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Suspected Militants derail goods train in Assam:

Suspected Pro-Talks Faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-PTF) militants damaged portions of railway tracks resulting in the derailment of 11 wagons of a Guwahati-bound goods train in between Kokrajhar and Fakiragram in Kokrajhar District, reports Times of India. The incident occurred during the 48-hour rail-cum-road bandh (General strike) beginning from 5 am on August 1 called by NDFB-PTF seeking the Centre's discussion with the outfit for the creation of Bodoland.

Meanwhile, Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) ‘chief’ Hagrama Mohilary termed the incident as most unfortunate and said "There are better ways of pressing an outfit's demands before any government,"

Also, NDFB-PTF appealed to tribal Members of Parliament (MPs) to raise the separate Bodoland issue in the ongoing parliament session. NDFB -PTF ‘information and publicity secretary’, S Sanjarang, said” We earnestly appeal for your (tribal MPs) support on our issue and intervention to help us by raising the demand for creating Boroland [Bodoland] state as per the provision of Articles 2 and 3 of the Indian Constitution in this monsoon session of the Parliament". He further said that "The peace process may break down at any moment unless the Centre takes a pragmatic and sympathetic approach to solve the "vexed Bodoland" issue. Due to lack of political will on the part of the government of India in conceding the legitimate demand, the dialogue is going on at a snail's pace,"

Separately, Security forces (SFs) on August 1 recovered and defused an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) weighing 8 kilograms from a Nazira bound passenger bus at Maibela in Sivasagar District, reports Sentinel.

Meanwhile, extortion activity of Anti-Talks Faction of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-ATF) has increased in recent times at Moran under Dibrugarh District and Mahmora in Sivasagar District. ULFA-ATF has slapped huge extortion notes demanding amounts between INR 100000 to INR 7million, to tea garden owners, businessmen, Oil India Limited (OIL) employees and even to some teachers allegedly signed by ‘lieutenant’ B Das and ‘lieutenant’ Jitu Bora of ULFA-ATF.

 

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Police pay surrender money to Maoist in Odisha:

A financial assistance of INR 10,000 was provided to surrendered woman Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre Susila Jilakara alias Puspa in Koraput under Government's surrender policy meant for the Maoists in the State, reports Times of India. Puspa, wife of top Maoist leader Chandra Bhusanam alias Ghasi, had laid down arms before Koraput Police on April 26. Ghasi had been arrested on April 6. The Andhra Pradesh Government had announced a cash award of INR one million and INR 200,000 on Ghasi and Puspa respectively.

Meanwhile, the Maoist leadership has been expanding the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee's (DKSZC) role to Andhra-Orissa Border (AOB) zone. If sources are to be believed, the Maoist central leadership brought a new division in AOB, which was formed a year ago, under the ambit of DKSZC. With the entry of Bonda Gupteswar or Bonda Ghati group, DKSZC has at present 10 divisions. The sources said Maoists are adopting new strategies and restructuring organisational ranks in AOB to gain an upper hand in their fight against security forces. "Bonda Ghati was brought under DKSZC to strengthen military formations and seek area domination in AOB and the adjacent areas of Chhattisgarh border," they said.

 

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Maoists kill two persons in Bihar:

Banka (Bihar), Aug 2 (PTI) Maoists shot dead two persons in Dabua jungle in Bihar's Banka district, police said today.

The Maoists captured Lekhu Yadav and his nephew Manoj in the jungle last night and killed both of them, DGP Neelmani said.

Lekhu Yadav was earlier an activist of the banned CPI(Maoist), he said.

Joint operations have been launched by district armed police personnel in Jamui and Banka districts to nab the ultras. PTI

 

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Bodies of villagers killed in Maoist attack recovered:

Sasaram/Patna, Jul 31 (PTI) The bodies of three villagers killed in a Maoist attack in Banda village in Bihar's Rohtas district were recovered today.

Sasaram SP Manu Maharaj said that three and not five villagers, as reported earlier, were killed in the last night attack in the village that falls under jurisdiction of Nauhatta police station.

The bodies were recovered this morning as the police took time to reach the inaccessible spot.

DGP Neelmani said in Patna that the victims belonged to the Kharwar tribe.


A massive combing operation has been launched jointly by the Rohtas and Kaimur police, assisted by the BMP, STF, CRPF and Cobra units, Neelmani said.

The DIG, CRPF and the IG (Operations) were camping in the area to monitor the operations, he said. PTI

 

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Maoists ransack liqour shop:

Malkangiri (Orissa), Jul 31 (PTI) Armed Maoists attacked and ransacked a government approved foreign liquor shop and a villager's house in Orissa's Malkangiri district, police said today.

