️ January 27th, 4PM

🪧 'Stop Operation Kagaar' Protest

📍 Indian Consulate, 2 Darnley Rd, Birmingham B16 8TE
🕰️ January 27th, 4PM
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There will be two protests the same day in Brussels, to coincide with both a India-EU summit and the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee - Human Rights Subcommittee. These protests have been called by the International Emergency Campaign Against Operation Kagaar. We, the Joint Committee to Stop Repression in India (JCSRI), are calling for progressives in Britain to also join in and make this an international day of action.

This is to oppose the Hindutva Brahminical Modi regime's full-fledged military operation named "Operation Kagaar" in central India - in the states of Chattisgarh, Telangana, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand - the so-called "tribal belt" where Adivasi populations live. Besides murders of CPI-Maoist members under illegal fake encounters - this assault serves to displace and genocide Adivasi populations to serve mining interests.

We must expose repression in India and oppose Britain and the EU's imperialist "free" trade deals with India which fuel this extractive violence. Operation Kagaar is being perpetrated to serve global imperialist interests and British companies and the British state are deeply complicit in various oppressions committed in and by India. The capitalists directly involved and benefitting include the infamous Adani Group - who are involved in colonising Palestine, for example their drone partnership with Elbit and even owning Haifa Port.

Stop Operation Kagaar!
Armed forces out of Adivasi areas!

COLOMBIA: Adelante con la campaña contra la Operación Kagaar en la India - revolucion Obrera - Colombia

 

Desde hace varios años en el lejano país de la India se está llevando a cabo un proceso de Guerra Popular dirigido por el Partido Comunista de la India (Maoísta) [PCI (m)], el cual tiene como objetivo el triunfo de la revolución de nueva democracia. El podrido Estado hindú, hoy gobernado por fuerzas reaccionarias encabezadas por el primer ministro Narendra Modi declaró al Partido Comunista de la India (Maoísta) como la principal «amenaza de la seguridad del país», por lo que está movilizando todos los recursos a su disposición para ahogar en sangre el proceso revolucionario en ese país para beneficio de las clases dominantes de la India y sus socios imperialistas, y en detrimento de los trabajadores, las masas populares y los pueblos tribales.

En 2024, el régimen de Modi lanzó una operación militar llamada «Operación Kagaar» (Bosque negro) en los Estados del centro del país, conocido como el «cinturón tribal», pues es en esa región donde se concreta la mayoría de los pueblos «adivasi» (tribales). Esta gran operación militar que ha movilizado más de 60 mil integrantes de fuerzas paramilitares, junto con aviones de combate y vehículos acorazados, tiene dos objetivos: por un lado acabar con los militantes del Partido Comunista de la India (Maoísta) y los combatientes del Ejército Guerrillero Popular de Liberación (EGPL), los cuales se encuentran en esa región; el otro, es atacar a los pueblos adivasi, bajo la acusación de ser miembros del PCI (m) y el EGPL, para poder desplazarlos por la fuerza de sus territorios y permitir la entrada de las multinacionales mineras.

Desde entonces, los pueblos adivasi, los militantes y combatientes maoístas, y cualquier demócrata que alce su voz para denunciar esos sucesos es reprimido por el gobierno. En internet abundan las diferentes denuncias realizadas de cada uno de los crímenes y arbitrariedades cometidas por el genocida régimen hindutva de Modi. Pero no solamente en la India se alzan voces de denuncia y protesta, el Comité Internacional de Apoyo a la Guerra Popular en la India (ICSPWI por sus siglas en inglés) ha impulsado diferentes campañas de solidaridad y apoyo con la revolución en la India, y en los últimos años, en denuncia de la «Operación Kagaar».

Para estos meses de enero y marzo, desde el ICSPWI se impulsará una campaña internacional de emergencia contra esa operación militar y en defensa de la revolución en la India y los pueblos adivasi. Dentro de esta hay dos grandes movilizaciones: un plantón los días 26 y 27 de enero frente al Parlamento Europeo y la Embajada de la India en Bélgica, pues para esos días se estará reuniendo la Subcomisión de Derechos Humanos de la Comisión de Asuntos Exteriores del Parlamento Europeo. Y la otra gran movilización internacional se realizará los días 21 y 28 de marzo, pues para ese mes es que el criminal gobierno de Modi ha declarado que piensa acabar con la guerra popular en la India.

Desde la Unión Obrera Comunista (mlm), como miembros del ICSPWI, siendo consecuentes con nuestro principio del internacionalismo proletario, invitamos a los trabajadores de Colombia a sumarse a esta campaña internacional de emergencia y a conocer sobre la guerra popular en la India, así como a rechazar y denunciar la perversa «Operación Kagaar». En las páginas de nuestro portal Revolución Obrera, en sus redes sociales, estaremos subiendo información sobre la campaña, así como de actividades que vayan surgiendo

ALEMANIA: large partecipation in LLL demostration in Berlin -and also against Operation Kagaar/support people’s war in India!

 

27 january - Bruxelles - stop Operation Kagaar! Stop the genocide of Adivasi

Call for a European mobilization against Operation Kagaar and to denounce the EU's support for the Indian regime!

 

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