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Inside the Maoist insurgency in India's Jharkand state
By Alpa Shah
The guerrilla fighter was tough, experienced, leading a platoon of around 60 insurgents.
"I am from a very poor family," the fighter told me.
"Life was very difficult. I joined the party and now I understand many more things. I think revolution is the only option."
One thing you should know about this hardline Maoist rebel - she is a young woman.
She is one of the growing numbers of poor Indians who have joined a four-decades-old Maoist rebellion, in which thousands have died. Last month the rebels killed 76 members of the security forces in a single attack.
More than 20 of India's 28 states are affected by the insurgency. The remote tribal villages of Jharkhand state, where the fields are still tilled by oxen, are at the centre of it.
The area is home to some of the country's poorest people, mostly members of indigenous tribes. There is little sign of India's economic miracle here.
Local people feel the government has neglected them. So the Maoists, or "the party" as the villagers call them, have got on with running the place.
Parallel government
"The government here has no health programmes so our party sets up health clinics to help the people," one Maoist fighter told me.
"This area is plagued by illness... Our party gives free medicines in the clinics - and we get help from doctors and nurses. We run them in the rainy season when people are suffering most."
The Maoists have drawn a lot of support from poor villagers like Chachi.
"They are like our sons, our brothers," she says.
"Before, we were not allowed to go into our forests - the authorities used to cut the trees but we weren't even allowed to gather firewood. Now we can.
"The party makes sure there is no tension between rich and poor that's why we want the party here."
But not everyone agrees. The Maoists have blown up schools because the security forces use them as barracks.
"The pupils there now have classes under a tree," says a teacher, whom I call Pandey.
"The area is not able to develop - if a road is to be constructed, the Maoists won't let it be built," Pandey says.
"When electricity was planned, at first they objected. They didn't allow the main road connecting the villages to the cities to be built. And so this area remains extremely backward."
'Gravest threat'
Pandey is from a different state. There are few villagers who are as critical. Whatever actions the Maoists take, it seems they are still considered part of the local community.
But the authorities brand them "the gravest threat to India's national security", in the words of Home Secretary G K Pillai.
The government has sent 75,000 security forces and tens of thousands of policemen to these remote regions to regain control.
"Maoists treat the Indian state as the enemy. If citizens of India take up arms against the state no democracy can allow anarchy to flourish. And you can see in areas where the Maoists are there it's total anarchy. They decide who is to live, who is not to live," says Mr Pillai.
The Maoists defend their actions as part of a wider struggle to end the increasing gap between the rich and the poor.
Violence
I had a rare face-to-face interview with a member of the movement's leadership , a man I call Rameshji. I questioned him on their violent tactics.
"See the other side of the picture - how the minorities are butchered in state-sponsored pogroms," Rameshji responded.
"Many people in the struggling areas of central India are being killed by the state forces," he alleged. "Many people are dying of hunger. Who is responsible for such deaths? People are left with no other option. No-one is going to listen to you. This violence has been imposed by the state on the people of India."
For the Indian authorities, such accusations do not justify the insurgents' use of violent tactics against a democratically elected government.
But Maoist leaders like Rameshji seem determined to fight on until they overthrow the government itself.
"Our aim is to achieve a new democratic revolution - to seize the state power. You must eradicate the whole system and in order to eradicate the whole system, you must seize power."
BBC News - Inside the Maoist insurgency in India's Jharkand state
By Alpa Shah
The guerrilla fighter was tough, experienced, leading a platoon of around 60 insurgents.
"I am from a very poor family," the fighter told me.
"Life was very difficult. I joined the party and now I understand many more things. I think revolution is the only option."
One thing you should know about this hardline Maoist rebel - she is a young woman.
She is one of the growing numbers of poor Indians who have joined a four-decades-old Maoist rebellion, in which thousands have died. Last month the rebels killed 76 members of the security forces in a single attack.
More than 20 of India's 28 states are affected by the insurgency. The remote tribal villages of Jharkhand state, where the fields are still tilled by oxen, are at the centre of it.
The area is home to some of the country's poorest people, mostly members of indigenous tribes. There is little sign of India's economic miracle here.
Local people feel the government has neglected them. So the Maoists, or "the party" as the villagers call them, have got on with running the place.
