Insurgent & Secessionist movements in India

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2 Chinese made bombs recovered in Manipur:

IMPHAL, November 8: Police today safely disposed two Chinese made hand grenades retrieved from the residence of two engineers suspected to be left by armed miscreants.

In the first incident armed miscreants placed a Chinese made hand grenade around 9:45 pm yesterday at the Uripok Sinam Leikai residence of Akoijam Sarat, 55, s/o Jugon, assistant engineer of PHED.

In protest against the bomb threat a sit in demonstration jointly organized by the Uripok Bachaspati Leikai and Sinam Leikai.

Family members of the AE disclosed they had no idea why the bomb was left as there was no monetary demand or personal enmity with anyone.

Another Chinese made hand grenade was left at the residence of a PDA EE Loitongbam Kesho at Kwakeithel Konjeng Leikai near Pukhri Achouba.

Sources said the bomb was found by family members of the EE this morning around 7 am.

This is the second time that a grenade threat has been placed at his residence by individuals identifying themselves as faction of the KCP.

A sit in protest was also staged at the area by the locals decrying the bomb threat.

The bombs were later safely disposed off by the police at the bomb disposal site at Lamphel, Imphal west.

http://www.manipur.org/news/2011/11/08/bombs-dispose-off/

 

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Suspected militants lob hand grenade at a residence in Manipur:

IMPHAL, Nov 11: Some unidentified persons suspected to be militants lobbed a hand grenade at the residence of one Uppa-Pradhan Nongmaithem Memi,38,w/o Muhindro of Tera Loukrakpam Leikai at around 3 pm today.

Hand grenade lobbed | Kanglaonline

 

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NLFT attacks Security Forces in Tripura:

Agartala, Nov 10, 2011 : A fierce exchange of fire took place between the TSR jawans and suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura ultras at remote Kanchanpur-Longtarai Valley border in North Tripura district on Thursday.

At around 8.30 am, a group of militants began firing indiscriminately at the Mohan BOP. The jawans retaliated forcing the militants to flee from the spot, Police said.

However, no casualties have been reported in the firing so far. There is no report of any recovery of arms, Police added. TSR 7th battalion jawans launched a massive manhunt against the militants but were unsuccessful.

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Explosives recovered in J&K:

JAMMU, Nov 11: Army and police today recovered a large quantity of explosive material including a 40 kg weight IED, concealed in a box, from upper reaches of Jhawa in Keshwan area of Kishtwar district.

A Bomb Disposal Squad had been rushed to Keshwan to examine the IED and defuse it, official sources said, adding recovery of 40 kg IED was quite significant. It's recovery has thwarted the designs of militants, they said.

A joint team of police and 11 Rashtriya Rifles carried out a search operation in upper reaches of Jhawa in Keshwan area after developing inputs that some explosive material had been dumped in a hideout of the militants.

Army and police conducted searches in the heights for about two days and recovered the explosive material.

The hideout was destroyed, sources said.

Recoveries made from inside the hideout included three grenades of Under Barrel Grenade Launcher (UBGL), three Chinese grenades and a box filled with explosive material, wires making it an Improvised Explosive Device.

The box was not opened immediately by security and police personnel anticipating that it might have been fitted with a timer to explode at the time of opening.

Sources said the box filled with explosives is being brought to Keshwan, where a Bomb Disposal Squad has been rushed to examine and defuse the explosive material.

Sources said if the box turned out to be an IED, it would be a rare one as 40 kg weight IEDs are found occasionally.

They added that the hideout belonged to slain militant of LeT outfit Mohammad Sultan alias Noman, who was gunned down by police and security forces in June this year.

Police party in the operation was supervised by Additional SP Kishtwar Kulbir Singh.

Police and security forces continued searches in the area apprehending that Noman might have dumped more explosive material in the surrounding areas.

Noman was a dreaded militant of the LeT outfit and operated in upper reaches of Kishtwar before being eliminated in an encounter with the security personnel.

Meanwhile, the Border Security Force (BSF) today apprehended a Bangladeshi national Mian Din when he was trying to exfiltrate to Pakistan from RS Pura sector.

He had reached close to the International Border when alert BSF personnel nabbed him and handed him over to police.

No incriminating material was recovered from the Bangladeshi national, sources said.

