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Pranab defends despatch of Central forces to Lalgarh
Behrampore (PTI): Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday defended the despatch of forces to Lalgarh in West Bengal, saying the Centre is committed to make available security personnel if any state government requests for them.
"If any state government requests for paramilitary or other Central forces to tackle difficult law and order situations by following constitutional norms, the Central government will send them," he told reporters after opening the zonal office of the Allahabad bank here.
Asked about Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's annoyance over not being consulted before the decision was taken to move Central forces into Lalgarh, Mukherjee, who is also the WBPCC president, said he would discuss the matter with her.
He said post-poll violence was not desirable and state administrations should tackle them with an iron hand.
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Communist Party of India (Maoist)
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| Leader | Muppala Lakshmana Rao under nom de guerre "Ganapati" |
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| Founded | September 21, 2004 |
| Ideology | Communism, Anti-Revisionist Marxism-Leninism, Maoism |
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The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is an underground Maoist political party in India. It was founded on September 21, 2004, through the merger of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India. The merger was announced to the public on October 14 the same year. In the merger a provisional central committee was constituted, with PW leader Ganapati as General Secretary. The CPI (Maoist) are often referred to as Naxalites in reference to the Naxalbari insurrection by radical Maoists in West Bengal in 1967.The Centre on 22nd June 2009 (Monday) banned the CPI (Maoist) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, calling it a terrorist organization.
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India labels Maoist party as terrorist group
DELHI - India's government on Monday banned and formally labelled Maoist insurgents a terrorist group, hoping it would give security forces more enforcement powers after the rebels briefly created a "liberated zone" in eastern India.
The banning of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) comes only a month after the Congress-led government won a resounding re-election without the need of support from communist parties that have opposed any ban.
"The home ministry has specifically banned the CPI Maoist as a militant group and has added it to the list of banned groups," said Onkar Kedia, a home ministry spokesman.
The move will allow authorities to arrest members of the Maoist party even if they have not been involved in rebel violence.
Beleaguered state police will still be the main agency battling the rebels. There is little sign of India calling in the army to fight the insurgents, who have been spreading across eastern, central and southern India.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the Maoists as the biggest internal security challenge since independence.
Hundreds of Maoists, who are expanding their influence in India had declared the town of Lalgarh about 170 km (100 miles) from Kolkata, capital of West Bengal, as a "liberated zone" last week before they fled in face of heavy police deployment.
India's JSW Steel Ltd., the country's third largest steel producer, is setting up a $7-billion, 10-million tonne steel plant near Lalgarh, and the growing presence of Maoists across swathes of rural India has worried many investors.
Some experts said the ban would have little impact in the battle against an estimated 22,000 Maoist combatants.
"There will be a marginal advantage, if at all," said Ajai Sahni of the Institute of Conflict Management, a New Delhi-based think-tank.
"More people can be arrested and they (government) can take action against frontal organisations, but it is the same police force which will be taking them on," Sahni said.
The rebels called a two-day strike in east and central India to protest against police action in West Bengal. Transport to rural areas was hit in states like Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal, but life was normal in big towns and cities.
Government preparing roadmap for northeast development
Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 2:43The roadmap, part of the government's "North East Vision-2020″ initiative, will focus on speedy implementation of the centrally sponsored projects and strengthening of the public sector units in the region, Minister of Development of North Eastern Region B.K. Handique said.
The North East Vision-2020, an ambitious plan for the overall development of the region by 2020, was released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year.
Releasing his ministry's agenda for the next 100 days, Handique told reporters that he would take steps for the speedy implementation of the central projects in close coordination with state governments.
He added that the government would implement the World Bank-funded North Eastern Rural Livelihood Project and promote public sector units like the North Eastern Handicrafts and Handlooms Development Corp (NEHHDC) and North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corp (NERAMAC).
These state-run companies would be revamped to generate additional employment opportunities and other economic opportunities, the minister said.
"North Eastern Development Finance Corp (NEDH) will work to promote the economy of all northeastern states," Handique said.
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We know the Realities of the heaven in the Himalayas, Dandakaranya, North East, Kashmir and South India out of the POLITICAL CONTROL ROOM Span!
The road maps NEVER followed!
Flagship Programme prove to be just EYE Washing!
The Landscape and Humanscape ISOLATED from the so called MAINSTREAM have to be PERSECUTED and KILLED ! And it is PREDESTINED!
Thanks to the Political game to capture Power bases intensified in Bengal and EXPOSED POWER GREED of the RESISTANCE Heroine just after UPA Genocide Government of ILLUMINATI to sustain MANUSMRITI Apartheid Zionist Global Rule, ROMPED HOME with Manipulated Caste Hindu Anti Mayawati Anti Indigenous Vote Bank Polarised Mandate!
RED v/s RED is the STRATEGY in which the Marxist Brahmin Capitalists have entrapped themselves after the Nandigram Singur Insurrections!
Political and DEMOCRATIC solution of the Stand OFF CANCELLED!
Indian troops entered a Maoist stronghold in West Bengal state on Saturday as they tried to end a rebellion by the left-wing activists who have taken control of hundreds of villages.
ZERO Tolerance, Military OPTION and Terror Acts have to accomplish and execute the CAPTURE Agenda and kill the Left bases to preempt any Possible RESISTANCE whatsoever!
Nationalities and Identifies have NEVER been recognised or ADDRESSED in FREE BRAHMIN BANIA MANUSMRITI ZIONIST Colonial Fascist Raj Post Modern.
NRI Shining India kills the RURAL Indigenous Aboriginal Minority populated BHARATVARSH!
Brand them TERRORIST! Brand any RESISTANCE as Insurgency! Brand the TRIBALS as MAOIST! This is the sacred VEDIC HYMN in Post Modern ASHWAMEDH YAGYA and SHUDRAYAN called GLOBALISATION!
LalGARH REPRESSION Continues as the PROLONGED Starvation, DISPLACEMENT, Persecution and ETHNIC Cleansing continue in the Valley of Death named Indian Nation
where UNDERPRIVILEGED MASSES without Plastic Money have no right for job, livelihood, home, sustenance or life.
BANNING Maoist Party only ESCALATES Tribal Segregation! The Centre on Monday banned the CPI (Maoist) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, calling it a terrorist organization. CPI (Maoist), which is the main Naxal group in the country, has been bracketed with 34 other organizations including LeT and SIMI who are in the list of banned outfits.
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The Maoist insurgency, which grew out of a peasant uprising in 1967, has hit 15 of India's 29 states. The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of neglected tribespeople and landless farmers.
The shutdown the Leftwing radicals called against the joint operation by the central and state forces saw vehicular traffic go off the roads, streets deserted and shops and business establishments closed in 18 police station areas in Maoist-affected Bankura, West Midnapore and Purulia districts in the western part of the state.
In Lalgarh, the security forces also carried relief to villages in the West Midnapore district that were facing shortage of food and drinking water. The state authorities opened the block development office in Lalgarh, a step towards restoring civil rule in the area which Maoists had declared a "liberated" zone.
48-hr Maoist bandh begins on violent note and the Centre on Monday banned the CPI (Maoist) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, calling it a terrorist organization. Home ministry sources said the decision was taken at a high-level meeting. While West Bengal's ruling Left Front on Monday said it was against banning the CPI (Maoist) and will counter such outfits politically, days
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"The decision has been taken to ban CPI (Maoist) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act as a terrorist organisation," they said.
CPI (Maoist), which is the main Naxal group in the country, has been bracketed with 34 other organizations including LeT and SIMI who are in the list of banned outfits.
In New Delhi, Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters: "Today, what we have done, in order to avoid any ambiguity, we have added the words CPI-Maoist in the schedule of the (Unlawful Activities Prevention) Act.
"All ambiguity has been removed," Chidambaram said of the extension of the ban on the CPI-Maoist.
The outfit is already banned in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orissa, where the Maoist rebels have a presence.
On his part, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat said: "Maoists must be combated politically and administratively."
Meanwhile, the security forces intensified their operation to flush out Maoists from the troubled Lalgarh area as a 48-hour shutdown called by the rebels Monday disrupted normal life in their strongholds in West Bengal.
After reclaiming Lalgarh town, security forces continued their operation against the rebels for the fifth day – setting out for Ramgarh town, 22 km away, where the Maoists had virtually driven the civil and police administration away earlier this month.
Home ministry officials said the CPI-Maoist has been banned under the the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act that is applicable all over the country. However, individual states have to issue their own notifications banning the organisation.
The CPI-Maoist, which is the main left extremist group in the country, has been bracketed with 34 other organizations including Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT) and the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) who are in the list of banned outfits.
The central government had been pressing the West Bengal government to also ban the outfit.Chidambaram, at a meeting with Bhattacharjee over the weekend, had advised him to ban the organisation.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday said it was against a ban on the Leftwing outfit Communist Party of India-Maoist and the rebels should be tackled instead through political and administrative measures.
Reacting to the union home ministry's declaration of the CPI-Maoist as a terrorist outfit, CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters here that the "Maoists must be combated politically and administratively".
He alleged that the Trinamool Congress, the party's arch rival in West Bengal and now a part of the ruling United Progressive Alliance, was conniving with the Maoists in the state. "It did so in Nandigram and now in Lalgarh", Karat claimed referring to the area in West Midnapore district that is caught in Maoist violence.
Karat said the central government's move to ban the CPI-Maoist was no solution, and "we have to isolate them (Maoists) politically. You cannot do this by police and security measures, but a combination of these measures is necessary."
The Marxist leader said he agreed that the rebels indulged in "terrorist violence" and should be curbed administratively. He said his party had been able to check the growth of the Maoists in West Bengal and this was why the rebels were attacking its cadres and supporters in Lalgarh region.
Karat said his party's central committee meeting had "adopted a resolution condemning widespread attacks on our members in West Bengal…53 of our comrades were killed."
On the other hand,
The Centre has asked about 1,000 personnel of paramilitary forces to be on standby to be sent to Lalgarh in West Bengal in case of
"The home ministry has decided to keep 1,000 additional forces on standby," the official said adding, they would be deployed in West Bengal "if there is an urgent necessity". The official said six companies (about 600 personnel) of CRPF and four companies (about 400 personnel) of BSF have been put on standby. At present, 16 companies of CRPF and four companies of BSF (about 2000 personnel in both forces) are deployed to flush out Naxals from Lalgarh area of West Bengal. | |
Meanwhile, Security forces conducting the operation to liberate Lalgarh have cleared 22 of 42 villages in the area of Maoist-backed tribal
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The troops comprising CRPF, BSF, IRB, State Armed Police and the Eastern Frontier Rifles men were in full control of the national highway connecting the district headquarters with Lalgarh, a senior police officer said.
"Twenty of the 42 villages under the jurisdiction of the Lalgarh police station have been cleared off agitators," he said. The police station, which remained out of bounds since November, was retaken on June 19.
All vehicles were being searched and people frisked. Two forested areas on the highway connecting Midnapore and Lalgarh — Pirakata and Jhitka — were sanitised.
Pickets of security forces have been set up all along the highway, which was also being patrolled, he said. The forces, which had launched the operation against the Maoists on June 18, were yet to move out of Lalgarh, he said.
West Bengal's ruling Left Front on Monday said it was against banning the CPI (Maoist) and will counter such outfits politically, days after chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee stated that his government will give a serious thought to proscribing the Naxals.
"We have decided that such outfits, which follow misguided politics, cannot be countered by banning them. It is important to counter the activities of these outfits politically," Left Front chairman Biman Bose said.
"We have decided that such outfits, which follow misguided politics, cannot be countered by banning them. It is important to counter the activities of these outfits politically," Left Front chairman Biman Bose said here.
He said that the fight of the Leftists against the "misguided politics" of the Maoists was on. "We are opposing the terrorist activities of the Maoists and that is why we are attacked," he said in a statement.
Bose said it was a continuous political process to "alienate" people from the "dangerous politics" pursued by the Maoists. "This work has to be carried on," he said. He, however, said that it was necessary to take administrative steps to restore normal life of the people.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union home minister P Chidambaram on Saturday, had stated that his government was considering banning the CPI (Maoist) after the Centre's suggestion in this regard following the Naxal violence in Lalgarh.
"Home minister Chidamabarm advised me to ban this organisation. We have to give it a serious thought," Bhattacharjee had told reporters in New Delhi. "We have started thinking what to do," he had said.
Chidambaram had earlier said that the state government should ban the Maoists. "We think they (Maoists) should be banned in West Bengal as in other states," he had said.
The CPI and Forward Bloc, two major LF constituents, also said that the problem would not be solved by banning the Maoists.
CPI state council secretary Manju Kumar Majumdar said, "We do not think a ban on them will solve the problem; it has to be solved politically. There may be a dialogue with the ultras, but before that they have to eschew the politics of murder and anarchy."
Echoing his views, Forward Bloc secretary Ashok Ghose said, "We have fundamental differences with the Maoists, but they are not our class enemies. We are against imposing ban on them. We want them to follow the democratic path and we are totally against their politics of terrorism."
