49 policemen killed in India by Naxals

Looks like the Indian govt. has completly lost control in central India.
The “lower castes/dalits” are now running a parallel govt.

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49 Police Officers Killed in India
By ASHOK SHARMA
Associated Press Writer

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NEW DELHI, India (AP) – Communist rebels armed with rifles, hand grenades and petrol bombs attacked a police post in the jungles of eastern India on Thursday, killing at least 49 officers, police said.
The pre-dawn attack Thursday was the latest in a series of increasingly bold assaults by the rebels, who have been fighting for more than two decades in central and eastern India’s long-impoverished hinterlands.
Equipped with rifles, hand grenades and homemade petrol bombs, the insurgents appeared to have caught the 79 officers guarding the remote post by surprise, Swarnkar said. Another 12 officers were wounded in the attack.
The post is located in the state of Chattisgarh, nearly 930 miles southeast of New Delhi.
Before fleeing with weapons stolen from the police post, the attackers scattered land mines around the area, Swarnkar said. By midday, police reinforcements had reached the post and were fanning out into the jungle to search for the attackers.
Rebel operations have become increasingly bold over the past two years - and increasingly deadly.
In March 2006, insurgents detonated land mines under four trucks carrying villagers in Chattisgarh, killing 25 people. Days later, they seized a passenger train for 12 hours in the neighboring state of Jharkhand - a well-coordinated operation that highlighted their capabilities, even if no one was killed.
Those assaults - and dozens of other attacks - have prompted Indian officials to describe the rebels, know as the Naxalites for the Naxalbari region where the movement was born, as a major internal security threat.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went even further in an April 2006 speech, describing the insurgents as “the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country.”
More than 6,000 people - police, soldiers, and civilians - have been killed since the rebels launched their campaign from the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh more than two decades ago.
The rebels, who claim to be inspired by Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong, demand land and jobs for agricultural laborers and the poor. They are mainly active in six of India’s 28 states - Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Karnataka, Orissa and Chattisgarh.

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Shining India!

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the moists ideollogy is to help the poor and i have some sympathy for that but this is terrible. india should send the army in to quel this insurgency and do more for the people likely to be inticed into these actions in the future. the only other way is to bring in some amount of socialist policies inorder to reach a settlement with the moists.

last years local government decision to arm non moist locals was only ever going to increase unrest and cause misery

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i've read a few articles about the problem of Naxalism in those parts of India and yeah .. it's pretty fked up.. it IS a lot better than a few years ago, but still every now and then there are such cases.. i wudnt go to the extent and say that "indain govt has lost control in central india" but yeah those poor areas need to be developed, the govt. shud invest more and build proper infrastructur in that region so that ppl r 'happier'.. that will automtically control the number of ppl joining the naxalites..

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zxcvb, i am surprised you are being so critical of Indian government given the fact that you are indian…

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I have my own agenda.

I actually support naxals and their war. You will find most dalit indians to be very hostile to hindus but that does mean we are anti indian.

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Not true, unless you change the definition of caste, which means a class fixed at birth. Every religion might arguably have classes, but not castes.

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a social category in which membership is fixed at birth and usually unchangeable.

www.anthro.wayne.edu/ant2100/GlossaryCultAnt.htm

A system of socioeconomic stratification in which strata are closed and a person’s membership is determined at birth.

highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072549238/student_view0/glossary.html

The word Caste is derived from the Portuguese word casta, meaning lineage, breed or race. The term "caste," when used in a cultural context, is usually in conjunction with the social division in Hindu society, particularly in India.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste

a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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Perhaps in indian society, "ashraf" "ajlaf" etc are not at all common terms in Muslim vernacular, whether arabic or urdu.

Not to say there arent hereditary classifications in Islam, there are tribes etc but Quran equivocally states that all tribes are equal.

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your veering off topic into your general views about Islam which I dont intend to go into.

you need to show me any Islamic basis for classes that are fixed at birth. Remember that discrimination based on religion is not casteism, because religion can be changed. Quoting random people or saying how arabs treat other people is not an example of Islamic discrimination, but an attitude of some arabs, which Muslim Pakistanis are subjected to as much as Hindus, and has no relevance to Malaysian Muslims, Indonesian Muslims, Pakistani Muslims, the bulk of the arab Muslims who arent from Gulf states.

As hard as you guys may try to prove it, there arent really any castes in Islam.

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There may be a Class system but the caste system is weak or non existant.