India has the largest number of indigenous terror organisations in the world

[ASAT]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo/2419189.cms (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/)
June 24,2009

MUMBAI: The CPI (Maoist) swells the list of indigenous terror groups operating on our soil to 27, making India home to the largest number of domestic terrorist organisations in the world. On Monday, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) named the CPI (Maoist) as 34th terrorist organisation under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act; seven of these are transnational terror groups.

CPI (Maoist) joined ranks with Ulfa and SIMI and lesser known entities such as Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council of Meghalaya, Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup of Manipur and Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj, which though virtually unheard of are considered deadly enough by the government to be designated as terrorist organisations.

Of the seven transnational terror groups, only two —al-Qaida and LTTE — are truly global names. The other five are Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Harkatul Mujahideen, Al Badr, Jamat-ul-Mujahid and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) which are all Pakistan based terror outfits fighting Indian security forces in Kashmir.

"I am not surprised that we have so many local terror groups," said Prakash Singh, former director-general of Border Security Force (BSF). "Since Independence we have seen the rise of a new terrorist movement in every decade, whether it be the Naxals, militants in Punjab, terrorists in the North East or in J&K. It is failure of governance that has led to this situation," Singh said.

Going by number of organisations that other countries currently designate as terrorist, they too feel threatened by a number of groups. But none of them have as many home grown extremist groups as India does. The list runs into more than 40 in both US and Canada but includes only international names such as Hezbollah, Hamas, FARC, Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional, Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) etc — none of which operate directly on their soil.

Amongst developed countries, only UK has a significant number of terror groups breeding close to home in form of nine Irish militias such as the Ulster Freedom Fighters and the Irish Republican Army.

"India is a large country with such great diversity and so many grievances. This complexity leads to growth of radicals who survive on extremist ideology and terror. Developed countries have not had to deal with problems like ours that breed extremism," said intelligence affairs expert B Raman.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/India-has-largest-number-of-domestic-terror-groups/articleshow/4694618.cms

[hulaku]

Sad but true :-(

[Proudgrandson]

Don't forget about the Dacoits as well...Veerappan and his successors have done plenty of damage down the years. They may not be classed as terrorists but they might be better organised.

[Scriptable]

Does India include Australians in their list of terrorists? Is that media frenzy still ongoing?

[VAMAN]

Does India include Australians in their list of terrorists? Is that media frenzy still ongoing?
There is difference between racists and terrorists. :roll:

[Proudgrandson]

I was going to stick the latest ToI report on the Australia sitch on here but its off topic.

[hulaku]

Does India include Australians in their list of terrorists? Is that media frenzy still ongoing?

The frenzy has kinda died down now. Not really hogging the headlines. I guess people have realized that those were just crimes for money by some criminals and not really a racist thing

The only Aussie terrorists we knew were Gilchrist, Hayden and Symondsp-)

[hulaku]

I was going to stick the latest ToI report on the Australia sitch on here but its off topic.

I suggest you stop reading TOI:)

[Proudgrandson]

I suggest you stop reading TOI:)

People in India keep telling me that, I did check the Hindu earlier today.

[PeterRJG]

There is difference between racists and terrorists. :roll:

So, all Australians are racist?

[pg_ord]

Don't forget about the Dacoits as well...Veerappan and his successors have done plenty of damage down the years. They may not be classed as terrorists but they might be better organised.
Do what now??? successors?? when did this happen?
I am from that region I am not aware :roll:

[VAMAN]

So, all Australians are racist?
So, nothing bad happened with Indians in Australia?

[PeterRJG]

So, nothing bad happened with Indians in Australia?

Answer my question. Are all Australians racist? Your post is implying we are.

[pg_ord]

Does India include Australians in their list of terrorists? Is that media frenzy still ongoing?
Dude whats with the flame bait... chill.... relax have some beer or coffee if you are at work ..

[Proudgrandson]

Do what now??? successors?? when did this happen?
I am from that region I am not aware :roll:

Successors, sorry me just looking for a suitable word not a declared group or anything, fellow dacoits who are still out there or in some cases recently deceased.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=159389

From last week, Ghanshyam Kewat alias Nanhu and his fate.

