Spanish State: Manifesto of the “State Campaign Against Operation Kagaar and the Genocide of the Adivasi People”

We hereby share an unofficial translation of a statement published by Servir al Pueblo, against the genocide on the Adivasi people and against Operation Kagaar.

Let’s Stop the Genocide Against the Adivasi People in India!

A large-scale repressive operation has been deployed in central India since early 2024, known as “Operation Kagaar.” This operation, under the pretext of ending the Naxalite insurgency and claiming to bring “peace” and “progress,” has allowed for massive militarization of the area, the denial of all fundamental democratic rights, numerous detentions, and the indiscriminate murders of the local population, the Adivasi people. All of this has one goal: to hand over the region’s mineral resources to large foreign and Indian corporations. Operation Kagaar began with its first fatality: a 6-month-old baby shot by paramilitaries while he was being breastfed.

All of this occurs in what major media outlets call “the world’s largest democracy,” which in reality is a country where different peoples and minorities are brutally repressed for the sake of the greater profit of large corporations. This is the case for the Adivasi people, primarily composed of indigenous peasants living mainly between the states of Chhattisgarh and Telangana, where there is a large concentration of mineral wealth.

In order to plunder these rich mineral resources and, in the process, expel Adivasi peasants from their ancestral lands, the Indian State has been deploying its police, paramilitary, and military power for years, building dozens of camps and deploying tens of thousands of troops. The list of crimes committed is endless: search and capture operations, murders, indiscriminate shootings, attempts to silence those who rise against these crimes and oppression; aerial drone bombings against the civilian population; multiple rapes of Adivasi women and even their murders; mass displacements of the local population and destruction of their means of livelihood. The crimes are carried out by police and paramilitaries, who, far from ensuring security or upholding the law, have become the spearhead in defense of corporations and their interests in the region. Only in 2024, more than 300 people were murdered, over 80 percent in Bastar. This was the bloodiest year in the area since the Bhumkal Rebellion of 1910.

Additionally the detentions and torture of numerous activists opposing corporate plunder. There are many cases of activists defending democratic rights, intellectuals, and journalists who, under detention by Indian authorities, have suffered torture, resulting in a significant deterioration of their health or even death. The most well-known case was that of the renowned intellectual G.N. Saibaba, who was held in solitary confinement for 10 years, denied all medical attention, and died due to the brutal mistreatment and negligence suffered in prison. In other words, he was murdered by the Indian State. This case was even protested by the United Nations (UN). There have also been murders under custody, such as those of Stan Swamy and Pandu Narote. These prisoners are political prisoners; they have committed no crime. Their only “crime” has been to stand up against oppression, injustice, and the impunity of corporations in their plunder, displacement, and massacre of the Adivasi people. Entire organizations have been banned, such as Moolvasi Bachao Manch, an Adivasi platform that denounces the crimes committed against their people, which was banned at the end of 2024.

The arbitrary and undemocratic procedures applied by the Indian State are well known: they have been widely denounced, such as also the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), under which simple ideas are pursued, justifying detentions for years without active judicial processes, and a myriad of other illegalities and attacks against the democratic rights of the people that have been widely denounced and even refuted in multiple court rulings.

Far from being the “largest democracy in the world,” India is one of the largest prisons in the world for the poor, peasants, oppressed individuals, defenders of rights, and various oppressed peoples and minorities, such as Muslims, who are harshly attacked and discriminated against by the Indian State, which displays brutal Hindu nationalist and religious supremacism, or the case we are denouncing here of the Adivasis. The genocide against the Adivasi people occurs almost silently before our eyes. These crimes are hidden by the mass media in the Spanish State. But they are well known to the current government and were well known by previous governments. Nevertheless, the current government, which claims to be the most progressive in history, decided to engage in the fight for a mega-contract for large Spanish corporations and to attempt to win the bid for the construction of war submarines for the Indian State. Pedro Sánchez himself met with the fascist Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in October of last year.

For all the reasons stated above, we call on all entities, collectives, organizations, Parties, and individuals who oppose the genocides of oppressed peoples, whether in Palestine, India, or wherever in the world, to express their dissent, sign this manifesto, and contribute to the mobilizations and the struggle against the war crimes committed by the Indian State.

State Campaign Against Operation Kagaar and the Genocide of the Adivasi People

July 1, 2025

To sign the manifesto, please send us an email at stop_kagaar_esp@protonmail.com indicating the name of your entity, collective, organization, or party. You can also send your entity’s logo so that we can upload it along with the signature to the website we are in the process of publishing. If you want to sign as an individual, please include your first name, last name, and your profession or city in the email.