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2007-06-17T00:54:00.000-07:00

this is our role model he bhagavan where R U ?

2007-04-02T00:18:00.000-07:00

A suspected Naxalite gunned down

2006-12-28T21:44:00.000-08:00

Sringeri Dec 27: A suspected Naxalite gunned down in an encounter by Sringeri police, in association with the anti-naxal force (ANF), at Kigga near Sringeri Chikamagalur district on Monday night, has now been identified as Dinakara Malekudia son of Koraga Malekudia of Kandlur Naravi, Belthangadi Taluk.
Dinakar's residence in Naravi
Initially the police had identified the person as certain Vikram Gowda of Hebri near Karkala. However, they retracted their statement after the parents of Vikram Gowda revealed that the body was not their son's. Even ADGP Shanker Bidri in his address to the media persons earlier said that the deceased was identified as Vikram Gowda.
Dinakar's parents reading the local news paper
But today Dinakar's brother Yashavanth and his close relatives went to Chikamagalur and identified Dinakar's body.
It is learnt that, Dinakar was missing since past 3 years and he had joined the Naxals.
The police upon receiving the information that naxalites had organised a meeting at the house of certain Yogappa at Kesumudi in Sringeri on Christmas night, swiftly surrounded the house of Yogappa at around 10.20 p.m. However, by then the naxalites had left Yogappa's house. A group of armed naxals after learning that they were surrounded, fired at the police. The police returned the fire in which one person was killed. On Tuesday morning, the police found the body of a man at the spot of the encounter.
This is the second encounter killing in Chikmagalur district, the first being the death of naxalite kingpin Saketh Rajan and his associate on February 6, 2005, at Menasinahadya. Senior police officers including IGP Satyanarayan and Mr. Vipul Kumar are camping in Sringeri. The police have intensified their search for naxalites in the region.
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2006-12-26T09:38:00.000-08:00

Enconter: naxal leader shot dead

2006-12-26T09:32:00.000-08:00

Police lathicharge at Singur; Naxal leader Kanu detained

2006-12-08T23:02:00.000-08:00

Singur (WB), Dec 08: Police today stopped the activists of a Naxalite outfit on way to Singur and resorted to lathicharge in which three scribes were injured while veteran Naxal leader Kanu Sanyal was detained at Noapara in North 24-Parganas. The CPI-ML (Liberation) activists led by its general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya took out a procession from Seoraphuli and tried to break the police cordon. Police then resorted to lathicharge to disperse them, police sources said. Three newsmen were injured in the lathicharge. The Naxalites, however, continued their march even after the police action. Police reinforcements were rushed to stop them. Describing the incident as "unfortunate", Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told reporters in Kolkata that an incident had occurred at Singur. "There was a scuffle. I am enquiring about it," he said. CPI(ML) general secretary Kanu Sanyal and three others were detained at a ferry jetty when they were about to cross the River Hooghly in a mechanised boat en route to Singur. Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who was on an indefinite fast in Kolkata, condemned the police lathicharge and said it showed that the lf government has imposed an undeclared emergency in the state. Even the journalists were not allowed to move freely.

naxal attack on CRPF

2006-12-08T23:01:00.000-08:00

A major attack was launched by Naxalites on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Bijapur district in Dantewada, Chattisgarh.
The CRPF company was stationed at the Sherpal camp. Around 700 Naxals stormed the camp late on Sunday night resulting in gun fire. No details on the casualties are available so far. It’s the second time the same camp was under attack.
On November 30, 4 ultras were killed, when they tried to storm the camp. Also, this comes just 2 days after 14 policemen were killed and 3 injured when Naxalites blew up the vehicle they were travelling in with an Improvised Explosive Device in a village near Bokaro in Jharkhand. In fact, TIMES NOW last week had also reported on the first visual proof of the existence of a female militant wing in the Naxal movement in this belt itself. Training to these extremists is being imparted in dense jungles in camps that dot the infamous ‘Red Corrridor’ that stretches from the Nepal till down south to the Dandakaranya region in Andhra Pradesh. Though the government has been working on a four-pronged strategy to improve internal security Naxal menace has been growing in the past couple of years especially after the ‘Red Corridor’ was literally opened up following the merger of the Maoists with the People’s War Naxal outfit that has been active down South

14 policemen killed in Bokaro blast

2006-12-08T22:59:00.000-08:00

RANCHI: Fourteen police personnel were killed and three injured on Saturday in a landmine blast at Kanchkir in Bokaro district of Jharkhand.

Among the victims were an assistant sub-inspector, two havildars and 10 jawans of the Special Task Force were killed in the blast triggered by suspected Maoists, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Anil Palta said. Two vehicles carrying security personnel were returning from patrolling around 3 p.m. While the first one crossed the spot safely, the second, carrying at least 16 personnel, hit the landmine planted on the road.

Last week, the Jharkhand police, with the assistance of the Central Reserve Police Force, destroyed three bunkers of the Maoists in the Jhumra hill of the district. The police managed to drive out the naxalites from the area, once a naxal den. — PTI

Naxal group behind Kherlanji protests

2006-11-30T22:21:00.000-08:00

priyanka
Jaideep Hardikar

NAGPUR: An outlawed naxal organisation has admitted to its involvement in the current struggle against the September 29 Kherlanji Dalit massacre for the first time.
“We have nothing to hide about this association. We pledge to stand by the Dalit masses and help them punish the real culprits,” Maharashtra State Committee General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoists), Chandrakanth, has said in a letter drafted in English but signed in Hindi. The letter, dated November 18, has been circulated to a few local dailies and correspondents of national dailies based in Nagpur.
The letter has hailed "the heroic militant struggle" of Dalit masses against the Kherlanji killings and dared the Dalit leaders “to resign from their parliament and assembly seats if they were sincere to the Dalit cause.”
“Traditional Dailt leadership has sold itself in service of Brahminical upper castes and the reactionary classes. These leaders are ‘subhedars’ of the ruling elite,” the letter said. It has warned of intensifying the struggle to punish the political leaders behind the Kherlanji incident.
The chief of Anti-Naxal Operation Pankaj Gupta, told DNA on Tuesday that his office is examining the veracity of letter but “from the style and content the letter looks authentic.”The open admission by the naxals vindicates deputy chief minister R R Patil's statement when he linked the protests to a naxal hand. Patil had later retracted his statement.

Naxal couple’s remand extended

2006-11-30T22:20:00.000-08:00

BHADRACHALAM: Surrendered Maoist couple, Suryam and Santhakka, were produced before the judicial first class magistrate today on the expiry of their remand period in Warangal central jail. The judge extended their remand period. They were sent back to the Warangal central jail.Both Suryam and Santhakka, against whom 48 cases were pending, applied for bail on Wednesday. Suryam is well-known all over the agency as Maoist squad commander in Charla area.They were arrested recently in Bhadrachalam agency area.

One more Naxal killed in Charla division

2006-11-30T22:17:00.000-08:00

BHADRACHALAM: A Maoist was killed in an exchange of fire between activists of CPI (Maoist) and police in Battenapalli forest area, bordering Chattisgarh in Charla mandal on Monday.The police also seized a 303-rifle, one SBBL gun and 20 rounds of ammunition, besides one camera flash from the place of incident.According to Venkatapuram circle inspector S Sravankumar, when a special police party was combing for Maoists who escaped yesterday in a similar incident, they came across a group of Naxalites. As the extremists suddenly opened fire on the police, the latter countered the firing, which continued for 15 minutes.In the melee that ensued, the Naxalites escaped into the deep forests. Later, the body of an unidentified Naxalite was found at the incident spot.With the death of a second Maoist within two days, police announced a red alert in the agency area. It may be noted that the body of a Naxalite was found after the firing between police and the Naxals in the same region on Sunday. The police have intensified search in the region.

HOW THE BRIBE GETS STARTED.

2006-11-26T23:21:00.000-08:00

Conductor will get 2/- bribe from 1 person... 2oo /- on that day..... 200 x 30 = 6000/- per month...... 6000/- x 12 = 72,000/- per annum.
He will pay his higher officer about 15,000/- to 20,000/- per year.... consider that about 100 people [ minimum ] are working under control of the higher officer.... 15,000 to 20,000/- x 100 = 15,00,000 to 20,00,000/- per year. This is the money that higher officer will earn in an year inspite of his salary.
He should pay a minimum of 5,00,000 /- per year to Minister of the concerned department. About 100 officers work all over the state....... 5,00,000/- x 100 = 5,00,00,000/- per annum.
Now you are sitting in a tea shop with a cigeratte in your left hand and a daily newspaper in your right hand ....... you are reading the news which states that the Opposite party leader has given the statement that the minister is taking crores of rupees from officers every year ....... then you start criticising today's politicians . ... their desire for money. . . . their corruption. . . . and many more things. . . . you will give a small lecture in the tea shop. . . . . but you have already forgotten that you have paid 2 /- bribe for the conductor. . . . . and a part of it has reached to the minister. . . . . every one in the shop will appreciate your speach . . . . they will also comment about it. . . . . after finishing your cigar you will go to city bus stop. . . . . . . . . . now again conductor comes near you. . . . . . . . .think WHETHER YOU WILL GIVE FULL MONEY AND TAKE THE TICKET OR YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE YOUR MONEY TO MINISTERS BRIBE FUND??????????????

Maoists oppose Indo-US nuclear deal

2006-11-26T23:03:00.000-08:00

By Indo Asian News ServiceRanchi, Nov 26 (IANS)
Now Maoist rebels in Jharkhand are protesting the Indo-US nuclear deal by apprising the people of the harmful impact of nuclear mining in the state. The nuclear plant of Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) is located at Jadugora in East Singhbhum district. The Maoist rebels have come out with the information of the side effects of radiation and how the people of the locality are suffering from it.In an article in 'Krantical', the mouthpiece of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), the Maoists provided facts and figures of the harmful effects of UCIL's nuclear plant on the people of the area.The article says that even the Indian government in 1998 had admitted that the there were side effects of the plant. It cites the example of two villages located nearby.'There are 500 people in the two villages. Of the total population, 100 are children. Eight of them are mentally challenged, an equal number either blind or suffering from partial blindness,' the article says.It also talks about the impact of mining on the women.'Around 30 percent women face miscarriage and 17 percent suffer from irregular menstrual cycle,' it says.'People of the country should wake up and oppose the Indo-US nuclear deal at any cost. If the deal goes ahead then India will produce more uranium and harm more people,' the article says.

Naxal killings: Police gird up their loinsSunday

2006-11-26T23:02:00.000-08:00

NARASARAOPET: In the aftermath of Naxalites shooting down Bollapalli mandal president Thumma Rami Reddy to death on Saturday and amidst impending danger from the former to leaders of different political leaders in the vicinity of Narasaraopet, the police have girded up their loins.Special police parties have been undertaking intensive combing of villages and in Bollapalli forests for the extremists. Thorough search of incoming as well as outgoing vehicles is going on. Police are also conducting searches for Naxalites in residential areas and colonies of towns such as Piduguralla and Vinukonda besides Narasaraopet.Meanwhile, police circles are apprehending danger to the lives of even those politicians who are in the second line of leadership. In this process, police believe that some top leaders of this town are in the Naxalites’ hit list. Suspecting such a threat, some political leaders have already approached the local police seeking security measures such as provision of gunmen. Allaying the fears among leading politicians, SP Sivadhar Reddy had promised to provide gunmen to the needy.

Hindustan Times - Banana News

2006-11-26T23:00:00.000-08:00

Hindustan times recently carried a news report about thisand another blog.
It was one real shoddy article( not that we expectedanything better from these coloured rags that masqueradeas national newspapers).

this statement from Naxal Revolution Team
Now, how about we get the Facts right ?1.This blog was not started in October but in June 2006 while Naxalwatchwas started way back in November 2004.2.Naxalwatch was not started in response to Naxalrevolution but the other way round.We just got tired of listening to the lies of liars.3.Naxalwatch has some relation to IPCS - Institute of Peace and Conflict Studiesa new delhi based think tank and is not connected to the anti-naxal authorites.The person who regularly updates Naxalwatch is a RSS agent.And now the disclaimer , which the reporter choose to ignoreeven though it is placed in the right side index and has high visibility.DISCLAIMERThe views expressed on this blog are personal. We do not claimto be a representative voice of the views of any organizationwhatsoever. We are not responsible for the content present on thelinks that go out from this blog.Presence of links on this blog, to websites of certain political organisations/persons do not imply endorsement or affiliation.This blog is purely for educational and informational purposes andis not connected to, nor does it support or condone any particularorganisation or movement. Information published on this blog isreproduced from various public domainmedia and academic sources.If you find any content objectional or offensive please getin touch with us through email.
this statement from Naxal Revolution Team

Andhra cops claim to have killed top Maoist gun-maker

2006-11-26T00:02:00.000-08:00

The Andhra Pradesh police on Friday claimed to have killed a top Maoist gun-maker in an encounter.
The killing comes as a crushing blow to the Communist Party of India-Maoist's operations in Andhra's north coastal region.
The slain Maoist has been identified as 49-year-old Bandareddy Subba Rao alias Gautam, a central technical committee member and who was in-charge of the technical unit of the Andhra Orissa Border special zonal committee.
Soon after Subba Rao's death, the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee alleged that the police had arrested Subba Rao and his wife Jaya at Vijayawada on Thursday night.
In a statement, the APCLC claimed that the police killed Subba Rao in cold blood.
Subba Rao specialised in the manufacture of firearms and carried a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head.
After a 30-minute operation in the forests between Bandigedda and Singavaram in East Godavari district, the police said they found the body of a middle-aged man clad in plainclothes.
The police identified the slain Maoist as Subba Rao in the evening.
The killing is being viewed as a serious setback to the Naxalites' six-member Central Technical Committee.
The technical unit functioning in Dandakaranya is capable of producing 12'' bore guns in large numbers.
A native of Narepalem in Krishna district, Subba Rao was attracted to the Naxalite movement in 1978 when he got acquainted with Maoist leader Ankam Babu Rao.
He went underground in 1981 and worked in Maharashtra till 1995. He manufactured 80 tapanchas and 25'' bore guns.
Between 1996 and 2001, he worked as the head of the technical unit of North Telangana special zonal committee.
Subba Rao headed a 10-member technical team of Dandakaranya special zonal committee that assembled or manufactured weapons during 2001. In 2002, he was promoted as a member of the Andhra-Orissa border special zonal committee. He was made a member of the central technical committee in 2003. He was involved in an attack on a police combing party at Kalimela in Orissa in 2003 and attacks on Koyyur and Sileru police stations during 2005.
In 1985, Subba Rao married another armed squad member Sarala alias Jaya.
Jaya was made a district committee member and sent to the Andhra Orissa border.
The East Godavari police reportedly arrested her on Friday, soon after the killing Rao.

