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Suspected Maoist rebels have killed at least 10 Indian policemen in a landmine attack in the eastern state of Orissa, officials say.

Another 10 policemen were injured in the explosion, which ripped apart the bus in which they were travelling.

The blast came as India's home minister reiterated an appeal to the rebels to abandon violence and hold peace talks.

The rebels are fighting in rural areas to establish communist rule in a large swathe of India.

More than 6,000 people have died in the 20-year fight.

'Cowards'

The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of the rural poor who they say have been neglected by governments for decades.

BBC News - Indian police killed in Maoist mine blast in Orissa

 

[pkd]

Profile: India's Maoist rebels

India's bloody Maoist insurgency began in the remote forests of the state of West Bengal in the late 1960s.

Decades later Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described it as India's "greatest internal security challenge".

Maoists are also known as "Naxalites" because of the violent left-wing uprising in 1967, which began in the West Bengal village of Naxalbari.

Although this was eventually quashed by police, over the years India's Maoists have regrouped and asserted control over vast swathes of land in central and eastern India, establishing a so-called "red corridor".

This spans the states of Jharkand, West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh and also reaches into Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka.

The Maoists and affiliated groups are thought to control more than one third of India's 600-odd districts.

And more than 6,000 people have died in the rebels' long fight for communist rule in these states.

Maoist aims

The Maoists' military leader is Koteshwar Rao, otherwise known as Kishenji.

Thousands of rebels are said to swell his guerrilla ranks - estimates vary from 10,000 to 20,000 armed fighters. They are said to get most of their weapons by raiding police bases.

Analysts say the longevity of the Maoist rebellion is partly due to the local support they receive.

The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of indigenous tribespeople and the rural poor who they say have been neglected by governments for decades.

Maoists claim to represent local concerns over land ownership and equitable distribution of resources.

Ultimately they say they want to establish a "communist society" by overthrowing India's "semi-colonial, semi-feudal" form of rule through armed struggle.

Major rebel attacks

And over the years the Maoists have managed to launch a series of damaging attacks on Indian security forces.

In 2009, rebels gained virtual control of the Lalgarh district in West Bengal barely 250km (155 miles) from the state capital Calcutta.

For many months, rebels, supported by local villagers, held hundreds of paramilitary forces at bay. The Maoists declared it to be India's first "liberated zone" but Indian security forces finally overwhelmed the rebels.

March 2010 saw one of the deadliest attacks on Indian security forces when rebels ambushed paramilitary troops in the dense jungles of central Chhattisgarh state killing at least 72.

It is thought to be one of the deadliest attacks by the rebels in recent years.

In 2007, also in Chhattisgarh, Maoist rebels killed 55 policemen in an attack on a remote police outpost.

Almost every week Maoist rebels are blamed for minor skirmishes and incidents across India's north-east - common tactics include blowing up railway tracks and attacking police stations.

But the Maoists are now facing India's biggest ever anti-Maoist offensive - Operation Green Hunt.

Nearly 50,000 federal paramilitary troops and tens of thousands of policemen are taking part in the operation across several states.

Rebels have vowed to intensify their attacks unless the government halts its offensive against them.

India's government in turn has pledged to crack down even harder unless rebels renounce violence and enter peace talks.

Analysts say the chances of dialogue or any kind of rapprochement are slim.

BBC News - Profile: India's Maoist rebels

 

[Usama86]

Surprisingly Indian media has not yet worked out a Pakistani hand in the maoist uprising. Well i guess they should now understand that the greatest security threat to them is not from Pakistan (or the so called terorist we send them with love) its from within, perhaps something to ponder upon.

 

[ajpirzada]

 

[KS]

AR is jus a self publicity seeking,self promoting anti-Indian,pseudo-secular Hippie Bi***........

whooo...hasn spoke like this before..nd doesnt want to in the future..

 

[Prometheus]

that woman is psycho...............seriously

 

[psychedelic_renegade]

I don't agree with here in many things, and some I do agree. But the problem with this woman is, she talks length about corporate and totalitarianism and if someone says anything against her, she will diss them in a totalitarian way.

 

[Isaq Khan]

@ ajpirzada

sir,

i think there is a separate thread called "India's insurgency problems" and this you tube video belongs to such threads.

The positive thread about India moved or merged but this type of threads, i have counted 3 are still running in this India Defense section.

And this is called spamming and India bashing.

You are requested to move it in the appoperiate thread.

