India Offers Surrender Package To Maoists

[GUNNER]

India Offers Surrender Package For Maoists

KOLKATA, India, July 29, 2010 (AFP) - One of India's states worst-hit by Maoist violence has offered more than 2,000 dollars to each rebel who surrenders their weapons and gives up the fight, police said Thursday.

The state government in West Bengal has promised a bank account with a deposit of 100,000 rupees (2,140 dollars), as well as job training and employment opportunities.

"The state promises to take care of them," senior police officer Surajit Kur Purkayastha told AFP on Thursday. "We will continue our fight but there are many Maoists who are keen to surrender. We are giving them a chance to change." The Maoists are fighting government rule in a large swathe of eastern and central India with support from landless tribal groups and poor farmers who have been left behind by economic development.

Their insurgency, which first erupted in 1967 in a village in West Bengal, has spread to 20 of India's 29 states and been described by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the country's largest internal security threat.

Similar rehabilitation packages have been introduced in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh and the eastern state of Chhattisgarh, both of which face a significant Maoist threat.

The government launched a major offensive last year to tackle the left-wing rebels, but top officials have warned that it could take between five and seven years to fully quell the insurgency.

In retaliation, the rebels have killed over 100 police officers in the last four months and in May the insurgents were blamed for derailing a Kolkata to Mumbai passenger train, killing nearly 150.

 

[SHHHHH]

India Offers Surrender Package For Maoists

KOLKATA, India, July 29, 2010 (AFP) - One of India's states worst-hit by Maoist violence has offered more than 2,000 dollars to each rebel who surrenders their weapons and gives up the fight, police said Thursday.

The state government in West Bengal has promised a bank account with a deposit of 100,000 rupees (2,140 dollars), as well as job training and employment opportunities.

"The state promises to take care of them," senior police officer Surajit Kur Purkayastha told AFP on Thursday. "We will continue our fight but there are many Maoists who are keen to surrender. We are giving them a chance to change." The Maoists are fighting government rule in a large swathe of eastern and central India with support from landless tribal groups and poor farmers who have been left behind by economic development.

Their insurgency, which first erupted in 1967 in a village in West Bengal, has spread to 20 of India's 29 states and been described by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the country's largest internal security threat.

Similar rehabilitation packages have been introduced in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh and the eastern state of Chhattisgarh, both of which face a significant Maoist threat.

The government launched a major offensive last year to tackle the left-wing rebels, but top officials have warned that it could take between five and seven years to fully quell the insurgency.

In retaliation, the rebels have killed over 100 police officers in the last four months and in May the insurgents were blamed for derailing a Kolkata to Mumbai passenger train, killing nearly 150.

Its a better way to tackle them.Hope it works.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

It's a good strategy.

It's the "carrot and stick" approach.

If they cooperate, they will be rewarded. If they don't, they will be punished.

This might even split the Maoist movement in half...

 

[su-47]

It's a good strategy.

It's the "carrot and stick" approach.

If they cooperate, they will be rewarded. If they don't, they will be punished.

This might even split the Maoist movement in half...

Exactly. best way to destroy an insurgency is get to the root of it and destroy it from there. Maoists are fighting for the rights and opportunities of the poor. a worthy cause, but the wrong way to achieve it. by offering them monetary incentives, we can erode their support base. we can create traitors and deserters within their ranks, crippling them.

Hope this plan works. Maoism is india's worst threat, and if we take them out, it will only do us a whole lot of good. and once we take them out, we should ensure that it never raises its ugly head again, by actually giving the poor opportunities and prevent their exploitation.

 

[Mirza Jatt]

finally..somthing wise coming from the Govt.

 

[Mirza Jatt]

read this guys...

zonal commander surrenders with wepaons in Jharkhand TODAY.

The Hindu : News / National : Maoist leader surrenders in Jharkhand

 

[baker]

Exactly. best way to destroy an insurgency is get to the root of it and destroy it from there. Maoists are fighting for the rights and opportunities of the poor. a worthy cause, but the wrong way to achieve it. by offering them monetary incentives, we can erode their support base. we can create traitors and deserters within their ranks, crippling them.

Hope this plan works. Maoism is india's worst threat, and if we take them out, it will only do us a whole lot of good. and once we take them out, we should ensure that it never raises its ugly head again, by actually giving the poor opportunities and prevent their exploitation.

100% agree with u on the bold part.....
and most importanly center govt should be directly involve in this issue rather than giving the power to corrupted state politicians who always trying to loot money from poor

 

[canadakz]

