Naxal Insurgency in India

[anand]

India doesn't deserve to be such a large country.

What made you think so ?

 

[anand]

Thanks Prodigy17 for reporting this very critical news about the Naxalite insurgency in India. This is very interesting news.

We should not forget India is a country that suffers from deep-seated balkanization and this Naxalite and Maoist insurgency is great evidence of that. It is true that Indian army has tough time battling these groups...

What Pakistanis should get out from this thread is there is a major opportunity here for us. There are sweet fruits to be plucked.

That is ISI should covertly intensify support for the insurgency in India for obvious reasons...

You dont have any idea about naxal movement.

 

[anand]

Naxal movement is nothing more than a nuisance. many people believe it is people's war against India. But actually it has nothing to do with common poor people. These naxals simply want to run the country as per Maoist ideology.

 

[Prodigy17]

Firstly people in Pakistan seem to have no idea of what and who naxalites are

You dont have any idea about naxal movement

People in Pakistan probably will never be able to comprehend the situation regarding maoists because they never faced communist insurgency.

I understand your exasperation fellow hindustanis but the problem is you need to read my posts carefully, i have already explained what they are upto. I have already adduced that they are the biggest threat in terms of armed struggles in india because they are motivated to overthrow the existing rubric or order of the society. One doesn't really need to encounter something to understand it better, how else will you explain enthusiasm of esteemed hindustani members on Taliban related threads including you guys.


Here is some more news..............


Maoists set 20 vehicles on fire in Chhattisgarh
26 Jan 2009, 1218 hrs IST, IANS


RAIPUR: Maoist rebels set ablaze at least 20 commercial vehicles in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region early Monday to enforce a daylong shutdown on Republic Day, police said.

About 250 armed cadres of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) stormed into the industrial town of Kirandul in Dantewada district and set fire to 20 vehicles, including several trucks, a police official said.

Kirandul town is some 400 km south of state capital Raipur.

"The insurgents, including many women, surrounded Kirandul and after setting fire to the vehicles they tried to set a petrol pump on fire, but the police reached the spot and the rebels escaped into nearby forests," Pawan Deo, a police officer based at the police headquarters here, told IANS.

Maoists have called a daylong shutdown Monday in their stronghold Bastar, spread out over 40,000 sq km. Rebels have ordered people to remain indoors and stay away from Republic Day functions.

Police say that strike has hit normal life in the forested interiors of Dantewada, Bijapur, Kanker and Narayanpur districts, with no private and commercial vehicles plying on the national and state highways.

About 60,000 police personnel and paramilitary troopers have kept on high alert in the state in the wake of the Maoist call for a shutdown.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/I...ow/4032565.cms

 

[hasang20]

its not about Naxal there are alot more groups operating in India for freedom infact nubmers are about 30s most hate crimes and stuff India wouldnt air it on the TV to people to see is too much bollywood in India,1 of my cousins far far away he living in Dehli he says theres alot of discrimantion in India so he moved to Pakistan,Karachi he says its beautifull Karachi he just moved a month ago.I asked em about the development in India he says theres 2 India rural and shinning.The poor are forgotten in India

 

[Contrarian]

Thanks Prodigy17 for reporting this very critical news about the Naxalite insurgency in India. This is very interesting news.

We should not forget India is a country that suffers from deep-seated balkanization and this Naxalite and Maoist insurgency is great evidence of that. It is true that Indian army has tough time battling these groups...

What Pakistanis should get out from this thread is there is a major opportunity here for us. There are sweet fruits to be plucked.

That is ISI should covertly intensify support for the insurgency in India for obvious reasons...

NEWSFLASH

Naxal movement is not to break away from India. They want to change the entire country to a communist nation. They still remain Indians!

P.S: Mao'ism and Naxal'ism is the same!

 

[Prodigy17]

Maoist rebels now operate in 22 of India’s 29 states

* Police say insurgents equipped with automatic weapons, mines and explosives

NEW DELHI: Well-armed Maoist rebels are rapidly expanding their insurgency in India, catching the government off-guard with their appeal to the poor and destitute, officials and experts say.

The rebels have 22,000 combatants, and have spread to more than 180 of the country’s 630 districts from just 56 in 2001, according to the government and a new report this week by the Institute for Conflict Management (IFCM), a New Delhi think-tank. “The security threats are changing and it’s bigger than ever before as more and more areas are coming under their command. It is not a happy sight at all,” BK Ponwar, head of the Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College in India, told Reuters.

