The Red Menace

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 21 Sep 2010 16:21

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 24 Sep 2010 22:55

http://www.hindustantimes.com/IAF-to-pu ... 04104.aspx

IAF to pull out choppers from UN missions by November

New Delhi, September 24, 2010

With an aim of augmenting logistical support for paramilitary forces in the anti-naxal operations, Indian Air Force will start withdrawing its 20 helicopters from the UN peace-keeping missions from November. The "phased withdrawal" of the choppers from three peace-keeping missions in Africa will be completed by June next year, Defence Ministry sources told PTI here.

The de-induction decision was taken after the IAF found itself hard-pressed for choppers while extending logistical help to paramilitary forces in anti-naxal operations, they said.

IAF's medium-lift MI-17 and MI-8 choppers are deployed in three African countries including Congo and Sudan and help in transportation of UN troops and equipment there.

The Home Ministry has been seeking enhanced logisitical support from the IAF in terms of movement of personnel and casualty evacuation particularly in inhospitable areas.

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 25 Sep 2010 10:04

I feel that a better step will be to provide organic airlift capability to the CRPF / Local police when it is engagend in CI duties. As bringing the IAF aircrew will only make the matter more complicated regarding the ROE for the IAF personal.

JMT

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 25 Sep 2010 10:18

Three Naxals surrender in Ranchi http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article793511.ece

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 25 Sep 2010 13:00

Huge cache of explosives seized from Maoist hideouts

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 25 Sep 2010 16:05

Betting time,

Who wants to bet if the IAF brings choppers into the anti naxal fight, the Naxals will start shooting MANPADS at the choppers after "Looting" the same from the "CRPF".

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 25 Sep 2010 17:46

COBRA group of CRPF have surrounded a Naxal camp in Chaibasa district ( Manoharpur /Tiliporasi village within the forested area in Jharkhand. 4 Maoists have been killed and one Asst Comdt with three Jawans injured. Many Naxalis have fled the camp and few are still fighting.

It was a training camp for Naxals.

As of writing this firing was on.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 27 Sep 2010 18:44

Chanakyaa , you must be talking about this encounter

12 Maoists killed in Jharkhand encounter

Big consignment dispatched to Allah, now it is for him to punish them.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 27 Sep 2010 18:45

Now Maoists call bandh to support Kashmir's stone pelters!

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 27 Sep 2010 19:15

Nihat wrote:Now Maoists call bandh to support Kashmir's stone pelters!

Thank you, o maobadi farts. You make it ever more difficult for your overgroundu apologists both within and outside gubmint to maintain even a fig leaf of mainstream respectability.

Next time, some WKK in sarkar sneakily pushes the 'give away cashmere' line, also ask if giving away jharkhand and chattisgarh and lalgarh and half of odisha are also on the cards...LOL.

May you score self-goals evermore, o maopests! jai ho jai ho.

Manishw · Post by **Manishw** » 28 Sep 2010 01:25

Nihat wrote:Now Maoists call bandh to support Kashmir's stone pelters!

Great the true face of terrorism will be exposed for all to see.May the Maoists be able to spread their message far and wide.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 28 Sep 2010 01:33

Nihat wrote:Chanakyaa , you must be talking about this encounter

12 Maoists killed in Jharkhand encounter

Big consignment dispatched to Allah, now it is for him to punish them.

yes glad that 8 more were dispatched.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 28 Sep 2010 11:38

In 72-hour op, forces fail to nab Naxal leaders

While the four Maoist central committee members — CPI-Maoist No. 2 Kishanda alias Prashant Bose , head of Bengal-Jharkhand-Orissa zone Kishanji, Aravind of Bihar and Mahesh of Assam — reportedly conducting the war training, slipped through the extensive dragnet,

Although success eluded the forces, the operation demonstrated new levels of coordination between the different arms involved in anti-Naxal operations and a better degree of intelligence gathering. Such operations, clearly aimed at maiming the top leadership, would impede the Naxal surge and prevent them from launching attacks involving hundreds of combatants with impunity.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 29 Sep 2010 15:49

Maoists want peace, claims Swami Agnivesh

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 29 Sep 2010 16:00

If they do, then they can give up arms and initiate a become a part of the main stream. While creating a political grouping for consulting electionsa and doing forming a govt if they attain a majority in the concerned states.

