Insurgent & Secessionist movements in India

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2 civilians injured in grenade blast in Assam

Guwahati, May 22: Two woodcutters were critically injured when miscreants hurled a grenade inside Lumding Reserve Forest in Nagaon district on Tuesday, official sources said. The woodcutters, who were felling trees inside the forest, were attacked by the miscreants who escaped after hurling the grenade at them. The two were identified and admitted to Nagaon civil hospital, the sources added.(PTI)

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Constable killed in pressure bomb blast in tribal Bastar, Chhattisgarh

BHOPAL: A constable was killed on the spot and his colleague sustained serious injuries on Tuesday as a "pressure bomb", planted by the Maoists, went off near helipad in Bijapur district headquarters in the naxalite affected Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.

Police said Dhan Singh Thakur, a constable of the district force (DF), was killed on the spot while another constable Hemla Dhasru sustained serious injuries in the blast that took place just near the helipad. It appears that the constable had stepped on a pressure bomb, triggering the blast.

During the last fortnight, Maoists in Bastar had stepped up violence, targeting security personnel, people whom they suspect as police informers and those who had earlier participated in "Salwa Judum" - the anti-naxalite movement.

The Naxalites had ambushed a group of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, killing seven of them, attacked a security personnel posted at a minister's house in Kondagaon and also killed a civilian by slitting his throat near Dornapal. Besides, there were stray incidents of rebels' attacks at several places in tribal Bastar during the last 15 days.

These incidents are taking place at a time when the state government appointed committee, headed by a former Madhya Pradesh chief secretary Nirmala Buch, is reviewing the cases of undertrials languishing in jails. Buch committee, comprising state chief secretary Sunil Kumar and Director General of police Anil M Navaney came into existence after the Chhattisgarh government reached an agreement with Maoist interlocutors for the safe release of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon, who was abducted by the rebels last month.

Constable killed in pressure bomb blast in tribal Bastar - The Times of India

 

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Maoists whisk away 2 youths from village in Andhra Pradesh

Suspected Maoists allegedly whisked away two youths from the interior village of Dongala Jaggaram in Chintur mandal on Monday midnight for questioning in connection with the whereabouts of one of their “targets”.

According to sources, a group of armed persons entered the village situated close to the volatile inter-State border with Chhattisgarh around midnight on Monday. They inquired about a youth, whom they suspected of acting as a ‘police informer'. When they failed to trace the youth whom they targeted, they took away two of his relatives into the deep forest, sources added.

According to information reaching here, the suspected rebels let them off after questioning late on Tuesday evening. Suspected Maoists gunned down a former naxalite suspecting him to be an informer at Bojjiguppa village in Bhadrachalam rural mandal on Sunday night.

The Hindu : NATIONAL / ANDHRA PRADESH : Maoists whisk away two youths from village

 

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Two killed in Allahabad blast
Allahabad, May 23 2012, (IANS):

Two children aged between 8-10 years were killed and over a dozen injured Wednesday when a crude bomb went off here in Uttar Pradesh.

Inspector General of Police Alok Sharma told IANS that three other children were in critical condition following the explosion in Allahabad, about 200 km from Lucknow.

Home department sources said the crude bomb was either hidden or dumped in a garbage dump in Kareilli area. It probably went off owing to high day temperatures.

A police official told IANS that they were exploring all angles.
Two killed in Allahabad blast

Sadly the death toll has gone up to six now.

RIP to the dead.

 

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One killed in bomb blast ahead of Sonia Gandhi's Assam visit

A day ahead of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's visit to Assam, one person was killed in a bomb blast by anti-talk faction of ULFA in Tinsukia district on Wednesday, police said. The bomb was planted in a roadside at Selabari area.

One killed in bomb blast ahead of Sonia Gandhi's Assam visit - NEWSPOLITAN

 

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Maoists set ablaze JCB machine in Maharashtra

A group of armed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres set ablaze a JCB machine and a tipper at Yermanar village in Aheri tehsil (revenue unit) of Gadchiroli District late in the night of May 26. These vehicles were deployed on construction work of Government ashram school.

