Separatist Insurgencies in India - News and Discussions.

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Eight Killed As Maoist Rebels Trigger Blast In India​

March 1st 2007

At least eight people, including six policemen, were killed in a landmine blast triggered by suspected Maoist rebels in India's central state of Chhattisgarh on Thursday, a news report said.

The blast, which targeted a truck carrying the policemen, occured in the Metaguda area in the southern Dantewada district, 500 kilometres south of state capital Raipur, the PTI news agency reported.

The victims included four Nagaland Armed Police (NAP) personnel and two special police officers, a rank given by the state government to surrendered Maoists to fight their former colleagues.

The truck's driver and his helper were also killed in the explosion, police told the PTI.

Two other policemen were injured in the blast were admitted to a state-run hospital in the district.

Additional forces have rushed to the scene and have launched operations to hunt the rebels, police said.

The Maoist rebels, who have a presence in 13 of India's 28 states and seven federally administered territories, are most active in Chhattisgarh and southern Andhra Pradesh states.

The Maoists reject parliamentary democracy and aim to capture political power through an armed struggle based on guerrilla warfare. They usually target police personnel and government installations.

According to a report of the New Delhi-based Asian Centre for Human Rights, 749 people - including rebels, security personnel and civilians - were killed in Maoist-related violence in India in 2006. A total of 363 people were killed in Chhattisgarh alone.

http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_16696-Eight-Killed-As-Maoist-Rebels-Trigger-Blast-In-India.html

 

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Four BMP jawans die in Maoist attack​

28 Feb, 2007 0403hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK

MUNGER/PATNA: Four BMP jawans were killed and four other injured in the wee hours of Tuesday at Khaira village under Kajra police station of Lakhisarai district when about 1,000 Maoists attacked the armed police picket stationed in the village to prevent Maoist violence.

Munger range DIG Sunil Kumar said that one sepoy died in the bomb blast while three other jawans were shot dead by Maoists who were equipped with sophisticated firearms and explosives.

The Maoists attacked the police picket manned by well-equipped BMP jawans after Monday midnight. Though the BMP jawans were taken aback, they returned the fire leading to firing from both the sides which continued till 3 am on Tuesday when the reinforcements with SAP jawans arrived there from Kajra police station, police sources said. The Maoists attacked the picket all of a sudden from the side of Laxmipur Barmasia, a hideout of the Maoists near Kajra hills.

The Maoists simultaneously struck railway and blew up railway tracks upto 2.5 ft between Kajra and Uren railway stations near Azad Nagar railway crossing on the Jamalpur Kiul section of the Eastern Railway under Malda division.

The Maoists also locked the western cabin of the railway station.

IG (headquarter) Anil Kumar Sinha said, "Our picket was attacked but our jawans fought well and thwarted an attempt by the Maoists to loot weapons. Only one SLR and one carbine has been found missing and presumed to be taken away by the Maoists. An amount of Rs 10 lakh would be given to the families of the killed constables."

Sinha said, "We know that such attacks may continue but we are prepared to thwart them." He also said raids were going on in the area to arrest the culprits. "We have made substantial progress in the case," he said.
The gun firing after the midnight was so fierce that nobody could dare come out from his or her house even from the neighbouring villages.

One Manju Devi, who came out of her house to ease herself, was hit by a bullet at a distance of about two km from the police picket. She has been shifted to the hospital in Lakhisarai. Khaira, a sleepy village comprising mostly of extremely backward and OBC community, experienced Maoist violence about 10 months ago, too, when the mukhiya of gram panchayat Sadhusaran Yadav, a local RJD leader and three others were slain by the Maoists for allegedly not co-operating with them in their operation.

It was followed by loot of five police rifles and ammunitions at the Kajra railway station by the women
Maoists who had raided the railway station in broad daylight.

Rail police superintendent (SRP) Arvind Kumar said that the Maoists activists blew up about six-foot high railway track between Uren and Dhanouri railway stations using landmine causing total disruption of rail traffic for a few hours on Jamalpur-Kiul section of the Eastern Railway.

The damaged railway tracks were replaced on war footing.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/..._die_in_Maoist_attack/articleshow/1697063.cms

 

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Maoist Rebels Kill Four Policemen, Blow Up Rail Line In India​

February 27th 2007

Maoist rebels shot dead four police officers Tuesday and blew up railway tracks at two places in India's eastern state of Bihar, a news report said.

Militants from the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) raided a camp of the Bihar Military Police in the Lakhisarai district and shot dead the four officers, the PTI news agency reported, quoting police officials.

At least three other policemen were injured in the gunbattle that erupted after the police attempted to repulse the guerrilla attack. About 200 rounds of gunfire were exchanged in the nearly three-hour battle, police said.

Before retreating, the militants looted some arms and ammunition and set fire to the main building in the camp.

The injured officers were taken to a district hospital.

After the attack, another group of Maoists blasted the tracks at two railway stations near Lakhisarai that led to a disruption of traffic on the route.

The rebels fired guns and detonated bombs to scare away railway staff before blowing up the tracks, railway official Ajay Verma told PTI.

Paramilitary forces and local police have launched a hunt to try to track down the rebels.
http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_163...our-Policemen-Blow-Up-Rail-Line-In-India.html

 

[dabong1]

Dozens die in India Maoist clash

Dozens of troops and Maoist insurgents have been killed in gun battles in the restive state of Chhattisgarh in central India, police say.
At least 23 soldiers and police - as well as dozens of Maoists - were found dead in jungles, they said.

The clashes occurred on Monday as more than 100 troops went to check reports of a rebel camp 500km (310 miles) south of the state capital, Raipur.

"It looks like it was a set-up," a home ministry official told AFP news agency.

