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Maoists gun down contractor
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BERHAMPUR: Maoists murdered a 33-year-old youth in broad daylight in Narayanpatna block of Koraput district on Saturday morning.
With this murder, the naxals tried to ascertain their presence and strength in the Narayanpatna area which is now considered a ‘strategic location’ of the ‘Red Corridor’.
According to police sources the murder took place at around 10 a.m. near Bagam village at a distance of around 6 km from the Narayanpatna police station.
The victim was Patro Khosla (33), a young contractor of Bagam village.
Khosla was on his way to Narayanpatna on his bike. A group of three armed Maoists, including a woman cadre, reached the village and started firing at him.
Throwing his bike Khosla started to run. As per eyewitnesses he could not escape as the woman naxal shot him. He died on the spot.
Khosla was a small-time contractor who had undertaken some minor road works in the area.
He was also involved in Women’s Self Help Group (WSHG) and NGO activity in the Bagam village.
It was for the first time for the naxals to target someone related to NGO activity in Koraput district.
http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/28/stor...2852520300.htm
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Chhattisgarh Maoists recruiting minor girls: Police
14 Jan 2009, 1025 hrs IST, IANS
RAIPUR: Maoist insurgents in Chhattisgarh are recruiting minor girls as part of a stepped-up drive to get members for a women's wing, say police.
The Maoists, who run a de facto administration in the state's vast southern mineral-rich Bastar region, are trying to get cadres for the Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangh, said a senior police officer.
"Maoist militants are now on a stepped-up drive to recruit minors, mainly female adolescents, because it's easier to brainwash them," Pawan Deo, a senior officer at the police's special intelligence branch (SIB) here, said.
"The forced recruitment drive in the Bastar hinterland is now basically to fill up hundreds of slots vacated due to mass desertion of Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres due to relentless police pressure and exposure of the myth of Maoist ideology," he claimed.
Vishwa Ranjan, the state's police chief, had earlier said that roughly 10,000 highly militarised insurgents operate in Chhattisgarh, backed by another 35,000-40,000 cadres called 'Sangham members'.
"Some 30 percent or 15,000 of a total of 50,000 armed rebels are female insurgents who actively participate in carrying out major strikes against civilians and police forces," said Ranjan, who was additional director in the country's Intelligence Bureau (IB) before he became state police chief.
All five districts in the 40,000 sq km Bastar region have witnessed a string of deadly attacks on police bases and civilians since June 2005 when a government backed civil militia movement, Salwa Judum, was launched to take on militants in two districts - Dantewada and Bijapur, the nerve centre of militants' since early 1980s.
In March 2007, the rebels launched their biggest attack so far, killing 55 policemen in an overnight attack on a police outpost in Bijapur district.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/I...ow/3976432.cms
Some news on Child Soldiers......................
Maoists step up recruitment of child soldiers
New Delhi, May 22: India`s Maoist rebels are on a drive to recruit thousands of child soldiers in the country`s poor rural heartlands, police and human rights agencies say, sometimes by force.
The rebels are making parents of poor families in east and central India hand over their children, aged mostly between 10-15 years, with promises of food and a better life in camps, they said, in some cases taking the children without consent.
"The Maoists are recruiting very small children in rural areas and the government is not doing anything about it, which is very disturbing," Meha Dixit, an activist with Amnesty International, said in New Delhi.
The Maoists have plans to recruit over 10,000 child soldiers from a few hundred now in east and central India, officials said, in an effort to strengthen their militant youth wing and influence in the heartlands.
On Tuesday, at least 20 children recruited by Maoists were arrested by police in Bihar.
"We heard that Maoists were recruiting children for their operation at a training camp and to our surprise we found a large number of teenage boys there," Vinay Kumar, a senior police officer, told Reuters in Bihar.
The rebels, who regularly kill policemen, and attack government establishments and factories in a large swathe of eastern and central India, say they are fighting the government on behalf of the poor and landless.
Human rights groups and police say the Maoists teach children to use weapons and to be informers.
"The Maoists are using children for their own purpose by recruiting them, but it is their age to read and play," said Ranjan Mohanty of the Campaign against Child Labour.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the four-decade-old Maoist rebellion as the single biggest threat to India`s internal security. It has killed thousands of people. (Has he told stupid mukherjee about it or not?????? just wondering.............)
Sophisticated weapons
In Chhattisgarh, insurgents were recruiting dozens of children in the 12-15 year age group to boost numbers in a Maoist youth wing, police and NGO workers said.
"It is a forced recruitment," Girdhari Nayak, the police chief for anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh said.
"The rebels are carrying away the children without consent of their parents for a tough training to handle sophisticated weapons," Nayak said.
Earlier this month, the government in Orissa came across new video footage of Maoist child soldiers during a raid at a camp.
International and Indian human rights agencies said they have reports of rebels forcing children to join them and in several cases threatening to kill their parents if they refused.
But human rights workers say Indian authorities were also encouraging children to take up guns in a government-backed tribal militia movement against the Maoists.
"We have reports of rebel groups and the tribal militia recruiting children," Dixit, of Amnesty International, said.
Bureau Report
Maoists step up recruitment of child soldiers
What is your opinion??????????????
