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Indian PM says fight against Maoists is failing

wow...that's a big surprise to me. I always have an impression that India being a democracy country it will never has such scale of social unrest. ..especially many Indian pointed out that comparing with India, social unrest in China is the biggest disadvantage to China and that's one of the most important reason why India will be a winner in the long run.
But now India is having not unrest but rebel already??? Compare social unrest with rebel which one you want to have if you have no choice but choose one?
And seems some Indian TV is already showing some video to prove that China is providing trainging to those rebellion forces...hmmm, if that's true I think PM Singh should told this to China instead of his police chiefs.

Sir its a braking news. Goverment had not seen yet but i doubt india would do much as we dont like war but china seems like wants war. The video is proof sir. What it also tells is that china dont want direct war with india so war indirectly through maoists and terrorists is easy way for china sir.
 
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:) And if straining Indo-Chinese relations is patriotism for Times now then i will say :tup: keep it up.


I agree with your assesment about this channel as i have seen the war mongering bow bow of this channel

Yep mam. Even i dont like watching this news channel because it shows how much india is helpless. Other channels shows what india doing to counter threat. There are times when i change channel when i see times now keep provoking indian's and labelling them loosers. Times now the one yesterday said its imposible common wealth games would be completed before march 2010. They called india loosers. i wish times now will stop provoking indian people mam.
 
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Orissa Govt. provides land to CRPF for COBRA battalion in Koraput

Report by Orissadiary correspondent; Koraput: The State Government geared up its machineries to acquire land for the CRPF where it can set up its Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA). With the help of the State Government, the CRPF has acquired land in Koraput for setting up the operational headquarters of its anti-Maoists force COBRA. In order to coordinate its anti-Maoists operation, another operational headquarters will come up in Chhattisgarh. However, the main headquarters of COBRA is located in Delhi.
Earlier, then Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil had requested Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to provide land for the battalion, keeping in view the long-term requirements. The Chief Minister, in turn, promised land, free of cost. A large contingent of Central Police Forces (CPF), that includes CRPF, BSF, CISF and other forces, are posted in Koraput as Maoists activities have increased over the years.
Naveen had also requested the Union Home Minister to enhance the reimbursement amount under security related expenditure scheme to Rs 20 crore from the existing Rs 15 crore to continue with anti-Maoists operations.
 
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COBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action)

COBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) is a specialized unit of the CRPF created to counter the Naxalite problem in India. This specialized CRPF unit is the only paramilitary force in the country that is specifically trained in guerilla warfare. This elite fighting unit has been trained to track, hunt and eliminate small Naxalite groups.

Cobra is the best-equipped paramilitary unit in the country, set up with a grant of Rs 1300 crore from the Central government. They have been armed like a regular infantry platoon with light mortars, machine guns, rocket launchers, INSAS rifles, FN 35 and Glock pistols, Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns and Carl Gustav recoilless rifle.

Cobras also have hi-tech electronic surveillance equipment and well-trained sniper teams, armed with Dragunov SVD, Mauser SP66 and Heckler & Koch MSG-90 sniper rifles.

Cobras are trained in the Army’s elite Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School in Mizoram and CRPF’s anti terrorist school in Silchar.

They are adept in the art of camouflage and jungle warfare. Their role is to carry out long range patrols, gather intelligence on the whereabouts of the insurgents, and also carry out ambushes and precision strikes when required. Their sniper teams can also be used to neutralise key targets.
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a COBRA Commando
 
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Sir its a braking news. Goverment had not seen yet but i doubt india would do much as we dont like war but china seems like wants war. The video is proof sir. What it also tells is that china dont want direct war with india so war indirectly through maoists and terrorists is easy way for china sir.

You can only Imagine this video to be a real footage. There might be some hints of Training Camps in Yunnan but this Video need not necessarily be the original footage. This wasn't a hidden camera nor taken from Mobile Phone but it is a proper video shot by some professional with proper equipment. Would you think Chinese would only train those rebels and would have let doors of training camps open for your camera team to be there and make this Breaking News later at TV?

If China is involved, I would be happy because India would need to focus most of its intelligence power back to its own territory and this will result in peace in Baluchistan and rest of the country. What goes around, comes around! Welcome to Terrorism.
 
