Intellektuelle Redlichkeit
Darauf, dass Arundathi Roy für die maoistische Guerrilla (Naxaliten) die Propagandatrommel rührt, habe ich dieser Tage hingewiesen. Sie tut dies auch in “Dawn” (Pakistan). Dort erklärt sie die Aktionen ebenfalls als Reaktion auf die Aktivitäten von Bergbaukonzernen.
In “Outlook” (Indien) tritt sie ebenfalls für die Naxaliten ein. Zwei Absätze aus diesem Artikel fehlen jedoch in den anderen beiden:
Who are the Maoists? They are members of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist)—CPI (Maoist)—one of the several descendants of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), which led the 1969 Naxalite uprising and was subsequently liquidated by the Indian government. The Maoists believe that the innate, structural inequality of Indian society can only be redressed by the violent overthrow of the Indian State. In its earlier avatars as the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) in Jharkhand and Bihar, and the People’s War Group (PWG) in Andhra Pradesh, the Maoists had tremendous popular support. (When the ban on them was briefly lifted in 2004, one-and-a-half million people attended their rally in Warangal.) But eventually their intercession in Andhra Pradesh ended badly. They left a violent legacy that turned some of their staunchest supporters into harsh critics. After a paroxysm of killing and counter-killing by the Andhra police as well as the Maoists, the PWG was decimated. Those who managed to survive fled Andhra Pradesh into neighbouring Chhattisgarh. There, deep in the heart of the forest, they joined colleagues who had already been working there for decades.
Die “Widerstandsbewegung” gegen den bösen Kapitalismus nahm also ihren Ursprung, als Indien noch fest planwirtschaftlich orientiert war. Und weiter:
Not many ‘outsiders’ have any first-hand experience of the real nature of the Maoist movement in the forest. A recent interview with one of its top leaders, Comrade Ganapathy, in Open magazine didn’t do much to change the minds of those who view the Maoists as a party with an unforgiving, totalitarian vision, which countenances no dissent whatsoever. Comrade Ganapathy said nothing that would persuade people that, were the Maoists ever to come to power, they would be equipped to properly address the almost insane diversity of India’s caste-ridden society. His casual approval of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka was enough to send a shiver down even the most sympathetic of spines, not just because of the brutal ways in which the LTTE chose to wage its war, but also because of the cataclysmic tragedy that has befallen the Tamil people of Sri Lanka, who it claimed to represent, and for whom it surely must take some responsibility.
Die Robin-Hood-Masche mag bei Guardianistas in Camden und schadenfrohen Pakistanis verfangen. Vor indischem Publikum würde Roy sich damit lächerlich machen.
Mehrere Artikel zu diesem Thema gibt es im indischen linken Magazin “Frontline”.
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