Naxals/Maoists Watch

Should the Indian government use armed forces against the naxals/maoists?


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vampyrbladez

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Tommy gun uses .45 ACP rounds... wonder where would they get its ammo. Hardly anyone uses it in India.
Could be rechambered for .32 or 9mm rounds. The gun is an M1928A1 Thompson SMG which means it's pre-independence British police cast offs. As recent as a few years back Indian cops have been spotted with the gun. So it's possibly old police stock sent to OFB for destruction/museum/private collector and sold to these scum.
 

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Maoist gunned down in encounter with security forces in Bihar's Jamui
The encounter took place in the Tolapahar area under Chandramundi police station when a join team of CRPF's 207 Cobra commandos and the district police began a search operation.

Anand ST Das
Express News Service
PATNA: A hardcore Maoist was gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Bihar's Jamui district on Friday. An SLR rifle and four magazines were recovered from the slain rebel, whose identity is yet to be ascertained.

The encounter took place in the Tolapahar area under Chandramundi police station when a join team of CRPF's 207 Cobra commandos and the district police began a search operation of the area after getting tip-off about a dozen Maoists gathering there for a meeting.

"The rebels started firing at the security forces, forcing them to retaliate. One Maoist was found dead when the exchange ended after about two hours," said Jamui SP J Jalareddy. It is believed that some other Maoists were left badly injured in the exchange of fire.

The security forces embarked on an intensive combing operation and cordoned off the entire area soon after the encounter ended, added the SP. Police sources said it is possible the slain Maoist was an associate of hardcore Maoist Siddhu Koda, who has been eluding police for several years.

A dreaded Maoist, Sanjay Soren, was arrested at Garhi under Jamui's Maoist-affected Khaira police station area a day ago. Sources said Soren, a member of the outlawed CPI(Maoist), was arrested after his bike met with an accident in the area.




The Maoists had called for a two-day shutdown in Bihar and Jharkhand on July 17 and 18. The shutdown had affected normal life in several southern districts in Bihar as buses stayed off the roads and shops in small towns remained closed out of fear. The Maoists have influence in five southern districts of Bihar
 

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Now there is talk going in Visakhapatnam . As Naxal's backbone is broken ( funding is squeezed and almost top cadre are wiped out) , these guys are taking another strategy. That is " Destroy Public property". Some reports are saying they are planning to blow up Kothavalsa-Kirandul Railway line.
 

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Did Indian Surgical Strikes Trigger 'Coup' In Naga Militant Group?
Sunday, August 19, 2018 by Indiandefense News