About 100 rebels mounted an attack on the liquor shop at Padia under Kalimela police station, about 70 km from here late last night, the police said.
This was the fourth attack by the ultras on the same shop.

After damaging the shop and stock, the naxals targetted adn ransacked the house of a villager who was selling foreign liquor illegally, they said.

The Maoists have been opposing sale of liquor and functioning of liquor outlets in the tribal dominated backward district, the police said.

A complaint has been lodged in the Kalimela police station and investigation was on. PTI

 

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Three Army jawans killed in Kupwara encounter:

Srinagar, July 31 (PTI) Three Army jawans were killed and two others injured in a fierce gunbattle with infiltrating militants near the Line of Control in Kupwara district last night, official sources said here.

Troops of 19 Rajput Rifles of the Army noticed movement of heavily-armed militants near Temple Post at Furkian Gali near LoC late last evening, the sources said. They said the militants were challenged by the troops but the ultras opened firing, leading to heavy exchange of firing between the two sides.

Two army jawans died on the spot while three others were injured, the sources said, adding one of the injured jawans succumbed to injuries at 92 Base Hospital at Badamibagh cantonment here.

The sources said the militants have managed to break free from the army cordon and might have slipped back across the LoC to ***************** Kashmir. However, the army said the operation was still in progress.

This is the second infiltration bid from across the LoC in the last three days. An infiltration bid was foiled on July 27 when foreign ministers of India and Pakistan were holding talks in New Delhi. A JCO was killed and two jawans injured in that operation. PTI

 

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Maoists devise new modus operandi to attack security forces:

New Delhi, Jul 31 (PTI) Maoists have come up with a new modus operandi to attack security forces by planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in trees prompting the CRPF to train its personnel with the help of army in detecting and defusing them.

Forces like CRPF and BSF, deployed in anti-Maoist operations in states like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orrisa, have encountered IEDs hung from the branches of trees along their patrolling tracks.

A classified report prepared by one of the formations has stated that Naxals are now tying IEDs on branches of trees at a height of about 4-5 feet.

The IEDs are placed on trees with the intention to exploding them when security forces patrol jungle areas.

"The IEDs are kept on such trees which have thick foliage thereby concealing their presence. Such IEDs bring about deadly injuries on the head and upper torso of police personnel," a senior officer involved in anti-naxal operations in Chhattisgarh said.

The officer said that it has become a "double trouble" for the troops as they now have to be alert about explosives embedded in the ground as well as on trees.

Hit by the impact of these IEDs, the CRPF has recently tied up with the Army to train its personnel in detecting and defusing them.

The Army's College of Military Engineering (CME) in Pune has begun training CRPF commanders and other officers in dealing with IEDs of various kinds. PTI

 

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Three Army jawans killed in Kupwara encounter:

Srinagar, July 31 (PTI) Three Army jawans were killed and two others injured in a fierce gunbattle with infiltrating militants near the Line of Control in Kupwara district last night, official sources said here.

Troops of 19 Rajput Rifles of the Army noticed movement of heavily-armed militants near Temple Post at Furkian Gali near LoC late last evening, the sources said. They said the militants were challenged by the troops but the ultras opened firing, leading to heavy exchange of firing between the two sides.

Two army jawans died on the spot while three others were injured, the sources said, adding one of the injured jawans succumbed to injuries at 92 Base Hospital at Badamibagh cantonment here.

The sources said the militants have managed to break free from the army cordon and might have slipped back across the LoC to ***************** Kashmir. However, the army said the operation was still in progress.

This is the second infiltration bid from across the LoC in the last three days. An infiltration bid was foiled on July 27 when foreign ministers of India and Pakistan were holding talks in New Delhi. A JCO was killed and two jawans injured in that operation. PTI

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Two CRPF personnel injured in Maoist encounter in Jharkhand:

Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were injured in an encounter with the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres at Thalkobad in West Singhbhum District on August 2, reports IBN Live. The encounter took place during regular patrolling in the Maoist-hit areas of the District. Superintendent of Police A. K. Singh claimed that some Maoists also sustained injuries in the encounter.

Meanwhile, the process of further recruitment of Special Police Officers (SPOs) for rural areas for assisting the Police forces of the State was stalled as a result of recent Supreme Court (SC) judgment on SPOs in Chhattisgarh, reports Times of India. The Jharkhand Government has adopted a wait-and-watch policy in the recruitment drive. A senior Police officer said that Jharkhand had no problem in recruiting SPOs as the SC’s judgment was restricted only to Chhattisgarh where SPOs were armed and engaged in anti-Naxal operations. SPOs in Jharkhand are not deputed in any kind of anti-insurgency operation.