Not going to happen even if China ends their support to maoist. You guy have to understand the thinking process of the west. When they needed China against USSR, they mute main stream media from reporting Dalai Lama and east turkistan movement. Government officials will not public support the separatist groups either unlike now. however, the west continues to deliver minimal financial aid to the two group so that one day when enemy number one is gone, such terrorist organization will cause trouble to enemy number two. It only a matter of priority, currently both russia and china are viewed as enemy number one, india's growing strength will eventually threaten the west. so unless india turns completely pro-west like south korea and singapore or she allow the usa to have permanent base in her territory. maoist will continue to fight for the goal.
If you want to argue that western countries are supporting Dalai Lama and east turkistan movement for human right, democracy and other bullshit while they support india because india is a democracy and maoists are communist, you cannot be more wrong. There is solid evidence that east turkistan movement is trained and financed and led by taliban who is in a war with the west. nonetheless it does not hinder CIA, MI5, MI6 and other western agencies from financing east turkistan movement.
Russia is a democracy (something many in the west conveniently forget), yet the west has tried very hard in the past 20 year to push back its sphere of influence and encircle it with pro-western countries and BMD.
As long as a country is potentially a threat to the west, they will do everything they can to prevent the threat becoming a reality. although the west is very close with india these days, before 1989 when soviet collapse became inevitable, (many say the june 6th incident played a part, but i say it just gives the west an excuse since the US needed china more than china needed the US were the USSR still powerful) USA was ready to offer china F16 and F15, the most advanced fighter is had at that time. If you look back further, west sold USSR countless military technologies to counter the Nazis prior to WW2. If you look back even further, USA financed the nazi regime since the beginning before the great depression while UK and france tolerated hitler breaking the versaille treaty all in hope of counter-balancing the USSR.

 

[baker]

Not going to happen even if China ends their support to maoist. You guy have to understand the thinking process of the west. When they needed China against USSR, they mute main stream media from reporting Dalai Lama and east turkistan movement. Government officials will not public support the separatist groups either unlike now. however, the west continues to deliver minimal financial aid to the two group so that one day when enemy number one is gone, such terrorist organization will cause trouble to enemy number two. It only a matter of priority, currently both russia and china are viewed as enemy number one, india's growing strength will eventually threaten the west. so unless india turns completely pro-west like south korea and singapore or she allow the usa to have permanent base in her territory. maoist will continue to fight for the goal.
If you want to argue that western countries are supporting Dalai Lama and east turkistan movement for human right, democracy and other bullshit while they support india because india is a democracy and maoists are communist, you cannot be more wrong. There is solid evidence that east turkistan movement is trained and financed and led by taliban who is in a war with the west. nonetheless it does not hinder CIA, MI5, MI6 and other western agencies from financing east turkistan movement.
Russia is a democracy (something many in the west conveniently forget), yet the west has tried very hard in the past 20 year to push back its sphere of influence and encircle it with pro-western countries and BMD.
As long as a country is potentially a threat to the west, they will do everything they can to prevent the threat becoming a reality. although the west is very close with india these days, before 1989 when soviet collapse becomes inevitable, (many say the june 6th incident played a part, but i say it just gives the west an excuse since the US needed china more than china needed the US were the USSR still powerful) USA was ready to offer china F16 and F15, the most advanced fighter is had at that time.

and ur valuable reply is about what...?

 

[canadakz]

and ur valuable reply is about what...?

Maoist will not accept the surrender package, neither china nor the west will not let those happen, just like dalai lama is not ready to sign any treaty with the chinese government. (India and the west will not allow it)

 

[Awesome]

What if they surrender, take the money and go back to fighting?

Bad idea.

 

[Hafizzz]

India Offers Surrender Package For Maoists

KOLKATA, India, July 29, 2010 (AFP) - One of India's states worst-hit by Maoist violence has offered more than 2,000 dollars to each rebel who surrenders their weapons and gives up the fight, police said Thursday.

The state government in West Bengal has promised a bank account with a deposit of 100,000 rupees (2,140 dollars), as well as job training and employment opportunities.

"The state promises to take care of them," senior police officer Surajit Kur Purkayastha told AFP on Thursday. "We will continue our fight but there are many Maoists who are keen to surrender. We are giving them a chance to change." The Maoists are fighting government rule in a large swathe of eastern and central India with support from landless tribal groups and poor farmers who have been left behind by economic development.

Their insurgency, which first erupted in 1967 in a village in West Bengal, has spread to 20 of India's 29 states and been described by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the country's largest internal security threat.

Similar rehabilitation packages have been introduced in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh and the eastern state of Chhattisgarh, both of which face a significant Maoist threat.

The government launched a major offensive last year to tackle the left-wing rebels, but top officials have warned that it could take between five and seven years to fully quell the insurgency.

In retaliation, the rebels have killed over 100 police officers in the last four months and in May the insurgents were blamed for derailing a Kolkata to Mumbai passenger train, killing nearly 150.

LOL. Why would the Indian Maoist accept the package when they are not the one losing the fight ????

I predict in the near future it will be the Naxals ruling India.

 

[baker]

Maoist will not accept the surrender package, neither china nor the west will not let those happen, just like dalai lama is not ready to sign any treaty with the chinese government. (India and the west will not allow it)

whether the influenze from chineese exists or not , we should accept the fact , there are poor people is being looting by many landlords and sadly many of these landlords are having good connection with state/center politics..

once we save those poor farmers from those bas**ds , no country can influense or start a revolution against our goverment...

 

[navtrek]

Maoist will not accept the surrender package, neither china nor the west will not let those happen, just like dalai lama is not ready to sign any treaty with the chinese government. (India and the west will not allow it)

As far as i know China has nothing big to do with the Maoists And even if there was any such relation its only ideological.

These people are peasants and farmers with families so they will surrender. Getting China and West in this is all just a conspiracy theory.

 

[navtrek]

What if they surrender, take the money and go back to fighting?

Bad idea.

Its a worthy idea as for most people this is only a struggle for bread and butter and a better life