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Teen stabbed by Naxals looking for his father

July 15, 2010 — IMC

Sampad Mohapatra for NDTV in Bhubaneswar

He was 15, and he was alone at home when they came looking for his father. The Naxals – there were reportedly 30 of them – tied his wrists together, and then they went at him with a knife. He bled to death, near his house in a small village on the Orissa-Bengal border.

The Naxals reportedly wanted to punish the boy’s father, who they suspect is a police informant.

The Handibhanga village in Orissa’s Mayurbhanj district lies in Naxal heartland. Five days ago, two Naxals were arrested here.

As revenge, the Naxals set the Home Guard’s house on fire. The Home Guard, or Gram Rakshi, is the village policeman who is given a daily allowance. The Naxals believed that he had provided the local police with the information that led to the arrests of their comrades.

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HM meets CSs, DGPs of naxal affected states in India

December 24, 2009 — IMC

The Home Minister reviewed the situation in the five most naxal affected States in New Delhi on Thursday. Operational matters and availability of forces and their deployment were discussed at the day long meeting of Chief Secretaries and DGPs of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Bihar and Maharashtra. According to sources, the Centre has already made available about 50,000 central paramilitary forces in these states to fight the menace. Mr. Chidamabaram is also understood to have taken stock of development programmes to be carried out by the state governments in the Maoist-dominated areas once they are freed from the clutches of Naxals through operations. The meeting assumes significance as it comes immediately after the Jharkhand Assembly elections which delayed the much awaited large-scale coordinated anti-Naxal operations in the states. Sources said the Centre has already made available about 50,000 central paramilitary forces in these states.

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Orissa combing team raids Maoists hideout, five held

December 17, 2009 — IMC

Rourkela (Orissa): Security forces manning the western police range of Orissa, on Thursday arrested five armed militants of the outlawed CPI (Maoists) in Sundargarh district.

The leftwing ultras were arrested during a combing operation jointly carried out by the Special Operation Group Jawans of the State Police and Central Para-Military Forces.

Police sources said that basing on intelligence inputs; a special team raided their hideouts and arrested five while few others managed to escape.

“Two of them were village quacks. They used to frequent Maoist camps and help them. They had a hand in several disruptive activities in the area,” sources added.

The police are now interrogating those arrested about their activities.

Meanwhile, police tribals in Sundargarh are in a mood to confront Maoists. The police have taken benefit of this sentiment and have started running a combing operation against the Maoists for the past one week.

Around 1000 villagers, with their bows, arrows, axes and shovels, are keeping them company.

“People have realised they need development and it is the administration, not the Maoists who can help them,” said Rourkela SP Diptesh Pattanaik.

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Hostage journalists released in Afghanistan

December 17, 2009 — IMC

In Afghanistan, a foreign correspondent writing for the UK’s Guardian newspaper and two Afghan journalists held hostage for six days have been released. These journalists were captured last week by an armed gang in Kunar province, a mountainous region bordering Pakistan. The Guardian website said all three were exhausted but in good spirits. The journalists had been planning to interview militia in what is one of the country’s most dangerous regions.

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Nepal: Maoists declare two more states autonomous

December 17, 2009 — IMC

In Nepal, the opposition Unified CPN (Maoist) declared two more states – Magarat and Tamuwan autonomous states today as a part of their on going third phased of anti-government agitation. With this, the number of Maoist-declared autonomous states has reached twelve.

Maoist general secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa declared the Magarat autonomous state at Tansen in Palpa district this afternoon, while Maoist central committee member Dev Gurung declared the Tamuwan autonomous state at Pokhara on Kaski district. Defying calls from several quarters to withdraw the autonomous state declaration programme, the Maoists went ahead with its plan to declare 13 autonomous states based on ethnicity and region from the 11thof this month.

Three major Terai based political parties – Madhesi Janadhikar Forum(Loktantrik ), Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party (TMLP) and Sadbhawana Party) have criticized the declaration of autonomous federal states saying such act would undermine the role of Constituent Assembly. A meeting of top leaders of the three Madhesh-based parties has demanded the opposition Maoists to immediately withdraw the unilateral declaration of states.

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