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MAY 28, 2010, 1:49 P.M. ET.India Train Attack Kills 73 .

By KRISHNA POKHAREL And PAUL BECKETT

NEW DELHI—At least 73 people died after a passenger train derailed and
collided with an oncoming cargo train in the eastern Indian state of
West Bengal early Friday, in an apparent act of sabotage that India's
railways minister blamed on Maoist rebels.

More on the Crash

India Real Time: Attack Shows Changing Maoist Tactics

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Associated Press

A survivor was carried to a hospital in West Bengal Friday.

..An 18-inch section of track was missing, according to a statement
from the Home Ministry in New Delhi. There were conflicting reports of
whether an improvised explosive device also was used.

Maoist leaders, who rarely claim responsibility immediately after
attacks, couldn't be reached for comment Friday.

The rebels, known as Naxalites after the village of Naxalbari in West
Bengal where the insurgency was hatched in 1967, have been stepping up
their attacks recently and have begun targeting civilians as well as
police and government paramilitary forces. The Maoists dominate swaths
of central India's impoverished states.

District official Shubhanjan Das said by late Friday night 73 dead
passengers and more than 200 injured had been taken to local hospitals
for treatment. Mr. Das said efforts were still continuing late Friday
night to remove bodies from four remaining coaches.

The train, the Gyaneshwari Express 2102, was traveling from Kolkata,
in eastern India, to a suburb of Mumbai, on India's west coast.

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Associated Press

Rescue workers gathered at the scene of the crash about 150 kilometers
west of Kolkata early Friday.

.The Maoists, who seek to overthrow the Indian government, have
stepped up attacks recently. In April, they killed 76 security
personnel in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh state, the highest
single death toll of the insurgency.

The district where the derailment took place, Paschim Medinipur, is
one of the most heavily Naxalite-affected districts in West Bengal. It
is underdeveloped, with dense forests along the state borders with
Orissa and Jharkhand, two eastern Indian states where the insurgents
also have a strong grip.

"We have these people coming from these states, attack here and run
back to those states," Mr. Das said. "Stopping them from moving freely
across the state borders is a challenge that the local administration
has been facing."

At least 65 people killed after an explosion in an Indian passenger
train sent it flying into the path of a speeding train. Video courtesy
of Reuters.

.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has repeatedly referred to the Maoist
rebellion as the greatest internal security threat that India faces.
Yet while the government has deployed more security forces to help
local police combat rebels and restore civilian rule, New Delhi has
been incapable of quelling the insurgency.

Home Minister P. Chidambaram last week caused a furor when he claimed
to have only a "limited mandate" in fighting the rebels, a remark
later clarified to mean that it was primarily an issue for individual
states to handle with help from the central government.

Government officials and rebels have offered to take part in
negotiations, but neither side has met the other's preconditions for
talks.

Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee, who arrived at the scene in Paschim
Medinipur Friday morning, said Naxalite rebels damaged the railway
tracks, causing the passenger train to derail, and timed the attack so
that it was sure to collide with a goods train coming in the opposite
direction.

"It was a calculated game," she said on television.

The district police said they found posters of a local group that
supports the Naxalites at the site but couldn't say definitively that
Naxalites were behind the sabotage.

According to an account of the incident given by the Ministry of
Railways, the driver of the train heard a loud sound as soon as the
train left an intermediate station, after which 13 coaches were
derailed, some of them falling into the path of a goods train coming
from the opposite direction.

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14 hours ago..VARDHAMAN PATEL wrote:

What is the similarity between Al Qaeda in the Af-Pak region and
Maoists in India? Both are looking for innocent blood. These guys have
guns, explosives, and bad intentions. They have clearly stated their
intention to overthrow the democratic government. This is clearly a
threat to national security. How long before east India turns into
Pakistan? God bless the innocent souls!

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12 hours ago.
Nonsubscriber Anand Natarajan wrote:

" Limited Mandate " seems to be THE issue

We need to strengthen India's federal interior minister to get rid of
Naxalite/Maoists terrorism

Also , puzzled on how Maoists get weapons/ammunition ( we can't blame
Pakistan ) and can't imagine , when Pakistan starts supporting
Maoists , let's clear this before it gets worse

12 hours ago..DALJIT SINGH wrote:

The train of economic development is moving very fast in India. The
Naxalites/ Maoists better get on the train, otherwise, they will be
left on the platform of hunger, disease and homelessness. The easy way
to embark on the train would be through education, training and
learning order. The killing of innocent people and derailing the
trains are old time tactics. These are not going to work in the larger
scheme of developing India. These are minor bumps on the track. The
nation would not even feel it. The track of economic development is
well cushioned. Hold on to your rails of development and move on.
People do make choices, if Maoists choose to take the route of
obstruction and destruction, they will be the one to bear the
responsibility of their lot which already is in a very sad state of
existence.

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4 hours ago..Gautam De replied:

Govt officials steal almost 90-95% of all development funds. No
education, no basic living, no industry... how come they join the
development train.

Indian Govt is facing a problem of its own making. These hungry and
angry people - deprived of development for 60 years are now out of
control. It is the CORRUPT INDIAN GOVT OFFICIALS who are responsible.

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1 hour ago..Colorado Boy replied:

You mean big government is the problem?

Maoists and marxists, in this part of India with Maoist activity, have
nominated their candidates for elections... under CPI(M) banner.
Sometimes they have won, sometimes they have lost.

West Bengal has been governed by Maoists and Marxists for decades.
They have been the government, have picked government officials.
Maoists have created these hungry and angry people, no?

11 hours ago..Mohan Kumar KG wrote:

Indeed another instance of innocent lives lost due to impotence and
lack of will of Indian political (leadership)! To top this, they are
still discussing what strategy to adopt to track down the maoists and
neutralize them. If the security forces cannot pursue this menace
caused by the maoists, how in the world will they tackle terrorists
from across the border ? Until there is better coordination between
the state and central govt agencies, using whatever resource is
available (by land, sea or air) this menace will not vanish. Every
media agency is able to have access to maoists but our security forces
are still "tracking" them - something that us lesser mortals cannot
fathom. Sheer apathy, is it not ?

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10 hours ago.
Nonsubscriber Anil Kumar Tulsiram wrote:

Its high time that government take stern actions against naxalites.
Nothing in this world can justify killing of innocent people.

9 hours ago..James LeMuir wrote:

A sad day. My thoughts and prayers go out to the innocent people that
were slaughtered in this cowardice act of soulless animals.

8 hours ago.
Nonsubscriber Sudhir Rajan wrote:

Maoism's cause is simply economic. When the Govt. & Private agencies
kick out indigenous people, who lived a subsistence life for centuries
on the land, to extract mineral, where are they supposed to go? The
agencies pay them a pittance - there was never schooling or other
organs of modern society to prepare these people to integrate. The
result is that we have entire populations unprepared for modern
economy ( lacking job/language skills) and are thrown to live by the
side of railtracks and slums of cities. This is gross injustice and
never would have happened in any civilized nation - but it happens
every day in the brutal state of India. The army is used to run over
these hapless people and what the world sees is the desperate action
by the few from that population who are out to seek revenge.

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7 hours ago..Lalatendu Dash replied:

Bunch of lies! Its armchair anlysts like you who are making this
problem worse.

I come from such a maoist infested area and can say that the maoist
problem is less to do with socio-economic problems and more with power
grabbing intention. One of the key things these maoists are trying to
do is to block/rollback socio-economic developments and put in place
social anarchy from which they can continue to derive their oxygen.

Also army has never been used to even fight the maoists let alone "to
run over these hapless people" so please stop propagating lies and for
god's sake get informed properly before forming an opinion.

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7 hours ago..Lalatendu Dash replied:

"...but it happens every day in the brutal state of India"

.. not sure about the brutality but one thing I am sure is only in
India we can have unidimensional misinformed apologists like you
supporting murderous terrorists from the rooftop using bogus
arguments. I wonder if your reactions would be same if any of your
kith or kin was there in the list of 65.....

