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[Abu Zolfiqar]

Government urged to look into demands of separate statehood - The Economic Times



NEW DELHI: The National Federation of New States (NFAS), a new umbrella group, has urged the government to immediately look into its demand of separate statehood as this "was the only solution for equal development in all parts of the country".

NFAS -- an umbrella group of communities across India demanding new states, has also warned of violence and blockades at national highways if the government continues to ignore the demands of separate statehood.

"Our demands are not new but 48 years old. Several new states were formed in the last two decades after taking a note of the development-deprived communities, then why are we continuously ignored," said Pramod Boro, president of All India Bodo Students Union and a senior member of NFAS told IANS.

Calling the demand of separate statehood for the Bodo community of Assam as old as the Telangana issue, Bodo said that since independence, the politicians kept speaking on the issue during elections but none of them, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ever took any serious steps towards it.

Among the several groups who jointly formed the NFAS include All Bodo Student's Union, Bundelkhand Mukti Morcha, Kuki State Demand Committee and Indiginous Peoples Front of Tripura among dozen others.

Bodo said that they will organise a two-day protest rally in the national capital at Jantar Mantar on November 14-15 and will present a fresh memorandum of their demands to the government.

"The dharna and rally are just the beginning of a vigrous mass democratic movement for creation of new states in India," Bodo said.

"If the demand is not met at the earliest the political class of the country especially who are sitting at the helm of affairs will be responsible for the turmoil generated due to the massive democratic movement across the country," he added.

 

[wiseone2]

Government urged to look into demands of separate statehood - The Economic Times



NEW DELHI: The National Federation of New States (NFAS), a new umbrella group, has urged the government to immediately look into its demand of separate statehood as this "was the only solution for equal development in all parts of the country".

NFAS -- an umbrella group of communities across India demanding new states, has also warned of violence and blockades at national highways if the government continues to ignore the demands of separate statehood.

"Our demands are not new but 48 years old. Several new states were formed in the last two decades after taking a note of the development-deprived communities, then why are we continuously ignored," said Pramod Boro, president of All India Bodo Students Union and a senior member of NFAS told IANS.

Calling the demand of separate statehood for the Bodo community of Assam as old as the Telangana issue, Bodo said that since independence, the politicians kept speaking on the issue during elections but none of them, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ever took any serious steps towards it.

Among the several groups who jointly formed the NFAS include All Bodo Student's Union, Bundelkhand Mukti Morcha, Kuki State Demand Committee and Indiginous Peoples Front of Tripura among dozen others.

Bodo said that they will organise a two-day protest rally in the national capital at Jantar Mantar on November 14-15 and will present a fresh memorandum of their demands to the government.

"The dharna and rally are just the beginning of a vigrous mass democratic movement for creation of new states in India," Bodo said.

"If the demand is not met at the earliest the political class of the country especially who are sitting at the helm of affairs will be responsible for the turmoil generated due to the massive democratic movement across the country," he added.

they want a separate state within the Indian Union

 

[coffee_cup]

so now that the cat has come out of the bag and India has openly declared her support for terrorists operating in Balochistan, I think this is the right time to revive this thread and discuss what counter actions Pakistan or other neighbors of India might take for this blatant sponsorship of cross-border terrorism by India.

Human Rights of hundreds of million people in India are being violated every day, which people need urgent support?

Thoughts?

 

[JattPanjabi]

Thoughts?

Announce immediate support for Khalistan and mention the1984 riots in the UN?

 

[coffee_cup]

Announce immediate support for Khalistan and mention the1984 riots in the UN?

Why not?

If India can bring Balochistan, all bets are off.

Khalistan, Nagaland, "Dalistan", separate land for Christians and other minorities, Naxals... you name it.

 

[JattPanjabi]

Why not?

If India can bring Balochistan, all bets are off.

Khalistan, Nagaland, "Dalistan", separate land for Christians and other minorities, Naxals... you name it.

If you start bringing up everything then you lose credibility. Support the separation of Khalistan through non violent means. If India responds by slapping on sedition cases as I think they will and resorting to violence, then they lose credibility on the Kashmir issue in international forums as they will be seen as a perpetual violator of human rights.

 

[Windjammer]

2 security personnel killed in face-off with Naxals in C'garh
Raipur, Mar 3, 2017 (PTI)

Two security personnel were killed and as many injured in an exchange of fire with Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district today, police said.

The skirmish took place near Cherli village under Mirtur Police Station limits when a joint team of Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) and district police was out on a road security operation, IG (in-charge), Bastar Range, Sundarraj P told PTI.

