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^ They mainly attack security forces/government personnel and government buildings/installations. Generally, a civilian is considered "innocent".
Salah. Ayyubi ..hatsoff to your perseverence for keep on posting India hate articles...maosists are fighting for poor people and do not kill innocents....they honestly apolozise if any innocent is killed by mistake and help their victim families..
I know we know Ayyubi is a bad bad ISI agent for giving the land of peace and harmony such a bad press....
Here is an excerpt from Human Right Reports
The Maoists extensively used explosive devices to target security forces and civilians.
So far they have blown up 250 school buildings.
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10 Indian troops killed in suspected Maoist attack - USATODAY.com
10 Indian troops killed in suspected Maoist attack
NEW DELHI (AP) — Suspected Maoist rebels shot and killed 10 paramilitary troops and injured 11 others in an ambush in eastern India, police said Saturday.
Three rebels were killed in the attack Friday evening in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh state, local police constable Philmon Kujur said.
He gave no other details of the fighting.
The area is about 350 miles south of the state capital, Raipur, and is a rebel stronghold.
The rebels, known as Naxalites after the village where the movement was founded, are active in 13 of India’s 28 states. They have been fighting for more than three decades demanding land and jobs for the poor.
They say they are inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong and often target police and government officials, whom they accuse of colluding with landlords and rich farmers to exploit the poor.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | ‘Assam separatists’ attack train
Separatist rebels have attacked a train in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, killing at least one policeman, police say. At least 15 other people were injured in the attack by suspected members of the Dimasa tribe.
Police said the rebels fired indiscriminately on the Barak Valley Express train as it approached Wadrendisa station in North Cachar.
The Dimasa are one of a number of separatist groups fighting in Assam.
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Maoists kill 5 policemen in Jharkhand before Sonia rally | Reuters
Maoists kill 5 policemen in Jharkhand before Sonia rally
RANCHI, India (Reuters) - Maoist rebels killed five policemen and injured three in Jharkhand on Saturday, hours before the Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi was due to address an election rally in the area.
Maoist rebels, who have called for a boycott of the general election in the state, have stepped up their attacks ahead of the polls that begin next week.
“In the Maoist ambush, five CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) personnel were killed and three were injured,” said Satya Narayan Pradhan, a spokesman for the police in Jharkhand.
The ambush was in the forested Khuti district, 10 km from the spot where Gandhi was due to address a rally, he said.
The rally was delayed by two hours but went ahead, he said.
Maoist rebels, who say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless labourers, have stepped up their violent campaign in eastern and central Indian states ahead of the general election and ordered people to boycott the polls.
In Jharkhand they have blown up government offices and schools, which are often used during polling, and set fire to candidates’ offices in recent weeks.
Thousands of people have been killed in the Maoist insurgency which began in the late 1960s, and which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described as one of the gravest threats to India’s internal security.
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School building blown up by Maoists in Palamau
Medininagar (PTI): The Maoists blew up yet another school building in Jharkhand’s Palamau district, taking the total number of government buildings destroyed by them to 10 in different districts within a week, police sources said on Friday.
About a dozen armed Maoists reached the Belhra high school at Bishrampur, packed dynamites in the rooms before triggering off the blasts late last night, the police said.
There was no loss of life in the incident, they added.
The Maoists left a note at the spot claiming responsibility for the blast.
Earlier, the extremist outfit had blown up schools, panchayat and community bhavans at Latehar, Gumla, Chatra and Palamau with an aim to prevent the security forces to take shelter during their operation for area domination ahead of the first phase polls slated for April 16 in six naxal-infested constituencies.
The Maoists had also burnt two campaigning vehicles in Palamau and Garwah in the last three days. In a separate incident, the police were interrogating three constables following the missing of three Insas rifles from the police lines in the headquarter town here, Superintendent of Police Ravi Kant Dhan told newsmen.
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(BREAKING) Naxals attcked explosive depot of NALCO, 2 CISF Jawans feared to be killed and several injuried
April 13th, 2009 - 12:54 am ICT by Lambodar Prasad Dash Bhubaneswar(orissa): On Sunday night arond 9.20 pm heavily armed Naxsals attacked the Magzine depot of the NALCO mine at Damanjodi, 30km from koraput. Two CISF personales has been feared dead and several injuried in this incident.