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2 hours ago.
Nonsubscriber Mahesh Patro replied:

How about if you need to pay bribe to sale your crop? How about
trapped with a corrupted Politician, Police, bureaucrats even corrupt
Doctors? Did you even feel your beloved one is dying and Doctor asking
all about money and money? How about someone will force you to
evacuate your place where you live? How about your whole family has
not ate for 2 days while unnecessary people bugging you on the name of
SEZ, urbanization etc?
This all started with such frustrated farmers who once we prayed as
like God as kind of they feed us.
We need to re-look our urbanization thinking. We declare our economy
standard on the basis of stock market which roughly 20% of our nation
uses. We banned batting but we allowing batting on stock market? We
freely allowed westerns to do business, we allowed to get high salary
from abroad. This all leaded creating huge gape between rich and poor.
While rich able to pay 40,00,000 for a 1 bed room flat (which cause
real estate to raise), poor people asked to evacuate on the name of
SEZ and urbanization. I my self a IT professional. I know it improved
my standard of living. But I am able to see more social injustice due
to high band salary for IT people. Govt allowed tax free income for IT
companies where companies able to pay big salary.
Our country is not developed nation. We cant declare ourselves as
capitalistic economy. Our country needed to be socialistic economy.
Our govt have to control our market, salary, and many more to give
equal opportunity for poor too. If we had less populated, less poor
people then capitalism is good but not for us. I am not supporter of
Communist regime. All I am saying is govt have to interfere to make
not exactly equal but some kind of equality. I mean govt need to do a
survey and categorize the kind of job for every sector and govt have
to check so that similar kind of job have to get some kind of equal
salary.

Defiantly no one can justify killing innocent. So I have no problem
thinking Maoist are terrorist but we should rethink our economy and
way of developing our nation.

6 hours ago.
Varun Madhavan replied:

This "Sudhir Rajan" is on Maoist payroll. How much are they paying you
Mr. Rajan?

What a bunch of BS he/she is talking about. Army has never been used
against maoists. It shows your true colors. LIAR.

Anyhow I have forwarded your comments to some "concerned" people.
Enjoy the rest!
India and US have agreements to tracking down terrorists and closet
terrorist supporters. WSJ has an India office so that helps too.

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5 hours ago..Lalatendu Dash replied:

Sudir Ranjan

Freedom of speech does not give you a license to propagate blatant
lies! People were jailed, hung, shot and tortured to earn this right
so that people like you can now openly support murderous thugs who do
not believe in any sort of freedom.. let alone freedom of speech. Use
this hard earned previlage responsibly.

Can you enlighten me how would you "build institutions" when your
maoist chums are hell bent upon destroying the same institutions. They
blast railway stations and tracks, bomb schools, destroy police
stations, kill elected representatives and behead civil server
officers. Are these not par of the "institutions" to you?

Regarding your non-sensical comparision with Punjab,Haryana etc..
Maharashtra is one of the most wealthy states in India. What are
maoists doing there?

As I said earlier, please get informed properly before shooting up.
Replaying your record again and again that "Indian State" is an evil
monster is not going to convince anyone.

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7 hours ago.
Dinesh Patel wrote:

India has more Home-Grown Terrorists than any country in the World.
Some of the Elected Politicians has Soft corner, Soliciting and
Sheilding Home Growns and most of the Corrupted Politicians had proved
themselves " GAYS " to deal against Terrorism by State or Non State
actors to protect civilians. The country is Constantly " BLEEDING " by
2 side of Attack. Merciless KILLING SPREE by Terrorists & LOOTING
SPREE by some Corrupted Politicians. India had tried enough
DISHWASHERS as COOKS for curing Terrorism Recipe on the sacrifice of
Civilians, but never made it. Is Home Ministry & Defence Ministry
capable to handle Naxals-Maoists? If not " KICK " them out. Govt
interested to show the growth of 8-9% of the country but not cannot "
TACKLE " the growth of Terrorism by more than 300%. INDIA SHINING by
NAXALISM and MAOISM.

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6 hours ago..James Schaad wrote:

they are creatures............it is so easy to kill, so mindless
they have become a cancer in very way, they just randomly destroy and
kill..........i child could do the same
what is so badly needed in these parts of the world are men and women
that want to build countries, gather all these extreme groups
together, where all can believe they have a stake in the
future,.........but that has own own risks...it is safer to crawl out
from under a rock, inflict pain and suffering and tears and then crawl
back under the rock

6 hours ago.Nonsubscriber
Varun Madhavan wrote:

ManMohan Singh should resign immediately. The person is not fit to be
India's prime minister.
The lady Sonia Maino is the closet PM of India. Shame Shame.
Congress sucks.

Oh God, please save India from these idiotic politicians.

6 hours ago.

Sarah McKenzie wrote:

Another difference between a magnificent China and India. China would
never have let "Maoists" and other terrorist groups rise to such
audacity.

6 hours ago..Lalatendu Dash replied:

Go away you pakistani imposter! Your country is blowing to
smeetherins, worry about that.

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+ .Varun Madhavan replied:

"Sarah McKenzie" or "Daud Sharif" ? Same difference.

3 hours ago..Gautam De replied:

Yes. China will annihilate them secretly and decisively. Indian Govt
is incapable of taking a decision, thanks to its rank and file corrupt
administration. All they are capable to do is, loot public money.

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+ .Sanchari Senthil replied:

FYI, the Maoist rebellion has purported support from certain Chinese
factions across the border. So of course, China won't allow such
rebellions in their country. Moreover, do you really know all that
happens in China, coz of course, they censor what gets out to the
world. Now if only India could "manufacture" its global image... I'm
sure such insurgencies would never be published.

4 hours ago..David McQueen wrote:

How do the Maoist terrorists expect to convince people by killing
those people? Seems self-defeating to me. And that's a good thing.
Marxist ideology has killed millions of people world-wide since 1848.
The killers in Mumbai and now in East India should be hunted down and
summarily executed. Do not waste Indian taxpayer money on a trial.

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4 hours ago..Ben Baliga wrote:

The Indian central government does not want to be involved in this
problem, and expects the states to deal with this as they would deal
with any other law and order problem. However this problem has now
affected large parts of India and it is only a matter of time before a
large city in the fringe of Maoist territory such as Hyderabad is
attacked. The states have been dealing with this problem in a most
incompetent way. Here is a link to the string of Maoist attacks where
scores of para military forces were gunned down in their own camps.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7776567/Maoist-attacks-in-India-timeline.html

It is time the central government dealt with these acts of terrorism
before investment in India is affected. It seems terrorism linked to
Pakistan receives an emotional response from the politicians but
deaths caused by Maoist attacks are brushed under the carpet.

4 hours ago..David McQueen replied:

Ben Baliga:

In the USA, if the terrorist attacks here had been done by Maoists,
our central government wouldn't have done anything either. The current
regime here in the USA is ideologically in lockstep with Marxist
economic theory. Obama won't lift a finger to help India defeat the
Maoists (he's too busy apologizing to Muslim terrorists).

4 hours ago..Gautam De replied:

It seems so. His Security Policy is clearly appeasing Muslims. He
should be reminded that India, UK had appeased Muslims enough - with
no result in sight. Muslims -wherever they live, they never accept
their adopted place as their homeland. They ONLY think of Muslim
interest even though they live in US, UK to live far, far, far better
than their corrupt motherlands.

4 hours ago..Gautam De wrote:

Just look at the first page of WSJ.com. 40 people dead in Pakistan and
60 in India. Both in terrorist attack. Both these nations are plunging
into a lawless country like Sudan and Afghanistan. The West Bengal
state is an absolute horrible place. Ruled by Communists, funded
earlier by Russian now by Chinese, they have systematically ruined the
state into poverty so that the jobless people can be enrolled in the
Communist Party of India - CPI(Marxist). As a result no development at
all. All State Govt fund finds way into CPI(M) party coffer to spend
on the party cadres (nearly a million - all full time) and on the
party goons who runs their own parallel administration. No wonder,
West Bengal Govt likes Hugo Chavez so much.

But main culprit is Indian Govt who never done enough to uplift the
standard of living of the rural India. Decades of deprivation,
poverty, illiteracy have made these otherwise peaceful people into
dangerous terror outfits (sounds like Afghanistan?). Now we are
witnessing these killings, and I am sure this is only the beginning.

GOD SAVE INDIA AND PAKISTAN FROM CORRUPT REGIMES.

3 hours ago..David Shore wrote:

I suggest the WSJ create a "Terrorism" section in the paper, sort of
like "Real Estate" or "Lifestyles" or "Personal Finance". Covering the
front page with two article about the sad deaths of 100 civilians in
India and Pakistan is a questionable use of valuable journalistic
space, but more importantly, it lends attention and perhaps momentum
to the causes of the Terrorists. They don't need any extra help from
the WSJ.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704269204575271302155571546.html?mod=slideshow_overlay_mod

See also:

Nepal’s Two Boulders Greg Bruno
May 26, 2010

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/features/letters-from/letter-from-kathmandu?page=show

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/node/66351/talk

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India grapples for response as Maoists grow bolder
Agence France-Presse
New Delhi, May 30, 2010

First Published: 08:14 IST(30/5/2010)
Last Updated: 08:44 IST(30/5/2010)

India's struggle to find an effective strategy against an increasingly
violent Maoist insurgency has taken on an air of desperation as the
rebels ramp up the scale and potency of their operations.

