Separatist Insurgencies in India - News and Discussions.

[Windjammer]

Aftermath of a Maoist attack on CRPF

 

[Marxist]

Thanks for our neighbors concern about our safety.there are some facts you should also learn
In 60's they were naxalites,in 80's came as Maoist Leninist,90's as peoples war group,and now as Maoists same old wine in new new bottles.what they can only do is place some land mines,assassinate some officers on duty.................and finally some peace process and enter into mainstream politics..just like George Fernandes who was also an extreme LEFT wing activist in his early years
these Maoists are 100% Indians not Tajikis,Uzbek or afghans so no worry for us

 

[karan.1970]

^^ dude, please understand. Pakistanis currently see no immidiate way out of the mess they are in. So the next best thing is to find problems in India and feel happy about the fact that they are not alone in the misery land.. Dont take even this away...

 

[Marxist]

GoI wont go hard at Maoist or tribals like some other governments or military are doing,we always opt the way of peace first just like we are dealing with our neighbors.
in the matter of Maoist activities, Art of Living Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said that the aim of eradicating misappropriation acceptable, but they should leave the path of violence . Guruji invited the Maoist leaders to a discussion with him to resolve the issue peacefully. "I request the Maoists to talk to us and leave the path of violence. Though the sole intention of the rebels is to work for the society, the path of violence which they have taken is not proper way. They should not kill police personnel who are only carrying out orders," said Guruji, who had successfully spoken to Maoists in Lalgarh and motivated them for negotiation with the government.

 

[Marxist]

^^ dude, please understand. Pakistanis currently see no immidiate way out of the mess they are in. So the next best thing is to find problems in India and feel happy about the fact that they are not alone in the misery land.. Dont take even this away...

ok dude i am leaving. let them stay happy discussing about the red mole in our hand, with out knowing cancer is killing them

 

[Fighter488]

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[Abu Zolfiqar]

Fresh Maoist attack in West Midnapore

Jhargram (WB), Feb 18 (PTI) In fresh Maoist violence in West Bengal, a patrolling party of the joint security forces came under fire in West Midnapore district today.

The attack came three days after the ultras stormed the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) camp at Shilda in the district leaving 24 jawans dead.

The attack took place when securitymen were on a search operation at a forested area in Banisole near Dharampur this morning where a camp of the joint security forces is situated, police sources said. The security forces retaliated.

At least three landmines also exploded in the area, the sources said, adding there was no report of any casualty.

Meanwhile, a CID team visited the Shilda camp where 24 EFR jawans were killed by Maoists on February 15 and collected samples. The team included CID Additional Director General Raj Kanojia and IG Neeraj Pande.

http://www.ptinews.com/news/523847_F...West-Midnapore


CPI(M) supporter shot dead

Purulia (WB), Feb 18 (PTI) Suspected Maoists shot dead a CPI(M) supporter in Naxalite-affected Bandwan area of Purulia district, the police said today.

The ultras raided Parra village last night and abducted two CPI(M) supporters.

The body of one of them, Nakul Singh (32) was found in a nearby jungle. However, there is no trace of the other man, they said.

http://www.ptinews.com/news/523848_C...rter-shot-dead

Maoists kill 12 in brutal revenge assault on Bihar village

PATNA: At least 12 villagers, including three women and one child, were killed in a brutal Maoist attack by nearly 150 heavily-armed rebels who stormed Phulwariya village in Bihar’s Jamui district late on Wednesday night.

Police sources in Jamui on Thursday said there was a possibility that the Maoists had abducted some villagers during the course of the strike, which came hot on the heels of the Maoist attack on the Eastern Frontier Rifles camp in Midnapore district of West Bengal three days ago.

According to ADG (Headquarters) U. S. Dutt, the ultras swooped down on the village firing indiscriminately and dynamiting houses, gutting 35 huts.

Of the 12 killed, six were Kora Adivasis while two were from so-called backward castes.

“Two bodies were charred beyond recognition, so it is not possible to ascertain whether they were tribals or belonged to the backward castes,” said Mr. Dutt.

Strongly condemning the violence, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has announced a compensation of Rs.1.5 lakh for the kin of each deceased, in addition to Rs.50,000 each from the Chief Minister’s Relief fund.

Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Dutt said the prime cause of the attack was that villagers of Phulwariya and surrounding areas had been opposing the naxals for some time.

“The Maoists had put up leaflets on village walls warning villagers not to side with the police. Apparently the ultras suspected them of handing eight of their comrades over to the police, which would then make it a ‘revenge’ attack,” said Mr. Dutt.

