INDIA: Mumbai bombings 'mindless carnage'

In response to the bombing of seven trains in Mumbai on July 11, which killed some 200 people and wounded hundreds more, the Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) made the following statement.

The CPI(ML) condemns in the strongest words the dastardly serial bomb blasts on local Mumbai trains, which have killed, maimed and injured hundreds of rush-hour commuters. We express our solidarity with the families of the victims in this hour of terrible grief. We demand a speedy probe to identify those guilty for the blasts, so that those responsible for the mindless carnage may be sternly punished.

The citizens of Mumbai have displayed exemplary courage and humanity in the face of terror: spontaneously and fearlessly rushing to help the injured and coordinate relief efforts. The same remarkable spirit will be tested in the days to come — when the people of Mumbai will have to be alert and vigilant to foil the attempts of communal political forces to fan up a frenzied "reaction" to the blasts. Such a "reaction" can only plunge the innocent people of Mumbai and India into further terror and tragedy, and the governments at Maharashtra and the centre must take responsibility to ensure that all attempts to make communal capital over the blasts are put down.

From Green Left Weekly, July 19, 2006.

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