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| | People's War Group - Left Wing Extremism, India, South Asia Terrorism Portal |
 | | February 9: A senior activist of the TDP is beaten to death by Naxalites of the PWG at Kambalapalli, Nalgonda district in Andhra Pradesh. | | | January 10: Naxalites of the PWG kill a sarpanch (village headman), belonging to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and a relative of the then Union Minister of State for Home Ch Vidyasagar Rao, in Madimalla village, Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. | | | June 26: A fast-track court in Garhwa, Jharkhand sentences four Naxalites of the PWG to death for killing three persons in Meraal village in the same district on October 10, 1999. |
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| | `ADIVASI KILLS ADIVASI - THEY ARE CALLED NAXALITES' Chapter 5 of "Patana" by L. K. Malavi, translated by Dr. K. Jamandas |
| | This principle is not the basis of Naxalite movement. | | | As a result, in the eyes of the Naxalites he becomes an informer and in the eyes of police he becomes a criminal as an accomplice of Naxalite. | | | When an Adivasi, to meet his both the ends meet, wanders in the forest and collects the gums, fruits, the roots and the fire wood, he is being tortured as a criminal, some times by the foresters sometimes by the police. |
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| | AP Maoists: The party is over! |
| | Incidentally, Babu's father and former speaker of the state assembly, D Sripada Rao, was shot dead by Naxalites in cold blood in April 1999. | | | The government and the Naxalites sat at the negotiating table for four days between October 15 and 18 merely out of expediency, not to thrash out a negotiated settlement. | | | In its manifesto ahead of the election to the state legislature in April 2004, the Congress promised that it would initiate peace talks with the Naxalites. |
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| | The Pattern of Abuse: Rural Violence in Bihar and the State's Response - Broken People: Caste Violence Against India’s ... |
| | Extrajudicial executions of Naxalites, coupled with evidence of police collusion with the Ranvir Sena, as documented below, have led to charges that the sena is being backed by the state administration and non-left political parties to check the growing Naxalite movement. | | | The increase in Naxalite activities has also ushered in a rise in the number of private upper-caste militias, including the Ranvir Sena, that have been responsible for killing hundreds of Dalit laborers between 1995 and 1998. | | | 126 Eight suspected Naxalites were sentenced to death, and sixty-six Naxalites were sentenced to life imprisonment, for the Dalelchak Baghaura massacre of May 1987 which left at least fifty-four upper-caste Rajputs dead. |
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| | Kannabiran’s letter to the Prime Minister - Peace talks with Naxalites must continue |
| | The issue of Naxalism became a central issue in the elections, as the Assembly was dissolved and the elections were advanced soon after the mine blast attempt at the then Chief Minister on 1 October 2003. | | | Hence the Committee of Concerned Citizens as well as all the Mediators have requested the Home Minister and the Chief Minister by a letter on the 4th December to announce the further continuance of ceasefire beyond 16th December 2004 immediately, so as to facilitate the next round of talks. | | | Accordingly, in May 2004, after the Congress Party came to power, the Chief Minister immediately announced the stopping of police encounters and combing operations for Naxalites and called for talks. |
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| | Freeindiamedia.com, Express your impartial, radical, grassroot views on current issues. |
| | The Supreme Court on 15 April 2002 confirmed death penalty to four poor peasants from Gaya district who were involved in the Bara massacre led by MCC in 1992. | | | In this endeavour, he was joined by Rameshwar Ahir, a Yadav dacoit turned rebel who had returned to Ekwari after serving a twelve-year sentence for murdering a constable. | | | So did Suraj, a young PU squad member, as he sat leaning on the wall below the framed photographs of Pankaj, Manju, and Aditya, his three sathis who had been martyred the previous year. |
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| | Central Chronicle--Opinion |
| | Meanwhile, Naxalites issued a stern warning on September 7, to Telangana people to defeat the Congress and Telugu Desam Party, the main opposition in the State Assembly in the forthcoming Municipal elections. | | | The TRS aligned itself with the Congress in 2004 Parliament and State Assembly elections on the assumption that if Congress wins elections, a separate Telengana State will be formed. | | | Some observers feel that the Naxalites prodded the TRS to align itself with the Congress, hoping that a separate Telangana State will be created and will provide safe haven for them. |
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| | Hindustantimes.com - Naxalites |