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You can only Imagine this video to be a real footage. There might be some hints of Training Camps in Yunnan but this Video need not necessarily be the original footage. This wasn't a hidden camera nor taken from Mobile Phone but it is a proper video shot by some professional with proper equipment. Would you think Chinese would only train those rebels and would have let doors of training camps open for your camera team to be there and make this Breaking News later at TV?

If China is involved, I would be happy because India would need to focus most of its intelligence power back to its own territory and this will result in peace in Baluchistan and rest of the country. What goes around, comes around! Welcome to Terrorism.

Sir china knows what's it doing. They want india to see how they training maoists and terrorist. India will return favour in few years. Now question is how. The best way to answer is building tibet freedom fighters but it wont be in open as india knew what to do. About balochistan sir what can i say in that.
 
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man, Why India can't take care of these Maoists???:blah:


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man, Why India can't take care of these Maoists???:blah:


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They are hiding in jungles all over the country, and have plus 10000 members.

Police are too under equipped to deal with them.
So every time Para military forces have to be sent in,

Defeating the Maoists will require full cooperation across all agencies,

And the need for Undercover operatives with in the Maoists. to reveal their locations and hideouts.

The Naxal eradication will take a good decade to achieve completely.

The Naxal's are fighting back like a wounded animal so violence is on the rise.

Now that India is actively focused on this problem, Its only a mater of time and resources.

eventually Naxals will either give up or die trying.
 
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40,000 sq km under Naxal control, govt tells Par panel

PTI 16 September 2009, 08:24pm IST


NEW DELHI: Left wing extremists are calling the shots in 40,000 sq kilometre area in Naxal affected states where the government has no control, a
Parliamentary panel was informed on Wednesday.

Home secretary G K Pillai told the first meeting of Parliament's Standing Committee on Home Affairs that the problem of Maoists was growing rapidly and needed urgent action.

At the three-hour meeting the panel, headed by BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu, was briefed by the ministry officials about the overall internal security situation with particular focus on the Naxal menace.

Home minister P Chidambaram has said Naxalism has spread to 20 states across the country with over 2,000 police station areas in 223 districts partially or substantially affected.

The meeting of the Parliamentary panel came a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Left wing extremism as the gravest internal security threat and called for a nuanced strategy to tackle the problem.

"We have not achieved as much success as we would have liked in containing it. It is a matter of concern that despite our efforts, the level of violence in the affected states continues to rise," he had told a conference here of all state police chiefs.
40,000 sq km under Naxal control, govt tells Par panel - India - NEWS - The Times of India
 
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40,000 sq km under Naxal control, govt tells Par panel

PTI 16 September 2009, 08:24pm IST


NEW DELHI: Left wing extremists are calling the shots in 40,000 sq kilometre area in Naxal affected states where the government has no control, a
Parliamentary panel was informed on Wednesday.

Home secretary G K Pillai told the first meeting of Parliament's Standing Committee on Home Affairs that the problem of Maoists was growing rapidly and needed urgent action.

At the three-hour meeting the panel, headed by BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu, was briefed by the ministry officials about the overall internal security situation with particular focus on the Naxal menace.

Home minister P Chidambaram has said Naxalism has spread to 20 states across the country with over 2,000 police station areas in 223 districts partially or substantially affected.

The meeting of the Parliamentary panel came a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Left wing extremism as the gravest internal security threat and called for a nuanced strategy to tackle the problem.

"We have not achieved as much success as we would have liked in containing it. It is a matter of concern that despite our efforts, the level of violence in the affected states continues to rise," he had told a conference here of all state police chiefs.
40,000 sq km under Naxal control, govt tells Par panel - India - NEWS - The Times of India

I guess there is a long road ahead of India

Its going to take this decade to get done but hopefully all these naxals can be dealt with by then
 
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Maoist Rebels Widen Deadly Reach Across India

November 1, 2009

Jim Yardley

BARSUR, India — At the edge of the Indravati River, hundreds of miles from the nearest international border, India effectively ends. Indian paramilitary officers point machine guns across the water. The dense jungles and mountains on the other side belong to Maoist rebels dedicated to overthrowing the government. Indigenous women walked to a market in Chattisgarh State, where villagers are caught between the Indian government and Maoist rebels.