Maoists on Monday targeted an anti-landmine vehicle in Jharkhand as a 48-hour strike called by them began in five states, where
The vehicle was on its way to Ghatshila in East Singhbhum district bordering West Bengal when Maoists set off a landmine. Police said the vehicle was not damaged and there were no reports of any casualty. The bandh has been called by the Maoists in West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orissa in protest against security forces storming Lalgarh in West Midnapore district of West Bengal. In Malkangiri in Orissa, two Maoists were gunned down in a fierce battle with police, district police chief Satyabrat Bhoi said. The gun battle took place when a team of police and jawans of the elite Special Operation Group (SOG) were conducting a combing operation in a forest area and the ultras opened fire from their hide-out, he said. The operation had been launched after three Maoists opened fire during a checking by the police here last night and escaped into the forest. No one was injured in the incident. In the restive Lalgarh in West Midnapore district, which was reclaimed by the security forces on Saturday, CRPF, BSF and West Bengal police personnel intensified their operations. Reports said normal life was affected in the Maoist-hit West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura districts as shops and business establishments remained closed. Besides Lalgarh -- the epicentre of the current trouble -- security was tightened in Binpur, Jhargram and adjoining areas where state and paramilitary security forces continued their offensive for the fifth day, officials said. Patrolling by security forces has been intensified. In Purulia district, train services remained suspended on the Purulia-Chandil section since 0200 hrs in view of reports of a landmine being planted on the tracks at Birandi station. Police said two railway gangmen, who noticed a landmine tied to the tracks, were attacked by suspected Maoists who snatched their mobile phones. Railway authorities immediately informed the bomb squad department in Kolkata to defuse the explosive. In Bihar, life was normal except in Sherghati sub-division of Naxal-infested Gaya district bordering Jharkhand. Shops in Sherghati were closed and traffic was thin. A report from Patna said there was normalcy in Jahanabad, Jamui, Nawada, Nalanda and Arwal, where Maoists have a sizeable presence. On the eve of the bandh, Orissa witnessed some violence as two Maoists were killed in an exchange of fire in Malkangiri district. However, there was no report of any untoward incident during the first few hours of the bandh. Sources said security has been beefed up at all important locations and a strict vigil is being kept on the border areas, particularly on Jharkhand-West Bengal border to prevent Naxals from escaping after carrying out subversive activities. The government has asked security personnel to remain vigilant against IEDs and landmines which have been often used to target them. Describing the situation in Lalgarh area as "sensitive and tense", the Union Home Ministry has warned of possible "demonstrative acts of violence" by Naxals during the bandh. In a statement, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram asked politicians, people and Non-Governmental Organisations to remain away from conflict area and directed security forces to carry on with their work without distraction. Based on intelligence inputs, the Naxal Division in the Home Ministry has alerted these states that the CPI (Maoist) may indulge in demonstrative acts of violence by targeting security forces and economic infrastructure such as trains, buses, railway and bus stations and other places where people are likely to gather in significant numbers. The inputs have been shared with the states who have been asked to take "precautionary and pre-emptive measures", according to Additional Secretary (Naxal Management) in Home Ministry D R S Chaudhary. Rediff News reports: | |
Maoists on Monday targeted an anti-landmine vehicle in Jharkhand as a 48-hour strike called by them began in five states, where security has been put on high alert. The vehicle was on its way to Ghatshila in East Singhbhum district bordering West Bengal [Images] when Maoists set off a landmine. Police said the vehicle was not damaged and there were no reports of any casualty. The bandh has been called by the Maoists in West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orissa to protest against security forces storming Lalgarh in West Midnapore district of West Bengal. In Malkangiri in Orissa, two Maoists were gunned down in a fierce battle with police, district police chief Satyabrat Bhoi said. The gun battle took place when a team of police and soldiers of the elite Special Operation Group were conducting a combing operation in a forest area and the ultras opened fire from their hide-out, he said. In the restive Lalgarh in West Midnapore district, which was reclaimed by the security forces on Saturday, CRPF, BSF and West Bengal police personnel intensified their operations. Reports said normal life was affected in the Maoist-hit West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura districts as shops and business establishments remained closed. Besides Lalgarh -- the epicentre of the current trouble -- security was tightened in Binpur, Jhargram and adjoining areas where state and paramilitary security forces continued their offensive for the fifth day, officials said. Patrolling by security forces has been intensified. In Purulia district, train services remained suspended on the Purulia-Chandil section since 0200 hrs in view of reports of a landmine being planted on the tracks at Birandi station. Police said two railway gangmen, who noticed a landmine tied to the tracks, were attacked by suspected Maoists who snatched their mobile phones. Railway authorities immediately informed the bomb squad department in Kolkata [Images] to defuse the explosive. In Bihar, life was normal except in Sherghati sub-division of Naxal-infested Gaya district bordering Jharkhand. Shops in Sherghati were closed and traffic was thin. A report from Patna said there was normalcy in Jahanabad, Jamui, Nawada, Nalanda and Arwal, where Maoists have a sizeable presence. On the eve of the bandh, Orissa witnessed some violence as two Maoist were killed in an exchange of fire in Malkangiri district. However, there was no report of any untoward incident during the first few hours of the bandh. Sources said security has been beefed up at all important locations and a strict vigil is being kept on the border areas, particularly on Jharkhand-West Bengal border to prevent Naxals from escaping after carrying out subversive activities. The government has asked security personnel to remain vigilant against IEDs and landmines, which have been often used to target them. Describing the situation in Lalgarh area as "sensitive and tense", the Union Home Ministry has warned of possible "demonstrative acts of violence" by Naxals during the bandh. In a statement, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram [Images] asked politicians, people and Non-Governmental Organisations to remain away from conflict area and directed security forces to carry on with their work without distraction. The inputs have been shared with the states, who have been asked to take 'precautionary and pre-emptive measures', according to Additional Secretary (Naxal Management) in Home Ministry D R S Chaudhary. |
'Scared' Lalgarh cops using youths as shields22 Jun 2009, 0232 hrs IST, Caesar Mandal, TNN |
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Acts like this will trigger more calls for vengeance and lead people to doubt the sincerity of the government's attempts to pacify the tribal villagers. It also exposes the lack of preparedness of the administration.
There are just two CID bomb disposal experts stationed at Lalgarh. A second team is kept in reserve in Midnapore town to be deployed in case of 'VIP movement'. A third is cooling its heels in Kolkata. There is not a single explosives expert with police forces anywhere else in the war zone.
Ever since Friday evening's blast at Kuldiha, in which the Domkal SDPO's vehicle was hit and three policemen were injured, police have been wary of such attacks. The moment they come across any culvert, many policemen are scared to cross, fearing that Maoists might have planted an IED.
Four blasts and half a dozen gunbattles have been reported ever since forces started their march to Lalgarh. Though no policeman has died, the guerrillas have scored a psychological victory — they have sown the seeds of fear and anxiety. It's this fear that has led some policemen, who are themselves not trained to detect explosives, to force local youth to do the dangerous job for them.
Eighteen-year-old Shambhu Ghosh, Madan Mahato (20) and Shakti Ghosh (23) from Dhangori village were among the unlucky locals. They have been on the run since last Thursday when security forces entered the village searching for Maoists.
On Sunday morning, they were having breakfast at a roadside eatery, close to the Pirakata camp, when a team of policemen surrounded them. One of them asked if they were from Dhangori village.
"When we said yes, they asked us where we had been hiding for the last three days? We didn't give any answer. One of the policeman grabbed us by our collars and threatened to arrest us of we didn't work for them," Shambhu said.
The two were taken to Pirakata camp and given three-foot-long S-shaped rods (possibly taken from a construction site). They're then told to scan for any suspicious object — say, an abandoned bag or a box — lying on the roadside and use the rod to poke around and see if it triggers an explosion.
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Lalgarh: Thousands flee as Maoist counter-attack looms22 Jun 2009, 0154 hrs IST, Jayanta Gupta & Falguni Banerjee, TNN |
GOALTORE: The jubilation of security forces in Lalgarh on Saturday has given way to an eerie silence at Goaltore in Bankura, 25 km from the
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Coinciding with intelligence agencies' warning that the Maoists are planning major strikes, it has added an ominous dimension to the battle for Lalgarh. "A team of 50-60 armed Maoists has reached Gorabari Pujaripara, barely a km away. If reinforcements don't arrive soon, we will have to retreat. There is a real threat of getting trapped here, just as police were besieged in Lalgarh police station for eight long months," a policeman said, fear writ large over him and his colleagues.
Sensing the need to pre-empt a sudden attack, Bankura additional SP Humayun Kabir - who was caught in an ambush in Pingoboni on Saturday - sent a team of 25 EFR and Rapid Action Force personnel on perimeter vigil to the southern edge of Goaltore around 5pm.
There wasn't much movement in Lalgarh all day, with politics taking the lead over battle in this war zone. A section of the city intelligentsia landed in Lalgarh to broker peace between the administration and Maoists. They met Chhatradhar Mahato, leader of the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), and urged him to call a ceasefire till the talks with the state government on July 14.
Chief secretary Asok Mohan Chakrabarti, however, refused to make a difference between PCPA and Maoists. There was tension at Salboni, too, where CPM men allegedly mobbed Union ministers of state Sisir Adhikari and Mukul Roy, who were carrying relief materials to West Midnapore. A fuming Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee promptly asked the Centre to declare Lalgarh a "disturbed area".
As the political shadow boxing continued, Goaltore braced for bombs, bullets and bloodshed. This town has been largely untouched by the insurgency raging in West Midnapore's Lalgarh less than an hour's drive away. On Sunday, it suddenly found itself in the middle of the battlefield, following an aborted attempt by police to open up an access route to Lalgarh along the Goaltore-Ramgarh axis the previous afternoon. This force was ambushed at Pingboni and suffered six casualties. It retreated. The Maoists advanced.
The threat is so imminent that 60% of the 20,000-odd residents in this bustling town fled towards Bankura in less than 24 hours. The town wore a deserted look on Sunday evening as people continued to flee, clinging on to windows of overcrowded buses.
"This is absolute madness. We were living in peace till the government began this misadventure. Why couldn't the government surround Lalgarh with adequate forces rather than extending the war zone? Now, our lives are at risk," complained a resident.
As the afternoon progressed and scraps of information on advancing Maoist guerrillas reached the police station, the tension rose. "We are completely in the dark. There have been practically no orders since Saturday evening. We will not venture out until central forces arrive. We won't have any hesitation in retreating because our lives are at risk," a constable said. "We don't have sufficient forces to move out of Goaltore. All we can do is keep vigil to ensure that we are not taken by surprise," an officer said.
With paramilitary personnel, EFR and State Armed Police upping the ante on Lalgarh from the Pirakata end, intelligence agencies feel Maoists would go all out to keep the Goaltore front open for both supply and escape. The Bankura-Purulia-West Midnapore tri-junction near Jhilimili is 50 km from Goaltore by road and half the distance through jungle tracks. The Jharkhand border is also close by.
Although the Maoists had first infiltrated Goaltore block in 1998, when they were just venturing into West Bengal, Goaltore town had remained virtually undisturbed during the past decade. This is the first time that people here have felt the threat from such close quarters and have resorted to mass desertion.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Thousands-flee-as-Maoist-counter-attack-looms/articleshow/4685311.cms
Ops getting nowhere due to lack of strategy: Cops
GOALTORE/SARENGA: Security forces out to take on Maoists through Pirakata may have surprised Maoists and quickly reached the Lalgarh police
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Officers in Goaltore and Sarenga said they had received no reports from senior officers stationed elsewhere on how to go about countering the insurgents. "There are no inputs and no strategy in operations at places away from Lalgarh," the officers said.
Though they have been frantically calling senior officers at Lalgarh to find out how they have to act, they claimed they were being kept in the dark. At Gaoltore, where the police had been driven out of Pingboni on Saturday evening, there had been no reinforcement despite repeated SOS on advance of Maoists.
"From our side, the operations are getting nowhere. We are aware of Maoist movements through this area. We have not received any orders. Nor do we have adequate strength to move ahead," an officer at Goaltore said. The officers also complained that they are leading a band of men not trained in counter-insurgency operations. "There has been no training or briefing on how to operate in this situation," another officer said.
The absence of curfew, particularly after dark, is posing a big hurdle. "Without curfew, one cannot restrict the movement of people and the force cannot advance as there is always a possibility of the Maoists outflanking and cutting off the rear. As operations cannot be carried out after sunset, we require more personnel to hold on to the positions that we gain during the day. The entire exercise is turning out to be futile," another officer said.
Absence of mine sweeping vehicles has slowed the progress of forces. "We are moving at a snail's pace as the area is fraught with danger. The order to move is generally after 2pm and that gives us precious little time to make ground before dusk sets in," the officer said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Ops-getting-nowhere-due-to-lack-of-strategy-Cops/articleshow/4685338.cms
Tribals clash with cops on Naxal trail
BELPAHARI (W MIDNAPORE): More and more cases of clashes between security forces and tribals — some reportedly sympathisers of Maoists and the
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Scores of men and women resisted the forces as they caught hold of the three. A woman, Rajari Tudu, led the village folk and attacked the BSF jawans with household knives, injuring a jawan.
The security forces are facing another trouble: at many places shopkeepers simply refuse to give them eatables citing Maoist boycott. On Sunday afternoon, security personnel from three police camps — Banspahari, Neguria, Jamtalgora in this part of Jangalmahal — beat up a shopowner, Gostha Das, in the Chakadoba Market after he refused to sell food articles to the jawans. The locals said Gostha declined them food because of a "police boycott". "The jawans then barged into his shop and started beating him," said Tarani Hansda.
This was not all. Angry jawans raided the huts. Tarachand Soren, panchayat executive of the Banspahari gram panchayat, was pulled by his collar and given a thrashing. Block Development Officer (BDO) Bhaskar Pal had to talk to the additional superintendent of police (operations) M. Murlidharan following which Soren was released.
All these ignited the simmering tension in the neighbouring villages. A large number of women came out of the huts and dared the forces on patrol near Neguria Police Camp. The police, however, claim that while the locals challenged the forces, the Maoists from the forests fired on security personnel. "The shots from fired from the forest, where Maoist run a training camp," said Manoj Verma, superintendent of police of West Midnapore.
Local leader of the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) Jagannath Singh Sardar, however, rubbished the charge. "It's an excuse to harass the locals," said Sardar.
He pointed to the plight of the ordinary villagers running for their lives, leaving their elders behind. "This is a malaria-prone zone. Many people are suffering from the fever, but there is no transport to take them to the block health centre, 36 km away. Buses have stopped plying and jeeps demand Rs 400 per patient," Sardar said.
District Congress leader Subrata Bhattacharya defends Sardar. "I don't subscribe to the police action. Our own party activist Kalpana Kalindi of Bardanga is a victim of police torture," Bhattacharya said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Tribals-clash-with-cops-on-Naxal-trail/articleshow/4685386.cms
Politicians, stars reach out to victims; face 'red' wrath
KOLKATA: Security forces took a day off on Sunday, leaving the Lalgarh war zone to politicians trying to take mileage out of the general
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Trinamool Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee is livid with Union home minister P Chidambaram's appeal to all citizens to stay away from Lalgarh. For, the appeal came on a day when she sent two Union ministers of state Sisir Adhikary and Mukul Roy to the war zone to provide shelter to the villagers driven out of their villages along the stretch from Pirakata to Bhimpur.
Two Union ministers went to West Midnapore on Sunday and opened a relief camp at the Pirakata Primary School where about 700 villagers took shelter. The villagers were forced to leave their homes on Sunday morning after the State Armed Forces raided the villages. Adhikary said Trinamool would open two more relief camps at Goaltore and Chandrakona.
While the Union ministers were carrying relief, hundreds of CPM men driven out from Dharampur, Baita, Sijua and other villages, mobbed them, complaining they didn't come to their rescue when the Maoist-backed PCPA drove them out of their villages.
There was sound and fury in Kolkata with CPM hitting the streets against the attack on their cadres and party offices and the Trinamool chief warning a string of movements, beginning Monday, across the state against atrocities by CPM and the security forces. She wanted central forces to move in to Garbeta, Mangalkot, Khanakul and Keshpur.
