Insurgent & Secessionist movements in India

[CaptainJackSparrow]

India's help during LTTE war reduced pressure: Sri Lanka​

Terming India its "closest ally", Sri Lanka has said its support during the war with the LTTE helped "reduce the pressure" mounted by the world community and allowed it to proceed with humanitarian operations in the war-ravaged north unhindered.

"The relationship developed over the past four years with our closest ally, India helped us in many ways in our war against terrorism," the powerful Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said.

India's support greatly helped "reduce the pressure mounted by other nations," which allowed us to proceed with our humanitarian operations unhindered, Rajapaksa the brother of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in Colombo on Sunday in Colombo.

"It is very important that we strengthen this key relationship even further in the years to come," he said while speaking at a function in Colombo.

India's help during LTTE war reduced pressure: Sri Lanka

 

[Ammyy]

im just postin the news, dude....(indian sources too)

but one things for sure -- naxal killed more indian citizens than Pakistanis or "JuD" or whoever else did. Keep it in mind.

it would be "batter" if you focused on your internal issues, as we should do with ours.

I really like your last line

thanks for advise

"naxal killed more indian citizen than Pakistanis killed by terrorist"

I dnt think you need source for your funny claim ... In Pakistan bomb blast become daily routine (i am not making fun of this but this is a hard fact and you have to accept this )

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

talk about a sign of weakness. It shows by your failed argument. I raised a point you failed to contradict. So you resort to deflection tactics. Sorry kiddo it doesn't work here. Even ur PM realized the internal threat posed by your naxals.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Bomb Explosion During President's Visit to Manipur

Imphal, Mar 11 (PTI) A powerful bomb explosion took place near the Raj Bhavan here, where President Pratibha Patil is staying, officials said today.

The bomb, allegedly planted by militants, went off at 11 PM last night at Ananda Singh Academy, about 2 km from Raj Bhavan, where the President was staying, they said.

No casualty was, however, reported in the blast.

Patil is on a two-day visit to Manipur.

Police and central forces are conducting round the clock patrolling and forces were deployed at all vulnerable points.

President will today lay the foundation stone of an Information Technology Park at Mantripukhri near here, officials said.

Patil would also meet representatives of some social organisations before leaving for Delhi at 11 AM, the sources said.

Meanwhile, normal life was paralysed in the city following the 40-hour strike called by Manipur People's Liberation Front (MPLF) to boycott the President's visit.

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[Abu Zolfiqar]

Suspected Maoist Arrested, Explosives Seized

Ranchi, (PTI) Police today recovered various explosives after arresting a suspected Maoist near Kodombo village, about 70 km from here, officials said.

Ganesh Lohra, 18, was arrested during raids and he guided the police to a place in the village where 332 explosive boosters and 15 metre codex wire were buried by the Maoists, they said.

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[monitor]

India grappling with Maoist insurgency

The rebellion will continue although at the moment it seems relatively quiescent. Are the government's policies beginning to work at last?

Jonathan Power

It was only three years ago that India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was telling me that the situation among the tribal peoples in the so-called "red corridor" in eastern and central India where armed Maoist agitators are rife was "more hopeful than six months ago." He was proud that his government had taken the important step of giving these forest peoples the right to tenure. Now, with individual rights sanctified in law, the way was open to a more productive settled agriculture. He argued that a mixture of good policing and an active development program would get on top of the Maoist rebellion.
Three years later the government has been publicly ringing its hands. Just a week after Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram had made the rounds of state governments facing the Maoists, telling the chief minister of West Bengal that "the buck stops with the chief minister," a Maoist brigade of a thousand guerrillas active in the remote Dantewada district in the nearby state of Chhattisgarh knocked off 76 specially trained armed policeman in an ambush. It was the worst loss in the four decade-long insurgency. The government like it or not, is now up to its neck in the problem. Chidambaram has been compelled to supplement state police and paramilitary troops with an additional 15,000 trained troops, taking the total to around 75,000.
The prime minister has declared that the Maoists are "the single greatest threat to India's internal security." By implication he was saying this dwarfs the far more politically sensitive issue of Pakistani militants and their attacks on places like the Taj and Oberoi hotels in Mumbai two years ago when 173 died and which still poisons the relationship between India and Pakistan. Indeed, according to journalist Samar Halarnkar who tracks the figures for The Hindustani Times, between January 2007 and February 2010 jihad attacks took 436 lives. The Maoists claimed they had killed 1,524 in the same period. If one compares the Maoist organization with the Pakistani-based Jihad movements like Lashkar-e-Taiba, which from time to time spread terror in India, there is no comparison. The Maoists have a much wider network and the ability to inflict a far greater damage. Between 2004 and 2009 they overran the towns of Jehanabad in Bihar, Nayargarh and Koraput in Orissa and Sankrail in West Bengal. They have hijacked trains in Jharkhand numerous times.
In many areas the Maoists have created base areas, liberated zones, raised taxes and run parallel courts.
Perhaps one should not be surprised that recently Prime Minister Singh said "no quarter" will be offered the Maoists. An unusually mild man, it appears that he is badly rattled and worried that the politics of it all is getting out of hand. Is he declaring a no-holds barred war? I doubt it, but his rough rhetoric is open to that interpretation, at least by the Maoists who must love him for it.
Shortly after the massacre of the soldiers, the Booker prize-winning novelist, Arundhati Roy, found her way to Dantewada, near the site of the encounter between the paramilitaries and the guerrillas. She described it as "a border town smack in the heart of India. It's the epicenter of a war. It's an upside down, inside out town. The police wear plain clothes and the rebels wear uniforms. The jail superintendent is in jail. The prisoners are free (three hundred of them escaped from the old town jail two years ago). Women who have been raped are in police custody. The rapists give speeches in the bazaar."
"It's easier on the liberal conscience", she writes, "to forget that tribal people in central India have a history of resistance that predates Mao by centuries. (That's a truism of course. If they didn't, they wouldn't exist.) They have rebelled several times, against the British, against zamindars and moneylenders. The rebellions were cruelly crushed, many thousands killed, but the people were never conquered. After independence, tribal people were at the heart of the first uprising that could be described as Maoist, in Naxalbari village in West Bengal. Since then, Naxalite politics has been inextricably entwined with tribal uprisings, which says as much about the tribals as it does about the Naxalites."
The rebellion will continue although at the moment it seems relatively quiescent. Are the government's policies beginning to work at last?


