Women Maoists blast government buildings

Women Maoists blast government buildings

Raipur, Oct 18: Women Maoist guerrillas have blasted four government buildings in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, police here said Wednesday.

Over a dozen armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), supported by their male colleagues, also blocked traffic on the Antagarh-Koylibera Road late Tuesday in Kanker district.

They detonated explosives inside four buildings, including two schools, in Kanker, 280 km from here, said a senior police officer.

Kanker, Bastar and Dantewada districts form the 40,000 sq km hilly and forested Bastar region, a Maoist stronghold for the last three decades.

The central government has deployed paramilitary forces to contain the rebels who have significant presence in eight of the state's 16 districts.

According to official figures, 374 people -- 298 civilians, 34 police officials and 42 rebels -- have been killed this year till September. Last year, 133 civilians were killed.

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Source: NewKerala

Centre mulling insurance cover for paramilitary forces

Centre mulling insurance cover for paramilitary forces


New Delhi, Oct 17: The government is considering providing insurance cover of up to Rs 10 lakh to nearly seven lakh paramilitary personnel, with the premium for troops engaged in areas affected by militancy or Naxalite violence to be borne out of the Centre's allocations for security related expenses.

CRPF Director General J K Sinha today briefed home ministry officials on a scheme started by paramilitary forces whereby Rs 54 per lakh was deducted from the salary of the personnel, official sources said.

The briefing by Sinha came a day after Home Minister Shivraj Patil announced at a NSG function that the government was contemplating a move to provide insurance cover to Central paramilitary forces.

The sources said Sinha gave a figure of nearly Rs 35 crore as the estimated premium for insurance cover of up to Rs 10 lakh for paramilitary forces in case of death and Rs five lakh for any disability.

The move comes after the Chattisgarh government extended insurance to its police personnel engaged in anti-Naxal operations from Central funds.

According to the presentation, the premium for personnel deployed in the northeast, Jammu and Kashmir and Naxal-hit states could be taken out the funds provided by the Centre for security related expenses.

Sinha also made a presentation on providing health insurance to paramilitary personnel and their family members, but this was in a conceptual stage, the sources said.

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Source: NewKerala.com

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Raipur lays road to fight Naxals
Posted online: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 0000 hrs Print Email

RAIPUR, OCTOBER 17: Concrete roads will be the Chhattisgarh government's latest weapon against Naxalites. With landmines claiming an alarmingly high number of casualties, the government has decided to build concrete roads in Naxal-affected areas. Experts feel extremists will not be able to plant landmines easily on these roads.

The decision follows a recent Union Ministry of Home Affairs directive seeking to improve the security scenario and connectivity in Naxal-affected states. An Union Ministry of Rural Development order has also asked the Chhattisgarh government to use Central funds routed through it for building concrete roads in such areas. As an added incentive, funds allocated under the Prime Minister's Rural Roads Development Project, will also be allocated for the project, expected to cover villages with at least 100 families.

Speaking to The Indian Express, state Home Minister Ramvichar Netam said cement roads will help save many lives. “Planting landmines won't be easy. Even if explosive devices are implanted they would be easily detected,” Netam added.

About 40 roads and small bridges are being constructed in Dantewada and Bijapur, while 26 road projects worth about Rs 45.9 crore have been sanctioned for other districts. Construction work on eight roads connecting various villages with the district headquarters at a cost of about Rs 10.6 crore has also begun.

According to official sources, the government hopes the new roads will also help fast movement of security forces. Statistics reveal that of the 880 fatalities in the struggle against Naxals in the state, 220 were killed in landmine explosions.

Security officials have repeatedly asked for better roads in Bastar, Dantewada, Kanker and Sarguja. “These districts have nothing more than a network of kuchcha roads and mud trails where Naxals always have the advantage. They can attack a convoy and vanish on these trails which hamper free movement of vehicles. Installation of IEDs is also much easier than on pucca roads,” the officials added.

According to various estimates, thousands of landmines and IEDs have been planted by Naxalites across Chhattisgarh.

These devices are generally used to target security convoys or civilian targets that can cause high number of casualties.