[pg_ord]

Successors, sorry me just looking for a suitable word not a declared group or anything, fellow dacoits who are still out there or in some cases recently deceased.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=159389

From last week, Ghanshyam Kewat alias Nanhu and his fate.
Oh okay that is different problem .... that I understand .... But Veerappan was in a whole different league.:)
Even battle hardened BSF, well trained in jungle warfare and COIN was outfoxed by that dude.

[Scriptable]

Dude whats with the flame bait... chill.... relax have some beer or coffee if you are at work ..
Don't worry, I was just making fun of the amazing over reaction of the Indian media and certain famous personalities to the attacks in Australia, and especially that some were calling for U.N. involvement.

[pg_ord]

Don't worry, I was just making fun of the amazing over reaction of the Indian media and certain famous personalities to the attacks in Australia.
Again ToI(let) has to be ignored ... it is a tabloid .... stop reading that rag.

[PeterRJG]

Again ToI(let) has to be ignored ... it is a tabloid .... stop reading that rag.

It has fans who believe everything it prints - just like most newspapers in the world.

[VAMAN]

Answer my question. Are all Australians racist? Your post is implying we are.
Hey you chill out. Read Scriptable's post and you will get your answer.


Again ToI(let) has to be ignored ... it is a tabloid .... stop reading that rag.
ToI is not a tabloid. It is a very respectable newspaper.

[pg_ord]

ToI is not a tabloid. It is a very respectable newspaper.
seriously???:roll: .... I am not sure if you were sarcastic help me out here.

[VAMAN]

seriously???:roll: .... I am not sure if you were sarcastic help me out here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_of_India

[pg_ord]

It has fans who believe everything it prints - just like most newspapers in the world.
Most check out the babes actually .. The "news" is just a sideshow.p-)

[VAMAN]

Most check out the babes actually .. The "news" is just a sideshow.p-)
I am wondering have you ever took an edition of ToI newspaper in your hands and actually read it. Looks like you don't reside in India.

[pg_ord]

I am wondering have you ever took an edition of ToI newspaper in your hands and actually read it. Looks like you don't reside in India.
Not now ... but used to .... we used to get ToI at home along with a whole bunch of other papers. ...... dad was a journalist for local regional daily ;)

[Proudgrandson]

Most check out the babes actually .. The "news" is just a sideshow.p-)

Speaking as someone who only has online access the Bollywood actress % of the website has grown considerable from back when I first strayed on there for coverage of Kargil.

[VAMAN]

Not now ... but used to .... we used to get ToI at home along with a whole bunch of other papers. ...... dad was a journalist for local regional daily ;)
Hard to believe since you called ToI a tabloid, which it is not. It is a very serious newspaper. And on which page have you seen pics of babes? Except the supplementary edition.

The tabloid culture is more prevalent in Europe.

[pg_ord]

Speaking as someone who only has online access the Bollywood actress % of the website has grown considerable from back when I first strayed on there for coverage of Kargil.
Problem with ToI is bollywoodisation of news delivery. too melodramatic :(
They have some excellent editorial writers who get drowned out in all the showbizz and "sensational" headline news.

[Mackie]

Answer my question. Are all Australians racist? Your post is implying we are.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd89/Spaniel_Entertainment/simpsons_nelson_haha2.gif

[PeterRJG]

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd89/Spaniel_Entertainment/simpsons_nelson_haha2.gif

Indeed. Keeping it real.

[Scriptable]

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd89/Spaniel_Entertainment/simpsons_nelson_haha2.gif
Your picture makes no sense, so here's another.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/picture.php?albumid=1118&pictureid=14110

[Proudgrandson]

Maoist death squads executed dozens around Lalgarh


Praveen Swami



Killing campaign focused on eliminating CPI(M) activists and other political opponents





JHARGRAM: Little pieces of glass still lie embedded in dry earth next to the cot where Abhijit Mahato fell.

On the morning he was executed as an enemy of the people, Mahato had been drinking a cup of tea at the end of an eight-hour night shift guarding trucks parked along the Kharagpur-Ranchi highway — the job that paid for the college classes he would have made his way to an hour later.

But then, six men arrived on motorcycles at the truck-stop, carrying automatic rifles. They announced to bystanders that Abhijit Mahato and his friends, Anil Mahato and Niladhar Mahato, were members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The punishment for this crime, the men announced, was death.

