Maoists kill 50 Indian policemen

[Cheetah786]

Maoist rebels have attacked a security post in central India, killing 50 police officers, police say.
The clashes happened in the rebel stronghold area of Dantewada, in Chhattisgarh state.
The Maoists, who have fought a 30-year insurgency, say they are fighting for the rights of landless farmers and neglected tribes.
Thousands of people have died in their campaigns in states in central and southern India.
Co-ordinated assault
The rebels attacked the security post - manned by 75 policemen - in Bijapur just before dawn on Thursday.
Under cover of darkness, they surrounded it.
The BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Delhi says that the insurgents opened fire in a co-ordinated assault, throwing hand grenades and home-made petrol bombs into the compound before storming it.
They seized a hoard of weapons from the post, 1,500km south of Delhi, then escaped into the jungle.
It is thought dozens of Indian policemen and soldiers were based at the post, along with many local militiamen.
The first security forces to arrive after the attack reported a large number of bodies scattered around the barracks but said they were unable to count them all because the rebels had planted land mines at the scene.
Chhattisgarh's police chief said that 12 security force members were injured and at least five rebels were killed.

Powerful
Earlier this month, five security personnel died in a landmine explosion in Dantewada district.
The rebels have a strong presence in eight of 16 districts of Chhattisgarh state.
The militants are known as Naxalites after the district where their Maoist-inspired movement was born in the late 1960s.
They have become so powerful in some districts they run their own parallel administrations and justice systems.
Until recently, Naxalites have operated in pockets of jungle in India's poorest states.
But correspondents say there is now more unity between the various groups.
Analysts talk about the emergence of the Red Corridor, a great swathe of Maoist militancy which stretches all the way from the border with Nepal, south through India to the sea.
Around 6,000 Indians are thought to have died since the Naxalite uprising began.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6452759.stm

 

[Neo]

Nobody cares about the Maoist or how many they kill, its a domestic issue India won't want to attract too much international attention on.

As long as there's no link with ISI there's no political mile to score.

 

[Adux]

This is the biggest attack my the Maoist, It doesnt pose a threat to national security. The problem with India is inability to strike back because of a pacifist nature

 

[Neo]

With all respect Adu, this is a LOAD of CRAP!

Where was this pacific nature when you sent 1.000.000 troops to the border after the attack on guards at the parliament building?
To me it seems that every and only casualties caused by a ISI linkable terrorist is taken seriously.

Imagine if 50 policemen were killed in China, Russia, USA or any other country.
Would they go by the 'pacific nature'?
Hell not!

 

[Adux]

Neo,

Outpost in the Jungle to the Parliment attack case not be compared , the guys who run the place, you try to touch them, you will get a WAR,lol.. but 50 innocent policemen for them has no value, at the same time it is not a parliment building, And yes it also trure that ISI link always pulls it up the National Security Threat Index

 

[Cheetah786]

Neo,

Outpost in the Jungle to the Parliment attack case not be compared , the guys who run the place, you try to touch them, you will get a WAR,lol.. but 50 innocent policemen for them has no value, at the same time it is not a parliment building, And yes it also trure that ISI link always pulls it up the National Security Threat Index

you mean politicians are worth more then simple every day working joe.as long as its people from with in india killing each other continue.no worries.:wall:

 

[Adux]

you mean politicians are worth more then simple every day working joe.as long as its people from with in india killing each other continue.no worries.:wall:

I am not saying that, I am saying I am sure that is how they believe. If you ask me, Kill our babu's...we need to get rid of those 70yr oldie idiots

 

[PakSniper]

I am not saying that, I am saying I am sure that is how they believe. If you ask me, Kill our babu's...we need to get rid of those 70yr oldie idiots

Then don't mass soldiers on the border if it happens next time.

 

[Adux]

Then don't mass soldiers on the border if it happens next time.

We wouldnt have, if you guys did your job right..... shucks..anyways
I am sure, we can arrange safe passage for small group highly specialized .....lol

 

[Bull]

Nobody cares about the Maoist or how many they kill, its a domestic issue India won't want to attract too much international attention on.

As long as there's no link with ISI there's no political mile to score.

Very true. Pakistan and ISI will defiitly make front page news.

 

[Bull]

With all respect Adu, this is a LOAD of CRAP!

Where was this pacific nature when you sent 1.000.000 troops to the border after the attack on guards at the parliament building?
To me it seems that every and only casualties caused by a ISI linkable terrorist is taken seriously.

Imagine if 50 policemen were killed in China, Russia, USA or any other country.
Would they go by the 'pacific nature'?
Hell not!

Neo,
India is different a lot of things that happens here will make you wonder whther you are in the medieval ages. Indian s have adpated to the 'chalta hei' attitude very well.

