Insurgent & Secessionist movements in India

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Naxals blow up Block office in Bihar's Jamui district

Jamui: Heavily armed Naxals blew up the Khaira Block office, destroyed official files by putting them on fire and torched 12 sand-laden truck late last night in the district, during their two-day East Bihar and Jharkand bandh agitation, police sources said on Friday.

"Over 50 heavily armed Naxals triggered dynamite blast to blow up the Khaira block office," they said, adding the ultras later burnt the official files.

They also set 12 sand-laden trucks on fire at Gidheshwar Ghat under the Khaira police station area in the district, sources said
No casualties were reported in these incidents, they added.

To protest the arrest of their five leaders from various places in Bihar and Jharkhand, the Naxals have given a two-day East Bihar and Jharkhand bandh call.

Two days ago, Naxalites had burnt two mobile telephone towers, blew up a railway cabin and set several vehicles on fire in Bihar's Jamui and Banka districts

Naxals blow up Block office in Bihar's Jamui district - India News - IBNLive

 

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Maoists kill Sub-Inspector in Odisha

Even as talks were in progress for the release of two Italians abducted by Maoists in Odisha, the rebels shot dead a police Sub-Inspector in Malkangiri district on Thursday, the police said. Sub-Inspector K.C. Rath was shot dead by about four ultras at a marketplace at Khairput, about 60 km from here, Malkangiri Superintendent of Police Anirudh Singh said. Mr. Rath, (57), posted at Mudulipada police station which operates from Khairput, was accompanied by a personnel of the Special Operation Group force when the assailants suddenly appeared and fired at him.— PTI

The Hindu : Today's Paper News : Maoists kill Sub-Inspector in Odisha

 

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Maoists blow up culvert in Andhra Pradesh

Maoists blasted and dug up a culvert and blocked a road by cutting trees and placing them across the road at two different places in Visakha Agency late on Wednesday night.

The protest was directed against the government’s move to permit bauxite mining in the Agency and also to mobilise support for the bandh on March 24.

Wednesday’s night incidents came on the heels of violence the Maoists resorted to in Visakha Agency and across the border in Orissa in the recent past even as a massive combing operation is being conducted in the area.

According to reports reaching here on Thursday , around 50 Maoists, militia members and supporters, all wearing masks, stopped an APSRTC bus going to Chintapalli from Narsipatnam, at a culvert 100 M in GK Veedhi mandal around 9 p.m.

Most of them were armed with bows and arrows and swords while a few were holding fire arms. After taking away mobile phones from the passengers the Maoists set off an explosive which only partially damaged the culvert. Then they dug up the remaining part of the culvert.

They allowed the passengers to leave after distributing pamphlets urging locals to continue their fight against bauxite mining and to chase away Ras Al Khaima Company, for which the bauxite is meant. The pamphlets asserted that only Girijans have the right over the forests and forest wealth.

The CPI (Maoist) gave call for a bandh on March 24 demanding release of all Maoists lodged in different jails.

Around the same time, another group of Maoists cut down trees near Lothugedda junction and placed them across the road. The Maoists hung many banners on the road demanding the Central and State tribal welfare ministers who represent the Visakha Agency, to come out with a clear statement that bauxite mining would not be taken up in the Agency.

The Hindu : States / Andhra Pradesh : Maoist violence in Visakha Agency

 

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JJP cadres injure 4 railway project workers in Jharkhand:

DUBANG (LOHARDAGA): An armed group of Naxalites of Jharkhand Janmukti Parishad (JJP), a splinter group of Maoists, reportedly attacked a railway construction site camp near Dhodhorha Pool at Dubang village on the Lohardaga-Latehar border late on Wednesday night injuring more than four workers and technicians.

The construction of a bridge and track that was being done by Royal Construction Company, Kolkata, under the South Eastern Railway's railway tracks extension project from Lohardaga to Tori has come to a halt after the attack.

