Insurgent & Secessionist movements in India

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Maoists trigger IED blast in Dumka

Dumka (Jharkhand), Dec 4 (PTI) A day after the deadly Latehar attack, the Maoists today exploded an improvised explosive device (IED) near Kendua forest in Dumka district, a top police official said here.

"The IED, hidden near Basuloi river bank at the forest in Gopikandar police station, was exploded by Maoists. There was no harm," Superintendent of Police Hemant Toppo said.

He said police personnel, who were on long range patrolling, were to pass through the forests.

Luckily, the explosion occurred much earlier, the SP said.

Maoists trigger IED blast in Dumka -  

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Naxalites attack CRPF's CoBRA camp, one held

Gaya: A suspected Naxalite was injured after a group of heavily-armed Naxalites attacked a CRPF's CoBRA battalion camp in Bihar's Gaya district, police said on Monday.

After a three hour encounter, the suspected ultra was arrested on Sunday night while he was found lying injured outside the camp under Dumaria police station area, Magadh range Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) N Hasnain Khan said.

The injured has been admitted to a hospital under police custody, he said adding efforts were being made to ascertain his identity.

The suspected Naxalite is believed to have been hit by a bullet in the encounter.

PTI

http://zeenews.**********/news/nation/naxalites-attack-crpf-s-cobra-camp-one-held_745433.html

 

[Omar1984]

More trouble for Advani's yatra in Punjab



Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani continued to face protests on the second day of his Jan Chetna Yatra in Punjab.

Activists of the pro-hardline fringe Akali factions and radical Sikh organisations disrupted his public rally at Amritsar late Monday evening by raising pro-Khalistan slogans.

Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann was detained as he attempted to lead a group of activists to disrupt the campaign. Mr. Mann had earlier announced that his party would oppose Mr. Advani's yatra as he had openly supported Operation Blue Star in 1984.

Slogan-shouting men disrupted Mr. Advani's first public meeting in the holy city. While the BJP workers clashed with the protesters, the security forces had a tough time in restoring order, after which Mr. Advani resumed his speech.

Three persons were reportedly taken into custody.

Black flags waved

There were reports that some protesters threw eggs at Mr. Advani's rath enroute Ludhiana on Sunday evening. Activists of some radical organisations waved black flags when the yatra passed by Barnala town.

In his address at various places, Mr. Advani continued to target the UPA and reiterated that the BJP along with its allies would force the Congress and its ruling alliance partners into disclosing the names of the political leaders and others, whose black money had been stashed away in Swiss banks.

He was confident that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents would succeed in exposing the involvement of the Congress leaders in rampant corruption at various places.

While urging UPA chairperson and Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, to break her silence on the 2G scam, Mr. Advani said that the issues of corruption, black money and inflation would be discussed thoroughly in the forthcoming winter session of Parliament.

He said that with the “massive support” from the people and “right thinking” Congress leaders, the NDA would force the UPA to concede the demand of initiating the process of bringing back black money.


The Hindu : News / National : More trouble for Advani's yatra in Punjab

 

[IndoCarib]

^^^^^
old news

 

[Omar1984]

^ November 2011 is not old.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

i didnt see it posted here earlier; thanks for sharing.

correct me if im wrong -- I dont think BJP (a hardline hinduist party) would have much success in politics in a place like indian-administered Punjab....why they'd even bother?

 

[pkd]

Maoists kill ten police in east India

RAIPUR, India — A landmine attack by Maoist rebels in eastern India struck the convoy of a senior politician, killing ten policemen and a young boy, officials said on Sunday.

The attack in Jharkhand state came during a two-day shutdown imposed by the Maoists in many areas which they control, to protest against the police killing last month of one of their top leaders Koteswar Rao, better known as Kishenji.

"Ten security personnel and a boy were killed on Saturday evening when Maoists triggered a powerful landmine targeting the convoy of Inder Singh Namdhari," local district police chief Dev Bihari Sharma told AFP by phone.

"The escort vehicle following the VIP vehicle was exploded by the landmine," Sharma said. "It was a huge blast. Two policemen are also injured."

Namdhari, a state lawmaker and former Speaker of the Jharkhand assembly, was travelling through forests about 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of the state capital Ranchi when the attack happened.

He was unhurt, and no further details about the boy were available.

Railway tracks in the state were also blown up in two places before dawn on Sunday in suspected Maoist strikes.

The Maoist insurgency, which began in 1967, feeds off land disputes, police brutality and corruption, and is strongest in the poorest and most deprived areas of India, many of which are rich in natural resources.

AFP: Maoists kill ten police in east India

 

[Dance]

Maoists kidnap seven labourers in Bihar

JAMUI: Seven labourers were kidnapped on Friday by armed Maoists from Pakari village of Bihar's Naxal-hit Jamui district.

More than 50 heavily-armed guerrillas reached the place where a bridge over Kiul River is being constructed by labourers of a private construction firm around 2 AM and abducted four labourers identified as Chandan Yadav, Pradip Yadav, Phultoos Yadav and Vihay Singh, sources said.

They later went to another site where labourers were engaged in construction of a water tank of state Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) and kidnapped three of them.