“We must address the barrel of the gun of the Maoists, or in two years the issue will get out of hand.” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the Maoist rise as one of the gravest threats to India’s internal security, and the insurgency is shaping up as an issue ahead of a general election due by May. The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party says the ruling Congress party does not have a strategy to counter the Maoists and that police are poorly armed.

Deadly weapons: Police and intelligence officials say the Maoists are now recruiting hundreds of poor villagers to bolster their ranks, and are equipped with automatic weapons, shoulder rocket launchers, mines and explosives. The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of the farmers and the poor who make up the majority of India’s 1.1 billion population. They regularly attack rail lines and factories, aiming to cripple economic activity over a large area.

India’s police intelligence department says the Maoists are making their presence felt in 22 of the country’s 29 states. Thousands of people have been killed since the uprising began in the late 1960s. In the last week, rebels have launched attacks in areas previously unaffected by fighting. In the western state of Maharashtra, rebels shot dead 15 police, while in Bihar’s Nawada district they killed 10 police. More than 1,000 cases of Maoist attacks were recorded last year in which more than 200 security personnel and 300 civilians were killed.

“The rebels now have the capability to launch simultaneous attacks and they have the firepower. But the Indian government does not seem to have the capacity to neutralise them,” Ajai Sahni of the Institute for Conflict Management said. Police efforts are hampered by lack of manpower and weapons as well as poor coordination between states, meaning rebels can escape pursuit by crossing state lines. Last week the government convened an urgent security meeting and agreed to begin coordinated raids to control the movement. reuters


Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

Did i hear someone dismissing Naxals as nuisance?????????? did someone say, they are not terrorists???????????????? World of denial and its inhabitants, good luck to you................

 

[slugger]

Top naxalite held in Jharkhand

An alleged self-styled zonal commander of Naxals wanted in several cases, including attacks on security personnel and a train bombing, has been arrested from Gumla district of Jharkhand by the CRPF.

Sushil Bhuinya (30), was handed over to the local police after he was nabbed by a CRPF patrol team from the outskirts of the district on Saturday..

"Bhuinya is involved in many incidents related to attacks on security forces. He was also wanted in a train bombing case that took place in 2005 in Latehar district of Jharkhand," a senior Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer here said.

Bhuinya is the zonal commander of a local naxal group in the state and was caught after a brief exchange of fire with the troops yesterday, the officer added.

Some ammunition and a pistol has been recovered from him and further interrogation is on, the officer added.

 

[slugger]

Two Naxalites held

Two Naxalites, wanted in many crimes, were arrested from the residence CPI (ML-Janashakti) functionary here today, police said.
The duo had been identified as Chakradhar Haiburu (junior) and one of his associates Paresh Mahanto.

A large number of cases including murder, extortion and kidnapping were pending against the two, they said. Haiburu is also a close associate of hardcore Maoist leader Anna Reddy, who was arrested from a private hospital here last year when he visited his ailing girl friend there.

On a tip-off, a police team led by Jajpur district Superintendent of Police D S Kute raided the party functionary&aposs house in Dumduma area of the city and nabbed the two, police said.

 

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Full backing for Judum: Raman Singh

Chhattisgarh government on Monday gave its full support to Salwa

Judum, the forest dwellers movement against Naxalite violence. In
his Republic Day
speech, chief minister Raman Singh said, “It was because of such people and their movement that the country’s Republic is secured today” .

He said the state government would take steps to secure the livelihood of these tribal people and added that steps for their rehabilitation would also be taken forward.

Salwa Judum had become controversial following Left-liberals support charge that it was a state-sponsored militia. The “human rights” activists, who have been regularly making media interventions against Salwa Judum, had last year approached the Supreme Court seeking its ban. The SC, on its part, had asked the NHRC to file a status report.

This status was a dampener of sorts for the activist crowd. “The state cannot be said to have sponsored Salwa Judum, but it has certainly extended support to it by way of providing security to the processions and meetings of Salwa Judum and also to the inmates of the temporary relief camps” .

The NHRC came close to backing the Salwa Judum in its report. “The tribals cannot be denied the right to defend themselves against the atrocities of Naxalites, specially when the law enforcers are themselves ineffective or not present” . It had also denied charges of displacement on account of Salwa Judum.

At the SC, the Centre, too, had opposed the disbanding of the Salwa Judum. “To assume that the Salwa Judum was an army of people with weapons and asking for it to be disbanded will be no more than asking for these people to be pushed out to be killed (by the Naxalites ),” additional solicitor-general Gopal Subramanium had told the court when it heard a batch of petitions seeking to have it disbanded. Activists Kartam Joga, EAS. Sarma and Ramachandra Guha had in their petition alleged widespread rights violations by members of the Salwa Judum.

 

[slugger]

Co-ordinated operations to flush out Naxalites soon

Having realised the futility of a piecemeal approach in fighting Naxalites,

the Centre is now devising a long-haul strategy that
will involve simultaneous, co-
ordinated counter-operations in all Left-wing extremism-hit states, thus plugging all possible escape routes of Maoists.

The Union home ministry felt the need for states to jointly fight the extremists as intensified operations in one state were only driving the Maoists to safer havens in the neighbouring states.

For example, the successful counter-strikes on Naxalites’ hideouts in south Chhattisgarh had seen a rise in extremist activities in the bordering districts of Orissa. Union home minister P Chidambaram is said to have agreed to the need to plug the Maoists’ escape routes both at a meeting of chief ministers of 7 Naxalism-hit states on January 7 and later during his visits to Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.

At a review meeting chaired by special secretary(internal security) Raman Srivastava on Thursday and attended by the DGPs of four states most hit by the Naxal menace — Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra — the Centre asked the latter to work out their estimates of the Central forces reinforcements needed to undertake the planned, time co-ordinated assault on the Maoists. The other Naxalite-infested states of Jharkhand, Bihar, UP and West Bengal will also give their inputs in this regard.

However, given that such a time co-ordinated, pan-state offensive against Naxalites would require a major increase in the deployment levels of Central para-military forces, its launch may have to wait until after the elections when most CPMF personnel will be preoccupied with poll security.

In fact, the schedule may be further pushed to post-monsoon, with rains rendering the Naxalite hideouts in dense jungles of Chhattisgarh inaccessible to the security forces.

A questionnaire has been circulated to all states seeking information on various counts like the strength of their respective police force, need for additional weapons, extent of Central forces engaged in anti-Naxal operations, geographical details of Naxal-infested pockets and other requirements of men and material for fighting the extremists.

The states would, in the coming days, map the Naxal pocketboroughs and, based upon it, indicate the number of additional Central forces they would require to simultaneously launch operations.

At the review meeting, Mr Srivastava offered all help to the four states in fighting the Naxalites, including more BSF deployment as well as helicopters.

Among the states, Maharashtra, which recently saw a major Naxal strike in Gadchiroli killing 15 security personnel, and Orissa asked for more forces for fighting the Maoists. Orissa, in fact, sought expeditious return of Central forces that had been diverted to tackling anti-Christian violence, to anti-Naxal duties.


Maharashtra, represented by its additional DGP, shared the details of the Gadchiroli incident. The prior intelligence on Maoists’ strategy to trap police personnel by attacking elsewhere and ambushing the rescue parties as they approach the attack site as well as a recent merger of CPI(Maoist)’s Gadhchiroli committee into the larger and more powerful Dandkarenya border committee came in for a mention, as Maharashtra was asked to be careful of similar strikes in the coming days.

Meanwhile, even as the states go back to the drawing table to devise their respective operational strategies for the time co-ordinated offensive, some are planning surgical strikes even ahead of the Lok Sabha poll.

Chhattisgarh and Orissa are two states that have plans to step up pressure on the Naxalites in the run-up to the elections. Orissa DGP on Thursday is said to have sought additional forces for the purpose.

 

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Chidambaram all praise for SPOs

Settling the controversy generated by his recent statement in Parliament

disfavouring law enforcement by ‘nonstate actors’
— interpreted by many as a
disapproval of Salwa Judum — home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday praised the role of special police officers (SPOs) in fighting Naxalism and called for their appointment “wherever required.”

The home minister’s backing for SPOs is certain to silence critics of Salwa Judum, mostly bleeding heart liberals, who have been demanding disbanding of the movement citing alleged human rights violations by SPOs appointed from among tribals who have come out against Left-wing extremism.