Staff Reporter
BERHAMPUR: Maoists murdered a 33-year-old youth in broad daylight in Narayanpatna block of Koraput district on Saturday morning.
With this murder, the naxals tried to ascertain their presence and strength in the Narayanpatna area which is now considered a ‘strategic location’ of the ‘Red Corridor’.
According to police sources the murder took place at around 10 a.m. near Bagam village at a distance of around 6 km from the Narayanpatna police station.
The victim was Patro Khosla (33), a young contractor of Bagam village.
Khosla was on his way to Narayanpatna on his bike. A group of three armed Maoists, including a woman cadre, reached the village and started firing at him.
Throwing his bike Khosla started to run. As per eyewitnesses he could not escape as the woman naxal shot him. He died on the spot.
Khosla was a small-time contractor who had undertaken some minor road works in the area.
He was also involved in Women’s Self Help Group (WSHG) and NGO activity in the Bagam village.
It was for the first time for the naxals to target someone related to NGO activity in Koraput district.
http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/28/stor...2852520300.htm
Some more news on the topic...............
Chhattisgarh Maoists recruiting minor girls: Police
14 Jan 2009, 1025 hrs IST, IANS
RAIPUR: Maoist insurgents in Chhattisgarh are recruiting minor girls as part of a stepped-up drive to get members for a women's wing, say police.
The Maoists, who run a de facto administration in the state's vast southern mineral-rich Bastar region, are trying to get cadres for the Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangh, said a senior police officer.
"Maoist militants are now on a stepped-up drive to recruit minors, mainly female adolescents, because it's easier to brainwash them," Pawan Deo, a senior officer at the police's special intelligence branch (SIB) here, said.
"The forced recruitment drive in the Bastar hinterland is now basically to fill up hundreds of slots vacated due to mass desertion of Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres due to relentless police pressure and exposure of the myth of Maoist ideology," he claimed.
Vishwa Ranjan, the state's police chief, had earlier said that roughly 10,000 highly militarised insurgents operate in Chhattisgarh, backed by another 35,000-40,000 cadres called 'Sangham members'.
"Some 30 percent or 15,000 of a total of 50,000 armed rebels are female insurgents who actively participate in carrying out major strikes against civilians and police forces," said Ranjan, who was additional director in the country's Intelligence Bureau (IB) before he became state police chief.
All five districts in the 40,000 sq km Bastar region have witnessed a string of deadly attacks on police bases and civilians since June 2005 when a government backed civil militia movement, Salwa Judum, was launched to take on militants in two districts - Dantewada and Bijapur, the nerve centre of militants' since early 1980s.
In March 2007, the rebels launched their biggest attack so far, killing 55 policemen in an overnight attack on a police outpost in Bijapur district.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/I...ow/3976432.cms
Some news on Child Soldiers......................
Maoists step up recruitment of child soldiers
New Delhi, May 22: India`s Maoist rebels are on a drive to recruit thousands of child soldiers in the country`s poor rural heartlands, police and human rights agencies say, sometimes by force.
The rebels are making parents of poor families in east and central India hand over their children, aged mostly between 10-15 years, with promises of food and a better life in camps, they said, in some cases taking the children without consent.
"The Maoists are recruiting very small children in rural areas and the government is not doing anything about it, which is very disturbing," Meha Dixit, an activist with Amnesty International, said in New Delhi.
The Maoists have plans to recruit over 10,000 child soldiers from a few hundred now in east and central India, officials said, in an effort to strengthen their militant youth wing and influence in the heartlands.
On Tuesday, at least 20 children recruited by Maoists were arrested by police in Bihar.
"We heard that Maoists were recruiting children for their operation at a training camp and to our surprise we found a large number of teenage boys there," Vinay Kumar, a senior police officer, told Reuters in Bihar.
The rebels, who regularly kill policemen, and attack government establishments and factories in a large swathe of eastern and central India, say they are fighting the government on behalf of the poor and landless.
Human rights groups and police say the Maoists teach children to use weapons and to be informers.
"The Maoists are using children for their own purpose by recruiting them, but it is their age to read and play," said Ranjan Mohanty of the Campaign against Child Labour.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the four-decade-old Maoist rebellion as the single biggest threat to India`s internal security. It has killed thousands of people. (Has he told stupid mukherjee about it or not?????? just wondering.............)
Sophisticated weapons
In Chhattisgarh, insurgents were recruiting dozens of children in the 12-15 year age group to boost numbers in a Maoist youth wing, police and NGO workers said.
"It is a forced recruitment," Girdhari Nayak, the police chief for anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh said.
"The rebels are carrying away the children without consent of their parents for a tough training to handle sophisticated weapons," Nayak said.
Earlier this month, the government in Orissa came across new video footage of Maoist child soldiers during a raid at a camp.
International and Indian human rights agencies said they have reports of rebels forcing children to join them and in several cases threatening to kill their parents if they refused.
But human rights workers say Indian authorities were also encouraging children to take up guns in a government-backed tribal militia movement against the Maoists.
"We have reports of rebel groups and the tribal militia recruiting children," Dixit, of Amnesty International, said.
Bureau Report
Maoists step up recruitment of child soldiers
What is your opinion??????????????