Maoist saboteurs were blamed for Friday's derailing of a high-speed
passenger train in West Bengal that collided with an oncoming goods
train, killing 138 people.

Coming after a landmine attack earlier this month that killed 35
people, including 24 civilians, it suggested the rebels' strategy has
changed from one that in the past had almost exclusively targeted the
security forces.

The rising civilian death tolls have intensified public and political
scrutiny of India's counter-insurgency policy, which until now has
placed the operational onus on individual states rather than the
central government.

An offensive launched in November in the worst-affected areas with
nearly 60,000 paramilitary and state police was coordinated by New
Delhi, but it has produced little in the way of tangible results and
Maoist attacks have continued unabated.

After Friday's train wreck, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb
Bhattacharya made it clear that the states felt it was time for a new
approach.

"We have to find ways to counter this menace," he said. "Innocent
people are being killed."

Analysts say the government is hamstrung by internal disagreement over
how to proceed, with some urging a more aggressive policy and others
favouring a long-term strategy that addresses the plight of landless
tribespeople and impoverished farmers from whom the Maoists draw
support.

"There is a conflict between the so-called hawks who want to crush the
rebels and the so-called doves who call for development in Maoist-
dominated areas to wean away their support," said Ajai Sahni, a
counter-terrorism expert.

Home Minister P Chidambaram is seen as belonging to the former camp,
while Congress party chief, Sonia Gandhi, has stressed the need to
combat the "root causes" of the insurgency.

"But the conflict is essentially one of slogans because neither side
seems to have any idea how to flesh out their respective plans," said
Sahni.

"There is utter incoherence, whether one is talking about development
or security. There is no talk or agreement on the content of either
approach," he added.

It is not as if India is inexperienced in countering insurgencies.

Rebellions of varying size and intensity have waxed and waned in
different parts of the country for decades, including the 20-year
separatist battle in Kashmir that has claimed at least 47,000 lives.

But most have been restricted to a particular state. The Maoists, by
contrast, are spread over a vast area and operate out of some of
India's most remote and least-developed regions -- making counter-
insurgency coordination a severe challenge.

"The Maoists are prevalent in areas where the administration and
police are in a state of degradation," said KPS Gill, the former
police chief of Punjab who was credited with crushing a violent Sikh
militancy in the 1990s.

Gill, who has advised the government in the Maoist-infested state of
Chhattisgarh on security issues, said state administrations lacked the
resources to combat the rebels.

"The police simply don't have the will and the numbers they need. You
need to better equip the men and train them to take on the Maoists,"
he said.

Meanwhile, grassroots activists working in areas where the Maoists
hold sway say the government is paying the price for years of
indifference towards dispossessed, marginalised communities left
behind by India's economic boom.

"I am against violence and I think the killing of common people is not
going to endear the Maoists to the masses," said Medha Patkar, a
tribal rights campaigner.

"Having said that, we want the government to be more responsive to the
needs of the people, to hold a dialogue to address the genuine
problems the tribals and the poor face.

"We have been waging a non-violent struggle for tribal rights for
decades and the government has turned a deaf ear to us. So it's no
wonder some people think violence is the only way to make the
government listen," Patkar said.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-grapples-for-response-as-Maoists-grow-bolder/H1-Article1-550566.aspx

Unintended consequencesNo comments

Maoist violence and the debate over caste census occupied news columns
last week. I am suggesting a link between the two issues. It may sound
strange, but read on.

A day after the sabotage of a passenger train in West Bengal killed
more than 100, it’s fairly clear that the Maoists did it, though it
may or may not have been authorized by its top leadership.
At least in theory, Maoists are not expected to kill civilians.
Assuming that they are still holding on to this position, the Maoist
leadership has either failed to educate their cadre or the cadre cant
care less about what the leadership says. The cadres are armed – they
are ‘Gandhians with guns,” according to one public intellectual. Well,
she may want to revise that as they also have landmines, gelatins
sticks, and RDX. The cadres are using it all rather liberally, without
caring about who they kill and maim.
The decision to come on caste census is not whether or not, but is
limited to the modalities of how it should be done. Should it be done
as part of the census operations or the National Population Register?
Should all castes, including upper castes be counted separately or
should the exercise only count those castes, which are classified as
Other Backward Classes (OBCs)? These questions will be settled
according to the political wisdom of the people who are involved in
the debate. All those who are agreeing to a caste census are making
respective individual calculations about its political impact.
There comes the link between the two issues of Maoist violence and
caste census.
The Maoists have unleashed a force of violence and it may not for long
stay under a centralized command. Each comrade would develop his own
notion of class struggle. The only thing sure about it is that it will
not lead to the establishment of a communist state.
Caste census too will unleash a huge social force, but nobody can
predict with certainty what form and shape it will take. More or less
certainly, it will not follow a path that its proponents may want it
to. For instance, I believe, contrary to commonsense, that this will
harm the politics of Lalu and Mulayam.

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Miracle escape for 7-yr-old
AB Vijay Murty, Hindustan Times
Jhargram (West Bengal), May 30, 2010

First Published: 00:55 IST(30/5/2010)
Last Updated: 00:59 IST(30/5/2010)

Amid the scenes of mangled bodies, tragedy and despondency at the site
of the train accident in Jhargram, there were also scenes of hope and
happiness.

Seven-year-old Mayank Bothra was among the lucky survivors aboard the
Mumbai-bound Gyaneshwari Super Deluxe Express that derailed on Friday
in West Midnapore.

Mayank was travelling with his father Anil Bothra in bogie S5. “There
was a loud noise and suddenly there was no light,” the boy told
Hindustan Times.

Mayank was sent back to Kolkata where his relatives picked him up. His
father, however, was not as lucky. He died in the accident.

“Strange are the ways of God,” said Mayank’s uncle, Kamal Bothra, who
came all the way from New Delhi to look for his brother’s body.

“My brother (Anil) was going to see his wife in Rourkela, where she
was vacationing at her parents' place,” Kamal said.

A last minute change of plan saved Mumbai-resident Debankur Adhikari.
Adhikari was on a vacation in the northeast state of Sikkim and was
scheduled to return to Mumbai on May 27 on the same train.

But he decided to extend his holiday and visit Kaziranga National Park
in Assam.

Another survivor, 27-year-old Ritu Raj, a Mumbai-based engineer, was
heading home on a vacation and was excited about meeting his parents.

He was in S4, one of the four badly hit bogies, when he was jolted out
of his sleep.

“Before I could take any stupid step, there was a huge collision and
the bogie jumped off the track, falling towards the north,” Raj said.

He somehow managed to get out of the broken window and climbed onto
the roof. And it was only when he saw several other damaged bogies,
did he realise the magnitude of the accident.

There were nearly 72 passengers in the bogie. Only a handful
survived.

CPM vs Mamata

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee termed the accident a ‘conspiracy’
ahead of Sunday's civic polls in West Bengal.

“We have asked for a proper investigation, preferably by the CBI,” she
said. In an indirect reference to the ruling CPM, she said: “I don’t
know who has done the heinous crime. But whoever has done it, it’s a
political conspiracy.”

(With inputs from Anbwesh Roy Choudhary)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/westbengal/Miracle-escape-for-7-yr-old/Article1-550525.aspx

Will Maoists apologise again?
B. Vijay Murty, Hindustan Times
Jhargram, May 30, 2010

First Published: 00:35 IST(30/5/2010)
Last Updated: 00:39 IST(30/5/2010)

Grief turned to frustration and then to anger, with people searching
for relatives who had been travelling on the ill-fated Gyaneshwari
Express that derailed on Friday unable to find them. Many of them, who
flocked to West Midnapore village where the crash occurred, lashed out
at the government’s offer of compensation.

“We don’t want Rs 3 lakh compensation,” said Lalit Maheshwari, from
Salt Lake, Kolkata. “We will give the government Rs 5 lakh provided
they find us the bodies of our loved ones.”

Preliminary investigations confirmed Maoists had sabotaged the tracks
leading to the derailment and deaths. A week earlier, in Chhattisgarh,
their South Bastar unit chief Ramanna had apologised for blowing up a
private bus that killed 15 civilians.

Though the toll in the train tragedy touched 124 — all civilians — on
Saturday, there was no apology from the Maoists this time.