Meanwhile, a section of city intelligentsia went to the trouble-torn areas of West Midnapore to broker peace between the state administration and the PCPA. They want the Maoists and the government to put down arms till July 14 when the state administration is slated to discuss the matter with the PCPA. After crossing the Lalgarh police station — freed from the Maoists on Saturday by security forces — the convoy in which the intellectuals were travelling in had to be stopped due to road blockade.
"We have come here for peace. Innocent villagers are getting trapped between the Maoists and the security forces. We would like both sides to drop their arms and come for talks," said film director Aparna Sen. But the Maoists are in no mood to listen.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Politicians-stars-reach-out-to-victims-face-red-wrath/articleshow/4685343.cms
Naxals and the privatisation of violence Jug Suraiya
With Naxals taking on the Marxist-led government in West Midnapore, Bengal is in the grip of what is tantamount to a murderous civil war. That the Marxists brought this upon their head, through their brutal methods of land acquisition and other acts of oppression, is not the main issue. What is at issue is that the sovereignty of not just Bengal but of the Indian state is being called into question. Not only in Bengal, but everywhere where private militias and mobs represent what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the biggest threat to national security.
In one of the most dangerous developments facing the country today, a fundamental public sector undertaking of the nation is being subversively privatised: violence. The Indian state -- as indeed any other state -- must in order to exist hold a monopoly over the resort to violence, or the use of physical force. When the state imposes capital punishment on a criminal it is a legitimate execution; when a private individual wilfully takes the life of another citizen it is murder, which the state, and only the state, has the right to avenge through the death penalty.
Through the enforcement of its penal code, through its sovereign right to declare war against another nation, the state zealously protects its monopoly on violence, on the actual use or the threat of use of physical force. It must do so if it is to survive as a state and not degenerate into chaos, with each one's hand against his neighbour's in murderous conflict without referee or redress. Violence, its use or the threat of its use, is the foundational PSU without which the state can't exist. And there are signs that in India, this pivotal PSU is being privatised, with private citizens -- in the form of mobs or militias -- taking the law into their own hands and challenging the state's monopoly on violence, be it Kolkata, Guwahati or elsewhere.
What is the real meaning of mob fury (such as over the Nandigram/Taslima issue, or over tribals demanding their rights) and what causes the smallest spark to ignite it? The general answer is that people have lost faith in the 'system' -- an amorphous amalgam of politicians, the police, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, etc -- and vent their frustrations in outbursts of mob frenzy, spurred on by a sensation-hungry media that highlights such incidents. Mob rule, however, represents a far graver danger than that of sporadic violence: it questions the very existence of the state as a whole, and not just one segment or manifestation of it. In this sense, mob violence is as subversive of the state as a campaign of terrorism.
A recent press report revealed that, with lawlessness on the increase the total number of private security personnel for the first time has outstripped the aggregate of all our police forces and defence services rolled into one. The police and the defence forces are traditionally the bulwarks protecting the state's monopoly on violence. When the private sector, in terms of sheer numbers, undermines the guarantors of that monopoly, the very fabric of the state is called into question.
Indeed, by encouraging the formation of the Salwa Judum 'people's militia' (whose members are often no more than teenagers) to combat extremists in Chhattisgarh, the state has implicitly abrogated its sovereign and exclusive right on the use of violence. Long before this, 'private armies' like the Ranvir Sena have held sway over large parts of Bihar and elsewhere. And in the vacuum left behind by an absconding state, so-called Naxals have almost total control of some 160 districts in the country.
What instigates the private takeover of the state's monopoly on violence? It is when that monopoly is seen to be criminally and flagrantly misused, as happened in Nandigram and in other cases of forcible dispossession of lands and forests from their traditional and rightful owners. When any state monopoly fails, private players step in to fill the gap. And in this case, those private players include rampaging mobs and armed insurgents. The brick and the bullet and the flaming torch replace the rule of law and disorder.
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Maoism, variably and officially known as Mao Zedong Thought (traditional Chinese: 毛澤東思想; simplified Chinese: 毛泽东思想; pinyin: Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng), is a totalitarian variant of Marxism derived from the teachings of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong (Wade-Giles Romanization: "Mao Tse-tung"), widely applied as the political and military guiding ideology in the Communist Party of China (CPC) from Mao's ascendancy to its leadership until the inception of Deng Xiaoping Theory and Chinese economic reforms in 1978. It is also applied internationally in contemporary times. Maoist parties and groups exist throughout the world, with notable groups in Peru, India, and Nepal, where they won the country's first free elections in 2008.[1]
The basic tenets of Maoism include revolutionary struggle of the vast majority of people against the exploiting classes and their state structures, termed a People's War. Usually involving peasants, its military strategies have involved guerrilla war tactics focused on surrounding the cities from the countryside, with a heavy emphasis on political transformation through the mass involvement of the basic people of the society. Maoism departs from conventional European-inspired Marxism in that its focus is on the agrarian countryside, rather than the industrial urban forces. Notably, successful Maoist parties in Peru, Nepal and Philippines have adopted equal stresses on urban and rural areas, depending on the country's level of development.
In its post-revolutionary period, Mao Zedong Thought is defined in the CPC's Constitution as "Marxism-Leninism applied in a Chinese context", synthesized by Mao Zedong and China's first-generation leaders. It asserts that class struggle continues even if the proletariat has already overthrown the bourgeoisie, and there are bourgeois restorationist elements within the Communist Party itself. It provided the CPC's first comprehensive theoretical guideline with regards to how to continue socialist revolution, the creation of a socialist society, socialist military construction, and highlights various contradictions in society to be addressed by what is termed "socialist construction". The ideology survives in name today on the Communist Party's Constitution; it is described as the guiding thought that created "new China" and a revolutionary concept against imperialism and feudalism.[2]
Maoism broke with the state capitalist framework of the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev and dismisses it as modern revisionism, a traditional pejorative term among communists referring to those who fight for capitalism in the name of socialism. Some critics claim that Maoists see Joseph Stalin as the last true socialist leader of the Soviet Union, although allowing the Maoist assessments of Stalin vary between the extremely positive and the more ambivalent.[3] Some political philosophers[who?] have seen in Maoism an attempt to combine Confucianism and Socialism - what one such called 'a third way between communism and capitalism'[4]
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[edit] Maoism in China
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Since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, and the capitalist reforms of Deng Xiaoping starting in 1978, the role of Mao's ideology within the PRC has radically changed.[5] Although Mao Zedong Thought nominally remains the state ideology, Deng's admonition to seek truth from facts means that state policies are judged on their practical consequences and the role of ideology in determining policy has been considerably reduced. Deng also separated Mao from Maoism, making it clear that Mao was fallible and hence that the truth of Maoism comes from observing social consequences rather than by using Mao's quotations as holy writ, as was done in Mao's lifetime.
In addition, the party constitution has been rewritten to give the capitalist ideas of Deng Xiaoping prominence over those of Mao. One consequence of this is that groups outside China which describe themselves as Maoist generally regard China as having repudiated Maoism and restored capitalism, and there is a wide perception both in and out of China that China has abandoned Maoism. However, while it is now permissible to question particular actions of Mao and to talk about excesses taken in the name of Maoism, there is a prohibition in China on either publicly questioning the validity of Maoism or questioning whether the current actions of the CCP are "Maoist."
Although Mao Zedong Thought is still listed as one of the four cardinal principles of the People's Republic of China, its historical role has been re-assessed. The Communist Party now says that Maoism was necessary to break China free from its feudal past, but that the actions of Mao are seen to have led to excesses during the Cultural Revolution. The official view is that China has now reached an economic and political stage, known as the primary stage of socialism, in which China faces new and different problems completely unforeseen by Mao, and as such the solutions that Mao advocated are no longer relevant to China's current conditions. The official proclamation of the new CPC stand came in June 1981, when the Sixth Plenum of the Eleventh National Party Congress Central Committee took place. The 35,000-word "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China" reads:
"Chief responsibility for the grave `Left' error of the `cultural revolution,' an error comprehensive in magnitude and protracted in duration, does indeed lie with Comrade Mao Zedong . . . . [and] far from making a correct analysis of many problems, he confused right and wrong and the people with the enemy. . . . Herein lies his tragedy."[6]
Both Maoist critics outside China and most Western commentators see this re-working of the definition of Maoism as providing an ideological justification for what they see as the restoration of the essentials of capitalism in China by Deng and his successors.
Mao himself is officially regarded by the CCP as a "great revolutionary leader" for his role in fighting the Japanese and creating the People's Republic of China, but Maoism as implemented between 1959 and 1976 is regarded by today's CPC as an economic and political disaster. In Deng's day, support of radical Maoism was regarded as a form of "left deviationism" and being based on a cult of personality, although these 'errors' are officially attributed to the Gang of Four rather than to Mao himself. Thousands of Maoists were arrested in the Hua Guafeng period after 1976, with prominent Maoists sentenced to death.
These distinctions were very important in the early 1980s, when the Chinese government was faced with the dilemma of how to impose capitalism on a population that wasn't demanding it.
[edit] Debate within China
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Many regret the erosion of guaranteed employment, education, health care, and other gains of the revolution that have been largely lost in the new profit-driven economy. This is reflected in a strain of Chinese Neo-Leftism in the country that sees China's future in an advance towards socialism under changed conditions.
Some Western Marxist scholars[citation needed] argue that China's rapid industrialization and relatively quick recovery from the brutal period of civil wars 1911-1949 was a positive impact of Maoism, and contrast its development specifically to that of Southeast Asia, Russia and India.[citation needed] While others see it as catastrophe for the environment, with Maoism specifically engaged in a battle to dominate and subdue nature.[7]
[edit] Maoism outside China
From 1962 onwards, the challenge to the Soviet hegemony in the World Communist Movement made by the CPC resulted in various divisions in communist parties around the world. At an early stage, the Albanian Party of Labour sided with the CPC. So did many of the mainstream (non-splinter group) communist parties in South-East Asia, like the Burmese Communist Party, Communist Party of Thailand, and Communist Party of Indonesia. Some Asian parties, like the Workers Party of Vietnam and the Workers Party of Korea attempted to take a middle-ground position.
In the west and south, a plethora of parties and organizations were formed that upheld links to the CPC. Often they took names such as Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) or Revolutionary Communist Party to distinguish themselves from the traditional pro-Soviet communist parties. The pro-CPC movements were, in many cases, based amongst the wave of student radicalism that engulfed the world in the 1960s and 1970s.
Only one Western classic communist party sided with CPC, the Communist Party of New Zealand. Under the leadership of CPC and Mao Zedong, a parallel international communist movement emerged to rival that of the Soviets, although it was never as formalized and homogeneous as the pro-Soviet tendency.
In the United States, the Black Panther Party, especially Huey Newton, was profoundly influenced by Maoist thought.
After the death of Mao in 1976 and the resulting power-struggles in China that followed, the international Maoist movement was divided into three camps. One group, composed of various ideologically nonaligned groups, gave weak support to the new Chinese leadership under Deng Xiaoping. Another camp denounced the new leadership as traitors to the cause of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought. The third camp sided with the Albanians in denouncing the Three Worlds Theory of the CPC (see Sino-Albanian Split.)
The pro-Albanian camp would start to function as an international group,[8] led by Enver Hoxha and the APL, and was able to amalgamate many of the communist groups in Latin America, including the Communist Party of Brazil.
The new Chinese leadership showed little interest in the various foreign groups supporting Mao's China. Many of the foreign parties that were fraternal parties aligned with the Chinese government before 1975 either disbanded, abandoned the new Chinese government entirely, or even renounced Marxism-Leninism and developed into non-communist, social democratic parties. What is today called the "international Maoist movement" evolved out of the second camp – the parties that opposed Deng and claimed to uphold the legacy of Mao.
During the 1980s two parallel regrouping efforts emerged, one centered around the Communist Party of the Philippines, which gave birth to the ICMLPO, and one that birthed the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, which the Shining Path communist guerrilla group and the Revolutionary Communist Party USA played a leading role in forming.
Both the International Conference and the RIM tendencies claimed to uphold Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, although RIM was later to substitute that ideology with what they termed 'Marxism-Leninism-Maoism'.
[edit] Maoism today
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Today, Maoist organizations, grouped in RIM, have their greatest influence in South Asia. They have been involved in violent struggles in Bangladesh and, until recently, Nepal. The Nepalese Maoist militant struggles have ended and the Maoists have peacefully negotiated to become the majority party in the newly formed republic. There are also minor groups active in Afghanistan, Peru[9] and Turkey[10][11].
In the Philippines, the Communist Party of the Philippines, which is not part of the RIM, leads an armed struggle through its military wing, the New People's Army.
In Peru, several columns of the Communist Party of Peru/SL are fighting a sporadic war. Since the capture of their leadership, Chairman Gonzalo and other members of their central committee in 1992, the PCP/SL no longer has initiative in the fight. Several different political positions are supported by the leadership of the PCP/SL.
In India, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) have been fighting a protracted war.[12] Formed by the merger of the People's War Group and the Maoist Communist Center ("notorious for its macabre killings") originating from the 25 May 1967 peasant uprising.[13], they have expanded their range of operations to over half of India and have been listed by the Prime Minister as the "greatest internal security threat" to the Indian republic since it was founded.[14][15][16]
In Germany, the ICMLPO-affiliated MLPD is the largest unambiguously-Marxist group in the country.
A Nepalese Maoist insurgency fought a drawn out insurgency against the Royal Nepalese Army and other supporters of the Shah Dynasty of Nepal. The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN (M)), a RIM member, has conditionally halted its armed struggle under a UNMIN. It participated and won the largest number of seats in the 2008 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election[17] and now leads a coalition government under Prime Minister and party chairman Prachanda. The party led the successful effort to arrange for a peaceful dissolution of the monarchy and formation of a republic.
[edit] Military strategy
Mao is widely regarded in China as a brilliant military strategist even among those who oppose his political or economic ideas.[citation needed] His writings on guerrilla warfare, most notably in his groundbreaking primer On Guerrilla Warfare,[18] and the notion of people's war are now generally considered to be essential reading,[citation needed]both for those who wish to conduct irregular revolts and for those who oppose them.[citation needed]
As with his economic and political ideas, Maoist military credo seems to have more relevance at the start of the 21st century outside of the People's Republic of China than within it. There is a consensus both within and outside the PRC that the military context that the PRC faces in the early 21st century are very different from the one faced by China in the 1930s. As a result, within the inner circle of the People's Liberation Army there has been extensive debate over whether and how to relate Mao's military doctrines to 21st-century military ideas, especially the idea of a revolution in military affairs.