Several labourers and machine operators who were beaten by the 30-35 armed Naxalites in black uniform said that they were asked to stop the work and leave the place if they wanted to save their lives. At least 25 labourers, drivers and heavy machine operators hailing from Kolkata, Bokaro, Giridih, Hazaribag, Koderma and Champi were sleeping when the Naxalites attacked the camp situated in the middle of forest, about 17 km from Kuru police station. At least 14 labourers and technicians said they were leaving for their home in Kolkata.

According to Kuru police, officials of the construction company have not named any Naxalite group behind the attack. No police, medical aid had reached them even after 12-14 hours of the incident. Sources at the construction site said that a team of police and CRPF led by SDPO Ram Gulam Sharma reached there around 4 pm on Thursday.

Superintendent of police Jitendra Kumar Singh said that details would take time to reach as the place of occurrence was a "faraway tough" area.

"We have initial reports that 10-12 people have beaten up some labourers at a railway construction site," said Singh.

Rebels beat up railway project workers - The Times of India

 

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GNLA issues extortion notes to coal miners in Meghalaya

SHILLONG, March 22: Several people involved in coal mining activities and export of coal in and around Borsora-Cherragoan export point of West Khasi Hills have been served with demand notes by the proscribed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA). Sources said that the majority of those who were served with demand notes by the outfit operate in Khateja, Amarsang, Bermudar, Kulang and Nonjri sectors.

The unsigned notices sought a donation varying from Rs 30-40 lakh and said: “We seek this donation for the uplift the Garo people since you have used the resources within the Garo land.” The notices were marked by a round seal of the GNLA.

None of these coal exporters have approached the police out of fear.

The notices also stated: “Cooperate with us and no thoughtless act will be entertained.” Other individuals who are not so financially strong said that they were also apprehensive of the threat. “We have not received any demand notes yet, but the collection will start from top to bottom,” said an apprehensive coal miner.

Phone numbers have also been given by the GNLA to the coal exporters. The Sentinel learnt that the number through which reminders were given to the coal exporters is an Indian number.

The Sentinel

 

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Maoists kidnap Indian lawmaker amid Italian hostage


BHUBANESWAR: Negotiations to get freed two Italian hostages kidnapped by Indian Maoists plunged into uncertainty on Saturday after the rebels kidnapped a local lawmaker.

Two of the negotiators said in a statement the kidnapping of the state government politician overnight had made “a mockery of peaceful talks” and “the negotiations (should) be kept under suspension”.

But Orissa state Home Secretary Upendra Nath Behera, the head of the three-man government team participating in the talks, said the government was “always open to peaceful dialogue and would not mind speaking again”.

Naveen Patnaik, the chief minister of Orissa, one of a string of states where Maoist rebels have been waging a decades-long armed battle to overthrow the government, called on the rebels to release all three hostages.

“I once again appeal to the Maoists to shun violence and release the three hostages immediately,” Patnaik told reporters in the Orissa state capital, Bhubaneswar, on Saturday.

The kidnapping of the state lawmaker followed the seizure last week of the two Italians, Paolo Bosusco, 54, and Claudio Colangelo, 61, in what is believed to be the first kidnapping of foreigners by India’s Maoists. The Italians were on an adventure holiday.

Negotiators B.D. Sharma and Dandapani Mohanty, appointed by the Orissa state government at the Maoists’ request to conduct the talks for the release of the Italians, called on the rebels to free all three hostages unconditionally.

Sharma and Mohanty said the Maoists had reneged on their word that they would refrain from violence during the negotiations.

“We trusted the rebels’ promise of a ceasefire during the course of negotiations. The kidnapping of the lawmaker proves that violence has not been stopped,” they said.

“Given this backdrop we think dialogue is meaningless until they free the hostages. The talks for resolving the demands (of the Maoists) can continue later,” the negotiators added.

The Maoists’ demands include a ban on tourists visiting tribal areas, an end to the government’s anti-rebel operations and release of jailed Maoist leaders.