Kuldip Kaur of Bengal’s Raniganj town spent all of Friday and
Saturday circling the mangled S-4 and S-5 bogies. Every 10 to 15
minutes, she’d run to the coaches, peep inside and return dejected.
“My only son, Paramjit Singh (26), was in S-5. He is untraceable,” she
said. Around 9 am, when a crane lifted the coaches from the tracks and
dumped them in nearby fields, bodies fell in a heap. Paramjit still
could not identify her son.

“Only the goods train engine remains, which will be removed soon. A
few more bodies could be trapped under it,” said A.P. Mishra, general
manager, South Eastern Railway.

Mewalal Shaw, of Kolkata, searched in vain for the bodies of his
children, Pawan (23) and Puneet (25), who were in S-5. “They were
going for a wedding,” said a family friend. Kolkata Surendra Singh’s
family was also going for a wedding, to Bhilai. “My wife and three
children were in this bogie,” Surendra said.

Saran Singh, an engineering student from Howrah, sat in a field, in
despair after failing to locate his brother, Gaurav (19). “He was
going to Raipur for higher studies,” Saran said.

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Kin hunt for bodies, Mamata for votes
Surbek Biswas , Hindustan Times
Kolkata, May 30, 2010

First Published: 00:25 IST(30/5/2010)
Last Updated: 02:14 IST(30/5/2010)

Two Maoist hit squad members and local members of the Maoist-backed
People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) were responsible
for the derailment of the Gyaneshwari Express in West Midnapore
district on Friday, investigating officials claimed on Saturday, even
as the toll mounted to 124 and railway minister Mamata Banerjee spun a
conspiracy theory targeting the ruling Communist Party of India
(Marxist).

Banerjee demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into
the alleged conspiracy and the Centre obliged. State Criminal
Investigation Department (CID) officials, who refused to be
identified, told HT preliminary investigations showed that eight PCAPA
members, who worked as contract labourers with the Railways, loosened
the fishplates and cut tracks, which led to the crash.

“We are sure local PCAPA activists and Maoist hit squad members were
involved,” Bengal DGP Bhupinder Singh said. The operation was planned
at the local level as a reprisal against recent police raids and the
top Maoist leadership probably didn’t know about it, police sources
said, indicating that the latter could be losing control over their
cadres.

Banerjee and a section of intellectuals supporting the Trinamool
Congress, however, pointed fingers at the ruling party in the state.
Addressing a press conference, the Railway Minister said: “It needs to
be probed whether this accident was planned to malign my image and
that of my ministry just two days before the civic polls in the
state.”

Banerjee added: “Some people have launched a disinformation campaign
and planned rallies in Kolkata. I wonder how they could prepare for it
so fast.” On Friday, PCAPA and CPI(Maoist) had alleged that the CPI
(M) might have plotted the accident. Banerjee demanded that this be
probed.

Police said a team of about 20-25 were involved in the operation. “A
white pick-up van was used to drop them at Indraboni village, 7 km
from the accident spot,” an officer said. “We have identified the
group that committed the crime. Raids have begun last night. We’ll nab
them soon,” said Zulfikar Hasan, IG (western range).

(Inputs by Snigdhendu Bhattacharya)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/special-news-report/News-Feed/Victims-kin-hunt-for-bodies-Mamata-for-votes/Article1-550507.aspx

Lessons from the only 'success'
Praveen Donthi, Hindustan Times
May 29, 2010

First Published: 23:31 IST(29/5/2010)
Last Updated: 23:46 IST(29/5/2010)

Except for torching of a road roller on May 25, there have been no
Maoist attacks in the Visakhapatnam agency area of Andhra Pradesh for
the last 15 days. It is but a brief dry spell.

Vineet Brij Lal, SP of the area, will soon be getting additional
paramilitary forces he had requested for. He also needs a helicopter.

"There are at least two platoons and 200 militia active in this area.
In the past two months there have been nine incidents. The situation
is escalating," says the former Greyhounds officer.

Maoists have maintained their grip on AOB area (Andhra-Orissa border)
— 3 districts of Northern Andhra and 5 districts of Orissa — despite
losing their strongholds of North Telanagana and Nallamala forests of
southern Andhra in 2005 and 2006 respectively. But they are active
again. According to highly-placed intelligence sources, out of 410 top
maoists spread all over the country, 160 are still within the state.
"In AOB, Khammam and Warangal they are very much there," says Aravinda
Rao, former IG, Intelligence, AP Police.

The Andhra Maoist leaders driven out by Greyhounds are not only
providing leadership elsewhere but they are also recruiting from AP.
"There are so many committed families and people here who make for
ready recruits for various reasons," says Rao.

Telangana agitation has also given a fillip to the Maoists. Most
Andhra maoists like Kishenji, Ganapathi and Satyanna had participated
in Telangana agitation in 1969-72 as college students. "The
recruitment has become easier. They are known to fish in troubled
waters and it’s known that they are doing it," says a former senior
Greyhounds officer on the condition of anonymity. "It is not the
number of cadres that’s worrying us but the number of people who
support them," he says.

Top level officials are aware of the limitations of the AP success.
"State borders exist only on maps. When they are so successful in
other states, it’s not easy stop them from coming," says Anjani Kumar,
IG, Greyhounds.

"The party has seen worse days in 1972 when the entire Srikakulam
movement was wiped out. But it is not possible in Telangana in
particular and Andhra in general to wipe out Maoism," says Varavara
Rao, a Maoist ideologue.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/andhrapradesh/Lessons-from-the-only-success/Article1-550479.aspx

Catchphrases aren’t strategies
Ajay Sahni, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, May 29, 2010

First Published: 23:24 IST(29/5/2010)
Last Updated: 23:29 IST(29/5/2010)

For the past year, the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued repeated
statements regarding its 'strategy' against the Maoists, encapsulated
in the oft-used catchphrase 'clear, hold and develop'. Here's the
result: 76 dead at Chintalnar, another 44 at Chingavaram, at least 110
at Sardiha, and no less than 377 civilians and security personnel
killed in numerous 'lesser' Maoist attacks (excluding the three named)
since the launch of the Centre's 'massive and coordinated operations'
in November 2009. All this should be ample evidence that catchphrases
are not strategies.

There has been a pervasive proclivity to use the word 'strategy'
rather loosely, to cover every jumble of aspirations, intentions and,
often, fantasies. But 'strategy' has no meaning unless it incorporates
a long-term perspective; a realistic and accurate assessment of the
challenge; a clear definition of objectives; a quantified assessment
and acquisition of resources required to secure the objectives; and a
planned deployment of these resources within timeframes imposed by the
conflict. If there is a disconnect between objectives, tactics,
resources and ground conditions, there is no strategy.

That is the reality of the arbitrary event — media-and politics-driven
initiatives of the past months. The Centre's vision and objectives
could not be reconciled with the forces and resources available and
deployed, and the succession of operational and tactical reverses that
have resulted are a direct and inescapable consequence of this
strategic infirmity.

It must be clear, consequently, that the Centre's current initiatives
have failed — inevitably and abysmally — and will have to be
abandoned. Retreating into a defensive shell is, however, not an
option. Nor will desperate entreaties for negotiations with the Maoist
leadership serve the state's purposes. A strategic shift is
imperative, and must reconcile objectives with capacities. The state
cannot currently restore authority over vast tracts across which the
Maoists have established their disruptive dominance, and no useful
purpose can be served by attempting to target the Maoists in their
present 'heartlands'. If there is an attempt simply to concentrate
available the forces against identified command centres, these will
simply dissolve to relocate elsewhere, even as diversionary violence
escalates exponentially — tactics that have already been demonstrated
to devastating effect.

The immediate tactical emphasis must be on intelligence-led and
narrowly targeted operations seeking out the leadership, rather than
dissipating the forces on chasing cadres. The state must seize and
hold, not territory, but the initiative that it has long relinquished.
Intelligence will be the key here — and there have been numerous
successes on this plane, including the arrest, surrender or
elimination of much of the top Maoist leadership. This is the thrust
that must be strengthened enormously.

Before we set out to 'recover' Maoist strongholds, it is essential
that we secure our own. Two-hundred-and-twenty-three of the 636
districts in India are now categorised as variously affected by Maoist
activity, though just 90 of these experience recurrent violence. There
must be a clear determination to contain the Maoists on their
peripheries, to engineer their expulsion from areas in which their
influence is nascent, and ensure that they are not able to expand into
new areas.

