Today, Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh agreed that there has been a systematic failure in giving stake to tribal people in modern India’s development. This acknowledgment is important due to recent spurt in Maoist/Naxalite violence across the Naxalite affected areas.

India’s tribal population has been living in the areas where India has discovered minerals, coals etc. So, in order to establish various industries related to these minerals, many tribal population had been relocated.
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Recently Maoists beheaded one Police office, Francis Induwar in Jharkhand in the first week of October 2009. After that, Maoists abducted police officers, Atindranath Dutta, in West Bengal, whom they claimed to be prisoner of war.

Kolkata, Oct 22: Maoist leader Kishenji on Thursday, Oct 22, said that the kinapped police officer will be released as the women who were arrested by security forces from Lalgarh were granted bail. “Atindranath Dutta, who was taken as a Prisoner of War on Tuesday, Oct 20, from Sankrail police station, will be released,” he said over phone.

When asked if the government has accepted the demand of releasing the women, Kishenji said that there were 15 women altogether whose bail applications were taken up by a court. “They have got the bail. After they come back, we will release the officer-in-charge,” he said.

The Maoist leader did not reveal if anybody from the government side came for negotiation. “Right now, I cannot disclose anything more,” he said.

Assuring the family members of Dutta, Kishenji said, “I assure that he will be released. The Maoists never kill Prisoners of War.”

Arundhati Roy came out of support of unconditional talks with Naxalites today.

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RAIPUR, 12 July 2009: Twenty-six police personnel, including a Superintendent of Police SP V K Choubey, were on Sunday killed in two separate attacks by Maoists in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh, India. The police party was going to a police camp at Madanwada.

Details briefing is still awaited. But I always think, Maoist threat in India may be much more serious and most probably, Indian central government is not taking it seriously as it should have taken. I also sincerely believe, it may not be a mere law and order situation, but a fault line in the very concept of India, after 1947.

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Lalgarh is a village in Jhargram subdivision of West Midnapore district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It has been in news recently as it was ‘liberated’ from Indian state by Naxalites last week.

Naxalites claim few areas inside India as “liberated” zone. Dantewara in Chattishgarh of Indian state is a place which Naxalites claim to be “liberated zone”. West Midanpore in West Bengal is one such area which Naxalites claim to be their second “liberated zone”. Lalgarh was brought to national media and got wide publicity and front page coverage due to killing CPM leaders in broad daylight in Bankshole village. Also policemen fled from their Police Station from Lalgarh to escape the fiery onslaught of Naxal cadres.
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Naxal attack at various places in India left 17 people dead on 16th April 2009. The dead includes 5 Polling Officials, 10 BSF ( Border Security Force), a paramilitary force. Naxal ( or Naxalites) many places in four Indian states, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Orissa.

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Stepping up their attacks, Maoists struck in Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa, killing 17 people, including five election officials and ten security personnel, and looted electronic voting machines in a bid to disrupt the first phase of polling for Lok Sabha. Naxalites blew up a vehicle carrying poll officials in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district, killing five of them and injuring two others, police said. Source and complete story here.

Who are Naxalites ?
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