In 1996, Gregory Stanton the president of genocidewatch.org presented a brief paper depicting eight stages of genocide. It might be an interesting exercise to note the recent developments in Bengal in the light of those eight stages.
Classification – People are divided between "us and them". This is being immaculately performed over the last couple of years in Bengal. The Trinamool campaign is aimed at describing the CPI(M) cadres and sympathizers as Harmads, which can be loosely translated as armed pirates. The whole campaign with the help of the press, electronic media and a part of the intelligentsia has been painting a picture of CPI(M) as the representative of state authority, which has transformed over time, through the 33 years of its "mis"-rule. The propaganda is being used to build an image of the CPI(M) as the corrupt, arrogant ruler of the state. Increasingly the campaign is being used to portray an image of the CPI(M) as a liar, whose statements are not be believed, all its appeals are to be rejected. At the same time the image of Mamata is being built as the messiah of the poor, who protests against forceful corporate land acquisition. A clean image of her is projected by the propaganda machine, showing her simple lifestyle.
Symbolization – When combined with hatred, symbols may be forced upon unwilling members or pariah groups. Not only the Trinamool leaders, even the Maoists, the intellectuals in the payrolls of the Railways department, everyone started symbolizing the CPI(M) supporters as Harmads. This symbolization immediately creates a connotation in the minds of people. The connotation is of an armed raider group. Another recent glaring example is when a party supporter of CPI(M), Bapi Dhar, got killed by a security personnel during the peaceful Municipal Elections in Kolkata, there was no reason for the firing. But immediately after the death of this popular CPI(M) supporter Mamata termed him as a "notorious criminal." There were huge protests by the local masses, but Mamata and her cronies started to allege that Bapi Dhar was killed because of the infighting inside CPI(M), and started to question how can a person get killed when he was injured in the leg, but it is elementary physiology that when a main artery is wounded by a bullet, there can be huge blood loss, leading to death.
Dehumanization – One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects or diseases. This feature started with terming the CPIM as harmads. Now everything that is inhuman, is being projected as the handiwork of the CPI(M). One previous example from the late nineties was the allegation by Mamata of a "man made flood" created by the CPI(M), when there was massive devastations due to floods in Bengal. A very recent example was the huge train accident, where more than 150 people got killed, probably a handiwork of the Maoists-backed PCPA factions. One of the Trinamool MPs Shishir Adhikary first alluded that it was CPI(M) who is behind this ghastly genocide. It was taken up by the intellectuals in the payrolls of the Railways ministry the very next day, and in a press conference in Kolkata they alleged the same thing, followed by a press conference by the leader herself.
Organization – Genocide is always organized, special army units or militias are often trained and armed. Over the last couple of years more than 200 activists and supporters of CPI(M) have been killed by the armed Maoists and their frontal organization PCPA in the Lalgarh area of Bengal. Even in the strongholds of CPI(M) like Mangalkot, a District level leader of the CPI(M) was murdered. Not a single day passes without headline news of a few people killed by these armed groups, which organize victory marches when Trinamool wins Municipal polls.
Polarization – Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda. The polarization in the Bengal politics is not a very recent phenomenon. But when it is being combined with the other factors mentioned above, it takes an altogether different proportion. Propaganda reached its peak with the Nandigram issue, when the propaganda machine worked overtime to disseminate that there have been such a massive massacre that even the color of the river Haldi has turned red with blood, and the stench of blood has attracted crocodiles in that river. Thousands of children have been killed by tearing off their legs apart, hundreds of women have been raped and murdered, their nipples have been torn off by the harmads. Interestingly the process of this false propaganda spread emphatically and repeatedly was first started during the Singur agitation. During the agitation, in the initial days, one of the arrested ladies was a mother of a few months old baby. It was natural that the baby would find it difficult to survive without his mother, so the police administration was requested to keep the baby with the mother in the custody. As an official process the name of the baby was also mentioned in the seizure list. This became the plank for the ultra-left, intellectuals, Trinamool and everyone started shouting loudly the CPI(M) government didn't even spare a little baby, what can a baby do to warrant an arrest. Loud repetition of this untruth first started to sway the public opinion against the CPI(M). The art of propaganda taught by Goebbels was implemented in great finesse, and this was just the beginning.
Preparation – Victims are identified and separated out because of their identity. A CPI(M) supporter will have to fix up a poster on his or back that "I am not a CPI(M)" thundered Mamata, and her supporters implemented her wish by killing the father of a child, the daughter of the dead CPI(M) activist was made to walk the whole village with the poster fixed on her back. There have been countless attacks on the sympathizers of the CPI(M), whatever be the class, whatever be the gender, whatever be the age, whatever be the profession, whatever be location, just because they were identified as CPI(M).
Extermination – It is extermination to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human. The extermination process has begun long back in Nandigram, not a single red flag can be hoisted in the whole area, even a statue of Lenin was demolished. Either one is identified as CPI(M) and exterminated or one has to join the ranks of the Trinamool. This process of extermination was perfected in the Lalgarh area with the help of these so called Maoists. The deaths are just now numbers, doesn't become even headlines in the bourgeois media most of the time. A CPI(M) sympathizer is no more considered to be a human being.
Denial – The perpetrators deny that they committed any crimes. This is done with the maximum finesse. The Rail Minister thunders, "there are no Maoists." She asserts the Marxists are same as Maoists. She declares whoever is killed is being killed because of the infighting in the CPI(M) itself.
This above steps leads to a situation in Bengal where we would probably see a carnage, a genocide of the CPI(M) workers. Though the world will just know these hapless people have been killed because of infighting. Or they got killed by the security personnel, as they were just "notorious criminals". The history is replete with similar situation, when the ancestors of Bapi Dhars were termed anti-national, as agents of China, and were hated upon, even by their classmates. The CPI(M) in Bengal had to face the onslaught of the Congress-CRPF combine during the seventies, and survived to see the massive victory in 1977. Even after that, the entire state of West Bengal woke up in stunned disbelief to the gruesome killings at Malopara in Malda district shortly after the panchayat elections. Malopara is a locality of Chandmuni village under the Ratua police station in Malda district. On July 6, 1983, Congress hooligans attacked CPI(M) men in this locality killing 13 persons. The communists in Bengal recovered from those critical situations, why can't they this time?
Of course if this happens, which seems to be quite likely, it can't be termed as genocide technically, as because of the insistence of Joseph Stalin, the definition of genocide under international law doesn't include political groups. What an irony!
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