This requires, first, a complete reorientation of existing Police
Forces, with the largest possible proportion of the State Police
operationalised — that is, retrained, equipped and mandated to deal
with the Maoists. Only through genuine Police reforms and dramatic
augmentations in general policing capabilities — something no one
seems to want — can the state stem the rising tide of Maoist
disorders. Eventually, a final showdown with the Maoists in their
current areas of strength will be necessary, but this is best deferred
till the massive capacity augmentation necessary to create the
conditions for victory has been completed.

Finally, before it struts about airing nonsense about 'developing'
Rajnandgaon, Kanker, Dantewada and Bastar, let the State demonstrate
its honest intent and, crucially, the capacity to deliver good
governance in the areas unambiguously in its control.

Ajay Sahni is the executive director, Institute for Conflict
Management & South Asia Terrorism Portal

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/india/Catchphrases-aren-t-strategies/Article1-550475.aspx

Antony doesn't rule out using army against Maoists
Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, May 29, 2010

First Published: 20:38 IST(29/5/2010)
Last Updated: 21:29 IST(29/5/2010)

Defence Minister AK Antony on Saturday met Indian Army chief Gen. VK
Singh to discuss the possibility of using the army against the Maoist
guerrillas - a possibility that Antony later didn't rule out.

A well informed source told IANS that Singh and Antony discussed the
role of the army in "assisting" paramilitary troopers in the anti-
Maoist operations in east and central India, where the Left-wing
extremists have grown in strength striking at security forces and
civilians with impunity.

Antony later told reporters that the government will "carefully"
examine the issue but didn't rule it out.

"You cannot have a debate about it in public. We will take the
decision after carefully studying it," the defence minister said.

The meeting between the army chief and the minister comes a day after
a Maoist sabotage caused a train accident in West Bengal leaving more
than 130 people dead. This was the biggest attack on civilians by the
rebels after they slaughtered 76 security men in Chhattisgarh's
Dantewada district April 6.

Sources said the army is almost ready to move in into Maoist dominated
areas and is waiting for the political decision about it.

"The force is finalizing its plans to meet any contingency. They may
have to step in," an official said.

The army is presently giving training, surveillance and logistical
support to the central paramilitary troopers in their ongoing anti-
Maoist operations.

It is establishing two sub-area headquarters at Ambarda on the Orissa-
West Bengal border and Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh.

Though the sub-area headquarters would be static they are likely to
help if army units are deployed in the region to fight the rebels
along with the police and paramilitary forces.

Antony had earlier categorically ruled out deploying the army in a
direct role in the operations.

The army has already trained around 47,000 police and paramilitary
personnel for counter-insurgency battle.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/newdelhi/Antony-doesn-t-rule-out-using-army-against-Maoists/Article1-550398.aspx

Maoist posters found in Rourkela
Press Trust Of India
Rourkela, May 29, 2010

First Published: 17:54 IST(29/5/2010)
Last Updated: 18:02 IST(29/5/2010)

Maoist posters, found in naxal-stronghold areas of Orissa's Sundargarh
district, were today found in the heart of the steel city.

Police today seized two Maoist posters pasted on the walls of an under-
construction private medical college in the premises of Rourkela
Government hospital.

Rourkela Superintendent of Police Jitesh Patnaik confirmed seizure of
two maoist posters demanding a halt to the ongoing construction work
of a high-tech private medical college on government land.

The tribals had earlier given their land for expansion of a government
hospital.

The government, instead of building a hi-tech hospital by expanding
the existing government hospital, had handed over the land to a
private party.

Police was trying to verify whether the posters were put up by the
Maoists or the handiwork of some persons who had been evicted from the
land.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/orissa/Maoist-posters-found-in-Rourkela/Article1-550355.aspx

India tribal belt
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The India's tribal belts refer to contiguous areas of indigenous
settlement of tribal people of India.

Northwest India

The Tribal Belt of Northwest India includes the states of Rajasthan,
Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. The tribal people of this region
have origins which precede the Vedic Aryan people of the north and the
Dravidian people of the south. In fact, the origins of these people
are thought to stem back to the Harappan civilisation of the Indus
valley, the oldest traceable civilisation of the Indian sub-continent
which flourished between 3500BC and 2500BC.

The tribes of north-west India were once strong matrilineal societies.
The changing fates and fortunes of these people has caused a gradual
evolution to a more patriarchal code of living. These days the tribal
societies generally follow the rule of patriliny. There are still,
however, many strong cases of organised matriarchy in existence today.
It is the women who organise matters such as relationships and
marriages, the inheritance of land, and the distribution of wealth.

The Meghwal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghwal
The Bhils http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhils
The Ahir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahir
The Rabari http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabari
The Lambani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambani
The Warli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warli

Central India

The Central India Tribal Belt stretches from Gujarat in the west up to
West Bengal in the east across the states of Madhya Pradesh,
Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. It is among the poorest regions of the
country. Over 90% of the Belt's tribal population is rural, with
primitive agriculture.[1]

See also

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List of Scheduled Tribes in India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scheduled_Tribes_in_India
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India Maoist train sabotage toll climbs to 146
(AFP) – 39 minutes ago

KOLKATA — Indian rescue workers completed search operations on Sunday
after pulling out 146 bodies from the site of a train wreck blamed on
Maoist saboteurs, a state minister said.

The crash occurred on Friday when a Mumbai-bound high-speed passenger
express from Kolkata veered off the tracks into the path of an
oncoming freight train in a remote part of West Bengal state.

If confirmed as a Maoist strike, it would be the deadliest attack by
the rebels in recent memory.

The government has recently been severely criticised for its handling
of the worsening left-wing insurgency.

"Teams have pulled 146 bodies from the damaged carriages of the train.
Now we are concentrating on hospitals because more than 200 injured
are still there," West Bengal civil defence minister Srikumar
Mukherjee told AFP.

Relief and rescue workers rushed to the site -- a Maoist stronghold
around 135 kilometres (85 miles) west of Kolkata -- and used
mechanical cutters to reach the injured and the dead inside the badly
mangled carriages.

The precise cause of the derailment was still unclear.

Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee initially said Maoists had blown up
the track with explosives, while police pointed to evidence that a
section of rail had been manually removed.

The Times of India on Sunday said police believed a "rogue Maoist
gang" was behind the carnage.

Mukherjee said many of the bodies were badly dismembered and
identification of the remains by relatives was proving to be a big
challenge.

"We have urged the next of kin of the victims to donate blood to the
Central Forensic Laboratory in Kolkata so that the bodies can be
identified" by DNA testing, he said.

The Indian Railways Board responded to the disaster by cancelling
nighttime services in a number of Maoist-affected areas until further
notice.

The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of landless
tribespeople and farmers left behind by India's rapid economic
expansion.

The Maoist rebellion, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has labelled
the biggest threat to the country's internal security, began in West
Bengal in 1967 and has since spread to 20 of India's 29 states.

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India's Maoist rebels: profile
Maoist rebels have emerged as the most potent threat to India's
internal stability following a series of terrorist attacks that have
humiliated the country's armed forces.

Published: 9:53AM BST 28 May 2010

India rescue workers gather at the scene of a train crash in Sardiha,
West Bengal Photo: AP
Authorities blamed the Maoists for a railway attack in the eastern
state of West Bengal early on Friday that derailed an express train,
killing at least 65 people and injuring scores.

The origins of the Left-wing insurgency can be traced back to a 1967
peasant uprising in the remote village of Naxalbari in West Bengal. In
India, the rebels are most commonly referred to as "Naxalites".

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eventually crushed by police, but over the years the Maoists expanded
their base, enlisting thousands of villagers and landless tribal
people who now form the movement's core.

The militant group, which claims to represent the rural poor and
opposes seizures of tribal lands for new mining projects, now controls
or has a powerful influence in one third of India's remote districts.
The insurgency has spread to 20 of India's 29 states with the main
centre of activity in the so-called "Red Corridor" covering the
natural resource-rich states of Jharkand, West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar,
Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.

Tribal groups and many rural areas have been left behind by India's
economic development, and poverty and discontent with local government
corruption are seen as fuelling support for the insurgents.

Their current strength is estimated at between 10,000-20,000
guerrillas, who operate out of jungle camps where they undergo weapons
and ideological training.

Between 2005 and 2010, the Maoists killed more than 1,220 security
personnel and about 2,640 civilians, according to government data.

Using their abundant supplies of automatic weapons, landmines and
improvised explosive devices, they usually target police patrols,
suspected informers, rail tracks, schools and government buildings.

Security forces say their principal sources of funding are from
abductions, extortion and looting. They have also set up unofficial
administrations in some rural areas to collect taxes.