| | A Coordination Centre comprising Chief Secretaries and police chiefs of all the nine naxal-hit states has been established headed by Union Home Secretary. | | | The newly created predominantly tribal state has got naxalism in legacy from its parent state Madhya Pradesh. | | | The state government has adopted a blow-hot-blow-cold approach to tackle naxalism. |
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| | Hindustantimes.com - Naxalites |
| | Naxalites kidnap Union minister's relative in AP Naxalites of Janashakti group kidnapped a relative of Union Minister of State for Home Vidyasagar Rao in his home district of Karimnagar suspectedly for ransom early on Friday. | | | Union Minister of State Vidyasagar Rao's brother in law Martand Rao was released by naxalites late Friday night. | | | Rao was kidnapped by naxalites from his house in Karimnagar on Vijaya Dashmi day. |
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| | Naxalites threaten to kill CM |
| | Naxalites have threatened the life of Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, for his policy offering protection to members of the rebels who may surrender. | | | Police on guard this morning at Varsha, the official residence of Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh. | | | In letters received by the state Home Department, the Naxalites have criticised the government’s ‘surrender’ policy which, they say, has harmed its movement. |
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| | Maoist Communist Centre - Left Wing Extremism, India, South Asia Terrorism Portal |
| | 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. | | | Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda offers to hold talks with the MCC. | | | 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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| | eBharat: -> West Bengal - -> West Bengal |
| | West Bengal is governed by a chief minister and cabinet responsible to a bicameral legislature with one elected house and by a governor appointed by the president of India. | | | In the 1970s disputes between Hindus and Muslims, further complicated by droves of refugees from Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) and agitation by Maoist groups called Naxalites, created political instability. |
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| | Extra Judicial Killing Of Women Naxalites in Uduppi |
| | Extra Judicial Killing Of Women Naxalites in Uduppi | | | Contact Us Extra Judicial Killing Of Women Naxalites | | | The team also met Yashoda, a member of the Naxalite team,who was injured in the encounter and was hospitalised by the police. |
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| | Naxalites misused peace process |
| | Following a landslide victory in the elections to the state legislature, in May, 2004, the Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy-led Congress government announced a now-failed peace process with the Naxalites and allowed the ban on the CPI-Maoist to lapse on July 21. | | | Even though the government had, in effect, declared a ceasefire, it desisted to actually term it as one and chose to observe an informal ceasefire. | | | In the run-up to the talks, the state Home Minister, Mr K Jana Reddy, said the government’s announcement on holding fire, and its invitation to participate in peace talks, was applicable to all Naxalite groups operating in the state. |
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| | Govt's doors open for talks with Naxalites: Reddy |
| | Hyderabad: Asserting that his Government's doors were 'always open' for talks with Naxalites, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy today (Sept 22, 2005), however, made it clear that Maoists should first give up arms and come to the negotiating table. | | | On the raging demand for separate Telangana state, Reddy said the issue was under consideration of United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her decision would be final and binding on all. | | | Let Naxalites come for talks and discuss people's problems with the Government," the Chief Minister said. |
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| | Asian Centre for Human Rights |
| | This will pit the tribals against the tribals. | | | However, unlike the Naxalites, the Ranvir Senas are not banned under the law. | | | Undoubtedly, the violence by the Naxalites and counter-Naxalites violates the Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and provisions of the Rome Statute on International Criminal Court. |
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| | ::PeaceJournalism.com - The Peace Media Research Center's e-magazine:: |
| | Ironically, most of the states where Naxalite violence is on the rise is ruled by parties or alliances that are members or supporters of the UPA government in New Delhi. | | | Indeed, the successive placatory steps taken by the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh, with the approval of the UPA government in New Delhi, have allowed the Naxalites to regroup and revitalise their ranks. | | | Naxalite leader Ramakrishna circulated a letter among media, demanding the suspension of police officers who permitted the arrest, filing of a criminal case against Gujarat police and a public apology. |