'Security wing for VIPs to foil naxal activities'

2006-11-25T23:57:00.000-08:00

Bhubaneswar, Nov 26. (PTI): The Orissa Government has decided to create an exclusive security wing for the protection of VIP functionaries and important installations in the State in the wake of increasing naxalite activities, Chief Minister Navin Pattnaik has said.
A series of measures are also being initiated to strengthen police stations in areas susceptible to left wing extremism, Pattnaik told the State Assembly on Friday night during a debate on the demand for supplementary grants relating to the home department.
In a bid to augment manpower, a recruitment drive was being launched, he said adding 6,011 new posts had been sanctioned including 916 in 83 police stations located in naxal-infested areas.
In addition, 4,806 vacancies in the department, including 1,982 at the district level and 2,824 in the Orissa Special Armed Police (OSAP) would be filled up, he said.
The Government has also decided to recruit 1,052 ex-servicemen on a contract basis for two years for deployment in naxalite affected areas, he said.
The Chief Minister, however, said though it was a cause of concern, naxalite-related incidents in Orissa were much less compared to other neighbouring states.
He said, only 36 naxalite-related incidents had taken place in the State till September this year resulting in 25 human casualties while 341 persons had been killed in 560 such incidents in Chhatisgarh in the same period.
Ninety one deaths had occurred following 328 incidents in Jharkhand, while Andhra Pradesh and Bihar reported 78 deaths each till September, he said.

Rs 3 lakh each for 125 Maharashtra villages for banning Naxals` entry

2006-11-24T23:46:00.000-08:00

Mumbai: Maharashtra cabinet today decided to award Rs three lakh to every village in Maoist-affected areas of state which bans entry of Naxals. Under the scheme, Rs three lakh each would be given to 122 villages in Gadchiroli and three villages in Gondia districts. "The decision has been taken in view of the relation of trust created between these villagers and the government which has helped curb Naxal activities in these areas," an official release said here.

Naxals kill Congress leader in Andhra

2006-11-24T23:45:00.000-08:00

Guntur: A civic official, belonging to Congress, was allegedly gunned down by Maoists today in Vinukonda town, a Naxal stronghold, police said here. A member of Bollapalli Taluka Prajaparishad, T Ram Reddy (60) was in the hit-list of Maoists and had been residing in Vinkonda town for security reasons. Two-motorcycle borne Naxals shot at Reddy from close-range outside his house this morning, police said.

Naxals, cops take battle to blogosphere

2006-11-24T23:41:00.001-08:00

aditya.ghosh@hindustantimes.com
The war between Naxals and the police has found a new stage — the blogosphere. On October 1, Naxalites took their ideology to cyberspace through naxalrevolution.blogspot.com. Afraid of losing the online battle, officers attached to the anti-Naxal wing launched a counter-blog — naxalwatch.blogspost.com.
The Naxal blog contains comprehensive articles about their ideology and objectives. The content, in well-written English, attacks the political system and claims to have registered 3,196 page views in the last two months. Besides India, there were hits from the US, mainly New York, Chicago and Washington.
There were also many hits from the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland.
The blog has a list of other radical left-leaning blogs too. In its acerbic articles, the blog describes large corporates as “legal psychopaths” and criticises Nepal Maoists for getting influenced by the “dark side of the force”. It also lampoons the Indian Left by describing Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury as a “stooge and stormtrooper”.
“Naxals took to blogging after the government banned their website. There is nothing we can do about it, but we are trying to develop a strategy on how to tackle the menace,” said Inspector General of Anti-Naxal Operations in Maharashtra Pankaj Gupta.
The anti-Naxal blog is anonymous, but some officers who declined to be named confirmed that it was set up and is being run by anti-Naxal authorities. The blog claims to “monitor all terror activities of Indian naxals”. It claims that the aim of the People’s War Group’s is to destablise India and the sub-continent “through a well coordinated strategy with international revolutionaries, and support from Pakistan and China”.
“I am not sure who runs the counter-blog. The Union Home ministry may have an idea,” said Gupta. Additional Secretary (Union Home Ministry, Anti-Naxal Wing) Vinay Kumar declined to comment.
This blog also lists police achievements in containing the Naxal violence and details achievements of policemen, describing those who died in Naxal attacks as martyrs.Home Ministry sources who declined to be named said setting up the counter-blog was one of the first decisions taken by the Anti-Naxal Wing after it was formed a couple of weeks ago. “The aim of the wing was to monitor and curb Naxal operations and to have a central one-point agency to coordinate the efforts,” said a senior home official

Cops use naxal alibi to evade eviction

2006-11-24T23:41:00.000-08:00

Cops use naxal alibi to evade eviction
aditya.ghosh@hindustantimes.com
HYDERABAD: In a desperate attempt to maintain base in Hyderabad, IPS officers ordered to vacate their government accommodations in the city are citing a threat issued by a naxalite leader — to target families of cops — to retain their houses. Many of them have even made representations to the general administration department (GAD) and the chief secretary. The policemen, along with IAS and Indian Forest Service (IFS) officials, have been been asked to relinquish their houses if they are not posted in Hyderabad anymore. The government order follows a Supreme Court directive to vacate houses by November 15. But despite government notices, the D-Day has passed with virtually nobody complying. Estate wing officials entrusted with the task of evicting them plead helplessness. "Since their representations are lying with the chief secretary, we cannot just hurry them out,"an official said. As many as 35 officials are occupying government houses in city but most are unwilling to pay the market rent despite living in areas such as Punjagutta and Banjara Hills. Sometimes officials are permitted to overstay in their official accommodations on payment of a rent that's below the market rents but higher than the usual low rents charged by the government. Their excuse: Government salaries are not enough to pay market rents. The naxalite whose name IPS officers are invoking to stay put in the city is Nallamalla district committee secretary Pratap alias Sagar. He is alleged to have threatened that the Maoists would target even the families of police officers and politicians. The threat came following the elimination of several naxalite leaders in recent months. "It is quite apparent that these officials conferred among themselves and decided to refer to the threat in their representations,"a source said. A senior officer posted in the districts but with a government accommodation in the city said his family was making a sacrifice by staying in Hyderabad without him. "I do not have an own house or a plot in Hyderabad,"he wrote in his representation. But it's a representation made by a district collector that takes the cake. To retain the house, he cited his wife's ill-health and her job as a teacher in a "school recognised by the AP government".

PM tells cops to be more proactive at grassroot level

2006-11-24T23:40:00.000-08:00

PM tells cops to be more proactive at grassroot level
NEW DELHI : Addressing the All India Conference of Director Generals/Inspector Generals of Police on Thursday Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reaffirmed the security apprehensions home minister Shivraj Patil’s expressed on Wednesday.
He said there was a need to comprehensively counter the challenge posed by terrorism and exhorted the security apparatus to be “alert” and “resilient enough” to meet it.
The Prime Minister emphasised the need for better intelligence gathering and better coordination between the Centre and states and amongst the states themselves.
Singh called for a more responsive police machinery at the grassroot level, which is more gender sensitive, humane and respectful of the rights of citizens. He further stressed the need to strengthen the civil police at the police station level and for speedy action on police reforms.
Referring to the need for faster development of naxalite-affected areas, the Prime Minister suggested the police lay greater focus on employment generation, land reforms, better education and improved health facilities.
The Prime Minister also presented the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service 2006 to eight officers of the Intelligence Bureau.
Later while interacting with the officers attending the conference, Home Secretary VK Duggal said, overall internal security situation in the country is very much on its way to improvement on all fronts.
He further informed that in Kashmir, infiltration has come down in the last couple of months and in the North-East, incidents of violence are by and large contained.
In many of the Naxal-affected states also, incidents of violence have gone down and Chhattisgarh is also showing signs of improvement. However, many challenges remain which have to be met resolutely, he added.
Duggal said that internal security situation has to be managed jointly by the Centre and the state governments.

Three more police stations for naxal areas’

2006-11-24T23:39:00.000-08:00

SRINGERI: The Government will establish three more police stations in naxal-affected areas, said State Home Minister M P Prakash.Speaking to this paper at Sringeri Mutt he said, “We will spend Rs 5 crore to improve police infrastructure in these areas.” He disclosed that there were about 25 naxals operating in the Western Ghats. ‘Shoot at sight’ orders does not give absolute power to kill and it all depends on the situation and circumstances, he clarified. We should handle the situation carefully and make efforts to bring them back to the mainstream, he said.A clear picture of the Chamundeshwari bypoll will emerge only by the end of this month, he said.

Post-mortem on ex-Naxal performed

2006-11-24T23:38:00.000-08:00

ONGOLE : The post-mortem of former Naxalite, Singa Suresh Babu alias Raghu was performed at the Government General Hospital at Markapur on Tuesday amid heavy police bundobust.The doctors have extracted three bullets from head, chest and back of his body. Later, his body was moved to his native Kotturu village of Pedadornala mandal.Markapur circle inspector Nawab Jaan supervised the bandobust arrangements.Ravi (35) was shot dead by six armed Naxals in his native village of Machirajukunta village of Pedaravidu mandal in Prakasam district on Monday night.The Naxals went to the village and called Singa Ravi out of his house around 8.30 pm and shot him dead. Ravi had surrendered to police in 2004.It is believed that the Naxals resorted to the act suspecting that the deceased was acting as a police informer.

Anti-naxal force takes youth into custody

2006-11-19T23:15:00.000-08:00

SRINGERI: The anti-naxal team has taken into custody a youth seen wandering in a suspicious manner at Menasinahadya on Friday. He was caught in the nearby forest, police sources said.Since he failed to give a convincing reply, the police got suspicious. The anti-naxal team has intensified its combing operation in the last two days after reports appeared in the media that the naxalites were moving freely in this region.There was an encounter in Shankaranarayana police station limits of Udupi district a few days back.Sources in the department have not yet confirmed the arrest of the youth.

Naxals vow revenge for Dalit family

2006-11-17T22:11:00.000-08:00

Nagpur : The Khairlanji killings of a Dalit family set off a wave of public outrage in Vidarbha, but also unleashed a political storm over the lack of justice to the Bhotmange family.
What's really worrying the police is Naxalite involvement now.
Violent protests, arson, lathicharges, bandhs and curfews - Vidarbha has been in turmoil for the last two weeks over the killing of Bhotmange's family. The police has been looking for answers, all in vain.

This was before a letter written by the Maoists arrived.
Says IG, Anti-Naxal Operations, Pankaj Gupta, "This letter has come on the letter pad of the CPI (Maoists) This more or less confirms that this is a definite effort on the part of the Naxalities."
The letter condemns the Khairlanji incident and calls upon everyone to join the Naxal agitation against the government and for Dalit rights. All those guilty in the massacre case would be killed, it warns.
The C-60 Anti-Naxal Squad is now on high alert in the region.
"We have put everyone on alert. The letter's contents are not to be taken lightly. They are advocating inciting inciting people against the government."
Dalit leaders are not amused by the letter or by the insinuations being made in its wake.

Says Congress MLA, Nitin Raut, "It would be irresponsible to assume that all the Dalits in India are a part of the Naxal movement."
The state police is taking the Red letter as a clear cut warning and is prepared to tackle any threats, but Dalit leaders are condemning allegations and are instead blaming the police for violence across Vidarbha.
Justice for Bhotmange now for sure has snowballed into a major controversy.

Police sounded alert along Shimoga borderFriday

2006-11-17T22:10:00.001-08:00

SHIMOGA: Anti-naxal team and the regular police in Shimoga district were sounded alert on Thursday after an encounter between Police and naxalites at a village under Shankaranarayana Police Station limits of Udupi district.Talking to this website's newspaper Superintendent of Police Arun Chakravarthi Jeji said that the anti-naxal teams operating particularly in Hosanagar sector, bordering between Shimoga and Udupi districts, had also taken up combing operation in their area.“Department knows that the naxal teams frequently move in this border. That is why Police and naxals encounter at these points quite often. So anti-naxal team of the Department is always on the alert along the border between Shimoga and Udupi districts. Now they became extra cautious,” he said.

2006-11-17T22:10:00.000-08:00

Punalur: P Ramachandran Nair, the retired police constable, who confessed that he had, under threat to his own life from higher police officials, shot naxelite leader Varghese dead at 6.55 pm on February 18, 1970, passed away on Thursday night. He was under treatment after suffering from asthma for a long time.
Police had then described Varghese's death as an encounter death at the time of the incident - when Varghese was apprehended by the police, he fired a shot at the Superintendent of Police who in self-defence fired back resulting in the death of Varghese.
According to the former constable, the order to execute the Naxalite leader was issued by the then deputy superintendent of police K Lekshmana. However, the policeman was pulling the trigger to lit the fuse of controversies 28 years later in 1998, that once again revolved around the alleged repression and human rights violations perpetrated by the State's political leaders, especially K.Karunakaran and the Rajan case as his political rivals alleged.

Naxals firing at police (vijaya times)

2006-11-16T22:09:00.000-08:00

police, naxals exchange fire

2006-11-16T22:05:00.000-08:00

Siddapura, Nov. 17: Naxalites traded gunfire fire with police and the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) in daasikaanu forest area in Udupi district in the early hours today, a senior police official said.
IGP (Western Range), Satyanarayana Rao, told reporters here that on a tip-off, the police, along with ANF squad, rushed to the spot.
The naxalites fired four rounds at the police, while police fired back 20 rounds, he said, adding there were no casualties.
The naxals escaped and a torch and handkerchief were recovered from the spot.
He said joint combing operations had been intensified and a dog squad pressed into service.
Rao said combing operations in naxal-affected areas of the Western Ghat region had been further stepped up.

SC issues notice to NHRC on fake encounters

2006-11-16T10:07:00.000-08:00

Newdhili: The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on a petition seeking framing of proper guidelines to check fake encounters by the police.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice YK Sabharwal sought NHRC's assistance while dealing with a petition by one R Chanderashekhar Reddy of Medak in Andhra Pradesh, who alleged large scale killings of innocent people in Andhra Pradesh by the state police in fake encounters to get out-of-turn promotions.
The court has already issued notices to the Centre and the state governments on the issue.
Appearing for the petitioner, senior counsel Rajiv Dhavan submitted that the NHRC had issued guidelines on the issue way back in 1997 but the same was not implemented.
He questioned the legality of a government order, which provided for out-of-turn promotions for police personnel posted in terrorist or naxal-infested areas if they killed terrorists or naxalites.
Dhavan submitted that the issue was important as it was not limited to just Andhra Pradesh and Jammu-Kashmir and North-Eastern stated were also witnessing similar incidents.
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Madhya Pradesh to create 2,000 police jobs

2006-11-16T10:03:00.000-08:00

Madhya Pradesh has decided to create 2,000 new jobs in the state's police force.
The decision was taken at the state cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday. The creation of these new posts will cost the state an additional Rs 175 million.
"Of the 2,000 new posts, 502 have been reserved for Naxal-affected areas, 856 for communally sensitive districts, 234 for newly-created districts, 138 for the Special Task Force and 20 for the Economic Offences Wing," said an official press release.
The meeting also reviewed setting up of 400 forest check posts.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has recently come under attack for failing to check crime in the state including rapes, dacoity, abductions and murders.
The cabinet also decided to allot land to software firm Zenpact Limited to set up an Information Technology (IT) park in Badbai near the state capital.
Tata Consultancy Services will be given the task of preparing Value Added Tax (VAT)-based application software without inviting tenders in view of its expertise in the field, the release said. An expenditure of Rs 30 million will be incurred on the job.
Five acres of land will be provided to the Institute of Applied Science and Fundamental Research for establishing a dental college at Misrod near Bhopal.
The government also decided to rename its agriculture department as the farmer welfare and agricultural development department, the release said.

combing operation for naxals

2006-11-12T21:55:00.000-08:00

TN borders sealed to check Naxal movement DHARMAPURI: The Dharmapuri District Naxal Special Duty (NSD) wing and Special Task Force (STF) have been jointly conducting combing operations in Hogenakkal forests bordering Tamil Nadu-Karnataka to nab the under ground Naxals and to avert infiltration from the neighbouring States.According to Dharmapuri Superintendent of Police H M Jayaram, in addition to the nabbing work done by the NSD wing, the combing operation was conducted in the forest areas in the last four days.The STF personnel, who had camped in Hogenakkal were also involved in the combing operation. The teams had been jointly conducting operations in Hogenakkal, Ootamalai, Neruppur, Eriyur, Boothippatti, Nagamarai and few other tribal villages in Anjetty forest.The forest borders of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka had been monitored by the STF and intelligence. All the vehicles, which passed through the forest border checkposts, were being searched by the police team. No infiltration was reported till now, the SP said.Jayaram added that the list of hill villages and Naxal-prone villages, where the population had been already enumerated by the NSD wing, were being monitored and also the migrants were verified by the special team at their working and staying places in the neigbouring States.The Naxal-prone villages had been keenly watched to avert any infiltration of the underground and new Naxals from the neighbouring States. The villages had also been extending their cooperation to the government to give information about any strangers. Based on the information, the NSG wing Inspector R Senthil had made an enquiry about their visits.When contacted, the NSD wing inspector Senthil, who was conducting the operation in Perinkattukottai in Marandhalli forests, where the Naxal leader Ravindran was killed in an encounter on January 10, 2000, said that the combing operations would continue till further orders.No sign of infiltration had been noticed by the team as well as the public.The villagers had also been extending their cooperation to nab the Naxals and arrest the infiltration attempt. The forest borders had been sealed mostly. The villagers also could give information to the NSD wing station at (04342) 266199 or Cell: 94439 43418 about the movement of any strangers found in their area, he added.According to sources, at Boothipatti, where the memorial pillar of the Naxals were erected, Perunkattukottai, where Ravindran was killed in an encounter, Dharmapuri Municipal burial ground, where the Naxal second leader Siva alias Parthipan, who was killed in an encounter at Chinnakanakampatti in Uthangarai forest on November 22, 2002, was buried, Ramiyampatti, the native village of under ground Naxal Sundaramurthy, had also been brought under the network of police.

