Separatist Insurgencies in India - News and Discussions.

[ajtr]

So seems like for the govt and country these security men fight and die their govt. dont want to confer them with martyr status.Now that says a lot about the so called sacrifices........


No 'martyr' status to police, paramilitary personnel killed in line duty - The Times of India

NEW DELHI: (PTI) While the country today commemorated the sacrifice of its police and paramilitary personnel killed in the line of duty, the government is yet to accord "martyr" status to these personnel on the lines of the armed forces.

"The stark reality is that while there is an official notification in the government gazette to declare troops and officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force as martyrs when they sacrifice their lives in the line of duty, there is no such order for police and paramilitary personnel," a top central police officer said.

As per a home ministry data, between September 2011 to August this year, a total of 546 police and paramilitary personnel lost their lives on duty due to "unnatural" causes, which include action.

Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde today paid tributes to these personnel at a memorial event in the national capital, where for the first time all the central forces came together to pay their tributes to their valiant comrades.

The fact was also recently reported in Parliament by minister of state for home Jitendra Singh stating that in a committee of secretaries (COS) meeting, convened on this subject last year, "no consensus" could emerge on the issue.

"The matter (for giving status of martyr to paramilitary personnel) was considered by the COS on September 14, 2011 but there was no consensus on the issue," Singh said in a written reply in Lok Sabha on May 8 this year.

 

[ajtr]

566 policemen killed in operations or attacks in one year

NEW DELHI: Over 550 police and paramilitary personnel lost their lives in the past one year during operations or attacks on them with Uttar Pradesh Police taking the maximum number of casualties.

A total of 566 personnel from state police and para-military forces like BSF, CRPF and NSG were killed during the period between September 1, 2011 and August 31, this year, according to official figures.

Uttar Pradesh Police topped the list of casualities with 133 followed by BSF (85), CRPF (57) and Jharkhand Police (43).

Punjab Police lost 29 personnel during the period while police forces in West Bengal suffered 28 and Chhattisgarh 24 casualties followed by Delhi (19), Odisha (18) and Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh (10 each).

The casualty figures for other state police forces were --Manipur (9), Meghalaya (8), Karnataka (5), Uttarakhand (5), Maharashtra (4), Nagaland (4), Assam (3), Himachal Pradesh (3), Tamil Nadu (3), Gujarat (1), Kerala (1), Rajasthan (1) and Tripura (1).

Nineteen RPF personnel also died during operations while the casualty figures for SSB was five and SPG and ITBP two each.

The Commemoration Day was observed today by various police organisations in the national capital. Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar took the salute on the occasion.

UPSC member K K Paul, IB Director N S Sandhu, V Rajagopal, Special Director (IB), and retired Commissioners of Delhi Police Subash Tandon, Raja Vijay Karan, M B Kaushal, Ajai Raj Sharma, R S Gupta and senior officers paid homage by laying wreath at the memorial.

During September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011, 634 police and para-military personnel were killed during operations or attacks on them with CRPF topping the list of casualities with 113 followed by Uttar Pradesh Police (112) and and BSF (72).

In the previous year between September 1, 2009 and August 31, 2010, 797 police and para-military personnel lost their lives with CRPF topping the list with 191 deaths. Similarly, during 2008 September and August 2009, the police forces lost 841 lives with UP taking the maximum number of casualties with 107 followed by CRPF (81) and BSF (72).

The Commemoration Day is observed every year on October 21 in the memory of CRPF personnel, who were ambushed and killed by Chinese forces in Ladakh region on that day in 1959.

 

[ajtr]

Maoist shutdown hits road traffic in Odisha



BHUBANESWAR: Commercial vehicles in the interiors of Odisha stayed off the roads on Thursday due to a statewide shutdown called by the Maoists against the central government's economic policy, particularly hiking diesel prices and putting a cap on subsidised cooking gas cylinders.

Normal life was affected in Narayanpatna area of Koraput district and Kalyansinghpur area of Rayagada district as the rebels felled trees on roads at some places.

"The Maoists have felled trees in some places of Kalayansinghpur area for the first time," Vinod Lakra, a police officer from the region said.

Operators have kept their vehicles off the roads apprehending attacks, he said.

The Kashipur-Niyamgiri area committee of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist has circulated posters and banners in areas considered as their stronghold, appealing to people to oppose the central government's economic policy.

The rebels are active in more than half of Odisha's 30 districts. However, the impact of the 24-hour shutdown has not been felt so far in other parts of the state.

