[Marxistindia] Killing of CPI(M) leader in Orissa

[news from the cpi(m)]

                                                        January 24, 2010


Press statement


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


The Polit Bureau strongly condemns the ghastly killing of popular tribal
leader of the CPI(M) Comrade Ananda Masihoro in Bonai of Sundargarh
district Orissa on 23 January by Maoists. Comrade Ananda was a two-term
member of the Zila Parishad and a popular mass leader who bravely fought
the exploitation of poor people by local vested interests. He was
kidnapped by the Maoists a few days earlier and later the police
reported his killing although his body is yet to be recovered. Earlier
Maoists had killed Comrade Rabi Oram another tribal leader who was the
Branch Secretary of the CPI(M). Since villagers under the leadership of
the CPI(M) put up a resistance to the Maoists depredations in the area
the Maoists burnt two party offices and looted the houses of the
villagers and attacked them injuring five. 


The killing of Comrade Ananda Masihoro and the violence against the poor
tribals in the are by the Maoists once again shows the bankrupt politics
of the Maoists who target CPI(M) leaders who are fighting against
exploitation of the poor. The CPI(M) expresses its condolences to the
bereaved family. It demands that the Central Government deploy adequate
security forces in the border areas of the affected states in
coordination with the state Governments.