In the hope of fair judgment and justice.

thanks

 

[Iggy]

Her heart bleeds only for a select people..she has nothing to say when 76 of the CRPF jawans were killed by the Maosists nor her heart bleeds..she is saying about slaughtering of muslims in Gujrat but ignore the facts that many Hindus are also been slaughtered there..may be talking about a majority community wont gave her much recoganition around the world..and about Tatas and Ambanis saying Modi as a future prime minister..he is governing a state which is the most posperous in India the way Gujrat grows under him is what she ignored delibartely..and about the MoUs sighned by the government..why she is ignoring the facts that when these companies come there are lots of tribals and villagers who are going to benefit from it..lots of job oppurtunites are to be created..Income from mining doesnt represent the growth of the country??whats the logic in it??

 

[shiningindia]

The detection of the presence of Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in New Delhi persuades one to wonder if it is turning into an established safe-home. Also, because the rebels have not committed any ‘action’ in Delhi, the police may not have, possibly, paid adequate attention to understanding the rebels, their motives and modus operandi. The arrest of a few Maoist leaders and activists since September 2009 is, perhaps, the tip of the ice berg of the Maoist presence and activities in Delhi, and, therefore, the police would have to prepare themselves urgently in facing and defeating the Maoist challenge.

Polit Bureau member Kobad Ghandy was the highest ranking leader arrested in Delhi, on September 20, 2009. He was arrested following a tip-off by the Special Intelligence Branch (SIB), the elite anti-Naxal intelligence-wing of Andhra Pradesh Police, which has turned into a role model for the other affected States. Investigations following Ghandy’s arrest are now leading the police to some more Maoists.

On March 23, 2010, Lakkaraju Satyanarayana Murty (LSN) was officially arrested in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh. He was believed to have been picked up from Delhi a few days earlier. LSN’s interrogation led to the detention and subsequent release of Sunil Mandiwal, a college teacher. On April 28, a trade union leader, his wife and another associate were arrested. Possibly, a few more Maoists could be arrested in the weeks and months ahead, while many more would try to cover up their trail and move out of Delhi.

In fact, the role of the Maoists was suspected in the strike in 2005 at the Honda factory located in Gurgaon, in the National Capital Region (NCR). After that, for a very long time, little was heard about the Maoist presence in Delhi. Also, little is known of the leaders who are trying to build a base and spread the Maoist ideology in Delhi. According to well-informed sources, the Maoists have formed a State Committee comprising six members to spearhead the movement in Delhi. This has been in operation since, at least, the past four to five years. It is believed that Maoist Central Committee member Sukanth has been entrusted with the task of ‘guiding’ the Delhi State Committee.

There is nothing unique about the Maoist presence in a city like Delhi, other than that it is the national capital. The Maoist urban presence has already been detected in various cities and towns across the country – in Mumabi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Nagpur, Surat, Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Rourkela, Bhubaneshwar, etc.

Moreover, since September 2005 there have been reports of Maoist activities in places which are a few hours’ drive away from Delhi, in Haryana, in Jind, Kaithal, Kurukshetra Yamunanagar, Hisar, Rohtak and Sonepat. In June 2009, Haryana police claimed to have arrested eight important Maoists in Kurukshetra, including Pradeep Kumar, the Haryana state secretary of the CPI (Maoist). Besides, the police also claimed that the Maoists have formed a number of front organizations in Haryana, viz. Shivalik Jansangharsh Manch, Lal Salam, Jagrook Chhatar Morcha, Krantikari Majdoor Kisan Union, Jan Adhikari Surakhsa Samiti and Shivalik Jansangharsh Manch.

The Maoists, at the Unity Congress held in January 2007, decided to spread their movement to urban areas. In this wake, the Congress also created a five member sub-committee –– known as Urban Sub-Committee (USCO) -- with Ghandy as its head, and tasked it with preparing a plan. Perhaps, this was submitted to the all-powerful Central Committee in September 2007. This plan is known as the Urban Perspective Plan.

The Urban Movement has a defined role in the political and military strategy of the CPI (Maoist). According to the CPI (Maoist), “… being the centres of concentration of the industrial proletariat, urban areas play an important part within the political strategy of the new Democratic Revolution.” The Maoists envisage that they would mobilise and organise the industrial workers and channel them towards playing “leadership role in organising the agrarian revolution by sending … advanced detachment to the rural areas.” The role of the Urban Movement within the military strategy of the Maoists has been best explained by Mao Tse Tung thus: “the final objective of the revolution is the capture of the cities, the enemy’s main bases and this objective cannot be achieved without adequate work in the cities.” The CPI (Maoist) holds that “[they] should, by building up a strong urban movement, ensure that the urban masses contribute to creating the conditions that will obtain success for the armed struggle in the countryside.”