[edit] See also
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong
- History of the People's Republic of China
- Cult of Personality
- New Democracy (concept)
- Deng Xiaoping Theory
- Three Represents
[edit] External links
[edit] General
- Marx2Mao.org Mao Internet Library
- The Encyclopedia of Marxism Mao Zedong Thought.
- The Encyclopedia of Marxism Mao's life.
- Monthly Review January 2005 Text of the leaflets distributed by the Zhengzhou Four.
- World Revolution Media Maoist revolutionary film, music, and art archive
[edit] Selected organizations
- The Kasama Project
- Chinese Communist Party *in Chinese*
- Freedom Road Socialist Organization
- Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Committee of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties from around the world
- Revolutionary Communist Party, USA Revolution newspaper online
- www.cpnm.org Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
- www.sarbedaran.org Communist Party of Iran (MLM) *in Persian*
- Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)
- Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada (PCR-RCP)
- Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers PCTP/MRPP (Portugal)
[edit] Revolutions
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.india-defence.com/reports-2361
- ^ Xinhua: Constitution of the Communist Party of China
- ^ Graham Young On Socialist Development and the Two Roads The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 8 (Jul., 1982), pp. 75-84 doi:10.2307/2158927
- ^ Political Philosophy from Plato to Mao, by Martin Cohen, page 206published 2001 by Pluto Press, London and Sterling VA ISBN 0745316034
- ^ UC Berkeley Journalism - Faculty - Deng's Revolution
- ^ http://www.country-studies.com/china/the-four-modernizations,-1979-82.html
- ^ Judith Shapiro: 'Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (ISBN 0521786800).
- ^ ROMA OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA Author: Judith Latham DOI: 10.1080/009059999109037. Published in: journal Nationalities Papers, Volume 27, Issue 2 June 1999 , pages 205 - 226
- ^ The Shining Path: The Successful Blending of Mao and Mariategui in Peru
- ^ RW ONLINE: First Congress of the Maoist Communist Party of Turkey
- ^ [09-04-96] FRANZ SCHURMANN, MORE DESTABILIZING THAN SADDAM HUSSEIN - TURKEY'S KURDISH LEADER SPREADS MAOIST INSURGENCY
- ^ Reuters AlertNet - Indian Maoist violence
- ^ Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) Maoist Coordination Committee (MCC)
- ^ Jo Johnson, Leftist Insurgents Kill 50 Indian Policemen. Financial Times, March 15, 2007.
- ^ Impasse in India - The New York Review of Books
- ^ The biggest threat to Indian elections
- ^ Nepal (11/07)
- ^ On Guerrilla Warfare
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Left-wing Extremist group
1. Formation
The outfit came into existence, in its earlier version, on October 20, 1969, as Dakshin Desh. When the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) was formed with the merger of several Maoist groups in 1969, one left-wing extremist group, Dakshin Desh, did not join and decided to retain its independent identity. In 1975, the outfit was renamed as the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC).
2. Objectives
Like other left wing extremist groups, the purported objective of the MCC is to establish a 'people's government' through 'people's war'. It traces its ideology to the Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse Tung's dictum of organised peasant insurrection.
3. Leadership and Command Structure
Amulya Sen and Kanhai Chaterjee were the leaders of the Dakshin Desh. After the death of Kanhai Chaterjee in 1982, factional differences surfaced within the outfit. A new leader, Shivenji, entered into a dispute with his deputy Ramadhar Singh, ostensibly over the issue of individual annihilation. In the days that followed, the latter broke ranks with the MCC and joined the CPI-ML. In the second half of the 1980s Pramod Mishra and Sanjay Dusadh emerged as the most formidable leaders of the MCC.
The MCC consists of an underground party unit — Krantikari Kisan Committee (KKC), the Red Defense Corps and the Youth and Women Fronts. The General Secretary is the top functionary of the organisation. He also heads the Central Committee, the top decision making body of the outfit. Apart from that, there are Zonal Committees, Sub-zonal committees, Regional committees and Village committees. The outfit also has a military wing. It has an estimated 50 squads each consisting of some 20 cadres. The MCC has also formed several front organisations, including the Naujawan Pratirodh Sangharsh Manch, Krantikari Budhijivi Sangh, Krantikari Sanskritik Sangh, Krantikari Chhatra League, Communist Yuva League, Naari Mukti Sangh and Mazdoor Mukti Sangh.
4. Area of Operation
In its early years, Dakshin Desh was active mainly in the Jangal Mahal Area of Burdwan district, West Bengal. Sunderbans, 24 Parganas, Hooghly and Midnapore districts of West Bengal.
At present the MCC has a presence in Bihar, Orissa (Sundargarh, Keonjhar) and Jharkhand. In Bihar, the MCC is primarily active in Gaya, Aurangabad, Camoor (Bhabhua), Rohtas, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Bettiah and Sitamarhi districts. In the newly created State of Jharkhand, the group is active in Chatra, Daltangonj, Hazaribagh, Palamu, Giridih, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Ranchi, Garhwa, Lohardaga, Gumla, East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Latehar districts.
The MCC is also trying to expand its activities in Burdwan, Nadia, and Howrah and North 24-Pargana districts of West Bengal. In Uttar Pradesh, the MCC has been making fervent attempts to gain a foothold in Mirzapur, Chandauli and Sonbhadra districts.
5. External Linkages
The MCC maintains close relationship with the Maoist insurgents in Nepal. On July 1, 2001, Nine Naxal outfits of India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka joined hands to form an umbrella organisation, the Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations (CCOMPOSA) with a purpose to unify and coordinate the activities of the Maoist Parties and organisations in South Asia. It is believed that the MCC along with the PWG and the Maoist insurgents in Nepal has been instrumental in the formation of the CCOMPOSA for a greater cooperation and understanding among the Naxalite groups of India and Nepal. Recently, the MCC, mainly active in Central Bihar and Jharkhand, has been active in North Bihar areas bordering Nepal. It is suspected that the MCC has moved to the North Bihar region to get closer to the Maoists in Nepal and to facilitate the exchange of men and material.
Also, the MCC has acquired the technology for manufacturing and implanting landmines from the People's War Group (PWG), which had picked up the techniques from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka.
6. Major Incidents
2004
- July 29: A group of 60 armed cadres of the MCC kill a civilian at Kaima village in the Latehar district of Jharkhand.
- July 18: MCC cadres kill a resident of Ambatola village in the Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand.
- July 12: MCC cadres kill Parmeswar Pathak, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, at Sarhari village in the Sarguja district of Chhattisgarh.
- July 10: MCC cadres kill two persons near Kharira village in the Gaya district of Bihar.
- June 30: MCC cadres kill two private security guards of a stone crushing company at Chahawan village in the Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh.
- June 22: Six Jharkhand Armed Police personnel, including an Assistant Sub-Inspector, are killed in a landmine explosion triggered by suspected MCC Naxalites near Rania in the Ranchi district of Jharkhand.
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April 29: The United States adds Maoist Communist Centre and the PWG in its Terrorist Exclusion List.
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April 26: A group of around 100 MCC Naxalites kill two police personnel at Simra police station in the Aurangabad district of Bihar.
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April 26: MCC cadres kill two police personnel near Jori village in the Gumla district of Jharkhand.
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April 20: Naxalites of the outlawed MCC kill a Patrolling Magistrate, identified as Ajay Kumar Sinha, during a landmine blast in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand.
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April 7: 26 police personnel are killed during a landmine blast triggered by the MCC at Saranda forests in the Chaibasa area of Jharkhand.
2003
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December 31: Police arrest six suspected MCC informers during a combing operation from the Burmu and Chanho areas in Ranchi district of Jharkhand.
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December 25: Four police personnel are killed and three more sustain injuries in an MCC ambush at Pithoria in Jharkhand's Ranchi district.
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December 5: MCC Naxalites demand Rupees 7crore from the management of the SAIL-owned Meghahatuburu mine in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district.
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November 23: Bihar Government orders a crackdown on all Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) with links to the left-wing extremists outfits-Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) and People's War Group (PWG) in the State.
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November 18: Six MCC cadres, including a 'sub-zonal commander', are killed during an encounter with the security forces at Banaru forests in the Chatra district of Jharkhand.
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November 12: Approximately, 300 MCC Naxalites attack a police patrol party near Rerha village in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand.
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October 14: Naxalites of the MCC kill one person and injure four police personnel at Demotar in the Hazaribag district of Jharkhand.
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October 11: MCC Naxalites kill a police officer and injure four others with a powerful landmine near Katajhora in the Purulia district on the West Bengal-Jharkhand border while they were on patrol.
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September 12: Two Naxalites of the MCC, including an 'area commander', are killed in an encounter at Sijang under the Palkot police station-limits, Gumla district. Another Naxalite is killed in an encounter at Chhotka Khantga in the same district.
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September 13: Jharkhand Police arrests an 'area commander' of the MCC near Konar dam in the Giridih district.
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September 11: Two MCC Naxalites, including an 'area commander', are killed in an encounter at Sijang under the Palkot police station-limits in the Gumla district of Jharkhand. Another Naxalite is killed in an encounter at Chhotka Khantga in the same district.
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September 8: 11 police personnel and a civilian are killed in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG and the MCC, in a joint operation, in the dense forests of Kaimur range in the Rohtas district of Bihar.
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September 4: MCC Naxalites kill two persons in Tundahuli village under the Ormanjhi police station-limits in the Ranchi district of Jharkhand. Separately, MCC Naxalites abduct and later kill two persons in Serak village under the Chandwa police station-limits in Latehar district.
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August 24: Jharkhand Police raids a place under the Bhandari police station-limits in Garhwa district and arrests four MCC Naxalites.
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August 22: An MCC 'area commander' is killed during an encounter near Chouki village under the Ramanujganj police station-limits in Sarguja revenue district of Chhattisgarh. In Jharkhand, MCC Naxalites kill two persons and critically injure one of the same family in Kangar village under the Raidih police station-limits in Gumla district.
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August 21: MCC Naxalites kill two civilians in the Veeru village of Simdega district in Jharkhand.
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August 10: Naxalites of the MCC kill four persons, including a police personnel and a village headman, in the Jamui district of Bihar.
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August 6: MCC Naxalites abduct and later kill three persons on the borders of Chandauli and Mirzapur districts in Uttar Pradesh.
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July 27: While a Naxalite of the MCC is killed, the Bhojpur district police chief has a narrow escape during an encounter near Gataria bridge under the Piro police station limits in Bihar.
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July 26: Naxalites of the MCC blow up the newly constructed building of the Govardhanana Police Station on the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar's West Champaran district with dynamites.
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July 22: A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel is killed when MCC Naxalites ambush a patrol party at Baruhatu hills, Ranchi district, on the first day of their 48-hour long Jharkhand bandh (general shutdown).
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July 16: Approximately MCC 200 Naxalites abduct three persons and later kill two of them in Pehera village of Giridih district in Jharkhand.
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July 15: Naxalites of the MCC cause large scale damage to railway tracks leading to derailment of at least three trains and uprooting of signals and points as part of their Tirhut-Mithinanchal (Northern Bihar) bandh (general shutdown).
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July 9: MCC Naxalites abduct 15 engineers of the Larsen and Toubro and Hindustan Construction from Kosama village, approximately 100 kilometres from Ranchi, capital city of Jharkhand. In Gumla district of Jharkhand, Naxalites of the MCC kill three persons in Dari village.
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July 6: Naxalites of the MCC abduct and later kill a person in Badani area in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand.
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July 5: Naxalites of the MCC take captive the entire staff of Hehegarha railway station in Jharkhand's Latehar district, disrupting train services for over 10 hours on Garhwa Road-Barkakana Section of East Central Railway.
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July 2: Three police personnel are killed and three others injured when Naxalites of the MCC attack the Paraiya police station in Gaya district of Bihar.
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July 1: Naxalites of the MCC kill three persons at Lutidih under the Simaria police station-limits, Chatra district in Jharkhand.
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June 30: Naxalites of the MCC kill six persons in separate incidents in Latehar and Gumla districts of Jharkhand.
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June 20: A couple is lynched for alleged involvement in the killing of a three-year-old girl after MCC's 'People's Court' (kangaroo court) awards them death penalty in Barhi village, Latehar district of Jharkhand.
In Bihar, MCC Naxalites kill two persons in the Roh police station limits of Nawada district.
- June 17: An MCC Naxalite is killed during a clash with the rival CPI-ML (Liberation) near Pithiaon village, Rohtas district of Bihar.
- June 14: MCC Naxalites blast the newly constructed building of Tilothu police station in Rohtas district, Bihar.
- June 11: MCC targets railway property at various places on the second day of the Jharkhand bandh (strike).
- June 10: Normal life is affected in the State of Jharkhand on the first day of the two-day bandh called by the MCC to protest against alleged police atrocities.
- June 7: Eleven MCC Naxalites surrender before the District Magistrate in Darbhanga, Bihar.
- June 4: Three personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the driver of the vehicle are killed when MCC Naxalites trigger a landmine at Karo mines under the Bermo sub-division, Bokaro district in Jharkhand.
In Chatra district, Jharkhand Naxalites kill two persons branding them police informers.
- June 2: MCC Naxalites attack the office of a private company engaged in executing the Sone canal project setting ablaze dumpers, vehicles and furniture at Nawadih village in the Rohtas district of Bihar.
- May 30: MCC Naxalites abduct six persons in Narayanbeda village, East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand.
- May 25: Three Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel are killed after MCC Naxalites attack Simultalla railway station in Bihar's Jamui district.
- May 24: MCC Naxalites ambush two tractor-trailer loads of villagers near Banwari Champapur village in Bihar's West Champaran's killing two persons and injuring three others.
- May 15: Unidentified assailants kill two MCC Naxalites, including an 'area commander', in the Umarakoling area of Gumla district in Jharkhand.
- May 12: Jharkhand police launches 'Operation Hilltop' in Jhumra hills, Bokaro district, to flush out MCC from the area.
- May 10: Police arrest an MCC 'area commander' in the Patrahi village of Aurangabad district in Bihar.
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May 6: Normal life is affected in several parts of Jharkhand during the bandh (strike) called by the PWG and MCC against alleged police atrocities.
- May 5: MCC calls for a strike in six districts of Jharkhand to protest against alleged police atrocities.
- May 4: Two MCC Naxalites are arrested in the Saranda forest near Digha, Sundergarh district, Orissa.
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May 2: Naxalites of the MCC abduct and later kill an activist of the Jharkhand Sangharsh Jan Mukti Morcha (JSJMM) in Anjan village, Gumla district.