'Security threat'

More than 6,000 people have died during the rebels' decades-long fight for a communist state in parts of India.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says the Maoists pose the most serious threat to national security in India.

They say they are fighting for the rights of poor peasants and landless workers.

In March, 55 policemen were killed in an attack on a security post, the worst Maoist assault in Chhattisgarh.

The rebels operate in 182 districts in India, mainly in the states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6288296.stm

 

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Dozens die in India Maoist clash

Dozens of troops and Maoist insurgents have been killed in gun battles in the restive state of Chhattisgarh in central India, police say.
At least 23 soldiers and police - as well as dozens of Maoists - were found dead in jungles, they said.

The clashes occurred on Monday as more than 100 troops went to check reports of a rebel camp 500km (310 miles) south of the state capital, Raipur.

"It looks like it was a set-up," a home ministry official told AFP news agency.

'Security threat'

More than 6,000 people have died during the rebels' decades-long fight for a communist state in parts of India.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says the Maoists pose the most serious threat to national security in India.

They say they are fighting for the rights of poor peasants and landless workers.

In March, 55 policemen were killed in an attack on a security post, the worst Maoist assault in Chhattisgarh.

The rebels operate in 182 districts in India, mainly in the states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6288296.stm

Loss of life is always saddening.

However, I have NO SYMPATHY for the Indian soldiers because they are part of a terrorist army that oppresses people. If the Indian army was not so belligerent and calleous, then I would feel bad for them. But in the end, you reap what you sow, and India has done nothing but brutally repress their minorities. One just has to take a look at the miserable plight of the Kashmiris, Dalits, Assamese, Maoists, Tamils, Sikhs, muslims, and those living in the seven sister states who dearly want Independence from the monster that is India.

Let's pray to Allah that independence happens for these nations. State sponsored terrorism which India engages in cannot prevail forever.

Hindustan Murdabad, inshAllah

 

[Adux]

I dont think Indian Army (which were not involved here by the way it was Paramilitary Soldiers) ... Anyways!!! We dont require your sympathies, suggestion please take care of your capital and blah blah and make sure your border doesnt get bombed by the Americans. Stop sending terrorist, atleast our army listens to the civilians unless like your's who overthrow's you democratic right and takes over the government and sells you to the americans...

SO in conclusion, you just aint at all by even a miniscule of a chance AT ALL IMPORTANT

 

[BATMAN]

More than 6,000 people have died during the rebels' decades-long fight for a communist state in parts of India.

This is ethnic cleanising and India perhaps is the only country in the modern world where such crimes are going on and on.
But again full credit to Indian media who down played such shames, I even doubt the figure of 6,000.

 

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Many dead in India Maoist attack

An attack by Maoist rebels in eastern India has killed at least 17 people, reports say.
At least 25 rebels attacked a cultural festival in the state of Jharkhand early on Saturday, firing on the crowd, India's Press Trust news agency said.

The son of ex-chief minister Babu Lal Marandi was attending the event.

The border with the neighbouring state of Bihar was sealed to prevent the rebels fleeing, police superintendent Arun Kumar Singh told the AFP agency.

The cultural festival followed a football match that was played on Friday afternoon.

Serious threat

"The police security personnel deployed left the place after the football match," Mr Singh told AFP. "They did wrong. They should have stayed."

Another four people were reported to have been injured in the attack.

Maoist rebels operate in 182 districts in India, mainly in the states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the Maoists pose the most serious threat to national security in India.

More than 6,000 people have died during the rebels' decades-long fight for a communist state in parts of India.

Its worse then iraq the killings in india......

 

[Flintlock]

Its worse then iraq the killings in india......

So I"m guessing that for you its the time to celebrate?

 

[Spring Onion]

Many dead in India Maoist attack

An attack by Maoist rebels in eastern India has killed at least 17 people, reports say.

10 were killed in yesterday's attack and scores were killed in attacks in recent past.

Maoist rebels operate in 182 districts in India, mainly in the states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal.

So it means eight states of India the Moist are operating

it is apart from other insurgencies going on in india

 

[Energon]

So it means eight states of India the Moist are operating

it is apart from other insurgencies going on in india

After the Islamist insurgency, I think the maoist one is the second largest.

 

[Flintlock]

The only way to quell the insurgency is development and better governance.

Until that happens, the poorest of the poor will continue to fight the establishment.

States like Jharkhand and Orissa have huge populations of poor tribals....and the state governments continue to sit on their arses.

 

[Spring Onion]

I think the maoist one is the second largest.

Energon its been a long time i guess so what has done so far to pacify the Moist and why exactly the Moist are fighting for freedom from India ????

 

[Flintlock]

Energon its been a long time i guess so what has done so far to pacify the Moist and why exactly the Moist are fighting for freedom from India ????

They are not fighting for freedom.

Their aim is to overthrow the government and form a Maoist state.

They are mostly poor tribals, who live in the forests and attack state employees and public gatherings.

They also extort locals regularly and attempt to run a parallel government with kangaroo courts.

Until the condition of these people is improved, these tribals will continue to join the insurgents.

They don't, however, enjoy much public support, since regular people consider them to be a nuisance.

However, now is the right time to act, and fast. Otherwise, they might reach the cities and cause havoc.

 

[Spring Onion]

The only way to quell the insurgency is development and better governance.

Until that happens, the poorest of the poor will continue to fight the establishment.

States like Jharkhand and Orissa have huge populations of poor tribals....and the state governments continue to sit on their arses.

Yes agreed that development should be launched by Govt of India for these poors.

If poverty is the only reason for Moist to fight against India than its easy to supress BUT than Poverty is everywhere in India why other people are not launching such fight if poverty is the only reason ???