They were identified as Dharmendra Yadav, Yogendra Yadav and Anil Singh.

The Maoist cadre took the labourers away in Garhi forest areas at gun-point, they said.

The labourers were kidnapped after the construction firm failed to meet their demands for money, sources said.

A combing operation has been launched in the forest areas at Garhi to secure safe release of the labourers, officials said.

CRPF and Special Task Force (STF) of Bihar police were engaged in the operation

Maoists kidnap seven labourers in Bihar - The Times of India

 

[Windjammer]

NEW DELHI: PLGA (People's Liberation Guerilla Army), which is celebrating its 11th anniversary from December 2, has called for intensifying its war against the state, essentially against the security forces, including the Indian Army, implying that the Red ultras would scale up their violent strikes.

Besides, Dandakaranya, where CPI (Maoist) has a free run, the PLGA has called for turning Bihar-Jharkhand into a "liberated zone". With joint forces focusing on West Bengal, Maoists are concentrating on Jharkhand and Bihar, where the heat on them is comparatively less.

"Let us develop PLGA into PLA and guerilla warfare into mobile warfare with the aim of developing Dandakaranya and Bihar-Jharkhand into liberated areas." the statement issued by comrade Deoji, member of the party's Central Military Commission (CMC), exhorted.

Calling out to people, especially tribals and dalits and all oppressed classes, to join the armed movement, the PLGA statement, dated November 20, criticized activist Anna Hazare and his team members for starting a non-violent struggle of the masses. "In order to divert the militant struggles of the people, NGOs run with the guidance of imperialists and those under the leadership of persons like Anna Hazare are bringing forth struggle forms like hunger strikes in the name of non-violence."

Maoists are worried over shrinking popular support, thanks to Team Anna's popularity.

"On December 2, PLGA completes 11 years. On this occasion, CMC is giving a call to celebrate the anniversary in all our guerilla zones and red resistance areas with the determination to defeat Operation Green Hunt (OGH)... In the People's War... nearly 150 best daughters and sons of the soil and ordinary people have laid down their lives since December 2010 to September 2011," claimed the outfit.

The statement declared, "As a consequence of distorted development... the impact of the world economic crisis is severe on our country too. Increase in corruption, unemployment, price rise, poverty and displacement, living conditions of the oppressed working class, peasant and middle class people became unbearable... Material conditions are ripening for revolution. Strikes and agitations of all sections of people are increasing. Economic struggles are turning into political struggles..."

Identifying some areas, where people's protest is on, the statement named "struggles like Lalgarh, Kalinganagar, Narayanapatna, anti-Posco, Niayamagiri, Mali, Deomali, Singareni, Open casts, Polavaram, Sompeta, Kakarapalli, Jaitapur and Greater Noida, Telangana, Kashmir..."

It urged people to join them. "Play your role in isolating and defeating the enemy! Join the PLGA...Integrate with the deluge of mass movements rising in several areas in our country... There can be no fundamental change without completely destroying the exploiting classes...Let us teach a lesson to the mercenary Indian Army which loots, repress and suppress the toiling masses by intensifying our glorious People's War," it added.

Maoist guerilla army targeting security forces - The Times of India

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Blast at Oil India installation in Assam

Separatists Friday blew up a major installation of India’s premier oil exploration firm Oil India Limited (OIL) in Assam, triggering a massive fire leaping up to more than 100 metres.


The blast took place at the oil collection station (OCS) at Tipling, close to the OIL headquarters at Duliajan in Dibrugarh district, about 550 km east of Guwahati, officials said.
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has claimed responsibility for the attack.

“We claim responsibility for the explosion. The attack is part of our campaign to strike at vital installations as we believe the Indian government is exploiting our natural resources,” a rebel statement received by IANS read.

Witnesses and OIL officials said the fire was visible from a distance of about five km and was leaping up to 100 metres.

“More than 15 fire tenders were trying to douse the flames,” an OIL official said.
There were no immediate reports of any casualties.

“We can estimate the extent of damage only after the fire is doused. Also we don’t know the reason for the fire yet,” the OIL official said.

Blast at Oil India installation in Assam


Blast in Imphal, six injured

Imphal: Six people were injured here Wednesday afternoon when a powerful bomb went off in the Public Works Department (PWD) office complex in a crowded area of the Manipur capital, police said.

The blast took place around 1.35 p.m. at a parking lot, police said.

Blast in Imphal, six injured

 

[IndoCarib]

Save India, Wipe Out Naxals: Maoist victims to Government - India - DNA

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Suspected PLFI ultras gun down elderly man in Khunti

PTI | 12:12 AM,Dec 18,2011

Khunti (Jharkhand), Dec 17 (PTI) An elderly man was tonight shot dead by suspected ultras of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) in Khunti district, police said. A 70-year-old man was killed when the ultras opened fire on a trekker carrying traders returning from Marangada village bazaar, Khunti Superintendent of Police M Tamilwanan said here.

Suspected PLFI ultras gun down elderly man in Khunti, IBN Live News








Bomb explodes in Congress office in Manipur

Imphal, Dec 19, (PTI):

A bomb exploded in the office of the Congress Youth Forum in interior Thoubal district of Manipur late last night, damaging office property.