According to informed sources, the naxals’ objective was to hunt down their key ex-cadres who were believed to have been living in the village.

The Hindu : Front Page : Maoists kill 12 in brutal assault on Bihar village

 

[idune]

India’s Maoist dilemma: the case of Lalgarh

By Aaradhana Jhunjhunwala
Created 07/08/2009 - 18:01

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The ongoing security crisis in West Bengal exposes the cracks in Indian democracy, stemming from a volatile mix of poor governance, petty politics, and a fundamental breakdown in credibility -------------------------------------------------------------------

A battle rages on in the Indian state of West Bengal, between Maoist guerillas called the Naxalites (Naxalbari is the name of a village in West Bengal where the movement was born in 1967) and national and paramilitary forces. The Naxalites, a banned outfit deemed as "a terrorist organization" [1] by the central government, had proclaimed the Lalgarh [2] area of West Midnapore district in Bengal, with its 44 villages, a "liberated zone" on 16 June 2009.

Since then, state and national security personnel have been sent to flush out the Naxals and bring Lalgarh and its adjoining areas under the government's control. In the 20 days since the Special Forces were deployed, not a single Maoist leader has been arrested [3] in the area, besides the group's spokesperson in the city of Kolkata, some 200 kms from Lalgarh. The fear is that the guerilla fighters have retreated to jungles along West Bengal's border with the neighbouring state of Jharkhand and may return once the forces currently in Lalgarh withdraw.

Prelude to the siege

On 2 November 2008, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya traveled with 3 ministers of the central government in a high-security convoy through the south-west region of his state after inaugurating a steel plant. On its way to Kolkata from West Midnapore, the convoy narrowly missed being blown to bits by an improvised explosive device. When senior members of the government travel by road, a careful "sanitization" of the route is carried out. The fact that a crude bomb was triggered from a kilometer away through a wire running across open fields and narrowly missed the minister's cars, was a blatant reminder of the deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal.

The current crisis in Lalgarh is seen as a direct fallout of this attempt to blow up the ministers' cars. The West Bengal police, shamed by the audacity of the attack, allegedly arrested innocent young men and women in the Lalgarh area, accusing them of having links with Naxalites who had already claimed the bomb to be their handiwork. The police's repressive tactics and the unwillingness of local leaders to intervene on behalf of the people was the tipping point of the population's anger, which had built over years of similar experiences with the state's security officials.

Thereafter, the people of Lalgarh have been agitating both peacefully and often violently against policemen and politicians alike, leading up to the 16 June declaration of a liberated zone.

India's Maoists are not a newly formed group and do not have any direct links [4] with Maoist movements in neighboring countries such as Nepal. They are a domestic organization, although it remains unclear where contemporary militants purchase their weaponry from. Ever since the first Maoist uprising in Naxalbari in 1967, the movement has grown in size and covers one third of the country's districts [5], across 9 states. They are considered a major security threat to the country as acknowledged by successive national and state administrations and yet no concrete strategy to combat them has been undertaken.

The Maoists have spread across regions in central and eastern India where some of the country's poorest and most marginalised population is concentrated. Pratik Kanjilal [6] writes in the Hindustan Times that a map marking some of the least developed districts in the country would easily overlap those with Naxal activity.

A failure of governance and development

The current case of West Bengal is a little out of the ordinary. When the Communist Party of India (Marxist) first received a mandate to govern the eastern state in 1977, it was after the last remaining Naxalbari activists had been driven out of the state by the then chief minster of West Bengal, Siddhartha Shankar Ray of the Congress Party. The Marxists introduced land reforms benefiting many in rural Bengal who for generations had worked as landless laborers on farms owned by "zamindars", landlords.

Today, the Marxists take credit for rooting out Maoists from West Bengal, instead of acknowledging Ray's role and it is this imaginative history that contributed to the government's arrogant and complacent attitude to the renewed Naxal threat.

Falling behind on promises to develop rural infrastructure, to create jobs for people (the Indian governments National Rural Employment Guarantee Program [7] is yet to be implemented in the district) and to provide basic healthcare and education facilities are the root causes for disenchantment with the ruling government in West Bengal. Yet, as many commentators in the media point out, the West Bengal government could have saved these territories from falling in to the hands of the Maoists if they had woken up from their slumber when reports of Naxal activity began trickling in around 2004.

