Insurgent & Secessionist movements in India

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Maoist violence unacceptably high in Odisha: Chidambaram

Noting that Maoist violence was high in Odisha despite deployment of about 10,000 central armed forces, Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday asked the state to “learn” from other states and the Centre to tackle the menace.

“I have learnt their (state) problems. Now Odisha should learn a little more from other states and the Centre ... the state administration and the police should gain mastery over the situation,” Mr. Chidamabaram told reporters here after a meeting with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

“The number of casualty of civilian and security forces stand at 48 by the end of October. By end of the year, it may go a little beyond 50. This is unacceptably high level of casualty,” he said.

Pointing out that about 60 police station areas were affected by Left-wing extremists, Mr. Chidambaram said, “Four years ago, we had only four battalions of central armed police in the state. Today, their number is 13 battalions besides one battalion of Cobra force.

“Effectively, we inducted about 10,000 more central armed constables and officers in the state. I have impressed upon the state administration to show results,” he said.

Maintaining that the level of violence was still high and unacceptable, Mr. Chidambaram hoped that the “edge of the Naxalites will be blunted.”

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, however, claimed that there was a decline in Maoist related casualty in the state in comparison to the previous years.

“We have made much progress on the Maoist front,” Mr. Patnaik said.

The Hindu : News / National : Maoist violence unacceptably high in Odisha: Chidambaram

 

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4 bombs seized in Kerala:

Four powerful country-made bombs were seized from the banks of a river at Vallithode near Iritty here on Wednesday.

The police said that the bombs made of steel containers were found in a shopping bag kept on a spot on the bank of the Vallithod river here in the morning.

The police said that the bag was first noticed by local people in the morning. Police personnel rushed to the spot on being informed of the bag.

The captured bombs were later defused by Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad personnel, the police said.

The Hindu : Cities / Kochi : Four bombs seized at Vallithode

 

[Andross]

holy **** when did this happen

 

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holy **** when did this happen

1 hour ago.

 

[Andross]

1 hour ago.

Thanks for the update Kochi is a nice tourist place i was even thinking of going there myself

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

seems to me that majority of Maoists are hindus from ''backward class'' , ''Schedule caste'' and ''schedule tribes'' (as the indians call them).

but in case of Orissa ,with the rise of hindu fundamentalists, Christians have joined the Maoists . Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati of VHP was gunned down by Christian Maoists as majority of cadre members and supporters in Orissa belonged to Christian community.

it's not just insurgency, it's a regional civil war going on

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Maoists Demolish School Building

Gaya (Bihar), Nov 9 (PTI) Armed Maoists demolished a high school building at Dhangain village in Bihar's Gaya district, officials said today.
Over 50 ultras surrounded the school building and demolished it with ****-dozer last night, City Superintendent of Police Satyavir Singh said.

The Maoist guerrillas demolished the building to protest against the combing operations launched by security men in the area against them, he said.

Raids were on in the area to apprehend the ultras.

Maoists demolish school building - indiareport.com

 

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Acute poverty fuels Indian Maoist movement