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WELL I HAVE READ FEW POSTS IN THIS THREAD AND WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME PONTS.

THESE MOISTS ARE NOT FIGHTING FOR THE POOR OR UPLIFTMENT OF THE SOCIETY BUT INFACT THEY ARE MAKING THIS AS OPPOURTUNITY TO EARN MONEY. CAN U BELIEVE LAST YEARS TURNOVER OF MAOSIT IN ONLY ORRISSA AND CHATTISHGARH WAS MORE THAN 10000 CR. AGAIN POLITICS IS INVOLVED HERE MANY POLITICIAN FROM THESE WHO ARE BACKED BY MAOIST ARE MAKEING MONEY JOINTLY.
U KNOW WHY PAKISTAN MILLITARY AND NATO FORCES JOINTLY ARE NOT ABLE TO CURB THE AFGHAN PROBLEM IT IS NOT LIKE PAKISTAN FORCES ARE NOT ABLE TO DO SO. PRACTICALLY THERE ARE SAME PROBLEMS FIRST GEOGRAPHICAL CONDITION SECOND TO IDENTIFY WHO EXCATLY HAS TO BE TARGETED AND THIRDLY POLITICAL WILL.

SAME CONDITION ARE WITH THIS NAXALITE PROBLEM.

 

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Landmine found in West Bengal:

Jhargram (WB), Nov 10 (PTI) A powerful landmine was today found at Ladabhara in West Midnapore district where Trinamool Congress MP Subhendu Adhikary will lead an anti-Maoist padayatra tomorrow.

The landmine was found after the joint forces detected wires on the road leading to it, the police said. The bomb squad were called and the landmine defused. Three landmines were also found at the same spot yesterday as also Maoist posters.

Security on the 6 km Agulmoni-Birhari area close to Ladabhara, has been strengthened in view of the padayatra. PTI

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Somali pirate attack foiled in Gulf of Aden:

MUMBAI: An Indian warship on Thursday intercepted three boats with 26 Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden and foiled an attack on merchant vessels.

INS Sukanya detected five suspicious boats, speedily approaching the merchant vessels that the warship was escorting through the Internationally Recognized Transit Corridor.

"The warship immediately altered towards the suspicious vessels and challenged them. While two of them managed to escape, INS Sukanya successfully intercepted the remaining three and carried out boarding-and-search action," said Captain Manohar Nambiar, chief PRO (Defence).

The Navy confiscated 14 AK-47 rifles, 31 magazines and 923 rounds from the boat along with grapnels, ladders and rope-handling gloves, Nambiar said. This is the fifth successful anti-piracy operation conducted by INS Sukanya, during its patrol mission in the Gulf of Aden.

Somali pirate attack foiled in Gulf of Aden - The Times of India

 

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Govt comes up with new strategy to fight Maoists:

The center-state combined force has launched the anti-Maoist operation in a full scale to flush out the Maoists from Jangalmahal but this time with an altogether new strategy. Instead of creating too much of hullabaloo, the security personnel are silently carrying out their job mainly by picking up key Maoist leaders one after another, recovering arms and ammunition and alienating the extremists from the common villagers. Mamata Banerjee’s government has made it clear to the force that the common and innocent people of Jangalmahal must not be harassed during the operation and the think tank of the joint force has designed the blueprint following this strict government instruction.

In order to attain the goal, Cordon and Area Searching Operation (CASO), which was an indispensable part of the anti-Maoist operation earlier, has been opted out this time. At the time of CASO, an entire village or two-three villages had be cordoned of and all villagers had to come out from their residences with their identity proofs. If security personnel suspected some of the villagers, they were detained and brought to the nearest police station or police camp.

Earlier, especially during the Left Front regime, in several occasions, the joint force was accused for doing highhandedness and harassing and assaulting innocent people at the time of carrying out CASO.

“There is always a risk of police excess in CASO. We cannot avoid it. It is then better to avoid the CASO to evade the risk of harassing innocents,” said a senior official of the state police.

“We have been asked to take extra precautions during the operation so that the innocents are not harassed by any means. Therefore, we are carrying out operations on the basis of specific and definite information. We are basically giving priority on pinpointed intelligence inputs,” Praveen Tripathi, superintendent of police in West Midnapore told Hindustan Times.