The June 17 murder of Abhijit Mahato and his friends didn’t make it to the national press — or draw the attention of the growing numbers of human rights activists, who have arrived in West Medinipur district to investigate the ongoing confrontation between the West Bengal government and Communist Party of India (Maoist) operatives in Lalgarh. But the killings — and dozens like it — are key to understanding the still-unfolding crisis.

District police records show that 111 West Medinipur residents have been killed by Maoist death squads since 2002. Most of the killings were concentrated in the twin blocks of Binpur and adjoining Salboni — the heartland of the Lalgarh violence.

Seventy four of the dead were targeted because they were cadre or supporters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Twenty-three of the victims were police personnel; five were adivasis community elders; one belonged to the Congress; another was a former Maoist who had left the movement in disgust. Seventeen CPI(M) workers have been executed by Maoists since November alone.

It is instructive to compare the murders in West Medinipur with those in India’s most violent State — Jammu and Kashmir. In the years from 2003, Jammu and Kashmir Police records show, 71 political activists from all political parties have been killed by jihadists. More lives have been lost in attacks by Maoist death squads by one single party in one single district of West Bengal.

The data also shows the contest has been uneven: not one Maoist operative has been shot dead in West Medinipur until police moved into Lalgarh last week, either by the state or their political opponents.
Most of those killed by the Maoist death squads come from the ranks of the rural poor; many of them from the same adivasi communities whose name the Maoists have invoked to legitimise terrorism in Lalgarh.

The only son of his widowed mother, and one of five children, Abhijit Mahato was the first member of his extended family to succeed in gaining admission to a college degree. In photographs his mother, Savita Mahato, recently had taken at a local studio, to be shown to the families of prospective brides, Mahato can be seen posing against a movie set-like backdrop.

“I cannot understand”, Savita Mahato says, “what kinds of people would kill a boy who did them not the slightest harm”.

Many others have died in similar circumstances. Karamchand Singh, a noted chhau-dance performer, was executed in front of his primary school students at Binpur last year. His crime was to have campaigned for the CPI(M) despite Maoist warnings to dissociate himself from the party. Pelaram Tudu, a locally renowned football player who supported the CPI(M), was shot dead in another death-squad attack. So, too, was Kartik Hansda, a folk artist.

Honiran Murmu, a doctor working in the Laboni area, was killed along with staff nurse Bharati Majhi and driver Bapsi in October, after an improvised explosive device went off under their car. No explanation was offered by Maoists for the attack, why the vehicle was targeted, but Laboni residents say the attack was intended to punish Mr. Misir for renting out vehicles to the police.

In May, Maoists executed Haripada Mahato as he was bathing in a pond outside his home in the village of Bhumi Dhansola. A former activist with the Maoist-affiliated Kisan Mazdoor Samiti, Haripada Mahato had left the movement in disgust a decade ago. He had since then worked as a night watchman and polio-immunisation campaign volunteer at the Medinipur Medical College.

“The Maoists said he was an informer for the police”, says Haripada Mahato’s wife, Padmavati Mahato, “and we swore he wasn’t. But who can win an argument with a gun?”

...........

The Hindu

[hulaku]

Just to remind all the posters please stay on the topic, this topic is not about racism or newspapers.

[Lala_Peace]

Sorry for being off topic...
So, all Australians are racist? Do you think everybody in India thinks that way?

[PeterRJG]

Sorry for being off topic... Do you think everybody in India thinks that way?

Of course not. Let's get back on topic like you suggest.

[Lala_Peace]

We have a lot of terrorists, but they are Indigenous and the effect is also the same. But all has a common umbilical cord for sometime now, that is ISI and Pakistan, the worlds biggest terrorist exporting country.

[Proudgrandson]

We have a lot of terrorists, but they are Indigenous and the effect is also the same. But all has a common umbilical cord for sometime now, that is ISI and Pakistan, the worlds biggest terrorist exporting country.

British person, flag of truce raised, how much involvement does the ISI have with the maoists? And various other rebel groups of a none seperatist type.

Isn't that down to the position of the dalits in the Indian countryside?

