माओवादियों ने रखी केंद्रीय बलों को हटाने की शर्त

मिदनापुर ! माओवादी नेता किशन जी ने पश्चिम बंगाल में संघर्ष विराम के लिये केंद्रीय गृह मंत्रालय के समक्ष जंगलमहल इलाके के तीन जिलों पश्चिमी मिदनापुर बांकुरा और पुरूलिया से केंद्रीय सुरक्षा बलों को 25 फरवरी से 72 दिनों के भीतर हटाने की शर्त रखी है !किशन जी ने आज दूरभाष पर कहा इस अवधि के दौरान हम कोई भी कार्रवाई नहीं करेंगे ! हम 72 घंटों तक संघर्ष विराम के केंद्रीय गृह मंत्री पी। चिदंबरम के प्रस्ताव का भी स्वागत करते हैं1 अगर सरकार हमारे खिलाफ चल रहे अभियान को 72 दिनों तक बंद रखती है और सुरक्षा बलों को उक्त जिलों से हटा लेती है तो हम भी हिंसा का रास्ता छोडने के लिये तैयार हैं ! गत 20 फरवरी को श्री चिदंबरम ने माओवादियों के साथ इस शर्त पर बातचीत करने की पेशकश की थी कि वे अगले 72 घंटों तक हिंसा नहीं करेंगे जिसके बाद आज माओवादियों ने सरकार के सामने यह शर्त रखी है !

भारतीय कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी माओवादी ने सरकार के बातचीत के प्रस्ताव को ठुकराते हुए इसे असली मुद्दों से ध्यान भटकाने की कोशिश करार दिया है। भाकपा माओवादी की केन्द्रीय समिति की आज जारी एक प्रेस विज्ञप्ति में कहा गया कि पहले तो सरकार को खुद संविधान का पालन करते हुए आदिवासियों और सताए हुए लोगों की हत्या, बलात्कार, अपहरण और यातना देना बंद करना चाहिए। इसके बाद ही उसे माओवादियों के सामने बातचीत का प्रस्ताव रखने या उनसे हिंसा छोड़ने के लिए कहने का हक है। विज्ञप्ति में फर्जी आरोपों में पकडे ग़ए सभी लोगों की रिहाई की मांग की गई। इसमें कहा गया कि सरकार आदिवासियों और अन्य लोगों के मानवाधिकारों का उल्लंघन रोके और इस तरह का जुल्म करने वालों को सजा दे। जब तक ऐसा नहीं होता तब तक कोई भी बातचीत निरर्थक होगी।

Maoists Offer 72-Day Conditional Ceasefire

The Maoists tonight made a conditional ceasefire offer asking the government to halt the offensive against them for 72 days and involve mediators for talks."State governments and the Centre should not indulge in violence between February 25 and May 7 and concentrate on development of tribal areas which will be reciprocrated by Maoists, " top Maoist leader Kishenji said over phone from an undisclosed location.He was responding to Union Home minister P Chidamabaram's statement last week that if the Maoists halted violence for 72 hours the government would be ready for talks with them.In New Delhi, a Union Home Ministry official said the Government was "studying" the Maoist offer and will come with a response at an "appropriate time". Another official said if the offer is unconditional then the government may consider it.Kishenji said, "This is not a problem of 72 hours rather it can take 72 days to solve the problem."Appealing to intellectuals and human rights organisations to come forward as mediators, he said, "We appeal to all the intellectuals, human rights organisations and mass organisations, the organisations which understand the cause of the people and want to stand by their side to mediate with the government and negotiate with the government.""As long as state sponsored terrorism and violence remains stopped we will renounce our revolutionary revenge," Kishenji said."We will cease violence hour wise and day wise considering the state's reciprocation. They will have to take the initiative first," Kishenji said after a two-day Central Committee meeting in deep jungles on the Bengal-Jharkhand border."The Centre and the state should stop their non-stop violence on the common people in the name of Maoists and we assure to renounce violence.""If the state and central government without killing innocent and poor tribals concentrate on development of the people in the villages and in jungle mahal (Maoist-hit areas in West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia districts) only then can this revenge and counter revenge, violence and counter violence be neutralised," Kishenji said.Reacting to President Pratibha Patil terming Maoists as 'cowards', the Maoist leader claimed "in the last one year, 400 of our members and innocent villagers have been killed, 300 of them have been injured by paramilitary forces. Women have been raped and people have been made homeless.""This is enough to define who are cowards," he said.Home Secretary G K Pillai refused to comment but a spokesman of his ministry said the Government's reaction will be known tomorrow.Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said Maoists can't have conditionalities attached which will make the whole ceasefire meaningless.Singhvi also said, "Distinction has to be made between those who practice violence for criminal acts and those who have to do some violence to combat that violence. Let us not equate these two kinds of violence."Trinamool Congress leader and Railway minister Mamata Banerjee did not want to comment saying the Union Home Minister is looking into it."I haven't received any communication...I have to depend on what the government is saying because the home minister is taking care of that," she added.