“That is their liberated zone,” said P. Bhojak, one of the officers stationed at the river’s edge in this town in the eastern state of Chattisgarh. Or one piece of it. India’s Maoist rebels are now present in 20 states and have evolved into a potent and lethal insurgency. In the last four years, the Maoists have killed more than 900 Indian security officers, a figure almost as high as the more than 1,100 members of the coalition forces killed in Afghanistan during the same period. If the Maoists were once dismissed as a ragtag band of outdated ideologues, Indian leaders are now preparing to deploy nearly 70,000 paramilitary officers for a prolonged counterinsurgency campaign to hunt down the guerrillas in some of the country’s most rugged, isolated terrain.

For India, the widening Maoist insurgency is a moment of reckoning for the country’s democracy and has ignited a sharp debate about where it has failed. In the past, India has tamed some secessionist movements by coaxing rebel groups into the country’s big-tent political process. The Maoists, however, do not want to secede or be absorbed. Their goal is to topple the system. Once considered Robin Hood figures, the Maoists claim to represent the dispossessed of Indian society, particularly the indigenous tribal groups, who suffer some of the country’s highest rates of poverty, illiteracy and infant mortality.

Many intellectuals and even some politicians once sympathized with their cause, but the growing Maoist violence has forced a wrenching reconsideration of whether they can still be tolerated. “The root of this is dispossession and deprivation,” said Ramachandra Guha, a prominent historian based in Bangalore. “The Maoists are an ugly manifestation of this. This is a serious problem that is not going to disappear.” India’s rapid economic growth has made it an emerging global power but also deepened stark inequalities in society. Maoists accuse the government of trying to push tribal groups off their land to gain access to raw materials and have sabotaged roads, bridges and even an energy pipeline. If the Maoists’ political goals seem unattainable, analysts warn they will not be easy to uproot, either.

Here in the state of Chattisgarh, Maoists dominate thousands of square miles of territory and have pushed into neighboring states of Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra, part of a so-called Red Corridor stretching across central and eastern India. Violence erupts almost daily. In the past five years, Maoists have detonated more than 1,000 improvised explosive devices in Chattisgarh. Within the past two weeks, Maoists have burned two schools in Jharkhand, hijacked and later released a passenger train in West Bengal while also carrying out a raid against a West Bengal police station. Efforts are under way to open peace negotiations, but as yet remain stalemated. With the government offensive drawing closer, the people who feel most at risk are the tribal villagers who live in the forests of Chattisgarh, where the police and Maoists, sometimes called Naxalites, are already skirmishing

Earlier,” said one villager, “we used to fear the tigers and wild boars. Now we fear the guns of the Naxalites and the police.” The counterinsurgency campaign, called Operation Green Hunt, calls for sending police and paramilitary forces into the jungles to confront the Maoists and drive them out of newer footholds toward remote forest areas where they can be contained. “It may take one year, two years, three years or four,” predicted Vishwa Ranjan, chief of the state police in Chattisgarh, adding that casualties would be inevitable. “There is no zero casualty doctrine,” he said. Once an area is cleared, the plan also calls for introducing development projects such as roads, bridges and schools in hopes of winning support of the tribal people. Also known as adivasis, they have faced decades of exploitation from local officials, moneylenders and private contractors, numerous government reports have found. “The adivasis are the group least incorporated into India’s political economy,” said Ashutosh Varshney, an India specialist at Brown University, calling their plight one of the “unfinished quests of Indian democracy.” The Maoist movement first coalesced after a violent 1967 uprising by local Communists over a land dispute in a West Bengal village known as Naxalbari, hence the name Naxalites.

Some Communists would enter the political system; today, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is an influential political force that holds power in West Bengal. But others went underground, and by the 1980s, many found sanctuary in Chattisgarh, especially in the region across from the Indravati River known as Abhujmad. From here, the Maoists recruited and trained disgruntled tribal villagers and slowly spread out. For years, the central government regarded them as mostly a nuisance. But in 2004, the movement radicalized, authorities say, when its two dominant wings merged with the more violent Communist Party of India (Maoist).
A woman stepped over a downed tree in a village in Maharashtra State. Maoist rebels have sabotaged roads in their campaign to topple the government. Authorities in Chattisgarh then deputized and armed civilian posses, which have been accused by human rights groups of terrorizing innocent villagers and committing atrocities of their own in the name of hunting Maoists. Now, violence is frequent, if unpredictable, like the ambush near the village of Laheri, in Maharashtra State, carried out by the Maoists on Oct. 8.

