Maoist Rebels Kill 26 Indian Police Officers In Ambush

I tell you what, the Indians have it coming from all sides - if it isn't muslim terrorist suicide bombers coming at them, then it's Mumbai-style jihadis coming in from Pakistan and if those two forces don't create death and destruction, then Maoist rebels inside the country ambush police officers. Today, 26 Indian police officers, on their way back from a ceremony were killed when their group was surrounded and ambushed by well-armed Maoist rebels.

This is an India, ravaged by terror, yet not once has Barack Hussein Obama extended his hand in cooperation or a united front with India in the fight against global terror. I guess the son of an islamist in Kenya just doesn't have much in common with Hindus, huh? Pakistanis, yes...Hindus, no.

From the article at DAWN.

Maoist rebels attack Indian police; 26 killed


RAIPUR: Maoist rebels killed 26 police officers in an ambush in central India on Tuesday, police said, in the latest of a series of deadly strikes against security forces.

The targeted group were returning from a road-opening ceremony when they were attacked by a large number of heavily armed militants, Ram Niwas, the head of anti-Maoist operations in the state of Chhattisgarh, said.

The Maoists, who massacred 76 policemen in Chhattisgarh in a similar assault in April, numbered as many as 100 and opened fire with automatic weapons from a hilltop.

The officers were surrounded in the ambush, which took place in Dhodai, 300 kilometres (190 miles) south of the state capital Raipur, and they fought back in a gun battle that lasted three hours, Niwas said.

“At least 26 security forces were killed and several injured,” he said, adding that some of the wounded were evacuated by helicopter and reinforcements had been sent to the area.

The government launched a major offensive last year to tackle the worsening left-wing insurgency, but since then the Maoists have hit back -- triggering widespread criticism of officials and politicians.

Maoist rebel groups have fought for decades throughout east and central India against state and government rule, drawing support from landless tribal groups and farmers left behind by the country's economic development.

In the last major attack by suspected Maoists, one month ago 146 people were killed when a Mumbai-bound passenger train from Kolkata was derailed by saboteurs in a remote part of West Bengal state.

The express veered into the path of an oncoming freight train after a section of track was removed.

Last month a Maoist landmine in Chhattisgarh hit a bus, killing 24 civilians and 11 police personnel, while 25 officers were also killed in February when Maoists overran a security camp in West Bengal state.

The scale of recent rebel strikes has highlighted the government's struggle to find an effective strategy against the Maoists, with ministers coming under severe pressure to clamp down on the violence.

As the attacks have worsened, calls have grown for the army and air force to be drafted in.

But until now, the government has insisted that paramilitary and state police forces were capable of flushing the Maoists out of their jungle bases.

Analysts say the government is hamstrung by internal disagreement, with some urging a more aggressive policy and others favouring a long-term strategy to addresses the plight of impoverished tribespeople and farmers.

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

“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,” Ajai Sahani, a counter-terrorism expert, told AFP recently.

Military chiefs have made it clear that they are opposed to involving the armed forces in any direct combat operations.

Little is known about the Maoists' structure, but 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.

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.

Maoists In Central India Ambush Police Force, 55 Paramilitary Police Killed

Holy crap. In the jungle area of India, in a section named the "Red Corridor" due to its infestation of Maoist rebels, a paramilitary police force walked into a well-designed trap and were ambushed by Maoist rebels and the end result is 55 police are dead. Massacred.

From the story at DAWN:

Maoist militants killed 55 paramilitary policemen in the jungles of central India on Tuesday when they ambushed a patrol in one of the biggest attacks by the left-wing insurgents, police said.

A group from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was attacked at dawn in the state of Chhattisgarh and when reinforcements rushed to the scene they were surrounded by hundreds of Maoists, police said.

In a hail of automatic gunfire and landmine explosions, 55 troopers were killed and a heavily armoured anti-mine vehicle sent in to retrieve the wounded was blown up, police and security sources told AFP.

“There are 55 CRPF personnel confirmed killed in the Naxal (Maoist) attack,” head of the local administration in the Dantewada district, Reena Saheb Baba Kangale, told AFP by telephone.

