The Red Menace

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 11 Feb 2011 22:46

Top Naxal leader arrested in Chhattisgarh http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 475613.cms

RAIPUR: A top Naxalite leader of Chhattisgarh was apprehended with four kilograms of explosives and a gun by security forces after a day-long operation in Rajnandgaon district.

Sankhu alias Biju, 'chief' of Dandakaranya area and member of Pipragarh 'dalam' (group) was apprehended by a team of ITBP and local police officials yesterday from Jamree village in Rajnandgaon, sources said.

The Naxal leader was later handed over to police by the paramilitary force. Four kg of high-intensity explosives and a gun was seized from him, the sources said.

The security forces had launched a 'search and ambush' operation and Sankhu was held as he was hiding in the area to carry out attacks on the forces, a police official claimed.

Some Naxal literature was also recovered from him. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) along with other security forces have been conducting joint operations in these areas with local police and Special Police Officers (SPOs).

rohiths · Post by **rohiths** » 11 Feb 2011 23:32

40 nobel laureates backing him is just a farce. I haven't found any link listing all the laureates. Most likely to be paid journalism. He is most likely an EJ so all the flock are doing all they can.

ManishH · Post by **ManishH** » 13 Feb 2011 18:26

Intereseting BBC documentary (sorry hindi only) analyzing the Reds
and why they are influential ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/rdiary

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 13 Feb 2011 19:10

^criminals cant be influential, only notorious

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 13 Feb 2011 19:17

Maoists kill CPI-M leader in Bengal http://www.zeenews.com/news686945.html

ManishH · Post by **ManishH** » 13 Feb 2011 20:06

Raghavendra wrote:^criminals cant be influential, only notorious

The fact is that they are influential. The only way to defeat them is to
first understand why.

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 13 Feb 2011 20:09

MrKaych wrote:
Raghavendra wrote:^criminals cant be influential, only notorious
The fact is that they are influential. The only way to defeat them is to
first understand why.

The fact is every mad dog roaming the streets thinks its influential, the only way to defeat them is to
cull them

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 15 Feb 2011 07:12

Extortnomics: Maoists raise Rs 2,000 crore every year - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 498493.cms

ManishH · Post by **ManishH** » 17 Feb 2011 09:21

Another incident of naxal cowardice - abduction of civillian administrators :

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Maoists-a ... 63394.aspx

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 18 Feb 2011 03:23

The abducted IAS officer from Malkangiri is another person I kinda knew. Have nt talked to him extensively, but here and there. Soft-spoken guy in the batch. So that makes two from my batch who have been caught up with the maoist menace/politics rubbish. Now that is coincidence.

PS: And I have nt seen a single mail on any of the alumni email list about these guys, nutjobs run the list as expected. None of my batchmates have passed this news along either, 99.9% dont even know, cant blame them its more than 15 years. I remember them cos the names are familiar. And so does ggl pictures of the folks.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 18 Feb 2011 15:14

Orissa begins backdoor talks with Maoists for collector's release

Hariprasad · Post by **Hariprasad** » 20 Feb 2011 23:00

Nihat wrote:Orissa begins backdoor talks with Maoists for collector's release

Great. How much money/maoists/both being traded this time ?

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 21 Feb 2011 00:58

^^^^^

Orissa: prisoner-hostage swap likely

Crucial for talks to move ahead are jailed Maoist sympathiser Gandiprasadam and Sriramulu Srinivas, Zonal Committee Member. Gandiprasadam has been moved from Ongul jail to Koraput jail. His bail plea will come up for hearing on Monday. Sriramulu's bail is also likely to be heard on Monday.
Sources told CNN-IBN that Gandiprasadam is likely to be released on Monday. Government also hopes of reciprocative action from Naxals.

suryag · Post by **suryag** » 21 Feb 2011 02:08

Can any govt official sympathetic to the naxal cause willingly walk into a trap and help the cause of the naxals ?