The negotiators held talks with the rebels for a third straight day on Saturday, but the three hours of discussions ended in deadlock, Sharma and Mohanty told reporters.

The Maoists seized the Orissa politician, Jhina Hikaka, 37, when he was being driven through a hilly area, 450km from Bhubaneswar, and stuffed his car with Maoist propaganda posters, police said.

The kidnapped politician is a backbench member of Orissa’s ruling right-wing Biju Janata Dal government.

It was not immediately clear if the abduction of the politician was by the same branch of the rebels who seized the Italians as the kidnapping occurred in another part of the state.

In 2010, the insurgents — who have a presence in over 20 of India’s 29 states — were blamed for derailing an Indian train, killing at least 80 people.

The 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.

The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of neglected tribal people and landless farmers and their ultimate goal is to capture India’s cities and overthrow parliament.

Hostage-taking is a familiar technique of the Maoists, who are based in the forests of central and eastern India, but victims in the past have been mostly policemen or government officials — some of whom have been executed.—AFP

Maoists kidnap Indian lawmaker amid Italian hostage talks | Newspaper | DAWN.COM

 

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Maoists kill CRPF trooper in Chhattisgarh

Raipur, March 23 (IANS) Police in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district Friday failed to get any clue about Maoists who had brutally killed a paramilitary trooper in full public view Thursday.

“It was a brutal killing and the incident has shocked us. We have not got any clue so far about the killers who were definitely the Maoists. Soon they would be in the police net,” an officer at the police headquarters here told IANS.

The officer said that police have laid seige in vast areas of the violence-hit Chintagufa area, some 500 km south from here, to apprehend the attackers as the killing has angered troopers of the 150th battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

The CRPF camp is also located close to the venue where Maoists, who were estimated to be 3-4 in number, stormed into a weekly market and slit the throat of CRPF head constable Om Prakash.

The newly formed Sukma district, is one of the worst leftist insurgency hit districts and is part of a nearly 40,000 sq km mineral-rich Bastar region, where Maoists have considerable hold since late 1980s.

Police clueless on CRPF trooper’s killing - Thaindian News

 

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Maoists let off 1 Italian, say target weren’t foreigners, silent on MLA

Maoists today released one of the two Italians abducted by them, Claudio Colangelo, even as the state government struggled for leads in the kidnapping of Laxmipur MLA Jhina Hikaka.

CPI (Maoist) leader Sabyasachi Panda handed over Colangelo, a doctor based in Rome who had been abducted 11 days ago, to a group of mediapersons deep in the Kandhamal forests early Sunday morning. The other Italian picked up with Colangelo, travel operator Paulo Bosusco, stays in Maoist captivity.

Panda said while Colangelo was released as a “goodwill gesture”, Bosusco, who has been living in Orissa for 19 years, would only be let off after the 13 demands set by them — including the release of Panda’s wife Subhasree Das — were met.

The Maoist leader assured that they would not indulge in any violence till the negotiations were over, but added that he could not give a guarantee about the other groups operating in the state. Incidentally, the MLA’s abduction as well as the killing of a sub-inspector on March 20 are believed to have been carried out by a group opposed to Panda.

Panda told a TV channel that they didn’t plan to target foreigners. “We had no intention to take any foreign national into captivity. However, our cadre mistook the duo to be intelligence wing personnel.”

He said they had treated Colangelo and Bosusco well. “We gave them good food and provided playing cards and chess so that they could keep themselves occupied,” Panda said, adding Maoists were not inhuman “as projected by the government”.
While Colangelo denied Maoist allegations that he and Bosusco were captured while taking pictures of tribal women, Panda said this was the case and that the Maoists don’t accept the Italians’ idea of “cultural globalisation”.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/m...rget-werent-foreigners-silent-on-mla/928361/2

 

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^^ Send in NSG, send these fools a message they will understand.

 

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India 'Maoist' bomb blast kills 15 police
A landmine explosion in the western Indian state of Maharashtra has killed at least 15 policemen, officials say.