Any way you want to look at it, the Indians have their hands full - if it's not Lashkar-e-Taiba from Pakistan attacking Mumbai then it's islamic terrorists inside the country bombing locations and if not them, then it's Maoist rebels attacking military targets like we saw today. At the same time, the Indian government has to deal with nuclear potent next door enemy in Pakistan and finally, they get to deal with a new American President who has all but ignored the country in his first 15 months in office. Hard to believe that a country the size of India could be described as a nation on an island.

Maoists kill 55 policemen in central India attack


RAIPUR: Maoist militants killed 55 paramilitary policemen in the jungles of central India on Tuesday when they ambushed a patrol in one of the biggest attacks by the left-wing insurgents, police said.

A group from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was attacked at dawn in the state of Chhattisgarh and when reinforcements rushed to the scene they were surrounded by hundreds of Maoists, police said.

In a hail of automatic gunfire and landmine explosions, 55 troopers were killed and a heavily armoured anti-mine vehicle sent in to retrieve the wounded was blown up, police and security sources told AFP.

“There are 55 CRPF personnel confirmed killed in the Naxal (Maoist) attack,” head of the local administration in the Dantewada district, Reena Saheb Baba Kangale, told AFP by telephone.

“A hundred security personnel had gone to the jungles for operations and we cannot confirm the exact casualty figure,” a local source in the security forces told AFP in Raipur, 650 kilometres south of Dantewada.

The Maoists have stepped up attacks in response to a government offensive that began late last year to hunt down Maoists entrenched in the forests of the so-called “Red Corridor” that stretches across north and eastern India.

Home Minister P. Chidambaram said the attack showed the “savage nature” of the Maoists and regretted the loss of life.

He has repeatedly said he is ready for talks with the militants on condition they renounce violence. Maoist leaders have said they will only talk once the offensive against them ends.

Chidambaram hardened his rhetoric at the weekend after 10 policemen were killed in a landmine attack in eastern Orissa state, calling the militants “cowards”.

On Monday, he said Naxalism, as the Maoist movement is known in India, was the “first enemy” of the country.

In March 2007, the Maoists were blamed for an attack that killed 55 policemen in Chattisgarh.

In February, 25 policemen were killed in eastern West Bengal when Maoists attacked a camp.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the Maoists the biggest internal security threat to India.

The insurgency began as a peasant uprising in 1967 and has now spread to 20 of India's 28 states.

17 Indian Policemen Killed In Ambush By Rebel Maoists

You know, if you are a Hindu living in India, you have the islamic terrorists on one side trying to kill you and on the other side, you have the Maoists who are trying to do the same thing. Talk about a rock and a hard place.

I don't usually blog about the maoists, whether in India or in other countries but this attack was particularly lethal and points to the fact that terrorism is spawning at an alarming rate to the point where one cannot even keep the terrorist groups identified, let alone targeted.

From the article at DAWN:

Suspected armed Maoist rebels riding motorcycles on Monday killed 17 policemen and injured dozens in a daring gun and bomb attack on a security camp in eastern India, police said.
It was the deadliest Maoist raid on security forces since October, when the left-wing guerrillas gunned down 17 policemen in western India, one of a series of assaults in an increasingly lethal insurgency.
The latest deadly rebel attack came amid a security offensive in several states to flush out the outlawed insurgents from their strongholds.
Two Maoist guerrillas were also killed in the raid in West Bengal state's Midnapore district following a gunbattle with security forces, West Bengal state police inspector general Surojit Purokayastha told AFP.
“Seventeen policemen have died in the Maoist attack,” he said in state capital Kolkata.
Twelve of the policemen were shot dead while five others were burnt to death in a landmine blast that started a fire in their camp, he said.

What the Indians face, day in and day out, really is quite incredible. They have a daily threat from not only organized terrorists from Pakistan (as we saw in the Mumbai attack) but also from the Pakistani government as well, then they get to throw in their very own islamic terror groups and don't forget about the issues with the dispute over Kashmir and then to top it all off, you have a bunch of Maoists running around shooting and bombing security forces.

Seems to me that whether it was Mao or Mohammed, the end result is the same...their legacy brings death and destruction...I guess we just need to keep extending that "open hand", huh?

Suspected Maoists kill 17 Indian police: official


KOLKATA: Suspected armed Maoist rebels riding motorcycles on Monday killed 17 policemen and injured dozens in a daring gun and bomb attack on a security camp in eastern India, police said.