 

[Windjammer]

^^^^^^^^^

And Indian members here on PDF never stop claiming that the Maoist threat is a thing of the past.
If they would stop taking all the interest in the likes of TTP and BLA, then they might learn something about their own back yard. !!

 

[Lyrical Mockery]

The maoist problem is large and real.

But, some members here are claiming all seven states of North East want to separate themselves from India. I have one message for them : Go and get educated. Only 3 of those states have rebels fighting for complete independence and even among them NSCN is quite willing to accept Indian suzerainty. Arunachal is one state with no local "insurgency" and only the two (now three) districts bordering nagaland have some problem due to spillover of naga problem. The mizos have already given up arms.

I just don't know where these people come up with the idea that the seven sisters want to separate themselves from India. Maybe that is what they hope, but that is not the truth.

 

[Nishan_101]

566 policemen killed in operations or attacks in one year

NEW DELHI: Over 550 police and paramilitary personnel lost their lives in the past one year during operations or attacks on them with Uttar Pradesh Police taking the maximum number of casualties.

A total of 566 personnel from state police and para-military forces like BSF, CRPF and NSG were killed during the period between September 1, 2011 and August 31, this year, according to official figures.

Uttar Pradesh Police topped the list of casualities with 133 followed by BSF (85), CRPF (57) and Jharkhand Police (43).

Punjab Police lost 29 personnel during the period while police forces in West Bengal suffered 28 and Chhattisgarh 24 casualties followed by Delhi (19), Odisha (18) and Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh (10 each).

The casualty figures for other state police forces were --Manipur (9), Meghalaya (8), Karnataka (5), Uttarakhand (5), Maharashtra (4), Nagaland (4), Assam (3), Himachal Pradesh (3), Tamil Nadu (3), Gujarat (1), Kerala (1), Rajasthan (1) and Tripura (1).

Nineteen RPF personnel also died during operations while the casualty figures for SSB was five and SPG and ITBP two each.

The Commemoration Day was observed today by various police organisations in the national capital. Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar took the salute on the occasion.

UPSC member K K Paul, IB Director N S Sandhu, V Rajagopal, Special Director (IB), and retired Commissioners of Delhi Police Subash Tandon, Raja Vijay Karan, M B Kaushal, Ajai Raj Sharma, R S Gupta and senior officers paid homage by laying wreath at the memorial.

During September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011, 634 police and para-military personnel were killed during operations or attacks on them with CRPF topping the list of casualities with 113 followed by Uttar Pradesh Police (112) and and BSF (72).

In the previous year between September 1, 2009 and August 31, 2010, 797 police and para-military personnel lost their lives with CRPF topping the list with 191 deaths. Similarly, during 2008 September and August 2009, the police forces lost 841 lives with UP taking the maximum number of casualties with 107 followed by CRPF (81) and BSF (72).

The Commemoration Day is observed every year on October 21 in the memory of CRPF personnel, who were ambushed and killed by Chinese forces in Ladakh region on that day in 1959.

Do they have any old AAA guns and MANPADs of Russian origin???
Any details along with pictures???

 

[Death Rattle]

Do they have any old AAA guns and MANPADs of Russian origin???
Any details along with pictures???

Maoists caused only 128 casualties to security forces in 2011 and 277 in 2010.
Total casualties of security forces in 2011 and 2010 from(Maoists,J&K,NE) are 194 and 371 respectively.

And no the maoists don't have any MANPAD's or AAA's.

Kashmiri Jiha*ists had them:
Pakistani missile found in Kashmir, army says - Chicago Tribune
Trigger-happy Kashmir militants beef up arsenal

 

[ajtr]

Maoists script new plan for Chhattisgarh-Odisha border

Police officers, particularly those heading anti-Naxal operations, aren’t known to speak of the ‘enemy’ with admiration. So it is with raised eyebrows that you react when you hear senior cops talk of Maoist leader Malla Raja Reddy in glowing terms.

“He is very good, particularly in motivating people and the Maoist cadre. His organisational capability is tremendous, as good as Kishenji. He is a man for long-term missions,” is the overwhelming verdict.

Reddy, who hails from Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, like most of the top leadership of the Maoist group, has now been appointed the first secretary of the Chhattisgarh-Odisha Border (COB) committee.