 

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3 SOG jawans hurt in landmine blast in Orissa

Three personnel of the Special Operation Group (SOG) were injured in a landmine blast by Maoists at Kanaguda in Kalimela police station limits in Malkangiri district on Sunday. An exchange of fire also occurred at the spot between the security forces and Maoists after the landmine blast.

The landmine blast happened ahead of the visit of Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh to Malkangiri district on Monday. Mr. Ramesh will also visit Maoist-affected Sukma district in adjoining Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. Mr. Ramesh will visit some remote Maoist-affected areas of the district.

Mr. Ramesh will reach the district headquarters town of Malkangiri to review different developmental programmes and meet the newly-elected panchayat body members.

According to the police, the landmine blast occurred at around 4p.m. A team of SOG jawans were on their way for regular patrolling. They started from Kalimela. They became target of a landmine planted near Kanaguda.

Bandh call

After the blast, Maoists hiding nearby fired at the SOG jawans, who also retaliated. The injured jawans were being brought to Malkangiri district hospital. Inspector in charge of Malkangiri police station said as per information received, two of the SOG personnel received minor injuries.

Maoists of Andhra-Odisha Special Border Zonal Committee (AOSBZC) have given a bandh call in its area of operation in both the States on Wednesday. To show up their strength in Malkangiri district before the visit of Mr. Ramesh, Maoist supporters held a meeting at Gumphakonda in Kalimela police station limits. Tribal people armed with their traditional weapons attended the meeting.

The Hindu : NATIONAL / OTHER STATES : Three SOG jawans hurt in landmine blast

 

[truhind]

Well....update.....now maoists have setup ammunition factories in their areas, gr8 even old GGOD DAYS are over for these guys!!!

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Well....update.....now maoists have setup ammunition factories in their areas, gr8 even old GGOD DAYS are over for these guys!!!

Maoists have stocked over 6,000 rocket launchers - The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Maoists are believed to be churning out low cost rocket launchers from makeshift workshops, with parts sourced from industrial tool manufacturing units in Kolkata and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) reckons the ultras may have stockpiled 6,000 of these in the jungles of Chhattisgarh. The NIA believes the operation was being overseen by Sadanala Ramakrishna, who was recently arrested from Kolkata and was said to be slain Maoist leader Kishenji's successor.

The agency, which is investigating Ramakrishna's case, found that the chief of CPI (Maoist) Technical Research and Arms Management Unit may have already managed to send over 6,000 rocket launchers to Chhattisgarh.

The agency found evidence that in his seven-month clandestine stay in Kolkata, the trained engineer from Warangal spent close to Rs 2 crore manufacturing ultra-low cost rocket launchers whose designs and assembling techniques were formulated by him.

Pegged back by security forces across the country and having lost several senior functionaries to either encounters or arrests, sources said the CPI (Maoist) has been on the offensive and has sought to drastically improve its military capability.

It was with this focus that Ramkrishna, known as RK in Maoist circles, replaced Kishenji in the party hierarchy and was entrusted with spreading Maoist activity in eastern India.

Reds kept aside Rs 200 crore for arms: NIA

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is investigating Sadanala Ramakrishna's case, found that the chief of CPI (Maoist) Technical Research and Arms Management Unit may have already managed to send over 6,000 rocket launchers to Chhattisgarh. The agency found evidence that in his seven-month clandestine stay in Kolkata, the trained engineer from Warangal spent close to Rs 2 crore manufacturing ultra-low cost rocket launchers whose designs and assembling techniques were formulated by him.

Pegged back by security forces across the country and having lost several senior functionaries to either encounters or arrests, sources said the CPI(M) has been on the offensive and has sought to drastically improve its military capability.

It was with this focus that Ramkrishna, known as RK in Maoist circles, replaced Kishanji in the party hierarchy and was entrusted with spreading Maoist activity in eastern India. "There is information that CPI (Maoist) has earmarked about Rs 200 crore for weaponry and ammunition. We are trying to verify this," an officer privy to investigation details said.

 

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Naxals trying to unite N-E insurgent groups?