As per the report, Naxals tried to loot the Magzine Depot at the Hilltop area of the NALCO mining site, where the huge amount of the explosives are stored for the blasting of mining site. The 22 CISF jawans who guarded the Depot were not well prepared for the attack. Apart form this the Naxsals positioned themselves at a safe place on the top of the nearby hill. It has been reported that, the CISF jawans last contacted to nearby police station on 9.30pm. After that no information has reached yet
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The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Nation | Nation Briefs
Maoist blast
**Raipur, April 12 **(PTI): Four persons, including two security personnel, were killed in a landmine explosion by Maoists while six rebels were gunned down during two encounters in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh today.
The blast occurred near National Highway 16 where a joint patrolling team of the CRPF and local police was on clearance duty for the Lok Sabha polls, superintendent of police of Bijapur district Ankit Garg said.
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Maoists blow up 11th government building in Jharkhand | Sindh Today
Maoists blow up 11th government building in Jharkhand
Ranchi, April 10 (IANS) Maoist rebels in Jharkhand continued their terror track ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, blasting the 11th government building in the state Friday in 10 days, the police said.
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The Hindu : Front Page : High alert in State after spurt in violence by Maoists
**High alert in State after spurt in violence by Maoists **
N. Rahul
*Sixteen policemen killed in neighbouring States since Friday *
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Indian extremism is result of oppression - upiasia.com
Indian extremism is result of oppression
By Bijo Francis
Column: Incredible India
Published: April 13, 2009
Hong Kong, China — The increasing number of violent incidents involving Naxalite and Maoist cadres operating in India paints a worrying picture of the internal security of the country. During the past three months, violence involving these two extremist groups operating from hundreds of pockets across rural India has claimed more than 400 lives, from both government forces and the extremists.
The Naxalite and Maoist problem is complex. A concoction of caste issues, feudalism and lawlessness in rural India intoxicates the people, so their minds become fertile ground for extremist ideologies. The government has responded by opting principally to counter violence with violence, adding fuel to the fire. Between these two diametrically opposing forces is no middle ground, which leaves the common people no way to avoid violence.
In minimalist terms, Naxalism and Maoism in India are the response of a highly oppressed community, forced to remain silent for decades, against the forces it sees as its oppressors. The fact that this community is fragmented – made up of villagers living in geographically, ethnically and culturally different areas throughout the vast expanse of India, responding to myriad causes – makes the problem even more complex.
The Naxalite or Maoist extremists have no central chain of command and no defined area of operation. They resort to guerilla warfare, striking wherever they can as it suits their interests and fits into the ideological framework of a local extremist leader.
So far, these groups have largely targeted government establishments like police stations. But now they are targeting innocent civilians who, according to the view of a local extremist commander, might resemble the state.
The situation has deteriorated to such a state that the government now must spend huge resources to combat Naxalite and Maoist extremists. Had the government cared to spend such resources in the past for the welfare of the people, and ensured that the resources actually reached the people, extremism would not have spread as it has done.
Extremist activity now affects almost all states from north to south and east to west, highlighting the shortsightedness with which the government has handled important problems. For instance, irrespective of their political color, national and state governments in India have failed to implement land reform policies that would have ensured the people’s ability to sustain their lives in rural India.
In states where comprehensive land reform policies were effectively implemented, as in Kerala, for instance, Naxalism and Maoism were concerns of the past. However, when the Kerala state government ignored the concerns of the people, particularly when their rights to sustainable resources were denied, extremism resurfaced, as occurred during a recent tribal uprising in Wayanad district.
Creating the Salwa Judum, a state-sponsored militia, was the worst possible response from the administration to the challenges posed by the Naxalites and the Maoists. From the beginning the Salwa Judum was engaged in systematic violence against the Naxalite and Maoist cadres – and against anyone the Judum thought should be silenced. This was not surprising, given that the Judum was the result of a criminally negligent state agenda that advocated meeting violence with violence.
Of course the Judum received support from those who feared Naxalite or Maoist action, irrespective of their political color. The lack of accountability enjoyed by the Judum – as opposed to a state agency bound by a legal framework, at least in theory – defined the group’s character from the beginning as one with impunity for criminal acts.
Most of those who joined the Judum did so in the belief that once the Naxalites and Maoists were suppressed, they would be given jobs in the state police force. Similar tactics have been employed in several states in India, where villagers were recruited, trained and deployed as special police officers, with the false promise that they would soon be absorbed into the state police force. These men and women are lured into joining an irresponsible state action with the additional bait of being offered some pittance as pay.
Naxalites, Maoists, Judum and the special police forces all recruit, train and deploy children, in direct violation of accepted norms and international and national laws.