 

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Ban on Communist Party of India (Maoist) extended


17/08/2011

Hyderabad, Aug 17 (PTI) The Andhra Pradesh government has extended by one year ban on Communist Party of India (Maoist) and six of its front organisations with effect from today.
"The government has reviewed the matter and is of the opinion that the Communist Party of India (Maoist) is continuing to indulge in unlawful activities and its unlawful activities if not stopped, will constitute a serious danger and menace to public order, peace and tranquillity," state General Administration Department Principal Secretary (Political) Ajay Misra said in an order extending the ban on the outfit.
Accordingly, the government declared the CPI (Maoist) to be an "unlawful association" under subsections (1) and (4) of Section 3 of the Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act, 1992, for a further period of one year from August 17, the Principal Secretary said in the order.

Six front organisations of the CPI (Maoist) � All India Revolutionary Students Federation, Viplava Karmika Samakhya, Singareni Karmika Samakhya, Radical Students Union, Ryot Coolie Sangham and Radical Youth League � have also been declared unlawful associations under the AP Public Security Act.

The state Cabinet that met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy late last night approved the extension of ban on the Maoists and other outfits for one more year. The ban on Maoists and its frontal organisations has been in force in the state since 2005.


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The Maoists and their Mines
Ajit Kumar Singh
Research Fellow, Institute for Conflict Management

Three Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel were killed when the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres triggered a landmine explosion targeting a vehicle carrying the ITBP personnel near Kohka village in the Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh on October 8. The landmine was planted under a culvert just yards from the Kohka Police Outpost. Earlier, on October 4, a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists killed five Security Force (SF) personnel at Perimili in the Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra. On October 5, the Maoists triggered a landmine in the Talewada Forest area of Gadchiroli, injuring eight SF personnel, who were part of the rescue team travelling in an anti-mine vehicle from Pranhita headquarters at Aheri to Perimili, to retrieve the body of a Policeman killed on October 4.

These are only the latest among an endless and increasingly effective series of landmine and improvised explosive device (IED) attacks executed by the Maoists over years. According to partial data compiled by the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), 442 persons have been killed while 422 have received injuries in a total of 380 incidents of landmine explosion by the Maoists since 2005. 52 of these incidents were major (comprising of three or more than three fatalities).

The two worst-affected States, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, together account for 329 (74.44 per cent) of these fatalities. However, Orissa (79) has witnessed the highest number of landmine incidents, followed by Jharkhand (78) and Chhattisgarh (78). Explaining the gravity of the situation in the State, the Director General of Chhattisgarh Police Vishwa Ranjan stated, on May 9, 2010, "Bastar region is spread over nearly 40,000 square kilometres area, of which up to 25,000 square kilometres is intensively mined." Abujmadh in Chhattisgarh, which forms the Central Guerrilla Base Area of the Maoists, is secured by a complex system of landmines and IEDs throughout this densely forested expanse of some 4,000 square kilometres.

The Maoist use of landmines against the SFs has wide variants. Small contingents of SFs passing through inhabited areas are targeted with mines placed under the road surface, and triggered without the militants engaging in any direct confrontation with the Forces. When they take on large contingents of SFs deeper in the forest, however, landmines are used as a first shock, before engaging the troops in gun battles. Significantly, in the country’s worst Maoist attacks on April 6, 2010, in which 75 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and a State Police trooper were killed in an ambush in the thick Mukrana forests of Dantewada District in Chhattisgarh, the Maoists were aware of the CRPF movement and executed their attack with fierce precision. They first blew up the SF’s anti-landmine vehicle and then began firing indiscriminately. The shocked and exhausted troopers had failed to follow standard operating procedures, and were massacred. Similarly, on February 9, 2010, an SF contingent was hit by a landmine and then ambushed by Maoist cadres at a village in Dantewada District, when they were on a search for 12 missing tribals in pursuance of a Supreme Court order passed on February 8.

Some of the major incidents of explosion orchestrated by the Maoists against SFs include the following:

April 4, 2010: 11 personnel of the anti-Maoist Special Operation Group (SOG) were killed and eight others were seriously injured when cadres of the CPI-Maoist triggered a landmine blast targeting a mini bus carrying the SOG personnel at Tanginiguda on the Govindpalli Ghat road in Koraput District of Orissa.

June 20, 2009: 12 CRPF personnel were killed in a landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist cadres at Tonagapal in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.

June 12, 2009: CPI-Maoist cadres detonated a landmine in the Nawadih area of the Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh, killing at least 11 SF personnel and injuring eight.