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| | Primer: Who are the Naxalites? |
| | On May 25, 1967, in Naxalbari village in Darjeeling district, northern West Bengal, local goons attacked a tribal who had been given land by the courts under the tenancy laws. | | | Naxalites have also been known to claim 'tax' from the Adivasis and landless farmers in areas where their writ runs more than that of the government. | | | But as has been the case with many movements set up with high principles, over the years the Naxalite movement is seen as having lost its vision and having compromised its principles. |
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| | MESSING UP WITH NAXALITES |
| | For instance, the Srikakulam Conspiracy case, one of the thoroughly investigated cases against naxalites ended in acquittal of all the accused after ten years of trial because the court demanded additional proof of conspiracy, though the accused had been to | | | They have to accept that it is no more a law and order problem of a state, but a scourge that is eating at the vitals of 11 states in the country. | | | Under the Criminal Procedure Code, that governs our criminal justice system, we cannot have a trial without the presence of the accused. |
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| | The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion |
| | Naxalism was born in the Sixties in Naxalbari in north Bengal. | | | Why are the Naxalites treated on par with the militants in Kashmir? | | | The Naxalites got a foothold in Andhra Pradesh because of their association with the Telengana movement; in Bihar and now Jharkhand, because of the absence of land reforms there. |
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| | The Hindu : Front Page : Naxalites lay siege to Jehanabad, free cadre from jail |
| | Naxalites lay siege to Jehanabad, free cadre from jail | | | Chief Secretary G.S. Kang said the attack was on the police lines and the naxalites retreated when the police returned the fire. | | | Home Secretary H.C. Shirohi said it was one of the biggest attacks carried out by naxalites in the State. |
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| | Naxalite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Naxalite or Naxalism is an informal name given to revolutionary communist groups that were born out of the Sino-Soviet split in the Indian communist movement. | | | After the internal revolt led by Satyanarayan Singh in 1971 and the death of Mazumdar in 1972, the movement was fragmented into many competing factions. | | | Mazumdar greatly admired Mao Zedong of China and advocated that Indian peasants and lower classes must follow in his footsteps and overthrow the government and upper classes whom he held responsible for their plight. |
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| | The Acorn » Fighting Naxalites with loose fists |
| | That means that a state like Jharkhand, characterised by poor governance, inadequate law and order resources and high levels of Naxalite activity will have to form as many as five separate task-forces, one with each its neighbouring states. | | | It was decided that each state will form a separate task-force with every other state that it shares a border with. | | | The naxalite movement needs to be made a national outcast and hunted don but instead it recieves tacit support from ganglords and politicians in return for carrying out vendetta killings. |
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| | Village Bijli in Narainpur (Bastar) |
| | Any objection by tribal or village is punishable to the law created is punishable either shot or houses burned. | | | This area has transfers of Government officials on basis of punishment transfer. | | | This area is more tensed and terrified one day before Naxalites flamed on police station and made 20 families from one village and 10 from the other to leave their houses in fear would be mass assassination. |
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| | Jehanabad signals deeper malaise |
| | Bihar Chief Secretary G S Kang has sent a report to the home ministry that is sending in 25 additional companies of paramilitary forces. | | | The riot in Jehanabad prison on Sunday night in which naxalites attacked the jail, killed at least one major leader of the Ranveer Sena and liberated at least 340 prisoners, including several of their own comrades, is a symptom of a deeper malaise afflicting this area. | | | The UPA's Common Minimum Programme promises to treat the naxalite issue not just as a law and order problem, but also as a socio-economic matter. |
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| | Ex-naxalites come under police scanner- The Times of India |