[Lala_Peace]

British person, flag of truce raised, how much involvement does the ISI have with the maoists? And various other rebel groups of a none seperatist type. Isn't that down to the psiotion of the dalits in the Indian countryside? Probably you have missed the news about the recent revelations made by the LET recruiter in Delhi. The north east separatists are getting funded by ISI through the doctrine of Bleed India to death through thousand cuts. You must know these know!!! So which terror group you are talking that has no ISI links?

[ggk]

Bleed India to death through thousand cuts? .....................................................................................................................................................

[Proudgrandson]

Probably you have missed the news about the recent revelations made by the LET recruiter in Delhi. The north east separatists are getting funded by ISI through the doctrine of Bleed India to death through thousand cuts. You must know these know!!! So which terror group you are talking that has no ISI links?

Well to be honest coverage over here if I didn't use the BBC News website and just relied on the TV news and whats in the Daily Mail I wouldn't even know it was happening in the first place.

[VAMAN]

British person, flag of truce raised, how much involvement does the ISI have with the maoists? And various other rebel groups of a none seperatist type.
Maoists are trying to forge alliances with terrorist groups in Kashmir and the North-East India. But no direct involvement of ISI with Maoists have been uncovered yet.



Isn't that down to the position of the dalits in the Indian countryside?
Actually Maoism stems from exploitation of tribals and poor people by money-lenders, landlords, police, Mining companies, timber companies etc. The simmering discontent and no redressal of their grievances lead people to take up arms.

Dalits have nothing to do with it.

[BubuTheMonkeyPrincE]

I say lets put in the Army lads in there for once and settle the issue. But as long as we have corrupt politicians who dont want to harm there votes that wont happen.

[hanmya]

I say lets put in the Army lads in there for once and settle the issue. But as long as we have corrupt politicians who dont want to harm there votes that wont happen.

That aint no solution my friend.
Like Vaman said earlier, this is basically a law and order problem. There are no separatist movements here, no one is shouting hoarse for "freedom from oppressive regime" BS here (wink**kashmiris***wink). There is a political solution for the mess that is CPI-maoist/CPI-Marxist violence. The WB govt is in cahoots with these idiots.
This violence has also given rise to some unruly elements who take advantage of the collapsed governance to loot. So more power to the Police, just like KPS Gill had in Punjab in the '90s (human rights violations in times of unrest be damned!).

[Darklord]

That aint no solution my friend.
Like Vaman said earlier, this is basically a law and order problem. There are no separatist movements here, no one is shouting hoarse for "freedom from oppressive regime" BS here (wink**kashmiris***wink). There is a political solution for the mess that is CPI-maoist/CPI-Marxist violence. The WB govt is in cahoots with these idiots.
This violence has also given rise to some unruly elements who take advantage of the collapsed governance to loot. So more power to the Police, just like KPS Gill had in Punjab in the '90s (human rights violations in times of unrest be damned!).

x1 to that. Getting high handed and using the army will only increase the resentment and add water to the well from which the maoists are drawing water. A carrot and stick approach is the only workable long term solution to this problem.

[Proudgrandson]

Goaltore (PTI): Security forces on Friday reclaimed control of Kadasole village to the north of Lalgarh in West Midnapore district from Maoists during the second phase of operations against the naxals who set off two landmine blasts.
Led by CRPF, the troops including jungle warfare expert and personnel of the Indian Reserve Battalion and State Armed Police, who were helped by a helicopter, traded fire for 45 minutes with the Maoists who later fled the village, a senior CRPF officer told PTI.
"There was no casualty and no arrest," the officer said. "The operations for the day is over and Kadasole has been secured. The forces will be stationed here."
The security force launched the operations from Goaltore in the morning, five days after taking control of Lalgarh police station and faced no resistance till Pingboni three km away. The security forces then moved another four km to Kadasole, where they spotted a group of 15 armed Maoists.
The troops came under fire from the Maoists and retaliated with mortars, light machine guns and AK-47s.
The Maoists armed with .22 country-made guns kept firing at the security forces as they fled, he said. A helicopter also arrived and tried to spot the Maoists.
Maoists triggered a landmine blast near a forest at Kadasole, four kms from Pingboni. No one was injured in the explosion. Our main concern were landmines. There were two landmine explosions at Kadasole," the officer said. Two other landmines, one an IED and another a sophisticated one, were defused near a bridge near Kadasole, he said

..........