But they are not going to do so. As their idealogy is based upon a complete repudiation of everything India stands for.

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 02 Oct 2010 09:27

Naxals killed 21 in kangaroo courts this year: Govt http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20101001/80 ... ourts.html

As the CPI (Maoist) continues its violent activities, the Centre on Friday said the Naxals have set up many kangaroo courts which brutally executed 21 persons this year itself after holding them guilty.

Home Minister P Chidambaram said the CPI (Maoist) holds courts called 'Jan Adalats', tries the 'accused', sentences many of them to death and executes them in full public view in order to strike terror in the hearts of the villagers.

"The number of 'Jan Adalats' has risen up to 48 till August 31 in the current year -- up from 38 in the corresponding period last year. The number of persons executed has risen to 21 from 11 last year," he said.

The Home Minister said the Maoists continued their violent activities across Left Wing Extremist-affected states and their main targets were policemen and alleged 'police informers'.

"Every one who swears by the rule of law must condemn these kangaroo courts and brutal executions," he said.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 02 Oct 2010 18:08

Vijay Kumar, Director National Police Academy Hyd , of Veerappan fame, becomes DG CRPF replacing Mr Srivastava

Likely to play vital role in anti Naxal ops. A no nonsense officer.

Anantha · Post by **Anantha** » 02 Oct 2010 21:19

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Maoists-s ... 07381.aspx
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday accused the state's main opposition Trinamool Congress of having a "nexus" with the Maoists and said the Left wing ultras should be thrown out of state.

"Hindu fundamentalism is on the rise and this communal barbarian is opposing the egalitarian maoist culture. How dare he". Buddhadev has become a Hindu fundamentalist.

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 03 Oct 2010 21:05

Govt regains control over 10k sq km area dominated by Naxals http://www.zeenews.com/news659346.html

New Delhi: In a silent but significant win over the Maoists, security forces have regained control over more than 10,000 sq km area dominated by the Naxals in six worst-affected states.

Official sources described the success of the security forces as "very significant" as nearly 40,000 sq km area had been controlled by the red ultras in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Bihar and West Bengal for last several years.

"We have got maximum gain in Chhattisgarh. We hope that the success will continue in the coming days," a source said.

More than 60,000 central paramilitary forces have been assisting the state police forces in their fight against the Maoists.

The success of the forces in last few months was largely attributed to the joint coordinated efforts of the police forces of the states as well as the Centre and better intelligence networks.

Naxal violence has claimed the lives of over 10,000 civilians and security personnel in the last five years.

Out of a total of 10,268 casualties between 2005 and May 2010, 2,372 deaths have been reported in 2009 as against 1,769 in 2008 and 1,737 in 2007.

Besides, Naxals targeted 362 telephone towers, many school buildings, roads, culverts in 2009 alone.

The ultras have killed at least 100 policemen in Chhattisgarh since April. Their hand is also suspected behind the derailment of an Express train in West Bengal that claimed the lives of nearly 150 people.

Government has been maintaining that accelerated development and calibrated police action are the two pillars of its anti-Naxal policy.

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 04 Oct 2010 09:40

Three Forward Bloc activists shot dead by Maoists http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20101004/14 ... ot-de.html

Purulia (WB), Oct 4 (PTI) Three Forward Bloc activists were shot dead by armed Maoists in Purulia district, police said today. A group of about 50 Maoists, armed with sophisticated weapons, raided Chirogora village late last night and dragged out the three activists from their houses to a distance and shot them dead, district SP Rajesh Jadav told PTI. The deceased were identified as Leru Majhi, Dasrath Majhi, and Choto Majhi, he said.

