In India, Maoist Guerrillas Widen 'people's War'

[Lionchild]

I have a gut feleing that  Maoists will gun him down

161133[/snapback]

Maybe other resistance/seperatists groups can piggyback off the movement and get some the ball rolling...

[Guest Lohgarh Singh]

wjkk wjkf

u no it shud b our singhs hu shud b fyting

[Harmeet Singh]

http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/home/khal...06/april19.aspx

International media finally pays attention to the on-going Naxalite Rural revolution in India

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh admits that Naxalism is the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by India and calls for action against the Naxalites

Washington, D.C., Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - The international media in general, (New York Times et al.) and Pakistani media in particular, have finally noticed what we have been saying for years about caste-ridden India’s giant ‘skeleton in the closet’, its’ Achillles’ heel, the fast growing Naxalite peasant revolutionary movement. An armed rural ‘revolution’ which has been spreading like a prairie fire for years (and has now engulfed more than half of dynastic, caste-ridden, misruled India’s 600 districts in fourteen of it’s 28 states) has spread over a disturbed area of over one million eight hundred thousand square Kilometers (yes 1, 800, 000 square Kilometers) where the writ of the Indian state does not exist at all. This Naxalite effected ‘liberated’ area now nearly equals the total land areas of Pakistan-803, 940 sq. kilometers; Afghanistan-647, 000 km; Bangladesh-144, 000 km; Nepal-140, 000km; Sri Lanka-65, 610km; Bhutan-47, 000km; and Maldives-300 Sq. Kilometers, combined.

This column (Khalistan Calling) has been monitoring the Naxalite movement for years and has kept our readers informed with our findings about the armed insurgency. Nearly two years ago we researched the Naxalite movement (What makes it tick?) and in our column dated October 15, 2003, we gave a background and history of this ‘muscular’ movement for the benefit of our readers. The column was headlined, ‘India’s Naxalite Movement – What is it?” which can be read by clicking at the following link at: (www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2003/october15.aspx) Since then we have written extensively - four times to be precise - about this rural rebellion, nay armed insurgency, which is gnawing at India’s vitals from within. See our column dated May 11, 2005, headlined, “What will the muscular Naxalites target next in rural India?” (www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2005/may11.aspx) Our column dated September 07, 2005, headlined, “Naxalites ambush and destroy armored truck in Chhattisgurh killing 24 Indian soldiers - How does this rural Naxalite revolution affect Punjab?” (www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2005/september07.aspx) Our column dated February 01, 2006, headlined,” Assam militants destroy Oil pipeline and demand Rs. 500 crores or else - What and where in India will the Naxalites hit next? “ (www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2006/february01.aspx) Our column dated March 22, 2006, headlined, “Musings on the growing Naxalite Peasant ‘Revolution’ spreading like a prairie fire in caste-ridden, dynastic, nuclear-armed India.- Armed Naxalites rule the roost in rural areas in 220 districts in 13 Indian states & the Indian government is helpless.- Some government!”(www.khalistan-affairs.org/khalistancalling/2006/march22.aspx) “

Finally the New Delhi correspondent of the New York Times, Ms. Somini Sengupta, an Indophile journalist of Indian origin, has taken note of the armed rebellion in the ‘Indian countryside’ after trying to divert attention of NYT readers by focusing on the socalled Maoist/ Naxalaite rebellion in Nepal for over a year. At last Somini Sengupta has filed a rather long-winded ‘apologetic’ report headlined, “In India, Maoist Guerrillas Widen 'People's War' - A quiet 25-year fight looks increasingly like a civil war, one claiming more and more lives,” which was published on April 13, 2006 in the New York Times. (www.nytimes.com/2006/04/13/world/asia/13maoists.html?ex=1145160000&en=878c769d3190b2b7&ei=5070)

Just for the record, and as a comparison, Ms. Somini Sengupta has filed fourteen stories in the New York Times, since January 1, 2006, on the ‘Maoist/ Naxalite Peoplee’s War’ rebellion in the tiny & remote Himalyan Kingdom of Nepal – area 54, 363 square miles, population a little over twenty seven million as compared to one report on the massive Naxalite rebellion raging in India (area 1, 269, 345 square miles, population nearly a hundred million over one billion) since March 2, 1967, nearly thirty eight years ago. That is the date when India’s armed peasants' struggle began, in Naxalbari, in West Bengal, when a tribal youth named Wimal Kesan, who had a judicial order, went to plough his land and upper caste local landlords attacked him through their goons. This sparked wide-scale violence by tribals who started capturing back their lands implementing the vision of rural revolution against medieval landlordism/ casteism in India spelled out by the late Charu Majumdar, a visionary revolutionary who has been compared with China’s Mao Tse-tung. In the 72 days, after March 2, 1967, Charu Majumdar-backed tribal violence and retaliatory action by the state, the Naxalbari incident echoed throughout India and Naxalism was born.