The arrest of Suman Maity alias Saota, a Maoist area commander, and the recovery of five sophisticated firearms looted from Silda EFR camp from Salboni area on Thursday are the classic examples of the success in this new style of operation.

Sources told the police that Saota was hiding at Shyamapada Mahato’s house in Pairachuli village. When the sleuths crosschecked the information and found it true, the joint force carried out the operation and started cordoning the area.

“But instead of cordoning the entire Pairachuli village, we had just barricaded Mahato’s house and adjacent three houses. These were all to avoid the risk of harassing innocents,” Tripathi told HT.

The arrest of Saota will scale down the influence of the Maoists in a vast area that falls under Salboni and Lalgarh police stations. The security force are putting stress on arresting this type of key and influential leaders so that the extremists and their supporters will find no other option but to leave this path due to lack of leadership.

“At present, to our assessment, the common people of Jangalmahal by and large are against the Maoists. Basically, they do not want to see again the days of bandh, road blockade, strike, violence, abductions and murders. We should take this advantage. But harassment of innocents during the operation can make them hostile to the joint force and the government. Therefore we have to carry out the operation in such a way so that the innocents must not be harassed at any cost. For this, definite intelligence inputs are necessary. And specific intelligence inputs have started coming. Otherwise we could not have got key men like Saota and Jayanta Mahato in recent times,” said an official of the state home department.

Similarly, the force is asked to open the fire if only the Maoists first attack them and if the Maoists try to flee. Again, the firing should be aimed at the lower portion of the target.

Govt comes up with new strategy to fight Maoists - Hindustan Times

 

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This Maoist problem seems very serious. Maoists seem to getting stronger in a lot of states, their influence is growing. Not to mention every year thousands are killed due to this insurgency.

 

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Naxal watch: PC to visit Maha, Chhattisgarh soon:

Continuing the home ministry's close monitoring of the naxal situation, home minister P Chidambaram will visit Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh next week for an on-the-spot review and press for better coordination among security forces. Chidambaram, who had recently visited Orissa and Jharkhand as a part of this exercise, is also expected to stress on improvements in implementation of development schemes, particularly in districts covered by the government's integrated action plan.

An informal review of the naxal situation by the security establishment recently had thrown up some surprises. It indicated West Bengal and Bihar, which were believed to be falling behind, were doing better than expected. "In both these states, the political leadership is travelling in the interiors… things like these address the political vacuum in naxal-affected areas," a government official said, referring to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's seva yatra and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's rally in Jungalmahal.

Home secretary RK Singh had visited Bihar last week.

This year, naxal violence has been reported in areas under 270 police stations in 64 districts in eight states. There have been around 850 incidents (1,025 last year), resulting in around 300 deaths (473 last year).

Naxal watch: PC to visit Maha, Chhattisgarh soon - Hindustan Times

 

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Bilal Bhai form mein aa rahe hain

But on a serious note, its good to know the reality rather than hiding from it. Maoists have become a serious threat, and should be
resolved peacefully without using the armed forces.

 

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Rise of Maoists a “question of justice”, says P. Toppo:

Cardinal Telesphore P. Toppo Saturday said the rise of Maoists activities in India’s dominated tribal areas is a “question of justice”. “Had there been justice for the tribals Maoists activities would have not flourished. He (Maoists) had flourished because their rights have been long suppressed,” Toppo, attending the Northeast Catholic Mission Congress 2011 here in Meghalaya, told journalists.

“In a situation where only the fittest can survive, where will the tribals and other marginalised groups stand? Tribals and the less privileged should be given benefits so that they can be at par with others,” the Cardinal stated.

Toppo, the first Oraon Adivasi Indian tribal to Cardinal elected to the College of Cardinals that elects the Pope strongly advocated that the financial resources of India should be utilized properly and develop human resources. “I strongly feel that resources should utlised for the marginalized people and villages should be developed,” he said. “Tribals have been victims of injustice for a long time. They have been exploited far too long by others,” he said, exhorting the government to create employment avenues for the tribals.

“We (Church) had long been playing our role in social sector in the field of education and health but the Church is a miniature group, and does not have the requisite resources to create employment avenues for the youth and for this (employment generation), the government should take the responsibility,” Toppo said.