Shamsuddin Ahmed

Outlawed Maoists in India fighting for the rights of the 80 percent of the country’s population ‘living in horrible poverty’ are engaged in fighting with the government forces, especially in areas dominated by them in 20 out of 28 states. At least 6 security personnel were killed on the spot in a deadly ambush in the Bastar region of the central state of Chhattisgarh on October 21. Five others critically wounded and airlifted to the hospital were struggling for life. A convoy of 16 security men while returning from inspection of a rest house bombed by the rebels on the previous day where troops camped faced the Maoists rebels and suffered casualties.
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Shamsuddin Ahmed
Outlawed Maoists in India fighting for the rights of the 80 percent of the country’s population ‘living in horrible poverty’ are engaged in fighting with the government forces, especially in areas dominated by them in 20 out of 28 states. At least 6 security personnel were killed on the spot in a deadly ambush in the Bastar region of the central state of Chhattisgarh on October 21. Five others critically wounded and airlifted to the hospital were struggling for life. A convoy of 16 security men while returning from inspection of a rest house bombed by the rebels on the previous day where troops camped faced the Maoists rebels and suffered casualties.
In West Bengal, the Maoists gave a damn to chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s 7-day ultimatum to lay arms with threat of resumption of Operation Green Hunt suspended since she assumed power five month ago. Maoist state secretary Akash in a statement from his hideout said they were not at all worried at the threat. He accused her of breaking pre-election promises of withdrawing joint forces and release of all Maoists cadres and leaders thrown into the jail. Now her party Trinomul Congress has formed Bhairab Bahini, armed it and let loose against the poor villagers. Doubting of Mamata’s sincerity, Akash demanded a written commitment from her on her renewed proposal for peace talks, which the Maoist had earlier rejected because of pre-conditions.
A report on Monday said Mamata has softened her stand in the face of rigid attitude of the Maoists. Her government is taking all possible moves to get in touch with the Maoists in a bid to bring them across the table. In her latest move she has deployed central junior minister Mukul Roy who is set to meet on Thursday with leaders of Maoist front organizations Peoples Committee Against Police Atrocities and Nari Ijjat Bachao Committee. Roy wants to reach the Maoist leaders through them.
On the east, National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), a secessionist group of Assam, celebrated its 25th anniversary on Oct 2-3. Its military parade vowed to clinch independence from India through peace talks or war. The outfit has split from its founding leader Ranjan Daimary caught from hideout in Bangladesh and jailed, his group agreed for peace talks six years ago, but there is no sign of peace in the horizon. Frustrated and wary, the insurgents are eager to resume fighting. Intelligence report said finding uncertainty of peace talks with the government, Rajen Daimary maintained his bases in Khagrachhari of Bangladesh and Taka in Myanmar. Security forces and political leaders are convinced that the on-going peace talks with Arabinda Rajkhowa faction of ULFA will be meaningless without the participation of its army chief Paresh Baruah and general secretary Anup Chetia who enjoy support of the outfit. Rejecting peace talks Baruah was busy uniting all the insurgence groups of northeast India in collaboration with the Maoist under the aegis of their Chinese friends. Chetia now in protective custody in Bangladesh refused to join the peace talks without independence on the agenda.

Poverty is the cause
Most of the Indian government leaders and security analysts agree that the root cause of the rise of secessionist groups and rapid growth of Maoist movement is poverty, utter neglect and deprivation of adivasis living in forest areas, tribals and dalits (untouchables). Justice Katju, chairman of Press Council of India was quoted by the Hindu on Oct 30 as saying that 80 percent people of the country are living in horrible poverty. The Global Hunger Index ranked India at 67 among the 85 poor countries of the world. It said India is the home to a quarter of the world’s hungry.
It may sound incredible that more than a quarter million debt ridden farmers committed suicide in India in 16 years (1995-2010). The latest official figure of suicide stood at 15,965 in 2010 bringing the total since 1995 to 2,56,913, “the worst-ever recorded in the human history”.
Maharashtra posts a dismal picture with over 50,000 farmers killing themselves in the country’s richest State in that period. It also remains the worst state for such deaths for a decade now. Close to two-thirds of all farm suicides have occurred in five States of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
The data show clearly that the last eight years were much worse than the preceding eight. As many as 1,35,756 farmers killed themselves in the 2003-10 period. For 1995-2002, the total was 1,21,157. On average, this means the number of farmers committing suicide each year between 2003 and 2010 is 1,825 higher than the numbers that took their lives in the earlier period. Which is alarming since the total number of farmers is declining significantly. Compared to the 1991 Census, the 2001 Census saw a drop of over seven million in the population of cultivators (main workers).
Another report said 20 villages surveyed in the central state of Jharkhand, 13 starvation deaths were reported in 2009. Around 1,000 families suffered chronic hunger syndrome.
Poverty stricken Indian fishermen continue to wander over to Sri Lankan and Pakistan waters risking arrest and imprisonment. Fishermen say that catches within the Indian waters are few an)d far between. That is why they cross over to Sri Lankan and Pakistan waters where fishes are abundant. Indian Coast Guard said their job is to keep away intruders from their waters. But they are busy spending all the time and energy in keeping the Indian fishermen inside its territory. “We will cross the maritime boundary as we do not find fish here. You cannot stop us,” a leader of the fishermen’s association told a meeting convened by the Coast Guard two weeks ago in a bid to desist them from crossing the borderline creating diplomatic problem and straining the relationship with the neighbours.
Months ago, India had proposed to Sri Lanka for an agreement providing cross border fishing by fishermen of both the countries. Sri Lank rejected the proposal. Its fishermen alleged that Indians plunder their fishing grounds and loot fish worth millions of dollars every month. Fish is one of the main sources of livelihood of vast number of people of Sri Lanka.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

