Insurgent & Secessionist movements in India

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One policeman killed, rail tracks blasted during Maoist bandh

Ranchi, June 27, 2012, (PTI)

Maoists today fired on a patrolling party killing a policeman and blew up tracks disrupting rail service in Dhanbad district as the 24-hour Jharkhand bandh called by the banned CPI(Maoist) got underway in the state.

The bandh which began at midnight last is in protest against reported arrest of Maoist cadres in neighbouring Odisha.

One policeman was killed and 15 others were injured when the Maoists opened fire on a patrolling party at Topchanchi near Grand Trunk road in Dhanbad district, about 210 km from here, Divisional Commander of the Railway Protection Force Shashi Kumar said.
He said the injured were admitted to a hospital in Dhanbad.

The rebels blasted railway tracks near Tetulmari in Dhanbad district, disrupting railway services for over six hours, he said and added the tracks were repaired around 7.30 am.
The Maoists also blew up the building of Hehegarha railway station and blasted a stretch of railway lines near the station in Latehar district, about 100 km from Ranchi, he added.

One policeman killed, rail tracks blasted during Maoist bandh

 

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Maoists wreak havoc in Jharkhand, disrupt train services : East, News - India Today

 

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India police kill '17 Maoists' in Chhattisgarh

Police in India say they have killed 17 Maoist rebels in an overnight clash in the central state of Chhattisgarh.

Six personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were wounded in the clash in the rebel-dominated Bijapur district, they said.

The BBC's Salman Ravi in the state capital, Raipur, says local villagers, mostly tribals, have held a protest, contesting the police claim.

They have alleged that most of those killed were villagers, not insurgents.

The Maoists are active in more than a third of India's 600-odd districts. They say they are fighting for the rights of the poor peasants and labourers.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described them as the biggest internal security challenge facing India.

Fighting started late Thursday night when the policemen were carrying out an operation in the dense forests of Basaguda.

A senior police officer in Bijapur, Prashant Agarwal, told the BBC that they had recovered a large number of arms and ammunition from the area.

Mr Agarwal said only five of the bodies had been identified so far and that they were trying to identity the others.

BBC News - India police kill '17 Maoists' in Chhattisgarh

 

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Naxals are fighting a losing battle: CRPF DIG

Stressing that naxals shunning the path of violence is just a matter of time, a top CRPF official today appealed to the people from insurgency-hit areas to stand up against militancy. KP Singh, who recently took charge as the Deputy Inspector General of Police of CRPF in the
naxal-infested district in Maharashtra, said that his optimism stem from effective policing techniques being adopted by agencies.

"The armed struggle by Maoists is on wane. They will have to shun violence and join the mainstream. In fact the rebels are fighting a losing battle. They will soon have to come to the negotiating table," Singh said.

Singh took over from Satish Khandare who was transferred in the wake of Pustola incident in March in which 14 CRPF troopers were killed in a landmine blast by the ultras.

"In fact, people should protest against the naxal violence. The militancy in Punjab was eliminated due to public support," he pointed out.

The DIG, who heads six CRPF battalions, including elite CoBRA battalion, justified the deployment of paramilitary forces to contain the Red menace.

"The naxal insurgency has now become a law and order problem and thus falls under the police domain," he said, adding the effectiveness of policing must not be gauged by the number of casualties suffered by the forces at the hands of the naxals.

Singh informed that more than 30 naxal cadres and as many number of the sympathisers have been apprehended in the last few months.

Naxals are fighting a losing battle: CRPF DIG - Hindustan Times

 

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Bengal virtually free from Maoist threat: Chidambaram

 

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Maoist arrested with Rs 5 lakh

GAYA: Shrawan Manjhi, suspected to be a Maoist, was arrested from Maqsoodpur village under Khizarsarai police station area in Gaya district on July 5 night and a loaded countrymade pistol and Rs 5 lakh in cash seized from him.

City SP Babu Ram told mediapersons on Friday afternoon that the cash recovered from the Maoist's possession was earlier received by him as extortion money from a construction company engaged in the execution of development schemes in the district. The money was to be remitted to the leadership of the ultra leftist outfit.

According to the City SP, the Maoist was wanted by the police in connection with four different cases registered against him with Khizarsarai and Atri police station areas of the district. Manjhi was also involved in the burning of a JCB machine of the same construction company from which the Maoist ultimately realised the 'levy'. The JCB machine was burnt a few weeks back under Atri police station area.

Extortion money, called levy by the Maoists, remains the main source of funding for the rebels and if sources are to be believed, even block level officials of the development-related departments deputed in the Naxal-affected areas allegedly buy peace with the Reds by giving a part of the cut money received by them (officials) to the Naxals. Quite a few officials do not want to reside at the comparatively unsafe block headquarters to avoid the wish list of the Naxals.


Maoist arrested with Rs 5 lakh - The Times of India

 

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Maoist Shot Dead in Odisha

Bhubaneswar, Jul 9 (IANS): A member of the Maoist People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) group was gunned down by police in Odisha Monday, a day after a ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) worker was allegedly killed by the group, an official said.

Acting on a tip-off, a special police squad raided the PLFI hideout at Sundergarh district's Udugaon village, about 500 km from the steel city of Rourkela, Deputy Inspector General of Police Jaswant Singh Jethwa told reporters.

The police retaliated when the gang members opened fire at them.

While one PLFI member was killed, four others of the group, including their leader, Dilip Singh, were injured, Jethwa said.

The injured extremists have been admitted to a hospital. A group member has been detained for interrogation, he said.

Police have recovered several weapons, including an AK-47, one self-loading rifle and pistol and about 126 bullets.

