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NEW DELHI | 18 – 06 – 2009 |  A Maoist-backed organization of local tribal people has virtually taken over Lalgarh, an area of India’s eastern West Bengal state, and set fire to police camps and offices of the ruling party, news reports said Tuesday. Hundreds of supporters of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) set fire to police camps in ...

INDIA | 18 – 06 – 2009 | Lalgarh, June 15: Bengal police today deserted Dharampur, leaving the 30-year bastion of the CPM to the mercy of Maoists who unleashed a rampage apparently in the making at least since 2007. The Maoists had a free run of the West Midnapore village through the day, tearing down party and police establishments before withdrawing ...

KATHMANDU | 04 – 06 – 2009 | As a preparation to encourage left parties’ polarisation, the Unified CPN (Maoist) has intensified unification procedure with the fringe leftist parties. The Maoists has intensified official unification process with the leaders who had left the CPN (ML) some months ago. Maoist leaders Mohan Vaidya, Dinanath Sharma and Barsa Man Pun responsibile for ...

MIDNAPORE | 03 – 06 – 2009 |  A Bharat bandh called by the CPI (Maoists) led to the arrest of 36 activists, including 12 women, of the Banspahari unit of the Police Santras Birodhi Public Committee (PSBPC) of West Midnapore by the East Singbhum district police at Chakulia in Jharkhand.

MALAYSIA | 30 – 05 – 2009 | Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) would like to express our greatest concern over the current political development and intensifying social struggles in the newly born Republic of Nepal.

MUMBAI | 30 – 05 – 2009 | Maoists struck in Gadchiroli district of the state on Thursday afternoon, killing 16 police personnel, including an inspector, a sub-inspector, and five women constables. This is the first time that women constables in Maharashtra have become victims of a naxal attack.

INDIA | 30 – 05 – 2009 | A shameful spectacle of opportunism is being played out in Indian politics even as Sri Lanka is waging a chilling ”final solution” to its Tamil national question. In the name of a war to eliminate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Mahinda Rajapakse’s regime in Sri Lanka is waging war on ...

HYDERABAD | 26 – 04 – 2009 |  The sudden spurt in Maoist activity in the adjoining States in the last few days has rung alarm bells for the Andhra Pradesh police, which has sounded a high alert, particularly on the inter-State borders. The Maoists killed 16 police personnel, including 14 men of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), in three incidents in Chhattisgarh ...

LIMA | 20 – 04 – 2009 | Communist Party of Perú (PCP) rebels in Peru have staged one of their deadliest attacks in years, killing 13 soldiers in an ambush of a military patrol in the country’s remote southeast. On Saturday the attack from the  PCP used dynamite and grenades, and their victims included a captain, a junior officer and 11 soldiers. The assault, ...

INDIA | 20 – 04 – 2009 | Krishnakumar P reports on how Thursday’s attacks revealed that the Maoists have far better military training and superior firepower than believed earlier. Rebels used people’s militia comprising well-trained youngsters from the forests and border districts for Thursday’s attacks. Security forces did not have enough time to change tactics employed with great success in November and ...