 

[alamgir]

Neo,
India is different a lot of things that happens here will make you wonder whther you are in the medieval ages. Indian s have adpated to the 'chalta hei' attitude very well.

bull says truth,where every day 30 farmers commit suicide, then who care 50 policemen,...........................................................
Monsanto, Cereal Killer GM and Agrarian Suicides in India
by Alejandro Nadal
January 06, 2007

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The Green Revolution is dead. Its hybrids and high-yield varieties allowed for significant increases in the production of crops like wheat. But its negative side effects have intensified rather than gone away.



The technological package of the Green Revolution caused severe salination of the soil, indiscriminate exploitation and choking of aquifers and intense pollution with all types of pesticides. More seriously, it sowed an economic, social and environmental crisis in the life of poor farmers that takes more lives every year. One example is that of Anil Khondwa Shinde, a small farmer of Vidarbha district in Maharashtra state (in mid-western India). He killed himself two months ago consuming a powerful insecticide. He was 31 years old and died within minutes. The difference between the production costs and the retail price did not allow him to pay back to the providers the credit extended to him for the inputs.



An isolated incident? Not at all. The Indian Ministry of Agriculture admits to the following figures: there were 100,000 suicides by farmers between 1993 and 2003. And between 2003 and October 2006, there have been some 16,000 suicides by farmers each year. In total, between 1993 and 2006, there were around 150,000 suicide by farmers, 30 a day for 13 years!

The Maharashtra government itself accepts the figure of 1,920 farmers’ suicides in Vidarbha between January 2001 and August 2006. Farmers’ organisations of the district state that there were 782 suicides by agricultural producers. Data for the past three months indicate that on average there was a suicide every eight hours.



What conditions give rise to a suicide rate of about 30 farmers a day? It is said that the reason for this is indebtedness, but the ultimate reason is the imposition of a completely unsuitable agricultural technology, as much from the economic as from the environmental viewpoint.



Anil Shinde had decided to plant Bt cotton, a transgenic variety produced by Monsanto that supposedly reduces the need for insecticides and increases the return for the grower. Shinde is not an exception. Hundreds of farmers who had planted transgenic cotton in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have sought suicide as way out of a desperate situation that worsens year after year.



An important element of the tale is that Monsanto’s Bt cotton variety offers some protection against cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa zea) but not against other pests (Spodoptera, for example) which affect this commercial crop in India. Producers like Shinde, who turned to Monsanto cotton looking to lower pesticide costs, were taken by surprise though in any case, they have had to keep using the inputs. Even worse, the debt trap got on top of them much quicker as the Monsanto cotton seeds are more expensive.



In many districts, the local moneylenders of the past have been substituted by the network of dealers and salesmen of large companies and their methods of debt recovery have been frequently criticised. When the incidence of suicides intensified, the government launched a “help” programme with an assured payment of about $2,000 to the surviving families but that money goes straight to the pockets of the creditors and, in fact, has become a perverse incentive that more farmers take their lives.



But the politicians are the same on all sides. The Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, delights in living in the past, always speaking about the triumph of the Green Revolution. The message of his speeches is always the same: India needs genetically modified crops to help the poor farmers escape poverty and to resolve the “problem of hunger”. Thanks to the neo-liberal opening-up promoted by the government, the area dedicated to transgenic cotton in Vidarbha increased from 0.4% to 15% in just three years. In that timeframe, the rate of agrarian suicides also increased, which makes Monsanto the worst serial killer in history. Or, if we want to play with words, just as that company plays with the life of millions of farmers, we could describe Monsanto as the worst cereal killer of the planet.



Thousands of farmers, whose way of life has been destroyed as they have fallen into the clutches of the creditors, have turned to suicide as the only escape. In the process, they have exposed the failure of an agricultural project based on a technological “solution” with multiple negative effects and dysfunctional social relations. Why not heal the damages of the Green Revolution rather than rush to embrace the GM technology?



The seeds of destruction want to tell us something. But this winter, New Delhi seems more concerned with environmental pollution than the tragedy that unfolds daily in the countryside. Translated by Supriyo Chatterjee



Alejandro Nadal is professor at the Center for Economic Studies and coordinator of the Science and Technology program of El Colegio de Mexico



(Nadal’s article, ‘Monsanto y los suicidios agrarios en India’, appeared in La Jornada, Mexico, on 26 December 2006.)



Supriyo Chatterjee: supriyo@chatterjees.freeserve.co.uk

 

[Contrarian]

this topic is about Maoists, not suicides in Vidharba. If you want to discuss that, then open another thread Alagmir.

 

[alamgir]

this topic is about Maoists, not suicides in Vidharba. If you want to discuss that, then open another thread Alagmir.

i only share BULL,s chalta hai