Ear to the ground

2006-11-12T21:53:00.000-08:00

The old war cry, azhia muthalalithanam aathikkam (Destroy domination of feudalism); azhia nilaprabathuvam aathikkam (Destroy domination of capitalism) had long been silenced, buried deep down under the lush sugarcane and ragi fields of Nayakankottai, the Naxal hotbed in Dharmapuri. But there are murmurs of the war cry resurfacing. The district’s Socio-Economic Development Programme (SEDP) and the Naxalite Special Division (NSD), entrusted with the task of diverting jobless youth from the Naxal path, have barely made an impact. In 2003-2004, when the SEDP scheme was first launched, the then Jayalalithaa government sanctioned Rs 5 crore for youth development and upgrading infrastructure in villages.This increased to Rs 6 crore the next financial year. But in 2005-2006, along with political will, the funds too dipped to just Rs 2 crore. Dharmapuri in north Tamil Nadu is known primarily for being the state’s most backward district. Modest estimates put the number of youth in the 35 ‘Naxal’ villages at nearly 9,000. Of these, at least 50 percent could be unemployed, say officials. This was the main reason for the district’s turbulent history of left wing extremism. From the late 1960s, Dharmapuri launched into the Naxal movement, spawning its own ‘Makkal Yutha Kuzhu (People’s War Group) heroes and some ‘martyrs’. In fact, Nayakankottai is the only village in the entire state that has built statues for its Naxal leaders, L Appu and Balan. Due to its proximity to Andhra Pradesh, Dharmapuri was a safe haven for the state’s Naxalites. The district had drawn Naxal leader, Charu Mazumdar, to address a group of 600 youth in 1967 in picturesque Hogennekal in Dharmapuri district, close to the Karnataka border. The seeds of Naxalism were sown then, recalls ‘Thimmakkali’ alias P Chinnasamy, who attended the ‘historic’ gathering. Spurred by the ‘violent struggle against capitalism and feudalism’ line, Thimmakkali, now 76, accompanied by two associates, killed a moneylender and served a prison term of 14 years. Many young, poor farmhands who were drawn into the movement, were arrested for murdering moneylenders in those days. The state government came down hard on the Naxal movement in the district, putting officers W I Dawaram (who later headed the high profile post of STF chief in the nab Veerappan operation) and his associate, Sivaguru on their trail. Though accused of using oppressive measures, Dawaram and Sivaguru, were, however, credited with quelling the movement in a few northern districts of Tamil Nadu, including Vellore and Dharmapuri. Years later in November 2002, an incident shook the state administration out of its complacency. On a tip off, Tamil Nadu’s ‘Q’ Branch which deals with extremism, swooped down on a group of 35 youth in the dense mangrove of Jalajothipatty, about 30 km from Dharmapuri town, while they were undergoing training in guerrilla warfare. The group claimed to be members of the Radical Youth League and included six women, hailing from several districts, mostly Dharmapuri. The Uthangarai (a village close to the Jalajothipatty mangrove) operation lasted about a week and police managed to arrest 28 members, killing Parthipan alias Shiva. Of the arrested, 26 were detained under POTA, while two were let off. Jolted by the underground groups in the district, in 2003 the state government, then headed by J Jayalalithaa, started the Dharmapuri District Development Corporation, the nodal agency for the Socio-Economic Development Programmes (SEDP) to provide job opportunities in the district and improve its infrastructure. Says P V Arunachalam, the assistant manager who co-ordinates the SEDP schemes. ‘‘One of the reason for the Naxal menace in the district is that it remains utterly backward.’’ But SEDP’s Rs 13-crore fund hasn’t helped too many villages. A word of caution comes from A P Annamalai and D Murugan who head the Nadupatty village’s wing of the Farmers’ Freedom Front, claiming to be the democratic face of Naxalism.‘‘The movement can never be rid of completely.’’ Many such groups have sprung up across the district, tottering between democratic and armed struggle. ‘‘Though the government claims it has set aside funds for youth development, they are not reaching the villages,’’ says former Naxal M Jagannathan who’s still waiting for a loan under the government-sponsored ‘Naxalite Rehabilitation Scheme.’ H M Jayaraman, Dharmapuri District Superintendent of Police, says Naxalism has been completely wiped out in his district. ‘‘Our information network in the villages is very good. Moreover, besides the 14-member Naxalite Special Division team, 20 STF members have also been deputed on this task.We conduct regular surprise checks in villages.’’ R Senthil, Inspector of the Naxalite Special Duty Wing, says the state’s programmes for the youth have been successful. But in July 2006, his team nabbed a group of six extortionist who went about claiming to be PWG members. The district police also nabbed three Naxals including the fiery Sidhanand who had been absconding for more than 20 years. And the whispers wafting across the villages are that the youth have already turned to Andhra-based PWG-backed groups propagating armed struggle in hilly Pennagaram, the terrain where once Veerappan roamed.

Kherlanji Massacare

2006-11-10T22:49:00.000-08:00

Kherlanji Massacare - Kherlanji Massacae - Dalit's raped and massacared byUpper Caste Hindu Landlords, Police try to cover up andprotect their masters.This happened more than a month ago but the manner in whichthe mainstream media totally ignored it until now when some dalitactivists took up the issue is really shameful.I should have published this earlier...But I too learnt about this incident only recently.The whole incident and other atrocities conducted are beingrecorded on this new blog
and massacared byUpper Caste Hindu Landlords, Police try to cover up andprotect their masters.This happened more than a month ago but the manner in whichthe mainstream media totally ignored it until now when some dalitactivists took up the issue is really shameful.I should have published this earlier...But I too learnt about this incident only recently.The whole incident and other atrocities conducted are beingrecorded on this new blog

Kherlanji Massacare - Dalit's raped and massacared byUpper Caste Hindu Landlords, Police try to cover up and protect their masters.
Following are the thumbnails pictures of the Kherlanji massacre. They speak for themselves.
1. This is the same Bulluck-Cart , used for making ferry of naked mother and daughter in and around Kherlanji village.

2. One of the most educated girls in Kherlanji, Priyanka passed her matriculation and was studying for HSC. She was brilliant and had great dreams . She was the best NCC cadet too. Her only fault was she belonged to that community .

3. Priyanka was gang raped and inhumanly murdered by putting sticks inside her genitals. The cruelty did not stop there, her body was thrown in water canal. It is also learnt that when brother denied sex, his genital got mutilated.

4. Mother fought tooth and nail for her rights till death . Brave was she, who dared to complain to police. She undoubtedly preferred dignified death to lechery . We salute you mother ! The son lying close to her is a blind but not spared by assailants. Another son, Roshan was doing his graduation, most learned boy in his village.

5. Hut they lived in is so small that has no electricity. The bright students were studying while mother was all set for preparing evening meals when the ghastly event happened.
6. Priyanka and her family thought leaving behind caste and embracing Buddha`s path would bring in sea change, though, it gave them confidence to live a dignified life(as they did) but could not change attitude of caste people towards them. They were exterminated for their courage!

7. Their lifestyle reflects profound wisdom. How much mother gave importance to education than other daily needs is worth noting! Especially when she had to manage in daily budget of o.5 USD , buying books for students, travel expenses and college/school expenses! (Generally here every Buddhist household thinks that education is only way to get out of the shakles of caste and poverty.
Result is, after 50 years of conversion 72% literacy is observed among them, way ahead of Indian average 62% .Females are not only ahead in literacy but they have unparrallel confidence like Surekha & Priyanka had. Female literacy is more than Indian average. This is important when there are not many Buddhist Missionaries operating in India funded by world outside.)
Surekha`s home is a typical rural Buddhist home. See the walls of the hut in above pic. seems as if bricks are arranged on one another with no investment on masonry.Whereas, the pic below shows the linen made of torn-off cloths! May be 0.1USD worth? Every fraction of penny counted !

Maoists ban mobile use

2006-11-10T01:29:00.000-08:00

MALKANGIRI: Keep off cell phones. This warning by the ultras is now ringing in the ears of people in the Naxal-infested Kalimela, Bhejangwada, MV-90, Telrai and MV-79 areas. Through hundreds of wall posters and banners, the Adivasi Raya Kuli Sangam, a frontal organisation of CPI (Maoist), has banned cell phones in Maoist-infested areas. But the threats do not end here. The Maoists have also banned gambling and traditional cock fights in Kalimela area and warned violators of dire consequences. They have also threatened the businessmen of stern action if they fail to pay suitable price to the tribals for their forest produce. Yet another warning has come for the contractors. The Naxals have categorically asked the Kalimela contractors not to engage in the Pradhan Mantri Sadak Yojana work. The banners have, in fact, warned of chopping off the hands and legs of the contractors engaged in the road construction work under the scheme. Earlier, the Maoists had set ablaze the vehicle of a Jeypore-based contractor in Kalimela after he refused to stop the work.The Maoists have also declared that hundreds of acres of land near the Kalimela OUAT farm will be distributed among the poor.

No Naxal presence in dist: SP, Uttar Kannada

2006-11-04T22:45:00.000-08:00

SIRSI: Ravi S, Superintendent of Police, Uttar Kannada district, has said that even though there was no presence of either Naxalites or terrorist activities in the district, strict and constant vigilance was being observed in the entire district, to prevent such possibilities.He was speaking to reporters in the programme, ‘Meet the Press’, organised by DWJA, Uttar Kannada, at the DSP office, here on Thursday, after inaugurating the Traffic Safety week and release of CD and books relating to crime and others.He said several checkposts were established at critical points of both, road and rail routes and with the help of Sea Bird authorities, ‘stray ship’ arrivals were being monitored through the radar system, to prevent the arrival of explosives in ships through sea routes. All illegal movements were being checked round the clock.The SP said no proof was available regarding the stated roots and accomplice of Mohamed Riyaz of Bhatkal, who was wanted by the Mumbai police in the Mumbai serial blast case. He said it was true that Riyaz hailed from Bhatkal but had moved away a long time ago. No concrete proof were available regarding his base, he added.Replying to a question, he said though the crime rate in the district, had reduced, the quantity and quality of brisk action, investigation and recovery had ‘doubled’.Around 53 deaths and 22 injury cases had been reported in road accidents, due to iron ore transport lorries, in the last three years. To keep a check on the same, certain comprehensive plans and guidelines including ‘speed governors’, reflectors, indicators, etc, were prescribed/framed in the recent meeting held at Karwar recently, with the DC, transporters and others.Parking lots for lorries at every stretch of 20 kilometres on highways, were also planned within the district boundaries, he added.Ravi assured of fair investigation in every crime case and setting up women desks in the police stations as per the guidelines. He also stated that 69 different posts are vacant in the department, in the district, that would also be filled soon.DSP Basha Sab, CPI N T Pramod Rao and DWJA president G Subray Bhat Bakkal, were present

Stay in naxal-prone areas, CM tells officials

2006-11-04T22:43:00.000-08:00

SRINGERI: “Stay in naxal-prone areas and settle people’s problems,” Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy instructed officials. The Government is ready to solve any problem. I am also prepared to stay with the officials, the CM told reporters here on Friday.He clarified that the government was committed to teach English from Standard I. It will not go back on its decision yielding to any pressure, he added.The Government is ready for any discussion in this regard, he clarified. Replying to a question, he said the Congress is dreaming of the fall of the coalition government.When his attention was drawn to the problem of areca growers, he said he had already clarified to the areca growers’ delegation that the Government would make all effort to help them.He added that he would personally meet the Union Agriculture Minister and explain that the Centre must protect the interest of the growers.

Maoists gun down MLA’s brother

2006-11-02T22:15:00.000-08:00

ONGOLE: Naxalites of the CPI (Maoist) gunned down Pagadala Chinna Rangaiah, elder brother of Giddalur MLA Pagadala Ramaiah, at Chinaganapalle in Racharla Mandal of Ongole district on Monday night.Nine armed Naxalites came to the village around 9 pm and called out China Rangaiah, a ration dealer. Three Naxalites shot him from close range killing him on the spot. Rangaiah is survived by his wife and three children.The Naxalites warned the villagers not to inform the police about the incident.Incidentally, another associate of Ramaiah had been killed some time ago. Both incidents took place in the Giddalur Assembly constituency.Earlier, Naxal-related violence was confined to Pullalacheruvu and Yerragondapalem mandals in Nallamala forest region of Prakasam district. But, of late, the Naxalites have shifted their operations to Giddalur region.Monday’s incident was the biggest Naxal-related incident since the killing of top leader Matta Ravi Kumar.Meanwhile, a red alert has been sounded in Kurnool district following the incident. Giddalur borders Kurnool district. Nandyal OSD, Rajasekhara Babu told this website's newspaper they had stepped up security for MLAs in Nandyal division.

Manhunt on to nab Chinna killersWednesday November

2006-11-02T22:13:00.000-08:00

VIJAYAWADA: The police have launched a massive manhunt to nab the Maoist, who shot Pagadala China Rangaiah, elder brother of Giddaluru MLA Pagadala Ramaiah on Monday night.MLA’s elder brother, who was a ration shop dealer and an agriculturist, was shot from close range in Chinaganapalli village of Racharla mandal by Maoists, who entered the village at about 9.30 pm on Monday night. The police suspect that the murderous act was the handiwork of the Maoist action team led by Nallamala East Area secretary Tallapalli Panduranga Reddy alias Sagar.The attack came at a time when the Maoists had suffered some crippling blows. The Maoists had lost State Secretary Madhav and eight others in a major encounter on July 24 in Nallamala forests. Earlier, they had lost State Committee member Matta Ravi Kumar and recently, top Naxal Samala Venkatesam alias Sudarsan was killed in Nallamala forests.The recent uncovering of the rocket launcher supply chain and unearthing of several arms dumps had given the impression that the Maoist influence on Nallamala was on the wane.However, killing has sent shockwaves among the general public.

