Posted on 04/22/2009 6:52:52 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
A growing insurgency by Maoist rebels in India is threatening to derail the country's parliamentary elections with a series of co-ordinated attacks.
They have unleashed a campaign of terror in four states in the south and east of the country where they have threatened election officials, security personnel and voters who defy their call for a poll boycott.
The campaign intensified yesterday when 250 rebels, known locally as 'Naxalites' hijacked a train and held 500 passengers hostage for four hours before releasing them unharmed.
The raid highlighted a deadly war which has gone largely unnoticed beyond India, and demonstrated the growing reach of a Maoist insurgency which now affects a quarter Indian districts.
It followed an earlier strike on a government office in Jharkhand where rebels blew up a conference centre. In another incident, eight trucks were torched and a driver killed as Jharkhand prepared for India's second round of voting tomorrow (thu).
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the Maoist 'Naxalite' insurgency is India's biggest internal security threat more threatening than Islamic militants who have killed several hundred in spectacular attacks on Jaipur, Delhi and Mumbai.
The Maoists are now believed to pose a substantial threat in 150 of India's 600 districts stretching from Andhra Pradesh in the south, up into the poor eastern states Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar. In those 150 districts, the state is regarded as "non-functioning". ....
An estimated 6,000 people have been killed by the insurgents since they launched their uprising in Naxalbari, West Bengal, in 1967 after a peasant was killed by a landlord's employees. ....
Last year, they killed more than 650 police officers, soldiers and civilians in a series of commando raids and bombings.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I wouldn't be surprised if the Chi-Coms are bankrolling this "movement".
All the bad actors on the planet are acting out now that there is a weak US President. Pray for our country!
You mean CORNHOLERS (formerly ACORN) has a Far East branch??
For those who have not yet heard, based on their success in stealing the 2008 election, ACORN has changed its name.
The catchy new acronym is defined below.
Commies
On a
Rampage
Now
Have
Obama
Leaving nearly
Everyone
Really
Screwed
This, as you can see, spells CORNHOLERS. The leadership of the group formerly known as ACORN felt this was a more descriptive name given what they did to the rest of us in November of 2008.
They suggest all affected Americans also learn another acronym familiar to most veterans: BOHICA.
Bend
Over
Here
It
Comes
Again.
Film here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp7lGqWRnls
Seen this yet?
The Naxalites are not getting any press in the West. And neither is the Sri Lanka war. Lots and lots of stuff happening here in India.
Two good internet TV streams to watch are IBN and NDTV.
FRegards,
BullDog
Meanwhile back in the USSA the light of liberty slowly dims...
I haven’t seen any relevant articles myself (hardly), at least on FR, and I have too many plates on sticks in the air to do searching, although it is a topic of great interest to me.
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The Maoists and Islamics are working together. The Maoists are also using Christian missionary groups as false fronts...
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