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 21 Feb 2011 11:29

Reds shift officer after tribals plan rescue operation

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 21 Feb 2011 23:45

From http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_or ... se_1511120

Orissa ready to meet 8 Maoist demands, confident of early release

Conceding eight of the 14 demands of the Maoists on the second day of talks with the rebel-chosen mediators, the Orissa government today said it was confident of securing early release of abducted Malkangiri Collector RV Krishna and a junior engineer.

Home secretary UN Behera said while eight demands of the Maoists were met, final talks on the remaining six conditions would be held tomorrow.

"I am confident now that both the collector and junior engineer Pabitra Majhi will be released very soon," he told reporters after two days of talks with Maoist-chosen mediators for release of the two abducted on February 16.

Among the issues resolved during the meeting were recognising Konda Reddy and Nokadora communities as Scheduled Tribes, steps for scrapping Pollavaram multi-purpose dam project in Andhra Pradesh, issue of land pattas to tribals whose land had allegedly been taken away in Malkangiri and Koraput, extension of a canal project in Malkangiri and compensation to families of two persons who died in jail
custody due to alleged torture in Koraput, he said.

The government would also take steps for the release of two central committee members of CPI(Maoist) Sila Di and Padma lodged in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh jails, Behera said.

The issue of stoppage of bauxite mining in Mali and Deomali hills in Koraput and Rayagada districts and cancellation of MoUs with multinational companies were also
resolved.

Talks with the mediators Prof G Hargopal, Prof Someswar Rao and Dandapani Mohanty have "progressed well," Behera said.

"We have been assured by the mediators that Krishna's health is fine and there is no cause of concern," he said adding both the hostages are safe and secure.

In a related development, five hardcore Maoists, including Ganti Prasadam, who has about 100 cases against him in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, moved the Orissa High Court for bail after a similar plea was rejected by a lower court.

The Maoists, who have sought their release as one of the conditions for safe return of the two, called a bandh to press their demand but it evoked little response.

As Krishna, a 2005 batch IAS officer, and Majhi spent the sixth day in captivity, the mediators were keen that certain jailed ultras like Ganti Prasadam joined the negotiation process to resolve the hostage crisis.

The release of jailed Maoists was discussed at length,official sources said, adding it was possible that the bail plea of the rebels would not be opposed by the government.

KSKumar · Post by **KSKumar** » 22 Feb 2011 17:16

suryag wrote:Can any govt official sympathetic to the naxal cause willingly walk into a trap and help the cause of the naxals ?

Do not know the ideological affiliations of this particular officer, but the above has happened at least once.

I wonder how many remember the late 80's case of 7 IAS officers allegedly "kidnapped" by naxals in AP (when NTR was still CM)?

It was very widely rumoured that the 7 collaborated. I know for a fact that at least two of them were openly leftist (one of them Vijay Kumar, was the chairman of Girijan Cooperative Corporation in Vizag in the early 90's and his language, expression and sympathies were openly naxal). The others were also rumoured to be naxal sympathisers.

An angle not to be ignored.

Sanku · Post by **Sanku** » 22 Feb 2011 19:46

Lot of local clippings as well as interesting information here (on Abductions)

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=gro ... 8869842623

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 22 Feb 2011 21:37

Collector Freed, apparently Orissa Govt accepted all demands.

suryag · Post by **suryag** » 22 Feb 2011 22:41

How did they manage it ? None of the people the maoists asked for have been released. Request to the collector please take adequate security precautions before your next visit

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 23 Feb 2011 01:47

KSKumar wrote: I wonder how many remember the late 80's case of 7 IAS officers allegedly "kidnapped" by naxals in AP (when NTR was still CM)?

Yes I remember and it was under NTR. He did not release the Naxals. Instead the government created a fictious organization (I guess PrajalaBhatulu). Rakhaka Bhatulu is the exact meaning of Police in Telugu. So they create a group with similar name and that group kidnapped Civil Liberties group members including Kannibhiram. They threatened to kill them if the IAS officers are not released. In a swap operation the released the civil liberties junk for IAS officers.