Parallel government
"The government here has no health programmes so our party sets up health clinics to help the people," one Maoist fighter told me.
"This area is plagued by illness... Our party gives free medicines in the clinics - and we get help from doctors and nurses. We run them in the rainy season when people are suffering most."
The Maoists have drawn a lot of support from poor villagers like Chachi.
"They are like our sons, our brothers," she says.
"Before, we were not allowed to go into our forests - the authorities used to cut the trees but we weren't even allowed to gather firewood. Now we can.
"The party makes sure there is no tension between rich and poor that's why we want the party here."
But not everyone agrees. The Maoists have blown up schools because the security forces use them as barracks.
"The pupils there now have classes under a tree," says a teacher, whom I call Pandey.
"The area is not able to develop - if a road is to be constructed, the Maoists won't let it be built," Pandey says.
"When electricity was planned, at first they objected. They didn't allow the main road connecting the villages to the cities to be built. And so this area remains extremely backward."
'Gravest threat'
Pandey is from a different state. There are few villagers who are as critical. Whatever actions the Maoists take, it seems they are still considered part of the local community.
But the authorities brand them "the gravest threat to India's national security", in the words of Home Secretary G K Pillai.
The government has sent 75,000 security forces and tens of thousands of policemen to these remote regions to regain control.
"Maoists treat the Indian state as the enemy. If citizens of India take up arms against the state no democracy can allow anarchy to flourish. And you can see in areas where the Maoists are there it's total anarchy. They decide who is to live, who is not to live," says Mr Pillai.
The Maoists defend their actions as part of a wider struggle to end the increasing gap between the rich and the poor.
Violence
I had a rare face-to-face interview with a member of the movement's leadership , a man I call Rameshji. I questioned him on their violent tactics.
"See the other side of the picture - how the minorities are butchered in state-sponsored pogroms," Rameshji responded.
"Many people in the struggling areas of central India are being killed by the state forces," he alleged. "Many people are dying of hunger. Who is responsible for such deaths? People are left with no other option. No-one is going to listen to you. This violence has been imposed by the state on the people of India."
For the Indian authorities, such accusations do not justify the insurgents' use of violent tactics against a democratically elected government.
But Maoist leaders like Rameshji seem determined to fight on until they overthrow the government itself.
"Our aim is to achieve a new democratic revolution - to seize the state power. You must eradicate the whole system and in order to eradicate the whole system, you must seize power."
BBC News - Inside the Maoist insurgency in India's Jharkand state
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Naxals hit back after cops kill 9
Within hours after the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) killed nine Maoists in an encounter on Tuesday, the rebels struck back, triggering a landmine blast and killing two paramilitary personnel near Sitapalli on Bijapur-Awapalli road in South Bastar in Chhattisgarh.
The rebels targeted a bunker vehicle of the CRPF. Two CRPF personnel, including a driver, were killed in the attack Tuesday afternoon, Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) T J Longkumer said, quoting preliminary reports.
Police said the Naxalites blew up the CRPFs bunker vehicle in an area where they have earlier ambushed security forces through landmine attacks.
Earlier in the day, the CRPF men carried out an encounter in the forests near Jagargunda in Dantewada district, killing nine Maoist rebels and recovering four 12 bore rifles from the spot of the encounter. There could be more casualties on the rebel side, Senior Superintendent Police S R P Kalluri said.
Naxals hit back after cops kill 9
Within hours after the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) killed nine Maoists in an encounter on Tuesday, the rebels struck back, triggering a landmine blast and killing two paramilitary personnel near Sitapalli on Bijapur-Awapalli road in South Bastar in Chhattisgarh.
The rebels targeted a bunker vehicle of the CRPF. Two CRPF personnel, including a driver, were killed in the attack Tuesday afternoon, Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) T J Longkumer said, quoting preliminary reports.
Police said the Naxalites blew up the CRPFs bunker vehicle in an area where they have earlier ambushed security forces through landmine attacks.
Earlier in the day, the CRPF men carried out an encounter in the forests near Jagargunda in Dantewada district, killing nine Maoist rebels and recovering four 12 bore rifles from the spot of the encounter. There could be more casualties on the rebel side, Senior Superintendent Police S R P Kalluri said.