As the years have passed, the rebels have grown more brazen in their
operations.

In 2007, they assassinated a federal MP and engineered a mass prison
break for 300 of their jailed fighters. The next year witnessed the
sinking of a boat carrying elite commandos, while in April 2009 they
briefly held an entire train with 300 passengers hostage.

The Indian government launched a centrally coordinated anti-Maoist
offensive in November 2009, dubbed Operation Greenhunt.

The surge saw over 60,000 paramilitary police and state police pushed
into the worst-affected states along with extra funds for modernising
the forces and development packages.

But the operation produced little in the way of tangible results as
the Maoists responded with a series of deadly attacks that raised
questions over the government's reluctance to deploying the military
against the rebels.

The pressure to up the stakes increased after 76 policemen were
massacred in the worst single attack to date in April, and a landmine
blast that killed 24 civilians and 11 police in May triggered a
government review of its strategy.

Home Minister P. Chidambaram acknowledged that changes were needed and
said he would request wider powers.

The minister noted that the chief ministers of four of the worst-hit
states had asked for air power to be used against the rebels - a
measure the government has so far refused to sanction.

Indian forces killed 900 Maoists between March 2005 and February 2010
and over 200 are in Indian prisons, according to a report by the Delhi-
based Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7776686/Indias-Maoist-rebels-profile.html

Indian government prepares to escalate war against Maoists after train
attack
Indian government forces are preparing to escalate their war against
Maoist guerillas after a bomb attack on an express sleeper train left
79 passengers dead.

By Dean Nelson in New Delhi
Published: 1:26PM BST 29 May 2010

More than 200 were injured in the explosion and collision Photo: AP
The attack on the Calcutta-Mumbai Gyaneshwari Express in West Bengal
and the scale of civilian casualties caused shock throughout India
where it was denounced as a "terrorist attack on the masses" the
Maoists claim to represent.

The change of mood intensified pressure on the Indian government to
take decisive action against the insurgents.

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Kevin Pietersen prepares for his finest hourThat pressure increased
further on Saturday as rescue workers highlighted the human tragedies
caused by the explosion. The Times of India reported how seven year
old twin girls Sharmin and Shirin Alam, had died in each other's arms
in their railway sleeper bed where they had been travelling on their
first ever holiday. Their teachers said they had been unable to
contain their excitement at the prospect of a train trip to Mumbai.

Their parents had also died in the explosion, which derailed 13
carriages and hurled several into the path on an on-coming goods
train. More than 200 were injured in the explosion and collision.

The attack follows a series of brutal attacks on India's security
forces.

More than 20 troops of the Eastern Frontier Rifles were killed in
February, 76 members of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed
in an ambush in Chhattisgarh last month, while earlier this month the
Maoists killed 44 in a landmine explosion which targeted special
police officers.

All these attacks were focused on paramilitary personnel deployed as
part of 'Operation Green Hunt,' the government's campaign to flush
Maoist insurgents from their jungle strongholds.

Ministers however have been paralysed by indecision over their
response.

Some fear overwhelming force and the use of air power could backfire
and increase Maoist popularity among the rural poor and tribals in
India's eastern states. The government's home minister P Chidambaram
has offered their leaders a ceasefire to allow talks to go ahead, but
the Maoists rejected his offer.

The Maoist or 'Naxalite' rebellion began in 1967 in support of a
peasant uprising over land reform in Naxalbari, West Bengal. It has
now spread to Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand, and Madhya Pradesh and
they are regarded a powerful force in one-third of India's 624
districts and India's greatest internal security challenge, according
to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

More recently the Maoists have won new support from poor lower caste
farm labourers and tribals displaced by government-backed mining
operations and new steel and aluminium plants.

India's home minister met army chiefs on Friday to agree a new
approach, while the chief minister of West Bengal Budhadeb
Bhattarcharjee declared an all-out war against the insurgents and
vowed they would be defeated.

"The Maoists have done this. The operation against them will be
intensified and all-out efforts will be made to free the state and
country from this danger," he said.

Former Indian intelligence officer, security analyst B Raman, said
this latest tragedy in which civilians were targeted highlighted a new
Maoists' strategy which called for a new government response.

"They have become indifferent fears of public aversion to their acts
are no longer a restraining factor on their activities. When the
jihadis developed a similar indifference some years ago, we were faced
with an increase in their attacks on soft targets. We could face a
similar increase in Maoist attacks on soft targets in rural areas and
small towns," he warned.

He said the government must now target and "neutralise" the Maoist
leadership while addressing the genuine grievances of the rural poor
and tribals they represent.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7782644/Indian-government-prepares-to-escalate-war-against-Maoists-after-train-attack.html
TelegraphNews

Indian government prepares to escalate war against Maoists after train
attack

Indian government forces are preparing to escalate their war against
Maoist guerillas after a bomb attack on an express sleeper train left
79 passengers dead.

By Dean Nelson in New Delhi
Published: 1:26PM BST 29 May 2010

More than 200 were injured in the explosion and collision Photo: AP

The attack on the Calcutta-Mumbai Gyaneshwari Express in West Bengal
and the scale of civilian casualties caused shock throughout India
where it was denounced as a "terrorist attack on the masses" the
Maoists claim to represent.

The change of mood intensified pressure on the Indian government to
take decisive action against the insurgents.

That pressure increased further on Saturday as rescue workers
highlighted the human tragedies caused by the explosion. The Times of
India reported how seven year old twin girls Sharmin and Shirin Alam,
had died in each other's arms in their railway sleeper bed where they
had been travelling on their first ever holiday. Their teachers said
they had been unable to contain their excitement at the prospect of a
train trip to Mumbai.

Their parents had also died in the explosion, which derailed 13
carriages and hurled several into the path on an on-coming goods
train. More than 200 were injured in the explosion and collision.

The attack follows a series of brutal attacks on India's security
forces.

More than 20 troops of the Eastern Frontier Rifles were killed in
February, 76 members of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed
in an ambush in Chhattisgarh last month, while earlier this month the
Maoists killed 44 in a landmine explosion which targeted special
police officers.

All these attacks were focused on paramilitary personnel deployed as
part of 'Operation Green Hunt,' the government's campaign to flush
Maoist insurgents from their jungle strongholds.

Ministers however have been paralysed by indecision over their
response.

Some fear overwhelming force and the use of air power could backfire
and increase Maoist popularity among the rural poor and tribals in
India's eastern states. The government's home minister P Chidambaram
has offered their leaders a ceasefire to allow talks to go ahead, but
the Maoists rejected his offer.

The Maoist or 'Naxalite' rebellion began in 1967 in support of a
peasant uprising over land reform in Naxalbari, West Bengal. It has
now spread to Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand, and Madhya Pradesh and
they are regarded a powerful force in one-third of India's 624
districts and India's greatest internal security challenge, according
to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

More recently the Maoists have won new support from poor lower caste
farm labourers and tribals displaced by government-backed mining
operations and new steel and aluminium plants.

India's home minister met army chiefs on Friday to agree a new
approach, while the chief minister of West Bengal Budhadeb
Bhattarcharjee declared an all-out war against the insurgents and
vowed they would be defeated.

"The Maoists have done this. The operation against them will be
intensified and all-out efforts will be made to free the state and
country from this danger," he said.

Former Indian intelligence officer, security analyst B Raman, said
this latest tragedy in which civilians were targeted highlighted a new
Maoists' strategy which called for a new government response.

"They have become indifferent fears of public aversion to their acts
are no longer a restraining factor on their activities. When the
jihadis developed a similar indifference some years ago, we were faced
with an increase in their attacks on soft targets. We could face a
similar increase in Maoist attacks on soft targets in rural areas and
small towns," he warned.

He said the government must now target and "neutralise" the Maoist
leadership while addressing the genuine grievances of the rural poor
and tribals they represent.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7782644/Indian-government-prepares-to-escalate-war-against-Maoists-after-train-attack.html

Vasectomies and violence inside India's Maoist camps
A quick exchange of guns and a pledge to have a vasectomy is customary
for India's Maoist 'comrades' when they wed in their isolated forest
hideouts.

By Rupam Jain Nair, in Jagdalpur
Published: 11:16AM GMT 16 Nov 2009

India is preparing an armed offensive against Maoist rebels Photo:
AFP

Around 10,000 to 20,000 heavily armed rebels, who follow a
revolutionary Communist ideology that paints the state and landowners
as the enemies of the people, are believed to be living in India's
forests.