That was a great day and a government has shown the spine to deal with kidnappers by playing their own game against them.

Yagnasri · Post by **Yagnasri** » 23 Feb 2011 07:30

They also created some thing else - I think black cobras which even killed some naxals at that time. Dirty war is to be fought with dirty methods. AP police know how to do it. Pity that other states are not willing to learn from AP police.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 23 Feb 2011 07:51

gates are open. hostage swap is on. get set for a decade or more of murder and mayhem.

a precedent is set. next time how will the govt say we wont negotiate?

suryag · Post by **suryag** » 23 Feb 2011 09:10

Narayana Rao wrote:They also created some thing else - I think black cobras which even killed some naxals at that time. Dirty war is to be fought with dirty methods. AP police know how to do it. Pity that other states are not willing to learn from AP police.

I think the name was nalla trachulu and IIRC it was supposed to be some group from Nallamala forest... no ... ?

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 23 Feb 2011 09:56

suryag wrote:How did they manage it ? None of the people the maoists asked for have been released.

I hear the Maopests have been released on bail, quietly. Initially, Odisha govt agreed to some 8 of the demands, later to all of them.

suryag · Post by **suryag** » 23 Feb 2011 14:01

This episode has been really disgusting. Listening to Shri Jay Panda angered me to no end. In fact he termed the government's conduct of negotiations as dignified and the anchor was listening to him as if it was an unquestionable discourse. Does this MP know the difficulties in nabbing people like central committee members does he know how much energy the intelligence agencies would have expended to nab them. Doesnt this release compromise informer networks? How would the morale of the police be high after a surrender of this magnitude. Why would any policeman go out and do something to enhance the secuirity of the people, has the govenrment forgotten the work of countless Francis Induwars who day in and day out collect intelligence in such hazardous conditions. May be the collector was very efficient taskmaster, sincere and upright but he was being reckless when it comes to this foray of his into the interiors of Maopest held areas. What was he thinking when he went in was he imagining that Maoists would not harm him after finding that his ACR was exemplary? Sad day for the men in Khaki who are just an IED away on any day.

Next thing our maananeeya MP talked about was releasing tribals who were arrested on trivial cases, if it was trivial why were they arrested in the first place why do you need maoists to hold up a mirror to you, if they were detained on trivial charges they should have let them go after questioning why was there harassment in the first place ?

I dont really understand which scale shri Panda uses to term these actions dignified, may be he bought it in slumabad

Extremely saddened by this development one fervent request to all those dutybound collectors(for once i like those pot bellied babus who dont move out of their rooms as part of their job responsibilities) please take escorts with you when you go out next.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 23 Feb 2011 14:45

Hari Seldon wrote:I hear the Maopests have been released on bail, quietly.

If I am not mistaken, the idea was the state govt. would not oppose the bail plea when it comes to court. Now fat chance that these Mao-pests would adhere to the bail conditions and come back the courts if summoned. One thing which always irritates me is that where as there is one state govt. (AP) which fought tooth and nail against this menace, taught the mao-pests many hard lessons, all the other states to the North and East to it (be it Orissa, Jharkhand etc.) they have not taken any ownership to control this rot from their side. To put it honestly, I only come think about a "state government" functioning in Orissa, when sad news such as these come out

. Does this "state government" have any thing positive to show case?

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 23 Feb 2011 15:27

media has fallen in line like obedient dogs and no front page headlines or even any mention in news media lately.

suryag · Post by **suryag** » 24 Feb 2011 02:06

i am really happy to announce that the maopests have made a new set of demands
Maoists put new demands

from another link, I think this list was the first list
List of Maoists' demands

Following are the demands Maoists are making for the release of district collector R.V. Krishna and engineer Majhi:

Halting of anti-Maoist operations in the East.

Release of all Maoists arrested, over 700.

Compensation for families of Maoist sympathisers killed in police custody.

All political prisoners be freed, they demand.

Nulling of all agreements the government has signed with MNCs be scrapped.

Demanding letter in Telugu was distributed to media.

Maoists have given a 48-hour deadline.