The attackers left some leaflets in the area claiming that they were killed as they were "police spies". Joint forces and a police team rushed to the village and have started combing operations, the SP said.

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 26 Oct 2010 13:05

Bihar cop held for being Maoist mole http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 812181.cms

PATNA: The Bihar police on Monday arrested a cop for allegedly helping Maoists execute fellow policemen, including his boss and former SP K Surendra Babu. The IPS officer was killed in a landmine blast in 2005.

ASI Salim Hasan was posted as a reader in the confidential section of the Munger SP's residential office. "He was under surveillance for quite sometime and we arrested him after we found him passing information about security bandobast for the assembly elections,' state DGP Neelmani said.

The arrested officer allegedly passed on intelligence inputs to Maoists and leaked information on the cops movement in neighbouring Lakhisarai district's Kajra forests two months ago. Armed with this input, Maoists fired on cops and killed at least seven policemen on August 29. They also kidnapped four other policemen, of whom SI Lucas Tete was beheaded in captivity.

Neelmani said investigations have confirmed that Hasan withheld an intelligence report from then Munger SP, Babu, which had warned him against the landmine trap laid by Maoists for him near Bhimbandh. The young SP was killed in the blast at Bhimbandh on January 7, 2005.

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 26 Oct 2010 17:23

Raghavendra wrote:Govt regains control over 10k sq km area dominated by Naxals http://www.zeenews.com/news659346.html

New Delhi: In a silent but significant win over the Maoists, security forces have regained control over more than 10,000 sq km area dominated by the Naxals in six worst-affected states.

Official sources described the success of the security forces as "very significant" as nearly 40,000 sq km area had been controlled by the red ultras in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Bihar and West Bengal for last several years.

"We have got maximum gain in Chhattisgarh. We hope that the success will continue in the coming days," a source said.

Wow. Very, very heartening. Jai bhaarath.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 26 Oct 2010 21:56

Nihat wrote:Maoists want peace, claims Swami Agnivesh

This guy is one of the slimiest snake oil salesman parading around in India.

His costumed views are farcical and and as fake as his silly costume.

He is as maoist as his clients and just as fake.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 26 Oct 2010 22:02

In all this sad tales of Maoism, may I bring you some comedy from the Karl Marx of India Com. Prakash Karat.
Karat: Left parties still stuck in 1940s

The sad part of the joke is that commies took around 60-70 years to realise a simple truth, which the rest of the nation had realised long time back

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TonyMontana · Post by **TonyMontana** » 27 Oct 2010 01:20

Hari Seldon wrote: Wow. Very, very heartening. Jai bhaarath.

The problem is holding control over these area. By the nature of the Maoist, they will shy away from any direct comfrontation. Would the 60,000 extra security forces stay in the area? What happenes when they leave? More importantly. Where did the Maoists go?

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 27 Oct 2010 05:22

^^Good point.

I think Green Hunt explicitly aims to stay on in the reclaimed territory till civil and civic infrastructure and institutions are restored to a sustainable level. IOW, the troops are likely to stay quite a while - for perhaps a generation. Green Hunt's bdgets ought to reflect this, hopefully.

PC at least displayed extraordinary understanding of the situation when he said at the time of launching Green hunt that unless the local citizenry are assured that the troops won't leave tomorrow, they will not be confident enough to help the state and will then stop giving in to Maoist extortion/taxation and Maoist bullying.

Not all the troops involved in the clearing exercise are needed to 'hold', of course. Hopefully, political and economic packages will be dispatched ASAP to these areas so that aam janta can be reassured that this time, there'll be no withdrawal until governance is re-established, until local police forces are rebuilt to sufficient strength and perhaps, local anti-maoist militia trained to ward off Maoist threats.

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 06 Nov 2010 14:50

India asks Nepal about clandestine Maoist training http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20101106/87 ... e-m_1.html

Kathmandu, Nov 6 (IANS) The Indian government has taken up with the Nepal government the issue of Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas providing arms and political training to India's Maoists and has provided what it says are details about the training.

