Word Naxal comes from a Naxalbari a place in north West BengalAny idea what is an Naxallite before one condemn the guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxalbari
Naxalbari became famous for being the site of a left-wing poor peasants(lower caste) uprising in 1967, which began with the "land to tiller" slogan, an uprising continuing to this day
The Naxalbari uprising was triggered on 25 May 1967 at Bengai Jote village in Naxalbari when the police opened fire on a group of villagers who were demanding their right to the crops at a particular piece of land. The firing killed 9 adults and 2 unknown children.
Naxal is a starving lower caste tribal who wants his ancestral lands returned from upper caste landlords, or wants to stop a upper caste owned mining company like Vedanta from taking over and evicting him without fair compensation.
In most cases upper caste with hold in bureaucracy , mess with government land records and get tribal lands in their name, then they arrive at tribal land waving a paper. Tribal are illiterate simple people living in forests with no access to lawyers or advice. Tribals get evicted from land and start starving to death, Some of the starving tribals try to fight to get back their land. All Upper caste and their media start screaming Naxalite Naxalite, then paramilitary is send to protect national interest(upper caste interest).
This old man Stan swamy throughout his life helped the tribals with lawyers and other advice, educating them to lead a better life and protect their interests. So, the vengeful upper castes chose to make an example out of him by making sure he dies a miserable death in captivity. He is detained under NSA.
Upper caste government BJP and Congress have enacted a vague law called NSA, national security act, using which they can detain anyone without access to a lawyer.
One-third of NSA cases in Uttar Pradesh were against Muslims accused of cow slaughter: Report
https://scroll.in/latest/991506/one...t-individuals-accused-of-cow-slaughter-report