Special Action Group to tackle Naxal menace in Vidarbha

2006-11-02T22:12:00.000-08:00

Nagpur,: A Special Action Group (SAG) of 300 specially trained armed police personnel would soon take on the Naxals in the extremist-infested districts of Eastern Vidarbha in Maharashtra, officials said on Thursday. The SAG has been raised on the lines of 'Greyhounds' of Andhra Pradesh police to deal with Naxal violence, they said. "After they complete their training, these police personnel would be deployed in most affected Gadchiroli, Gondia and Bhandara districts," Inspector General of Police, Anti-Naxalite Operations (ANO), Pankaj Gupta told a news agency. Gupta said a total of 276 policemen along with 19 police sub-inspectors, four Deputy Superintendents of Police (DySP) led by an SP (Operation) are being provided special training. The SAG will carry out intelligence-based operations against Naxalites in these areas. It would be stationed in the city while about 15 to 20 teams would be sent to the affected areas for direct operations. These men are being provided training to combat Naxal terror through unconventional methods, Gupta said. A training camp is in progress at Unconventional Operations Training Centre (UOTC) at the sprawling premises of State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) Group IV Centre at Hingana on the city outskirts, he said. Gupta said the average age of the men in SAG is quite less and there is no inspector-level officer in it.

Police Resort to Art as Counter-PropagandaMangalore

2006-10-29T22:41:00.000-08:00

Mangalore: Men in khaki are often at the receiving end of some nasty criticism by naxalites operating in Malnad region of the State.They manage to ransack some remote forest office or paste anti-government pamphlets at bus stops in the heart of Malnad town. And each time, they target the policemen.Now the State Police Department has decided to take the naxalites head on in this ongoing propaganda war through the medium of drama. Sangama Kalavidar of Manipal will aid them in this task. Starting this Saturday members of Sangama Kalavidar will stage the drama "Haseeru Naadina Kempu Haadhi" (Red Path of Green Land) in nine places in Chikmagalur and Udupi district every weekend till November. The troupe had staged this drama in Bangalore.The drama would be staged in Sringeri (October 28), Basarikatte (Ocotober 29), Kigga (November 4), Shamse (November 5), Shankarnarayana (November 11), Ajekar (November 12), Hebri (November 18), Siddapur (November 19) and at Amasebailu (November 25). These places in the two districts have been the centres of naxal activities in the recent past.H.N. Sathyanarayana Rao, Inspector-General of Police (Western Range) told The Hindu the main aim of staging the drama in areas affected by naxal activities was to create awareness about the issue. Even the department had to present its side of the story before the people.

Mad colour- police !

2006-10-29T22:25:00.001-08:00

Mad colour- police !
Aurangabad: It is nothing but poolish ! An image makeover is on in Bihar's Aurangabad district which has been a hotbed of Naxal violence.
The district town is being painted pink to boost its sagging morale and people here are hopeful that this new colour will lift people's spirit and bring down the crime rate.
“The colour pink might help in maintaining peace,” says a resident of Aurangabad.
“This is being done to beautify the city,” says another local.
This is a brainchild of the new Civil SDO of the town, Arvind Kumar Singh, who's just returned after a trip to Jaipur.
Inspired from the original pink city, he introduced this campaign with the slogan "Pink Aurangabad, Green Aurangabad; Clean Aurangabad, Disciplined Aurangabad".
"We want to make our city a pink city. It will help instill a positive attitude in people here,” says Singh.
Though people in the city were reluctant initially, they're now convinced that pink will counter red terror.
It's not clear how painting homes and offices pink will bring down the city's crime graph but people are certainly taking to this unique idea. It is nothi but polish !

Maoists blow up railway track in Bihar

2006-10-29T22:18:00.000-08:00

October 30, 2006The engine and five coaches of a passenger train derailed on Monday morning as suspected CPI (Maoist) activists blew up about 100 metres of railway track near Chamua halt between Narkatiyaganj and Harinagar stations under Samastipur division of East Central Railway.No casualty or injury to any passenger was reported. Services on Narkatiyaganj-Gorakhpur rail route were suspended after the blast.Railway officials rushed to the site to supervise restoration works, railway sources said.Sonepur-Gorakhpur passenger train was passing through the Chamua halt when the ultras triggered a powerful bomb causing damage to railway tracks.The sabotage was caused to stop movement of trains during the 24-hour bandh in four states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa and Chhattishgarh sponsored by proscribed CPI (Maoist) to protest arrests of four top 'commanders' of the outfit.The Maoist rebels also blew up a government building at Jhemiri village under Semra police station of West Champaran district on Sunday night.Official reports in Bettiah said that the building belonged to Champaran Forest division two.

Tech Madhu will surrender: Jana

2006-10-29T22:17:00.000-08:00

VIJAYAWADA: Home Minister K Jana Reddy on Friday indicated that Naxal activist Tech Madhu and his wife Sridevi were planning to surrender to the police.The Naxal couple, involved in manufacturing and transporting of rocket launchers to Maoists, have approached the government through some mediators indicating their willingness to give up.“They have approached the government and we are talking through the mediators,” Jana Reddy, who briefly halted at Kaikaluru enroute West Godavari district, told reporters here on Friday.He said the Naxal couple could surrender in a couple of days. He said the media was trying to blow up a simple issue. “The government has been adopting a three-tier strategy to tackle the Naxal menace and making key Naxals surrender and join the mainstream is a regular process,” he added.The Home Minister, who participated in several programmes in Denduluru, Gopannapalem, Talla Gokavaram and Pedavegi in West Godavari district, further said the construction of 48 per cent of the police quarters have already been completed and the remaining quarters would be completed by the end of the year.Earlier, he was received at Kaikaluru by Eluru MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao and Kaikaluru MLA Yerneni Raja Ramchander. He also went to the residence of Denduluru MLA Maganti Babu.

Tech Madhu’ not surrendered: DGP

2006-10-29T22:16:00.000-08:00

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh Home Minister K Jana Reddy confirmed that 'tech madhu' alias Srinivasa Reddy, the mastermind in the rocket launchers case has surrendered before Warnagal district police, Director-General of Police (DGP) Swaranjeet Sen on Friday contradicted him saying 'tech madhu had not surrendered before him.Talking to newsmen here, on the sidelines of a seminar on 'my vision for the police', organised on the occasion of police commemoration week celebrations here, Sen said “it is a hide and seek game”.“I asked madhu to surrender before me. But he did not do it. I don't know whether he surrendered before Warangal police”, the DGP said.

Anti-Naxal special desk set up in Home Ministry

2006-10-26T23:34:00.000-07:00

New Delhi, Oct 26: To check Naxal activities in different parts of the country, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided to set up a special Naxal Desk and constitute an Empowered Group of Ministers (e-GoM). The idea of setting up a Naxal Desk was put forth in August this year. The Desk will be headed by an Additional Secretary. Besides the Naxal Desk, there will be a mechanism for an inter-ministerial committee for carrying out a detailed review of the implementation of development schemes in the affected areas which will meet ahead of the quarterly meetings of the Coordination Centre on Naxalism. The Task Force meeting on Naxalites scheduled for Friday will discuss the steps to be taken to combat Naxal violence. Till August this year 115 security personnel and 401 civilians were killed by Naxals as compared to 94 security persons and 364 civilians killed last year. Chhattisgarh, the worst affected state registered a sharp rise in the initial eight months of this year. The Task Force on Naxalism was constituted in October 2004 under the aegis of the Special Secretary (Internal Security) to work out steps needed to curb the rise of Naxalism. The Task Force comprises the nodal officers of the nine Naxal-affected States Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal and representatives of Intelligence Bureau, CRPF and Sashtra Seema Bal (SSB). According to sources the idea of having an e-GoM was put forth by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to closely monitor the spread of Naxalite movement in the country. Many Naxal-hit states have decided to set up Special Forces for countering Naxal violence in their respective states.

New twist to Orissa DIG killing, PSOs arrested

2006-10-24T03:08:00.000-07:00

New twist to Orissa DIG killing, PSOs arrested
Bhubaneswar, Oct 24: In a completely new twist to the killing of DIG Jaswinder Singh in Orissa yesterday, a top official today said the policeman was a victim of "accidental firing" by one of his personal security officers. The two PSOs who were travelling with the DIG when the incident occurred, were questioned last night and had been taken into custody at Rayagada.

DIG not killed by naxals

2006-10-24T03:05:00.000-07:00

Bhubaneswar: The DGP of Orissa, Amarananda Patnaik, told CNN-IBN that DIG Jaswinder Singh was not killed by naxals but was a victim of accidental firing at Rayagada in Orissa.
Singh was hit by a bullet fired from the gun of his Personal Security Officer (PSO), the DGP said before leaving for Rayagada on Tuesday morning.
"We had our doubts about the sequence of events. Both the PSOs were interrogated and it was found that one of the guns held by a PSO had gone off accidentally," he said.
Asked whether he was ruling out naxalite involvement in the incident as per the earlier theory, Patnaik replied "in absolute terms".
In fact, two PSOs, not one as was disclosed on Monday, were travelling with the DIG who was on his way from Sunabeda to Padmapur in Rayagada district where he was scheduled to meet the press in the afternoon to inform about some positive achievements of the police.
Singh had been stopped by groups of people at two places on the way for contribution for the Kali Puja festivities.
He cleared the road on both occasions and was stopped for the third time on the Guma Ghat, about 15 km from Rayagada.
He got down from his vehicle and apparently got into an argument with the crowd. There could have been a scuffle which led to the accidental firing by the PSO.
The incident had sent the administration into a tizzy on Monday, the DGP had not ruled out Maoist involvement in the killing while stating that the DIG should have taken adequate precautionary measures and should not have revealed his travel plans.
Asked about his comments on Monday, the DGP said, "He was a daring officer. But certain basic precautions should have been taken. But it was his discretion".
The DGP said the officer's body was being sent to his home town of Hoshiarpur in Punjab via Visakhapatnam as his anxious family members were waiting for the same.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had announced an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to the next of kin and a job for a family member following the death of the officer.
As the Gajapati-Koraput-Rayagada-Malkangiri belt was known to be a hot-bed of Maoist activities, it was earlier believed to be an act of CPI(Maoist) cadres, outlawed by the state government on June 9.

Director General of Police Amarananda Pattanayak, who left for Rayagada this morning, said here that investigations had revealed that Singh was a victim of "accidental firing". Singh was hit by a bullet fired from the gun of his PSO, the DGP said. Pattanayak said doubts had been expressed about the sequence of events. Both the PSOs were interrogated and it was found out one of the guns held by a PSO had gone off accidentally, he said. Asked whether he was ruling out Naxalite involvement in the incident as per the earlier theory, Pattanayak replied "absolutely". In fact, two PSOs, not one, were travelling with the DIG who was on his way from Sunabeda to Padmapur in Rayagada district where he was scheduled to meet the press in the afternoon to inform about some positive achievements of the police. Singh had been stopped by groups of people at two places who asked for contribution for the Kali Puja festivities. After clearing the road on both occasions he was stopped for the third time on the Guma Ghat, about 15 km from Rayagada. He got down from his vehicle and apparently got into an argument with the crowd. There could have been a scuffle which led to the accidental firing by the PSO. The incident had sent the administration into a shock yesterday while the DGP had not ruled out Maoist involvement in the killing while stating that the DIG should have taken adequate precautionary measures and should not have revealed his travel plans. The DGP said the officer`s body was being sent to his home town of Hoshiarpur in Punjab via Visakhapatnam as his anxious family members were waiting for the body. Bureau Report

Ministry sets up special Naxal desk

2006-10-24T03:04:00.000-07:00

(New Delhi):Concerned over the latest trend of inter-state arms procurement by Naxalites and spurt in violence by the ultras, the Union Home Ministry has set up a special Naxal Desk headed by an Additional Secretary rank officer Vinay Kumar.The decision to set up the special desk was taken recently by the Centre, sources in the MHA said.They said that a meeting of the Task Force on Naxalites will be held on October 27. (PTI)

Udupi: Former Kaup MLA Salian's Son-in-Law Convicted in Silver-smuggling Case

2006-10-16T22:23:00.000-07:00

Mangalore, Jan. 1: The chief judicial magistrate's court here has today sentenced nine persons convicted in a case of silver smuggling detected 12 years ago, to three years' jail term and a fine of Rs 25,000.
Those convicted include Kaup block Congress president Gangadhar Suvarna, who also happens to be the son-in-law of former Kaup MLA Vasant Salian. However, the alleged crime was committed before he married Salian's daughter, as part of a bachelor-life escapade. At that time, he is said to have been an opponent of Salian's, but with a compromise struck between them, he also became his son-in-law consequently.
The smuggled silver was landed on the western coast and was being transported in a lorry, while another vehicle managed to escape the Customs' net.
As the verdict was being pronounced the alleged are said to have sought anticipatory bail.
Kaup BCC chief removed
Bangalore Jan. 7. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee has removed the Kaup Block Congress Committee (BCC) president in Udupi district, Gangadhara Suvarna, from the post on the grounds that he has been convicted in a criminal case by a court in Udupi. This has been stated in a press release from the KPCC general secretary and MLC, Prakash K. Rathod.

Naxal killed in encounter

2006-10-16T22:20:00.000-07:00

Hyderabad : Kalwakurthy dalam commander Raju alias Kiran was killed, while three others escaped, in an exchange of fire with police near Lingasanipalle village in Kalwakurthy mandal of Mahabubnagar on Sunday night.
The police combing party encountered a group of Maoists in the forest area and when asked to surrender they started firing at the police party. In an exchange of fire Raju was killed District committee member Tirumala Balavantu is suspected to be among those who escaped. Police recovered a tapancha and two grenades from the site.
Meanwhile, CPI (Maoist) Kondabaridi area committee secretary K Kodandam alias Prakash alias Kiran was surrendered to Srikakulam SP Manish Kumar Sinha on deteriorating health grounds. He carries a reward of Rs 1 lakh.

