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.
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