The team was on patrolling duty to ensure security of the under-construction Gangaloor-Mirtur road.

As they were cordoning-off a patch near Cherli, around 450 kms from state capital Raipur, the security personnel came under heavy firing from a group of ultras, leading to a fierce gun-battle, the IG said, adding the Naxals fled the spot soon after, he said.

"Constable Hemant Kumar, belonging to CAF's 10th battalion and district force's assistant constable, Gubba Ram (corrected name), were killed, while two other jawans were injured," Sundarraj said.

The injured have been identified as CAF constable Sahdev Rajwade and district force's assistant constable Muddaram, he said.

Reinforcement was rushed to the spot, he said, adding efforts are on to evacuate the injured personnel and bring the bodies of Kumar and Ram out of the forest.

 

[asad71]

FEATURESINDIA26 APRIL 2017
India's Maoist rebels: An explainer
Government security crackdown on Maoist rebels has led to an increased casualty figure in the country's tribal areas.

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• India started in 1920s as an anticolonial struggle when the country was still ruled by Britain.
  
  But the seeds of the first radical Marxist movement were sown in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh shortly after India gained independence in 1947.
  
  The first armed uprising was launched in 1967 in the remote Naxalbari village in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. The uprising, which began after a farmer was stopped from tilling his own land, was put down by force after 72 days.
  
  But that inspired other revolutionaries across the country.
  
  By 1972, the first phase of what the government called Left-Wing Extremism, popularly called Naxalism - deriving its name from the Naxalbari village - was stamped down.
  
  Timeline: Maoist attacks
  • May 2013: At least 30 people, including tribal leader Mahendra Karma, killed in Bastar
  • April 2010: At least 76 CRPF personnel killed in Sukma
  • May 2010: 36 security personnel killed near Dantewada
  • June 2010: 27 soldiers killed in Narayanpur district
  • March 2007: 55 security personnel killed in Bastar
  • July 2007: 23 policemen killed
  For the next two decades, armed movement remained subdued and localised until the government started granting mining licences to private and multinational corporations as part of the liberalisation and privatisation of the economy in the early 1990s.
  
  Main groups and their objectives
  The People's War Group (PWG) was established in 1976 and was active in Andhra Pradesh, while Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) held meetings away in the eastern state of Bihar.
  
  The Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist-Janashakti was formed in 1992. It has presence in three states - Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra. They command a cadre of about 250 to 300.
  
  The current phase of Maoist rebellion began in 2004, when PWG merged with the MCC to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist) or CPI (Maoist). The group is banned in India.
  
  The Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) is a splinter group of the CPI (Maoist) and is based in Jharkhand - a mineral-rich state. It has about 500 cadres.
  
  The CPI (Maoist) aims to capture the state power through people's war. The rebels' military strategy is loosely based on the Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong.
  
  "The immediate aim of the party is to accomplish the New Democratic Revolution in India by overthrowing imperialism, feudalism and comprador bureaucratic capitalism only through the Protracted People’s War ... The ultimate aim of the party is to bring about communism," says a party statement.
  
  Fighter strength
  People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) is the armed wing of the CPI (Maoists), or Naxals, as they are popularly called in India. A number of Marxist armed groups are active in other states with Maoist presence.
  
  Their exact numbers are not known but various estimates put PLGA strength between 8,000 and 10,000. The total of Maoist cadres across the country varies from 10,000 to 15,000, even as high as 25,000.
  
  But the government figure is much lower.
  
  "As per available reports, the estimated armed cadre strength of the left-wing extremist groups is around 8,500. However, their support base is in larger numbers," Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju told parliament.
  
  IN PICTURES: India's Maoist heartland
  
  India's central and eastern parts, home to about 84 million adivasi, or indigenous people, is rich in mineral resources. Renewed mining activity pose a threat to their livelihoods. Most of them are subsistence farmers or landless, mainly living in extreme poverty.
  
  There is lack of basic facilities such as roads, healthcare, education and drinking water in the region.
  
  Thousands fear displacement as the government moved to exploit the hidden treasures located mainly in the states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha.
  
  Maoists from Andhra Pradesh helped organise tribals in Chhattisgarh over the issue of land rights and displacement during the 1980s. The state has emerged as the stronghold of the Maoists in recent decades since 2000 when mining was initiated.
  
  "They [Maoists] helped the tribals in keeping the forest guard and redistribution of land. So a lot of local people joined them," said Nandini Sundar, professor and author of The Burning Forest: India's War in Bastar.
  