seems counter-intuitive....

if you represent the poor, then why attack businessmen who want to bring investment to those troubled areas?


strange logic......this just re-affirms my long-held belief that marxism is degenerate ideology.



GOD BLESS CAPITALISM

 

[53fd]

seems counter-intuitive....

if you represent the poor, then why attack businessmen who want to bring investment to those troubled areas?


strange logic......this just re-affirms my long-held belief that marxism is degenerate ideology.



GOD BLESS CAPITALISM

Because they believe the center is exploiting their resources for their own corrupt selves. The people in India's eastern states of Orissa (bauxite), Chhattisgarh (coal, iron ore, limestone), Jharkhand (iron ore, marble, copper, diamond) feel that development will never reach them. We all know that India is riddled with corruption, & the common man hardly benefits from anything in India.

 

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Maoists bulldoze 2 school buildings in Gaya, Bihar:

GAYA: An unspecified number of heavily armed Maoists bulldozed two school buildings in the Naxalite-affected Barachatti police station area of Gaya district on the Bihar-Jharkhand border late Tuesday night. The school buildings were virtually razed to the ground.

Reports reaching here said the Maoists used JCB machines of a construction company engaged in the construction work in the area to bulldoze the school buildings, thereby, depriving nearly 800 middle school children the benefit of education at Dhangain and Haiya Sari villages.

Interestingly, Union home secretary R K Singh recently reviewed the ongoing anti-Maoist operations in areas under the Barachatti police station area. The Tuesday night operation is being seen as the rebels' response to the high-level meeting held by officials on anti-Maoist operations.

Although the Maoists reportedly have not left behind any written notes or posters, sources say the school buildings could have destroyed to ensure that security forces did not these as camps during their anti-Maoist operations.

Gaya SSP Vinay Kumar said this the first-time that the Maoists used machines to raze down school buildings in the area. Asked to identify the owners of the machine used in the demolition operation by the Maoists, the SSP said any revelation at this point of time may jeopardize the investigation. The SSP vehemently denied the Maoist charge that the school buildings were used to provide shelter to security ssforces engaged in combing operations against them.

Reds bulldoze two school buildings in Gaya - The Times of India

 

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Maoist leader released from jail:

CPI (Maoist) leader Sriramulu Srinivas was released from Charlapalli Jail where he was lodged on the charges of killing a former Home Minister, this evening. Sriramulu was arrested when he was the Maoist Central Committee member and his release was on the orders of the Ranga Reddy District Court recently which stated that he was not involved in the killing. The police has filed several cases against him in the state and also in Orissa under various offences. During the Malkangiri Collector s kidnap, the Maoists in their conditions putforth to the Orissa Government, had demanded the release of Sriramulu. UNI CS GM SK VK2129

http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20111110/1869616.html

 

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3 landmines detected in West Bengal:

Jhargram: Joint forces in West Bengal on Thursday detected three landmines, suspected to have been planted by Maoists, at Labhadhara area in Paschim Midnapore district, police said.