Source: Indian Express

Breakthrough in rocket launchers case

Mastermind behind case Srinivas Reddy and wife Sudharani surrender to police

HYDEERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh police on Tuesday got a major breakthrough in the investigation of the rocket launchers case when a top naxal operative Srinivas Reddy, the mastermind behind the fabrication of rocket launchers being used by rebels, surrendered himself to the police in Warangal district.

His wife, identified as Sudharani, also surrendered herself to the police.

Reddy is also known as Raghu, Tech Madhu and a host of other names.

The surrender came in the most dramatic circumstances. Accompanied by a local religious leader, the couple is stated to have walked into Gudur police station in Warangal district. When they could not find the Station House Officer, they went to the Circle Office of the station and identified themselves. Police officials, who initially doubted their claims that they were the most wanted couple in the rocket launchers case, took them in custody.

The couple, wanted by Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu police, was on the run ever since the State police seized a huge consignment of launchers and rockets being transported into the jungles in Mahabubnagar district in the first week of September.

The naxal couple, who had been living in a rented a nondescript house in Ambattur area of Chennai since 2002, commissioned several lathe machine workers in Chennai to fabricate different parts of the rocket launchers.

They had used the lorry transport companies, mainly Kranthi Transport, to send across the `finished' products to Mahabubnagar and Prakasam districts.

Sources told The Hindu that Reddy and his wife Sudharani walked into an interior police station in Warangal stating that they wanted to surrender.

Sudharani is stated to be suffering from ill-health. The whereabouts of the surrendered couple, who could provide a great insight into the armed might of the Maoist party, have been kept as a closely guarded secret.

The couple, it is believed, is being driven to Hyderabad for a detailed debriefing session by a special unit of the Intelligence department, detailed to investigate the rocket launchers case. The Q Branch of Tamil Nadu is also on the lookout for the couple after they escaped on a motorcycle from their rented house on September 9.

The police here expected that the couple could surrender themselves after they seized the personal diary of Raghu, entries of which indicated that he was not happy with the functioning of the Maoist party.

Source: Hindu

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Top Maoist surrenders

Srikakulam, Oct 16: A top CPI Maoist, Kone Kedandam, 25, Secretary of Konadabaridi Dalam, carrying a reward of Rs one lakh, has surrendered before the district Police Chief.

According to police, Kedandam alias Krishna, who surrendered yesterday, was involved in 13 offences including a bomb attack on TDP Member of Parliament K Yerranaidu during 2004 elections in Srikakulam district.

Prakash surrendered due to ill health, police said adding that he acted as a guard to Gopu Sammireddy, Srikakulam Division Maoist Party Secretary and also worked as courier to various other Maoists, operating in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa boarders.

Source: Newkerala.com

Naxal killed in encounter

Hyderabad : Kalwakurthy dalam commander Raju alias Kiran was killed, while three others escaped, in an exchange of fire with police near Lingasanipalle village in Kalwakurthy mandal of Mahabubnagar on Sunday night.

The police combing party encountered a group of Maoists in the forest area and when asked to surrender they started firing at the police party. In an exchange of fire Raju was killed District committee member Tirumala Balavantu is suspected to be among those who escaped. Police recovered a tapancha and two grenades from the site.

Meanwhile, CPI (Maoist) Kondabaridi area committee secretary K Kodandam alias Prakash alias Kiran was surrendered to Srikakulam SP Manish Kumar Sinha on deteriorating health grounds. He carries a reward of Rs 1 lakh.

Source:andhracafe

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Maoists launch Muslim outfit

Maoists launch Muslim outfit

Preetam Srivastava | Lucknow

Cashing in on anti-India sentiments of some misguided Muslims, the Maoists have offered to train them and even launched a new Muslim outfit. At a recent meeting, they also thrashed out a blueprint to divert terrorist activity in India through Nepal. In pursuit of this, of late, ISI masterminds and Maoists have held meetings.

The ISI, with the active help of Maoists have been successful in preventing the Nepal Government from penning an extradition treaty with the Indian Government.

Intelligence Bureau sources revealed that the new Muslim outfit has been named the 'Muslim Mukti Morcha' and regular training camps are being organised for carrying out jihad in the Terai areas of Nepal.

The Maoists had recently organised a meet of the Muslim Morcha at Manchwar locality of Rupaidiha (Nepal) on September 16 in which Maowadi Jan Mukti Sena Brigadier Arjun Singh, assisted by Vinod Upadhya imparted military and tactical training.

