Insurgent & Secessionist movements in India

[EzioAltaïr]

Yeah its fun seeing how desperate one can become . She is the female version of Zaid Hamid

Understatement of the year.

 

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The BBC's Suvojit Bagchi, who was granted unprecedented access to a Maoist camp in the depths of the Chhattisgarh jungle, describes the rebels' precarious life.

After eight hours of walking in dense forest, in the early evening we entered a narrow, barren stretch of land hemmed in by hillocks.

At the far end stood a few blue and yellow tents.

Somji, one of the men who collected me between a small town in south Chhattisgarh and the thick central Indian forest, picked up speed as we approached.

A tall man standing guard with a rifle flung over his shoulder whistled and people started rushing towards us.

In under a minute, the camp members stood in formation and began singing a welcome song.

Each member in the queue raised their fist to whisper "lal salaam" - "red salute".

Mostly aged between 15 and 30 years old, the men and women in the camp wore rubber sandals, olive green battle fatigues and carried guns of various makes.

India's Maoist rebels say they are fighting for the rights of indigenous tribespeople and the rural poor.

 

[EzioAltaïr]

Biggest irony I've ever seen.

Certain people expect India to lose to ragtag insurgents: Even though we have the finest Counter-Insurgency School in the world.

 

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Gaya, May 26 (ANI): Villagers of Gaya district in Bihar, who have long suffered atrocities by goons in the area, have turned to Maoists, to seek help. Disillusioned with the passive approach of district administration, Reena Devi, a widow in chowangai village said that she was subjected to atrocities by goons.The Naxals have fought for decades in a swathe of central and eastern India, including many resource-rich regions, where tension runs high between poor farmers and industrial developers.

 

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In what is purportedly Arundhati Roy's first public meeting in India after her visit to Maoist controlled territories in Dantewada, she outlines her opinions. What comes out from this series of videos is that she really does not care for the Maoists, but cares for the wide spectrum of resistance against state oppression and brutality that is being waged by different types of people in the India of which the Maoist resistance is at one extreme.

Gautam Navlakha, another writers and a passionate opponent of state brutalities on people and who also lived amongst the Maoists for a while, outlines his views.

 

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About the Video: From his waist down to his feet, his body bears testimony in black and blue of police brutality and torture in the third degree. It's the body of Barnabas Bodra, a young Munda tribal from the village of Sitiburu in West Singhbum, Jharkhand. He is one of
the over 6000 tribals who have been locked up and brutalized in the prisons of Jharkhand on unsubstantiated suspicions of being a 'Naxal' or of just being sympathetic to the violent Naxal insurgency that plagues the jungles of Jharkhand. After three unending days and nights of mental and physical abuse, Barnabas thinks he is lucky that he is not among 550 innocent adivasis who have already been killed by the armed forces of the state since 2009.The government continues to deny the existence of the 'comb and search' witch-hunt through adivasi land. It terms 'Operation Green Hunt' as a media fabrication. What Barnabas has witnessed and experienced differs significantly from the government's take on the issue.

On the night in the question, Barnabas was asleep after a hard day's work at the field, next to his wife and infant child. Close to midnight, he awakened to the sound of the door to his house coming apart. Before he realized what was happening, armed police officers were manhandling him, shouting into his ear and accusing him of illegal possession of fire arms and of aiding the insurgent movement.
He tried to protest but the lashings of the police lathis had already started falling on his hips and legs. The police started taking apart
his house, going through his meagre possessions, destroying his granary, leaving an entire household torn and frayed.

Barnabas was taken not to the local police station but to the District Police Headquarters where the police persisted in their efforts to torture a confession out of the man. He was subjected to further beatings. He was kept without food for over 24 hours. When he was finally given food on the second day of his imprisonment, he claims that it was so full of salt that he threw up every bit of whatever little he had managed to eat. He was never produced before a magistrate as the law would require of a person being held in a police lock-up for more than a day. The alleged firearms were never found. It still took almost three days and efforts of the villagers of Sitiburu who had been pleading all the while for Barnabas' release to return his freedom back to him.

Barnabas' story is a common one in the so-called 'Red Corridor' of India, the adivasi jungle land that is rich in minerals and resources which the state industrial-military-corporate complex have set their greedy eyes on. Community Correspondent Xavier Hamsay from West Singhbum, district, Jharkhand who produced his first IndiaUnheard on Barnabas, says, "The continuing greed and oppression of the state has alienated adivasis. An alienated minority can tend to think that violence gives them a way to force their unheard voices and demands all the way past the deaf ears of the government. But they are people caught in a disillusion and more importantly, they remain a minority.But when the all-powerful state resorts to violence, it is a disturbing trend. Today, the adivasis of Jharkhand are afraid of their
state. They sleep in fear."

