Naxalites guerillas ambushed a team of security personnel in the restive Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh, killing at least 26 jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and injuring over a dozen others on 30th June 2010.

The incident took place at about 3 pm in Jharaghati area between Dhaurai and Gawadi, about 250 km south-west from here.

A senior official in the police headquarters here said that about 70 jawans of the 39th battalion of CRPF left the Dhaurai police station this morning for road opening duty. As the jawans reached the spot, the rebels opened indiscriminate fire at them. The CRPF jawans who were accompanied by the Special Task Force and Special Police Officers took the position and returned fire after suffering heavy casualty.

The senior police officials here confirmed the death of 26 jawans and said the toll could go up as many jawans injured in the attack were in critical condition.

This is the second biggest attack on the CRPF that had been deployed in the Naxal-infested areas to combat the red army. On April 6, the rebels ambushed a CRPF party in Dantewada district, killing 75 jawans in the biggest Naxal attack on the security personnel in the country.

Naxalites are killing CRPF men at will almost. While Indian Government looks like it has no clue how to tackle Naxalites threat to the country.

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Moe than 44 people died which includes many civilians among dead in a deadly blast triggered by Maoists in Dantewada, Chattishgarh on Monday, 17th May 2010. The incident took place barely after a month when Maoists massacred 76 CRPF in the same district.

The Maoists triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) on a black-top road at Chingavaram between Dantewada and Sukma as the bus winded through a 40-km stretch of dense forest. The massive explosion, which left a 10-feet deep crater, took place within two days of Maoist spokesman Azad issuing a statement — first reported in TOI — congratulating the Maoist `army’ for “wiping out 80 CRPF mercenaries” and promising more such attacks.

Dantewada SP Amaresh Mishra and a few other police officers had a providential escape as they crossed the stretch about 10 minutes before the incident. Rescue operations were on till late in the evening with teams from Kirandul reaching the spot with gas-cutters and searchlights. “Bodies are lying trapped, these have to be extricated,” said a source in Dantewada.

Chhattisgarh home minister Ram Vichar Netam said, “Our jawans were in the bus. It seems the bus was targeted because of the jawans, although the number of civilians inside it was higher.” It’s learnt there were around 32 civilians and 18 SPOs in the bus. The SPOs are tribals — belonging to Salwa Judum — who assist the police in fighting the Maoists.

Complete news here :

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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.

Maoists with sophisticated weapon

Maoist and Naxalites are exploiting the situation and now Maoists claim that they are fighting for rights of tribal population. Tribal population has been discriminated traditionally by other communities. Though India has taken many measures to eliminate these discrimination including reservation policy, strong act against any discrimination against tribal population, but there has not been much improvement.

Recently, there was demand from many corners in India to use military against Naxalites and Maoists after Maoists killed many policemen in ambush. Indian security forces are more worried due to recent disclosure of Indian Maoists getting support in terms of arms and ammunition from foreign countries.

Naxalite movement started in 1960s in urban areas with many brilliant students joining it. Though it was brutally crushed, but it spread to tribal areas. So, presently, Maoists and Naxalite influences are visible in tribal dominated areas in India. So the reaching out to tribal population by Indian Prime Minister should be viewed as an attempt to win away them from Naxalite and Maoist influence.

Mr Singh said India had to win the battle for tribal people’s hearts.

“It cannot be said that we dealt sensitively with these issues in the past. More could be done and more should be done.”

I will be interesting to see, what steps now government of India takes for uplifting tribal population.

The news :

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told chief ministers from 29 Indian states to end exploitation of tribal people. Speaking at a conference in Delhi, Mr Singh said there had been a “systematic failure” to give tribal people a stake in India’s modern economy.
He said this was fomenting discontent, making them vulnerable to Maoists. Source.

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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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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.

The News Here :

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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 ?

They are armed groups waging a violent struggle on behalf of landless labourers and tribal people against landlords and others. They are leftist and inspired by Mao and as per them, they are fighting oppression and exploitation to create a classless society.

According to Indian Prime Minister, Naxals or Naxalites poses the biggest internal threat to India. And rightly so, they are active in almost 350 districts out of Indias around 850 districts. In a way, one can say they are so called group who claim to be representing India’s 26% people below poverty line(BPL).

They are not normal religious terrorists. They do not get coverage in premium TV news as their struggle is not glamorous or entertaining as Mumbai attack or so. During same in Mumbai attack, on 30th November, 2008, they trapped and ambushed 39 Elite Police Commandos from Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. This news were not headlines. And they are popular in many areas.

They attack as an army. They attack in big numbers, occupy a town itself for few hours before they are beaten back by Indian Paramilitary forces.

They do not recognise Indian state. They have strong romantic appeal among many educated and intelligent youths. Many people say, they have many intellectuals and highly educated people int heir ranks.

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