  "About 80 to 90 percent of their cadre comes from local tribals. They are deeply embedded in the villages. At the same time, it is not that everybody supports them."
  
  
  
  
  
  The Maoist control in what is euphemistically called the "Red Corridor" - spread across the states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh - has been dwindling as the government has sent tens of thousands of paramilitary forces into the affected states.
  
  Their presence has considerably gone down from nearly 200 districts across 20 states until a decade ago to 106 districts across 10 states. The states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and Bihar are considered severely affected. Maoists are also present in the states of West Bengal, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
  
  India's former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the Maoists' rebellion the biggest "internal security threat". His government launched a security operation in 2009, which was dubbed by the media as the "Operation Green Hunt".
  
  Since the counterinsurgency was launched eight years ago, violence has escalated and a growing numbers of casualties, particularly civilians, have been reported. More than 100 people have been killed in the violence across the country this year. Last year, nearly 500 people were killed.
  
  More than 20,000 people, the vast majority of them civilians, have been killed since 1980.
  
  Accusations of abuse
  The adivasis have been caught in the middle of a conflict that has pitted the Maoists against government forces.
  
  Security forces have been accused of committing mass sexual and rights abuses, and extrajudicial killings of innocent adivasis. Human rights activists and journalists have been targeted for reporting the abuse and unlawful killings.
  
  Maoists recruit villagers for their operation and the latter become vulnerable to arrest and torture by government forces. Maoists have also been accused of killing and torturing villagers after accusing them of being police informers. In many cases, they have resorted to kidnapping for ransom.
  
  The Chhattisgarh state has backed vigilante groups, which have harassed innocent civilians for being Maoist sympathisers. One such vigilante group, Salwa Judum, was accused of killings and rapes. It was finally outlawed by the Supreme Court in 2011.
  
  In recent years, a number of vigilante groups have surfaced with the backing of government, targeting activists and lawyers.
  
  "A situation of civil war still prevails in the Bastar district in Chhattisgarh state but the Indian government refuses to declare this 'internal armed conflict', perhaps to avoid monitoring by the UN," said Dr Lakhan Singh, president of the People's Union for Civil Liberties.
  
  The government has deployed more than 100,000 troops - a third of them paramilitary forces - to root out the five-decade-old armed rebellion in Chhattisgarh. More than 2,000 people have been killed in the state since 1995.
  
  "In the Bastar region alone, there are 36,000 security forces, which means one soldier for 55 people. In Afghanistan, there is one soldier for about 150 people," Singh said.
  
  
  
  
  Government ministers visited the wounded soldiers in Raipur after the Maoist attack on Monday [Alok Putul/Al Jazeera]
  Source: Al Jazeera News
  

 

[Ryuzaki]

Earlier the Maoists had a point because the State had ignored them,but now they just just like gangsters,and are blowing up schools,post offices,newly constructed roads where there had never been any roads and electricity poles

 

[asad71]

GNLF

 

[Banglar Bir]

Drones to deal with Maoists in India
Kolkata Correspondent, May 9, 2017




At a review meeting Monday of Chief Ministers and Police Chiefs of 10 Left Wing Extremism-affected states in New Delhi, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh called for the use of drones and the choking of financial resources of the left-wing extremist groups as strategies to counter Maoist violence.

The Union Home Ministry had called the meeting to review on going developments and to devise new ways to tackle the armed rebels, two weeks after 25 paramilitary troopers were killed by the Maoists in the deadliest attack at Sukma in Chhattisgarh in the last 7 years.

The 10 Maoist-affected states – Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh were represented at the meeting by its Chief Ministers or Home Secretaries.

According to a Home Ministry statement, the day-long meeting is also being attended by the secretaries of the Union ministries, besides chief secretaries and police chiefs of the 10 states. District magistrates and superintendents of police of 35 of the worst-hit districts, along with heads of paramilitary forces and intelligence agencies, were also present at the meeting. However, the Chief Ministers of West Bengal, Telengana, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh were absentees.

Advocating more eyes in the sky to deal with Maoist violence, the Home Minister prescribed that mini-unmanned aerial vehicles (Drone) are extremely useful for anti-Maoist operations and should be procured and made available in more quantities. He said, “We must try that there must be at least 1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)/Mini UAV with every battalion.”

He also called for a smart and aggressive strategy to successfully deal with the Maoists. Describing his SAMADHAN, the Minister said S stood for smart leadership, A for aggressive strategy, M for motivation and training, A for actionable intelligence, D for dashboard based KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and KRAs (Key Result Areas), H for harnessing technology, A for action plan for each area and N for no access to financing.