Naxals hit back after cops kill 9
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Mirwaiz slams Omar Abdullah for linking his movement to Maoists
SRINAGAR: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq , chairman of moderate faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), on Saturday rejected Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's statement there were "visible and invisible links" among the militants in the state , the Maoists, Left-leaning academicians and supporters, saying it is an unfortunate attempt to malign the 'indigenous movement'.
"We reject the statement of the Government of India and especially, that of the Chief Minister. It is an unfortunate attempt to malign the indigenous movement of people of Jammu and Kashmir by linking it to outside forces. Our movement is indigenous involving the sentiments and emotions of the people of Kashmir," Farooq told reporters here today.
"I will not be surprised if Omar in near future says that the boys, who were protesting over the summer, had links with al-Qaeda," he added.
Mirwaiz's reaction comes a day after Abdullah said there are efforts made to build a bridge between Maoist insurgency in interior regions of India with militants of Kashmir and radical students in the State.
"We have no experience with Maoist insurgency even though of late we find efforts being made to build bridges between the Maoists and Naxalites of the rest of India with militants of Kashmir and also some Left-thinking academicians and students in Jammu region as well," said Abdullah on Friday mainitaing that that not only were there visible links, but also several covert connections between the two.
"We have seen evidence of it (of bridges being built between Maoists and insurgents in Kashmir). A lot more effort to build a sort of interaction. A lot of movement of known Maoist sympathisers now travelling to Srinagar and organising seminars and conferences with supporters of militant violence in Jammu and Kashmir as well," he added, while speaking at a seminar in New Delhi.
Mirwaiz slams Omar Abdullah for linking his movement to Maoists - The Economic Times
SRINAGAR: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq , chairman of moderate faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), on Saturday rejected Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's statement there were "visible and invisible links" among the militants in the state , the Maoists, Left-leaning academicians and supporters, saying it is an unfortunate attempt to malign the 'indigenous movement'.
"We reject the statement of the Government of India and especially, that of the Chief Minister. It is an unfortunate attempt to malign the indigenous movement of people of Jammu and Kashmir by linking it to outside forces. Our movement is indigenous involving the sentiments and emotions of the people of Kashmir," Farooq told reporters here today.
"I will not be surprised if Omar in near future says that the boys, who were protesting over the summer, had links with al-Qaeda," he added.
Mirwaiz's reaction comes a day after Abdullah said there are efforts made to build a bridge between Maoist insurgency in interior regions of India with militants of Kashmir and radical students in the State.
"We have no experience with Maoist insurgency even though of late we find efforts being made to build bridges between the Maoists and Naxalites of the rest of India with militants of Kashmir and also some Left-thinking academicians and students in Jammu region as well," said Abdullah on Friday mainitaing that that not only were there visible links, but also several covert connections between the two.
"We have seen evidence of it (of bridges being built between Maoists and insurgents in Kashmir). A lot more effort to build a sort of interaction. A lot of movement of known Maoist sympathisers now travelling to Srinagar and organising seminars and conferences with supporters of militant violence in Jammu and Kashmir as well," he added, while speaking at a seminar in New Delhi.
Mirwaiz slams Omar Abdullah for linking his movement to Maoists - The Economic Times
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The Maoist Insurgency in India
by Binoy Kampmark
The Indian government is puzzled by one fundamental problem that has become desperate to its own security. With its officials eyeing Pakistan and the funnelling of terrorism through its borders, and the concern with international jihadi movements, it has ignored its own, Maoist grown revolt. Anywhere up to 6,000 people have perished in the Naxalite insurgency of the last 20 years, and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided to place the Maoist movements threat to Indian security at the forefront of public and official debate.
Near the end of 2009, the central Indian government began implanting forceful measures to combat the Naxals, who now have a presence in 180 of Indians 626 districts (Guardian, Dec 6, 2009). The establishment of this Red Corridor is certainly a far cry from the origins of the movement, which sprouted from the Naxalbari area of West Bengal in 1967. Then, they were a motley crew, discordant and incoherent, susceptible to internal vendettas and feuds. With a marriage of Marxist-Leninist ideology and Maoist tactics, the movement staggered and stuttered through near annihilation to emerge as a highly dangerous force.