| | HYDERABAD: With many former naxalites forming 'private armies' and practically running a parallel government to settle disputes relating to land and recovery of loans, the Cyberabad police have decided to collect data on those operating in its commissionerate area. | | | The Cyberabad police were prompted to take action after one such naxalite, G Narasimha Reddy, was killed in a group clash a couple of days ago at Vanasthalipuram in the city. | | | As the demand for the services of the private armies has been growing by the day, the gangs headed by the ex-naxalites have begun clashing for supremacy. |
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| | India - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about India |
| | Kerala and Bengal were dominated by the Communists, and in the latter state sieges of managers by workers called ‘gheraos’ had become commonplace. | | | Sino-Indian relations became tense again when Indian diplomats alleged ill-treatment in Beijing. | | | More serious, however, was a peasant rising in the Bengali village of Naxalbari, from where the pro-Chinese Naxalites emerged to create a reign of anarchy and terror in Bengal. |
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| | A band of Maoist rebels terrorizes an Indian region csmonitor.com |
| | The Naxalites encourage this neglect, destroying development projects and power dams, killing state officials and policemen, and threatening intruders – whether tourists or teachers or missionaries – with death. | | | It is this long neglect, residents and local observers say, which has pushed many tribespeople into the arms of the Naxalites, who provide services such as free medical care. | | | The PWG has its own standing army, for example, called the People's Guerrilla Army (PGA), which arms local girls and boys with everything from World War I-era carbines to Chinese-made Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenade launchers and helps the PWG run their own taxation system. |
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| | Bangalore: Naxalites kill 6 policemen |
| | The naxalite attack comes just a few days after their top leader Saketh Rajan alias Prem was shot dead by police in an encounter alongwith another associate in Chikamagalur district last week. | | | Bangalore: Six Karnataka State Reserve Police personnel were killed and four others injured, including two seriously, when bombs planted by naxalites exploded in their camp at Venkamamanahalli in Tumkur District after midnight last night. | | | The policemen were resting in their camp in a school building in an interior area after carrying out combing operations in the Naxalite-hit Pavagada taluk bordering Andhra Pradesh when the bombs exploded, Karnataka DGP S N Borkar told PTI. |
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| | Naxalites blow up railway station in Bihar - Sify.com |
| | Meanwhile, raids were being carried out at the different places to arrest the Maoists, who have given a call for boycott of election in Bihar. | | | Superintendent of Police Sunil Kumar Jha told PTI that around 20 naxalites surrounded Chakand railway station on the Patna-Gaya section of the East Central Railway at 11 pm and asked the railway employees to vacate the premises before blasting the station with dynamites. | | | Gaya: Armed activists of the banned CPI (Maoists) blew up the Chakand railway station in Bihar's Gaya district by detonating dynamites on Monday night, police said. |
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| | Naxalites kill 15 villagers, 6 injured in Jharkhand |
| | Giridih (Jharkhand): Fifteen villagers were killed and six others injured in an attack by Naxalites at Bhelbadari village in Giridih district, about 200 km from Ranchi, Deputy Inspector General of Police Neeraj Sinha said today (Sept 12, 2005). | | | Top police officials with adequate security forces have rushed to the spot and details will be known only after they reach the spot, he added. | | | Over a 100-armed Naxalites raided the village under Beuri police station in the wee hours today and attacked the village, Sinha said. |
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| | India - Naxalites |
| | This material is not to be reproduced or transmitted without the written permission of Pelton & Associates, Inc. | | | The authors and publishers assume no liability nor do they encourage you to do, see, visit or try any of the activities or actions discussed in this site. | | | The various radical communist groups all are descended from the armed peasants who operated in the 1960s under the banner of "Naxalites." They take their name from the Naxalbari, or "chicken neck," the strategic 20-kilometer stretch of land running between Nepal and Bangladesh. |
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| | ipedia.com: Maoism Article |
| | In the developing world (then usually called the Third World), the term Maoist was applied to the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia, the New People's Army in the Philippines, the Shining Path guerilla organisation in Peru, the Indian Naxalites and various other revolutionary groups and movements. |
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