Jonathan Power is a foreign affairs commentator and analyst based in London

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

India Grenade Blast Hurts Three at Congress Office

GUWAHATI: At least three people including a regional leader of India’s ruling Congress were hurt Monday when a grenade exploded at local party headquarters in the northeastern city of Guwahati.

Unidentified attackers hurled the hand grenade inside the office of the regional chapter of India’s ruling party, witnesses said. The building was packed with supporters at the time.

Among those injured were Congress general secretary Ranjan Bora and the party’s local spokesman Mehdi Alam Bora.

A Congress government administers Assam, of which Guwahati is the largest city. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, police said.

Some 30-odd militant groups are active in the state, where some outfits are battling for independent homelands for ethnic Assamese.

India grenade blast hurts three at Congress office | World | DAWN.COM

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

^^ Thanks for the newsletter, A boo. I'd have to watch TV channels if it weren't for you.

Thanks.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

no sweat buddy...

if this is entertainment for you, then go thank the ethnic Assamese insurrectionists! I'm but a messenger.

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

no sweat buddy...

if this is entertainment for you, then go thank the ethnic Assamese insurrectionists!

'Newsletter' = 'Entertainment'???

But then I guess since you're doing yumbeeyay, you don't have to use your brain.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

yumbeeyay??

sounds like captain sparrow ingested too much from that ''jar of dirt'' as is increasingly evident

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Tribal Militants Kidnap 3 year-old in Dima Hasao

SILCHAR: Suspected tribal militants have kidnapped a three-year-old girl in front of the eyes of her mother in Haflong, triggering panic among people ahead of the assembly elections in Dima Hasao district. Reports from Haflong said Saina Begam (3), a pre-nursery student of Little Angel School in Haflong, was whisked away at gunpoint just after she returned home with her mother on Friday afternoon after attending school.

As soon as the duo reached their Mahadevitala residence, three tribal youths reached there and snatched Saina from her mother Wahida. When Wahida raised an alarm, neighbours gathered at the spot. But nobody dared to come forward to rescue the girl as the militants fled the place by firing in the air to create terror.

In no time, they vanished into the nearby jungle with the girl who was in still in her uniform. The incident left Wahida unconscious. She was immediately shifted to a local hospital. After getting the news, a contingent of police and army rushed to the place and started search operations in the nearby jungles. But, there was no trace of Saina.

A senior police officer of the district said the incident took place when Sania's father Kamrul Hussain, a doctor with the veterinary and animal husbandry department in Haflong, was not at home. He added that security forces have detained 13 persons in this connection so far. They are being questioned by police and the army.

So far, no outfit so far has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping. A source said a group that demanded money from Kamrul Hussain sometime ago might be involved in the kidnapping.

"Saiba is dependent on mother's milk. I pray to the kidnappers to free ny daughter," said Wahida.

Some of the neighbours said they had noticed three Naga youths standing at the gate of Hussain's residence. But they didn't doubt anything as the latter being a doctor receives a lot of people at his home daily. The incident has left the people of the entire locality shocked. Of late, the district is witnessing a rise in incidents of violence.