Muslims of Maharajganj and Siddharthnagar participated in the meeting and the Maoists promised to ensure proper representation to 35 lakh Muslims of Terai in the Nepalese Government and the declaration of Eid and Bakrid as holidays.

The IB has asked the Centre to take up the matter with the Nepal before it is too late.

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Source: Pioneer

Maoists blast railway track in Jharkhand

Maoists blast railway track in Jharkhand
Giridih (Jharkhand), Oct. 15 : Maoists blew up a railway track at Chegdo in Jharkhand's Giridih District in the wee hours today.

Maoists blasted off about four-metre long railway track at around 1:30 a.m. (IST) at Chegdo, about 60 km from Giridih, police sources said.

Train services on the up-line were affected following the blast and restoration work was on since morning.

Maoists had yesterday observed a 24-hour shut down in Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh to protest against the arrest of three of their leaders. The shut down call was given by a frontal organization of the Maoists, Revolutionary Democratic Front.

Police had arrested Sobha alias Budhuni Munda, a key Maoist leader along with two others, at Ramjodi near Lathikata in Sundargarh District.

Sobha alias Budhuni Munda, the wife of senior Maoist leader Kishan, was in arrested from Sundargarh on October 7. She has been remanded to seven-day police custody.

She is said to be a member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) 38- member central committee.

The attack comes a day after Congress party president Sonia Gandhi said that a new approach has to be adopted to deal with the menace of Maoist.

Gandhi, who was in Chhatisgarh capital Raipur yesterday to attend the valedictory function of a state-level training programme for party members in the state, said while addressing a public rally that the administration had to develop infrastructure condition in the state.

"As far as Naxal violence is concerned, the matter has to be seen with a new outlook. The administration has to look at this matter and has to develop the infrastructure and economic condition of the affected region. We know violence is no answer to any problem. The youth have to made aware of this, as also the backward regions have to be developed to tackle the problem. The development policies have to be implemented properly. The administration has to work intelligently," said Sonia.

Jharkhand is one of the 13 states hit by the Maoist insurgency that began more than three decades ago.

Maoists are said to be active in 14 of the 30 districts of Orissa. The State government banned the CPI (Maoist) and seven pro-Maoist organisations earlier this year.

The seven front organisations declared unlawful are the Daman Pratirodh Manch, the Revolutionary Democratic Front, the Chasi Mulia Samiti, the Kui Lawanga Sangh, the Jana Natya Mandali, the Krantikari Kisan Samiti and the Bal Sangam.

According to Home ministry, 76 districts in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Maharashtra, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are 'badly affected by Maoist violence'.

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Source:Newkerala.com

5 Naxals killed in encounter in AP

5 Naxals killed in encounter in AP

Hyderabad, Sept 15: Five Naxalites, including a top leader, were killed in an encounter with police in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh today.

The exchange of fire took place near Oorattam village in the extremist-infested Tadvai mandal when Maoists were returning after holding a meeting in the nearby forest area, police said here.

CPI (Maoist) secretary of Mahadevpur area, Madhu, was among those killed.

Police have recovered an AK-47 gun, some ammunition and kitbags from the encounter spot.

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Source: Chennai Online

Maoist bandh evokes little response in Orissa

Maoist bandh evokes little response in Orissa

Bhubaneswar, Oct 15. (PTI): The bandh called by Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) to protest the arrest of three maoist leaders at Rourkela evoked little response in Orissa on Saturday, official sources said.

The bandh had little impact in the districts of Sundargarh and Keonjhar bordering Jharkhand where life was normal, the DIG of police (western range), Satyajit Mohanty said.

A high alert had been sounded in several districts in view of the 24-hour bandh by RDF in Orissa, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh. Security measures had been tightened in districts where Maoists are known to be active.

Reports said the bandh had little effect in the western districts of Sambalpur and Deogarh and southern districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada and Gajapati. Vehicular traffic in Motu and Kalimela areas of Malkangiri was thin as armed Maoists had gunned down a village head at MV-66 under Kalimela police station on Friday.

Police had arrested Sobha alias Budhuni Munda, a key maoist leader along with two others at Ramjodi near Lathikata in Sundargarh district on last Saturday.

Sobha is said to be a member of CPI(Maoist)'s 38-member central committee and the wife of Kishan, a top Maoist leader. The three had been remanded to police custody for seven days by a local court.

