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The terror spreads
Oct 7th 2004
BESIDES the constant sniping about economic policy, India's Congress-led government also faces criticism for its handling of a worsening terrorist problem in the country's north-east. Between October 2nd and October 5th, more than 70 people were killed in a series of explosions and gun attacks on towns, village markets and a station.
These were blamed on two of the dozens of secessionist outfits in the seven states of the region, home to more than 200 ethnic groups. One, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), wants independence for the state of Assam. The other, the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, is fighting a war within a war for a homeland for the Bodo people within Assam.
India claimed a breakthrough in its war against these groups when, last December, the army in neighbouring Bhutan overran camps they used as refuges there. But that setback seems only to have hardened the terrorists' resolve.
Some of the worst of the recent violence was in not Assam but Nagaland. There the biggest secessionist group is observing a ceasefire in its own 50-year campaign for independence, and has offered a reward for information about the perpetrators of the latest attacks.
Yet another conflict simmers in neighbouring Manipur, part of which is claimed by the Nagas, but where many separatist groups have united to protest against alleged human-rights abuses by Indian forces. The charge against the Congress-led government from the Communist parties is that its failure to tackle the crisis in Manipur has encouraged extremist elements elsewhere.
They are right that the region's conflicts are too many, too complex and too overlapping to be settled by foreign military action alone. But, apparently bereft of political ideas, a panicked government is rushing fresh troops to the region. It risks adding a new twist to the spiral of violence.
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India’s Approach to Counterinsurgency and the Naxalite Problem
Oct 31, 2011
Author: Sameer Lalwani
Since its independence in 1947, India has fought dozens of campaigns against four distinct and independent insurgencies on its soil—in Punjab, Kashmir, the Northeast, and the Maoist insurgents of central India—as well as one foreign campaign in Sri Lanka.
Since resurging in the last decade, the Naxalite uprising has been described by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as “a great national security threat” and the “biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country.”[3] This article will briefly describe some of the lessons of success and failure that can be drawn from India’s decades of COIN experience and their application in the current fight against the Naxalite insurgency.
Source:CTC