A 'sub-zonal commander' of the MCC is killed in an encounter in Goriyadih village under the Ghaghra police station-limits in Gumla district, Jharkhand.
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April 30: Two MCC Naxalites, including a 'sub-zonal commander', are killed in an encounter at Nava Jaipur in the Daltonganj district of Jharkhand.
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April 27: Seven MCC Naxalites are arrested after an encounter in Nawadih village, Saranda forest areas, West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand.
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April 25: An MCC Naxalite, allegedly involved in the killing of the erstwhile king of Vijaygarh near Rampur village, Sonebhadra district, Uttar Pradesh on February 25, 2003, is arrested from Kusumha village, under Robertsganj police station limits, in the same district.
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April 16: MCC Naxalites escape into the Saranda forests in West Singhbum district, Jharkhand, after looting an unspecified quantity of explosives from Roxy, Kevland police station-limits, Sundergarh district in Orissa.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda offers to hold talks with the MCC.
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April 15: MCC Naxalites kill eight police personnel and injure three more by setting off a landmine blast and also loot six Self Loading Rifles, two other rifles, a revolver and several rounds of ammunition from them before fleeing from the spot in the forests of Cherki valley, Nawada district in Bihar.
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April 14: Naxalites of the MCC attack a police outpost at Chandrapura railway station, Bokaro district in Jharkhand and loot 23 rifles and several hundred cartridges.
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April 7: Naxalites of the MCC set ablaze a house of the Forest department at a village in the Sundargarh district of Orissa.
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April 8: A MCC training camp is unearthed and three cadres are arrested in Balubhang village, Latehar district in Jharkhand.
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April 6: Naxalites of the MCC kill three alleged criminals in Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand.
In Orissa, Naxalites of the MCC set ablaze a house and a truck of a forest guard in San Ramloi village, Birsa police station limits, Sundergarh district.
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April 1: Naxalites of the MCC kill one person and injure another in Tamad near Ranchi on the first day of the 48-hour bandh (strike) called by them and the PWG to protest the US-led attack on Iraq and alleged police high-handedness in the State of Bihar and Jharkhand
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March 30: MCC Naxalites kill three persons near Lavalong, Chatra district in Jharkhand.
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March 28: Two Naxalites of the MCC and a personnel of Bihar Military Police (BMP) are killed and as many injured when in a Naxal attack on the Bednagarh picket of Chenari police station, Rohtas district in Bihar.
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March 18: Naxalites of the MCC injure three police personnel and loot 15 rifles and 1000 bullets in an attack on a police post in Lodipur village, Gaya district in Bihar.
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March 5: Naxalites of the MCC kill a farmer in Laxmipur village, Palamu district in Jharkhand.
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February 25: Naxalites of the MCC kill the erstwhile king of Vijaygarh and a member of his escort team in the jungles near Rampur village, Manchi police station-limits, Sonebhadra district, Uttar Pradesh.
In a joint operation, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Special Task Force (STF) personnel of Bihar Police unearth the nerve center of the MCC and arrest three MCC Naxalites and five Nepalese Maoist insurgents in Patrakar Nagar locality, Patna, Bihar. -
February 16: Naxalites of the MCC attack the motorcade of Janata Dal (United) [JD-U] Jharkhand State unit chief Gautam Sagar Rana near the forests of Marhara, Hazaribagh district.
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February 13: Naxalites of the MCC attack several villages and loot guns and cartridges in Jamui district, Bihar.
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February 10: Six security force personnel and four Naxalites of the MCC are killed near Chiro village, Latehar district during the 48-hour bandh (general strike) called by the MCC in Jharkhand.
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February 8: Naxalites of the MCC abduct five persons from Dumaria police station-limits, West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand. While three of them are killed, the Naxalites chop off a hand of each of the remaining two before setting them free.
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February 7: Two persons are beaten to death by Naxalites of the MCC at Pipra village, Gaya district in Bihar.
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February 3: Naxalites of the MCC attack the crusher unit of the Golden Quadrilateral Highway project in Aurangabad district in Bihar.
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January 28: A self-styled sub-zonal area commander of the MCC is arrested in a raid at a hideout in Simaria police station area, Chatra district in Jharkhand.
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January 26: Three Naxalites of the MCC are arrested in Burmu near Ranchi in Jharkhand.
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January 13: Naxalites of the MCC abduct four businessmen from Hussainabad block, Palamu district in Jharkhand.
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January 8: In Jharkhand, a police driver is killed and five security force personnel injured in a landmine blast set-off by the MCC, near Kasmar village, Palamu district. In Bihar, five Naxalites of the MCC are arrested for the January 4-killing of three persons in Tilai village, under Sanjhauli police station-limits, in Rohtas district.
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January 4: Naxalites of the MCC kill three members of a family in Tilai village, under Sanjhauli police station-limits, Rohtas district in Bihar.
2002
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December 31: Suspected Naxalites of the MCC kill Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI)--the youth wing of the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI-M--local-level leader Lakshmi Bag, in Jangipara, Hooghly district, West Bengal.
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December 23: In a release issued in Gaya, Bihar, the Bihar-Jharkhand-Bengal Special Area Committee of the MCC claims responsibility for the December 20-Saranda forest ambush and warns of similar 'operations', if security agencies did not stop torturing innocent farmers and labourers on the pretext of curbing extremism.
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December 20: Naxalites of the MCC lay an ambush on a convoy of police personnel, in Jharkahnd, killing 18 police and injuring 20 more in Saranda forests, at Bitkilsoya, Manoharpur police station-limits, West Singhbhum district, bordering Orissa. They also loot an unspecified number of arms and ammunition and set ablaze 11 vehicles in the convoy.
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December 19: Naxalites of the MCC kill a village headman in Manoharpur village, West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand.
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December 16: Approximately 60 Naxalites of the MCC and PWG lodged at Midnapore Central Jail, West Bengal, begin an indefinite hunger strike to press for their unconditional release.
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December 13: A Naxalite of the MCC is arrested and booked under POTA in Srijan village, West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand.
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December 2: Naxalites of the MCC kill two persons in separate incidents in Latehar district.
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November 20: Naxalites of the MCC attack the Central Coalfields Limited's (CCL), Piparwar office, in Jharkhand's Chatra district, and snatch away three guns from private security guards.
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November 18: Jharkhand police arrest 19 Naxalites of the MCC in Ranchi.
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November 17: Jharkhand police arrest four MCC Naxalites and recover explosives in Gumla district.
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November 15: The MCC and PWG issue a call to boycott the celebrations to mark the second anniversary of the formation of Jharkhand State.
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November 10: Naxalites of the MCC attack Harsidpur village, in Bihar's Nawada district, and kill two persons.
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November 7: 37 Naxalites of the MCC surrender with weapons to Chief Minister Babulal Marandi, in Bokaro district.
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October 26: An estimated 550 supporters and sympathizers of the MCC are detained in Jharkhand and West Bengal States while on their way to participate in a convention organized by the Struggling Forum for People's Resistance (SFPR), a front organization of the MCC, in Kolkata, starting on the day.
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October 18: Three activists of the Struggling Forum of People's Resistance, a front organization of the MCC, are arrested from Bandagaon, West Singhbhum district, and been booked under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).
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October 12: Two Naxalites, including a 'sub-zonal commander' of the MCC, are arrested in Madanpur village, Aurangabad district, Bihar.
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October 9: Suspected Naxalites of the MCC make an abortive bid to loot firearms in an attack on a police picket in the Kashichak police station area, Nawada district, Bihar.
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October 7: Four Naxalites of the MCC are arrested from Bokaro district, Jharkhand. A huge quantity of arms and ammunition is recovered from their possession.
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October 5: Naxalites of the MCC kill a local leader of the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bokaro district, Jharkhand.
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September 24: Nine Naxalites of the MCC are arrested and a huge cache of arms is seized in Prasangan village, Latehar district, Jharkhand.
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September 22: A huge quantity of arms and ammunition is recovered in a village in Muzaffarpur district in Bihar, after an encounter with Naxalites of the MCC.
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September 13: West Bengal police arrest five Naxalites of the MCC from Singhahore village, Bankura district.
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September 9: Police arrest an 'area commander' of the MCC and two of his associates on the outskirts of Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand.
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August 16: Two persons are killed and six others injured in an attack by Naxalites of the MCC in at bazaar in Bagha, West Champaran district, Bihar.
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July 15 A suspected Naxalite of the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) is arrested from Dakshin Kashilya village, Birbhum district, West Bengal.
During the 24-hour bandh (general shutdown) called by MCC in Jharkhand, Naxalites attack a goods train with heavy gunfire between Hehegada and Chhipadohar stations, Dhanbad division, and kill a security force personnel, besides injuring five others. -
June 12: Four Naxalites of the MCC arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). One among them reportedly played a key role in the October 31, 2001-massacre in Topchanchi, Dhanbad, in which 13 police personnel were killed by the MCC.
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July 10: Police arrest an 'area commander' of the MCC in Omkaleshwar, Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh.
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July 9: Three MCC Naxalites killed in separate encounters in Chandauli and Sonebhadra districts, Uttar Pradesh.
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July 1: 14 Naxalites of the MCC surrender at a 'Janata Darbar' (People's Court) in Chiata village, East Champaran district. Bihar.
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May 20: Bharatiya Jananta Party (BJP) local-level leader killed, elder brother Injured in an MCC attack at Chanlaso village, Jharkhand.
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May 7: On the second day of the two-day economic blockade of Jharkhand, an estimated 15 police personnel and a Naxalite of the MCC are killed in a landmine blast at Mthadih, Koderma district.
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May 6: On the first day of the two-day economic blockade called jointly by the MCC and the People's War Group (PWG), MCC Naxalites attack a police patrol party near Kamundi, Latehar district in Jharkhand.
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April 27: Supreme Court approves death sentence to four Naxalites of the MCC, who killed 35 persons in Bara village, Gaya district in Bihar in 1992.
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April 13: The Jharkhand police submit chargesheet against eight MCC Naxalites, accused of killing 13 personnel of the Jharkhand Armed Police at Topchanchi, Dhanbad district on October 31.
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April 10: One CRPF personnel and one MCC Naxalite killed in an encounter in Vishrampur Saraiya village, Aurangabad district in Bihar. Separately, the Special Task Force (STF) demolish an MCC bunker and arrest two of its Naxalites in Koriari village, Kaimur district.
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April 2: A police personnel killed and four others injured when the MCC Naxalites ambushed a vehicle of the State Bank of India near Lara village, Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand.
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March 5: A police personnel killed when the MCC Naxalites attacked a police station in Arwal district in Bihar
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February 26: 24 Naxalites of the MCC surrender in East Champaran district of Bihar.
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February 20: The MCC Naxalites killed four persons during the 2—hour general strike called by the MCC and the PWG in Jharkhand.
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February 16: 12 Naxalites of the MCC including their 'zonal commander' surrender in Darbhanga
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February 15: The Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of the Shahabad forest division in Bihar was abducted and later killed by the MCC Naxalites in Rohtas district.
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February 4: Naxalites of the MCC attack a police party and killed 9 police personnel at Jorighat, Chatra district in Jharkhand
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January 6-7: Seven Naxalites of the MCC killed in different encounters in Rohtas district in Bihar
2001
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December 31: Five MCC Naxalites arrested after an encounter in the Palkot police station area, Gumla district in Jharkhand.
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December 21: Two personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) killed and four others injured in a landmine blast triggered by Naxalites of the MCC, in the forests, 3 km away from the Chinia police post, Garhwa district in Jharkhand.
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December 10: MCC holds a Jan Adalat (Kangaroo Court) in Bhagwanpur village, Sarguja district in Chhattisgarh. They execute three persons after four hours of 'public trial' on charges of misusing the outfit for monetary gains.
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December 5: Union government bans MCC under Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO).
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November 12: The MCC Naxalites kill two local-level leaders of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Latehar district in Jharkhand.
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October 31: The MCC killed 13 police personnel near at Topchanchi near Dhanbad in Jharkhand.
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October 4: Four police personnel, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), were killed and four others seriously injured in a landmine blast triggered by the MCC Bargarh, Garhwa district in Jharkhand.
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September 29: Naxalites of the MCC burnt alive a police personnel in Kodarma district in Jharkhand.
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September 24: MCC Naxalites attacked the Giridih district police chief when he was returning to Giridih from Hazaribagh after attending the meeting of police chiefs of Naxal-affected districts.
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September 23: 12 CRPF personnel were killed by a landmine blast triggered by the MCC at Abroj forest area in the Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand.
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September 6: Five persons including two police personnel were killed by the MCC at Pathki Latehar distirct, Jharkhand
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August 6: MCC Naxaltie ambushed police patrol party at Chilgo forest near Bokaro in Jharkhand. One guard-cum-jeep driver was killed and one police personnel seriously injured in encounter.
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June 24: The MCC Naxalites attacked a police picket at Dhekuli, Sheohar district in Bihar and looted six rifles and a large quantity of ammunition. Three police personnel were also injured in the incident.
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June 7: Approximately, 100 MCC Naxalites attack a passenger train at Haurbera station near Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and looted arms and ammunition. Six Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel injured in the incident.
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May 27: One police personnel was killed and five others seriously injured when more than 100 MCC Naxalites attack Mali police station, Aurangabad district in Bihar.
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May 21: The MCC Naxalites attack a police team and loot four rifles from them in Hembrom Bazar, Ranchi in Jharkhand. Four police personnel injure in the attack.
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April 14: Fourteen persons were massacred by the MCC at Belpu village, Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand. Those killed belonged to the Gram Suraksha Dal (Village Protection Force) which the villagers had raised three years ago to guard against MCC attacks.
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April 5: Eight police personnel were injured in an attack by the Naxalites of the MCC in Ranja Gahti, Gumla district in Jharkhad.
2000
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December 18: The MCC looted six self-loading rifles and two carbines from the police in Muzaffarpur district in Bihar.
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November 12: In Jharkhand, the MCC killed the wife of the Hazaribagh Deputy Commissioner.
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October 5: In the State of Jharkhand, the MCC killed the Lohardaga district Superintendent of Police, Ajay Kumar.
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February 12: The MCC killed 22 persons including 19 police personnel in a landmine blast in Palamu, Jharkhand during the first phase of State Legislative Elections.
1999
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November 18: The MCC killed 12 persons Latu village, Palamu in Jharkhand.
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March 18: The MCC massacred over 34 upper caste Bhumihars in Senari village, Jehanabad in Bihar.
1992
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February 12: The MCC massacred 37 members of the landowing upper caste Bhumihar community at Bara village, Gaya district in Bihar.
1987
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May 29: The MCC massacred 42 persons belonging to an upper caste Rajput family at Dalelchak-Baghaura village in Aurangabad district, Bihar.
