'Rebels kill 15 Indian soldiers

[Cheetah786]

Fifteen paramilitary troops have been killed by separatist rebels in India's north-eastern state of Manipur, officials have said.
They said the troops were returning from a village to the state capital, Imphal, after Friday's final polling round for the state assembly.
It is not yet clear which of Manipur's many separatist groups may have carried out the attack.
Earlier this month, six policemen were killed in Manipur by suspected rebels.

Ambush

The convoy of the paramilitary India Reserve Battalion was returning from election duty in the hill district of Tamenglong to Imphal when it came under heavy fire near the village of Zouzantek.
The officials said the troops fired back and fought, but two of their vehicles were completely destroyed by the rebels who hurled grenades and fired machine guns from both sides of the hill road.
The officials said 10 soldiers died on the spot and four on the way to hospital.
The condition of three more was said to be serious and doctors said the death toll could well rise.
Abduction
This is the second attack on security forces by separatist rebels in Manipur during the three phases of the state assembly elections that took place this month.
Six central reserve policemen were killed in the first attack in the hill district of Ukhrul in mid-February.
The United National Liberation Front (UNLF) - Manipur's oldest and strongest rebel group - claimed responsibility for that attack.
Intelligence officials say they were not too sure whether the UNLF was also involved in the attack on Saturday.
This is because the district of Tamenglong is a stronghold of the rebels of the Naga tribe, who were responsible for some violence during and before the elections on Friday and also the abduction of a candidate earlier in the week.
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[HASEEB66]

i heard there are 21 freedom movements there..indian has around 700,000 army in kashmir only to control the militants i wonder how many there

 

[malhot]

700,000 in Kashmir + 500,000 in Manipur + 500,000 facing China + 500,000 facing Nepal's Moaist groups + 500,000 along the indo pak border along Rajastan + 500,000 along Bangladesh border + 500,000 within India. The rest would be recalled from leave if there was a war on.

 

[Neo]

i heard there are 21 freedom movements there..indian has around 700,000 army in kashmir only to control the militants i wonder how many there

I believe 200.000 armymen are stationed in Kashmir, during the 2002 crisis the number had inceased to around 750.000.

 

[Adux]

India has only 1.2 million troops,
Mobilizing 750,000(3/4the) in a congested area of kashmir is really stupid, Easy pickings for the Pakistani army, and moreover India doesnt have the kind of logistics inside Kashmir. 750,000 troops along the LOC and IB is still believable.
750,000 tents and toilets; Impossible in such an area. A missile strike and 3/4 of the Indian Army is over. I think 500,000 would be the right number all along the IB and LOC, 250,000 on the reserve and replacements, In defensive positions. 250,000 scattered around north east and south.

 

[Bull]

i heard there are 21 freedom movements there..indian has around 700,000 army in kashmir only to control the militants i wonder how many there

Stop spweing your venom here.

700k out of the 1200K we have is in kashmir. Whats pakistan waiting for then, they can just walk into Gujarat and Rajasthan.

 

[Goodperson]

Its not Armymen who were killed in Ambush they were policemen, still its a big tragedy.


Officials: 15 Policemen Killed in Rebel Ambush in India

Saturday , February 24, 2007

GAUHATI, India —
Fifteen police officers were killed Saturday after suspected rebels ambushed a their patrol in India's remote northeast, officials said.

The policemen were returning from election duty in the district of Bishenpur in Manipur state when they were ambushed, said local police chief Jayanta Singh.

A convoy of 60 armed policemen in six vehicles was returning to the district headquarters in Bishenpur town after supervising the last phase of elections to Manipur's state legislature when rebels armed with automatic weapons fired on them, Singh said.

Fourteen policemen died on the spot and another died later in a hospital. "The death toll may rise as seven others are critically wounded," Singh said.

Police retaliated and a fierce gunbattle ensued after which the rebels retreated into the densely forested area, Singh added.

This is the worst incidence of violence since voting started in phases on Feb 8. Voting is staggered in the insurgency-wracked region to help security forces prevent rebel attacks.

While Singh said that rebels were behind the attack he did not name any specific group.

The National Socialist Council of Nagaland and Manipur People's Liberation Front are among several rebel groups that have been fighting for decades for independent homelands in the states of Manipur and neighboring Nagaland.

The militants say the central government in New Delhi — 1,000 miles to the west — exploits the northeast's rich natural resources while doing little for the indigenous people, most of them ethnically closer to Burma and China than to the rest of India.

The northeast has poor infrastructure, widespread unemployment and a bitterness toward the national government that has nurtured dozens of militant groups.

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[alamgir]

Stop spweing your venom here.

700k out of the 1200K we have is in kashmir. Whats pakistan waiting for then, they can just walk into Gujarat and Rajasthan.