Security had also been tightened in the capital city of Bhubaneswar, where Vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat is on a two-day visit.

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Source: Hindu

Maoists strike again, kill village head at Malkangiri

Maoists strike again, kill village head at Malkangiri

Malkangiri, Oct. 13 (PTI): Suspected Maoist rebels shot dead a village head at MV-66 village under Kalimela police station in Orissa's Malkangiri district in the wee hours today, police said.

About 50 to 60 armed ultras, who included at least five women, dragged the village head Kartick Roy from his house at around 2 am saying he had to attend a meeting convened nearby.

As his family members resisted, they bound up his son Kishore and another relative before taking him away.

Family members said Roy's wife Shyamali followed them into the nearby jungle, but she was threatened and sent back.

The villagers heard a gunshot at around 2.30 am. Roy's blood splattered body was found on Kalimela-Malkangiri main road in the morning and an empty cartridge near it.

A note written in Oriya was pinned to the chest of the dead man which said "Anyone going against us will face such consequence" and "Police informers will be punished."

The superintendent of police, Malkangiri, Jatindra Koyal and other police officers had rushed to the village, about 40 km. from here, after receiving the information.

An official release issued in Bhubaneswar said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, now in New Delhi, has expressed grief over the killing and directed that an ex-gratia of Rs 1 lakh be paid to the victim's family.

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Source: The Hindu

Arms haul has state link

Arms haul has state link
Sumanta Ray Chaudhuri
Friday, October 13, 2006 23:12 IST

KOLKATA: The biggest-ever seizure of anti-personnel mines and ammunition, originally belonging to the Indian army in Kolkata on Thursday evening, has changed the basic line of anti-insurgency investigations and action.

The seized items, which included 543 non-metallic model 14 anti-personnel mines, 691 pieces of 9 mm ball ammunition, 340 pieces of 7.62 ball ammunition, 58 pieces of .303 ammunition and three pieces of 5.56 INSAS ammunition, were destined for the Maoists active in three districts of West Bengal

The situation has become even more complicated as investigations revealed that the seized ammunition were manufactured at the ordnance factory in Maharashtra and not from the Ichapore Ordnance Factory in West Bengal as reported earlier.

This finding has forced agencies to investigate whether a cooperation programme has been established between the Maoist forces here and the Islamic terrorists in Maharashtra, especially Mumbai.

According to army spokesman Wing Commander RK Das, the investigating agencies have got definite clues that the seized items were destined for the Maoist guerrillas in West Bengal.

"However, we do not rule out the possibility of involvement of terrorist groups in this connection. A number of terrorist forces are active in and around Kolkata and there is a possibility of their involvement in this matter," Das said.

Three persons have been arrested in connection with the seizure, which include an army person, Lance Naik Bijit Sardar and two civilians Sujit Sardar and Swarup Sardar.

According to a senior IB official, till now counter-insurgency process followed the simple line of "seek, arrest and if necessary destroy". "However, the seizure is forcing us to look at the investigation process from the 360 degree angle and our action now would be multi-faced," he said.

The IB official pointed out that from preliminary investigations it is clear that a nexus between four parties have developed over the theft of huge amount of army ammunition.

"These four parties are the Maoists or other extremist forces, arms dealers, defense personnel and ordnance factory employees. It is clear that such a huge quantity of ammunition has been replaced from ordinance factories over a period of time and this is not possible unless defense personnel and ordinance factory employees are involved with the process," he said.

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Source: DNA

Chhattisgarh Maoists recruiting girls, minors

Chhattisgarh Maoists recruiting girls, minors

By Sujeet Kumar, Raipur, Oct 5: Maoists in Chhattisgarh are conducting a mass recruitment drive in the forests of Bastar to add girls and minors to their ranks, say senior state government officials.

According to intelligence reports, the support base of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has been shrinking since June last year when a civil militia movement started in their hotbed, Bastar forest. To counter this, the guerrillas have begun recruiting cadres in rural areas of the 40,000-sq km region.

"Rebels have been holding recruitment camps in remote and inaccessible areas bordering Andhra Pradesh and Orissa and adding thousands of girls and minors to their ranks to withstand stepped up attacks by the paramilitary forces and local police in Kanker, Bastar and Dantewada districts that jointly form Bastar region," said a top home department official.