The Hindu

[Proudgrandson]

Indian forces renew Maoist attack


http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45974000/jpg/_45974695_-7.jpg
Indian forces have received support from police in neighbouring states

Indian forces have launched fresh operations against Maoist strongholds in an embattled enclave in the state of West Bengal, officials say. Having consolidated their grip on parts of Lalgarh, troops are now fanning out to target surrounding areas, a police spokesman told the BBC.

The state government recently re-asserted control in Lalgarh after Maoist rebels drove out local police.

The insurgents had almost total control of the area since November 2008.
But security forces have launched a determined campaign to retrieve territory and impose government control.

They have been been bolstered by the arrival of more police from the neighbouring state of Jharkhand.

The BBC's Subhir Bhaumik, in Calcutta, says Maoists are active there as well and the Jharkand police units have considerable experience in fighting Maoist rebels.

Maoist-linked violence has killed 6,000 people in India over the past 20 years. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the Maoists as the greatest threat to India's internal security.

West Bengal police spokesman Raj Kanojia said that the paramilitary troops were now targeting the areas of Goaltore and Ramgarh.

"The fresh operations started early on Friday. The forces are fanning out slowly and so far they have not met any resistance from the Maoists," Mr Kanojia told the BBC.

"But they have been told to be extremely alert because there could be stray raids, explosions and some obstruction by supporters of a local resistance committee close to the Maoists."

Troop movements

The BBC's Amitabha Bhattsali is with the paramilitary columns fanning out towards Goaltore from Lalgarh.

"The forces are moving in a single column to avoid casualties in a possible ambush.

"Minesweeping vehicles have cleared the roads but the troops are cautious. They are looking out for explosives specially under wooden bridges," he reported from Lalgarh.

Until Thursday, there were reports that armed Maoist squads were present around Goaltore and neighbouring areas of Kadasole.

"They were provoking villagers to stay back and resist the forces , but now the villages seem desolate," our correspondent says.

The renewed attack comes shortly after the Indian government banned the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

The move enabled the government to arrest party members even if they had not been directly involved in insurgent activities.

A top Maoist leader and the party's "overground spokesman" Gour Chakrabarty was arrested on Tuesday.

West Bengal's chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya has rejected Maoist offers of talks, saying "they must first surrender their weapons and stop the violence".

The violence in Lalgarh began last November after Mr Bhattacharya narrowly escaped a landmine blast blamed on the rebels.

Protests were launched when a number of locals were arrested on suspicion of attempting to assassinate him.

[Super Sheep]

Kinda not surprised at all.

[ASAT]

Kinda not surprised at all.

incredible india;-)

[Proudgrandson]

Four Hindi-speaking persons shot dead in Assam

GUWAHATI: At least four Hindi-speaking persons were shot dead and two others injured by outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants in Assam on Tuesday.

Heavily-armed NDFB ultras fired from AK-47 rifles on a group of people near Naharani tea estate at Rangapara in central Assam's Sonitput district at 9.30am killing the four, police said.

Besides the two women, a man and a boy of the same family were shot dead by the militants.

The injured have been rushed admitted to a Tezpur hospital, while the police have launched a combing operation to apprehend the killers.

Police believe the killing could be in retaliation against stepped up operation against the NDFB by security forces with over 30 militants killed in the last one month.
....

ToI

[Proudgrandson]

5 killed in suspected militant attack


Sushanta Talukdar







GUWAHATI: Suspected militants gunned down five persons including four minors and injured three others in an attack on Dimasa village in the troubled North Cachar Hills district in southern Assam on Wednesday night.

The deceased have been identified as Karon Thonglo (25), Warsi Thonglo (2), Dapola Langthasa (10), Lambo Langthasa (6) and Senring Langthasa (3).
Official sources said militants opened indiscriminate fire on residents of Semkhor killing the five on the spot and critically injuring the others.








The Hindu

[Proudgrandson]

Three die in Karnataka violence


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At least three people have been killed in violent clashes between mobs of Hindus and Muslims in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Two people died in the riots in the city of Mysore and a third was killed when police opened fire.

Violence began when the carcass of a pig was thrown into a mosque. A curfew has been imposed in the affected areas.

Mysore has a significant Muslim population and police say it has a history of religious strife.