That morning, following a tip, a police patrol chased two Maoist fighters and stumbled into a trap. Two hundred Maoists with rifles and machine guns lay waiting and opened fire when the officers came into an exposed area of rice paddies. Seventeen officers died, fighting for hours until they ran out of ammunition.

“They surrounded us from every side,” said Ajay Bhushari, 31, who survived the ambush and is now the commanding officer in Laheri. “They were just stronger. They had more people.”

The Maoists felled trees across the only road leading to the village. The police, already wary of using roads because of improvised explosive devices, marched their reinforcements 10 miles through the jungle, arriving too late at the scene.

Officer Bhushari said violence in the area had risen so sharply that the police now left the fortified defenses of their outpost only in large groups, even for social outings. The Maoists also killed 31 police officers from other nearby outposts in attacks in February and May.

“It’s an open jail for us,” he said. “Either we are sitting here, or we are on patrol. There is nothing else.”

About 40 miles from Laheri, a processing plant owned by Essar Steel has been closed for five months. Maoists sabotaged Essar’s 166-mile underground pipeline, which transfers slurry from one of India’s most coveted iron ore deposits to the Bay of Bengal. “I’ve told my management that I’ll take a team and do the repairs,” said S. Ramesh, the project manager for Essar. “But I can’t promise how long it will last.”

The Essar plant is part of broader undertaking by the government and several private mining companies to extract the resources beneath land teeming with guerrillas. Mr. Ramesh said 70 percent of India’s iron ore lay in states infiltrated by Maoists; production in this area is stalled at 16 million tons a year even though the area has the potential to produce 100 million tons.

Mr. Ramesh fretted that India’s growth would be stunted if the country could not exploit its own natural resources. Yet he also cautioned that the counterinsurgency operation was no cure-all. “That alone is not going to help,” he said. “We are not fighting an enemy here. We are fighting citizens.”

With police officers dying in large numbers and Maoists carrying out bolder attacks, the debate around the insurgency has sharpened in India’s intellectual salons and on the opinion pages and talk shows.

The writer Arundhati Roy recently called for unconditional talks and told CNN-IBN that the Maoists were justified in taking up arms because of government oppression. Others who are sympathetic to the plight of the adivasis say the Maoist violence has become intolerable.

“You can’t defend the tactics,” said Mr. Varshney, the Brown University professor. “No modern state can accept attacks on state institutions, even when the state is wrong.”

Local people are caught in the middle. On a recent market day in the village of Palnar, women balancing urns of water on their heads and bare-footed, emaciated men came out of the forests to shop for vegetables, nuts or a ******* fruit fermented to produce local liquor. As peddlers spread their wares over blankets, the nearby government office was locked behind a closed gate.

“It’s a bad situation,” said one villager who asked not to be identified, fearing retribution from both sides. “The Naxalite activities have increased. They have their meetings in the village. They tell the people they have to fight. The people here do not vote out of fear.”

Another man arrived on a motorcycle from a more distant village. Several months ago, the police raided his village and arrested more than a dozen people after accusing them of being collaborators. A few were Maoist sympathizers, the man on the motorcycle said, but most were wrongly swept up in the raid. Now, Operation Green Hunt portends more confrontation.

“Life is very difficult,” the man said. “The Naxalites think we are helping the police. The police think we are helping the Naxalites. We are living in fear over who will kill us first.”
 
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C'mon, fight against Maoists has just started. I hope the current GoI cleans all traces of Maoists.
 
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C'mon, fight against Maoists has just started. I hope the current GoI cleans all traces of Maoists.

India is a little too late to react on that. Wikipedia mentions more than 40% of Indian territory has their influence which is shocking. And when they are in such a large number, India would need 20 years to eliminate them. They are not Sikhs neither they are Kashmires who only affected one state. Indian leaders must have been enjoying the Glorious India while Maoists kept increasing their influence in more and more stats.
 
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C'mon, fight against Maoists has just started. I hope the current GoI cleans all traces of Maoists.

HAHAHA, your police force are under equipped to fight GUERRILLAS? So all that money goes in to buy MKI jets but no guns? What is this, an air show?
 
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