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:: On the Naxal Trail |
The child soldiers in Indian Maoist ranks
Minister of State for Home Affairs Sriprakash Jaiswal told the Rajya Sabha Dec 11 that the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has set up a special squad of minors in Chhattisgarh. These child soldiers are forcibly recruited into Maoist ranks. But this is not a new phenomenon.
Indian Maoists have ties with other terror groups
Naxalites of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), according to a media report of Sep 10 credited to unnamed intelligence officials, have forged links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka and the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in India's northeast.
Danger signals: Maoists seek linkages with Muslim extremists
Naxalites of the Communist Party of India Maoist (CPI-Maoist) have condemned the extension of the proscription on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which has been involved in a series of bomb blasts in India. According to media reports, Azad, spokesperson of the Central Committee of the CPI-Maoist, said "it was a reiteration of the (government's) policy to continue its brutal war on Muslims"
The Bastar blackout: new Maoist design to target infrastructure
Sprawling Bastar has again plunged into darkness. The region is experiencing a blackout for the second time in as many years. On June 5, guerrillas from the Communist Party of India-Maoist set off explosions and brought to the ground two 220 KVA high tension towers near the interior Barsoor village of Dantewada district in Bastar in mineral-rich Chhattisgarh state in central India.
The 'Business' of Maoism in India
Financing a 'revolution' is not a child's play. It is all the more tough when the organisation is proscribed, and hence, has to operate underground, secretly. For the Indian Maoists, also known as Naxalites, the conditions are a little more unfavourable because they claim to be fighting for the deprived and neglected sections of the society, who are poor; and the Maoists do not enjoy the support of the affluent sections of the society, against whom they are waging their so-called revolution.
Maoist Threat: A Self Deceptive Chicken Count
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), apparently, never tires of finding an ever newer classification to present a much diminished perception of the intensity and spread of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), also known in India as Maoists, or Naxalites.
Rockets in Maoists' Arsenal
The arsenal of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), or Maoists, today consists of a mélange of weapons and explosives, many crude, but some sophisticated. Indeed, the rebels have moved a long way from fielding traditional, farm implements, such as spears, crowbars and sickles.
Maoists Raid Nayagarh, Union Home Minister Obfuscates
In a daring raid, believed to be code-named Operation 22, Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) looted 1,100 weapons -- including pistols, SLRs, AK series rifles, INSAS rifles and LMGs -- on February 15, 2008-night, in the newly carved-out Nayagarh district, Orissa. The town was seized for approximately two-and-a-half hours. Those familiar with the Maoist method of organising its armed fighters and weapons think the rebels would be easily able to raise three battalions, given the number of weapons looted.
Maoists unleash new terror tactics in Bastar
Cadres of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), also known in India as Naxalites, or Maoists, are believed to be operating in over-200 districts across 17 States. The ultimate objective of the rebels is to seize/capture the state/political power through protracted people's war (PPW) and herald a New Democratic Revolution (NDR).
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