CHIKAMAGALUR: NAXALS STRIKE FOREST OFFICE AT KUNDUR - MAKE AWAY WITH GUN

2006-10-15T23:02:00.000-07:00

Chikamagalur: Naxals Strike Forest Office at Kundur - Make away with Gun
A group of 9 Naxalites struck at forest department office at Kundur near Moodigere here and ran away with a double barrel gun on Wednesday October 11 night.
The Naxalites surrounded the office in the midnight and made away with a double barrel gun after threatening forest guard Venkatesh. Before leaving the area they also stuck Naxal literature and posters on the walls of the local gram panchayat, primary and high schools, bus stand.
Venkatesh who sleeps in the office was woken up in the midnight by 4 masked men. As soon as he opened the door, they entered in, ransacked the entire office, broke open the cup boards and made away with the double barrel gun. While 4 of them entered the office, another 5 of them were standing outside and guarding. Most of them were talking Tulu, said Venkatesh.
Women naxal killed in encounter
Hyderabad : A women naxalite died and a Greyhounds constable was injured in an encounter in the forest under Jennaram police limits in Adilabad district on Saturday. A Greyhounds team combing the forest ran into 20 CPI (Maoist) naxalites holding a meeting. In an encounter that ensued, a women naxalite died while the rest escaped.The dead naxalite was identified as Kavita. Police recovered a 303 rifle and six kit bags. Kavita was wife of Adilabad district committee secretary Seshanna. Two naxalites arrested in Bihar
two naxalites arrested
Jehanabad (Bihar): Two members of the proscribed naxal outfit CPI (Maoist) wanted in several criminal cases were arrested today from Town police station area of Bihar's naxalite affected Jehanabad district, police sources said.
The sources said one Devendra Singh wanted in several case of dacoity, murder and loot was arrested from Shevnan village under Town police station this morning.
The police also arrested another naxalite Mohit Yadav from Guharipar village under same police station area. (Agencies)

Naxalites setting up support centres in urban areas

2006-10-15T02:26:00.000-07:00

NEW DELHI: Naxalites are effecting 'structural changes' in their movement by creating the support structures in urban areas in what is a strategic attempt to adapt to the changed security scenario. The break from traditional Naxal structure has baffled security agencies, enough for the home ministry to ask states to follow the changed pattern in battling the 'red menace'. Largely rooted in rural pockets, Naxal outfits are fast moving to urban centres. CPI (Maoist), the key outfit operating in India, is estimated to have 13 state-level committees. The outfit's dominance of Maoist insurgency in the country is evident from MHA figures, which state that it accounts for 96% of the total incidents. The outfit is now reported to be setting up bases in cities to act as a supply-line and public support structure to the main body. Home ministry has expressed concern at the spurt in overground mass organisations of Naxalite in urban centres. This is part of what observers call 'structural change' in Naxalite movement. Conventionally, Naxal outfits preferred staying in rural areas amongst its constituents in tribal and poor. Besides converting the locals into their fold, the forests and backward pockets served as ideal battleground to take on security forces. The move to urban centres, MHA feels, is aimed at supplementing the rural base in several significant ways. Overground outfits, with an entrenched structure and membership, would serve as the ideal foil to generate mass support. Given the increased sensitivity to human rights violations and presence of courts, these outfits could be used to check the offensive of security agencies. Besides serving as a propaganda medium, the urban sister outfits could be the link between foot soldiers and logistics support. Medical treatment is a prime need for cadres fighting in inhospitable, unhygienic conditions. Arms and ammunition, however, are the key responsibilities of link outfits in urban centres. Ever under the eagle eyes of security personnel, overground cadres are deployed to network with arms suppliers, inter-state or otherwise. The elaborate arms network stitched by the Naxalites came to light when consignments from Chennai were intercepted by Andhra Pradesh police in the Naxal heartland of Telangana last month. It was found that Naxalites in Andhra Pradesh had outsourced production of crude rockets to industrial units in Tamil Nadu. That it was part of an elaborate plan was revealed by the fact that parts of these rockets were being manufactured in separate units, which helped keep it a secret from police.

Anti-naxal force formed in Bellary

2006-10-15T02:18:00.000-07:00

BELLARY: To subdue and tackle the naxalite menace in Bellary district, the Police Department here, from Thursday, has initiated a well trained special force, equipped with special arms.Anti-naxal Force is a 30 member squad, divided into three teams, will take serious note of the naxal movement in the district.In an informal function at his office on Thursday, SP of Bellary Amrit Paul inaugurated the squad.A senior officer in the Department told this paper that the main function of this squad was to curb growth of naxalite forces and to create awareness against naxal activities among the people.

No dog squad in naxal prone Bellary

2006-10-15T02:15:00.000-07:00

BELLARY: Home Minister M P Prakash’s home district Bellary, does not have a dog squad for past two months. And blissfully, it will remain same for next seven more months!!Being a naxalite prone district, this imperative squad must be in an alert stage round the clock. But because of the lack of forethought of concerned officials, now the capacious district Bellary looks at its neighbouring districts for a dog squad!Because of flourishing mining and industrial units, political and economic rivalry and also from its geographical specialties, the Iron City of India, Bellary, has been attracting naxalites and anti-social elements generally.Other than that, since past few years’ heinous crimes like robbery, dacoity and murders are rampant. Moreover, Bellary houses world famous Hampi, Tunga Bhadra Dam, Hampi University, multi thousand crores worth Bellary Thermal Power Station.But, Bellary cops are facing series of problems to trace culprits, becausethey do not have a full-fledged dog squad.

manglore back on track

2006-10-10T00:26:00.000-07:00

In manglore now curfew relaxed
highway & city open to all people

Manglore communal violence

2006-10-10T00:06:00.000-07:00

Mangalore Oct 7: Although Mangalore showed signs of normalcy late on Friday night after the curfew was imposed in certain parts of the districts including Mangalore rural police limits, Konaje and Ullal, the violence took an ugly turn early morning today. A certain person called Gaffoor was stabbed to death near Ane Gundi in Bejai following which curfew is declared in Mangalore city for the first time today after violence broke out 3 days ago. Gaffoor was stabbed on Friday night and succumbed to injuries today morning at A.J. Hospital.
Police vans are driving around the city of Mangalore announcing the imposing of curfew. It is also learnt that Karnataka Director General of Police BS Sial is visiting Mangalore shortly.
People are requested to remain indoors and cooperate with the district administration in maintaining peace and order in the district. Massive deployment of Patrol Officers and Striking forces has been made in all strategic places and strict vigil is kept.For the people of Mangalore it is unusual and alarming to hear the sound of sirens echoeing in the city. The police are having their hands full trying to restore a semblance of normalcy, first in the outskirts of the city and now within the city limits.
Earlier late on friday night Home minister M. P. Prakash had declared shoot at sight orders to control the situation.
Home minister issues shoot-at-sight order
Home minister M P Prakash, late on Friday night issued shootat-sight orders in the communal trouble-hit areas of Dakshina Kannada district, including Mangalore urban and rural police limits, Konaje and Ullal.
Disclosing this at a late night press conference in Bangalore after reviewing the situation with DG & IGP B S Sial, Home Minister M P Prakash said the district administration had been told to crack down on anti-social elements provoking communal violence, looting and arson. With several police battalions from Dakshina Kannada now deployed in Chikmagalur in the wake of Datta Mala abhiyan, anti-social elements and "outside forces" are trying to take advantage of the situation by spreading communal violence, he stated.
A son of a prominent politician in Ullal was behind the communal trouble in that area, Mr Prakash alleged, but desisted from naming the politician.
He lashed out at the Opposition parties which are trying to link the Datta Jayanthi row with communal violence.
Instead, the Opposition should play a constructive role by giving a call to people to maintain communal harmony, Mr Prakash suggested.
Minister blames vested interests
District in-charge minister B Nagaraj Shetty on Friday alleged that groups with vested interest were behind the violence which has erupted in the district. He said such disturbances would only hinder the progress of the district which is poised for exponential growth in all spheres.
Shetty said that bandhs would not provide solution to any problem but only allow miscreants and anti-social elements to take advantage of the situation. Speaking to reporters after assessing the overall situation in the district, he said except Ullal and adjoining areas, the situation in the rest of the city and the district as a whole was under control.
A group of rioters went on rampage at 3.15pm in Veeranagar (Kannur ward) and Faisal Nagar (Bajal ward). One Bakery in Veeranagar was totally destroyed and all the items were thrown on the road.
Three person who were grievously injured at Faisal Nagar have been admitted to Wenlock hospital. Out of the three injured, one person is said to be in very critical condition.
At Ullal and Kuttar, Surathkal tension was at an all time high. Within the city limits of Ullal and Konaje the situation reached a crisis point today and IGP Sathyanarayana Rao visited the spot and declared a curfew and a shoot at sight order. More than 10 members were injured in today’s incidents of stone pelting. An Auto and 2 two wheelers were set on fire. Later reports came in that shops were also set on fire by angry mobs.
In the Deralakatte area, several shops were set on fire and many more injured in group clashes near Ullal.
The schools will remain closed until October 11.

2006-10-03T10:57:00.000-07:00

Most weapons with Naxals belong to cops
NEW DELHI: It's a case of the cops facing their own guns. As 'red extremists' turn a menace for security agencies with their firepower, 60% of their weapons are estimated to be stolen from policemen.Putting a number to Naxalite strength operating through the 'red corridor' up to Nepal and enumerating their increasingly improving firepower as also inter-state coordination, Union home ministry has sounded the states about the need for counter measures on a war-footing.MHA, in a rare estimate, has stated there are about 6,620 Naxalites across the country, with 4,800 regular weapons, of which 2,800 could be stolen from police. Virtually all these men and machines are controlled by the Maoists.But what is giving sleepless nights to the security agencies are the Naxals' possessing highly sophisticated equipment. The recent seizure of 800 rockets from Andhra Pradesh is only the tip of the iceberg.The state government has informed the Centre that the Naxals have highly-sophisticated VHF sets with scrambler facility to send encrypted messages. These sets have a sensitivity of .16 mv while that of police sets is .30 mv. Besides, the Naxals are also reported to be using satellite phones.They are also using improvised explosives in the form of crude rockets, pressure and wireless activated mines. The trail of crude rockets has taken the cops to industrial units in Tamil Nadu, jolting the Centre to new challenges of R&D among Naxalites.Naxals are thriving on looted weapons is reflected in Uttar Pradesh, which is among less affected states, and Orissa, which has seen a sharp growth in red extremism in the last few years.In UP, Naxalites started by raiding PAC and police posts. Though limited to three districts Mirzapur, Sonbhadra and Chandauli the state has reported that the Naxals form small groups with three AK-47s, 16 SLRs, three stenguns besides rifles of different bores, weapons used by PAC or snatched from cops on patrol.Orissa where consolidation of Naxals has been sharp as evidenced by sensational jailbreaks like in Udaigiri is said to have 700 hardcore Naxals operating with AK-47s and other rifles.The Centre now has an additional worry: that arms surrender in Nepal could see Maoists' weapons being stashed away or smuggled into Indian districts from where they could find their way through the 'red corridor'.Within the country, MHA has inputs of a subtle "structural changes" in Naxal operations.

`Eviction threat aiding naxal movement'

2006-10-03T00:51:00.000-07:00

UDUPI: K. Jayaprakash Hegde, MLA, said on Sunday that the threat to evict people from forest land and the indifferent attitude of the Forest Department are helping the growth of naxalism in Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Chikamagalur and Shimoga districts.
Addressing presspersons here, Mr. Hegde said though the Government has been proclaiming that it will not evict people from forest land, officials of the Forest Department are acting in a contradictory manner.
He said those who have built houses and are cultivating forest land are against leaving it. Lack of clear demarcation of forest and revenue land is the reason for the problem. People should not be made to suffer for the mistakes of government departments. He said the Government should find out the extent of forest land acquired by the people and a similar area could be taken from the Revenue Department for the development of forest. Though the Government announced a Rs. 60-crore package for the development of four districts after the police encounter with naxalites at Eedu in Udupi district one-and-a-half-year ago, it has not released funds.
It is necessary to sort out the differences between the officials of the Revenue and Forest departments, Mr. Hedge said.

Salwa Judum prog may cause civil war: Panel

2006-09-01T21:20:00.000-07:00

New Delhi, May 29 (UNI) An Independent Citizen's Initiative of writers, senior journalists and former civil servants who visited Chhattigarh's areas which are under the state government sponsored 'Salwa Judum' programme to deal with Maoists, today observed that replacing the administrative control with criminals under this programme could lead to a civil war.The Initiative panel which travelled through Dantewara district, met a cross-section of people including those living in camps, police officers and other citizens, found the situation extremely serious in the area, with a fear-ridden atmosphere and violence leaving ordinary villagers, particularly tribals the main sufferers."The Chhattisgarh administration appears to have 'outsourced' law and order to an unaccountable, indisciplined and amorphous group of criminals which called itself Salwa Judam which the government described as 'spontaneous, self-initiated peace mission resulting in flocking of ordinary people against the Maoists' onslaught", said the panel's study report released to the mediapersons here.The Panel comprised Dr Ramachandra Guha( historian from Bangalore), Mr Harivansh( editor Prabhat Khabar, Ranchi), Ms Farah Naqvi(writer, social activist), Mr EAS Sarma(former Secretary of Indian Government), Dr Nandini Sundar (Professor Sociology, Delhi University) and Mr B G Verghese (former Editor Hindustan Times, Indian Express). The panel found "evidence of killings, burning of homes, attacks on women including gang-rape. Only the killings by Maoists are recorded and killings by Salwa Judum recruits have been ignored... arrests are arbitrary.. several people are missing"."The press is tighty controlled and intimidated , and feels unable to report the truth", the report said.The violence by Maoist guerillas continues, the report said adding that violence could not be countered by violence.Under the Salwa Judum programme, thousands of villagers have been forced to come and live in camps... and the government appears to have no long-term plans for rehabilitation or safe return of villagers, the report said.Besides, under the programme, minors were used as Special Police Officers (SPOs) armed with lathis and guns converting the entire rural society into criminals and exposing them too retaliatory attacks by the Maoists.The panel members said, despite the fact that they were carrying Additional Chief Secretary's letter informing all officers about their movements, they were prevented from visiting the villages seriously affected with human rights violations." We were physically attacked three times by Salwa Judum activists, manhandled and our possessions including camera stolen, with the police standing by", Mr Vergese said.The panel demanded immediate withdrawal of Salwa Judum, disarming of 'SPOs", restoration of law and order and civil administration and facilitation of the return of villagers to their homes.It also demanded judicial inquiry into the Salwa Judum and it's large scale human and civil rights violations.For this, the panel member said "both Maoists and the government must come to a ceasefire", The panel also appealed to the Maoists to stop violence, help return of affected villagers to their homes.

Maoists plan stir

2006-09-01T21:17:00.000-07:00

Maoists plan stir

BHUBANESWAR: The Communist Party of India (Maoist) on Saturday condemned the Orissa Government's order banning it in the State along with seven other pro-naxalite organisations. The party announced that it would organise a countrywide road blockade on June 14 and 15 to protest the ban and the `ongoing suppression of people's voices' through the government-supported `Salwa Judam' programme.
"The ban is a brutal assault on the democratic rights of the people," the secretary of the party's State Committee, Sunil, said in a two-page statement. Stating that the Naveen Patnaik Government had been treating CPI (Maoist) and organisations such as the Chasi Mulia Samiti as `virtually unlawful' outfits since long, the party said the ban had exposed the `real character' of the `so-called democratic system of the country.'
The party urged democratic forces to support the proposed agitation. Police and anti-social elements were harassing innocent people in the interior districts in the name of fighting extremism, it alleged. While imposing the ban on Friday, the State Government had announced a rehabilitation package for the extremists who would surrender and join the social mainstream.

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2006-08-25T23:57:00.000-07:00

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2006-08-05T01:54:00.000-07:00

Pictures from Martyr's week/Maoists still have their deep impact in forests and a large support base. A scene at the martyr%3F%3F%3Fs week function on July 30 2005 in the forests of Dantewada district Chhattisgarh..jpg

Maoists still have their deep impact in forests and a large support base. A scene at the martyr's week function on July 30, 2005 in the forests of Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh.