Referring to fresh intelligence inputs, the official said the CPI-Maoist has recruited at least 1,500-1,700 fresh cadres in the just ended monsoon season.

"We have reliable inputs that nearly 80 percent of fresh recruits are girls and minors from tribal families. In some areas, parents have been forced to send their children to join the Maoists," he added.

"Rebels have had a base in the forests of Bastar for the past three decades, but we have never seen such panic in the Maoists rank. It seems they have realised that over 10,000 forces are in Bastar to launch a full-fledged offensive and they need increased cadres to survive possible deadly attacks," said a senior police officer involved in anti-insurgency operations for a decade.

Forces have been pounding guerrillas hideouts since the last month. Maoists suffered heavy casualties when forces busted hideouts and killed dozens and seized arms and ammunition in large quantities in last month in Bastar's Abujhmad forest.

The war is set to intensify with a guerrilla warfare trained Mizo battalion of 850 men reaching Chhattisgarh Wednesday to join the offensive.

Chhattisgarh is among the worst of the 13 Maoist hit states. Officials admit to at least 282 people, mostly tribal civilians, being killed in the state since January this year.

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Source: New Kerala

Police bask in the glory of Maoist arrests

Police bask in the glory of Maoist arrests

Statesman News Service
ROURKELA, Oct. 9: The arrest of the three CPI Maoist cadres, including one top notch woman operative, is considered to be a prize catch for the security forces.
Addressing the press late last night, Mr DS Kutte, SP, Rourkela said that the arrest of Sobha alias Shila alias Budhni Munda with two other hardcore cadres is a significant achievement from many angles. Budhni is a member of the central committee. Besides, she is the wife of Kisanda alias Prasad Bose, who heads the outfit’s Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar and the western and northern division of Orissa.
“The arrests are very vital for us as we can get important information which will help us in tackling the ultras of the outfit,” said Mr Kutte to the press. Terming it as a major success, the SP said: “Kisan heads four states and is next only to Ganapati of Andhra Pradesh, after the merger of the MCC with the dreaded PWG”. Budhni heads the woman wing of three districts in Orissa, besides being the member of the all India central committee, which has 38 members. “ She holds a very special place in the organisation and has access to many secrets”.
The other arrestee, Sanjay alias Bijay Tudu, 22, is a member of the 39th platoon, which is active in the Saranda jungle, bordering Orissa and Chattisgarh. Besides, heading an LRGS squad he is also in charge of the security of Budhni, said Mr Kutte. Besides, Rajan Rahul Munda, is also an active member of this squad.
“These two revealed that they are engaged to accompany the senior most leaders of the outfit in the jungle, during interrogation,” Mr Kutte said. A well coordinated exchange of information between Jharkhand and Orissa Police resulted in the arrest of the trio, informed Mr Kutte. The CRPF led the trap for the arrest of the three. The arrest of the three led to a massive combing of the whole area which did not yield any result.
Meanwhile, the three were remanded in judicial custody after initial interrogation in the CRPF camp at Lathikata. The three were subjected to 36 hours of intensive interrogation. The Sundergarh and Rourkela Police have declared a red alert all over the district following the arrest of the three.
They were brought amidst tight security to the CRPf camp at Sector-5. During initial interrogations, Budhni did not reveal any information. During the long 36 hours interrogation she only revealed her name and nothing else. Meanwhile, the security in Rourkela special jail has been tightened following the ultras’ track record of freeing their comrades through daring raids.
Mr SS Hansda, IG, Intelligence, also reviewed the security scenario in the wake of the arrest.
The Rourkela police headquarter, which incidentally houses the SP office is under tight security cover for obvious reasons.

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Source : The Statesman

12 suspected Maoists arrested in Orissa

12 suspected Maoists arrested in Orissa

BHUBANESWAR: Twelve suspected Maoist militants were arrested in southern Orissa's Gajapati district after a joint operation by the police and paramilitary troops, police said on Monday.

"We have also seized guns and explosives, Maoists uniforms, money receipts, leaflets and books based on Maoism," said a senior police official. The Maoists were arrested Sunday and produced in the local court, he said.

