Maoist rebels kill 13 cops in eastern India

[EndoClock]

RANCHI, India — A roadside bomb blast killed 13 police officers Saturday in eastern India — an attack that authorities attributed to Maoist rebels.

It is the second major attack on police since the killing of Maoist guerrilla leader Koteswar Rao, aka Kishenji, in November in the eastern state of West Bengal. In December, 10 police officers and an 8-year-old boy were killed in a roadside bomb attack in the eastern state of Jharkhand.

Saturday’s explosion occurred about noon in the Salo forest in the Garhwa district of Jharkhand, Police Inspector General R.K. Mallick told The Washington Times. Maoist guerrillas detonated a homemade bomb on a road as a vehicle carrying 15 police officers was going by.

“At least 13 our men are dead in the attack,” Inspector General Mallick said, as police combed the area for evidence after the blast.

According to government estimates, Maoist rebels in eastern India have killed at least 16,000 police officers and civilians over the past two years.

Maoist rebels kill 13 cops in eastern India - Washington Times

 

[Roybot]

Already posted.

 

[jbond197]

May the brave men RIP..

 

[PteX]

16000 people died from Maoist rebels in just 2 years?! How are these animals still alive? Why isn't the Indian army dealing with these scum?
May the brave men rest in peace.

 

[Kazhugu]

16000 people died from Maoist rebels in just 2 years?! How are these animals still alive? Why isn't the Indian army dealing with these scum?
May the brave men rest in peace.

the personnel engaged in anti-maoist operation are just paramilitary forces (central reserve police forcce) and state police...they are not that well trained...also the maoist operate in jungles of central india that spans across the borders of four state...so you can throw in the adminstrative hassles and turf war also between two state police units...

indian army as a principle is involved only when the territorial integrity of india is threatened..in the sense against secessionist groups...maoists are not secessionist...but they are nevertheless terrorists....

the sucess of indian army in coin ops can be gauged from kashmir where the militancy is done and dusted....now there is a proposal to raise more RR (rastriya rifles) units (RR are the main coin force in kashmir) which are dedicated coin units to combat this maoists..once its done..its showtime for maoists...

 

[jbond197]

It's about time that we better train the people dealing with these scum..

 

[PteX]

the personnel engaged in anti-maoist operation are just paramilitary forces (central reserve police forcce) and state police...they are not that well trained...also the maoist operate in jungles of central india that spans across the borders of four state...so you can throw in the adminstrative hassles and turf war also between two state police units...

indian army as a principle is involved only when the territorial integrity of india is threatened..in the sense against secessionist groups...maoists are not secessionist...but they are nevertheless terrorists....

the sucess of indian army in coin ops can be gauged from kashmir where the militancy is done and dusted....now there is a proposal to raise more RR (rastriya rifles) units (RR are the main coin force in kashmir) which are dedicated coin units to combat this maoists..once its done..its showtime for maoists...

Things need to be changed, i`m not sure if it is a typo but 16000 Indian civilians killed in just 2 years requires more attention than this. Terrorists or separatists, it doesn't matter, military intervention is required to stop this massacre.

 

[Roybot]

16000 people died from Maoist rebels in just 2 years?! How are these animals still alive? Why isn't the Indian army dealing with these scum?
May the brave men rest in peace.

That figure is wrong. Must have been 1600. Which includes around 600 terrorists.

 

[Kazhugu]

Things need to be changed, i`m not sure if it is a typo but 16000 Indian civilians killed in just 2 years requires more attention than this. Terrorists or separatists, it doesn't matter, military intervention is required to stop this massacre.

yeah 16k seems to be inflated number to me.....the population in those areas are not that much to warrant such a figure...

the thing is army is itself opposing the move to deploy there because of the short leash the govt is willing to give them and that they are already stretched from pak and china borders.....then you have these bleeding heart, good-for-nothing-except-whining human rights activists who take it as their life's mission to demonize the army and lament that army should not be deployed against own people even through they are terrorists !..then you have the state govt-central govt relations and the other assorted hazards of democracy....

the army is ready only if they are given the sufficient mandate to handle things in their own way and more personnel are recruited...but these things are getting hurt in the politics...sad..

 

[Holmes]

RIP to the brave men.
Hunt down the terrorist Maoists!

 

[NeutralCitizen]

Maoists fire on security camp, IBN Live News

 

[AbhimanyuShrivastav]

duplicate thread...

 

[NeutralCitizen]

I would like to visit the Maoist Controlled Area's on my trip to India, maybe also a swim in the Ganges.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

I would like to visit the Maoist Controlled Area's on my trip to India, maybe also a swim in the Ganges

I would not recommend that last part.

 

[NeutralCitizen]

I would not recommend that last part.

Maybe your right. Maoist are also encouraging other separatist movements in the North East and Jammu and Kashmir.

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