Ms. Somini Sengupta in her April 13, 2006 New York Times report, datelined-Bhanupratapur in the state of Chhattisgarh, writes that, “While the far more powerful Maoist insurgency in neighboring Nepal has received greater attention, the conflict in India, though largely separate, has gained momentum, too. In the last year, it has cost nearly a thousand lives. Here in central Chhattisgarh State, the deadliest theater of the war, government-aided village defense forces have lately taken to hunting Maoists in the forests. Hand in hand with the insurgency, the militias have dragged the region into ever more deadly conflict. Villagers, caught in between, have seen their hamlets burned. Nearly 50,000 are now displaced, living in flimsy tent camps, as the counterinsurgency tries to cleanse the countryside of Maoist support. The insurgents blow up railway tracks, seize land and chase away forest guards. They have made it virtually impossible for government officials, whose presence here in the hinterland is already patchy, to function. Police posts, government offices and industrial plants are favored targets. Their ultimate goal is to overthrow the state……Today the Communist Party of India (Maoist), which exists solely as an underground armed movement with no political representation, is a rigidly hierarchical outfit with toeholds in 13 of 28 Indian states. It stretches from the tip of India through this east-central state to the northern border with Nepal, where the Maoists have set off full-scale civil war. Estimates by Indian intelligence officials and Maoist leaders suggest that the rebel ranks in India have swelled to 20,000, though the number is impossible to verify. One senior Indian intelligence official estimated that Maoists exert varying degrees of influence over a quarter of India's 600 districts. The top government official in one of Chhattisgarh's rural Maoist strongholds, Dantewada, acknowledged that the rebels had made some 60 percent of his 6,400-square-mile district a no man's land for civil servants…..”

Ms. Somini Sengupta must be given credit for noting that, India offers a most fertile ground: a deep sense of neglect in large swaths of the country and a ballooning youth population, set against the backdrop of economic growth rates of up to 8 percent elsewhere. The Maoists, (read Naxalites) meanwhile, she notes ‘survive niftily by extorting taxes from anyone doing business in the forest, from bamboo merchants to road construction companies. Attacks have become more brazen and better coordinated.’ Quoting Ajai Sahni, a security analyst and executive director of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management (a government financed RAW outfit) who is reported to have confessed to her that,” "It is one of the most sustainable anti-state ideologies and movements. Unless something radical is done in terms of a structural revolution in rural areas, you will see a continuous expansion of Maoist insurrection." Following the publication of Ms. Sengupta’s April 13, 2006 report, in the New York Times, two Pakistani newspapers finally realized that India is in far greater trouble than Pakistan will ever be in its Baluchistan province and it is in Pakistan’s interest to give ‘ink’ to the progress of the Naxalite movement in India. The two Lahore-based newspapers, NATION and DAILY TIMES carried reports from their correspondents in New York and Washington based on the New York Times report. (www.nation.com.pk/daily/april-2006/14/international7.php and www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\04\15\story_15-4-2006_pg4_22) About time!

As if coordinated with the April 13 New York Times report on the Naxalites by Sengupta the Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh, (according to a report in the April 14, 2006, Telegraph newspaper of Kolkutta) while addressing the chief ministers of Bihar, Orissa, Jharkand, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh confessed that “identified Maoist (read Naxalite) insurgency as the gravest threat to India’s internal security since Independence.” Manmohan singh who was addressing a meeting of chief ministers of the six Naxalite-affected states in Delhi - Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh said that, “It would not be an exaggeration to say that the problem of Naxalism is the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country. There seems to be unanimity on the fact that we need to give the problem a very high priority. Charu Mazumdar had once talked about a Spring Thunder over India. Today, almost 40 years later, the Naxalite movement has lost much of its intellectual attraction, but it has gained in strength by spreading to over 160 districts all over the country. Our strategy, therefore, has to be to walk on two legs — to have an effective police response while at the same time focusing on reducing the sense of deprivation and alienation.” Brave words! The above Telegraph report also carried a photograph of Maharashtra Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh sound asleep during the Prime minister’s call to arms against the Naxalites in the Chief minister’s meeting. (www.telegraphindia.com/1060414/asp/nation/story_6098452.asp)

According to another story in the Telegraph on April 17, 2006, the Naxalites mounted a morning attack on the Murkinaar outpost, about 550 km from Raipur in Chattisgarh state, on the day former Punjab police chief K.P.S. Gill - a known murderer rent-a-Sikh - was to join as adviser to Chattisgarh state chief minister on how to combat the Naxalites, but failed to turn up for unexplained reasons. He probably had a premonition. (www.telegraphindia.com/1060417/asp/nation/story_6108302.asp) This latest attack took place three days after the Prime Minister met six chief ministers to draw up plans to fight the Naxalites. As if they were showing contempt for ‘governmental authority’ the Naxalite guerrillas blocked several highways in Chhattisgarh, drove a hijacked bus to a police outpost and gunned down 11 police personnel.

It is obvious that the Naxalite movement has survived and grown for over thirty eight long years in rural India. It CANNOT be put down by force by anybody (no matter what Dr. Manmohan Singh may pontificate in the presence of slumbering Chief ministers) as long as injustice, hunger and lawlessness continues and the greedy usurious high handed minority Brahmin/Bania evil nexus continues to rule the roost in the rural areas of the world largest, dynastic, oligarchic Castocracy – INDIA – where the majority, (over 800 million) deprived Indians live a life of misery in squalor, shame hunger and want.