A South Asia Intelligence Review report from 2004 warns of a possible "Naxalbari Redux" [8] in Bengal and points out how the administration, including Chief Minister Bhattacharya were aware of growing discontent and violence in West Midnapore and its surrounding districts, yet chose to ignore them as minor, local protests. In an assessment of the ongoing stand off in Lalgarh, KPS Gill [9], one of the country's most well-respected police officers, blames the "state denial, appeasement and progressive error; paralysis in the face of rising Maoist violence," which allowed the group to spread its operations further in to Bengal. He also faults the lack of a comprehensive strategy to root out the Naxals; since the start of paramilitary operations, the rebels seem to have simply melted away into adjoining forests and even neighboring states.

It is not simply underdevelopment that lies at the heart of people's distress. Aditya Nigam [10] points out in the Tehelka magazine that the Left Front government has been nothing short of a totalitarian regime that allows no room for dissent and complaint. The party's cadres have been accused of high-handedness, bearing illegal arms, siphoning off state funds and preventing citizens from speaking out against the party. Their activities are unchecked by West Bengal's police force, which remains hijacked by the Left Front's leaders.

It is in this vacuum of a law and order system and out of fear of cadre violence and police brutality that the people of rural Bengal turned to groups such as the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PSBJC) [11], formed after last November's police brutalities in Lalgarh and eventually the Maoists, who claim to support the populace in its uprising against the state's hubris and complacency.

Playing politics with the Maoists

Bengal's main opposition party the Trinamool Congress and its leader Mamata Banerjee [12] picked up 19 seats in the recent national elections and is part of the coalition ruling at the centre. In her agitations [13] against state brutality in Nandigram in 2007 and against poor land acquisition policies in Singur in 2008, Banerjee is accused of receiving help from local Maoist groups. The PSBJC's convener, Chhatradhar Mahato was once a member of her party and his older brother is a high-ranking Maoist operative sought by the police. Hence, the Left Front has been quick to accuse Banerjee of allowing the Maoists to penetrate Bengal.

However, in an interview with Livemint [14], Koteswar Rao, head of guerilla operations for the CPI (Maoist) dismisses the claim that his group had been receiving support from the main opposition party in the state. The Maoists claim to support only the people, and in particular the adivasis or tribals in Lalgarh and its adjoining areas. However, CNN-IBN [15] has Rao on record saying that Banerjee should refrain from allowing the central government to send paramilitary forces to West Midnapore, as she would lose the people's support.

Whether Banerjee was seeking help from Maoists during her earlier agitations at Nandigram and Singur is unclear, yet many in Bengal's administration are more than convinced and accuse her of bringing the guerillas into the state's internal politics. Banerjee, now the Minister of Railways in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet, denies allegations of collusion with the Maoists for her own political gains. She points out the Left Front's poor governance and the poor behavior of its cadres as the primary reasons behind the unrest in Lalgarh. For the moment, she is happy to let the state government deal with the Maoists as she doesn't want either side to use her as a pawn to blame the consequences of their decisions on.

"Good" or "evil"?

The nature and organization of people's groups such as the PSBJC has been a matter of great debate in the Indian media. The Hoot [16], a media watchdog traces the different representations of the PSBJC in newspapers, blogs and magazines from across the country. Some commentators assume that the PSBJC is a front for the Maoists, but several others have been skeptical of such assumptions as they point to reports of the organization undertaking small-scale relief projects in West Midnapore since it began its agitation against the state police. While mainstream newspapers and news channels are sticking to the former line, bloggers [17] have written out against such an oversimplification.

Some extend this argument to the media's treatment of Maoists as well and claim that they cannot be labeled "terrorists" [18] all that easily. Writer and activist Arundhati Roy [19] has also warned the media and population at large of such a simplification of the Maoist movement in a recent article for Outlook magazine.

Nobody's battle, everyone's troubles

From being a bastion of the Left Front, Lalgarh has become the centre of a complicated battle involving a state government, its opposition, paramilitary forces, an elusive and banned guerilla group and most tragically, the local populace. The Left Front and its opposition continue to blame one another for resurgent Maoist activity in West Bengal; an elite paramilitary force tries to hunt down the Maoists with out any real action plan; and the state administration has still not acknowledged its poor governance record in West Midnapore or even announced any long term program of reform.

In the cross-fire between all these groups, the people of Lalgarh and its surrounding districts seem to have no one trustworthy to turn to who will deliver job security, roads, schools and hospitals along with access to a really democratic space where they may express their grievances freely without fear of being literally shot down. Simply flushing out the Maoist guerillas is no long term solution. The law of the land seems to have fled from the district some years ago, and no one has a roadmap for bringing it back.

India?s Maoist dilemma: the case of Lalgarh | openDemocracy

 

[Gazzi]

Suspected Maoist rebels have killed 11 people in an attack on a village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.