Eleven of the arrested guerrillas were allegedly involved in the Ramgiri Udayagiri incident, a sub-division of the Gajapati district in March this year, where nearly 200 armed guerrillas stormed a jail, attacked the town police station, looted a government treasury and freed more than 40 prisoners.

The number of Maoists rebels and their supporters arrested during last two months in the district has gone up to 27, the official said.

On Saturday, three suspected Maoists guerrillas were arrested from a weekly market at Ramjodi in Orissa's western district of Sundargarh.

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Source: Times Of India

Goods train derails

Goods train derails

Monday October 9 2006 13:35 IST

VISAKHAPATNAM: Freight traffic on Kothavalasa-Kirandul (KK) railway line was suspended on Sunday following the derailment of a goods train between Kirandul and Bacheli due to removal of about 30 meter stretch of the track by cadres of CPI (Maoist).

Three engines and five empty bogies fell off the tracks as the train driver could not notice the absence of the track nor the crew did have any prior warning.

As a consequence, all goods trains that were to pass through the KK line are being diverted to Koraput-Rayagada section for on Sunday. However, Visakhapatnam-Kirandul passenger train was terminated at Koraput.

Track restoration work is going on, according to official sources. Railway police personnel have been posted at sensitive points along the KK line to prevent any untoward incident.

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Source : Newindpress.com

CPI (Maoist)'s Samala Venkatesam gunned down

CPI (Maoist)'s Samala Venkatesam gunned down

The CPI (Maoist) suffered yet another major set back with the police gunning down its AP State Committee member Samala Venkatesam alias Sudarshan alias Satyam in an encounter in Anantapur district on Friday morning.

Satyam’s encounter is being perceived as a major success by the police as he was involved in several offences including the infamous Vempenta massacre and attempt on the life of IPS officer Mahesh Chandra Ladha.

With the encounter of Satyam, the strength of AP State Committee has come down to three from six within a period of four months.

Incidentally, the encounter took place on a day when Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy was touring the district.

According to Anantapur superintendent of police Stephen Ravindra, a greyhounds team ran into 15-member Naxalite group in the forests near Payakatta Cheruvu under Nallamada police limits around 6 am. Soon an exchange of fire ensued. One Naxalite died on the spot while others managed to flee. He was later identified as Satyam.

Two rifles, one pistol, ammunition, claymore mines and cooking utensils were recovered from the encounter spot. The Naxalites were apparently holding state committee meeting, the SP said while rubbishing the allegations of human rights activists that it was a fake encounter.

Meanwhile, police sources in Hyderabad said that Satyam was indeed a very "important and action oriented Maoist leader". He himself took part in the claymore mine attack on the then Prakasam SP Mahesh Chandra Ladha at Ongole on April 27, 2005.

He was directly involved in Vempenta massacre in which Maoists butchered eight persons on Feb 28, last year. In all, he was involved in over 100 cases in Nalgonda, Prakasam and Kurnool districts.

Satyam, a native of Kesamudram in Warangal district joined the movement in 1989 and went underground in 1993. For the next nine years he worked in Nalgonda district in various capacities before becoming district committee secretary in 2002. A year later, he was made secretary of Nallamala forest division before being elevated as state committee member in August 2005.

The first state committee member to fall to the police bullets was Matta Ravikumar on June 16. Within a month, the police dealt a major blow by eliminating state committee secretary Madhav in an encounter on July 23.

Besides, Nallamala platoon commander Suresh and Anantapur district committee member Boya Satyanarayana alias Dam Satti also died in police encounters.

According to police sources, Sambasivudu, Velagala Appa Rao alias Raghavulu and Ramachandra alias RC are the other three AP state committee members. In fact, Satyam was being tipped to become state committee secretary after Madhav’s encounter.

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Source : newindpress.com

Naxals kill three villagers for being police informers

Naxals kill three villagers for being police informers

Chatra (Jharkhand), Oct 8. (PTI): Three villagers have been killed by CPI (Maoist) ultras on suspicion of being police informers at Itkhori in Chatra district, the police said.

Superintendent of police Subodh Kumar told reporters here that the Maoists had kidnapped the three persons from Varkha village last night, took them to a nearby forest and slit their throats.

The bodies were recovered this morning. A note found near the bodies said the three persons had informed the police about the presence of the Maoists in the village, which resulted in an encounter three days ago in which a Maoist was injured, Kumar added.