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Wanted! A chief for Anti-Naxal Force

2006-07-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

Wanted! A chief for Anti-Naxal ForceThursday June 29 2006 11:45 IST
BANGALORE: The Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) is badly in need of a leader. Any one willing to risk their life may apply for the post, as none of the IPS officers of the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the State are willing to take up the responsibility.The Government is keeping its hand crossed as no one is ready to go to Udupi, headquarters of the newly-constituted squad. The ANF was set up by the Dharam Singh Government last year to check Maoist activities in the State, especially in the Western Ghats and Tumkur district. DIG Jayaprakash V Nayak was its first Chief Commandant.However, Nayak himself was embroiled in a controversy when he went on a tour to the United States without handing over charge. Later, the Government shifted him and posted another officer.But the transfer order was cancelled in a jiffy, forcing the government to bring back Nayak as its head.When the ANF failed to make headway in reining in the naxalites, the Government again shunted out Nayak on June 2, without assigning him another post.Sources admitted that though the government offered the job to two officers, after the transfer of Nayak in a bid to overhaul the squad, both declined.Sources in the Home Department told this paper that the Government is in a fix as none of the DIG rank officers are ready to take up the work, despite the lucrative pay package, including special perks and other facilities.Sources said that some officials agreed to take up the duty but they wanted the headquarters shifted to Mangalore or Bangalore from Udupi. The Government struck down this suggestion, making it clear that the base should be close to the operational area.A senior officer said: "Of the 139 IPS officers in Karnataka, 21 of them are of DIG rank and several have had a stint in the CRPF, BSF and United Nations Peace Keeping Mission Force abroad. But when it came to a mission on the home turf, it was sad that none were ready to accept it."

'5,000 families involved with naxals in Bangalore'

2006-07-13T09:06:00.000-07:00

BANGALORE: Former Home Minister M. Mallikarjun Kharge (Congress) said in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday that 5,000 families in Bangalore were involved in naxal activities.
Speaking on the serial blasts in Mumbai, he said terrorists from Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Goa and Mumbai and those from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka had taken shelter in Bangalore.
Mr. Kharge said the police should be strengthened and its capabilities upgraded. Security should be increased on the coast. More policemen should be recruited and posted to the Bangalore Airport, he said.
He urged the Finance Department to allocate funds for providing modern vehicles and weapons to security personnel. Police stations in the State had hardly 40 constables each while the number was about 100 in Mumbai, he said.
J.C. Madhuswamy (Janata Dal - United) demanded greater vigil on naxal activities in Chikkanayakanahalli, Pavagada, Chikmagalur and mining areas, including Bellary, which could become centres of naxal activities.
Leader of the Opposition N. Dharam Singh sought greater security cover for Bangalore.
Vatal Nagaraj (Kannada Chaluvali) said the activities of people who had migrated to Bangalore should be monitored. He asked the Government whether it had adequate information about them.
R.V. Deshpande (Congress) wanted intelligence in coastal areas strengthened.
He said underworld activities were going on in ports and harbours.
Araga Jnanendra (BJP) and Ramesh Kumar (Congress) spoke.
Security tightened
Home Minister M.P. Prakash said security arrangements had been made all over the State in the light of the Mumbai blasts. The Government was in touch with the Union and Maharashtra governments for providing assistance to people from Karnataka who were injured in the blasts.

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Peoplesmarch is back !

2006-06-23T10:41:00.000-07:00

Peoplesmarch is back !
We believe that an individial has an unalienable right of speech and expression, by virtue of his birth. We will exercise that right, and this site is a step in that direction.---P.Govindan kutty, Editor, People's MarchPeoplesmarch has now moved to http://peoplesmarch.googlepages.com/It is not yet fully functional and the archives have not yet been put up.Only the latest issue is available for download.

Maoist website blocked by INDIAN security agencies

2006-06-22T10:37:00.000-07:00

Indian security agencies have thwarted Maoist attempts to get worldwide publicity for the revolutionary movement through a website.
The site has been blocked by the web hosting company on the request of the Indian Government last week.
The site, peoplesmarch.com, which hosts articles and statements of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), has gone offline a week back. The regular monthly updates on the site on the revolutionary movement in India provided international publicity to the Indian Maoists for the last three years. The site is hosted on a server, which could be traced to Colorado in the United States.
However, the print edition of the monthly People's March is still available in various States including Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Orissa. The monthly is ostensibly edited and published by P. Govindan Kutty of Ernakulam district in Kerala.
Consequent to the blocking of the website by the Indian security agencies, Maoist organisations based in other countries posted messages on several blog sites appealing for support for the Indian movement by subscriptions to the magazine.
Bookshop listed
A posting on a blog says the magazine can be obtained from a publication house in London. The blog had even listed a bookshop on Caledonian road, Kings Cross, in London. "Send a first class stamped addressed large A$ envelope, conceal two pounds ... with a note for the request for the People's March," the blog message states.
The blogger had also put an e-mail address of yahoo.co.uk, where mails can be sent for subscribing to the magazine.
The magazine, which went online in 2003, has become the mouthpiece of Indian revolutionaries, as it had been carrying messages from top the Maoist leadership, including party central committee secretary Muppala Lakshamn Rao, more popularly known as Ganapathy.
Government sources indicate that the Andhra Pradesh Government wrote to the Centre pointing out that Maoist literature was being made freely available on the Internet. More importantly, the Centre is stated to have taken a serious view of the website, after a People's March issue was entirely dedicated to the movement in the Dandakaranya region in Chhattisgarh. Authors of several articles had severely criticised the "Salwa Judoom" (peace initiative) launched by Congress MLA Mahendra Karma in the Bastar forests.
More than 200 people have been killed in attacks by the Maoists and counter attacks by Central forces in the Bastar forest areas in the last six months.

BEHIND THE NAXAL SUCCESS STORY

2006-06-04T08:25:00.000-07:00

BEHIND THE NAXAL SUCCESS STORY
by Swati Parashar
Even as a desperate Central Government in India sanctioned nine more reserve battalions to states battling Maoists, Naxals abducted 52 villagers of Dantewada district in the state of Chhattisgarh and killed 13 hostages. The villagers of Manikonta spotted two bodies and informed the police. Four days after police failed to trace villagers abducted by Naxalites, a search party on April 29, found the bodies of 13 of the 52 hostages, within hours of the Naxals releasing 35 tribals.
The Anti-Naxal Movement
All the abducted villagers were part of the anti-Naxalite 'Salwa Judum' (Peace Campaign) movement in Chhattisgarh. The ruling as well as the main opposition party in the state supports the ‘Salwa Judum’ movement. The essence of ‘Sadwa Judum’ is to involve active participation of the local tribal population with the security forces and local administration in fighting the growing specter of violent Naxal activities. The state government has offered the position of Special Police Officer (SPO) to some participants of ‘Salwa Judum’ along with firearm and a monthly salary. As the Maoists began retaliating against those participating in the movement, nearly 45,000 local tribals from more than 640 villages in South Bastar abandoned their homes and took shelter in the relief camps opened by the state government. Subsequently, the Naxalites also began attacking these relief camps targeting villagers, who were actively involved in the 'Salwa Judum' campaign.
The timing of the Dantewada attack is very pertinent as last month, March 2006, the Chhattisgarh government passed what human rights activists in India and abroad deplored as draconian measures to put an end to the insurgency. Those measures include hefty jail terms for peaceful protesters and for people who aid the rebels, even if it is at gunpoint. The Naxal Movement spread across huge swathes of southern, central and eastern India - has killed nearly 150 people, mostly civilians, in Chhattisgarh since January 2006, including the latest fatalities in Dantewada.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency as the single biggest internal security threat ever faced by the country at the second meeting of the standing committee of the Naxal-affected states in New Delhi on April 13, 2006. He admitted that parts of 160 districts across the country were slipping out of government control. The problem, which has for long been dismissed as a socio-economic issue, is now being seen as a security matter. With the Naxals running parallel governments in their controlled areas and an upsurge in violence lately, it is pertinent to look at some of the factors behind the Naxal success story in Chhattisgarh.
Callousness of the Administration
Many villagers in Chhattisgarh are staying in relief camps because the state government cannot assure their security and safety in their villages. These relief camps are supposedly safer due to police and security forces’ protection. However, the attacks on such relief camps itself have increased over the period of last few months. The villagers of Dantewada, when abducted, had left the relief camp and gone to their own village to check if their houses and other belongings in the village were safe and to collect food grain. This raises the question about the kind of logistics planning undertaken to set up a relief camp when the inmates have to go out and collect their own food grain. The kind of security arrangements in place for protecting the inmates in the relief camps also needs to be scrutinised. The Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Dr. Raman Singh, was in Bastar the same day when Naxalites massacred the 13 people of Dantewada after holding 52 people captive for over 4 days. He was setting up the Bastar Development Authority when the innocent people were being butchered cold bloodedly. For four days the administration and police were clueless about the hostages. Would the state machinery have responded in the similar callous manner if a kin of the rich and influential had been held hostage?
Failure of Police Intelligence
The entire intelligence community in Chhattisgarh, the latest hotbed of Naxal violence, has failed to gather effective intelligence on the Naxalites in their state. Contrary to this the Naxalites have virtually been under ground in Andhra Pradesh and they have not been able to mount any serious attack within Andhra Pradesh. The magnitude, lethality and number of fatalities in the last few months clearly demonstrate the extent of Naxal presence and violence across Chhattisgarh. Yet the police have not been able to gather effective intelligence to prevent these attacks. Furthermore the police forces have been unable to launch a major counter offensive against the Naxals. The absence of effective police intelligence has not only caused the death of many poor innocent villagers but also the loss of many police and security personnel working at the ground level. An outright revolt in the police forces is not unlikely, as some sources reveal.
The Chhattisgarh government has recently appointed the famous K.P.S. Gill, former Police Chief of Punjab, credited with curbing Punjab insurgency, as it’s security advisor. One should hope that Mr. Gill’s experiences during the Punjab counter- insurgency would allow him to lead the anti-naxal operations with more effectiveness. However, taking stock of the state's resources to take on the Naxals, Mr. Gill has found out that the police force in Chhattisgarh has around 4,000 vacancies, half of it in the eight districts worst affected by the Naxalite violence. In Punjab , when Gill was fighting terrorism, he had two army divisions, 85 CRPF battalions and a large number of state police personnel at his disposal against some 2,500 terrorists. The contrast is bound to worry him about his new job!
The Innocuous Naxal Sympathisers
A group of prominent citizens from several Non Governmental Organisations has formed a core group of Naxal sympathisers. These high profile human rights activists have highjacked the media space in denouncing the state government and the security forces for their actions against Naxalites. These innocuous Naxal sympathisers have formed citizen committees to undertake fact-finding and assessment tours in Chhattisgarh to barrack against “Salwa Judum”. The same group of people has moved all possible avenues nationally or even internationally against the Chhattisgarh Special People's Security Ordinance directed against Naxal violence. Sadly, these prominent citizens find it extremely hard to either denounce the violence unleashed by the Naxals or use their influence to force the Naxals to give up violence. These sympathisers never even consider the deadly and dangerous task the security forces are up against in fighting against the Naxalites. The number of innocent villagers losing their lives for the sake of Naxal cause also never factors in their analyses and assessment.
What more does the State Government want?
More central government funds, more central Para military forces, more advanced weaponry, more draconian laws, more highly publicised meetings etc.; the wish list of the state government is endless. However, the ineffectual dealing by the state government in Chhattisgarh has only resulted in gruesome massacres of either poor innocent tribal villagers or the lower ranked police and security personnel. The government efforts have been rendered so ineffectual that even the conference of collectors and superintendents of police, convened by the Chhattisgarh Government to take stock of the situation after the recent Naxal attacks, turned out to be an unmitigated farce.
Conclusion Many of the villagers in Naxal affected Chhattisgarh have fled their homes and have been accommodated in government-run relief camps, which are already overflowing with refugees and lack basic amenities. The police stations are located in far-flung areas with un-motorable roads and without telephone facilities or vehicles. They also lack basic facilities, like barracks and toilets, and the necessary manpower to deal with the Naxal threat. Inquiry by the intelligence agencies and police has revealed that in the Naxal stronghold areas, several senior officials of the District Administration have completely surrendered to the Naxals. The State has utterly withered away with Naxals running their own parallel government in the areas under their control. There seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel visible at this moment. Unless the extent of the Naxal menace is recognised and proportionate responses are articulated and implemented, this problem is far from being rooted out.

Naxalites and Muslims

2006-05-28T01:55:00.000-07:00

By Ayub Khan
The recently concluded first round of talks between the Andhra Pradesh government and the Naxalites have received widespread (if sometimes cautionary) approval from all sections of the society and polity with the understandable exception of the Sangh Parivar affiliates. The merger of the People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India into a new outfit called the Communist Party of India (Maoist) is also being watched with great interest by observers as it will determine their future strategy in accomplishing their goal of creating a classless society. Naxalite leaders who emerged out of their hideouts for the talks also focused on some issues relating to Indian Muslims. This is significant because for quite some time they have been accused of being indifferent to Muslim issues.
Writing in the November 1, 2003 issue of Economic and Political Weekly Suman Banerjee blasted them for being "inert" during the past decade in fighting communalism."During the last decade which saw the emergence and rise of the Sangh parivar in its most demoniacal form under which some of the worst cases of genocide of Muslims were carried out, the various Naxalite outfits - ranging from the armed to the parliamentary groups - were found to be totally inert. Beyond issuing fiery statements (and these also few and far between) condemning the Sangh parivar, none of these outfits came out on the streets to actively resist Advani's rath-yatra, or deploy their armed squads to oppose the marauding gangs of the RSS-Bajrang Dal. I have not yet found any report of such acts of protest in any of their various publications and reports. Are they scared? Or is it because communal riots are considered lowest in the list of their priorities of intervention? Or - let me hazard a dangerous guess - is it because all these various Naxalite groups are still dominated by Hindu upper and middle castes and the Hinduised tribal poor (for whom the plight of the minority Muslims remains an invisible issue)?"
Naxalite leaders have obviously taken such criticism to heart. Ramakrishna (People' War State secretary) addressing a press conference while meeting Dalit and minority representatives vowed to target "the fascist and communal forces'' in the country and reiterated their decision to "physically eliminate'' the forces which were out to disturb communal harmony and perpetrated atrocities against the Dalits."Their interaction with Muslim leaders was however limited to fringe elements with the notable exception of Lateef Khan of the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee and Zahid Ali Khan (Editor of Siasat Daily) . They met with Mehboob Ali of Darsgah-e-Jehad-o-Shahadat and Maulana Naseeruddin of Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Shair-e-Islam, who complained to them about the increasing harrasment of Muslim youth in Hyderabad. The Naxalite leaders reportedly assured them that protecting the minorities is their obligation. Later on when Naseeruddin was arrested by Gujarat police for allegedly having links with ISI and terrorist organizations, Ramakrishna issued an open letter to the state government calling for his unconditional release. He demanded the suspension of officers who permitted the arrest, filing of a criminal case against Gujarat police, public condemnation of its action and a public apology. He also wanted the state to issue a blanket order to prevent police from entering Muslim houses or areas without permission.Their only interaction with a mainstream Muslim leader was that with Zahid Ali Khan on October 19th when they arrived unannounced at Siasat's offices. Ramakrishna, Sudhakar, Ganesh and Jan Shakti's Amar and Riyaz attended the meeting along with legendary balladeer Gadar. In their interaction with the staff of Siasat, the Naxalite leaders reiterated that their fight is against five forms of injustices:
1. Class divisions
Oppression against women
Injustices against and harassment of Muslims
Backwardness of the tribals
Lack of development of backward areas
Ramakrishna said that Muslims are being treated like outsiders in their own country and blamed the Hindutva forces for creating divisions in the citizenry which have led to tragedies like Gujarat. He further claimed that Maoist forces have "always supported Muslims" and said that Naxalites support an eleven percent reservation policy for Muslims. He said the "revolutionary forces" are totally committed to secularism and are the only ones who can effectively combat the Hindutva organizations. His appeal for the Muslim community was to join their struggle and work unitedly on a single platform.While the Naxalites' sentiments and concerns need to be appreciated, it would be suicidal for Muslims or anyone else to join an armed struggle. Whatever grievances there might be they should be addressed within the democratic framework of the country in ways that are legitimate and non-violent and which do not violate the sovereignty and integrity of India.
Naxalites have already proven their point and highlighted the exploitation and oppression that is rampant in the country. Now is the time for them to hang in their guns, join the mainstream and bring in the desired change through democratic and non-violent means. They are disciplined and committed and can make ideal politicians. However, this scenario seems highly unlikely at least in the near future. This does not mean that there is no scope for Naxal-Muslim cooperation. Muslims can still work and cooperate with "overground" Naxalites like Gadar. He routinely attends Muslim events and was instrumental in Jamiatul Ulema's Dalit-Muslim communal meal programs which were designed to foster brotherhood between Muslims and other communities. Efforts should be made to increase the occurrence of such constructive social justice and equality campaigns.