I hope some US amby makes fun of this and we get to know of it. Another sad day in this saga

ASPuar · Post by **ASPuar** » 24 Feb 2011 10:00

So.. the maoists have made fresh demands. The Indian Express is calling this an "Unexpected Snag".

Wtf?

I would call it a WHOLLY EXPECTED CONSEQUENCE of giving in like a limp dishrag to the demands of terrorists!

ASPuar · Post by **ASPuar** » 24 Feb 2011 10:05

Im pretty sure this utter capitulation occurred because the politicians of today are scared of the IAS lobby.

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news ... se/754112/

Bhubaneswar:

The Orissa government’s swap deal for Collector R Vineel Krishna hit an unexpected snag this evening, with the Maoists demanding the release of more jailed comrades, and summoning the interlocutors to the Malkangiri forest for a direct prisoner exchange. The interlocutors, handpicked by the Maoists themselves, rejected the demand.
The Maoists this afternoon released junior engineer Pabitra Majhi at roughly the same place near Jantapai village in Kudumulgumma block from where they had abducted him and Krishna on January 16. Majhi, who reappeared at Doliamba village under Jodamba gram panchayat at around 1 pm, told a news conference later this afternoon that Krishna was “in good health”.

“We were kept in a forest somewhere in the cut-off area. We changed locations a few times, but we were treated well. They fed us rice and dal. Nobody tortured us. The Collector is in good health,” Majhi said in Malkangiri, where he reached after crossing the Balimela reservoir, all the while wearing a red crash helmet.

Majhi brought with himself a letter written in Telugu, listing the Maoists’ new demands. The letter, addressed to the interlocutors, said the government must free, in addition to Ganti Prasadam who was granted bail by the Orissa High Court today, five other comrades — including Andhra Orissa Border Special Zonal Committee chief Ramakrishna’s wife Padma, hardcore Maoist Sriramulu Srinivas and three others.

The interlocutors must, the letter said, come to Malkangiri with the freed Maoists, so they could be swapped with the Collector.

In the evening, Prof G Haragopal, who led the team of three interlocutors, expressed surprise over the demands, and rejected them as unacceptable.

“We appeal to the Maoists to release the Collector before 6 pm tomorrow as was the condition after the state government accepted their 14-point demand. We feel that it is not possible for us to abide by the Maoists’ demands to go to Malkangiri. Such demands will only complicate matters,” Haragopal said.

“We are surprised,” Haragopal said. “We did not expect additional demands to come up.” He said their appeal to the Maoists was being broadcast on radio in English and Telugu. Telugu poet and Maoist ideologue Varavara Rao also advised the rebels to stay true to their word and release the Collector.

Top government sources told The Indian Express that the Maoists were planning to release Krishna on February 25 before the national media and villagers of the cut-off area. They said the unprecedented outpouring of support for the officer in the cut-off area had unnerved the Maoists, who intended to clarify their position.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 24 Feb 2011 10:58

chaanakya wrote:Collector Freed, apparently Orissa Govt accepted all demands.

The breaking news was apparently broken. DC is still under Maoist custody.Thy are enjoying the abject surrender of high and mighty. Next no other officer would ever be safe if demands are met in this fashion. Rubaiyya Sayed Redux??

shravan · Post by **shravan** » 24 Feb 2011 11:04

At NAC member’s NGO, they wait for Padma, wife of top Maoist

...
Also known as A Padma, wife of top Maoist leader Akkiraju Haragopal alias Ramakrishna. Padma was arrested by the Orissa Police from Dudhari in Koraput district on November 13 last year, four days after she left the orphanage, while going to meet her ailing husband who is suspected to be behind the DC’s abduction. Padma’s release is one of the Maoists’ demands.

At the orphanage, Rainbow Home — Aman Vedika, the children say they miss her since she left suddenly saying that she was going away for 10 days, but never returned.

The orphanage is run by Aman Biradari, an NGO, founded by Harsh Mander, member of National Advisory Council (NAC), former IAS officer and human rights activist.