SPOs have played a useful role and should be appointed wherever required, Mr Chidambaram said in his concluding remarks at a meeting of chief ministers of seven Naxalismhit states chaired by him here on Wednesday.

Chhattisgarh has successfully used SPOs, duly appointed under the Police Act, to lead and guide the anti-Naxal forces during operations in the inhospitable jungles of Bastar and also to keep guard at relief camps housing Salwa Judum families. These SPOs, both ex-Naxalites and those drawn from Salwa Judum camps and trained by the police, are paid an honorarium of Rs 3,300 per month, with government of India contributing Rs 1,800 and the state police pitching in with another Rs 1,500. Jharkhand is another state that has been successfully using SPOs to counter Leftwing extremists.

Mr Chidambaram, who heard the chief ministers patiently on the extent of Naxal problem in their respective states and the counter-steps being taken by them, stressed upon the need for effective joint operations by the concerned States to deal with Naxal elements operating in inter-State border areas. He called for training of the police in both jungle warfare and offered to augment the Centre’s training capacities to meet the states’ demand for training their intelligence personnel. Also insisting on the development aspect, Mr Chidambaram called for speedy construction of roads in the affected districts.

At the meeting, National Security Adviser M K Narayanan expressed concern at the shift in CPI(Maoist) tactics from guerrilla warfare to military operations, and insisted that the police in the affected states would have to upgrade
their training to match the new capabilities of the extremists.

The meeting saw the chief ministers seeking more Central forces and funds to take on the Naxalites. Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh briefed the home minister in detail on the counter-operations — he claimed to have liberated nearly 25,000 sq km of the total 75,000-sq km area under Naxal domination — and sought to clear at least 10% more area with each passing year. However, he said the Central forces and STF of the Chhattisgarh police were already overstretched in carrying out both area domination and intelligence-based surgical operations, and it would not be possible to move deeper into the Naxal-infested forests without force reinforcements. Mr Singh said the police strength was already being augmented.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said that the counter-Naxal strategy would have to be specific to each of the affected states. While the relatively less violence-hit Bihar could address socio-economic problems to tackle the root causes of Left-wing extremism, Chhattisgarh , which was already in the vortex of Naxalite violence, would have to fight the extremists before it could attend to socio-economic development.

 

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Salwa Judum is answer to naxal menace: Raman Singh

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said Salwa Judum is the answer

to get rid of the naxal menace in the state and made it clear
that it would end only after
the end of naxalism in the state.

Speaking after more than eight hours of discussion on the vote of thanks on the Governors speech, in the Assembly, Singh said though the Congress members are expressing their concern over the naxal menace, there was no mention about the naxalism in their election manifesto.

Singh said it appears that Congress members do not want to oppose naxalism in the state.

Singh said Salwa Judum was started as people of Bastar have had enough of naxal atrocities and no longer wanted to suffer silently. He added that the movement would continue till the naxal menace is eradicated.

He said Congress ruled the state for sixty years but did nothing for the development of Bastar. On the contrary, he said, the BJP has taken the initiative of development in the area and has started road construction in Abujhmad area.

Singh said this was the reason why tribal people have given such a good mandate to BJP during last year's election. He also reiterated the government's commitment towards the development of tribal people in the state.

On paddy subsidy, Singh said it was Chhattisgarh where farmers are getting Rs 1120-1150. With the Opposition charging the government of ditching the farmers by not giving them them a subsidy of Rs 270, Singh said the State was ready to give more to farmers if the Congress members go along with him to the Centre.

 

[Prodigy17]

Good, so they are taking a leaf out of Iraq and FATA to form "lashkars"........ Not bad

 

[Prodigy17]

Maoist landmine blast kills CRPF jawan in Jharkhand

Jamshedpur, Jan 11: A CRPF jawan was killed and another suffered critical injuries today in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists at Gorabandha in Naxal-hit East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand.

"Shivpal Singh, a havildar, was killed in the blast at Rajabasa-Kirodari village and a constable, Jitendra Singh, was rushed to Tata Main hospital with critical injuries," Deputy Commissioner, East Singhbhum, Ravindra Agarwal told PTI. The CRPF jawans hit the landmine during a long-range patrol in naxal-hit areas of Ghatsila sub-division, where the forces launched a massive combing operation to flush out extremists.

Bureau Report
http://www.zeenews.com/states/2009-0...97975news.html