2006-05-26T01:39:00.000-07:00

Study confirms HIV virus
originates in wild chimps in Cameroon
www.chinaview.cn 2006-05-26 09:11:14
BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases emerged, scientists confirmed in Friday's edition of the journal Science that the HIV virus first originated in wild chimpanzees in corner of southern Cameroon.
The study suggested people contract the deadly virus from chimpanzees by killing and eating them.
A virus called SIVcpz (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus from chimps) was believed to have been the precursor to HIV, but this virus had only been found in a few captive animals. The current study has been able to trace a natural reservoir of the virus.
To solve the mystery of HIV's ancestry, scientists employed trackers to plunge through dense jungle and collect the fresh feces of wild apes - more than 1,300 samples in all.
Scientists long have known that nonhuman primates carry their own version of the AIDS virus, called SIV or simian immunodeficiency virus. But, it was not known how prevalent the virus was in chimps in the wild, or how genetically or geographically diverse it was,
The team tested chimp feces for SIV antibodies, finding them in a subspecies called Pan troglodytes troglodytes in southern Cameroon.
By genetically analyzing the feces, researchers could trace individual infected chimps. The team found some chimp communities with infection rates as high as 35 percent, while others had no infection at all.
There are three types of HIV-1, the strain of the human virus responsible for most of the worldwide epidemic. Genetic analysis let the team identify chimp communities near Cameroon's Sanaga River whose viral strains are most closely related to the most common of those HIV-1 subtypes.
The Sanaga River is an important commercial gateway in this area and it is widely accepted that someone who was infected with HIV made his way to Kinshasa. The study suggests the virus passed from chimpanzees to people more than once.
"We don't really know how these transmissions occurred," the researchers said.
"We know that you don't get it from petting a chimp, or from a toilet seat, just like you can't get HIV from a toilet seat. It requires exposure to infected blood and infected body fluids. So if you get bitten by an angry chimp while you are hunting it, that could do it."
The first human known to be infected with HIV was a man from Kinshasa in the nearby country of Congo who had his blood stored in 1959 as part of a medical study, decades before scientists knew the AIDS virus existed.
In people, HIV leads to AIDS but chimps have a version called simian immune deficiency virus that causes them no harm. Humans are the only animals naturally susceptible to HIV.
AIDS was only identified 25 years ago. The virus now infects 40 million people around the world and has killed 25 million.
Spread via blood, sexual contact and from mother to child during birth or breast-feeding, HIV has no cure and there is no vaccine yet, although drug cocktails can help control it. Enditem

