FILIPINAS: Groups launch protests across Europe against Operation Kagar in India (NDFP)

Various groups, parties, and committees in Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Austria launched protests to denounce the bloody and repressive Operation Kagar in India. They timed these actions with the meeting of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee–Human Rights Subcommittee in Belgium on January 27, and with the visit of officials of the European Commission and European Council to India on January 25–27.

The International Committee to Support the People’s War in India (ICSPWI) protested mainly at the European Parliament and the Indian Embassy in Belgium. They urged the European Commission to denounce the Modi regime’s campaign of repression and killings in India under Operation Kagar. The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) International Office expressed support for the day of protest.

The Modi regime has massacred hundreds of Indian civilians, particularly Adivasi (indigenous people), since the implementation of Operation Kagar in January 2024. It has mobilized 60,000 paramilitary, police, and military forces and used advanced military equipment such as drones in the operation. Numerous cases of bombings, killings, arrests, and other human rights violations have been documented for over two years.

Operation Kagar is a counterinsurgency campaign aimed at crushing the revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist). The Modi regime aims to annihilate the revolutionary movement by March 2026 to open the way for large mining corporations to exploit India’s resources and the ancestral lands of the Adivasi. The Modi regime also plans to establish a Brahmanic Hindutva state (fascism directed against religious minorities and oppressed social groups).

According to the NDFP International Office, as in the Philippines and its own revolutionary struggle, the failure of counterinsurgency campaigns exposes the basic truth that reactionary violence cannot defeat revolutionary movements born out of social conditions. “Support the struggle of the Indian people for national and social liberation!” it declared.