1986
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October 7: The MCC killed 11 persons belonging to the upper caste Rajput community in Darmia village Aurangabad district in Bihar.
Chronology of Massacres in Central Bihar (1977-2001)
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Last week, hundreds of Maoists, who are expanding their influence in India, chased away police from a tribal area based around the town of Lalgarh about 170 km (100 miles) from Kolkata, capital of West Bengal state.
By attacking Lalgarh and then keeping the police at bay for four days, the Maoists demonstrated their growing influence over poor villagers and their capability to strike close to a big city like Kolkata.
Thousands of villagers caught in the crossfire have left their homes in panic and have been put up in makeshift government camps. They are clearly shaken by the siege and the subsequent police campaign to sanitise Lalgarh.
Indian states have time and again asked the central government that it might need the army to fight the Maoist movement, which is rapidly spreading in the country.
But for the moment, India is banking on the police to tackle the Maoists and equipping its forces with modern weapons and training to fight the Maoists in their own den.
Experts say it is clear that the strategy of the rebels with their 22,000 plus combatants is to encircle bigger towns and cities and could hit industry.
Maybe Indian authorities should also rework their strategy as the police with their limited prowess have always been soft targets in rural areas and have failed to gain confidence of poor villagers.
Will India look to deploy the army at some stage?
(Reuters photo of a paramilitary soldier keeping watch from a tree in Jhitka near Lalgarh June 21, 2009)
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June 22nd, 2009 3:35 pm GMT | "Will India look to deploy the army at some stage?" –No. firstly because para-military forces are well-equiped & competent to take on this mao nuisance, they're limited & most probably remain so to the poorest belt, tribal & forest areas - thus not provoking any urban or semi-urban public outcry, mainly because at the end of the day - they're but Indians & their 'revolution' (irrespective of other perceptions)is indegenious. - Posted by anup |
June 22nd, 2009 3:55 pm GMT | If the maoists effected areas need any para milltary force to be employed then why cant we think of the same when people are brought down to dead corpses in many parts of the country,where maoism does not find its mention.Their revolution is not a foreign invasion against the country.Its home grown.Why cant it be sorted out through discussions as there have been a proposition in the past?Isnt the employing of para millitary for their suppression giving fuel to their revolution? - Posted by Moumita |
June 22nd, 2009 4:02 pm GMT | If the army is deployed to fight Maoists(who are basically Indians)who will fight the foriegn elements looking to attack us from across the borders? The solution is to listen to them and achieve a solution. Either give them what they want or stop this non sense once and for all. We keep talking about Terrorism and yet these people are killing police and paramilitary forces. The government needs to act fast. - Posted by Somnath |
June 22nd, 2009 4:16 pm GMT | Yes they are killing police and the para millitary forces.But just to add innocent people are also being killed in the name of maoist operation.So it needs to be sorted out.If they are for any revolution, they must have some points to speak on.Why cant we listen to them and come to a conclusion? - Posted by Moumita |
June 22nd, 2009 4:32 pm GMT | The issue of Maoist movement in India or elsewhere (Nepal, Philippines, Peru, Turkey etc ) is not a law and order issue. It's a socio-economic issue. Unless and until the main socio-economic issues that led to this movement are not addressed, no matter in what way it is suppressed - using paramilitary forces or the Army - it is going to come up again. Sending Army to crush their movement is not the solution. - Posted by Paul |
June 22nd, 2009 4:39 pm GMT | We don't need the army to adress the naxalite issue. What we need is the political will to tackle it. |
June 22nd, 2009 4:46 pm GMT | I agree with Paul.This is not a budding issue.Its been decades old.Everytime it is crushed,its comes up and it will continue doing so bcoz the root cause is never addressed.Army and suppression with power is not the key to conclusion.If the Socio-Economic structure cannot be changed(as its really difficult and close to impossible),at least it can be alligned after the discusion with them.But key point Para millitary force is not going to help.In doing so lots of lives will be lost.To keep in mind the maoist kill people but the innocent villagers.If a so called "social terror" can think of the innocent people,why cant we do the same and talk over the matter? - Posted by Moumita |
June 22nd, 2009 6:39 pm GMT | I am not sure but the government may have to deploy army. Indian internal security is a mess. Infact, every Indian will agree that it is a torture to go through India's judicial system wherein overwhelming majority of implementers, right from beat constable to Chief Justice of India cannot be trusted and are rotten and corrupt to the core. Rise of Naxalism in such conditions cannot be attributed to outside forces but to needs of people which are being fulfilled by them. If one dacoit in Chitrakoot can hold some 400 odd uniformed dacoits at bay for more than 48 hours and eliminate 4 of them then I guess > 20 K Naxals should wipe out entire police force of West Bengal easily. - Posted by Rohit |
Communist Party of India (Maoist)
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| Communist Party of India (Maoist) | |
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| Leader | Muppala Lakshmana Rao under nom de guerre "Ganapati" |
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| Founded | September 21, 2004 |
| Ideology | Communism, Anti-Revisionist Marxism-Leninism, Maoism |
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The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is an underground Maoist political party in India. It was founded on September 21, 2004, through the merger of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India. The merger was announced to the public on October 14 the same year. In the merger a provisional central committee was constituted, with PW leader Ganapati as General Secretary. The CPI (Maoist) are often referred to as Naxalites in reference to the Naxalbari insurrection by radical Maoists in West Bengal in 1967.The Centre on 22nd June 2009 (Monday) banned the CPI (Maoist) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, calling it a terrorist organization.
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[edit] Ideology
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is conducting 'people's war', a strategical line developed by Mao Zedong during the phase of guerrilla warfare of the Communist Party of China. Currently it has effective presence in some regions of Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh as well as presence in Bihar and the tribal-dominated areas in the borderlands of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Orissa. The CPI(Maoist) aims to consolidate its power in this area and establish a Compact Revolutionary Zone from which to advance the people's war in other parts of India.
[edit] Organization
The military wings of the respective organisations, People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (military wing of MCCI) and People's Guerrilla Army (military wing of PW), were also merged. The name of the unified military organisation is People's Liberation Guerrilla Army. P.V. Ramana, of the Observer Research Foundation in Delhi estimates the Naxilities' current strength at 9,000 -10,000 armed fighters, with access to about 6,500 firearms.[1] Other 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.[2]
[edit] Status
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The party was banned on 22nd June 2009 by the central home ministry keeping in mind the growing unlawful activities by the group[3] The party is regarded by some as a "left-wing extremist entity" and a terrorist outfit and several of their members have been arrested by the Indian Government under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA)[4][5]. The group is officially banned by the State Governments of Orissa[6], Chattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, among others. The party has protested these bans.[7] They are regarded as a serious security threat and the Indian government is taking countermeasures, pulling the affected states together to coordinate their response. It says it will combine improved policing with socio-economic measures to defuse grievances that fuel the Maoist cause.[5] In many states, private armies and vigilante groups, often government-sponsored, have sprung up to counter the Maoists. It is alleged that these private armies have also forcibly recruited villagers against the Maoists.[6] Special insurance provisions have been made by the Indian government for paramilitary forces stationed in regions affected by the militant Maoists.[7]
[edit] Front Organisations
The PWG also has a string of front organisations of students, youth, industrial workers, miners, farm hands, women, poets, writers and cultural artists. Some among these are listed below:
Andhra Pradesh
Rythu Coolie Sangham (Agricultural labourers association)
Singareni Karmika Samakhya (Singareni collieries workers federation)
Viplava Karmika Samakhya (Revolutionary workers federation)
Radical Students Union
Radical Youth League
All India Revolutionary Students Federation
Bihar
Lok Sangram Morcha (People's Struggle Front)
Mazddor Kisam Mukti Morcha (Workers-Peasants Liberation Front)
Jan Mukti Parishad (People's Liberation Council)
Mazdoor Kisan Ekta Morcha (Workers-Peasants Unity Front)
Bharat Navjawan Sabha (Indian Youth Association)
Mazdoor Kisan Sangrami Parishad (Workers-Peasants Struggle Council)
Shramik Sangram Manch (Workers Struggle Platform)
Nari Mukti Sangharsh Samiti (Women's Liberation Struggle Association)
Sangharsha Jana Mukti Morcha (People's Liberation Struggle Front)
Democratic Students Union
All India People's Resistance Forum
Madhya Pradesh
Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sangh (Tribal Peasants-Workers Association)
Krantikari Kisan Mazdoor Sangh (Revolutionary Peasants-Workers Association)
Krantikari Balak Sangh (Revolutionary Children's Association)
Gram Raksha Dal (Village Defence Force)
Gram Rajya Samiti (Village governance council)
[edit] Recent activities
- February 23, 2009: Maoists kill a contractor, sets fire in police post at Govindpalli of Malkangiri.[9][10]
- June 29, 2008: CPI forces attacked a boat on the Chitrakonda reservoir in Orissa carrying members of an anti-Naxalite police force. The boat sunk, killing 33 policemen, while 28 survived.[12][13]
- In November 2007 reports emerged that the anti-SEZ movement in Nandigram in West Bengal had been infiltrated by Naxalites since February; the reports quoted unnamed intelligence sources.[14] Recently, police found weapons belonging to Maoists near Nandigram.
- On March 15, 2007 an attack happened in the rebel stronghold area of Dantewada, in Chhattisgarh state. Fifty-four persons, including 15 personnel of the Chhattishgarh Armed Force, were killed in an offensive by 300 to 350 CPI (Maoist) cadres on a police base camp in the Bastar region in the early hours of Thursday. The remaining victims were tribal youths of Salwa Judum, designated as Special Police Officers (SPOs) and roped in to combat the Maoists. Eleven person were injured. The attack, which lasted nearly two-and-a-half hours, was spearheaded by the "State Military Commission (Maoist)", consisting of about 100 armed naxalites.[15]
- On March 6, 2007 the CPI (Maoist) reportedly claimed responsibility for the Mahato assassination, but JMM members of the Jharkhand state cabinet, including the Chief Minister, subsequently announced that a state police investigation is under way into the authenticity of this claim. Police reportedly believe that political rivals of Mahato, including organized criminal groups, may have been behind the assassination.[16]
- On March 5, 2007 Maoist shot dead a local Congress leader (Prakash, a member of the local Mandal Praja Parishad (MPP)) in Andhra Pradesh while he was inspecting a road construction project in Mahabubnagar district.[17]
- On March 4, 2007 Maoist shot dead a member of the parliament (Sunil Mahato) of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) party from Jharkhand state.[18]
- On December 2, 2006 the BBC reported that at least 14 Indian policemen had been killed by Maoists in a landmine ambush near the town of Bokaro, 80 miles from Ranchi, the capital of the State of Jharkhand.[19]
- On October 18, 2006 women belonging to the Maoist guerrilla forces blasted four government buildings in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. On the day before, over a dozen armed cadres of the group, with support from male colleagues, blocked traffic on the Antagarh-Koylibera Road in the Kanker district, near the city of Raipur. They also detonated explosives inside four buildings, including two schools, in Kanker[8]. This incident occurred two days after a major leader of the party's operations in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, Kone Kedandam, surrendered to authorities in the town of Srikakulam.[20]
- On July 16, 2006 the Maoists attacked a relief camp in the Dantewada district where several villagers were kidnapped. The death toll was 29.[21]
- On February 28, 2006 the Maoists attacked several anti-Maoist protesters in Erraboru village in Chhattisgarh using landmines, killing 25 people.[22]
- On 13 November 2005 CPI (Maoist) fighters stunned authorities by attacking Jehanabad in Bihar, freeing 250 captured comrades and taking twenty imprisoned right wing paramilitaries captive, executing their leader. They also detonated several bombs in the town.[23] A prison guard was also reported killed.
- In August 2005 Maoists kidnapped from the Dantewada district of the state of Chhattisgarh.This fiollows violent incidents in 2004 in the same region when 50 policemen and about 300 villagers were killed in the Dantewada district and over 50,000 villagers were staying in relief camps out of fear from Maoists.[24]
- In February 2005 the CPI (Maoist) killed 7 policemen, a civilian and injured many more during a mass attack on a school building in Venkatammanahalli village, Pavgada, Tumkur, Karnataka.[25][26] On August 17, 2005, the government of Andhra Pradesh outlawed the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and various mass organizations close to it, and began to arrest suspected members and sympathizers days afterwards. The arrested included former emissaries at the peace talks of 2004.
- A Frontline Cover Story calls the Bhamragad Taluka where the Madia Gond Adivasis live, the heart of the naxalite-affected region in Maharashtra.[27]
[edit] Opposition to the Maoist
In 2005, an anti-Maoist village defense movement was born, calling itself the Salwa Judum, or Peace Mission. The group has coaxed or hounded thousands of people out of their forest hamlets and into the squalid tent camps, where suspected Maoist sympathizers are detained. The camps are guarded by police officers, paramilitary forces and squads of local armed youths empowered with the title "special police officer." The Delhi-based Asian Center for Human Rights, in a report in March 2006, found children in the ranks of the Salwa Judum. The center also accuses the Maoists of recruiting child soldiers. It calls the conflict "the most serious challenge to human rights advocacy in India."[2]
[edit] International connections
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The CPI (Maoist) maintains dialogue with the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) who control most of Nepal in the Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organizations of South Asia and also has control in australia (CCOMPOSA).[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ A spectre haunting India, the Economist Volume 380 Number 8491 August 19th-25th 2006
- ^ a b In India, Maoist Guerrillas Widen 'People's War'
- ^ "Centre bans CPI (Maoist), declares it a terror organisation". Zee News. 2009-06-22. http://www.zeenews.com/news541260.html. Retrieved on 2009-06-22.
- ^ CPI_M,South Asia Terrorism Portal
- ^ Article on CPI_M,MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
- ^ Eastern Indian state bans communist rebel group,The China Post
- ^ Maoists plan stir,The Hindu
- ^ Troops die in India Maoist attack, BBC News Online, April 13, 2009
- ^ Maoist kills contractor, sets fire in police post at Govindpalli of Malkangiri, Orissa Diary, February 23, 2009
- ^ Contractor Prasanna Kumar Swain hacked to death, The Hindu, February 23, 2009
- ^ 21 Orissa policemen feared killed by Maoists, Express India, July 16, 2008
- ^ MHA spokesperson on Wednesday's Naxal incident in Orissa, The Cheers news agecny, July 17, 2008
- ^ Naxal movement entering mobile warfare phase, Merinews, July 3, 2008
- ^ "Reports see Maoist Hand in Nandigram", Monideepa Bannerjie, New Delhi Television, November 8, 2007.