In December, government forces commenced operations with Operation Green Hunt, a military engagement with little fuss and even less activity. The rebels, reports suggested, had simply melted into the jungles. The military solution is now all some officials can talk about. The logic of force, rather than the force of logic, prevail in these circles.
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has insisted that the Maoist ultras will be crushed. His most recent comments, quoted in the Indian press, suggest that he has little time for their revolutionary antics. The Naxals were cowards enacting dramas, lethal thespians who went about the business less of protecting the poor than destroying schools, railway lines and vital infrastructure links. If they have courage they should take part in democratic processes and face elections. Who is stopping them from winning elections? (Indian Express, Apr 5).
The attacks by the Naxals on schools are certainly doing it no favours. Violent attacks in such states as Chhattisgarh, involving the dynamiting of scores of school buildings, must surely alienate their core support. But its members undoubtedly feel that the state has to be attacked at vital centres, endings that require demolition and severance. Education is inevitably one of the targets in this Maoist appraisal.
Truth has not merely been a casualty of this war, but a sure corpse, lying in state for all to witness it. Paramilitary forces have backed militias and classes who have been ruthless in perpetrating what Manmohan Singh admitted were grave acts of social and economic abuse. Atrocities are committed by all participating forces in this conflict. Martyrs are created in numbers, such as those of Kursam Lakhi and Sukki Modiyam of the village of Pedda Korma, raped and killed by the forces of the Salway Judum militia and their police counterparts on February 6, 2005 (The Observer, Mar 29, 2009). The Naxal messages of land and wealth redistribution hold a natural attraction.
Chidambaram is confident that the insurgency will be put down in two or three years. This will be difficult, given the Naxalite rise from conventional guerrilla force to something approximating to an army. But the refusal to deal with a whole series of reforms, the continuing poverty in the North Eastern states and the perennial problem of ethic conflict, will allow the Naxal flame to burn that much longer. Military force will simply perform its own dramatic role of obfuscation. The diplomatic tables will be left empty that much longer.
The Maoist Insurgency in India
by Binoy Kampmark
The Indian government is puzzled by one fundamental problem that has become desperate to its own security. With its officials eyeing Pakistan and the funnelling of terrorism through its borders, and the concern with international jihadi movements, it has ignored its own, Maoist grown revolt. Anywhere up to 6,000 people have perished in the Naxalite insurgency of the last 20 years, and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided to place the Maoist movements threat to Indian security at the forefront of public and official debate.
Near the end of 2009, the central Indian government began implanting forceful measures to combat the Naxals, who now have a presence in 180 of Indians 626 districts (Guardian, Dec 6, 2009). The establishment of this Red Corridor is certainly a far cry from the origins of the movement, which sprouted from the Naxalbari area of West Bengal in 1967. Then, they were a motley crew, discordant and incoherent, susceptible to internal vendettas and feuds. With a marriage of Marxist-Leninist ideology and Maoist tactics, the movement staggered and stuttered through near annihilation to emerge as a highly dangerous force.
In December, government forces commenced operations with Operation Green Hunt, a military engagement with little fuss and even less activity. The rebels, reports suggested, had simply melted into the jungles. The military solution is now all some officials can talk about. The logic of force, rather than the force of logic, prevail in these circles.
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has insisted that the Maoist ultras will be crushed. His most recent comments, quoted in the Indian press, suggest that he has little time for their revolutionary antics. The Naxals were cowards enacting dramas, lethal thespians who went about the business less of protecting the poor than destroying schools, railway lines and vital infrastructure links. If they have courage they should take part in democratic processes and face elections. Who is stopping them from winning elections? (Indian Express, Apr 5).
The attacks by the Naxals on schools are certainly doing it no favours. Violent attacks in such states as Chhattisgarh, involving the dynamiting of scores of school buildings, must surely alienate their core support. But its members undoubtedly feel that the state has to be attacked at vital centres, endings that require demolition and severance. Education is inevitably one of the targets in this Maoist appraisal.