The attack has been blamed on Maoist rebels, who operate in the area as well as several other Indian states.

It is one of the worst attacks on Indian police in two years.

Maoist rebels in the eastern state of Orissa kidnapped two Italians about two weeks ago, but released one and have been in talks with the state government over the other man's release.

The attack happened in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, a remote and relatively undeveloped part of the country.

The police vehicle was travelling through a forested region when the landmine was triggered, reports say.

The policemen, members of India's national paramilitary force, were travelling on a bus, the Press Trust of India news agency quoted officials as saying.

"Fifteen CPRF [Central Reserve Police Force] are dead," a spokesman for the force told AFP news agency.

"The attack happened around 11:30 am (06:00 GMT) when the bus carrying them struck an IED," the spokesman, BC Khanduri said.

"The injured are now being taken to hospital. We don't have an exact estimate for the number of injured yet."

Other reports said 15 police were injured.

'Red corridor'
India's Maoist insurgency began in West Bengal state in the late 1960s and has become, according to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the country's "greatest internal security challenge".

The Maoists control large areas of several states in a "red corridor" stretching from the north-east to central India.

They are fighting for communist rule and demand greater rights for tribal people and the rural poor.

Big military and police offensives in recent years have pushed the rebels back to their forest strongholds and levels of violence have fallen. But hit-and-run attacks are still common, killing hundreds of people every year.

Twelve policemen were killed in a landmine attack on 21 January in eastern Jharkhand state and, in June 2010, 26 police were killed in an ambush in the central state of Chhattisgarh.
BBC News - India 'Maoist' bomb blast kills 15 police

 

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Six abducted by militants in Mizoram

Aizawl, March 26: At least six people, including residents of Assam, Punjab, and Rajasthan, were abducted by unidentified tribal guerrillas in a Mizoram district bordering Bangladesh Monday, police said here. “Heavily armed unidentified militants raided a workshed at Bunghmum under Lunglei district early Monday and abducted six people,” a police spokesman said.

Six abducted by militants in Mizoram - NEWSPOLITAN

 

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CRPF jawan killed in encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh

A CRPF jawan was killed and another injured in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district today. The gunfight broke out between the ultras and CRPF personnel in Alpal Metta village in Sukma district when a CRPF team along with Chattisgarh police force went to the region for area domination, Additional Director General of Police Ram Niwas told PTI.

As soon as the force reached the village, Naxals fired at them following which the police party also retaliated. A CRPF jawan was killed and another was injured in the encounter, he said. Inputs suggest that around 10 Naxals were killed in the gunfight. After receiving the news of the gunfight, an additional police team has been rushed to the area, he said, adding efforts are on to retrieve the body of the slain jawan. The encounter was on when reports last came in.

CRPF jawan killed in encounter with Naxals - PTI -

 

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Bru rebels abduct ex-bank employee in Assam

SILCHAR: Suspected Bru (Reang) militants have abducted a retired bank employee from Gambhira colony village in Dullavcherra block in Karimganj district, 100 km from here.

A senior police officer on Saturday said a group of about 20 armed militants in camouflage attire barged into the house of Manaranjan Das (65), a retired employee of Apex Bank, Guwahati, at about 10 pm and whisked him away at gunpoint.

Bru rebels abduct ex-bank employee - Times Of India

 

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Bru rebels abduct ex-bank employee in Assam



Bru rebels abduct ex-bank employee - Times Of India

What a shame India suffers on a daily basis these attacks but I must say their government brings it on themselves

 

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Maoists set afire two machines in Bihar

Aurangabad, Mar 25 (PTI) Maoists today set afire two JCB machines of a road construction company at Kutidih in Bihar''s Aurangabad district, police said.

A group of heavily armed Maoists raided the area and set ablaze two JCB machines before escaping.

The refusal of the company to pay money to the rebels was stated to be the motive for the attack, the police said.
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Maoists set afire two machines