In order to prevent the Maoists from using weapons looted from the security forces, the minister suggested that trackers must be added to them and biometrics used in smart gun triggers. “Trackers should also be embedded in shoes, bulletproof jackets etc,” he added.

He reiterated the importance of the States taking a leadership role in anti-Maoist operation with the support of central forces.

“Be it central forces or the district police, they will have to work under a coordinated strategy and plan. The most important thing is that the officers will have to lead from the front. Success in this regard cannot be achieved only by sitting in Delhi, Ranchi or Raipur,” he said in his address.

“I believe that there is a need to depute shadow intelligence officers to trace the prominent targets associated with left-wing extremism,” he added.

The government has ruled out an immediate deployment of army in anti-Maoist operations. Deployment of the army in anti-Maoist operations has been a contentious issue, often opposed by rights groups on grounds that army should not be used against country’s own people who have taken to violence due to lack of development in the hinterland.

According to Home Ministry officials, around 12,000 people, including 2700 security personnel, have lost their lives in the last 20 years. But the officials claimed that currently 90 per cent of Maoist activities were limited to 35 districts, though they have a hold over pockets in 68 districts in 10 states. There were no Maoist activities in West Bengal for the last three years.

But Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju told parliament “As per available reports, the estimated armed cadre strength of the Left Wing Extremist groups is around 8,500. However, their support base is in larger numbers.”

As Human Rights organisations claim, more than 100,000 troops – a third of them paramilitary forces – have been deployed to root out the five-decade old armed rebellion in Chhattisgarh only.


http://southasianmonitor.com/2017/05/09/drones-deal-maoists-india/

 

[manlion]

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[Banglar Bir]

A brief look at the separatist movements active in India.

https://www.facebook.com/

 

[jaatki]

Why not?

If India can bring Balochistan, all bets are off.

Khalistan, Nagaland, "Dalistan", separate land for Christians and other minorities, Naxals... you name it.

Maybe you should visit India and have a look into punjab, and nagaland already exists and what is dalistan????, Christians of India have Goa and Konkan areas, even Pondicherry has french colonies.....so please do vist India to understand how things work here....

 

[Banglar Bir]

Stop Discriminating People From the North-East India

The BJP-led Manipur Cabinet on Saturday have decided to extend the Disturbed Areas Act for another period of six months to facilitate the imposition of the AFSPA except in seven Assembly segments in Imphal.

AFSPA is the biggest blot and continuous threat against the basic principles of democracy!

Manipur: Noted Humanitarian activist Binalakshmi Nepram allegedly threatened, harassed by Manipur State Police

IMPHAL, May 13, 2017: Noted Manipuri writer, humanitarian activist Binalakshmi Nepram has reported of being threatened/harassment by Manipur State Police force. She alleged that the incident tookk place on 12 May 2017 when heavily armed Manipur State police force descended on Nepram’s parental house in Imphal, Manipur in Northeast India that borders Myanmar.

Nepram feels that this is done by those who have committed rights violations to deter the relief, rehabilitation and other forms of support given by her and her team to several women survivors of the state. Manipur has seen 6 decades of violence with immense humanitarian crisis with 20,000 people shot dead and over 20,000 women widowed in past years. The state has one of the highest armed forces and police forces presence in country.

Ms Nepram’s team have been working for 10 years for women survivors of violence but this is first time ever that state police force has been misused by those in power who have committed murder and rights violations of innocent people of Manipur. She is the recipient of CNN IBN Real Heroes and Indian of Year Award for her work in Manipur with survivors.

Nepram strongly condemned the incident and stated, “I strongly condemn the harassment given to me and my family members in ensuring justice and dignity of people of Manipur and urge Manipur Government to immediately stop this wrongful harassment by Manipur state security forces. Police are meant to protect citizens and not to be used to harass innocent civilians.We have stood strong for over 10 years for peace & justice for people of Manipur and entire Northeast Region and will not be bogged down by such threats and intimidation emanating from state machinery. I will take this up with appropriate authorities so that action be taken. Good governance and support for justice what we want from Manipur Govt and not this.Please stop this harassment immediately to me, my family and others who are fighting for justice and healing lives”

Strong condemnations to the threat & intimidation to Nepram and her family has come in from different parts of state, country and world.

http://thenortheasttoday.com/manipu...-threatened-harassed-by-manipur-state-police/