It was the deadliest Maoist raid on security forces since October, when the left-wing guerrillas gunned down 17 policemen in western India, one of a series of assaults in an increasingly lethal insurgency.

The latest deadly rebel attack came amid a security offensive in several states to flush out the outlawed insurgents from their strongholds.

Two Maoist guerrillas were also killed in the raid in West Bengal state's Midnapore district following a gunbattle with security forces, West Bengal state police inspector general Surojit Purokayastha told AFP.

“Seventeen policemen have died in the Maoist attack,” he said in state capital Kolkata.

Twelve of the policemen were shot dead while five others were burnt to death in a landmine blast that started a fire in their camp, he said.

Purokayastha said some “two dozen” securitymen were also injured in the hour-long attack, some of them critically.

“The death toll could rise as some securitymen are missing since the attack,” he said and added police reinforcements have reached the site.

Local television footage showed heavily armed policemen hunkering down on a road as the fire blazed in their camp.

Purokayastha said some 20 Maoists on motorcycles had attacked the camp.

“The attack was to protest the crackdown on Maoist rebels in the district,”he said, adding that 51 policemen and security personnel were “resting” in the facility when it was hit.

“The withdrawal of security forces from the district is a long-standing demand of the Maoists,” Purokayastha said.

Monday's attack came a day after police arrested 10 Maoists in Midnapore following a gunbattle with troopers, Purokayastha said, adding that arms and ammunition were also recovered from them.

“Four or five Maoists were also injured in the gunbattle on Sunday,” he said. Maoists in the area have so far not accepted responsibility for the attack.

In October, Maoist-backed activists hijacked an express train in West Bengal to demand the release of a tribal leader arrested in September, but there were no casualties.

Little is known about the Maoist movement's shadowy leadership or its strength. It is said to number between 10,000 and 20,000 followers.

Maoist-linked violence claimed more than 600 lives last year, when the government slapped a ban on the rebels, officially designating them terrorists.

The Maoist insurgency started as a peasant uprising in 1967 and has since spread to 20 of India's 29 states. The rebels claim to be fighting for the rights of India's poor and tribal populations.

The Maoists have been described by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the country's “number one” internal security threat.

The strength of the decades-long insurgency prompted the government late last year to send thousands of police and paramilitary troopers into rebel strongholds in several states.

And Then Came The Maoists...

So we endure day after day of islamic jihadist attacks across the globe, a relentless blood letting in the name of a golden idol and a raving mentally ill "prophet" and just when you think it can't get any worse, the Maoists in India decide to start trying to make headlines.
Today in eastern India, more specifically in the eastern state of Orissa, Maoist militants killed 14 - 13 police officials and one civilian.
These Maoists consider themselves the champions of the poor farm hands across Indian states and usually just stir up trouble in outlying areas but this attack was in a more populated area and actually targeting a military academy that harbored weapons - those were stolen in the raid.
The World's violence never ceases - there isn't a country, it seems, that doesn't have a pitched battle waging. And whether it's a jihadist fighting for the memory of a crazed pediophile or a thug preserving the era of a Chinese mass murderer, the fight of Evil vs. Good continues. Every bloody day.

Here's the full story from the BBC.

Indian Maoists kill 14 in Orissa

Maoist rebels in India have attacked police stations in the eastern state of Orissa, killing 13 officers.
A civilian also died in the attacks in Nayagarh district. The rebels escaped with arms and ammunition.
The attacks, which occurred 90km (56 miles) from the state capital, Bhubaneswar, are seen as a sign the rebels are extending their operations.
Until now, they had confined their operations in Orissa to less developed parts of the state.
Officials said several hundred rebels, including women fighters, were involved.
Reports say between two and four police stations were attacked. One was set on fire.

The head of the state's police, Gopal Chandra Nanda, said a training academy and armoury were also targeted. At least 11 policemen were injured.
The Maoists are active in many states across east and central India. They focus on areas where people are poor but there is great mineral wealth.
The rebels say they represent the rights of landless farmhands and tribal communities. Hundreds of people have died over the past few years in Maoist-related violence.
The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, recently described the rebels as the biggest threat to the country's security and called for a dedicated security force to combat them.