June 10, 2009: 11 Policemen, including a CRPF Inspector, were killed and six were injured, when CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a landmine explosion targeting their vehicle in West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.

May 11, 2009: 12 Policemen and a civilian were killed and seven others injured in a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists at Risgaon village in the Dhamtari District of Chhattisgarh. The incident took place when the Maoists blew up a Police vehicle carrying the Police personnel.

August 30, 2008: 12 Police personnel were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in was blown up in a landmine blast in the East Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.

July 16, 2008: CPI-Maoist cadres killed 17 personnel of the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Orissa Police in a landmine blast in the Malkangiri District.

November 2, 2007: Around 100 cadres of the CPI-Maoist ambushed a Police party near Pamedu Police Station in the Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh and killed 16 Policemen, including six CRPF personnel. The Maoists first triggered a landmine explosion and then indiscriminately fired on the Policemen killing 16.

December 2, 2006: 14 Police personnel belonging to the Special Task Force of the Jharkhand Police were killed and three injured in a landmine blast detonated by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres at Kanchkir in the Bokaro District.

June 1, 2006: At least 12 Police personnel were killed when CPI-Maoist cadres triggered a landmine explosion in the West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.

September 3, 2005: 23 CRPF personnel and two from the State Police were killed in a landmine explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist near Padeda village in the Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh.

January 5, 2005: CPI-Maoist cadres killed the Munger Superintendent of Police, K.C. Surendra Babu, and six Police personnel in a landmine explosion near the Bhimbandh area of the District in Bihar.

The Maoists have also used landmines and IEDs against civilian targets. Some of the most significant of these incidents include:

August 3, 2010: Five persons of a private security agency travelling by a car were killed when CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a culvert with a landmine near Pirtand in Giridih District of Jharkhand.

April 16, 2009: Five poll officials, including a zonal officer identified as A.K. Acharya, were killed and many others injured when CPI-Maoist cadres blew up a van ferrying election officials by triggering a landmine blast at Phulwera village in the Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh.

May 16, 2006: In a landmine explosion triggered by the CPI-Maoist, 12 members of a marriage group were killed between Halebada and Patha villages in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra.

March 25, 2006: 11 persons were killed and four others sustained injuries in a landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh.

February 28, 2006: At least 25 tribals were killed and 40 others sustained injuries in a landmine blast triggered by the CPI-Maoist near Eklagoda village, in the jurisdiction of Arabore Police Station of Dantewada District in Chhattisgarh.

A wide range of improvised devices, including camera flashes, wires, switches, holders, batteries and cell phones have been used by the Maoist to rig explosions and, as Dantewada Superintendent of Police (SP) Rahul Sharma, notes, "landmines are the Maoists’ favourite weapon." A June 18, 2010, report by the office of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, submitted to the UN Security Council, noted: "The Naxals [Maoists] have admitted that children… were provided with training to use non-lethal and lethal weapons, including landmines."

The Maoists bury their landmines even under concrete roads, in addition to placing them under kacha (non-metalled) roads. Unsurprisingly, the Union Government on October 28, 2009, had warned that incidents of landmine explosions, ambushes and train blockages would increase.

The constant and greater degree of use of landmines by the Maoists in their fight against the establishment has become a major concern for the authorities. To counter this, according to a November 24, 2007, report, the Jharkhand Police decided to form motorcycle squads arguing, "In jungles, Maoists detonate vehicles by triggering landmine blasts. But it will be difficult to blast bikes." But this is, at best, a shot in the dark. Chhattisgarh Police DGP, Vishwa Ranjan, on May 9, 2010, notes, "The big problem is, we have no technology and resources to de-mine the massive forested pockets. Without taking out landmines it's literally impossible to go after them (the Maoists) freely in thickly forested areas where Maoists are always ready with a booby trap."

 

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Two CRPF personnel injured in Maoist encounter in Jharkhand:

Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were injured in an encounter with the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres at Thalkobad in West Singhbhum District on August 2, reports IBN Live. The encounter took place during regular patrolling in the Maoist-hit areas of the District. Superintendent of Police A. K. Singh claimed that some Maoists also sustained injuries in the encounter.

Meanwhile, the process of further recruitment of Special Police Officers (SPOs) for rural areas for assisting the Police forces of the State was stalled as a result of recent Supreme Court (SC) judgment on SPOs in Chhattisgarh, reports Times of India. The Jharkhand Government has adopted a wait-and-watch policy in the recruitment drive. A senior Police officer said that Jharkhand had no problem in recruiting SPOs as the SC’s judgment was restricted only to Chhattisgarh where SPOs were armed and engaged in anti-Naxal operations. SPOs in Jharkhand are not deputed in any kind of anti-insurgency operation.

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