Officials said that hundreds of local residents including women launched a sit-in protest against the incident this morning.

Assailants have been attacking the houses of politicians - both ruling and opposition - in the past few weeks by hurling grenades or bombs at their houses.

Sources said security and police forces have been alerted by the state government to prevent any untoward incident during the coming Manipur Assembly elections in February next year.

Bomb explodes in Congress office in Manipur

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

'Maoists looking east, taking Ulfa's help' - The Times of India

GUWAHATI: Maoists are looking to regain their strength and expand their presence and this time they are looking east. The two-day DGP-IGP convention of northeastern states revealed that Maoist rebels have recently chosen the region for strengthening their movement and are trying to sneak into Assam with the help of some Ulfa cadres. The convention emphasized on restricting the recent activities of Maoist militants in the region and planned to prepare strategies to combat them.

The convention, which took off on Monday, discussed the recent spurt in incidents of extortion, abduction and militancy in the region. "The Maoists are trying to increase their presence in the region. Many overground Ulfa cadres are acting as Maoist rebels in the state. Though they are not large in numbers yet, they're trying to gather strength in the border areas of Assam-Meghalaya, Assam-Nagaland and Assam-Arunachal Pradesh," said state police IGP (SB) Khagen Sarma.

Regarding the training camps of these Maoists rebels, Sarma said, "Not all of them are trained. However, some are well-trained. According to intelligence sources, some Maoist cadres have been trained by Nagaland and Manipur-based militant outfits."

Assam police DGP Shankar Baruah added the militant outfits of the region are getting arms from separatist groups of Myanmar through neighboring states. "The militant groups here are getting arms through the Myanmar-Mizoram and Myanmar-Nagaland routes. Manipur-based outfits have strong links with Maoists and are helping them create a base in the region as well," said Baruah.

Baruah added the convention is going to prepare an action plan to combat cross-border terrorism. "Terrorism is no longer an inter-state problem. Rather, it has crossed the boundaries of states and even the borders of the country and become cross-border terrorism. This convention is a platform to exchange valuable information and to develop inter-state coordination to combat terrorism in a united manner," said Baruah.

Apart from the DGPs, additional DGPs and IGPs of all the northeastern states participated in the convention. On the other hand, West Bengal DGP N Mukherjee, NIA special DG Prakash Mishra and IB additional director R N Behura also attended the convention. State chief secretary Naba Kumar Das was also present in the convention.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

CoBRA Jawan succumbs to wounds suffered in encounter

Jamshedpur, Dec 22 : One of the two CoBRA jawans, who were injured in an encounter with the Maoists in West Singhbhum district yesterday, succumbed to his injuries today, the police said.

The jawan, who was identified as Sukhdev Singh, died of his injuries, West Singhbhum Superintendent of Police Arjun Kumar Singh in Chaibasa.

He said the other injured jawan was being treated in a hospital.

The encounter took place between Bandu and Pandua villages on the borders of West Singhbhum and Khunti districts last night in which the police had claimed that some ultras were shot at.

CoBRA Jawan succumbs to wounds suffered in encounter - NewsReporter.in

 

[Dance]

Maoists burn three timber mills in Gaya​

GAYA: In what is being seen as a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from the recovery of pornographic CDs and sex stimulants recovered from two of the Naxal hideouts, over 50 heavily armed Naxals belonging to CPI(Maoist) on Thursday night put on fire three timber mills in the Kothi police station area of the Naxal-affected Sherghati subdivision of the district.

Reports reaching the district headquarters say that the Naxals also damaged one tractor during their operation against the timber mills.

Confirming the incident of burning of the three timber mills by the Maoists, Sherghati SDPO Mahindra Prasad Basantri said that the cause of the Naxal operation against the three timber mills was yet to be ascertained.

The SDPO, however, did not confirm damage caused to one tractor. Asked whether the Naxals also left behind any note at the place of occurrence, the SDPO replied in the negative.

Police sources do not rule out non-payment of "levy" (protection money) to the Naxals by the timber mill owners of the Kothi police station area as an important reason that provoked the Naxals to target the timber mills.

Reports also say that the same group participated in all the three arson operations executed by the Naxals. The incident has caused anxiety in the local business community.

The Maoist operation is also being seen as an act of defiance and 'brave face putting' in view of the frequent combing and other operations undertaken jointly by the combined forces of COBRA, CRPF, SAP, STF and district police to flush out the Naxals and destroy their hideouts.

Several such operations have been conducted in the neighbouring Dumaria and Imamganj police station areas of the district.

According to Naxal watchers, the recovery of pornographic CDs and sex stimulants from Naxal hideouts in the Barachatti police station area of the district is bound to cause acute embarrassment to the top leadership of the banned organization claiming to be engaged in a direct fight with the alleged exploiters.

Recovery of sex stimulants tends to confirm the belief that behavioural correction was required to reduce the growing indifference bordering hostility among the same section which not long back provided welcome and prolonged hospitality to the Maoist squad members during their visits to the villages either for shelter or for planning and execution of the Red agenda.

Maoists burn three timber mills in Gaya - The Times of India