Truth has not merely been a casualty of this war, but a sure corpse, lying in state for all to witness it. Paramilitary forces have backed militias and classes who have been ruthless in perpetrating what Manmohan Singh admitted were grave acts of social and economic abuse. Atrocities are committed by all participating forces in this conflict. Martyrs are created in numbers, such as those of Kursam Lakhi and Sukki Modiyam of the village of Pedda Korma, raped and killed by the forces of the Salway Judum militia and their police counterparts on February 6, 2005 (The Observer, Mar 29, 2009). The Naxal messages of land and wealth redistribution hold a natural attraction.
Chidambaram is confident that the insurgency will be put down in two or three years. This will be difficult, given the Naxalite rise from conventional guerrilla force to something approximating to an army. But the refusal to deal with a whole series of reforms, the continuing poverty in the North Eastern states and the perennial problem of ethic conflict, will allow the Naxal flame to burn that much longer. Military force will simply perform its own dramatic role of obfuscation. The diplomatic tables will be left empty that much longer.
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Shiv Sena are the taleban of india.....i remember reading about valentines day in Mangalore
i couldnt sense any 'love' in the air when girls were getting thrashed by unmanly men
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You are right, but you forget to add few more names. It is MNS, Bajrag Dal as well as VHP. (not RSS, they are still ok)
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Brother I was just putting names of those who are hindutavadi. I mean there are more Islamist parties too in India. MNS and SS are equal to Pakistan (although no hate to Pakistanis). Both want disintegration of India. Although both the parties (MNS and SS) can't be compared with MI or SIMI
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Ghanta. They are nothing but mischief makers, especially the MNS. Freedom fighters!! LOL, freedom from what? MNS and Bajrang Dal are terrorists masquerading as political outfits.
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Kolkata, Jan 4 (IANS) A Maoist was killed and another injured Tuesday in a gunbattle with security forces in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said.
Acting on intelligence inputs that a group of armed rebels had taken shelter at Baxibandh forest near Lalgarh, security personnel conducted a raid early Tuesday.
'The members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist, led by squad leader Tota were hiding in the Baxibandh forest. While Tota and few other members of the squad managed to escape, Saheb Kisku was killed and Sudhan Soren was injured in the crossfire,' a police officer said.
'The injured rebel has been rushed to hospital and four other suspected Maoist linkmen have been arrested during search operations conducted by the security personnel in and around the forest. Two fire arms, landmines, detonator and ammunitions have been recovered,' West Midnapore Police Superintendent Manoj Verma told IANS over phone.
Maoists are active in three western districts of the state - West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura.
Maoist killed in Bengal gunfight
Acting on intelligence inputs that a group of armed rebels had taken shelter at Baxibandh forest near Lalgarh, security personnel conducted a raid early Tuesday.
'The members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist, led by squad leader Tota were hiding in the Baxibandh forest. While Tota and few other members of the squad managed to escape, Saheb Kisku was killed and Sudhan Soren was injured in the crossfire,' a police officer said.
'The injured rebel has been rushed to hospital and four other suspected Maoist linkmen have been arrested during search operations conducted by the security personnel in and around the forest. Two fire arms, landmines, detonator and ammunitions have been recovered,' West Midnapore Police Superintendent Manoj Verma told IANS over phone.
Maoists are active in three western districts of the state - West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura.
Maoist killed in Bengal gunfight
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Maoists Blow Up Railway Cabin Signal Point in Orissa, Train Services Disrupted
Maoists blow up railway cabin signal point in Orissa, train services disrupted - The Times of India
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SECURITY FORCES BLOWS UP 9 MAOIST YESTERDAY
ndian security forces have shot dead nine suspected Maoist militants and seized explosives from a forest camp in the east of the country.
"We have killed nine Maoists, destroyed their camp and seized explosive materials," S. Priyadarshi, a senior Indian police officer, told AFP on Sunday.
The militants were reportedly gunned down in a pre-dawn operation in a forest region in Rayagada district, a rebel hotbed 500 kilometers south of Bhubaneswar city in Orissa State.
According to the report, Maoist militants have established camps in 19 of Orissa's 30 districts.
The Maoist movement began in 1967 after a violent uprising over land disputes. Officials say over 1,160 people were killed in incidents related to the insurgency in 2010.
The police claim to have killed 23 Maoists in a series of encounters across the state over the last two months.
However, human rights groups have alleged that many innocent people have been killed in 'fake encounters.'
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Three injured in mine blast by Maoists
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