More than 100 rebels attacked Phulwaria Korasi village in Jamui district early Thursday morning, officials said.

The assailants blew up a house with explosives, set on fire nearly 30 mud huts with thatched roofs, and opened fire at the villagers.

More than 6,000 people have died during the rebels' 20-year fight for communist rule in many Indian states.

The Indian government recently began a major offensive against the rebels in several states.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the Maoist insurgency as India's "greatest internal security challenge".

The rebels now have a presence in 223 of India's 600-odd districts.

'Revenge attack'

The attackers reached the village, nearly 200 km (124 miles) from the state capital, Patna, after midnight, BBC Hindi's Manikant Thakur reports from Patna.

The rebels went around the village, setting homes ablaze and firing at people.

The village is only three km from a police camp, but residents alleged that the police did not arrive there for several hours.

According to reports, the villagers had killed eight rebels about a fortnight ago and Thursday morning's attack was believed to a revenge by the Maoists.

Local officials said the toll was expected to go up as several people were still unaccounted for.

Some reports said the rebels had abducted a few villagers, officials said.

On Monday, the Maoists attacked a camp of paramilitary forces in the neighbouring West Bengal state, killing 24 troops.

Nearly 50 rebels on motorcycles encircled the camp of the Eastern Frontier Rifles (ERF) at Silda village.

The state government has ordered an inquiry into the killings.

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BBC News - India Maoist attack kills 11 in Bihar village

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Things are looking very bad.....

 

[sarthak]

You mean your media has been ignoring this issue for decades but now it is becoming hard to ignore........



India is reaping what it sowed...........just as they are had done and are doing in other countries, quite obviously, they will do the same in India....its all a big game

Dude , do you have any idea regarding this issue? The maoists and naxals are not seperatists. They are not fighting for independence. They are fighting for the right of the poor ( as they claim). Otherwise , they are just a bunch of bandits who have acquired weapons. The only reason its taking a long time to finish them off is that they live in areas of civillian habilitation and any major attack on them would lead to the death of civilians

 

[Gazzi]

Dude , do you have any idea regarding this issue? The maoists and naxals are not seperatists. They are not fighting for independence. They are fighting for the right of the poor ( as they claim). Otherwise , they are just a bunch of bandits who have acquired weapons. The only reason its taking a long time to finish them off is that they live in areas of civillian habilitation and any major attack on them would lead to the death of civilians

 

[shchinese]

these freedom fighters are fighting for the basic rights of their own. such ongoing issues reflect the repression of the regime in new delhi placed onto its own people.

I would be happy if my government can provide these brave men and women all necessary weapons/funds/training to ensure one day they can all peacefully live on their own land under their own independent national flag.

 

[sab]

what wrong Sarthok has said???? Do you have smily syndrome?

yes, poors and oppressed class kicks the government in India, when government fails to deliver what is expected unlike some countries where people have lost their backbones to protest and take all misery and opression as their sealed fate.

 

[Gazzi]

these freedom fighters are fighting for the basic rights of their own. such ongoing issues reflect the repression of the regime in new delhi placed onto its own people.

I would be happy if my government can provide these brave men and women all necessary weapons/funds/training to ensure one day they can all peacefully live on their own land under their own independent national flag.

I agree........this people get treated very badly and should be given the every right to freedom from such a menace. New Delhi shouldn#t be allowed to be involved in their future and I think as China is closest, with Pakistan and other countries do just that in arming these people to fight for the given right freedom where they do not get treated badly or have to beg New Delhi for basic needs

 

[Veer]

I agree........this people get treated very badly and should be given the every right to freedom from such a menace. New Delhi shouldn#t be allowed to be involved in their future and I think as China is closest, with Pakistan and other countries do just that in arming these people to fight for the given right freedom where they do not get treated badly or have to beg New Delhi for basic needs

So u are confessing that government of Pakistan and China are arming terrorist in India.

Basic rights??????? You know more about India while sitting in Pakistan than Indians, first give rights to poor baluchis.


The maoist blows schools.

The maoist blows hospitals.

The maoist blows police stations.

The maoist blows trains.

The maoist kills engineers so that no roads can be build.

The maoist burns the factories.

The maoist massacres tribal.

The maoist burns the banks.


And still u says they are fighting for development and basic rights.


No, Maoists are terrorists supported by some jealous neighbors as u yourself have confessed.


Why likes of China arming Maoits?

1. To slow down Indian growth.

2. There are one of the biggest mineral and other natural resources in the forest areas the enemy of India don't want that India start extracting its wealth to eradicate poverty and progress.