"This is how I got married," says 36-year-old Ramesh Podiyani, a
surrendered Maoist commander who fought for more than two decades in
Chhattisgarh, a central state at the heart of India's "Red Corridor".

Ranching with cowboys in Wild West WyomingThe vasectomy, he explained,
was because children could weaken a fighter emotionally, distracting
him from the cause of waging class war and destroying capitalism.

"Comrades" undergo the surgery in private clinics or with sympathetic
doctors, avoiding government hospitals where they might be detected.

Podiyani, who now works for a private company, grew up in a Maoist
training camp from the age of seven where, instead of going to school,
he was trained with bows and arrows, then with guns and landmines.

"I killed several people, but I'm not sorry. It was my duty to kill as
a comrade," he said, sitting inside a police conference room in the
town of Jagdalpur, 400 kilometres (250 miles) from Chhattisgarh, the
state capital of Raipur.

Podiyani and his wife served two years in prison after they
surrendered to police and are waiting for a promised government job
and a house.

Most of the recruits who end up as Maoist fighters are from India's
marginalised tribal groups. Some are forcibly enlisted, others join by
choice, attracted by the fight for justice and the poor.

"I was excited when I joined the Maoists. They gifted me a uniform and
leather boots," Podiyani says, adding that he was enlisted after his
parents fled the village when the recruitment drive began.

Ratha Werna, a former Maoist soldier training in a special police camp
in Jagdalpur, is also prepared to speak openly about life in an
organisation that is challenging the authority of the government in 20
of India's 29 states.

The strength of the decades-long insurgency has finally prompted the
government to begin a major offensive, involving thousands of police
and paramilitary forces.

"We thought the Maoists were the government and they are good because
they were working for us," says Werna, who was expelled by the Maoists
after he failed to rob a bank in Raipur and is now a police de-miner.

Robbing banks, killing landlords, attacking police stations and
holding up trains are regular activities for the guerrillas, who work
in a highly structured organisation topped by former teacher Mupalla
Laxman Rao, better known as Ganapathi.

Inside the Maoist camps, there are strict rules forbidding corruption,
lies and adultery, and leaders keep a close eye on the conduct of
every cadre, four former rebels told AFP in a series of interviews.

All disputes between the camp members are decided within 24 hours by
the camp leader, with punishments ranging from demotion and detention
to physical labour.

Religion and superstition are forbidden.

"I was not allowed to worship the trees and the birds in the camp,"
said 32-year-old Dhuna, a former rebel and tribal villager from a
Maoist-dominated area of the densely forested, impoverished state.

"From humble forest dwellers we were forced to become brutal
soldiers."

Women generally cook, collect wood and act as soldiers. Some have been
known to abandon their children on state highways in order to better
serve the cause, according to Kathihar Ras, a worker in a local
orphanage.

Men's tasks include patrolling, organising propaganda exercises and
collecting protection money from wealthy business leaders to guarantee
their safety.

The Maoist propaganda machine - an essential part of the movement that
the government is countering with its own communications efforts -
uses printing presses, hired translators and professional writers.

"India is nothing but a semi-colonial and semi-feudal state under neo-
colonial form of indirect rule, exploitation and control," is one idea
contained in a strategy manual obtained by AFP.

Podiyani remembers some of the songs used during the regular workshops
in which fellow fighters were taught about strategy and tactics for a
revolution to topple the democratic government by 2060.

This target date is mentioned in dozens of training manuals seized by
the police in raids over the last seven years.

One song, he recalls, went as follows:

"These villages and land are ours / Why are the rich here? / Let us
all kill them, stab them and burn them."

Human rights activist Durge Rao says his research suggests that the
Maoists depend on young boys for the bulk of their recruits.

"The tribal boys are the fodder. They are enrolled and brainwashed,
age being no barrier to the start of a revolutionary life," she said.

A recent arrest in New Delhi, however, indicates that the movement
might also draw support from unlikely quarters.

In September, police arrested Kobad Ghandy, whom they allege is a
senior Maoist leader despite his upper-class background and elite
education in India's elite Doon school and then in London, where he
studied accountancy.

"Many rich, educated people in India are committed to the Maoist
movement. It is difficult to pluck them [single them out]," said
Vishwa Ranjan, Chhattisgarh's top police officer .

For Podiyani and his wife, the brutality of the camps eventually
turned them away from the movement. But they are clearly having
trouble adapting to life without the direction given by the daily
struggle against the state and capitalism.

"We still think like Maoists. It has been a challenge for us to settle
in a city and abide by the government's rules," he says.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6580237/Vasectomies-and-violence-inside-Indias-Maoist-camps.html

Indian Government has not accepted the basic truth about Maoist
violence. They are deaf, dumb and mute to the tribal grievances.
Series of local, state and national governments have neglected
tribals. The neglect could be due to the fact
that all these tribal groups refuse to accept the changes offered to
them. Some of the changes, such as basic school education. For
thousands of years, tribals maintained their own religion and life
styles. The world is changing fast. The
tribals must keep the pace with the changing world. It is true that
they are afraid of losing their tribal identity and tribal way of
life. So many of them were taken advantage of by the government
authorities. Local moneylenders have
taken their lands in British rule. Their lands are poorly cultivated
and produce just enough to get by. They have no money to buy farm
machinery, better seed or fertilizer. The newer techniques of farming
cannot be used on their small
plots of land becuse of mountainous landscape, lack of rains, lack of
well irrigation or canal water. They are fed uo with society which
treats them almost like wild animals. Police harassment is tremendous.
Basic health care is not available.

Under such horrible conditions they have to live whereas, their lands
are taken away from them under this or that guise. Their jungles are
bulldozed so that mining operations could be facilitated. In
metropolitan cities and towns where a land owner
may get top dollar in cases of eminent domain statutes, poor and
ignorant tribals may get nothing. Society expect them to quietly move
away and be not seen or heard. Such mean treatment from society is not
helping tribals to respect them. Hence the
violence.

Free press in India keeps tabs on Maoist violence and publishes
reports such violence with tallies of deaths. Considering the numbars
of deaths of policemen and innocent public in general, one gets the
impression that these deaths could be averted
by concerted efforts on the part of the government to put an end such
uncalled for horrible deaths. I agree that something or other must be
done. However, if the government is concerned about deaths due to
stated or alleged maoist violence why not
consider the safety of all. Isn't government responsible for all
unnecessary deaths in India? Barring accidental deaths due to the
violation of rules of the road, there are more than sufficient deaths
on the roads and highways due to the lack of proper
maintenance and upgrading of highways in India. The government does
not admit its role in such unnecessary deaths.

Here is some eye opening statistics of deaths on Indian highways.

Bus fire kills 30 in IndiaBy Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN
May 30, 2010 -- Updated 0638 GMT (1438 HKT)

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Bus hits road barrier and crashes, killing at least 30, including 10
children

30 others wounded in crash in southern Indian state

Minister: Nearly 138,000 died in crashes in Indian highways in 2008

New Delhi, India (CNN) -- At least 30 passengers, including 10
children, were killed Sunday when a bus carrying them caught fire
after a crash in southern India, police said.

The pre-dawn wreck occurred at Chitradurga district of Karnataka state
when the bus hit a road barrier and plummeted five feet down, said
district police chief Labhu Ram.

It then caught fire, killing at least 30 passengers, including 10
children, he told CNN.

An officer at the district police control room said about 30 others
were injured in the crash, including the bus driver.

According to assistant sub-inspector G. Karayappaa, the bus was
heading to Bangalore, India's technology hub -- about 125 miles (202
km) from Chitradurga.

Nearly 138,000 people were killed in crashes on India's national
highways in 2008, the country's junior road transport minister,
Mahadev Singh Khandela, told parliament earlier this month.

More than 140,000 such deaths were reported in 2006 and 138,922 in
2007, he said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/30/india.bus.fire/?hpt=T2

I don't think that maoist caused deaths come anywhere near these
numbers. Talk is cheap.

See also:

Troubled Tribal: Sid Harth
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Troubled Tribal: Sid Harth
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Bomb Blast in Pune [Muslim Terrorism]
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http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/search?group=soc.culture.indian&q=Troubled+Tribal%3A+Sid+Harth&qt_g=Search+this+group

Taliban Trailed: Sid Harth
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Jyoti Basu: Sid Harth
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India Ink: Sid Harth
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Page last updated at 7:01 GMT, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 8:01 UK
By Subir Bhaumik
BBC News, Calcutta

Police say they have "definite evidence" of Maoist involvement A
Maoist leader in India has said that they will take "full
responsibility" for the safety of trains travelling through areas
under their control.