The Indian embassy in Kathmandu sent a letter to Nepal's Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala, Home Minister Bhim Rawal, and the foreign and home secretaries, saying several senior Maoist leaders, including two sitting members of parliament, have signed a clandestine pact with three Indian Maoist leaders, agreeing to provide training to Indian Maoists.

According to the embassy letter, which was leaked to the Nepali media Saturday, the Maoist leaders include Barshaman Pun Ananta, who is one of the commanders of the Maoists' People's Liberation Army (PLA) and an elected member of parliament, and fellow lawmaker Haribol Gajurel.

The Indian leaders are, according to the letter, a man identified only as Pankaj from Sitamarhi district in India's Bihar state, Binod Gurung and Rajjak Ansari. Ansari is alleged to be based in Nepalgunj on the Indo-Nepal border area and running a fake Indian currency note racket.

The pact, said to have been signed in Sarlahi district in southern Nepal, also agreed to send PLA members to Motihari and Sitamarhi districts in Bihar to train Indian Maoists, the letter alleges.

It also claims Nepal Maoists provided arms training to nearly 300 Indian Maoists in two phases this year on Nepal's soil.

In June, a training camp was set up in the Harikhola forest close to Nepal's industrial town Butwal, the letter says. A member of the terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba, Latif Khan, came from Pakistan to provide training in making explosives, it adds.

Almost two months later, a second training camp for nearly 50 Indian Maoists was held in one of the satellite camps of the PLA, the letter says.

The Sainamaina satellite camp in Rupandehi district, close to the Indian border, houses the 4th division of the PLA and remains under the supervision of a UN agency, like the 27 other PLA cantonments.

The letter says about 50 Indian Maoists were trained in the Sainamaina camp in August.

Nepal's Maoists have dismissed the allegations, calling them part of the Indian propaganda to keep them out of the government.

They have said that while as fellow communists, they empathise with Maoists worldwide, they however have no actual links with the Indian Maoists.

The Indian letter comes on the eve of a proposed visit to India by Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda. The former revolutionary is said to be trying to make his peace with India after his recent trip to China where the Chinese leaders reportedly asked him not to needle India.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 06 Nov 2010 14:53

I was reading a team bhp travelogue about a guy who visited the kudremukh area (a naxal active area though not to extent of orissa/chattisgarh). he showed photos of a new road being built in the region..still in progress....so the effort to build roads and open up these naxal nests is on all over india. taking a look at road map of india, part of orissa/chattisgarh near datewada hardly has a major road or two to its credit on the map.

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 15 Nov 2010 02:04

News Flash:::

Odisha police arrest wife of senior maoist leader Rama Krishna (RK)!

Maoist leadership escaped!

darshhan · Post by **darshhan** » 15 Nov 2010 19:48

This can be a nice model for countering Maoists provided complete support to Villagers is given by security agencies.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100826/j ... 857315.jsp

The roar of the gun is threatening to reverberate through the Maoist-dominated badlands of Bihar.

Kaimur Shanti Sena (KSS), a private army of Yadavs in Rohtas-Kaimur region on the border with Jharkhand, has begun accumulating arms to fight back the Naxalite guerrillas.

The outfit is modelled after the affluent farmers’ militia group Ranvir Sena, which was raised by the Bhumihar landlords.

The Naxalites got a taste of the Shanti Sangh’s power on two consecutive days. On Monday, its members intercepted four Maoists and handed them over to police. The next day, they thwarted the rebels’ attempt to avenge the arrest of their comrades. On both days, the police allegedly remained mute spectators in Dhansa village.

The Sena has the backing of a former bandit king of the region, Ram Vachan Yadav. With 40 and odd members, it has its influence on Dhansa, Kuba, Dugdha, Londa, Lohra and Paharpur villages, dominated by Yadavs.

The Maoists stormed into Dhansa village, under Rohtas police station, yesterday and brutally assaulted three villagers for revolting against them. But the rest of the residents of the village, about 250km southeast of Patna, fought bravely and forced the Maoists to retreat.

“We kept the Maoists at bay for nearly 26 hours and foiled their attempt to abduct some villagers and loot their firearms as they had done barely a month ago. The villagers came out with their licensed weapons and gave a befitting reply to the trained commandos of the banned outfit,” said a member of the Sena.

The villagers said they had informed the Rohtas police station about the attack, but no help came from them.

“The Rohtas police station is about 4km from the village. There is a CRPF camp at Banjari, about 6km from Dhansa. But the security personnel prefer to remain inside the camp,” the Sena member said.

The villagers of Dhansa had apprehended the attack after the arrest of the four Maoists, including zonal secretary Satyendra Singh alias Shekher, from Rehal forest area on Monday. Even senior police officers were tipped off about the possible Maoists attack on the village surrounded by hilly terrain.

Sources said the Sena men had attacked the divisional forest rest house near Rehal following a tip-off that the Maoists, led by its zonal secretary, had assembled there. After an eight-hour exchange of fire, the Maoists had to surrender with two rifles of .315 bore, a country-made gun, a revolver and over 200 rounds of ammunition.

The rebels made four abortive attempts to free their squad members. But the Sena men thwarted their bid and handed over the four Maoists to Audhaura police. A 75-year-old man, Ahmad Hajam, was killed in the exchange of fire. The four arrested Maoists — Satyendra, Kishan Oraon, Mohan and Shiv — were produced before Sasaram court today. They were remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.

The police attributed the mass protest against the rebels to ill treatment meted out to innocent villagers. Rohtas superintendent of police Vikas Vaibhav said: “The residents of over a dozen villages on the border of Rohtas and Kaimur districts have taken up arms against the Maoists. The rebels are being driven out from the villages, once considered to be their stronghold.”

Vaibhav said the people have shown faith in the law-enforcing agency after the district police launched community policing in Naxalite-affected areas. “Harassment by the Maoists in the name of being informers of the police has caused strong resentment among the masses against the banned organisation,” Vaibhav told The Telegraph.

The way the villagers fought with the Maoists in the past two days reminded people of a decade-old fight between the Maoists and the Ranvir Sena. The outfit had originated from Bhojpur’s Sahar area in 1990s and strengthened its base in many districts of central Bihar, including Bhojpur, Jehanabad, Aurangabad, Arwal, Gaya, Rohtas and parts of Patna.

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 16 Nov 2010 00:57

ఒక ఐపిఎస్ అధికారి నేతృత్వంలో వివిధ రాష్ట్రాల్లో అమన్ వేదిక రెయిన్ పేరిట అనాథ ఆశ్రమాలు నడుస్తున్నాయి. ఈ సంస్థకు సంబంధించిన ఆశ్రమాలు నగరంలో మూడు ఉన్నాయి. అందులో ఒకటి సీతాఫల్‌మండి డివిజన్ పరిధిలోని మేడిబావిలో ఉంది. అనాథ ఆశ్రమంలో మూడేళ్లుగా పని చేస్తున్న పద్మక్క, బంధువుల పెళ్లికి వెళ్తున్నట్టుగా సెలవు తీసుకుని 9న బయలుదేరి వెళ్లింది. ఒడిషాలో పోలీసులకు పట్టుబడటంతో వాస్తవాలు తెలిశాయని ఆశ్రమ కన్వీనర్ అనురాధ చెప్తున్నారు.

పద్మక్క సోదరి విరసం నేత కల్యాణరావుకు దగ్గరి బంధువు.

Maoist leader RK's wife Padma was arrested in Odisha this weekend. Before leaving to Odisha on November 9th, she lived in Hyderabad for three years working as a play teacher in a orphanage.

An IPS officer is running many orphanages in various states under the name of "Aman Vedika". RK's wife has been staying in Seetaphal Mandi ashram for past three years.

By the way, RK's wife's sister is a close relative to Kalyanarao, virasam leader.

Rudradev · Post by **Rudradev** » 22 Nov 2010 09:01

Maoist bombing kills seven children in Bihar

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 966903.cms

NEW DELHI: The Maoist ploy to disrupt the Bihar assembly polls may have failed but a bomb planted by the rebels in the state's Aurangabad district ended up killing seven children on Sunday morning. All those killed were in the age group of 10-14 years and had wandered into the field where it was kept. Three others were injured.

The Maoists had planted the bomb in Pachokhar village to prevent security personnel from patrolling the area ahead of the sixth and last phase of assembly election on Saturday. Security personnel reportedly came upon the bomb but had left it behind in the absence of a bomb disposal squad.

The incident is yet another reminder of scores of children falling victim to Maoist violence in states through which the Red corridor runs. But children are not just inadvertent victims of Maoist violence, there are instances where Maoists have killed children labelling them police informers. Experts said children were soft targets and killing them helped Maoists strike terror in villagers and forced them to toe their line.

Home secretary G K Pillai told TOI, ''The Maoists kill children, women and old people. They claim to fight for the poor. But the truth is they kill the poor. I am yet to see Maoists kill rich people. They take money from the rich and kill the poor."

In June, Maoists gunned down Phulchand Mahato, a class VIII student in West Bengal's Belpahari, alleging that he passed on information about them to cops.

On Thursday last week, eight-year-old Rekha was killed along with her father Sonaram Munda, uncle Pradeep and a guest Sanjay Mahato when a gang of Maoist cadres barged into their house in Jharkhand's Baruhatu village, around 50km from Ranchi. Little Rekha was sleeping when the Maoists fired indiscriminately on the Munda family. They were targeted because Maoists suspected them to be police informers. Reshmi Kumar (12), a neighbour of the Mundas, was injured in the incident. On October 8, two schoolchildren were among seven people killed in a crossfire between Maoists and security forces in the forests along the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border.

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Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 22 Nov 2010 14:24

And these guys are patriots for Ms Roy.

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 22 Nov 2010 16:21

Dont know if this has been posted.

Protests greet Roy in Orissa

Here's a jem

Writer Arundhati Roy was at the receiving end of her own tactic of dissent and protest here on Sunday when ABVP activists tried to stop her from attending a meeting on tribal rights for her controversial remark last month supporting ''azad Kashmir''.

rkirankr · Post by **rkirankr** » 23 Nov 2010 12:08

9 Red pigs killed by CRPF. Battle still on at Dantewada. No casualties on CRPF side

rkirankr · Post by **rkirankr** » 25 Nov 2010 15:52

Intelligence agencies infiltrate Maoist leadership

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 25 Nov 2010 16:01

Its news like this that gets my goat. The purpose of intel is to function in back ground collect info for the police to act upon. By publicising the infiltration they are mearly causing the opertion to fail. As the leadership will get paranoid and avoid direct contact with each other. Till such time they find out the truth and deal with the compromised personal.

A huge self goal by those who leaked this news.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 25 Nov 2010 16:36

It's not leaked any operational or procedural details regarding intelligence gathering mechanism but genrally hinted at the possibility. I guess the Naxal leadership would have been suspecting the same thing for months and that'll explain the killing spree they have gone on by slaughtering civilians in the name of informers.

I reckon such news would disrupt the naxals communication network across the states.

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 25 Nov 2010 16:43

The article speaks of infiltrating the leadership. It is diffrent form some random grunt on the ground. Yes it disrupts the network but for how long? While they plug the leak.

If it was for real then it would have been for best if it had not been mentioned in news media. By making an enemy aware of what you know about him you compromise your future ability to monitor him.

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 25 Nov 2010 17:10

Depends. It can sow a lot of negative feeling in them, making them suspicious about every person they see.