The Maoists who abducted Malkangiri district collector R Vineel Krishna last week have demanded the release of A Padma and seven others in exchange for releasing him.

When contacted, Harsh Mander said his group had no idea about the identify of Padma when she came looking for a job in October 2008.

Rupesh · Post by **Rupesh** » 26 Feb 2011 01:55

The Centre was not not in favour of Orissa government striking a deal with Maoists for the release of its two officials in exchange for the freedom some top Maoists from its jails.

Home Minister P Chidambaram is understood to have spoken to Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and urged him not not to set precedent by striking a deal with the Maoists that would pressure on other governments in future in any similar situation, sources said.

Patnaik is believed to have agreed with the Home Minister's suggestion but later went ahead with his government's strategy of releasing Maoist leaders

Chidambaram had asked Naveen Patnaik not to give in to Maoists

Rupesh · Post by **Rupesh** » 26 Feb 2011 02:04

IE Editorial

Lazy, dangerous

Do Naveen Patnaik’s administration and interlocutors think their efforts at negotiation secured Majhi’s release? It was the spontaneous and large-scale public anger, right there in the tribal areas, at the popular collector’s kidnapping that scared the Maoists into releasing Majhi and kept alive hopes that Krishna’s release would be secured too. What the government’s speedy capitulation to their original 14-point demands, backed by the interlocutors, produced was the new set of demands — that five additional Maoists in jail be released and that the interlocutors travel to the Malkingiri forest with released Maoists for a direct prisoner exchange. For the record, the Orissa government had ceased anti-Naxal combing operations in the immediate aftermath of Krishna’s abduction; and among the set of demands agreed to is a mandate to Maoists for all practical purposes to question future encounters. This will certainly make it more difficult for security forces carrying out their operations.

Expressing his surprise, G. Haragopal, who leads the team of interlocutors, said they didn’t expect additional demands to be made. This betrays the disconnect with the Maoist reality that some members of civil society continue to display, whether intellectual-moral sympathisers of Maoists, social activists, or those interfacing with the rebels on behalf of the government. Maoists are not fighting in behalf of deprived sections; they never were. They are waging a bloody, protracted war against the state and civilians — a war they had been losing ever since Operation Green Hunt gained momentum. The background to Krishna’s abduction is a cornered Maoist organisation, desperate to do something to swing the scales again. The Orissa government’s handling of the case seems to have given them just that opportunity.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 26 Feb 2011 16:34

Security forces gun down three Naxals in Bihar

Three Naxals were shot dead on Saturday in an encounter with the security forces at Katoria in Bihar's Banka district, a police officer said.

"Acting on a tip off, the security forces comprising CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) and SAP (Special Auxiliary Police) jawans surrounded a house in Majhidih village where about a dozen Naxals were hiding," Acting Superintendent of Police BK Das said.

Thats more like a response. These pigs are no different from those Paki infiltrators, infact they are much worse, they are from within us, they kill our people, they've taken our land and they've spread like a cancer. The worst kind of parasites on earth.

the more dispatched to hell , the better.

kmkraoind · Post by **kmkraoind** » 26 Feb 2011 20:42

Can any body explain correct method to fight the NJB+Media nexus, which we encounter practically in our every day-to-day life.

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 26 Feb 2011 21:11

Sorry wrong thread...delete

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 26 Feb 2011 21:20

^^^ Nice to see IE taking firm stand. I was disgusted to read the Editorial by Stalinist rapist goon propaganda cum Bejing puppet yellow daily...there was absolutely no condemnation of the kidnap, no concern over release of terrorists for 1 or 2 hostages (contrast to the sarcastic and contemptuous stand taken by the very same mass murderer puppet yellow journalists in the IA hijack affair). It only suggest vaguely to the kidnappers to 'think twice' before doing it again..in other words be my guest and do it.

Shame on these traitors..

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 11 Mar 2011 04:06

Red star over Malkangiri
http://telegraphindia.com/1110227/jsp/7 ... 641972.jsp