WARNING! Maoist-NE terror groups' cocktail is disastrous - Rediff.com News
Both Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi have acknowledged the fact that Maoists are making inroads into the region. Addressing the chief ministers' conference on internal security on April 16, Chidambaram stated that
Assam had emerged as the new theatre of Maoist activity and there were also inputs about links of CPI (Maoist) with insurgent-turned-terrorist groups in Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.
Again on May 12, while on a tour of Arunachal Pradesh, he stated, "There will be no compromise with the Maoists trying to destabilise peace in the region and police have been instructed to take stern action. The Centre was alive to the situation created by such groups in the region and was taking concrete steps to curb them".
Reports indicate that the Maoists have received arms, ammunition, explosives and other equipment as well as training by the Northeastern groups. By late 2009, it is believed that consignments of weapons by arrangement with China amounting to 850 AK-47 rifles, 4,000 small weapons and several hundred grenades, were supplied to the Maoists through Burma and Bangladesh by an elaborate network run in the Northeast by the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah).
The arrest on April 8 by the National Investigating Agency of Arnold Singh alias Bekon, a hard core member of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army points to linkages between the Maoists and the PLA.
As per official sources, Arnold had led a four member team of the PLA to Jharkhand where they imparted training to several batches of Maoist rebels. This also indicates attempts at outreach by Northeast terrorist groups well away from their respective states. The PLA of Manipur has major links with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence in Bangladesh and also has bases in a number of Northeastern states too.
On May 9, Assam police claimed to have killed four unidentified Maoists activists in an encounter at Deopani Borgora Nepali Gaon near Buraburhi Than under Chapakhowa police station of Sadiya in Tinsukia district. Police recovered two AK-47 rifles, one AK-56 rifle, 3 live grenades, 53 rounds of live ammunition, a detonator and several extortion demand notes from them.
While this operation by Assam police was successful, it exposes only a tip of the iceberg. The fact that there are ethnic Assamese being identified as Maoists means that the process of recruiting Assamese into their organisation has progressed.
Chief Minister Gogoi is reported to have directed top state officials to immediately prepare an action plan for setting up a task force to contain increasing Maoist activities. This would be formed under an additional director general of police to contain Maoist activities and counterfeit currency racket in the state.
"Maoist activities" in Assam are likely to receive the support of the so-called anti-talks faction of the ULFA and if not nipped in the bud will spread to other states of the Northeast with support from other insurgent groups.
Image: Home Minister P Chidambaram
Photographs: Courtesy: PIB
Malaysia did well too. America was also one under the British.
It is not because of colonialism, it is because of our leaders who mismanage the country's resources. And they won't go down without a fight
UKBengali's point is correct, colonialism is the main reason for the destruction of our sovereign leadership that developed between 1200-1757, but was destroyed under British-Brahman rule. Caste Hindu took up the 2nd rung and exacted revenge on Muslim Bengali leadership during 1757-1947, marginalizing them. This kind of situation did not exist in Malaysia or USA.
May be I should create a thread called GDP comparison between Burma and south asian countries?