Asked whether the government has approached the Church to mitigate Maoists violence, Toppo, said, “To my knowledge, nothing of that sort has happened till date.”
Asked on Church’s role to fight corruption, Toppo, who as Cardinal is eligible to be a candidate for the papacy, said People are more conscious now about corruption although there is no simple solution to the problem.

“The church can play an important role as it has invested manpower and resources in education. Through educational institutions, the church can enlighten the people about the issue,” he said.

Toppo, the former president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India said that the general body meeting of the CBCI next February will discuss such crucial issues.

The meeting, with the theme - The Church’s Role for a Better India –will be held from February 1-8 in Bangalore. “We will be discussing such vital issues confronting the country and we will try to come out with suggestions,” Toppo said.

Rise of Maoists a

 

[patna_ke_presley]

This Maoist problem seems very serious. Maoists seem to getting stronger in a lot of states, their influence is growing. Not to mention every year thousands are killed due to this insurgency.

Maoist problem is not increasing but decreasing and it has now narrowed inside isolated districts of 5 states of Eastern India.

 

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Manipur minister escapes assassination bid:

Manipur Youth Affairs and Sports minister DD Thaisii escaped an assassination bid when his car came under heavy barrage of bullets in an ambush by unknown assailants between Maram and Khoide, Senapati district late Saturday, around 6 p.m.

Manipur Police suspect that the ambush could be the handiwork of the NSCN (I-M) cadres. The area where the ambush took place is one of the strongholds of NSCN (IM), police said.

However, no militant group claimed responsibility for the attack. Reports quoting police said the minister was traveling in his bullet-proof car when militants hiding in the area located four kilometer away from Maram opened fire after exploding a bomb first. An escort personnel sustained injury in the attack. However, the minister escaped unhurt.

Subedar Sani of 4th IRB sustained splinters injury and was evacuated to Imphal for medical treatment.
DD Thaisii was proceeding to Purul village of Senapati where he was scheduled to attend a public function on Sunday.

DD Thaisii is the only Naga minister from 47- Karong (ST) A/C in the ruling Congress led SPF government, as member of the 9th Manipur Legislative Assembly amidst the steep opposition from various Naga based civil organizations extending solidarity with the demand for integration of the Naga areas with Nagaland.

Earlier, Thaisii’s residence at Parul in Senapati district was also set ablaze by unknown miscreants in the wake of strong agitations by UNC and its frontal organizations.

Thaisii was seen as one of those who were opposed to the demand for nullification of the elections to the Autonomous District Council in hill districts of Manipur.

Manipur minister escapes assassination bid : Nagaland Post : State News

 

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Miscreants lob bomb at labourers tent; four injured

Four labourers were injured one seriously when unidentified miscreants suspected to be militant cadres lobbed a hand grenade at the labourer’s makeshift tent late this evening along the Dingku road opposite the under construction ISBT. The incident happened at around 7:40pm late this evening.

The injured labourers are identified as Maibam Nobi, 50, s/o (l) Tombi, Thangjam Raghu, 40, s/o (l) Hajura both of Salungpham Mayai Leikai, Thoubal, Khumanthem Jugol, 40, s/o Itochouba and Ningthoujam Manglem, 20, s/o Kalimu both from Heirok part III. While all four of them are presently undergoing treatment at RIMS, Raghu is stated to be seriously injured.

According to a labourer who escaped the attack unhurt told reporters that he along with another labour had gone to fetch water from a nearby area when the temporary shed of the labourers was attacked.

He further informed that they were engaged by a private contractor to construct a drainage system along the road and had arrived just today at the place. He also informed that the tent was erected this evening at around 3:00pm.

The labourer further said that there were altogether six of them. While the two of them were out to fetch water, the four injured had stayed back at the tent to arrange their dinner.

Furthermore a local informed that a jeep (either a Bolero or a Mahindra jeep) had passed just before the explosion and added that the miscreants could have been travelling in the jeep.

Police further informed that the bomb could have been a Chinese made hand grenade and could have exploded outside the bamboo mat wall of the makeshift tent.

Meanwhile, the police have registered a case regarding the attack. No organization or individuals have claimed responsibility of the attack till the filing of this report.

Miscreants lob bomb at labourers tent; four injured | Kanglaonline