COB will be the Indian security forces’ new headache as long as Reddy is at the helm of affairs. The committee will oversee the activities of the CPI (Maoist) in the eastern part of the Sukma-Darbha plateau in Chhattisgarh and the forest areas of Odisha along the border of the two states. The Mahasamund-Bargarh-Bolangir division will work under the COB committee. Much of this seamless territory was always under Maoist control—some sort of a ‘liberated zone’ as it were—but, to the credit of the security forces, the patch has considerably shrunk over the years.

But it is not as if the Maoists willed themselves to take this strategic step. They were in fact forced into it by a couple of developments earlier this year.

The first one was the CRPF raid on Abujmad, the military nerve centre of the Maoists deep inside Dandakaranya in Chhattisgarh in February-March this year. CRPF officers say they have information that the Maoists lost significant cadre in that encounter while there were no casualties on the security forces side. Their assessment is that the attack made the top leadership of the Maoists realise that Abujmad was no longer impregnable and that the top leaders would need to scout for a more safe hideout. For the CRPF, the operation was a morale-booster, one that dispelled the popular notion that Abujmad is out-of-bounds for them.

The second and equally critical reason for the formation of COB was the rebellion of the secretary of the Odisha unit of the CPI (Maoist), Sabyasachi Panda. The assessment of the officers heading the anti-Naxal operations is that Panda’s exit from the Maoist camp is a huge blow. And, therefore, something had to be done about Odisha before the writ of the outlaws started shrinking in the eastern state.

In a sense, the problem in Odisha was of the Maoists’ own making. The domination of Telugu cadre in the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) committee, which is headed by Modem Balakrishna, alias Manoj, was instrumental in creating a huge rift with Panda whose foot-soldiers are all Odiya locals. In fact, his resignation letter, which he sent to Ganapathi and two other Maoist leaders in August this year, is now in the public domain. It uses strong language while pointing out the disastrous effects of ‘foreign’ rule in Odisha.

Panda wrote : “Our AOB leaders are always for their superiority and tried to keep Odisha committee as subordinates. Politically they never think about Odisha, its people’s condition and political acceptance … In the name of promotion, one type of feudal democracy, similar to that of fascist RSS organisation, prevailed in this party.”

Pointing out that the AOB committee demanded the release of only Telugu cadre in exchange for the release of Malkangiri collector Vineel Krishna in February 2011, the letter, at other places, focuses on the difference in food habits and the taunts the Odiya committee members had to suffer. The faultlines were exposed and showed that the Maoists in Odisha are a divided and bitter lot.

The mandate of the COB is to box in Panda with AOB’s help and spread the Maoist influence deep into Odisha. Sources in Odisha say over 60 foot-soldiers of the party have now spread into Kandhamal, Ganjam, Gajapati and Rayagada districts—all part of Panda’s territory—to “talk to the locals” and to tell them that they can join the Maoist force and even rise up the ladder to become commanders. The effort is also to take them out of Panda’s influence, by describing him as a ‘renegade’ and accusing him of joining hands with the police. The Maoists realise that the police could even use Panda in their fight to free the state of Red influence. Interestingly, the press releases of the CPI (Maoist) that were earlier being issued in Telugu have now started appearing in Odiya.

The big brother attitude of the Telugus in the organisation is not confined to Odisha alone. Even in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, which has a Maoist cadre strength of close to 1,800, about 450 of them armed, there are no local tribal commanders. The entire leadership is Telugu and the security forces are now trying to drill a divide, telling the locals that the outsiders are only exploiting them as foot-soldiers.

Police sources also believe COB will be the new alternate location for a hideout for the top leadership to hold conclaves, especially since Abujmad is no longer seen as 100 percent safe. The Maoist plan reportedly is now to increase its strength and presence in the border areas, particularly the tri-junctions of different states, which invariably are grey areas where no one’s writ runs.

What helps the Maoists is that inter-state cooperation is, for all practical purposes, lacklustre or non-existent.

=====================================================================


Maoists slit the throat of village-head in Odisha
Malkangiri (Odisha), Oct 27, 2012, (PTI)
Maoists have killed a village-head by slitting his throat for not heeding to their diktats in Odisha's Malkangiri district, police said today.

Over 50 armed rebels lifted Pandu Madkami (50) of Parsanpalli under Padia police station when he was sleeping in his house late last night and slit his throat at a nearby place, they said.

Madkami, also a petty contractor, and a few other villagers had been summoned by the Maoists to appear before their "Kangaroo Court" on October 17 and let off the next day with warning, police said.