- ^ Naxalites massacre policemen in Chhattisgarh, The Hindu, March 16, 2007
- ^ Jharkhand ministers suspect non-Maoist hand in MP's killing, RxPG News, May 17, 2007
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- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ 'Maoists' kill 14 Indian police',BBC, December 2, 2006
- ^ [3], New Kerala.com, October 18, 2006
- ^ 29 killed, 250 missing in Chattisgarh naxal attack[dead link],Hindustan Times
- ^ 25 killed in Maoist attack ,The Hindu, March 1, 2006
- ^ Naxalites lay siege to Jehanabad 25 killed in Maoist attack, The Hindu, November 14, 2005
- ^ [4][dead link],Hindustan Times
- ^ 6 cops killed in Naxal attack,Deccan Herald
- ^ Naxal attack Another cop succumbs,Deccan Herald
- ^ Guerilla zone, Frontline, 22(21), Oct. 08 - 21, 2005 DIONNE BUNSHA in Gadchiroli
Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Central Committee
March 15, 2007
Let us wage a united militant struggle to throw out the Social-Fascist Government in West Bengal led by Bengal Dyer Buddhadeb!
Let us turn every SEZ into a Battle Zone like
Nandigram!!
The massacre of at least 16 peasants (which could actually be higher than 50) and causing injuries to over a hundred people in Nandigram by Buddhadeb's Hitlerite police force-CPI(M)'s social-fascist armed goons on March 14 brings into one's mind the ghastly massacre in Jallianwalabagh by the bloodthirsty general Dyer during the British colonial rule. Social-Fascist Buddhadeb has taken the mantle of butcher Dyer by sending over 5000-strong police force and hundreds of armed goons of his Party to pounce upon the peaceful protestors in the proposed SEZ of Nandigram in East Midnapore in order to pave the way for transforming West Bengal into a safe haven for the imperialist MNCs, big Corporate houses, and unscrupulous land mafia. The fleeing people, including women, were chased and killed by these neo-fascist armed gangsters in a way similar to the acts carried out by Hindu chauvinist gangs in Gujarat.
'Operation Bloodbath' at Nandigram is a meticulously planned conspiracy hatched by Buddhadeb's CPI(M) and Sonia's UPA government at the Centre in consultation with the big industrial sharks and their imperialist mentors. The worst part of this heart-chilling episode is that Buddhadeb and Prakash Karat had repeatedly assured the people that the proposed SEZ in Nandigram would be shelved and shifted elsewhere if the people did not want it. They had assured that notification for the acquisition of 14,000 acres of land was being withdrawn. Now it has become clear that these double-dealers, like Goebbels, had only used this as a ruse to buy time, and had never any intention to shift the SEZ. Nine peasants were killed in the past few weeks prior to the March 14 massacre In order to serve the MNCs and the industrial houses the so-called Left Front government had decided to seize the multi-crop land of the peasants and build SEZs over the grave-yards of the protesting people. The blood of women and children that flowed in the fields of Nandigram thoroughly exposes the "Left" rhetoric and round-the-clock demagogy by political brokers like Sitaram Yechuri, Brinda Karat, Raghavulu and so on. They organize protests for building their vote bank where they are in opposition but kill the protesting people where they are in power.
Nandigram has proved even to a layman that the rhetoric of these social-fascists is no different from that of National Socialism of Adolf Hitler. Yechuri's shameless defence of the gory massacre by placing the blame for the violence on the Trinamool and the Maoists is an eye-opener to all those who still believe in the socialist rhetoric of these traitors and goons in the guise of so-called Left. This social-fascist and the most trusted political broker for the imperialists and the Indian Big Business claimed that his "Left" Front government in West Bengal is trying to resolve the issue politically but "outsiders" such as Maoists were trying to incite the people of Nandigram and that the helpless policemen had to fire in self-defence. This hypocrite cannot fool the people by trying to hush up the stark fact that his Party goons and thousands of policemen were sent deliberately to massacre the peaceful protesters, that all those murdered through this state-sponsored terrorism were local peasants including several women, and that this most despicable and bizarre act was carried out to resolve a political movement through the most brutal means. This Indian offspring of Goebbels cannot fool the people through such lies and falsehood to justify the unprovoked firing on the people. The bloodbath of March 14 reveals in naked colours the cruelty and inhumanity of the so-called reforms with a human face peddled by Yechuris, Karats and the like and their fake opposition to the neoliberal policies of privatization-liberalisation-globalisation. No wonder, Ambanis, Tatas, Mittals, Essar Ruias and the imperialist MNCs and the World Bank are itching to bring these social-fascists to power at the Centre as they have proved themselves to be the most loyal servants and their social base can serve to enact social-fascism to suppress people's struggles.
Today the reactionary ruling classes of the country are bent upon transforming vast tracts of fertile agricultural land into neo-colonial enclaves even if it means enacting blood-baths all over the country. Thousands of crores of rupees have already flown from the big business and imperialist MNCs into the coffers of the Congress, CPI(M) and other political parties. It is clear that the battle-lines are drawn for an uncompromising war between the haves and have-nots, between those who want to turn our mother-land into a haven for the international capital, the Indian big business and the handful of filthy rich on the one hand and the vast majority of the destitute, poverty-stricken masses, particularly the peasantry, on the other. There is no middle ground: either one is with the vast masses or with the filthy rich. 237 SEZs have already been approved and lakhs of acres of fertile agricultural land are being forcibly acquired by the various state and central governments. In Orissa, Jharkhand, Chattisgrah, AP, Maharashtra, Haryana, and several other states, lakhs of people are rendered homeless due to anti-people projects.
The CPI(Maoist) calls upon the oppressed masses, particularly the peasantry, to transform every SEZ into a battle-zone, to create Kalinga Nagars and Nandigrams everywhere, and to kick out the real outsiders—the rapacious MNCs, comprador big business houses, their dalals and the land mafia—who are snatching away their lands and all means of livelihood and colonizing the country. The CC, CPI(Maoist), vows to extend all support to the struggling masses, to intensify the struggle against all SEZs, and to avenge the massacre in Nandigram. The masses have the right to rebel against injustice, and how ever much Yechuris and Buddhadebs yelp about Maoist incitement, we openly declare to the world that we shall unite the vast masses and lead, participate and extend all support to the people and organizations of our country to unite and fight the imperialist onslaught through the SEZs that is being carried out through their Indian dalals in the Congress, BJP, CPI(M), Samajwadi Party, TDP, DMK, AIDMK and other political parties who are selling away our motherland. CPI(Maoist) calls upon the people of West Bengal to make the state bandh on March 16 a big success and continue the heroic struggle until the SEZs are withdrawn.
Azad,
Spokesperson,
Central Committee,
CPI(Maoist)uesday, July 31, 2007
Maoist Information Bullettin
Maoist Information bulletin [Published by InternationalDepartment , Central Committee,
Communist Party Of Nepal (Maoist)] extracts below.
Complete Information bulletin can be found at http://krishnasenonline.org/Bulletin/editorial.html
 Organ of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) EDITORIAL |
| After a gap of many months we are able to bring this issue in your hand; we must apologize to our readers for this delay. It was further more important for us to provide with the latest information regarding rapid political developments especially in Nepal, which we could not be done because of this delay. After the outstanding development of People's War for ten years, new situation arrived at in Nepal for the joint mass movement in order to overthrow the 239 years old autocratic monarchy and establish `republic'. As a result of ten years of PW and unprecedented 19 days joint mass movement based on the achievement of the PW, a new political situation has been emerged in Nepal. The agenda of election of constituent assembly which was the agenda of only CPN(Maoist) before six years is now major political agenda of the nation. The heroic people of Nepal have already established republic in the street during the Mass Movement-II and it is the responsibility of the eight parties to institutionalize the same through the process of election of the constituent assembly, which it seems far from being achieved. Under a grand design of the foreign and domestic reactionaries, namely, the US imperialists, Hindu fundamentalists of India and monarchists, to sabotage the election of constituent assembly, it was not held in the stipulated time of `mid-June' and it has been rescheduled for November 22, 2007. Some districts of Terai, plain land of southern part of Nepal adjoing to India, have now become the play ground for all the reactionary elements and use their stooges to fulfill their reactionary ambitions. The immediate aim of this design is to sabotage the process of election of constituent assembly and wipe out the influence of our party from Terai and its long term aim is to separate and split Terai or Madhesh from Nepal and incorporate in Bihar of India. Leadership of the seven parties who are engaged in the politics of appeasement and the interim government which is victim of inaction, there is every possibility that the reactionary conspiracy may succeed to disrupt the process of election of constituent assembly. Only a bold and daring decision of declaring `republic' from the legislature-parliament and go to the election, which only can ensure the election to be held in stipulated date. But pro-US, pro-king and pro-Indian Hindu fundamentalist elements within the leadership of `Seven parties' are causing obstacles in it. Thus we feel that another popular mass movement needs to be launched so that the government and the seven parties will be compelled to agree in declaring `republic' from the legislature which can pave the way for the election of constituent assembly and form a `New Nepal' Our Party, the CPN(Maoist) thinks that it is going through a new experiment of continuing and developing the revolution through peaceful way in a situation created by the ten years of PW and the successful historic April mass movement. It is quite natural that revolutionaries and oppressed people of the world have their eyes on the political development of Nepal. Definitely Nepal is in the cross road. There are definitely big challenges and big opportunities. Necessity of the hour is to face the challenges and achieve the opportunities. Revolution in Nepal is the part of the world revolution. Therefore it should serve the world revolution and also deserves support from world revolutionaries. While developing the PW during the last ten years it was felt that the international support was not enough that was required to achieve the nationwide victory of the revolution. It is necessary to fulfill this task during this time of peaceful development of the revolution. Every body can easily see how our party is working hard for the enhancement of our international relations. It will not be any exaggeration to say that we have made a significant achievement in this regard during the last six to ten months. To enhance the international relation is not only necessary for the nationwide victory but it is essential for sustaining the new state as well. In the event of the US imperialist working day and night to isolate our party, further enhancement of international relation is inevitable both for the victory of the revolution and sustenance of the new state. Who is real friend of our country and the people of Nepal and who is not, can be determined by the role played by them in relation to the development of revolution and its sustenance. |
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| Madhes at Crossroads - Sanjay Kumar Monarchy in Nepal has repressed the Madeshi, a large indigenous population in the plains for ages. The deliberate process of isolating them psychologically and politically began with the myth of misquoted unification by Prthivi Narayan Shah. During Rana, Panchayat and Post 1990 regimes, the autocratic state tried to wash off her moral duties by giving a handful reactionary and feudal Madhesis representation in the state organs. The undemocratic steps of the state hurt the sentiments of the proletarian Madhesis. They got disillusioned and alienated further from the mainstream, thereby generating hatred and anger among the Madhesi people against the state and privileged class. However, the Madhesis took their plight as destiny and sealed their lips against exploitation, humiliation and discrimination in any form. They could not express their grievances and exchange ideas due to their inability to communicate in the state imposed monolithic Nepali language. The linguistic barrier and incompetence crippled the Madhesi people and caused them to suffer from inferiority complex and helplessness. They looked up Khas speaking hill people as their superior and ruler. Being victimized by the state, they narrowed themselves down to the inferior and ruled. The author still recollects the exploitations and tortures inflicted upon the humble Muslim community in his village in the district of Morang during Panchayat regime. They were often falsely accused and unjustly persecuted for the robberies and crimes committed by the Indian criminals across the border. A ten-year Glorious People's War led by Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) has shaken the very foundation of the monarchy by polarizing all the marginalized sections across the nation. Nepal has shifted from the homogenized singularity to the heterogenized plurality. The Madhesis have equally taken a leading role in the Maoist's insurgency. They have fully internalized Prachanda Path- blended with the trinity of Marxism, Leninism and Maoism-as the only way to liberate them. Fully armed with Prachanda Path, the present transformed and trained proletarian Madhesis are on the path of making an inclusive federal republic Nepal with right to autonomy and self- determination. Consequently, February Madhesi Movement emerged and forced the reactionary and bourgeoisie political parties like Nepali Congress and UML to move along the republican path. The royalist, imperialist and other reactionary forces are actively involved with all their muscle and money powers to obstruct the republic-bound nation and hurl it back to the state of violence, chaos and lawlessness. They succeeded in aborting April Uprising to mere 19 days and barred it from turning into a decisive mass revolution by exploiting Congress's and UML' Hamletian dilemmas, pro-Indian and palace policy. In lie of safeguarding and learning lessons from the historic set back, both Congress and UML continue to indulge in derailing the republic track on the pretext of various lame excuses. The Indian extreme Hindu fundamentalists, American imperialists and reactionaries from both inside and outside are resorting to sabotage the upcoming Constituent Assembly poll. They have made Madhes a soft target. In their initiation, coverage and financial assistance, several secessionist and criminal groups are mushrooming in Madhes. They are desperately trying to jeopardize the racial harmony and brother hood existing between hill and Madhes peoples. They are under the false illusion that they will succeed in befooling and blackmailing the Madhesis as usual. The Madhesis have clearly comprehended that the gory carnage of Gaur was the evil design of the reactionaries. Madhes and Madhises are an integral part of Nepal and no sectarian force can secede it. Class demarcation and feudalism have been deep rooted among Madhesis for ages. Social crimes like casteism, dowry and witchcraft have been imported to the holy land of Madhes from across the Indian Territory due to cultural tieings and open border. The Madhesis have to take a resolution to uproot such social crimes and combat a decisive war under the leadership of the proletarians on the path of Prachand doctrine for their emancipation in particular and all margins in general. The united fight of all proletarians will certainly defeat the bourgeois feudals for once and all If every Nepali takes to their heart the great Madhesi spiritual, "say with pride that we are Madhesis, the sons of the soil, not foreign immigrants", Nepal will truly reflect "Unity in Diversity" with her multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and heterogeneous rhetoric identities. |