In the Maoist scheme of things, the objectives/tasks of the Urban Movement could be classified under three broad heads or categories: (a) mobilise and organise the basic masses and build the party on that basis; (b) build the United Front; and (c) Military tasks.

The Maoists contend that the urban movement should be conducted through various types of mass organisations; the wider the organisations, the better. These organisations are of different types –– secret revolutionary mass organisations, open and semi-open revolutionary mass organisations, open legal mass organisations which are not directly linked to the CPI (Maoist). The last of these would include Maoist-inspired cover organisations and legal, democratic organisations.

It is fairly easy for the Maoists to establish bases in urban areas. As a well-known authority of the Maoist movement, K. Srinivas Reddy, told this author, “because of the anonymity it accords, it becomes easy for the Maoists to stay and operate in urban centres.” Urban presence for the Maoists has the utility of (a) providing a place for rest and recuperation, (b) arranging for logistics and (c) mobilising students, youth and industrial workers.

More importantly, if and when the Urban Movement catches on among the industrial workers, the state will have to deal with possible sabotage activities and workers/ industrial unrest. When the Urban Movement becomes strong, the state will then also have to deal with urban terrorism.

Maoists in Delhi: Is the Police Prepared? | Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

 

[Evil Flare]

do Maoist have Peoples Support in Delhi ?

 

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DAWN.COM | Front Page | Maoists give Pakistan a breather

Maoists give Pakistan a breather

By Jawed Naqvi
Friday, 07 May, 2010

NEW DELHI, May 6: As an Indian judge closed a sordid chapter in Delhi’s ties with Islamabad on Thursday by handing the death sentence to the sole surviving Pakistani gunman involved in the November 2008 carnage in Mumbai, the Indian government signalled that a more serious threat to the country’s internal security came from a Maoist rebellion raging in central and eastern India, not from across the border.

In an unusual advisory that seemed to presage the government’s shift in focus away from Pakistan, whose foreign minister is widely expected to resume talks with his Indian counterpart later this month, the Indian home ministry warned that it was the Maoists that planned to overthrow the Indian state in a bloody revolt, currently located in the central Indian forests.

In a day-long marathon centred on the death sentence by a Mumbai special court, TV channels speculated what its fallout would be on India’s relations with Pakistan.

However, in the post-Thimphu atmosphere of mild hope when the two prime ministers signalled a resumption of a new round of talks between their officials, there was little to analyse except to follow their lead. Pakistan’s progress with the prosecution of Mumbai terror masterminds named in the judgment will be watched by New Delhi. However, a subtle change of emphasis in the home ministry’s reminder on Thursday in which it described Maoists not as as “leftwing extremists” which it usually does, but as “terrorists” — a term almost completely reserved so far to describe Muslim militants and their sympathisers -- the government indicated its changed priority. In its crosshairs were liberal intellectuals, who received a dire warning.

“It has come to the notice of the government that some Maoist leaders have been directly contacting certain...intellectuals to propagate their ideology and persuade them to take steps as would provide support to the CPI (Maoist) ideology,” the home ministry said.

It warned that under the Unlawful Activities Act of 1967, “any person who commits the offence of supporting such a terrorist organisation with inter alia intention to further the activities of such terrorist organisations would be liable to be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or with fine or with both. General public are informed to be extremely vigilant of the propaganda of CPI (Maoist) and not unwittingly become a victim of such propaganda.”

The Indian home ministry emphasised that the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and all its formations “are terrorist organisations whose sole aim is armed overthrow of the Indian state and that they have no place in India’s parliamentary democracy.”

It said CPI (Maoist) continued to kill innocent civilians including tribals in cold blood and destroy crucial infrastructure like roads, culverts, school buildings... to prevent development from reaching these under-developed areas. It is almost certain that the imminent talks with Pakistan will widen the discussion to a whole range of issues dogging bilateral ties, while the definition of terrorism expands to include matters closer to home.

 

[shiningindia]

do Maoist have Peoples Support in Delhi ?

yes ! some political leaders supports Maoist. Maoist is in india bcoz some politician support them only for vote bank. i will not surprised whenever maoist attack in delhi.
i am not posting maoist supporter politilian but every indian knows there name. they sell there country only power,money and vote bank.

 

[genetic_nomad]

do Maoist have Peoples Support in Delhi ?

it cannot be ruled out, it would be scary proposition

 

[U-571]

good thing they are doing to hang kasab, india is supposed to follow the western/american type of democracy where the maximum punishment is imprisonment for llife, by hanging kasab they are removing all evidance which may indeed prove him to be an indian.

pakistan should take this to the security council and say that the matter is controvercial that kasab is pakistani and more efforts should be made from indian side to resolve this case in the positive manner rather just hanging the culprit.