The Maoists suspected him to be acting as a police informer and asked him to refrain from it. They had also asked him to quit contracting.

"We have information about the killing by Maoists. The police have gone to the spot for investigation", Superintendent of Police, Malkangiri, Akhilesh Singh said.

 

[ajtr]

‘Naxals’ warn resorts against flesh trade
Sakleshpur (hassan dist):Oct 26, 2012 DH News Service
Maoists have allegedly warned resorts and homestays against participating in the flesh trade.

A letter purportedly handwritten by the extremists and pasted on the wall of a bus stand at Hiruddi near Devalakere in the taluk Thursday morning, charged the owners of resorts and homestays with running a prostitution racket. The letter stated that college girls from villages were pushed into flesh trade at resorts and homestays.

“Girls from Hassan are being sent to resorts in Chikmagalur and young women from Chikmagalur are sent to Madikeri to service businessmen customers,” the letter written in red ink claimed.

The Maoists have also threatened to kill the police and local officers who collude with the owners of such resorts and homestays.

Besides, they have sought the co-operation of the local residents by providing them with accommodation, food and torchlight. They also cautioned the residents against tipping off the police about their activities. Those interested to join them have been asked to write their cellphone number on the letter.

Police officers inspected the spot. An investigation is being conducted. A few weeks ago, Naxals had visited some houses in the taluk seeking food.

 

[Sashan]

MHA advises reverse vasectomy for willing Naxals​

With many Maoists undergoing vasectomy and shying away from joining the mainstream, the government has offered to conduct reverse sterilisation procedure for Naxals willing to return to normal family life.

In a communication, the Home Ministry today asked Maoist-hit states to facilitate reverse vasectomy operations of willing Maoist cadres and bear medical costs to help the extremists lead normal family life and have children.

"No rehabilitation is complete if Maoist cadres cannot return to normal family life and have children. Hence, there is a need to ascertain the status of the surrendered or arrested Maoist cadres and wherever necessary facilitate their return to normal family life.

This process will also reduce the temptation of the cadres to return to Maoist fold. Hence, state governments should consider facilitating vasectomy reversal operations of willing Maoists. Since most sterilisation surgeries are conducted in a crude manner by local quacks, if the reversal operation has to be done in a higher medical centre, the government should bear the costs," the communication said.

Forced sterilisation of lower cadres of Maoists by top leadership has been in practice for years. The medical procedure is conducted apparently to keep the cadres perpetually battle fit and also to close the option of leading a family life away from Maoist fold.

In fact, pre-condition for many marriages between male and female cadres is male sterilisation to prevent filial attachments.

MHA advises reverse vasectomy for willing Naxals | Business Standard

 

[ajtr]

Maoists deny forced vasectomy of cadres

RANCHI: Maoists in Jharkhand have rubbished the Union home ministry's report that their lower-rung cadres are subjected to forced sterilization in the outfit to prevent filial attachment in future. They have also rejected the government's advisory to nine Naxalite-affected states to conduct reverse vasectomy on the surrendered rebels.

Describing forced vasectomy or reverse vasectomy as a violation of personal rights of an individual, a leader of the Bihar Jharkhand North Chhatisgarh frontier regional committee of the CPI (Maoist) said such practices were not allowed in their outfit. "We have been supporting inter-caste marriages and have well laid-out guidelines for maternity leave for the female cadres. There is no question of stopping people from raising family," said Manas, the spokesperson for the committee.

He said Maoists had been working with the support of villagers and diktats like forced vasectomy would make them hugely unpopular among the people. "Some individual leaders or cadres could have undergone the procedure voluntarily, but that must not be linked with the party's stand at all," the spokesperson argued.

Another Maoist cadre said they were never prevented from raising family or marrying. "We get full support from the party higher-ups if any cadre expresses desire to marry; because this often paves way for the party to have close association with the villagers from where the bridegroom belongs," he said. Having tied the nuptial knots recently with a village girl close to his operational area, the rebel said following the marriage villagers had become more supportive to them.

Sources say the Maoists often enter into family bonding to avoid police suspicion. While police admit that many a time Naxalite leaders gave them the slip because of travelling in plainclothes along with wife and children, the Maoists say leading a normal family life is no exception to their cadres.

