Tag Archives: Maoists

INDIA | 28 – 10 – 2010 | This article is from an important mouthpiece of the US ruling class. Note that it repeats the common charge that India’s adivasis (tribal peoples) are “caught in between the government and the Maoists”–when the reality is that the Maoists have built widespread political support among the adivasis over the past 25 years ...

INDIA | 24 – 12 – 2009 | The Forum Against War on People organised the “Rally Against War on People”, to protest against the brutal military offensive of the Indian state on the tribal people of central and eastern India through the Operation Green Hunt where in lakhs of the paramilitary-military as well as various vigilante gangs such as ...

PATNA | 16 – 10 – 2009 | Maoists blew up a tower of a private telecom firm and torched a truck in Bihar’s Sheohar District last night. According to officials, around 45 to 50 Maoists blew up the Airtel tower at Brindaban Bazar and asked villagers to stay at home. Around 45-50 ultras swooped on the Brindaban Bazar. Earlier, ...

CRPP | 29 – 09 – 2009 | The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) after its Mulaakat with senior Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy in the Tihar jail would want to bring a few important facts, which are of vital significance for his life, before the democratic citizens of this country. Moreover, after the meeting of the lawyer ...

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 ...

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 ...

INDIA | 20 – 04 – 2009 | Gaya, April 16th Communist Party Of India (Maoist) rebels attacked a polling station at Singhpur village in Bihar’s Gaya district today, killing a homeguard and a district armed police personnel. Two other jawans were reported missing after the attack. The Maoists shot dead a homeguard and DAP personnel on election duty at the polling ...