Call to Action: Xavier asks the people who are watching his video to Call District Collector ,K Srinivasan on 09472710699/06582256422 and say that they have watched this video published on 30/05/2012 and are aware of the oppression of adivasis and innocents that goes on under the pretext of 'security'. They are to inform the Respected District Magistrate that such violations are unacceptable, undemocratic and must not continue. He(The DM) must look into the matter personally and look to bring about a chance.

 

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An objective look at the social, political, and economic conditions in India which have given rise to the Naxalite insurgency.

Despite economic growth, overall poverty in India has increased due to uneven economic development. The Naxals consist of various political parties influenced by Mao Zedong's communist ideology calling for armed peasant insurrection against the upper classes.

India's poor and tribal peoples are the victims of a class war, suffering severe economic exploitation and brutal political repression as well as loss of land at the hands of the ruling establishment and multinational corporations.

The Naxals, representing the lower classes, have taken up arms against India's government in a bid for state power. They have instituted land reforms and other measures in areas under their control.

India's federal government continues to wage a bloody counterinsurgency campaign against the Naxals, refusing to undertake the necessary land reforms and other political and economic changes required for hostilities to cease.

Numerous sociological studies demonstrate that greater social, economic, and political equality correlate to increased individual and societal health.

 

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Mine, narrated by Joanna Lumley, tells the story of the remote Dongria Kondh tribe's struggle to protect Niyamgiri, the mountain they worship as a God. London-based mining company Vedanta Resources plans a vast open-pit bauxite mine in India's Niyamgiri hills, and the Dongria Kondh know that means the destruction of their forests, their way of life, and their mountain God.

Vedanta Resources, a British owned mining company, want to destroy a sacred mountain in India, along with the lives and culture of the indigenous villagers in order to mine bauxite - the raw material for aluminium.

They produced a propaganda video to show that they were an ethical company. Survival International used this video to show the lies behind Vedanta's mask.

 

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[Abingdonboy]

What I've been saying for ages- the Moaist movement in India is pretty much dead and on its last leg:

In eastern India the campaign against the Maoists continues to wear the leftist rebels down. Manpower shortages mean Maoists are more frequently kidnapping teenage students and forcing them to join. This is unpopular with parents, and most of those taken. The Maoists are also more dependent on forced contributions (of food, money and other aid) in rural areas. Despite popular support for Maoist goals (elimination of unjust and corrupt practices in rural India), there is growing hostility towards the rebels. The Maoists have been at it for decades and have done more harm than good. The current government offensive is capturing and killing a lot of the Maoist leadership and forcing the rebels deeper into sparsely populated areas.

India-Pakistan: Power Without Responsibility

 

[asad71]

Maratha empire in yellow , 1760

Read about the Maratha empire and also the Sikh empire . This is why no neutral party will take your post seriously . You have not even the basic idea about Indian history . My piece of advice , when there is lack of knowledge regarding something , shut up and listen , also read rather than blabber out BS that embarrasses yourself .

And btw,

Do you realise that Milleniums means thousands of years ?

Right up till 1206 AD Hindus were ruling India only to be replaced by Hindu Marathas again in the 1700s .Of course subsequently the British took over , but i hope realise how false the history that you have read so far is .May god bless you with more and pure knowledge .

1. Maratha empire? There was none. The Peshwas at Pune never got to unite the Scindias, Gaekwads, Bhonsles and others. Though called the Maratha Confederacy it wasn't even that. That continued till the great Afghan general Amhad Shah Abdali destroyed them once for all.

2. Marathas were never anything better than marauders / dacoits. That includes Chhatrapati Shivaji Mahraj. In Bengal we taught them a lesson under Alivardi Khan so that Vashkar Pandit never dared to commit further robberies in Bengal - Bihar - Orissa.

3. Sikhs are not Hindus although you have unilaterally declared them such in your Constitution. And it was only Ranjit Singh who ruled over Punjab, parts of Kashmir and Frontier including Peshawar. Only Buddhists can claim to have some empire extending over most of SA. Hindus, being unused and uncomfortable as leaders, never ever had any empire whatsoever save and except few small kingdoms here and there from time to time.

4. Rajputs are the only ruling class among non-Muslims of SA. They are honorable people, straight forward and good soldiers. That is why we Muslims always considered them our allies. Prithvi Raj Chauhan was a man of honor and a brave general. In 1192 he was defeated and killed in the 2nd Battle of Tarai against Mohammad Ghori, a soldiers' soldier. By 1201 Bengal was under the hoof of the Muslim cavalry.

5. Obviously history wasn't one of your strong points. It is best to check records before coming down heavily on some one who can teach you history hands down.