Representative of the Coordination of Democratic Rights Organization in Jharkhand Shashi Bhushan Pathak said forceful vasectomy was condemnable in strongest words. "It is a sheer violation of human rights and if such practice is being carried out anywhere in the country, the Maoists must answer for their deed. Such violation must not be allowed and treated as crime against humanity," he said.

In its advisory, the home ministry asked the nine state governments, including Jharkhand, to help ex-Maoists with better medical facilities at government's cost so that they can return to their normal family life. It also suggested the states to suitably sensitize the district administrations so that the issue is addressed with sensitivity. "It is suggested that the names and addresses of the Maoist cadres who avail of this option (reverse vasectomy surgery) should not be disclosed," said the ministry's advisory.

 

[ajtr]

Maoists to boycott Chhattisgarh anniversary Nov 1

Raipur, Oct 28 — Security has been beefed up in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region Sunday after the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) announced it will observe black day Nov 1, the day the state was formed 12 years ago, police said.
Police and paramilitary troopers were sent to forested areas and security at government buildings was strengthened after Maoists' posters and banners were found in Sukma district, sources at the police headquarters here told IANS.
The Maoists have asked people in seven districts, which constitute the Bastar region, to observe a black day Nov 1 in protest against an alleged shootout in Sarkeguda in Bijapur district in June in which at least 21 villagers were killed by security forces.
The state government has announced cultural programmes for several days starting Nov 1.
The state is also hosting the first Global Investors Summit Nov 2-3 in Naya Raipur, which will replace Raipur as the state capital.

 

[ajtr]

US guns, Pak bullets seized from Red rebels in Jharkhand

RANCHI: Seizures of US-made weapons and over 80 bullets manufacutred at Pakistan Ordinance Factory (POF) from left wing extremists in the last few months have created a flutter in Jharkhand. The state police had on Friday seized 230 bullets including 80 POF amunitions and a US-made carbine from People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a splinter of CPI (Maoist), operatives in Simdega district.

In August police had seized US made weapon from Maoists during a search operaiton in hazaribagh district.

A 0.30 US Carbine, a standard weapon extensively used by America in Vietnam war, which was supplied to PLFI 18 months ago was seized in Simdega. Investigation is on to find out the foreign networks of the rebels.

A sub-zonal commander Surya Don alias Subar Singh, arrested along with the foreign arms, on Sunday disclosed to the police that PLFI nowadays gets regular consignments of arms from North east and Nepal.

Jharkhand police spokesperson and IG special branch S N Pradhan said, "I have asked Simdega police to send the bullets, including the Pakistani ones for scientific testing to find out more." Simdega police sent the ammunition for testing on Sunday.

Maoists were the first from whom American arms were seized on August 29 in Hazaribagh district. Now seizure of American arms and Pakistani bullets from PLFI has put a question mark on the internal security of the state in wake of foreign arms supply. Jharkhand police acknowledge the dominance of PLFI. A report of special branch few weeks ago also said that PLFI has become the second largest threat to the state's internal security after the Maoists.

"The head of PLFI himself handles all arms consignment. Leaders like me are not provided any information about arms nor do we seek such information. Only thing that we know is arms consignment come from North East and Nepal," Surya Don was quoted by Simdega SP Prabhat Kumar.

SP added that Surya has been using the US Carbine for past 18 months. "It's an advanced and powerful weapon," said Kumar.

Investigation is on in Simdega to find out whether extremists in North East or Nepal, having links with Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI, provided the ammunition to the rebels.

Along with Surya his bodyguard Churu was arrested from the Odisha-Jharkhand border in a joint operation by the police of both the states. One regular American carbine, 11 rifles, 231 rounds of live cartridges and two grenades were seized late on Friday night.

 

[Nishan_101]

Maoists caused only 128 casualties to security forces in 2011 and 277 in 2010.
Total casualties of security forces in 2011 and 2010 from(Maoists,J&K,NE) are 194 and 371 respectively.

And no the maoists don't have any MANPAD's or AAA's.

Kashmiri Jiha*ists had them:
Pakistani missile found in Kashmir, army says - Chicago Tribune
Trigger-happy Kashmir militants beef up arsenal

Sorry Sir but there were signs that Moaist have some AAAs along with Russian origin MANPADs which they gain from Black Market also some EU and US ones too.

 

[surya kiran]

Sorry Sir but there were signs that Moaist have some AAAs along with Russian origin MANPADs which they gain from Black Market also some EU and US ones too.

There were signs?????? What planetary alignments changed or an eagle fell down from the sky? Please provide links.