The latter part of May 2012 saw Assam gearing up security following the anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa)’s “welcome programme” for Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s visit to the state. Its call for a bandh and threats was a tactic to make its presence felt as the flow of funds to its coffers has been down as many people refused to heed to their extortion demands. While timely recovery of explosives may have foiled some earlier attempts to target oil pipelines and other installations, two developments require not only inter-state and intra-state security of north-eastern states to be tightened but also diplomatic pressure on Burma to be raised to evict Indian insurgent-turned terrorists groups hiding there. One is of the Naxal-Maoists spreading to the northeast, aided by China-supported Ulfa, and other terrorist groups of the region, and the other is reuniting of many of these groups.
Yet again, the Maoist moves in the northeast have been acknowledged by the Union home minister and the chief minister of Assam. Addressing the chief ministers’ conference on internal security on April 16, home minister P Chidambaram had said that Assam has 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.
On May 12, while on a tour of Arunachal Pradesh, Mr Chidambaram is reported to have said in Itanagar that there would be no compromise with Maoists trying to destabilise peace in the northeast. He said the Centre was alive to the situation created by such groups in the region and was taking concrete steps to curb them and said state governments of the region had been asked to deal with the ultras with “a firm hand.”
Stating that there was “minimal presence” of Maoists in the region, he expressed appreciation of the steps taken by Assam and Arunachal Pradesh governments to deal with them. “There is no reason to allow such elements (Maoists) to settle in the region and create disturbances,” he said and appealed to the people not to encourage the Maoists. Accompanied by Union minister of state for home Jitendra Singh, he held a high-level meeting to review the security situation in the state. While on the one hand he expressed satisfaction with the security system of the state, on the other he stressed that much more needs to be done. “Efforts will continue as per plan,” he was quoted. On April 8, the National Investigating Agency (NIA) scored a success in snapping a major link between the Maoist rebel groups and Manipur based militant group Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) by arresting a hardcore cadre, Arnold Singh alias Bekon, working at a call centre in Siliguri. According to official sources, Arnold, who originally is from Guwahati, joined the PLA in 2003 and following the signing of an agreement between the Maoist rebels and PLA, he led a four member team of the PLA to Jharkhand where they imparted training to several batches of Maoist rebels. One of the indicators of this incident is the outreach or spread of northeast terrorist groups away from their respective states. While PLA of Manipur has had major links with Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in Bangladesh, it also has bases in a number of northeastern states.
On May 9, the 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. The police recovered two AK-47 and one AK-56 rifles, 3 live grenades, 53 rounds of live ammunition, a detonator and several extortion demand notes from them.
While this operation by the Assam police was successful, it exposes only a tip of the iceberg. Because it is not only the advent of Maoists making inroads into Assam as the late leader Kishenji’s visit there proved, the fact that there are ethnic Assamese being identified as Maoists means that the process of recruiting Assamese into their organigation has progressed.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi is reported to have directed top state officials to immediately prepare an action plan for setting up a task force to contain the increasing Maoist activities in the state and announced that an Assam police task force/core group 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 will no doubt be supported by the so-called anti-talks United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and if not nipped in the bud, will spread to other states of the northeast with support from Ulfa’s other crony groups comprising Bodos, Nagas, and Meiteis. National Socialist Council of Nagaland/Nagalim-Isaac-Muivah (NSCN-IM) and PLA. Further, there has been a major development of yet another attempt at bringing together fourteen terrorist groups of the northeast together. So Mr Gogoi’s formula of raising yet another police or special force or reorganising the existing one will be easier said than done, because neutralising a combo of pan northeast groups and Naxals together, that too with Chinese support over and above substantial long-standing support of ISI, will require a complete makeover of state and central police, if the Army is to be kept out of the ambit. This will involve substantially increasing the numbers of the force, providing it good training at institutes like Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairengte, Mizoram, providing better weapons, communications and mobility and most important, dynamic leadership.
In February, this year, Rajeev Bhattacharyya, working for a northeast media publication, spent a few days in an Ulfa camp set up ideally in eastern Nagaland with advantages like it being contiguous to Nagaland and Manipur, proximity to Burma, only a few days walk from Upper Assam and well connected by rivers and jungle pathways, making the delivery of weapons and supplies easy. In that camp, he witnessed a huge consignment of European 9mm pistols and HK33 assault rifles being delivered. Though Heckler and Koch do not make the HK33 anymore, variants of the rifle were produced under licence in some south Asian countries. Once the consignment was unpacked, young cadres test-fired the guns before putting them into storage. Sources were cited that orders were being placed for the Chinese Type 81 rifles and the American M16, both in the price range of `2,00,000 to `3,00,000. Interestingly, “concessional rates” apply for orders that are placed in bulk. The other very exciting but ominously significant event he witnessed was a soccer match, in which Paresh Baruah’s blue team, comprising cadres from Ulfa, the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) played against the opposing team made up of Manipuri terrorist groups, which won, 4-2.

