[Marxistindia] Protest Killings of CPI(M) Cadres and Supporters in West Bengal

[news from the cpi(m)]

                                                           June 16, 2009




Press Statement


The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued
the following statement:


The Polit Bureau strongly condemns the killings and attacks by armed
Maoist gangs on CPI(M) cadre and the reign of terror unleashed in the
Lalgarh areas of West Midnapore district, West Bengal. Nine CPI(M)
members have been abducted. The bodies of three of them have been found
but the others have not been traced. The Maoists are using the Jharkhand
border areas as their base to extend into West Bengal. CPI(M) members
and supporters are being targeted and hounded out of the area and Party
offices and houses of CPI(M) workers are being destroyed. The Maoists
are using poor tribals as human shield to further their goals.
Shockingly, these depredations have the indirect and direct support of
important sections of the opposition political parties in West Bengal.


In Burdwan district, a respected district committee member of the CPI(M)
Com. Falguni Mukherjee was shot dead at point blank range by hoodlums
connected with the Trinamool Congress.


The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) calls upon all its units to protest
against these killings of CPI(M) cadre and supporters in West Bengal. It
appeals to all democratic minded people to condemn these attacks and
come forward in all possible ways to protest. It calls upon the Central
Government to immediately rush the required number of para military
forces to the area as requested by the State Government.