Tribal militants kidnap 3-yr-old in Dima Hasao - The Times of India


BSF Jawan Killed Another Injured in Ambush

Guwahati, Mar 14 (PTI) A BSF jawan was killed and another seriously injured when suspected NDFB rebels ambushed their convoy along the Assam-Bhutan border in Kokrajhar district today.

Official sources said the militants opened indiscriminate firing on the BSF convoy at the remote Ultapani forest area near the border.

While Naresh Kumar died on the spot, Rajpal Singh was critically injured and rushed to a nearby hospital.

The convoy was on patrol duty when the militants ambushed them. The militants escaped immediately after the incident.

Police suspect the involvement of the anti-talk faction of National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) in the incident.

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[Abu Zolfiqar]

8 BSF Jawans Killed in Ambush by anti-talk Faction of NDFB

PTI | Mar 15, 2011, 03.06pm IST

SHILLONG/GUWAHATI: At least eight BSF personnel were killed and the same number injured today in an ambush by the anti-talk faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland in Assam's Kokrajhar district.

According to official reports, the militants of the Ranjan Daimary-led faction used automatic weapons to ambush the convoy of the BSF in remote Ultapani forest area near the Indo-Bhutan border.

A BSF spokesman, at the force's frontier headquarters in Shillong, told PTI that while three jawans were killed on the spot, five others succumbed to their injuries on way to hospital.

Some of the eight injured jawans were taken to Lower Assam Hospital and Research Centre at Bongaigaon, while others were taken to Kokrajhar civil hospital for treatment.

Critically injured were referred to a hospital is Guwahati, the spokesperson said.

The deceased have been identified as Bijoy Kumar, S K Sharma, Arabinda Dere, Bolaram Lamba, Santa Ramthree, Naresh Kumar, Kuber Bora and Hira Singh.

A combing operation has been launched by the security forces, including the Army along the Indo-Bhutan border, to nab the culprits.

The patrol was on way from Bangladoba in Chirang district of Assam to Ultapani in Kokrajhar when it was ambushed.

The paramilitary vehicle came under heavy firing inside the Ultapani reserve forest, when it was about seven km from its camp.

8 BSF jawans killed in ambush by anti-talk faction of NDFB - The Times of India

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Explosives recovered in Assam

Guwahati, Mar 15 (PTI) Huge quantities of explosives were recovered from a vehicle and two persons arrested at Jorabat on the Guwahati-Shillong Road near here today, police said.

The police recovered more than 50 detonators from the Guwahati-bound vehicle during routine search and arrested the two persons travelling in it.

The arrested have been identifed as M K Changu and S Changpu and interrogations were on to ascertain more details about the source and destination of the explosives, sources said.

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Policeman, 2 ULFA Militants Killed in Encounter

Dibrugarh/Tinsukia (Assam), Mar 15 (PTI) A police officer and two ULFA militants were killed during an encounter in Assam's Tinsukia district today, police said.

Acting on a tip-off about the presence of ULFA militants in Tongona village under Kakopathar police station, the police launched a search operation in the village and were fired upon by the militants.



The police retaliated and a fierce encounter followed for more than two hours in which Second Officer Pranjal Saikia of Kakopathar police station was killed along with the two militants on the spot, the sources said.

While one slain ultra was identified as Tinku Mahanta alias Ilu while the identity of the other one was yet to be ascertained.

The security forces recovered one pistol, one AK-56 and an empty magazine from the encounter site.

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[Abu Zolfiqar]

Naxalites Blast House in Gaya

Naxalites today triggered a bomb blast at a house and decamped with cash and valuables in Bihar's Naxal-hit Gaya district.

About 100 Naxalites attacked the house of Jenardan Rai, a distant relative of Bihar Assembly Speaker Udai Narain Choudhury, in Bodhi Bigha village and triggered the blast, police said.

The Naxalites beat up Rai, looted cash and valuables and decamped with two vehicles.

Rai has been hospitalised.

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Maoists Fire at Village Priest, Wife in Malkangiri

Malkangiri, Mar 18 (PTI) After about a month-long lull following abduction of District Collector R Vineel Krishna, Maoists fired at two persons injuring them seriously in Malkangiri district of Orissa.

Police said a group of four masked ultras fired at village priest Sukra Hantal last night, no sooner than he opened the door of his house at remote Katapalli village, about 40 kms from here, injuring the 50-year-old, while 25 other Maoists were waiting outside.

The priest's wife Hiramani (35) was also shot at and both were rushed to district headquarters hospital here with serious injuries, police said.

Sukra had six bullets in his body and his wife suffered serious head injuries

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