Naxals trying to unite N-E insurgent groups? | The Asian Age

 

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7 CRPF personnel injured in militant attack in Srinagar

SRINAGAR: Seven CRPF personnel were injured in an early morning terror strike at Rainawari in the heart of old Srinagar on Wednesday.

Three militants brandishing AK-47 rifles came on a bike and fired indiscriminately at CRPF jawans near Shiraz cinema, which houses the 82 battalion. No civilian was hurt in retaliatory fire.

This is the second attack in Srinagar in a month by a little-known militant outfit — Islamic Front. Earlier, a sub-inspector, Sukhpal Singh, was shot at Darish Kadal area of the old city.

Speaking to TOI, CRPF spokesman Sudhir Kumar said the patrol party was attacked by militants on a bike when they were settling down for morning duty. They had come from Central Jail Camp for deployment. The seven injured jawans have been rushed to hospital, where the condition of one of them is critical. He suffered bullet injuries in the chest. For the second time, the Islamic Front has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The daring strikes have come at a time when the valley is witnessing a surge in tourism. Militants wielding AK-47 rifles had carried out a similar attack in Lal Chowk in January 2010, killing a policeman.

The attacks may cause a setback to chief minister Omar Abdullah's efforts to remove security bunkers and thin out presence of security personnel in the valley. Over 43 pickets have been removed from Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir since last year.

Chief minister Omar Abdullah is currently holding a cabinet meeting at Tangdhar in north Kashmir. This is the first time a CM has shifted his cabinet near line of control.

Seven CRPF personnel injured in militant attack in Srinagar - The Times of India

 

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Civilian shot dead in Assam:

TAMARHAT, May 29: Sensation prevailed in Tamarhat area when some unidentified miscreants equipped with Sophisticated Weapons shot dead one persons in Dangaijhora village, 7 km east from here under Rupshi police out post under Kokrajhar district.

One Kanistha Rabha (37), son of late Motilal Rabha as well as a grade four employee of Rupshi CDPD office, was having his meal with his wife in his house at Dangaijhora village on Monday night. Meanwhile, at around 8.30 pm a group of unidentified miscreants wearing army dress knocked at his door and asked him to open the door. When Kanishtha Rabha came out to open the door, after that he was called out at around 20/25 metre distance. They assaulted him and smelling a rat he tried to ran towards home.

The miscreants then fired him from behind for which he fell on the ground, after that the miscreants again fired another round which resulted his death on the spot. The miscreants managed to escape from the scene.

Local police rushed to the spot and took stock of the situation and took the body to Rupshi out post. The body was sent to Kokrajhar on Tuesday for post-mortem report. No person was arrested till filing this report.

The Sentinel

 

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^ i don't think that was an attack by insurgents

 

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Some good news at last

Myanmar asks northeast insurgents to close camps and leave - Times Of India

Myanmar asks northeast insurgents to close camps and leave


NEW DELHI: Showing its commitment to deliver on what it has promised, Myanmar has ordered Manipur-based militant outfits to shut their camps and training facilities and leave its soil by June 10.

Government sources said the Myanmar army's order was issued on May 24 -- three days before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh embarked on his visit to Nay Pyi Taw -- and the move is considered a goodwill gesture from the neighbouring ountry.
Referring to intelligence reports, sources said there were 12-15 camps of Manipur-based insurgent groups like People's Liberation Army across the Indo-Myanmar border where more than 2,000 armed cadres were taking shelter.

The militants often come to Manipur to carry out subversive activities and leave the state to escape action by security agencies. The sources said if the Manipuri militant groups were forced to close down their camps by the Myanmar army, it would have a significant impact on the security situation in the northeastern state.

Besides, they said, other northeastern militant groups having bases in Myanmar may also have to face the heat there with improved bilateral relations between the two countries.

 

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Source: PM Manmohan Singh's twitter account