Even after a decade of active engagement with the Naxalites and Maoists, neither the state nor national governments have tried to understand why people would choose to take up arms and risk being killed. An incident that occurred in Kerala on Saturday possibly explains why such an attempt was never made.
P.L. Darbar, an officer from Gujarat state who was posted as an election observer to Kerala, forced a subordinate officer, K. Soopy, to do ten half-squats after a verbal duel between them over sealing a voting machine. The officer was merely asserting his superiority and punishing a subordinate officer, which would not have become an incident of any relevance had it happened in any other state in the country.
In Gujarat and in most parts of India, superior authority defines absolute power. For Darbar, awarding punishment – immediately and in front of other officers – to a subordinate who dared to argue with him was in keeping with his understanding of authority. The meanness of such an act, its inhuman nature and arbitrariness, were not matters he would be worried about elsewhere in India.
India has millions of Darbars, and many even worse examples of misplaced authority. Naxalism and Maoism will not end in India until such men as this stop deciding policies.
– (Bijo Francis is a human rights lawyer currently working with the Asian Legal Resource Center in Hong Kong. He is responsible for the South Asia desk at the center. Francis has practiced law for more than a decade and holds an advanced master’s degree in human rights law.)
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Maoists blow up poll centre, torch campaign vehicle in Bihar
Gaya/Aurangabad, Apr 14 (PTI) CPI(Maoist) rebels blew up a school housing a polling centre and set ablaze a campaign vehicle of a JD(U) candidate in Bihar’s Gaya and Aurangabad districts respectively in the wee hours today.
A group of armed Maoists swooped on Gosain-Besra village just past midnight and blew up the building of a government primary school housing polling station number 230 of Gaya (SC) parliamentary constituency, police said.
After the attack, they left posters and pamphlets asking people not to participate in the election or be prepared to face the consequences.
In another incident, Naxals torched the campaign vehicle of JD(U) candidate for Karakat parliamentary seat Mahabali Singh in Aurangabad, sources said.
The Maoists beat up Singh’s workers sleeping inside the vehicle at Karma-Vishnupur village and hijacked it along with the driver.
They later let off the driver free but set the campaign vehicle on fire at Salaiya village, about two km from Karma-Vishnupur, the sources added. PTI
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Twenty killed in Maoist attacks on election eve | Top News | Reuters
Twenty killed in Maoist attacks on election eve
By Nityanand Shukla
RANCHI (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed in gunbattles between police and Maoist insurgents in the eastern states of Jharkhand and Bihar on Wednesday, officials say, a day before the elections the rebels have vowed to disrupt.
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Twenty killed in Maoist attacks on election eve | Top News | Reuters
Maoists attack CRPF bus in Jharkhand, 7 killed
15 Apr 2009, 1102 hrs IST, IANS
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^ Dude, just curious - how many of your 453 posts are these cut & paste jobs on Maoist attacks in India ?
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Punjabi, far less then number of schools blown-up by Shri Maoist.
Naxals attack in Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Orissa; 17 killed- Hindustan Times
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LoL…are you trying to convert this website into some anti-India propaganda site?
The way you are on a mission to post each and every freaking news on google cache project negative India, it seems you have something else in mind.
Any news is good with some informative opinion/discussion. You know nothing about dynamics of communist party in India and yet doing cut-paste job about Maoism.
How it adds value??
I have already highlighted Maoists problem and it’s close support by CPI in the first post on previosu page. Do you have anything worth to discuss??
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LoL...are you trying to convert this website into some anti-India propaganda site? The way you are on a mission to post each and every freaking news on google cache project negative India, it seems you have something else in mind.
Any news is good with some informative opinion/discussion. You know nothing about dynamics of communist party in India and yet doing cut-paste job about Maoism.
How it adds value??
I have already highlighted Maoists problem and it's close support by CPI in the first post on previosu page. Do you have anything worth to discuss??
Yes we bad Pakis know nothing about Indian terrorism, Its just that maoist thingy only started ohhhh in 1960 and continues to grow... Is that enough inphormation for us bad pakis to know bout the land of peace and harmony?
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Eight killed in Maoist blast - Ranchi - Cities - The Times of India
CHANDWA (LATEHAR): Six BSF jawans and two civilians were killed and 12 injured in a landmine blast triggered by CPI (Maoists) at Ladhup in Chandwa, about 44 km from the district headquarters, on Thursday morning.
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5 poll officials, 2 jawans die in Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh