The Red Menace

Abhi_G · Post by **Abhi_G** » 17 Feb 2010 21:39

CPM only allows its cadres into the police force.

This has resulted in corruption and inefficiency among the police force.

The few who are good are helpless and their hands are tied. They however do their duty at the risk of their lives. When these brave officers die, their families and small children are left to fend off for themselves. Many such cases have cropped up in recent months in villages, where the sub inspector has not feared to conduct an operation with his service revolver even when the adversary is found to be better armed.

The police force however acts with extreme brutality and derives sadistic pleasure by torturing the weak. This is pretty common all over the country. This prevents vigilant citizens to think twice before interacting with the police.

In the face of a determined and disciplined adversary, the police force either does not involve itself in the protection of citizens or falls flat in face of superior fire power. The brave men die, some of the injured die due to loss of blood. In Purulia, injured RPF personnel died after loosing blood from wounds. There were no vehicles to carry them quickly to the local sadar hospital. These jawans had come to collect their monthly salary which is paid in cash at the railway station, when the maoists struck.

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 18 Feb 2010 03:43

The police never forgives cop-killers. Well maybe with very very rare exceptions - a case that happened a long time ago in Kidderpore is an example - and even though it conformed to the pattern of "possible retributory liquidation" it still remains a mystery. The police were quite successful against the Maoists the first time around in the 70's. They took effective retribution, and forced the Maoists to evacuate WB into more difficult terrain. Why are they not able to show the same attitude now?

The only major difference between the Maoists of the 70's and that of the 2000's is the degree of ruthlessness and apparent military training, together with advanced weaponry. The 70's Maoists were mostly emotionally fired up, idealistic youth with little knowledge of the military side of affairs, with no real exposure to combat situations, and no time to bild up extensive guerrilla bases in the neighbourhood of India. It was primarily an idealistic political movement and not a militant one - even if it had military pretensions. Indian police are always effective - from British times - in torturing and executing "idealist politicians". Somehow most of the spectacular successes against "extremists" usually are of nature of inserting iron rods repeatedly into the private parts of politically unconnected female relatives of "idealist extermists" or practising S&M on youthful school and college students. But when it comes to religious fundamentalist extremists of a certain affiliation or hardboiled modern "Maoists", all that S&M vanishes.

I have seen quite a few of these officers close at hand - through family connections. My overall impression over the years has become that some if not most of them have joined the forces to satisfy their S&M urges under full state protection. One person I know, used circumstances and his position to make another man's wife his mistress - remaining married all the while, and bedding his sister-in-law also. Nothing illegal perhaps but any indication of the ethical and moral fibre - the real source of "strength"? He was well known in softening up early "Maoists" especially of the female kind. I once arranged for him to be tricked into a situation where he was without his sidekicks and the sidearm - facing a "wild" animal. He paled and tried to push me to the front and take cover behind me.

The reason they remain in their positions is because they are so effective in liquidating "idealists" - that they are an absolute necessity for "survivors" of our real-pragmatic-rational politicians. Dont think they are commies - they are sadists who are valuable to "pragmatic realpolitik".

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 18 Feb 2010 03:50

^^^ If that is the case, do the poor villagers have any option but to take up arms

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 18 Feb 2010 04:00

I have written on this forum before, that I had a personal experience of being held down to the ground by a tribal elder with a hand on my mouth - when I as a teenager was staying with them in one of my jaunts. The police had come in on an excuse and was raping a girl hardly 15-20 metres from the ditch where we were. The elder was much stronger than me and he whispered that such rapes were common - but if the men in khaki knew an outsider was present they would make that "outsider" vanish and the whole village punished for hosting me. My social origins and background would be of no consideration at all - where it came to satisfying the "uniformed" lust and interests.

Without idealism and a sense of higher purpose, arms and the uniform under state protection - perhaps is a slippery way down to abuse of power and S&M tendencies.

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 18 Feb 2010 04:34

^^^ So till the state reforms it's men in uniform the aam admy has no option but to resort to armed defense. I can assure you that if something like what have described happened around me I would have resorted to arms long ago. and had no scruples abt it.
However, what had started off for the protection of the villagers and tribals (naxals) has now morphed into a militia that equally exploits the same villagers & tribals.
Question is that if police reform is a starting point, why is that not being brought up? The corruption and feudal nature of state machinery (which was built to protect imperial interests) is the key driver of these internal insurgencies. A fair and just state would imply that the Maoists don't have a leg to stand on. If there are no grievances then where will they get such a large following from?

In a certain sense this is part of Naipauls "India a million mutinies". People are waking up and resisting what they have faced for 300-400 years (colonial and post colonial India). The resistance has spiralled out of control. But atleast people are not vegetables anymore. However, the only good that will come out of this if we cn introspect and change the course the country is taking.

So now what - what do we do to push this through in India? There are two aspects - stopping the Maoists & reforming the state machinery (making it just & constitutional)

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 18 Feb 2010 09:49

Good interview on CNN-IBN with Colin Gonsalves & Chandan Mitra.
Good articulation of both points of view

http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/110252/02_ ... aning.html

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 18 Feb 2010 09:49

There have always been the rumours, and some recent apparent confirmation of similar sexually abusive practises by a section of the Maoists. At one point in my life, I had actively tried to prevent idealist youth from being recruited into Maoist factions. So I came to know some of the leaders then - quite well from my surveillance network. I have to say, most of the upper cadre are of impeccable personal integrity where sex or money is concerned. But this does not mean that they will not use sex or money to further their political goals as tools. There comes a turn in any idealist thinking where the means become less important than the ends. I am not going into this debate now but it is a dilemma that actually prevented me from continuing with the parliamentary left.

Most of the upper echelons of Maoists come from well-to-do or by birth, from traditional elite. They are mostly highly educated, many holding postgraduate or PhD degrees. And to a certain extent, I feel they show all the faults of stereotypical "forward castes" - an actual detachment from the commons, a cynical ability to manipulate the commons, arrogance and a hidden hunger for dominance and power.

I am more or less convinced now that almost all revolutions happen because a portion of the elite gets disgruntled - probably out of insufficient recognition or cooption into positions of influence and power early on in their careers. Such disgruntled elite seek a constituency to overthrow the elite portion in power. The hatred and murderous intensity of their antagonism is a reflection of the old factional infighting of the elite in power.

the Maoists are no exception. Therefore only two things can be done to stop and roll back the Maoists. First is to stop their supply lines of recruits from well trained and educated elite or upper-middle class youth in the reputed centres of education. Second, a proper political and social movement that addresses the real problems of the "marginalized" away from the media focus on urban centres and convenient issues over which whiskey, drugs and tears can be lavished on from within the safety of well-stocked and furnished well to do homes. Both these tactics need a firm ideological struggle to delegetimize the appeal and foundations of Maoism. It is the ideological memes that attract the brains that recruit the foot-soldiers.

Unfortunately in India there is always this clamour of "people/individual" responsible - but the ideology is not a t fault - should never be challenged, or "denigrated/deconstructed" unless it is one particular belief system. So we liquidate a few individuals, and let the ideology continue and flourish - regenerating the problem forever.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Feb 2010 10:32

I saw a pic today of EFR squad firing in the air at night as a tribute to fallen comrades. all of them looked overage and fat for running around chasing nimble maoist dalams. the squad leader had enormous belly. these men are hardly fit enough to stand sentry at sensitive sites - hence a soft target.

I predict such 'soft' outfits will be repeatedly targeted unless they learn from better ones and shape up.

the maoists want bodycounts and they will go for the low hanging fruit first.

if the idea is to guard towns and govt installations, the EFR/state police need some serious training to atleast beat back these mass attacks and not waver.
camps must be redesigned as army/BSF camps in J&K to not present soft targets.

at same time a network of well paid spies and informers must be seeded to figure
out where the maoist hideouts and temporary task forces concentrate and untethered ops by greyhound type outfits in civilian clothes has to be run same way marcos roam the hills and dales of J&K.

a visible 'heavy' outfit of uniformed and vehicle borne police have way too much
RCS to corner anybody and infact are prime targets for IEDs and ambushes.

"fight the guerilla as the guerilla" as the jungle warfare school motto says.

kmkraoind · Post by **kmkraoind** » 18 Feb 2010 17:20

Maoists attack Bihar village, kill eleven people

Rishi · Post by **Rishi** » 18 Feb 2010 19:19

Singha wrote:I saw a pic today of EFR squad firing in the air at night as a tribute to fallen comrades. all of them looked overage and fat for running around chasing nimble maoist dalams. the squad leader had enormous belly. these men are hardly fit enough to stand sentry at sensitive sites - hence a soft target.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100218/j ... 120589.jsp

Why were only jawans who had crossed the age of 40 posted in such a vulnerable area? The state government never provided them with adequate training and posted them in such an area without equipping them properly,” Morcha spokesperson Harka Bahadur Chhetri said.

One of the cops killed on Monday was 59 years old. Suresh Rai was from Mirik.

RayC · Post by **RayC** » 18 Feb 2010 20:11

I wonder if age is of import to getting posted in vulnerable areas.

If it were so, then quite a few in J&K would also claim such concession.

Poor training and a bindas attitude to take on terrorist and Maoist, right from top to bottom will have this type of result that has happened with the EFR.

Abhi_G · Post by **Abhi_G** » 18 Feb 2010 20:45

Pics of EFR at the massacre site:

EFR Director General Shri Bhupinder Singh
http://www.timescontent.com/tss/showcas ... Singh.html

EFR Jawan (2008 photo)
http://www.timescontent.com/tss/showcas ... onnel.html

More pics, caution : contains pics of injured and fallen jawans.
http://www.timescontent.com/tss/showcas ... ifles.html

uddu · Post by **uddu** » 18 Feb 2010 21:11

12 Year Old Gorkhali Boy Challenges Maoist Hooligan Koteswar Rao
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-mgJKVm3bg[/youtube]

From now on, for every death happening in West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand due to Maoists, Mamata, Nitish and Soren will be held responsible and the people will seek an answer from these politicos for Maoist brutalities.

Abhi_G · Post by **Abhi_G** » 18 Feb 2010 21:22

http://breakingnews.gaeatimes.com/2010/ ... ram-10643/
Maoist sympathisers must condemn Sealdah attack: Chidambaram

NEW DELHI - Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that Maoist sympathisers must condemn Monday night’s attack on a paramilitary camp in West Bengal in which at least 24 security personnel were killed.

Chidambaram said Maoists sympathisers must reject the attack as an outrageous attempt to overawe state authority.

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 18 Feb 2010 21:31

Start with the intellectuals who day in and day out paint Marxist or Leninist or Maoist ideology as the paragons of good intentions. We have a general society wide position for Marxism that it is "acceptable" and inherently "not bad" - pro-people -pro-poor and the disempowered etc. This is a great source of weakness in combating Maoism. You cannot whitewash any ideology and say - oh it is itself not bad, actually very high/good/noble - but it is only some "misguided" people who "misinterpret". The problem is that such ideologies do have an inherent core of ruthless violence to achieve political and military dominance, primarily through a cynical use of organized terror.

Marxism has an inherent sanction for violent ovethrow of existing societies. Leninism formalizes the organized terror aspect and justification of state terror as an instrument of building "communism". Maoism is just application of the Leninist principles into a non-proletarian peasant setting. Even though the "peaceful parliamentary road to socialism" versus "revolutionary overthrow" is a very old debate within Marxists (starting from Engels), even the parliamentarians do a sort of ahem-ahem and try to mumble that "parliamentarianism" is just an interim measure - used to enhance the "movement", and exploit opprotunities provided by leberal democracies to win "converts" - but ultimately "violent ovethrow" is the only sacred path.

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 18 Feb 2010 21:42

^^^ A lot of Maoist violence in non congress states at time leading up to elections

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 18 Feb 2010 22:24

There is a strange correlation from the early days of communist violence with splits and weakening within the Congress. Late 40's Andhra, late 60's WB+Andhra+Kerala+Punjab+Bihar, and match against subsequent state+Congress+elections in the 80's to present.

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 18 Feb 2010 23:28

Found this great blog on Naxal attacks in India
They have running articles

http://naxalwatch.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Maoist militancy takes heavy toll on school education
Published on : Wednesday 17 Feb 2010 11:33 - by Sujeet Kumar

Dornapal (Chhattisgarh), Feb 17 : By bombing hundreds of schools since 2005, Maoist militants have taken a heavy toll on education in Chhattisgarh, officials say.

"Education and children's life have been severely hit in Bastar's interiors, militancy has virtually destroyed school education in vast areas where schools were either blown up or a majority of teachers refused to attend schools due to risks to their lives," Raja Toram, a teacher based in this small town in Dantewada district, some 500 km south of capital Raipur, told IANS.

RayC · Post by **RayC** » 19 Feb 2010 08:59

Shilda strike signals wider onslaught
- Hobbled by setbacks, Maoists still lethal
SUJAN DUTTA

...........Commando instructor Brigadier Ponwar, who runs the Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare in Kanker, Chhattisgarh, put it bluntly: “There will inevitably be demands from the state (Bengal) for more forces but what is the point in sending a hundred more goats to the slaughter? Unless the police are trained, they will get nowhere and we cannot blame them for this. Pot-bellied policemen who can barely walk 400m with a gun cannot be expected to match the guerrillas who can walk 40km through the jungle at night.”............

Officials in the administration complain that helicopters of the Indian Air Force are not being efficiently used.

One air force officer said: “We are often asked to ferry VIPs in Chhattisgarh when we should actually be transporting troops or carrying out surveillance even if we are not using our firepower.” He advocated the use of airpower before the Maoists acquired the capability to target helicopters. In November, the air force was told it had the right to “fire in self-defence”.

Shilda

Yagnasri · Post by **Yagnasri** » 19 Feb 2010 21:10

Do we really trust WB CPM and their people to fight naxals who are backed by China. Both governament and naxals in WB has same master.

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 19 Feb 2010 22:14

No communist factions have always been each other's deadliest enemeies. A great deal of successes against the Naxals in the 70's cam from active CPI(M) collaboration with the anti-Naxal forces. Remember they are both fighting for the sole proprietorship of the truly Marxist mantle. It is like the deadly factional infighting among the Islamists.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 20 Feb 2010 04:09

Maoists free BDO after Soren accepts key demand, BJP unhappy

A Jharkhand Officer P K Layek abducted by Maoists a week back was set free on Friday after the state government agreed to release some jailed persons bowing to the demand by the Naxals in an apparent swap deal that has angered ruling JMM's coalition partner BJP.

The release was announced after the Shibhu Soren government moved the legal process for releasing some jailed persons. In a key demand, the Naxals wanted 14 'innocent' persons including some women to be freed from a jail at Dalbhumgarh.

pgbhat · Post by **pgbhat** » 21 Feb 2010 05:38

Kobad aide held, plan to strike Delhi found

NEW DELHI: Arvind Joshi, an MCom student and alleged accomplice of top Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy, has been arrested along with seven others by Uttar Pradesh STF at Kanpur. Delhi Police will now seek remand of Joshi who they believe holds vital information regarding Naxalite activities in Delhi and NCR. The UP police also claimed to have seized two hard disks and Maoist literature from Joshi and his accomplices.

Additional director general (Law and Order) Brij Lal said, ‘‘We have nabbed a man named Arvind. He is believed to be an accomplice of Kobad Ghandy. We have also seized literature from him, which was written by Ghandy. Two hard disks were seized, which are being examined. Arvind was arrested along with seven others and all of them are in police custody.’’ Delhi Police also said Ghandy is not suffering from prostate cancer, a claim made by the Maoist ideologue at the time of his arrest. ‘‘We have put him through various medical tests. The reports have revealed that he was not suffering from cancer. However, due to his age, doctors say he is suffering from a mild heart ailment and prostate problems,’’ said a senior police officer.

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 21 Feb 2010 07:12

It is a franchise war, which bunch of rapist goons and mass murderers get the right to deliver the carcass of Indian economy to their paymasters. It is in the interest of the paymasters that the more controllable and amenable group wins the franchise. Which favors the Stalinist mass murderers...because those genuinely believing in the ideology are less likely to be willing to take ideological lessons..from a bunch who have flushed it down the toilet long ago

RayC · Post by **RayC** » 21 Feb 2010 10:08

There is a term in military parlance called “spoiling attack”. When a large force is poised to attack an enemy stronghold, the defender sends a small but potent force to attack the concentration of the attacking forces. This is to disorganise as well as demoralise the attackers and jeopardise the time frame of the attacking forces.

The Shilda and Dharampur attacks in Bengal by Maoists should be considered in that light. We have been hearing about operation Green Hunt for a long time. It is understandable, the maintenance of law and order being a state subject, the central home ministry has to sort out various issues and obtain concurrence of all the state governments on the broad framework of the operation and also co-ordinate the role and responsibilities of all the state governments.

This is unavoidable as the state police forces, government machinery and the state intelligence and logistic aspects need to be finalised before such an important operation, spread over at least four states and involving thousands of police and paramilitary personnel.

As it is, the chief ministers of Bihar and Jharkhand have already presented a cold shoulder to the efforts of the Union home ministry.

Generally, operations are kept secret till as long as possible. This is to deny time to the Maoists to prepare themselves to meet the onslaught. But in this case, wide propaganda had been made of the impending operation, instead of staying silent and springing a surprise on the Maoists.

I cannot help feeling that the intention was to cause scare in the minds of the Maoist leaders and hope that they would seek discussion for a peaceful solution. That would have been in the spirit of the Maoist teaching “do not give battle to a strong enemy force, withdraw to safety and seek time by all means to prepare and delay the engagement”. On the contrary, they followed Mao’s another tactic: “Hurt the enemy where he is weak and melt into the air.”

They attacked Shilda and killed and maimed a large number of hapless, ill-led, ill-trained, ill-motivated and demoralised policemen and decamped with their arms and ammunition. While preparations for the operation were progressing, no effort was made to tactically re-site the police camps to dominate the approaches leading to the same. So much so, no one possibly was on sentry duty in that camp.

The Maoists had selected the targets with care, dealt a body blow in daylight, planted mines and IEDs on roads and bridges and disappeared after a very successful raid.

This is possibly the first time in Independent India that the Union home ministry has embarked on such a large-scale operation using police and paramilitary personnel. It is understandable that there will be teething troubles, but these Maoist raids demonstrate to countrymen the state of efficiency and professionalism of our police and paramilitary forces......

The Maoists have, at Shilda and Dharampur, already given their reply to requests to abjure violence and come forward for discussions. The situation now demands an all-out offensive without much delay, which must be launched before the Maoists can inflict more casualties on the security forces.

■ All the police camps must be re-sited as required away from the heart of towns and marketplaces. Patrolling of the areas must be intensified so that camps are not surprised again. Day and night sentries and a quick reaction team must be organised at each camp.

■ They must be able to provide guides through jungle trails to the combing columns. Census must be available of all residents in each village.

■ Random checks of identity must be carried out in thickly populated areas. If required, night curfew may be imposed in sensitive areas to prevent the Maoists from moving during the night. Night patrolling in an area of influence is imperative.

■ However, a more important aspect is to ensure that no villager is harassed. Even if an incident of ambush or IED blast takes place near a village, no reprisal should be made on village folks. Rather, they should be reassured about their innocence. Even if Maoists have taken shelter in any village, it must not be construed that the villagers are involved in a conspiracy. Maoists do not wait for consent prior to entering a village. Villagers know that the consequence of refusal is death penalty.

■ Medical facilities or any other help which the police can provide to the poor villagers while they are out on a patrol must be given.

The genuine premise must be that the villagers are not actively or willingly conniving with the Maoists. This is one of the ways to earn the confidence of the local population and create opportunities for gaining intelligence.

Some people and organisations are protesting against this planned operation. They, I feel, have mixed up between the Maoists and local tribals. Some tribals may be Maoists or their sympathisers but surely, all tribals in all these states are not Maoists. Moreover, launching of operations against ruthless Maoist killers is not war against the tribal population.

Sure, the Maoists are also fellow Indian citizens, but that does not give them immunity from the law. Abductors, killers, looters of banks and police armoury; extortionists and oppressors of rural tribal people need to be stopped. This is the duty and responsibility of the state. The Maoists do not deserve any support or sympathy from any quarter...............

All-out offensive the sole option

The writer Major General K.K. Gangopadhyay VSM (Retd) served the Indian Army for 36 years as an officer in 9 Gorkha Rifles. He fought in the India-Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971 as well as against insurgents in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Sri Lanka (IPKF)

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 22 Feb 2010 05:57

War or truce? Maoist top rung divided

Of the 36 CPI (Maoist) central committee members, around 30 — including those from Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa — are attending the meeting in the Kanai-shol hill forest, once a tourist hot spot on the Bengal-Jharkhand border, 200 km from Kolkata, an intelligence official said.

It’s close to Belpahari, and ringed by the villages of Pachapani, Madhupur and Jovi in Jharkhand and Bengal’s Jorma, Labani and Chowkishol. The hideout, one of the oldest guerrilla camps in the region, is surrounded by dozens of armed Maoists at all times.

Sounds ideal for PGMs

RayC · Post by **RayC** » 22 Feb 2010 10:42

Price of protecting party. Story behind the EFR site

Shilda, Feb. 21: Five CPM leaders compelled West Midnapore police to shift the Eastern Frontier Rifles camp from a well-protected plot to the vulnerable Shilda market, where policemen became sitting ducks during the Maoist attack, an investigation by The Telegraph suggests.

The CPM appears to have gone along with the five leaders to avert being wiped out in a handful of remaining strongholds in the area as several members, including the local committee secretary, linked their continuation in the party to the transfer of the camp.

Served such an ultimatum by a group that feared trial and eventual death in Maoist kangaroo courts, the party forced the police to let political compulsions override security red flags and herded the policemen into a “suicidal” location, according to the picture that emerges from piecing together information collected from the ground.

The camp was shifted from a more or less deserted place to almost the doorstep of the Shilda CPM office in the middle of a bustling market (see graphic). As many as 24 policemen died in the Maoist attack last Monday.

Hooded IG holds firm

Calcutta, Feb. 21: Special in-spector-general (EFR) Benoy Chakraborty is unrepentant, a day after appearing before the media in a black mask and blaming the West Midnapore superintendent of police for not shifting the Shilda camp.

“I do not have any repentance. I stand by what I said and do not care about punishment as what I have done is justified,” he told The Telegraph.

Chakraborty blamed the “prevailing system” for the death of 24 EFR personnel and said he was “not scared” of anything. “Had the SP act-ed professionally, considering the abject condition in which the EFR policemen lived at Shilda, there would not have been casualties. It was sheer negligence. We need to correct the system in which we work giving due importance to sub-ordinates,” he added........

“Calling a news conference was a conscious decision. I wanted to send a message across so that no more policemen are killed like those in Shilda,” he said today, adding: “I am devastated by losing 24 of my men and can’t bear the grief of the shattered families.”

He feels it is his “moral responsibility” to expose how the administration works in Maoist-hit areas and its “apathy” towards EFR personnel there. “The lives of policemen in the unsafe and vulnerable camps are not valued. The government should provide all the infrastructure so that they can fight the guerilla like a guerilla rather than being used as cannon fodder.”

EFR families rally behind boss. Bigger protest threat looms

Salua, Feb. 21: Family members of Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) personnel took out a procession at the force headquarters here today in protest against possible action against special inspector-general Benoy Chakraborty.

Armed EFR personnel walked along the flanks of the procession, putting up a show of controlling the crowd. ..........

“What the IG told the media yesterday was absolutely right. None had come forward before him and showed the courage to tell the truth. We will go for a bigger movement in his support,” said Manoj Chhetri, a cop’s son who was directing the rally with a hand-held public address system.

Chakraborty, who held a news conference yesterday at Salua with his face and head masked, had blamed the district police chief for setting up the Shilda camp in a crowded place and not heeding his requests to get it shifted.

Amid allegations that the EFR personnel lacked alertness, the IG blamed their failure to “retaliate properly” on the fear of civilian casualties. He also said he felt proud that his men could kill five Maoists before falling.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 22 Feb 2010 12:06

Allegations were made on baseless charges and his wife was the complainant.

Knee jerk and thoughtlessly provocative action of the central committee or would "witch hunters" be more appropriate term?

Shows how scared the commies are now running, of public opinion.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/237811/Miss ... found.html

Monday, February 22, 2010

Missing TN Marxist leader’s body found

Pioneer News Service | Chennai

The body of former CPI(M) central committee member and CITU national secretary, WR Varadharajan, who was recently divested of his post and went missing since February 11 evening, was identified by his wife Saraswathi on Sunday.

The CPI(M) had removed him from all party posts following a complaint from his wife that he was having an extra-marital affair. The police suspect he may have committed suicide.

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Varadharajan (64) was on February 6 relieved of all charges in Kolkata during the central committee meeting of the CPI(M) as disciplinary action following a complaint by his wife. He was a popular trade union leader and respected by his colleagues for the issues he had taken up to mitigate the workers’ problems. He was also elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly in 1989 from the Villivakkam segment in Chennai. He was a former employee of the RBI.

Varadharajan, a qualified chartered accountant and a Brahmin had married Saraswathy, a Reserve Bank employee and a Dalit after the death of his first wife.

Varadharajan is said to have developed a relationship with a woman, when she approached him seeking some help following which his relationship with his wife had soured.

In the wake of his personal problems, Varadharajan,

a national secretary of the CITU and a central committee member of CPI(M), was divested of all party posts early this month for his conduct that was not in conformity with the Marxist principles.

He had left behind two unsigned letters that had hinted his decision to commit suicide. One letter quoted a couplet from Thirukkural stating that it is better to die than live with dishonour. In the other letter, he had instructed that his bank accounts be closed and the money be given to his party. He wanted his laptop to be donated to the party organ Theekathir, his books to the Theekathir library and his body given for medical research. He also wanted no function to be held for his death.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/237811/Miss ... found.html

Missing TN Marxist leader’s body found

Pioneer News Service | Chennai

The body of former CPI(M) central committee member and CITU national secretary, WR Varadharajan, who was recently divested of his post and went missing since February 11 evening, was identified by his wife Saraswathi on Sunday.

The CPI(M) had removed him from all party posts following a complaint from his wife that he was having an extra-marital affair. The police suspect he may have committed suicide.

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Varadharajan (64) was on February 6 relieved of all charges in Kolkata during the central committee meeting of the CPI(M) as disciplinary action following a complaint by his wife. He was a popular trade union leader and respected by his colleagues for the issues he had taken up to mitigate the workers’ problems. He was also elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly in 1989 from the Villivakkam segment in Chennai. He was a former employee of the RBI.

Varadharajan, a qualified chartered accountant and a Brahmin had married Saraswathy, a Reserve Bank employee and a Dalit after the death of his first wife.

Varadharajan is said to have developed a relationship with a woman, when she approached him seeking some help following which his relationship with his wife had soured.

In the wake of his personal problems, Varadharajan,

a national secretary of the CITU and a central committee member of CPI(M), was divested of all party posts early this month for his conduct that was not in conformity with the Marxist principles.

He had left behind two unsigned letters that had hinted his decision to commit suicide. One letter quoted a couplet from Thirukkural stating that it is better to die than live with dishonour. In the other letter, he had instructed that his bank accounts be closed and the money be given to his party. He wanted his laptop to be donated to the party organ Theekathir, his books to the Theekathir library and his body given for medical research. He also wanted no function to be held for his death.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 28 Feb 2010 06:15

War on Maoists: Activists feel the heat

NGOs and civil rights groups allege that being targeted by the police in the Centre's war against the Maoists. Many activists find themselves branded Naxal sympathisers - directly or indirectly - in the 1,000-page chargesheet against Kobad Gandhy

The chargesheet produced on February 18 names several NGOs and activists for being supporters or helping to expand the Maoist network. It says: "Other civil liberties and human rights organisations i.e. PUDR, PUCL and APDR also take up issues of their outfit CPI (Maoist). These organisations play a very important role in broadening the base of the outfit."

Rajinder Sachar, PUCL President and former chief justice at the Delhi High Court, says: "I protest very strongly that PUCL other organisations have been named. Violation of human rights is a violation of human rights, irrespective of whether the victim is a terrorist or an innocent person."

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 28 Feb 2010 06:42

It is interesting to see most dailies, including of course, the Stalinist rapist goon propaganda yellow daily, quietly burying the controversy as 'personal problem' whereas if it had been anyone else other than a Stalinist, they would have gone to town with all the lurid details and tried to paint everyone with a wide tar brush...

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 28 Feb 2010 10:19

Gerard wrote:War on Maoists: Activists feel the heat
The chargesheet produced on February 18 names several NGOs and activists for being supporters or helping to expand the Maoist network. It says: "Other civil liberties and human rights organisations i.e. PUDR, PUCL and APDR also take up issues of their outfit CPI (Maoist). These organisations play a very important role in broadening the base of the outfit."

This is great news, never had imagined govt would finally crackdown on front organisations of maoists.

Jholawallas you have enjoyed money soaked in blood of innocents for a long time, now its time to enjoy fruits for being traitorous to the nation and its people.

RayC · Post by **RayC** » 28 Feb 2010 10:35

I presume it is because Chidambaran means business and being a lawyer is justifying his actions and exposing the other side and heaping ridicule.

It possibly is also a tongue in cheek to those political parties who side with these NGOs and overground front organisations of the Maoist.

It peeves me no end that the news channels and media call that brigand, Kisen as Kishenji. He does not deserve the honorific suffix since he is quite a skunk.

Here is KPS Gill's pill:

Shilda’s lesson for govt: Make up your mind on strategic and tactical objectives

K.P.S. Gill, the “Supercop” credited with crushing the militancy in Punjab, analyses for The Telegraph the Maoist attack on the Shilda camp as a field officer and notes down the lessons the Bengal government should learn to avoid a repeat of such strikes.......

The trajectory of the Maoist challenge in West Bengal is a stark demonstration of both the Maoist strategy of expansion and the inability of the state and its agencies, despite long histories of experience and voluminous materials easily available on the subject, to comprehend this strategy.

Thus, while continuous and systematic Maoist consolidation was being noticed by independent analysts, including those at the Institute for Conflict Management (ICM), the leadership at Kolkata had its head buried firmly in the sand, insisting that the Maoists would fail to take root in the state because of the brilliance of the ruling CPM’s land reforms and policies of social uplift.

In the meantime, the Maoists consolidated significant capacities across wide areas of the state, and these became abruptly visible at the time of their choice, when they escalated their movement to a more violent plane.

Gill's Pill

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 02 Mar 2010 23:56

Silda mastermind nabbed by West Bengal Police in Kolkata

Deepak is believed to be the mastermind behind the Silda attack, wherein 24 EFR soldiers were killed when Maoists attacked.

Venkateshar Reddy alias Telugu Deepak, who is Chairman of CPI(Maoist)'s State Military Commission, West Bengal Chapter, is a close associate of Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji since 1995.

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 03 Mar 2010 02:08

Ray's sensible words on the problem. He has very much assessed the real problem at the grass-root level.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100302/j ... 165344.jsp

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 04 Mar 2010 05:18

Deepak’s task: Fish in nuclear waters

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 04 Mar 2010 12:32

Free Telugu Deepak or else, Naxals warn Govt
CNN - IBN

Telugu Deepak's arrest adds to the list of key Maoist leaders who have been put behind bars since 2008 when Poliburo member Pramod Mishra was arrested in Jharkhand followed by Amit Bagchi in August 2009 another Politburo member Kobad gandhy was arrested in September 2009 from Delhi and yet another Bajraj was nabbed in Kanpur recently in february this year

CPI-Maoist central committee members Ashutosh and Amar were also arrested in 2009

Meanwhile, Arrested Maoist Leader, Kobad Ghandhy's chargesheet will come up for hearing today (Thursday).

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/free-telugu- ... ml?from=tn

kmkraoind · Post by **kmkraoind** » 04 Mar 2010 13:14

Gerard wrote:Deepak’s task: Fish in nuclear waters

From above post

Officials said Deepak was not divulging information on “critical areas” like the Maoist network in Calcutta, their main benefactors in the city and sources of funds. The police have information that Deepak had visited the city and its periphery several times.

Deepak, who speaks Hindi, English and Bengali besides his native Telugu, told the officials last night that he was willing to tell the police about Maoist ideology and goals but would not part with “logistical details”.

“He told us that we could kill him if we wanted to but he would not tell us such details,” an official said, adding that the rebels would in any case have changed their plans after Deepak’s arrest.

Its time to set up narco analsysis labs in main corners of country, so that the hard nut cases like this can be cracked.

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 05 Mar 2010 08:38

^^^^^^
Here are some tips about possible maoist hideouts in and around Kolkata .....

Check two places - Picnic Garden area and Shibpur (Howrah) bat-tola area. Check all tenants in recently rented out flats/houses.

Masaru · Post by **Masaru** » 05 Mar 2010 21:42

Maoists want to overthrow Indian state by 2050: Pillai

Maoists have plans to overthrow the Indian democracy through their armed struggle and want to control the government by 2050, Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai today said.

"They are very highly motivated, highly trained. I am quite certain that there are some, may be some ex-army or some people who have been with them," he said.

"After every attack, they do a post-mortem and analysis. The analysis is as good as armed forces of any country does."

The Home Secretary said 908 people have lost their lives last year, the highest since 1971, in Naxal violence and it may go up in this year and next year become coming down.

He also said, "the operations have not hit even five per cent of hardcore militants. The real armed cadres are yet to come out."

rajsunder · Post by **rajsunder** » 07 Mar 2010 00:56

Desperate attempts by red's

Talk or we'll attack cities, Kishanji warns Centre

SOMEWHERE ON THE BENGAL-JHARKHAND BORDER: The Maoists are now training their guns on big cities and Kolkata and Bhubaneswar could be among their next targets if the government does not announce talks immediately, a senior commander has warned.

The threat came from CPI (Maoist) politburo member and military commander Koteswar Rao, alias Kishanji. He served the government with an ultimatum from his jungle hideout on Saturday, threatening to strike cities and towns if it rejected their offer of talks.
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