In an unprecedented move, thought to be the first time in the Naga separatist movement's history, the NSCN(K) has removed its chairman, Khango Konyak. A younger leader, Yung Aung, 45, has replaced Konyak, an Indian Naga, as the chairman of the NSCN(K). The Naga outfit has maintained that the organisation is intact and ready to give a "serious blow to the Indian Army" very soon.
Internal sources in the NSCN(K) have confirmed to THE WEEK that it was a bloodless coup within the outfit after the recent attacks by the Myanmar Army on the outfit's camp near Sagaing in Myanmar, around 30km away from the international border. The sudden attack was seen as a failure on the part of Konyak, who was not liked by the younger leaders of the NSCN(K). However, Konyak
was known to be a close confidante of one of NSCN(K)'s early leaders, the late S.S. Khaplang.
Interestingly, Aung is a Burmese Naga and also a nephew of Khaplang.
While one source confirmed that Konyak was impeached by the Naga outfit's executive body, another claimed he decided to step down voluntarily in the interest of greater Naga unity. Perhaps, Myanmar was not ready to accept an Indian Naga as chief of NSCN(K) to work on its soil.
A third source has, however, said Konyak was injured in the recent attacks by the Myanmar army and was taken to a safe shelter. Konyak was apparently being chased by the Indian Army in recent times, during series of surgical strikes by the Indian military, and perhaps has crossed over to Thailand or Malaysia or even China.
None of the sources have confirmed the whereabouts of Konyak, who was recently found in a difficult situation after religious groups in Nagaland got in touch with him and requested him to join the talks with the Central government. They argued that without NSCN(K), the Naga talks would remain inconclusive.
A senior NSCN(K) leader has confirmed the change of guard.
"But please don't ask me anything as there has been no official declaration from our side," he added.
It was believed that recently Myanmar army stepped up attacks against NSCN(K), violating a decades-old ceasefire agreement at the insistence of the Narendra Modi government.
Konyak was also chief of the United Liberation Front of South West East Asia (UNLFW), a conglomeration of more than half-dozen insurgent groups including NSCN(K), ULFA(I) and NDFB(S). Konyak reportedly did not find time to regroup the organisation as he had taken charge just a year back after demise of Khaplang.
Unlike in the past, the UNLFW this time did not make any appeal to create disturbances during Independence Day celebrations even as six groups in Manipur asked people to oppose the event. As a result, after many decades, gunshots did not resound in the northeast during Independence Day celebrations this week.
Aung is a post-graduate of political science from Imphal University and an expert in explosive management and procurement. He was trained in Bangladesh, Pakistan and China by ULFA, ISI and Chinese intelligence, respectively, in the late 1990s. A remarkable sportsman who played for his university, Aung is known to be sharp, brilliant and intelligent.
"He also took part in a polo competition in Manipur and plays the sports very well," said a member of NSCN(K).
An Indian Army officer in the northeast said, "We are keeping a close watch over the development. No information has come to us about the change of guard."
It's to be seen who would take charge of the UNLFW. Sources said Paresh Barua, the chief of ULFA, is the front runner.
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Major anti-Naxal ops likely in Chhattisgarh; 7000 CRPF troops withdrawn from 4 states


By Zee Media Bureau | PTI | Updated: Aug 19, 2018, 14:39 PM IST
New Delhi: The central government has directed the withdrawal of over 7,000 CRPF personnel from their long drawn deployment in four states, the maximum being from West Bengal. These armed troops, part of seven battalions, will subsequently be re-deployed for conducting operations in Naxal-hit regions of south Bastar in Chhattisgarh, a recent government order has said.

The force was deployed to carry out anti-Naxal operations in West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand whereas for internal security-related duty in Uttar Pradesh.

As per the directive issued, the Union Home Ministry early this week informed the respective states enumerating that the maximum of three battalions are to be withdrawn from West Bengal, two from Bihar and one each from Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand.

Official sources said the move to take out the Central Reserve Police Force battalions from these states has come after a long time and the Home Ministry ordered for their marching after the paramilitary made a demand to it that it requires more battalions in Chhattisgarh in order to open more bases in the Maoist hotbed in Chhattisgarh.

As the biggest Left Wing Extremism (LWE) combat challenge is now in south Bastar, that borders Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, it is required to enhance the number of CRPF boots in these areas, they said.

The districts of Sukma, Dantewada, Bijapur, Kanker and Kondagaon witness the maximum movement and activity of the armed Maoist cadres and since the last year, the CRPF has begun opening camps in the interior areas to penetrate into the core Naxal areas, they said.

The LWE theatre in all the states from where the battalions have been ordered to be taken out, except Uttar Pradesh, have seen a marginal dip in the strength and control of Naxals and the forces are now in the dominating position, a senior official supervising anti-Naxal operations for the CRPF explained.

Uttar Pradesh has one LWE affected district - Sonebhadra - and the lone CRPF battalion proposed to be taken out from this central Indian state would come from a group centre of the force under which eight-nine battalions operate, he said.

These states are the only places from where the CRPF could take out few battalions as there is not much scope to withdraw units from either Jammu and Kashmir or the north east, the two other internal security theatres where the paramilitary is deployed thickly.

We expect the withdrawal to begin by this month end and their re-deployment in Chhattisgarh to be completed by the year end, he said.

The Home Ministry, under the same order, has asked the Chhattisgarh government to provide "adequate logistics and accommodation" for these new incoming units.

The CRPF, country's largest Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) with over three lakh personnel in its ranks, has about 30 battalions deployed in Chhattisgarh at present. A CRPF battalion has over 1,000 troops.
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