The killing of 24 troops this week by Maoist rebels has raised concerns over whether security forces can successfully battle the insurgents, officials and analysts said yesterday. The jungle clash in central India erupted after a unit of 100 soldiers and armed police went to check on a suspected rebel camp only to find themselves heavily outnumbered and outgunned, security sources said. The estimated 500 guerrillas in insurgency-hit Chhattisgarh state were equipped with bullet-proof jackets and helmets, mortars, automatic weapons, rocket launchers and advanced improvised explosive devices.
Re: 24 Indian troops killed by Maoist rebels as Insurgency grows
Large parts of India are already under the control of the maoists.
^^ Who told you that.. any proof?
There is not a single part of India which is not under control of Indian govt.
Just so you know... it doesnt happen in India.
Re: 24 Indian troops killed by Maoist rebels as Insurgency grows
Wo janha tha Maoists Janha... I doubt the Maoists are as tough to tackle as Pakistans terrorists though...
Moaists are bunch of tribals who have access to vintage guns...
this is the first time i heard that they got automatic guns... they are not hard to deal with.... Indian govt needs to get off its duff and deal with them, it only take some motivation.
They mostly used police to take care of it.... i say let CRPF or BSF take care of them completely. you give them free hand and they will wipe the jungles clean in days...
its all politics....
The insurgents blow up railway tracks, seize land and chase away forest guards. They have made it virtually impossible for government officials, whose presence here in the hinterland is already patchy, to function. Police posts, government offices and industrial plants are favored targets. Their ultimate goal is to overthrow the state.
Today the Communist Party of India (Maoist), which exists solely as an underground armed movement with no political representation, is a rigidly hierarchical outfit with toeholds in 13 of 28 Indian states. It stretches from the tip of India through this east-central state to the northern border with Nepal, where the Maoists have set off full-scale civil war. Estimates by Indian intelligence officials and Maoist leaders suggest that the rebel ranks in India have swelled to 20,000, though the number is impossible to verify. **One senior Indian intelligence official estimated that Maoists exert varying degrees of influence over a quarter of India’s 600 districts. The top government official in one of Chhattisgarh’s rural Maoist strongholds, Dantewada, acknowledged that the rebels had made some 60 percent of his 6,400-square-mile district a no man’s land for civil servants. **
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^ ^ thats bull.....
Its a classic case of misunderstanding of the situation by the dumb reporter or something . The reporter is confused between political movement with armed movement.
find a better source....
i lived in chattisgarh for 7 years and i never seen it. If what reporter claims was true then govt would have deployed army.
Re: 24 Indian troops killed by Maoist rebels as Insurgency grows
^ ^ thats bull.....
Its a classic case of misunderstanding of the situation by the dumb reporter or something . The reporter is confused between political movement with armed movement.
find a better source....
i lived in chattisgarh for 7 years and i never seen it. If what reporter claims was true then govt would have deployed army.
Re: 24 Indian troops killed by Maoist rebels as Insurgency grows
what 13 out of 28 states has is a CPI(M) party office, which is not the same as Maoist rebels. The CPI(M) is not an underground armed outfit with no political representation, as the article claims. It is a mainstream political party, and has state governments and law-makers in the parliament.
20,000 rebels in a population of 1 Bn+ indians can control maybe one or two districts, if they are lucky.
Re: 24 Indian troops killed by Maoist rebels as Insurgency grows
Pakistanis who claim to be different and seperate from india should stop looking at india’s troubles and console themselves as “it is not just we who are facing problems…India is also facing similar problems”:halo: …
P.S - not that aren’t any indians who do the same.
A war being waged by Maoist rebels represents the gravest threat to India’s internal security since independence, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday. Calling for a dramatic escalation in the state’s efforts to counter the rebellion, Singh said the movement had evolved into a major force that threatened “our democracy, our way of life”. He told ministers from 13 states affected by Maoist violence that they needed to do a better job of intelligence gathering and coordinating security operations, as well as beefing up and modernising their police forces. At the same time, Singh lamented India’s failure to deliver social justice and development to its poorest regions, a neglect he said had alienated people and helped feed the rebellion. “It would not be an exaggeration to say that the problem of Naxalism is the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country,” Singh said. “There seems to be unanimity on the fact that we need to give the problem a very high priority.”
Singh said the Naxal movement, named after the town of Naxalbari where it emerged in 1967, had spread to 160 of the country’s 604 administrative districts and drew support from ”deprived and alienated sections of the population”. “They are trying to establish ’liberation zones’ in core areas where they are dispensing basic state functions of administration, policing and justice,” he said. “It is a cause for concern that civil administration and police are periodically absent in some of these areas.” Maoist cadres were now better trained, and the movement increasingly militarised, with “superior army style organisation”, he said. The Indian police, by contrast, is often poorly equipped, unmotivated and undermanned, with many tens of thousands of unfilled vacancies in affected states and little or no coordination between states. “Local police needs to be better trained and equipped to fight an enemy which is emerging into a major force,” he said.