PLFI is a Maoist group active on the bordering area of Odisha and Jharkhand. The group had claimed responsibility for the killing a BJD worker in the region a day ago.

Hardeep Singh, 43, was kidnapped by the PLIF members Saturday evening when he was on way home from a road construction site. His bullet riddled body was found a day later near Bileigarh village in the same district.

The PLIF is responsible for a series of crimes in the region, including extortion and murder, in the region, Jethwa added.

Maoist Shot Dead in Odisha

 

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Maoists kill son of BJD leader

Bolangir (Odisha), July 11, 2012, (PTI):
Barely three days after the killing of a former Naib Sarpanch in Malkangiri district, armed Maoists killed the son of a ruling BJD leader and block Chairman in Bolangir district early today, police said.

About 30 heavily armed ultras, including women, struck at the house of Khaprakhol block Chairman Ganeshram Bhoi at village Sanaguchibhata in the wee hours looking for his son Sashiram Bhoi (42), they said.

On being told by the family members that Sashi was away, the Maoists went out but re-entered the house soon to find Sashi inside and tied him to a pole after overpowering his brother and others, they said.

The red rebels thrashed Sashi with rifle buts before killing him with a bayonet, a police official said adding Ganeshram was not present when the incident took place.

The ultras left a poster written in Odia and bearing the name of Bargarh-Bolangir-Mahasamund Divisisional Committee of CPI (Maoist) which accused Sashi of exploiting naxals and misusing their name for his own benefit, the official said.

Combing was intensified in the area by the security forces after the killing, which was the third in Patnagarh sub-division of Bolangir district this year, he said adding Ganeshram Bhoi had received threats from the red rebels earlier.

The killing came three days after the Maoists gunned down a former Naib Sarpanch of Markapadar in Malkangiri district suspecting him to be a police informer.

Barely a week ago, members of People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) shot BJD leader and former Rajgangpur chairman Hardeep Singh dead.

On Monday, Maoists abducted two tribals of Elengabalsa village in Koraput protesting the arrest of two of their supporters.

A group of armed ultras set ablaze several road building machines in Orkel area of Malkangiri district yesterday, sources said.

Maoists kill son of BJD leader

 

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India police kill '17 Maoists' in Chhattisgarh


BBC News - India police kill '17 Maoists' in Chhattisgarh

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BBC News - India police 'killed tribals, not Maoists' in Chhattisgarh

Rights activists in India say 17 people killed by paramilitary police in Chhattisgarh state in June were local tribespeople and not Maoist rebels.

In a new report, the activists said tribals who had gathered for a meeting unarmed had been "slaughtered".

Among those killed were a 12-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy and two 16-year-old school students.

Police now admit civilians were killed - but say they died in crossfire and were used by rebels as human shields.

To begin with, police had said all 17 people killed in an overnight clash on 29 June in rebel-dominated Bijapur district had been rebels.

Six personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were also wounded, they said.

But within hours, BBC correspondent Salman Ravi in Raipur, Chhattisgarh's capital, reported that locals had held a protest contesting the police claim. They alleged that most of those killed were villagers, not insurgents.

'Without warning'

The report, compiled by the Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations, was released on Wednesday in the Indian capital, Delhi.

The activists visited the three villages of Sarkeguda, Kottaguda and Rajpenta last week and spoke to the villagers extensively about the incident.

"All those in the gathering were adivasi [tribal] residents of the three villages and [they were] unarmed," the report said.

The villagers told the activists that they were fired upon "without any warning".

"And those who did not die from bullet wounds were killed by the police with axes," they said.

Initially the CRPF said all 17 people killed were Maoist rebels.

But, correspondents say, questions have been raised in the past few days after local media reports accused the security forces of extra-judicial killings.

Subsequently, officials said only seven of the dead were Maoists.

Last week, the Chhattisgarh government announced a judicial inquiry into the incident.

In a statement, Chief Minister Raman Singh said the aim was "to ascertain the chronology of the events, the reasons behind the firing and the identities of those killed".

The Maoists are active in more than a third of India's 600-odd districts. They say they are fighting for the rights of poor peasants and labourers.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the rebels as the biggest internal security challenge facing India.

 

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BBC News - India police 'killed tribals, not Maoists' in Chhattisgarh

Rights activists in India say 17 people killed by paramilitary police in Chhattisgarh state in June were local tribespeople and not Maoist rebels

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Imphal, July 5 (PTI) Insurgents have ambushed an Assam Rifles battalion patrolling Sita Hill area in Chandel district of Manipur bordering Myanmar, officials said today.



Casualty, if any, was not known, they said.

The insurgents fired at the security personnel of the 24th Assam Rifles battalion in the interior hill area, about 100 km from here, yesterday.

The security personnel retaliated and the exchange of fire lasted for several hours.

Three persons injured in Manipur blast

Imphal: Three persons, including a child, have been seriously injured when militants hurled a grenade at a gram panchayat pradhan's house in Imphal East district of Manipur, official sources said Monday.

The militants lobbed the grenade at the house of Y Jitendra, the pradhan of Kongpal Laishram Leikai area last night when Pradhan and his family were resting.

Y Ashalata (29), her daughter Tania (6 months) and her sister in law Y Robita were injured, the sources said.

They were taken to J N Hospital at nearby Porompat where the condition of the three persons was stated to be serious.

The area where the incident took place is 8 km from here.

The militants managed to escape.

No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the incident.

Jitendra's family members said they had not received any threat from any organisation.

Police said they would investigate whether it was related to any monetary demand or personal rivalry.

 

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I wish these rights activists were caught in the cross fire, instead of tribals

 

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I wish these rights activists were caught in the cross fire, instead of tribals

whoa easy now!

some very militant thinking there!

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