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| Foreign relation of CPN(Maoist) on the rise -- Com. Gaurav It is big news in Nepal these days that Maoist Party is striving very hard to develop its foreign relations. They also make their assessments that it has achieved tremendous success in this regard. The visits made by some of the leaders of our Party to foreign countries and our bilateral talks with the official delegations of various countries including our immediate neighbor and a tested long time friend of our country, China is being cited as the examples. This short article relates to the same subject. Yes it is true that we are striving very hard to develop and strengthen our foreign relation. During the period of People's War the regime had declared our party a terrorist organization and had approached most of the governments of the world. Based on their relation with the regime some of the governments had listed our party as terrorist organization and some though did not listed but treated us as terrorists. In such circumstances it was not possible for us to develop any king of relation and ties with us. When we negotiated with parliamentary parties to launch a joint mass movement against the autocratic monarchy with the aim of establishing democratic republic and made a series of negotiations including the interim legislature and interim government in which we have significant representation in both. A new political situation has emerged due to this new change in political scenario. Therefore, our party's international relation was confined to the relation with the fraternal and friendly revolutionary parties and organizations of different parts of the world. Because of the change in the political situation that has given rise to a new possibility of developing revolution with peaceful form of struggle we are obliged to develop state to state relations with various governments which are friendly to our nation and the process that we have decided to adopt to resolve the political crisis and way out for forward development. We have already brought out our views in open through different mediums. Now we have two aspects of our foreign relationship: fraternal and friendly relations with Maoist and other revolutionary communist parties and organizations and side by side relation with other political forces and the governments of various countries which are friendly to our country and the people of Nepal and supporting the ongoing political process. Therefore the success of out foreign relation can be gauged through both the perspectives. There is no such significant shift in the development of fraternal and friendly relations with the Communist forces. It is also true that we have come in touch and extended relations with new such forces. As because there is no upsurge of the revolutionary movements led by communists in the world today, this relation will have no such a magnitude to determine or influence the ongoing political developments. But it never means that it does not bear any significance. Unity of the communist revolutionaries has its own significance and deserves to be maintained and developed. It is true that there is a significant shift in developing relation with various governments which are friendly to our country and supporting the ongoing political process in Nepal and providing help to enhance this process. Frankly speaking we have good relation with all countries of the world except the Bush administration. During the 52 minutes long discussion with the leadership of our Party, the visiting former US president Jimmy Carter opined that it was unjust not to remove the terrorist tag from our party in the given situation that we have a strong presence in the interim legislature and also in the interim government. The relation with the European countries is good enough. We have easy access with them. The recent visits of our leadership including our Chairman have enhanced this relation to further higher level. The heightened relationship of our party with the European countries will definitely create diplomatic pressure to Washington. The Bush administration is thus isolated from the world and from even within US for its flawed policy regarding its relation with our party. Our relation with China, the immediate neighbor and long tested friend of the Nepalese people has developed enormously within short span of time. The strong statement made by the Chinese Ambassador explaining the policy of his country that `China would never tolerate any foreign intervention in Nepal' at a time when we are facing a threat against the integrity of our beloved motherland is really of paramount importance, which paves the way thus demonstrating that there is ample scope in advancing our relationship at the higher level. The relationship with our other immediate neighbor India is fairly good. The support the separatist elements are enjoying from India, especially from Bihar has definitely caused some problem in Nepal. But the government of India seems not to have any role into it. Our only concern is that the government of India should use its good office to help control the bad situation in Nepal by preventing such elements from getting any support from the Indian soil. Therefore it will be no exaggeration to say that the foreign relation of our party has been enhanced and it is developing fairly well. |
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| Report from Nepal - C.P.N (Maoist) "To deal with the question of 'completion' of the bourgeois revolution in the old way is to sacrifice living Marxism to the dead letter" - Lenin (collected works Vol-24) The real importance of this precious teaching of the great Lenin was seriously felt in the practical sense in the communist movement in Nepal as the People's War led by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) CPN{M} entered into the stage of strategic equilibrium from the stage of strategic defense. Though there are plenty of instances of changes of tacks in the history of our party nevertheless, it had not become imperative for the major tactical shift until the people's war reached the stage of strategic offense. By then we have chalked out a new way and have trying to advance revolutionary practice through this labyrinth. Still it is the concrete features peculiar to this historical situation in Nepal that led to this tactical shift. It is doubtless that this situation is borne as the natural consequence of these ten years of heroic armed struggle led by our party. On several occasions we have brought out our assessment that the domestic situation in Nepal is favorable and ripe to capture central state power in the near future but as all the genuine communist parties engaged in revolutionary practice know that the international situation is quite unfavorable to accomplish new democratic revolution and sustain it, it is obvious that we should try to mobilize justice loving people all over the world in general and the peoples of south Asia in particular to garner support in favor of revolution, improving on the domestic situation in the same spirit. For this we should dare to abandon the course once selected and have the courage to climb the unexplored mountain. Lenin often quotes a letter written by Engels to F.A.Sorge where the founder of scientific socialism says "Our theory is not a dogma but a guide to action". This we believe validates to any situation and any individual communist party. It is easy to cling to dogmas and memorizing some revolutionary phrases without being engaged in the revolutionary practice. But a genuine communist party should never forget that Marxism teaches us to become critical towards Marxism itself, and only revolutionary practice is a laboratory to know that whether one is upholding Marxism or something else. In the dazzling light of this Marxist principle the C.P.N (Maoist) has been applying Marxism to the concrete situation of Nepal which we believe will further develop this science. The historic Chunbang meeting of the central committee of C.P.N (Maoist) held in Sept/Oct 2005 has put an indelible mark in the history of the party itself. Before this meeting internecine strife representing two lines was at its peak and it was made public too. The revolutionary masses were quite depressed fearing that it might threaten the very existence of the party's and the reactionary forces were thrilled with ecstasy. But the central committee under the leadership of Com. Prachanda devised the ways and means of turning intra party struggle into a motive force that propelled the party forward. The meeting resolved the intra-party struggle and achieved a new unity applying the method of unity, struggle and transformation and maintaining the dialectical debate. One of the most important decisions taken in this meeting was that the party should forge an alliance with the agitating parliamentary parties despite their unstable and vacillating character in order to isolate and abolish the monarchy. The question of the abolition of the monarchy comprises a different meaning in the context of Nepal. It is the only reactionary institution which is deep rooted and well organized with more than a one hundred thousand strong army. Because of this reality external and internal forces of reaction have joined hands to prop up the crumbling monarchy and have been trying to convince the vacillating parliamentary forces that once the monarchy is gone there will be no able force remaining to halt the ever growing march of the Maoist force. So the parliamentary forces should break its ties with the Maoist and try to save the monarchy with some change in its form. It's the awareness of the Nepalese people and the tactical movement of our party against the monarchy that forces like the Nepali congress and United Marxist Leninist were forced to maintain conditional ties (even if temporary) with the C.P.N (M). The C.P.N (M), for one and a half years has taken this compromise. If we seriously study and analyze the concrete condition and character of this compromise it becomes self evident that our policy is neither all alliance and no struggle nor all struggle and no alliance, but combines both. Grasping the teaching of Lenin we have avoided "give money and fire arms to share the loot" instead we have given the bandits money and firearms in order to lessen the damage they can do and facilitate their capture and execution. With this sole intention we had a twelve point understanding against the autocratic monarchy on 22nd of November 2005. As expected this understanding proved as a catalyst to boost the moral of the struggling people all over the country. The big uprising unique in the contemporary world forced the otherwise reluctant king to invite the seven party alliances to choose a prime minister and form a government. The government of the India, U.S and U.K lost no time to welcome this move. This bid to douse the fire was failed as the agitation uninterruptedly moved forward with the clear goal of abolishing the monarchy. Our strong presence and participation was a matter of anxiety for the self claimed messiah of democracy. Finally the government of India, U.S and their lackeys in Nepal hatched a conspiracy and made the king to make another proclamation where he for the first time accepted that the sovereignty of Nepal lies to the Nepalese people. It was clear then only that these interventionists had a tacit understanding with the king and he was assured that they will secure his position and the institution of monarchy will remain in the future dispensation once the resentment of the people will climb down. After the royal proclamation of 24th April 2006 we tried to advance the movement denouncing the proclamation and exposing the ill design behind it. But there was already a division in the movement since the seven party alliances took it as a victory and formed the government without any delay. In its first meeting itself it passed a resolution that there will be an election of an assembly for a new constitution and called the C.P.N (M) for parleys. That multiplied the illusion and a large section of people expected that the monarchy will be out in the near future. The political scuffle with the reactionary forces has been intensified during this period. A Political offensive has taken the place of the military strike. The old parliament that was reestablished by royal proclamation was dissolved and a new interim legislature is in existence where 83 members are ours. An interim constitution and the interim government have been formed with our participation. If we look at these happenings superficially it seems that the C.P.N (M) has deviated from the revolutionary path. But if we look back at the history of C.P.N (M) and seriously study the under current it will lead to another conclusion. Before initiation of people's war a small number of comrades were sent to the then parliament and some of our revolutionary comrades from fraternal parties vehemently criticized for this. Not only that we were expelled from the "Revolutionary International movement". Subsequent development in our part proved that we could initiate the war by protecting revolution from the revolutionary phrases that we used to memorize in the early period. Now we see every possibility to combine protracted people's war with insurrection. The 2nd historic conference of our party adopted a line that there should be a union of protracted people's war and insurrection to accomplish the revolution. We see the present development is leading the Nepalese society to prove the correctness of our ideas that we developed. From the very beginning we were aware of the road map charted by the domestic and external enemies especially U.S and India. They intended to bring fabricated change in the monarchy, to tame the C.P.N (M) in parliamentary politics and enable a parliamentary party like Nepali Congress become as a dominant force in the country. By hook or by crook they have been trying to achieve this goal. But their every effort has the boomeranged because of the stand taken by the C.P.N (M). Instead of being a parliamentary puppet the people's revolutionary aspirations are being centered in the C.P.N (M). Hundreds of thousands of masses of people are being mobilized and the party influence among the masses is increasing everyday. The desperate activities of slandering the Maoist through various Medias secretly funded by the C.I.A and Raw and the murdering of our cadres by their vigilante forces amply prove that they are failing in their mission. The enemy who is attacking our party especially its youth wing the 'Young Communist League' with whatever they find in their hands, has generated mass resentment against the enemies. And our mass line, discipline of our PLA and political line has gathered momentum to prepare the ground for the final insurrection. We are utilizing this transitional phase to spread our mass base and consolidate it, to get rid of our own short comings and bring disintegration in the enemy's camp so that we can give a final blow and usher into the country a new democracy. Note: This report was presented by the delegation of CPN (Maoist) at the meeting of CCOMPOSA, which was held in last week of June ]
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| CCOMPOSA CALLS ON PEOPLE'S OF SOUTH ASIA TO OPPOSE INDIAN RULERS GROWING INTERVENTION IN NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES The Indian rulers seek total domination of the countries of South Asia acting as the gendarme of the US in this region. At the recently held SAARC Summit it went so far as to propose a South Asia Parliament seeking to undermine even the existing limited sovereign of the South Asian countries. Earlier they had proposed a common currency for the region to further consolidate its economic hegemony in the region. At the SAARC Summit it continued to push its SAFTA {South Asian Free Trade Association, n order to dominate the markets of the region and allow the unhindered free flow of goods made in India {mostly by the big comprador houses and the TNCs} to all countries of South Asia. CCOMPOSA CALLS for the disbanding of SAARC and the setting up genuine forums of people to people relations between the countries of South Asia. Lately the Indian rulers have been even more crudely intervening in the internal affairs of neighboring countries and even more crudely crushing the national aspirations for self-determination of the Kashmiri, Naga, Manipuri, Assamese, etc people. In Nepal they have been playing an active role to diffuse the democratic aspirations of the Nepalese people and prop up the reactionary elements after isolating the Maoists. They have been instigating the Madheshi people of the Terrai against the Maoists in league with the Nepalese monarchy. Hindu fundamentalists have been particularly active in setting up vigilante gangs to murder activists as happened in Gaur where 28 Maoists were killed. Recently these gangs murdered a Central Committee member of YCL {Young Communist League} in the terrain region together with another comrade. The Indian ambassador has, of late, pro-active roaming in the interiors of Nepal offering large sums of money for schools, hospitals, roads, etc in order to wean away the masses from the influence of the Maoists. In addition the Indian Para-military have fired on and killed the Nepalese of Bhutani origin from returning to their motherland and have been fully involved the US conspiracy to transport 60,000 refugees to the West as some modern day form of slave labour. The US imperialists and Indian rulers have been working to prop up the reactionaries and neutralize the Maoists. CCOMPOSA strongly condemns the role of the Indian rulers in Nepal and demands that they stop meddling in the affairs of Nepal and the India people bring to justice the murderous gangs operating across the Nepalese border. In Bangladesh the Indian rulers have not only openly backed their stooge Sheikh Hasina but have utilsed the present army-backed caretaker government to push through massive deals for Indian big comprador houses. They have sought help the Tatas to make massive investments there and lately the Mittals have signed a gigantic deal in the energy sector of Bangladesh. The Indian ambassador has been actively acting in the country together with the US ambassador in the dealings between the various political parties and the caretaker government. CCOMPOSA demands that the large natural wealth of poverty stricken Bangladesh be utilized for the development of their own country and not robbed by Indian compradors and the US imperialists. In Sri Lanka they openly threatened the government when it sought arms from China and Pakistan. The Indian rulers have already imposed humiliating free-trade agreements on Sri Lanka. They have also surreptitiously been assisting the Sri Lanka government to crush the just aspirations of the Tamil people for a Tamil Elam. CCOMPOSA demands the scrapping all these unequal agreements and supports the just struggle of the Tamil people for their self-determination from the jack-boots of the Indian ruling classes. In addition the Indian rulers continue to maintain and tighten their vice-like grip over the small countries of the region like Bhutan, Sikkim, Malldives, etc and continue their attempts to bully Pakistan utilizing the Kashmir card. Particularly they continue to forcibly maintain the oppressed nationalities within Indian hegemony. Not only does the Indian army of occupation crush their just demands with utmost brutality, they have been pitting one section of the people against the other to drown their just struggles in oceans of blood. This is to be seen in Nagaland, Manipur, Assam, Kashmir and elsewhere. CCOMPOSA demands that the people people of these oppressed nationalites be allowed to determine their own future and the immediate and total withdrawal of Indian army and para-military forces from all these regions. South Asia has become a burning cauldron of revolutionary, democratic and nationality movements. CCOMPOSA supports all these just movements and calls on the peoples of South Asia to unite against their common enemy and not fall prey to the divisive policies of the rulers and their US imperialist backers in the region. 1) Proletarian Party of Purba Bangla-CC; PBSP (CC) [Bangladesh] 2) Communist Party of East Bengal(ML)(Red Flag); CPEB (ML)(Red Flag) [Bangladesh] 3) Bangladesher Samyobadi Dal(Marxist-Leninist) BSD(ML) [Bangladesh] 4) Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) CPB(MLM) 5) Comminist Party of India (Maoist) ; CPI(Maoist) 6) Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Naxalbari CPI-ML (Naxalbari) [India] 7) Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) CPI(MLM)[India] 8) Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist); CPN(Maoist) [Nepal] |
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