"Some miscreants threw the carcass of a pig in the mosque. People gathered in large numbers and protested," senior police officer VS D'souza told the BBC.

Correspondents say pitched battles were fought between Hindu and Muslim mobs before police opened fire to disperse the rioters.

Several people have been arrested, police said.

A curfew has been imposed in the riot-affected areas and schools and colleges have been ordered shut until 4 July.

Karnataka is the only southern state ruled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Last year, more than 20 churches in the state were desecrated by the hardline Hindu group Bajrang Dal.

The group's leader in the state, Mahendra Kumar, was arrested after he admitted that his group had carried out the initial attacks on churches.
..........
I know thats not terrorism but...

[Proudgrandson]

SRINAGAR: Two militants and a soldier were killed in a gunbattle in Kupwara district of North Kashmir, police said on Saturday.

The gunbattle broke out at Wadderbala forest in Zachaldara, 90 km from here, around 11 am on Friday when a joint search party of police and Rashtriya Rifles confronted hiding militants.

The hiding militants fired upon the search party and in the ensuing gunbattle which lasted nearly 24 hours, two militants and a soldier were killed.

While one militant was killed yesterday, another ultra and the army jawan were killed early today.

Two An ak assault rifles, two magazines and some rounds of ammunition were recovered from the possession of the slain militants, believed to be foreign nationals.

The search party also recovered a hand grenade which was destroyed on the spot.
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RIP

[Proudgrandson]

Explosive-laden vehicle goes missing in Bastar region

5 Jul 2009, 1953 hrs IST, PTI

RAIPUR: Police here have launched a search operation to trace an explosive-laden vehicle which went missing in Chhattisgarh's naxal-infested Bastar region today.

DGP Vishwaranjan told PTI that two vehicles carrying around 25,000 detonators meant for blasts in the mines of National Mineral Development Corporation at Kirandul village, left from the Nagpur region yesterday for the village in Dantewada district,but only one reached the destination today.

He said that police has launched a search operation to locate the missing vehicle.
.........
Thats not good!

ToI report

[Fage]

Jul 12, 2009

New Delhi - Maoist rebels killed 24 policemen, including a senior officer, in an attack in India's central Chhattisgarh state Sunday, news reports said.
A team of policemen drove into an ambush laid by the rebels in a thickly-forested area of the Rajnandgaon district, about 90 kilometres west of state capital Raipur, PTI and IANS news agencies reported.


District police chief BK Choubey was among those killed, PTI news agency reported.

Choubey and his team walked into a trap as they rushed to a police camp in Madanwada area where the rebels killed two policemen earlier in the morning, PTI reported, citing police sources.

The state's top police officials have rushed to the site of the incident.
Maoist guerrillas, who operate in 13 of India's 29 states, say they are fighting for the rights of the landless, poor and tribal people and are inspired by the Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong.

Forested tracts of Chhattisgarh are a stronghold of the rebels and the police estimates that there are more than 10,000 armed Maoists operating in the state.

Maoist rebels usually attack police and government officials and installations and operate along a corridor stretching from Andhra Pradesh in southern India to the Nepal border in the north.

According to unofficial estimates, more than 3,000 people including rebels have been killed in Maoist violence in India since January 2005.

Source:http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1489222.php/24_policemen_killed_in_Maoist_rebel_attack_in_central_India_

[raavan]

Source:http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1489222.php/24_policemen_killed_in_Maoist_rebel_attack_in_central_India_

:-(:-(why cant the government provide enough equipment to police to fight these Communists fools.they should bring in some gunships supplemented by aerial strikes..........

[hanmya]

:-(:-(why cant the government provide enough equipment to police to fight these Communists fools.they should bring in some gunships supplemented by aerial strikes..........


Nice idea......... NOT.

The Naxalite problem is a Law and Order problem-which demands police actions (and some political balls)-not some insurgency demanding freedom from an "oppressive regime". Even in such a case, the Indian forces very rarely employ army helicopter gunships in COIN operations, which imho they should - just like the IDF.
The govt forces know better than to use gunships in tackling a law and order problem, than to escalate it.
Dont vote for those commie morons in WB, address the grievances of the lower castes and low income groups and see changes in the situation. Simple but needs political will in the face of caste politics deeply rooted in the Indian psyche.