The police, however, denied the allegations.

Source : The Hindu
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Maoists justify using kids as cannon fodder

Maoists justify induction of children

Ranchi, Oct 2: Maoist rebels, who claim to fight against repression, find nothing wrong in inducting minors between eight and 15 years in their organisation. They term children as cultural ambassadors of their movement.

'People's March', mouthpiece of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), justifies induction of children in their red squad. In an article titled "Revolution of Child Revolutionaries", children have been described as cultural ambassadors of Maoists.

"There are scores of children who do not have food to eat and clothes to wear. Here (in the Maoist organisation) children are changing their life by adopting the path of liberation," says the mouthpiece.

Source: Newkerala.com


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Maoists warn Chhattisgarh against recruiting ex-rebels

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Raipur - The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has warned the Chhattisgarh government against recruiting former rebels and police informers as special police officers (SPOs).

‘The Chhattisgarh government is responsible for a spurt in violence and the killings of civilians and SPOs. If the government really wants an end to violence, it must stop recruiting SPOs and wind up the salwa judum (anti-Maoist campaign),’ said Gudsa Usendi, a spokesman of the Dandkaranya Special Zonal Committee, which is a unit of the CPI-Maoist.

He sent a written statement to local media organisations and press representatives working in Bastar district headquarters, Jagdalpur, Sunday.

The state government launched ’salwa judum’ last year in June under the leadership of Congress leader Mahendra Karma.

Later, the government decided to appoint surrendered Maoists and informers as SPOs on a monthly pay of Rs.1,500 and provide them with sophisticated arms.

The SPOs were to help the police and paramilitary forces in targeting Maoists hideout in the thick-forested region of Bastar that includes the worst hit Dantewada district.

Usendi has asked SPOs to resign from their posts and not cooperate with the government in anti-insurgency operations or be ready to face punishment.

Maoist rebels dominate in Chhattisgarh’s half of the total 16 districts and officials say at least 135 people, mostly tribals, have been killed in the state since January this year in spiralling Maoist violence.

Source : India eNews.com

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Malkangiri in the grip of Maoist fear

Malkangiri in the grip of Maoist fear

Statesman News Service
MALKANGIRI, May 4: People in Malkanagiri town and the suburban areas are panicking after 15 villagers were massacred by the outlawed ultras in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh bordering Malkanagiri.
People of Naxalite-prone Kalimela, MV-72, MV-79, Podia, Motu, Chitrakonda, Poteru, Gomphakonda, Gumka, Badighata and Marigata live in fear. Government officials never move in the Maoist-hit areas fearing ultras.
The “clay-more mines” and “pressure bombs” planted by the radicals on the state highway and the village road are creating panic.
Maoists are one step ahead of the local police as far as the recce is concerned. Maoists have prepared the diagram with regard to the location of police armoury, jail and other vital installations in Malkanagiri town.
Information on police movement is also being collected by the radicals and they are able to maintain a safe distance from the police who comb the forest.
Police and Intelligence officers could not reach the town to collect information on Naxalite movement due to the security threat posed by the ultras.
The radicals are well equipped with sophisticated machines to gather information about the town through the quickest possible means.
The local people say police surveillance on the Naxalites is a total failure. Senior police officials have often said that all possible steps are being taken to boost the morale of the cops to fight the Naxalites.
But the transfer system existing in the Malkangiri district is adversely affecting the morale of the police.
There are many officers and police personnel who were posted in the Naxalite-prone district without any transfer for years.

Source : The Statesman

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NGO's funding Maoists

Top cop worried over NGO fundings
Anupam Dasgupta
Friday, May 05, 2006 23:50 IST

The police are worried over NGOs and social action groups funnelling funds to Naxalite coffers.

Speaking to DNA on Friday, director general of police PS Pasricha said the police were trying to track down the funding sources. “It’s an unfortunate development; something with extremely serious ramifications. We are going all out to plug the trend.”

The DNA reported on May 1 that 57 NGOs and social groups across the city were blacklisted by the state intelligence department for aiding Naxalite and Maoist insurgents. The top cop’s concern stems from the fact that several among the blacklisted groups have been found to be cash-rich.

Senior officers feel there could be a bigger problem if the Left-wing extremists managed to develop a “support structure” in the city.

Source : Daily News and Analysis, Mumbai

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