HERE a HR report about kashmir confirm 700k IA in kashmir
International report documents repression in Indian-controlled Kashmir
By Parwini Zora and Daniel Woreck
30 November 2006

A recent report by the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) documents the systematic human rights abuses carried out by the Indian security forces in the state of Jammu and Kashmir with the protection of the Indian government and legal system.

HRW conducted research for the report, entitled “Everyone Lives in Fear: Patterns of Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir,” from 2004 to February 2006 in Indian-controlled Kashmir. It was the first time since 1989 that the Indian government had allowed an international human rights body to visit and report on the state. HRW also conducted research in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir in 2005 and 2006.

The report provides detailed accounts and interviews implicating the Indian security forces in torture, disappearances, arbitrary detentions and summary executions, which are concealed as “encounter killings”.

The report stressed that the estimated 700,000 Indian soldiers and paramilitaries in Kashmir carry out widespread repression with impunity. Indian laws protect members of the armed forces and civilian officials involved in crimes against Kashmiris. Soldiers responsible for murders and torture are rarely investigated or held accountable for their crimes.

The Asian director of Human Rights Watch, Brad Adams, told the press in September: “Human rights abuses have been a cause as well as a consequence of the insurgency in Kashmir.... Kashmiris continue to live in constant fear because perpetrators of abuses are not punished. Unless the Indian authorities address the human rights crisis in Jammu and Kashmir, a political settlement of the conflict will remain illusory.”

The report also covers in significant detail the massacres, bombings and political killings committed by various armed groups opposed to Indian rule of Kashmir. While HRW equates the violence of the Indian military and that of the militants, the outbreak of the armed conflict in the late 1980s resulted from decades of oppressive, anti-democratic Indian rule of the majority Muslim state ................www.wsws.org/article/2006/nov2006/kash-n30-shtml-20k

 

[Adux]

Alamgir,

You got it from WolrdSocialist Website.

 

[Spring Onion]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Naxalites_blow_up_tracks_kill_4_cops/articleshow/1691083.cms

Naxalites blow up tracks, kill 4 cops
[ 27 Feb, 2007 0932hrs ISTPTI ]


LAKHISARAI: Naxalites shot dead four policemen and blew up tracks at two places in Bihar's Lakhisarai district early on Tuesday, police said.

Scores of Naxalites belonging to the banned CPI (Maoist) swooped on a camp of Bihar Military Police at Khaira village at around 1 am, shot dead four policemen and wounded three others, police said.

The Naxalites looted one carbine, three self-loading rifles and ammunition before retreating.

Superintendent of Police S Malar Viji has rushed to the spot with reinforcements, sources said.

The Maoist guerrillas blasted the railway track near the eastern cabin of Dhanauri station, about 20 km from here, on Kiul-Jamalpur section of Eastern Railway, DIG (Railway) Ajay Verma said.

They fired and exploded bombs to scare away the railway staff before blasting the track in a stretch of about two metres. They also uprooted the track at Urain station in a stretch of about 10 metres.

Several trains were stranded due to the blasts.

Superintendent of Railway Police (Jamalpur) Arvind Kumar has rushed to the spot with government railway police and railway protection force reinforcements, Verma said.

 

[Bull]

HERE a HR report about kashmir confirm 700k IA in kashmir

I know you are capable of thinking on your own. 700K of the 1200K available in Kashmir. Who mans the northern, eastern and the outh western borders? And what do that leave in the barracks.

 

[alamgir]

I know you are capable of thinking on your own. 700K of the 1200K available in Kashmir. Who mans the northern, eastern and the outh western borders? And what do that leave in the barracks.

why you not include paramilatry forces

 

[Adux]

why you not include paramilatry forces

Alamagir

You said Army, Think about it, it is not logistically possible for India to hold shelter, food, and other neccessitties in such a small valley as Kashmir for 700,000 men. Honestly that many men are not needed for that area. Imagine on war time, Multiple missile strikes or other wise would wipe out of 700,000 of 2 million; Amry and Paramilitary combo. I hope you give due credit to the Indian planners

 

[MirBadshah]

Alamagir

You said Army, Think about it, it is not logistically possible for India to hold shelter, food, and other neccessitties in such a small valley as Kashmir for 700,000 men. Honestly that many men are not needed for that area. Imagine on war time, Multiple missile strikes or other wise would wipe out of 700,000 of 2 million; Amry and Paramilitary combo. I hope you give due credit to the Indian planners

If India was fighting against the "foreign militants" then a force of few thousands would have been enough. But the problem is they have to fight entire population of Kashmir, thats why they need such big deployment.

Now, if they pull out Kashmiri people would eat them, if they stay there they have to bear the costs and risk, that is why they are in continous process of fruitless negotiations.

That decreases the risk of any major threat from Pakistan and at the same time gives them a control over people to certain extent.

 

[Adux]

if they pull out Kashmiri people would eat them, .

Kashmiri people are cannibals ?,
Last time the SSG came into incite the Kashmiri people they turned them over to the Indian Army