Comrade Akaash's statement comes after the rebels were blamed for
Friday's train crash which left 148 people dead.

Police say Maoist rebels sabotaged the track, causing the derailment
of the Calcutta-Mumbai express in West Bengal.

Maoists denied the charge. But Comrade Akaash also said they would
investigate whether any rebels were involved.

Railway officials in eastern India have cancelled night trains in
Maoist-affected areas after Friday's incident.

'Definite evidence'

Comrade Akaash told the BBC that they were "appealing" to the railways
to run trains through rebel strongholds even during the night.

INDIA'S MAOIST INSURGENCY

Violent rebellion began in 1967 in West Bengal village of Naxalbari
and spread over rural areas of central and eastern India
Led by elusive military commander Kishenji, supported by between
10,000 and 20,000 fighters
More than 6,000 killed since rebellion began
Worst attacks include 76 killed in April 2010 ambushes in Dantewada;
55 killed in attack on police outpost in 2007

Profile: India's Maoist rebels
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8605404.stm
In pictures: India train collision

"We are promising total security to all trains. We will not allow
anyone to attack any train anywhere in the country and those trying to
do it will face stern punishment," he said.

The railways have not reacted to the statement.

Police say they have "definite evidence" that a local rebel Maoist
militia were behind the disaster - they have named two militia leaders
as the prime suspects.

One of the suspects, Umakanta Mahato, was arrested last June and
charged with sedition and waging war against the state.

But he was released on bail in December, and the police did not
contest the bail, court records say.

Independent lawyers are asking why the police did not contest the bail
plea of a senior Maoist militia leader.

Railway officials in eastern India have cancelled night trains in
Maoist-affected areas after Friday's incident.

The restrictions would be in place until 0500 [2330GMT] on 3 June, the
company said.

Report said other services were being rescheduled to ensure they
travelled through Maoist areas of eastern India in daylight.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the Maoist insurgency as
India's biggest internal security challenge.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10201300.stm

Page last updated at 14:15 GMT, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:15 UK

Profile: India's Maoist rebels

The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of poor tribal people
India's bloody Maoist insurgency began in the remote forests of the
state of West Bengal in the late 1960s.

Decades later Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described it as India's
"greatest internal security challenge".

Maoists are also known as "Naxalites" because of the violent left-wing
uprising in 1967, which began in the West Bengal village of
Naxalbari.

Although this was eventually quashed by police, over the years India's
Maoists have regrouped and asserted control over vast swathes of land
in central and eastern India, establishing a so-called "red
corridor".

This spans the states of Jharkand, West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar,
Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh and also reaches into Uttar Pradesh,
and Karnataka.

The Maoists and affiliated groups are active in more than a third of
India's 600-odd districts, the authorities say.

And more than 6,000 people have died in the rebels' long fight for
communist rule in these states.

Maoist aims

The Maoists' military leader is Koteshwar Rao, otherwise known as
Kishenji.

Thousands of rebels are said to swell his guerrilla ranks - estimates
vary from 10,000 to 20,000 armed fighters. They are said to get most
of their weapons by raiding police bases.

Analysts say the longevity of the Maoist rebellion is partly due to
the local support they receive.

The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of indigenous
tribespeople and the rural poor who they say have been neglected by
governments for decades.

Maoists claim to represent local concerns over land ownership and
equitable distribution of resources.

Ultimately they say they want to establish a "communist society" by
overthrowing India's "semi-colonial, semi-feudal" form of rule through
armed struggle.

Major rebel attacks

And over the years the Maoists have managed to launch a series of
damaging attacks on Indian security forces.

In 2009, rebels gained virtual control of the Lalgarh district in West
Bengal barely 250km (155 miles) from the state capital Calcutta.

For many months, rebels, supported by local villagers, held hundreds
of paramilitary forces at bay. The Maoists declared it to be India's
first "liberated zone" but Indian security forces finally overwhelmed
the rebels.

April 2010 saw rebels ambush paramilitary troops in the dense jungles
of central Chhattisgarh state, killing at least 75 soldiers.
Correspondents say it was the worst-ever Maoist attack on Indian
security forces.

In 2007, also in Chhattisgarh, Maoist rebels killed 55 policemen in an
attack on a remote police outpost.

Almost every week, Maoist rebels are blamed for minor skirmishes and
incidents across India's north-east - common tactics include blowing
up railway tracks and attacking police stations.

But the Maoists are now facing India's biggest ever anti-Maoist
offensive.

Nearly 50,000 federal paramilitary troops and tens of thousands of
policemen are taking part in the operation across several states.

Rebels have vowed to intensify their attacks unless the government
halts its offensive against them.

India's government in turn has pledged to crack down even harder
unless rebels renounce violence and enter peace talks.

Analysts say the chances of dialogue or any kind of rapprochement are
slim.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8605404.stm

See also

India train crash deaths pass 100
28 May 10South Asia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10178967.stm
India reviews anti-Maoist policy
18 May 10South Asia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8688701.stm
'Many dead' in India bus attack
17 May 10South Asia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8687317.stm
Maoists kill 75 Indian soldiers
06 April 10South Asia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8604256.stm
Maoist mine kills Indian police
04 April 10South Asia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8602700.stm

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Battling the Maoists in Jharkhand
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8580004.stm
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India rebels 'bomb rail tracks'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8582231.stm
23 Mar 10 | South Asia
India Maoists release policeman
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8320742.stm
22 Oct 09 | South Asia
Top Indian Maoist couple arrested
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8310043.stm
16 Oct 09 | South Asia
Violence in India's Maoist strike
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8301899.stm
12 Oct 09 | South Asia

SEE ALSO

Maoists kill kidnapped policeman
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8291985.stm
06 Oct 09 | South Asia
Ambush kills 29 Indian policemen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8147097.stm
13 Jul 09 | South Asia
India's unlikely Maoist revolutionary
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8270400.stm
23 Sep 09 | South Asia
India bans Maoist communist party
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8112103.stm
22 Jun 09 | South Asia
India rights activist to be freed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8066714.stm
25 May 09 | South Asia
Indian police killed by 'Maoists'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8111729.stm
21 Jun 09 | South Asia
Clashes at Maoist 'area' in India
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8106388.stm
18 Jun 09 | South Asia

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India's Great Tribal Hunt: Sid Harth
http://navanavonmilita.wordpress.com/indias-great-tribal-hunt-sid-harth/
http://navanavonmilita.wordpress.com/indias-great-tribal-hunt-sid-harth-2/
http://navanavonmilita.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/indias-great-tribal-hunt-sid-harth/
http://navanavonmilita.wordpress.com/indias-great-tribal-hunt-sid-harth-3/
http://navanavonmilita.wordpress.com/indias-great-tribal-hunt-sid-harth-4/
http://navanavonmilita.wordpress.com/indias-great-tribal-hunt-sid-harth-5/
http://navanavonmilita.wordpress.com/indias-great-tribal-hunt-sid-harth-6/
http://navanavonmilita.wordpress.com/indias-great-tribal-hunt-sid-harth-7/

See also:

Troubled Tribal: Sid Harth
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian.marathi/browse_thread/thread/d2734fc660ba30b2/c752914fc1013d5a?q=Troubled+Tribal%3A+Sid+Harth&lnk=ol&

Troubled Tribal: Sid Harth
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian.marathi/browse_thread/thread/f987a031d68f7ce1/7bd604a060614e3f?lnk=gst&q=Troubled+Tribal%3A+Sid+Harth#7bd604a060614e3f

Bomb Blast in Pune [Muslim Terrorism]
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/browse_thread/thread/810eae7dd0a55571/e33227b0fae866ca?lnk=gst&q=Troubled+Tribal%3A+Sid+Harth#e33227b0fae866ca

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/search?group=soc.culture.indian&q=Troubled+Tribal%3A+Sid+Harth&qt_g=Search+this+group

Taliban Trailed: Sid Harth
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/browse_thread/thread/ba5d8f2188bfa8ca/21adca0657528e20?q=Troubled+Tribal:+Sid+Harth

Jyoti Basu: Sid Harth
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian.marathi/browse_thread/thread/a531986567d15041/75f41900106f24f6?lnk=gst&q=Jyoti+Basu%3A+Sid+Harth#75f41900106f24f6

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian.marathi/search?group=soc.culture.indian.marathi&q=Jyoti+Basu%3A+Sid+Harth&qt_g=Search+this+group

India Ink: Sid Harth
http://navanavonmilita.wordpress.com/india-ink-sid-harth/

http://navanavonmilita.wordpress.com/

..and I am Sid Harth