The Joint forces detected the three landmines connected with wires while patrolling in Ladhadhara, they said, adding a bomb squad was called and the explosives have been defused.

A large number of Maoist posters were also found in the area, they said.

The discovery of landmines came ahead of Trinamool Congress MP Subhendu Adhikary's scheduled anti-Maoist padayatra in Jhargram on November 12, with Labhadhara lying enroute.

Security in the area has been tightened in view of the proposed padayatra and patrolling by the joint forces has also been intensified, officials said.

http://zeenews.**********/news/west-bengal/joint-forces-detect-landmines-in-west-bengal_741079.html

 

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11 Trinamool leaders on Maoist hit list: IB

KOLKATA: In a recent report, the Intelligence Branch (IB) has reported that 11 political leaders - including ministers, an MP and MLAs - are on the Maoist hit list. The state government has now decided to enhance the security of all those who figure in the list. The leaders are also being given a list of "dos and don'ts".

The ministers who face a life threat are Union minister of state for shipping Mukul Roy, Trinamool Congress M P Subhendu Adhikary, Paschimanchal Unnayan affairs minister Sukumar Hansda, Trinamool MLAs from Jangalmahal Mrigen Maity, Dulal Murmu and Srikanta Mahati and Churamoni Mahato, Kharagpur Trinamool leader Debashish Chowdhury, Jana Jagaran Mancha's leaders Monoranjan Mahato, Nisith Mahato, Aguiboni gram panchayat leader Monoranjan Mahato, who is said to be an aide of Nisith and Durgesh Malladev, a member of the Jhargram royal family.

According to the IB report, the Maoists have prepared the hitlist in a meeting in the forests of Jharkhand.

The leaders will now be given four armed security personnel, instead of the two they are currently moving with. The IB report coincided with another act of intimidation by the Maoists in Jangalmahal. Three IEDs were found on the road crossing the Kalaboni forests in the outskirts of Jhargram. Police also found a wrist watch lying around. Subhendu Adhikary's rally is supposed to pass through this route on Saturday and police said the IEDs had been planted to terrorize the rallyists.

Even on Thursday, Maoists posters were found in Midnapore Town. The posters, signed by a new outfit called Jangalmahal Shanti O Unnayan Committee that is believed to be backed by the Maoists, have alleged that Nrigen Maity is corrupt. The posters also said that agricultural development was the need of the hour at Jangalmahal and not building roads, which would only increase the access of joint forces.

An IB official told TOI on Thursday, "Our list is quite comprehensive. It has some solid evidence like the recent posters put up by the Maoists in the Jangalmahal area. The Maoists have named all these leaders, ministers, M Ps and MLAs in their hitlist and have issued warning against them. They have asked them all to resign from their current posts or else face the music."

Home department officials at Writers' confirmed that the government is taking these threats very seriously now since the IB has specifically said that all these leaders would be attacked as soon as the efforts to bring the Maoists to the talks table fail.

Based on the IB report, police have prepared a guideline and restricted the movement of all these leaders. They have been told not to venture out after dark, not to leave their homes on receiving a telephone call at night. They must also inform the police every time they step out of their houses.

11 Trinamool leaders on Maoist hit list: IB - The Times of India

 

[KS]

seems to me that majority of Maoists are hindus from ''backward class'' , ''Schedule caste'' and ''schedule tribes'' (as the indians call them).

but in case of Orissa ,with the rise of hindu fundamentalists, Christians have joined the Maoists . Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati of VHP was gunned down by Christian Maoists as majority of cadre members and supporters in Orissa belonged to Christian community.

it's not just insurgency, it's a regional civil war going on

OMG..how do guys even manage to come up with such weird theories....oh well, nvm..