2006-05-21T10:55:00.000-07:00

Left-wing Extremist group People’s War Group (PWG) Official name: The Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) (People’s War) -- CPI-ML (PW) 1. Formation The People’s War Group was formed in Southern Indian State of Andhra Pradesh on April 22, 1980 by Kondapalli Seetharamaiah, one of the most influential Naxalite leaders in the State and a member of the erstwhile Central Organising Committee of the Communist Party of India––Marxist-Leninist, (CPI-ML). Seetharamaiah was later expelled from the group. He died unsung on April 12, 2002. The PWG’s operations commenced in Karimnagar district, in the North Telengana region of Andhra Pradesh, and subsequently spread to other parts of the State as well as in other States. 2. Objectives The PWG traces its ideology to the Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung’s theory of organised peasant insurrection. It rejects parliamentary democracy and believes in capturing political power through protracted armed struggle based on guerrilla warfare. This strategy entails building up of bases in rural and remote areas and transforming them first into guerrilla zones and then as liberated zones, besides the area-wise seizure and encircling cities. The eventual objective is to install a "people’s government" through the "people’s war". In short, as the PWG claims, it wishes to usher in a New Democratic revolution (NDR). 3. Leadership and Command Structure Muppala Lakshman Rao, alias Ganapathi is the General Secretary of the outfit. The Central Committee (CC) leads the PWG, and is the highest policy making body of the group. Elections to the CC were last held in March 2001, at which its strength was expanded as well as vacancies filled in, following the death in an encounter, in 1999, of three CC members in the Koyyuru forests, Karinmagar, Andhra Pradesh. The CC of the PWG comprises 21 permanent members and six alternate members, reportedly referred to by the PWG as 21 plus six. Alternate members are those who stand in for the permanent members at meetings during their absence. It is believed that the following 21 persons are the permanent members of the CC; Their name/ designation/ identity is listed here: 1 Muppala Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapathi––General Secretary. 2 Cherukuri Rajkumkar alias Devanna alias Uday alias Madhu. 3 Mallojula Koteswara Rao. 4 Naveen Prasad, of Party Unity that had merged with the PWG. 5 Nambala Keshava Rao @ Ganganna, also a member of the Central Military Commission. 6. Katakam Sudarshan alias Anand. 7. Former Karnataka State Committee Secretary. 8. Mallojula Venugopal @ Bhupathi. 9. Jingu Narasimha Reddy @Jampanna, Secretary of the North Telengana Special Zone Committee (NTSZC). 10. Sande Rajamouli @ Prasad, earlier Andhra Pradesh State Committee Secretary, Full Timer in the Central Committee. 11 Lanka Papi Reddy @ Lachchanna, Secretary, Dandakaranya Special Zone Committee (DSZC). 12. Akkiraju Harahopla alias Rama Krishna, Andhra Pradesh State Committee Secretary. 13. Wadkapoor Chandra Mohan @ Devanna, Secretary, Andhra Orissa Border Special Zone Committee and member of the Central Military Commission. 14. Central Committee Member belonging to Karnataka, Full Timer. Ramesh alias Balaji 15. The Bihar State Committee Secretary. 16 The West Bengal State Committee Secretary. 17. Tippadi Tirupati @Devuji, Secretary, Dandakaranya Area Committee. 18. Sumit, of Party Unity that had merged with the PWG. 19. Surjit, of Party Unity that had merged with the PWG. 20. The Maharashtra State Committee Secretary 21. The Tamil Nadu State Committee Secretary Dr. P Vara Vara Rao is another influential leader, and is often projected as the PWG’s principal ‘ideologue’. Yet another leader is balladeer Gadar. The PWG draws a clear distinction between the political and military wings of the outfit. On the political side the organisational hierarchy <../images/pwg.jpg> of the PWG consists of the Central Committee at the apex, Regional Bureaus, Zonal or State Committees, District or Division Committees and Squad Area Committees. In the military sphere, the Central Military Commission (CMC) headed by the General Secretary Ganapathi stands at the top. And there are military commissions parallel to the political committees at each level. At the bottom is the Village Defence Squad, consisting of a handful of people in a village, organised as a people’s militia, and possessing basic training in handling small arms. At the political level, the Village Governance Committee is the mirror committee. The main fighting force of the outfit is a platoon comprising 25 to 30 highly trained guerrillas organised into sections and sub-sections. There are two types of paltoons––the military platoon and the protection platoon. The outfit organises its platoons as military platoons and protection platoons and fields them in the guerrilla zones. The dalam or armed squad comprising 5-7 cadres is a secondary-fighting unit. The strength of a squad is varied, as is its type. Mostly, it is in the form of a local guerrilla squad (LGS) and in some areas it functions as a central guerrilla squad (CGS). The fighting force of the PWG is organised as the People’s Guerrilla Army (PGA ). It has a flag and an insignia, too. The PGA was formed in December 2000. Estimates on the fire-power of the PWG suggest that the group has about 60 highly mobile and motivated squads of 40 persons each. In about 125 villages they run parallel administration. According to police estimate, the PWG has around 1000 to 1050 underground cadres. Besides the outfit has about 5,000 overground activists. The PWG also has a string of front organisations of students, youth, industrial workers, miners, farm hands, women, poets, writers and cultural artists. Some among these are listed below: Andhra Pradesh Rythu Coolie Sangham (Agricultural labourers association) Singareni Karmika Samakhya (Singareni collieries workers federation) Viplava Karmika Samakhya (Revolutionary workers federation) Radical Students Union Radical Youth League All India Revolutionary Students Federation Bihar Lok Sangram Morcha (People’s Struggle Front) Mazddor Kisam Mukti Morcha (Workers-Peasants Liberation Front) Jan Mukti Parishad (People’s Liberation Council) Mazdoor Kisan Ekta Morcha (Workers-Peasants Unity Front) Bharat Navjawan Sabha (Indian Youth Association) Mazdoor Kisan Sangrami Parishad (Workers-Peasants Struggle Council) Shramik Sangram Manch (Workers Struggle Platform) Nari Mukti Sangharsh Samiti (Women’s Liberation Struggle Association) Sangharsha Jana Mukti Morcha (People’s Liberation Struggle Front) Democratic Students Union All India People’s Resistance Forum Madhya Pradesh Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sangh (Tribal Peasants-Workers Association) Krantikari Kisan Mazdoor Sangh (Revolutionary Peasants-Workers Association) Krantikari Balak Sangh (Revolutionary Children’s Association) Gram Raksha Dal (Village Defence Force) Gram Rajya Samiti (Village governance council) 4. Area of Operation The PWG maintains a string of bases in remote and inaccessible areas and currently runs virtual parallel government in some ‘liberated zones’, particularly in the tribal areas in the Dandakaranya belt. The outfit, at present is active in parts of, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bihar. The outfit has been making attempts to establish and expand its presence in several other States such as Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka in Southern India, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan in Northern India. Andhra Pradesh North Telangana—Khammam, Warangal, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Adilabad districts South Telangana—Mehboobnagar, Nalgonda and Medak districts Rayalseema Region—Anantpur and Kurnool districts North Coastal Andhra—East Godavari, Visakhapatanam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam South Coastal Andhra—Guntur district Bihar In Bihar, the PWG established its presence with the merger with the Communist Party of India, Marxist-Leninist, CPI-ML (Party Unity) in 1998. Since then the outfit has expanded and consolidated its area of operations in many districts. At present, the PWG is active in Patna, Aurangabad, Gaya, Jehanabad, Rohtas, Buxur, Saharsha, Khagaria, Banka and Jamui districts. Jharkhand Palamau, Garhwah, Latehar, Gumla, Chatra Hazaribag and Koderma districts. Orissa Malkangiri, Koraput, Gajapati, Rayagada and Nowrangpur in Southern Orssia, and Mayurbhanj district in Northern Orissa. Maharashtra Gadchiroli, Bhandara and Chandrapur districts. Chhattisgarh Jagdalpur, Bastar, Kanker, Rajnadgaon, Dantewada, Sarguja, Kawardha and Jashpur districts. Madhya Pradesh Balaghat, Dhindoli and Mandla districts. West Bengal Midnapore, Purulia and Bakura districts. 5. External Linkages The PWG is believed to have links with left-wing extremist groups in other parts of the World. The outfit has fraternal relations with the Liberation Army of Peru and the Kurdistan Workers Party. The PWG has also been trying to internationalise its appeal. It attended an international Seminar organised by the Workers Party of Belgium in May 1995, along with 60 other organisations from 40 countries. The group is believed to have links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE <../../shrilanka/terroristoutfits/Ltte.htm>) of Sri Lanka, and some of its cadres are reported to have received arms training from LTTE rebels. The PWG maintains active links with other Maoist outfits in South Asia. On July 1, 2001, nine left wing extremist outfits active in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh formed an umbrella organisation, the Coordination Committes of Maoist Parties and Orgainsations (CCOMPOSA) with a purpose to unify and coordinate the activities of the Maoist parties and organisations in South Asia. The CCOMPOSA comprises India: People's War Group (PWG), Maoist Communist Centre (), Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (MLM), Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Maoist) from India, Bangladesh: Purba Bangla Sarbahara Party (Maoist Punargathan Kendra) Purba Bangla Sarbahara Party Bangladesh Samaywadi Party (ML) Nepal: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) <../../nepal/terroristoutfits/index.html> Sri Lanka: Communist Party of Ceylon (Maoist) The PWG along with the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) and the Maoist insurgents in Nepal is believed to be instrumental in the formation of the CCOMPOSA for greater cooperation and understanding among the left wing extremist groups in India and Nepal. The real significance of the consolidated of linkages between the PWG and Maoists in Nepal needs to be assessed within the context of the larger strategy to set up a "Compact Revolutionary Zone" (CRZ) extending from Nepal through Bihar and the Dandakaranya region to Andhra Pradesh. For some time now, the PWG with other left wing extremists groups active in the sub-continent has been trying to achieve the objective of the CRZ to further unifiy, expand and consolidate left wing extremist movement in different parts of India and its neighbourhood 6. Major Incidents 2004 August 2: PWG cadres kill a surrendered Naxalite, namely Bukya Raghavulu, who was with the Kothaguda-Manuguru Local Guerrilla Squad near Gundala in the Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh. July 30: Armed Naxalites of the outlawed PWG kill one person at Padriya village in the Rohtas district of Bihar. July 21: Andhra Pradesh Home Minister, K. Jana Reddy, announces that the ban on the PWG and its six frontal organizations has been allowed to lapse. July 11: Two Naxalites of the PWG are killed in an exchange of fire between two groups in the forest area near Oddugudem village in the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh. June 30: PWG names a team of six mediators for holding peace talks with the Andhra Pradesh Government. June 22: PWG reciprocates the Andhra Pradesh Government’s goodwill gesture and announces a cease-fire for three months, paving the way for peace talks. June 16: Andhra Pradesh Government declares a three-month ceasefire with the PWG. June 12: The Jharkhand State Home Department says the MCC and PWG are being provided with sophisticated arms by terrorist groups operating in India’s northeast. May 17: Andhra Pradesh Government decides to stop combing operations against left-wing extremist outfits operating in the State. May 11: Four persons are killed and six others sustain injuries during an attack by the PWG at Chakri village in the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. May 4: Police kill four PWG cadres, including two women, of the Guttikonda area dalam (squad) and Bollapalli ‘special guerrilla squad’ during an encounter at Jayanthipuram village in the Guntur district. May 1: PWG cadres kill a former Naxalite, identified as Venkatadri alias Murali, at Chinnamandem in the Cuddapah district. April 29: The United States adds PWG and Maoist Communist Centre in its Terrorist Exclusion List. April 26: Armed activists of the Ranvir Sena, a private militia of landlords, kill three PWG Naxalites near the Karpi police station area of Arwal district in Bihar. April 25: Three villagers are shot dead and 11 others sustain injuries in a PWG attack at Adai village in the Gaya district of Bihar. April 24: Naxalites of the PWG kill an independent candidate, Daku Majhi, from Gunpur Assembly constituency and injure his two brothers at Muniguda forests in the Raygada district of Orissa. April 20: Two PWG cadres, including a woman, are killed during an encounter near Bandlamottu village in the Guntur district. April 18: Senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader Kinjarapu Yerrannaidu escapes an assassination bid by the PWG in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. April 14: Eight armed PWG cadres, including three women, suspected to be members of the Achampet dalam kill a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader, Sugunakar Rao, at Vattipalli village of Mahabubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. April 11: Two PWG Naxalites are killed in an encounter with security forces at Kondaparthi in the Warangal district. April 2: Police kill three Naxalites of the PWG during an encounter in the Guntur district. March 28: Three PWG Naxalites are killed in an exchange of fire with the police at Pullayapallipenta in the Mahabubnagar district. January 14: Around 60-65 PWG Naxalites kill four persons at Mirjapur village in the Jehanabad district of Bihar. January 12: Three PWG cadres are killed in an encounter with the police at Sukhnadi village in the Garwah district of Jharkhand. 2003 December 29: A Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader is allegedly shot dead by the PWG Naxalites at Oppicherla village in the Guntur district. December 25: Announcing at a press conference in Tirupati, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) chief D T Nayak says nine PWG members allegedly carried out the assassination attempt on the Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu at Alipiri in Chittor district on October 1, 2003. December 20: Two PWG cadres kill a ruling TDP activist of Chintakuntla village in Andhra Pradesh's Nalgonda district. December 19: Naxalites of the proscribed Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML) belonging to the Guttikonda Bilam dalam (squad) kill two villagers of Vemagiri village in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district, while branding them as police informers. December 12: Two PWG cadres are killed in an encounter with the security forces at Durgam village in the Vishakapatanam district of Andhra Pradesh. December 9: PWG Naxalites kill a ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and chairman of Maisamma Temple Development Committee at Dandumalkapuram in Andhra Pradesh's Nalgonda district. December 4: A former left wing extremist-Naxalite-belonging to the Janasakthi group, is killed at Ghanpur village in Andhra Pradesh's Dubbaka mandal (division). November 29: Seven police personnel are killed in a landmine attack by the People's War Group between Guddipal and Modypal in the south Bastar district of Chhattisgarh State. November 23: Naxalites of the PWG kill two persons after branding them as 'back-stabbers' in Andhra Pradesh. November 22: PWG Naxalites kill three civilians in separate incidents in Andhra Pradesh. November 21: Naxalites of the PWG kill two civilians at Hanumapuram Thanda in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, suspecting them to be police informers. November 17: Four PWG Naxalites, including two women cadres, are killed in two separate encounters with the police in the Visakhapatanam and Mehbubnagar districts of Andhra Pradesh. November 17: Police kill two women Naxalites of the PWG at Bollottu Forests near Eedu village in the Udupi district of Karnataka State. November 15: Four PWG cadres are killed in two separate encounters in Andhra Pradesh. November 12: Ten-armed PWG Naxalites kill a TDP leader accusing him to be a police informer at Miryala in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur District. November 11: Two woman Naxalites of the PWG, including an 'area committee secretary', are killed in an encounter near Bongulagunta tribal hamlet in Andhra Pradesh's Karimnagar district. October 24: Security forces kill two top leaders of the PWG in an encounter near Venkatreddypuram forests in the Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh. October 17: A special combing operation team kills one of the top leaders of Banswada-Yellareddy Dalam of the PWG in an encounter at Gargul village in the Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh. October 17: Naxalites of the People's War Group kill a civilian and abduct a government schoolteacher at gun-point under Latehar's town police station in the Latehar district of Jharkhand State. October 6: PWG kills a local leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party at Hajipur village in the Mehboobnagar district of Andhra Pradesh. October 5: A Dalam member and two hardcore Naxalites belonging to the Ramagiri Dalam of the PWG are killed in an encounter at the Gangampalli hillocks in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. October 3: PWG claims responsibility for the October 1-attack on Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. October 1: Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N. Chandra Babu Naidu, escapes a PWG assassination attempt when a powerful landmine ripped through his motorcade on a forest road between Tirupati and Tirumala in Chittoor district. Five persons, including the State's Information Technology Minister B. Gopalakrishna Reddy, are injured. September 22: Police arrests a woman Naxalite of the PWG from the Latehar railway station in Jharkhand for her alleged involvement in the killing of Lohardaga district police chief Ajai Kumar Singh on October 4, 2000. September 21: PWG Naxalites kill the village head of Ganthimarri in Anantpur district at his native village Penubolu in Andhra Pradesh. September 20: PWG Naxalites kill a Samata Party leader at Lodhki village in the Garwah district of Jharkhand. In Andhra Pradesh, a special police party during a combing operation kills three PWG Naxalites. September 19: Two Naxalites of the PWG are killed in an encounter at Chityal reserve forest in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. September 16: Three PWG Naxalites are killed in an encounter in the forest area near Mulguvenkatpur village of Warangal district in Andhra Pradesh. September 15: Orissa Police arrests an ‘area commander’ of the PWG during a combing operation inside the Lupang forests in Mayurbhanj district. September 13: One police personnel is killed and seven others injured when PWG Naxalites attack and loot Gidham police station in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. September 12: PWG Naxalites attack the Dantewada district police chief’s convoy near Dodari close to the Orissa-Andhra Pradesh border. A police personnel is killed in the incident. The Special Task Force (STF) of Bihar Police arrests a top PWG Naxalite from an area under the Gandhi Maidan police station jurisdiction in the State capital Patna. The arrested Naxalite leader Ram Badan Tanti alias Pankajji alias Navinji is said to be among the five top PWG leaders in the State. September 11: PWG Naxalites kill the ruling TDP Devalamma Nagaram unit president, Bingi Anjaiah Goud, in the Choutuppal area of Nalgonda district in Andhra Pradesh. Separately, three PWG Naxalites are killed in an encounter near Bhatrupalem in Guntur district. September 9: Naxalites of the PWG attack the ancestral house of a BJP legislator, Praveen Singh, in the Hesway village of Lohardaga district in Jharkhand. In Andhra Pradesh, 22 Naxalites of the PWG surrender before the district police chief in Visakhapatnam. September 8: 11 police personnel and a civilian are killed in a landmine blast triggered by Naxalites of the PWG and the MCC, in a joint operation, in the dense forests of Kaimur range in Rohtas district of Bihar. In Jharkhand, three PWG Naxalites surrender before villagers at Kasiabera under the Ghorabandha police station-limits in East Singhbhum district. September 3: Two PWG Naxalites are killed in an encounter in the Nallamala forests near Mallapur village of Mahboobnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. September 2: PWG Naxalites kill a former headman of Akkapally village in the Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh. August 30: Two PWG Naxalites, including a former ‘commander’ of the special guerrilla squad, Nalgonda, surrender before the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Hyderabad Range. August 29: Five police personnel are killed and two others injured in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG near Tadgaon village in Bhamragar taluka (administrative unit) of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra. August 21: Residents of Asthakuwale village under the Ghorabandha police station-limits in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand lynch a PWG Naxalite. In Andhra Pradesh, 13 PWG Naxalites surrender before the Warangal range Deputy Inspector General of Police, Krishna Prasad, at the district police headquarters in Karimnagar. August 18: Seven PWG Naxalites surrender before the district police chief in Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh. August 17: Thirteen PWG Naxalites, including three key functionaries of the Chandravanka dalam (squad) surrender at a health camp organized by the police at Tangeda village in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. August 15: PWG Naxalites kill a local leader of the BJP at Nizampalle in the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh. August 14: PWG Naxalites kill a local leader of the ruling TDP in the Maidambanda village of Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. August 9: Residents of Chirugoda village in the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand lynch a PWG Naxalite. In Andhra Pradesh, six PWG Naxalites surrender before the State police chief, S R Sukumara in Hyderabad. August 8: Nine Naxalites of the PWG, including two women and an ‘area commander’, are lynched by residents of the Lango village in the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. August 7: PWG Naxalites kill a landlord in the Paramaturu village in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. August 4: A police personnel is killed and three others injured in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG in Palamu district of Jharkhand. August 2: Three PWG Naxalites are killed during an encounter at Koushettyyai in the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh. July 31: Naxalites of the PWG kill a panchayat samiti (local body) member of Teleraj panchayat, in the Malkangiri district of Orissa. July 30: Five personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and five personnel of the Orissa State police are killed and eight others injured in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG near Vejingiwada forest in the Malkangiri district of Orissa. The Naxalites also attack the Motu police station in the same district. July 23: 17 PWG Naxalites are arrested during a combing operation by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and State police in the Malkangiri and Rayagada districts of Orissa. Andhra Pradesh Government extends ban on the PWG and six of its frontal organizations by another year. July 21: Naxalites of the PWG kill a local level group leader of the Government-sponsored Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA) scheme, Annamma, at her residence at Adigoppula village in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. July 17: PWG Naxalites blast the house of Samata Party Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) and Water Resource Minister, Ramchandra Kesri, at Paraspanikala village, Garhwa district, in Jharkhand. This is the second time that Kesri house has been attacked by the PWG. July 18: PWG Naxalites kill a local leader of the ruling TDP at Mellavagu village in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. July 15: The Warangal-Khammam ‘divisional committee member’ of the PWG, S Chandrakala alias Bharatakka, surrenders before the State Police Chief P Ramulu in Hyderabad. July 7: Naxalites of the PWG kill a civilian in Karkatta village under the Rehla police station-limits, Daltonganj district. July 4: Three ‘action team’ members, including two Local Guerrilla Squad (LGS) ‘commanders’ of the PWG and two police personnel are killed in an encounter in Bellampalli town, Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh. July 1: Two Naxalites of the PWG are killed in an encounter between Krosuru and Anantavaram villages, Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. The PWG Naxalites kill a local leader of the ruling TDP, Atmakuri Suribabu, in his medical shop at Venkatapuram, Khammam district. June 29: Naxalites of the PWG blast the district forest officer’s quarters near Achampet, Mahboobnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. Property worth Rs 800,000 is destroyed in the blast. In Guntur district, 10 PWG Naxalites surrender along with 55 sympathisers. June 27: Naxalites of the PWG kill the Kollapur Major village Sarpanch (headman) in Mahboobnagar district, Andhra Pradesh. June 26: A fast-track court in Garhwa, Jharkhand sentences four Naxalites of the PWG to death for killing three persons in Meraal village in the same district on October 10, 1999. June 24: Four Naxalites of the PWG are killed in an encounter at the Chintalamudipi village, Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. A PWG Naxalite, involved in the June 23-attempt to abduct a Member of Andhra Pradesh’s Legislative Assembly (MLA), is killed in Kanaganapalli mandal (administrative unit), Anantpur district. June 23: A person is killed when PWG Naxalites open fire on villagers who resist their attempt to abduct an MLA of the ruling Telegu Desam Party (TDP), Sharadamba, at Ralla Anantpur village of Anantpur district in Andhra Pradesh. June 22: Two PWG Naxalites are killed in an encounter near Ayinapur village on the border of Warangal and Medak districts in Andhra Pradesh. June 19: PWG Naxalites kill the founder of a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Vivekananda Youth Association, Depa Janardhan Reddy, near Devarakonda town, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh. June 17: Two SF personnel are killed and another injured in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG on the road between Porulamilla and Bandamamidi villages under the Duscharthy police station-limits of East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh. June 16: Three police personnel are killed and another is injured in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG at Nemalipuri village, Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh. In Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, PWG Naxalites blast a mini hydel plant owned by family members of the Minor Irrigation Minister, KE Prabhakar, near Guntakandala. In Chhattisgarh, PWG abducts four police personnel from Togugudem, a forest village on the border with Andhra Pradesh. June 13: PWG Naxalites kill a former Kalwa Srirampur mandal president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Pegadapalli village, Karimnagar district, Andhra Pradesh. June 11: Bihar unit chief of PWG, Dev Kumar Singh alias Arvindji, is arrested along with three other associates in Patna. In Andhra Pradesh, PWG Naxalites blast a police station at Addanki in the Prakasam district. June 10: PWG Naxalites kill three local leaders of the TDP and BJP in separate incidents in Andhra Pradesh. June 6: In Andhra Pradesh, PWG Naxalites set ablaze a telephone exchange in Medipur village, Mahboobnagar district. June 5: Naxalites of the PWG blast a police station at Roddam mandal, Anantpur district. June 4: PWG Naxalites loot Rupees 4,03,850 in cash and nine kilograms of gold worth Rupees five million from the State Bank of Hyderabad’s branch in Dondapadu village, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh. June 1: Naxalites of the PWG blast the Chigicherla railway station at Anantpur district, Andhra Pradesh. May 30: Two PWG Naxalites are killed during an encounter at Anadugula in the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh. In Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagarm district, a police personnel is killed and another injured in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG. May 28: PWG Naxalites set ablaze a telephone exchange office at Rayavaram village, Cuddapah district in Andhra Pradesh. May 27: A woman is killed when PWG Naxalites attack the Gudabanda police station, East Singhbhum district in Jharkhand. May 26: Thirty PWG Naxalites and their sympathisers surrender in Anantpur district, Andhra Pradesh. May 25: Naxalites of the PWG kill a local leader of the ruling TDP in Arigoppala village, Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. May 24: Naxalites of the PWG blast the house of a former Sarpanch (village council head) and local leader of the ruling TDP in Nadimpalli village, Mahboobnagar district, Andhra Pradesh. May 23: Four Naxalites of the PWG, including the Palakonda dalam (squad) area committee secretary, Bharathakka alias Jyoti, are killed in an encounter at Akkamulamma hillocks near Appalavantenavandlapalle village of Cuddappah district in Andhra Pradesh. May 22: Naxalites of the PWG set ablaze the Mandal Revenue Office (MRO) at Dahegaon, Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh. May 20: Naxalites of the PWG kill a local Congress leader in Taduvayi village, Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. In Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh, Naxalite kill a local TDP leader. May 19: Naxalites of the PWG raid a private rice mill and loot approximately 150 bags of rice in Khairagarh Nagar, Rajnadgaon district in Chhattisgarh. In Andhra Pradesh, Naxalites of the PWG attack Singareni Collieries Company at Chetlapur village, Adilabad district and decamp with 216 kg of gelatine sticks and 1,900 detonators. May 15: Twenty Seven PWG Naxalites surrender at Banupratap Pur, Kanker district in Chhattisgarh. May 14: Three PWG women Naxalites are killed in an encounter near Agarguda village, Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh. May 13: Naxalites of the PWG kill their former colleague near Yellampet of Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh. In Chhattisgarh, Naxalites of the PWG abduct and later kill a tribal youth in Hatlanar village, Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. May 11: PWG Naxalites kill an activist of the ruling TDP at Pulipadu in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. In the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, PWG Naxalites kill an alleged police informer. May 7: PWG Naxalites kill two persons alleging them to be police informers at Pamidipadu in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. May 5: A security force personnel is killed during an encounter with PWG Naxalites in the Malkangiri district of Orissa. In Andhra Pradesh, PWG triggers a blast at the Pullampet railway station in Cuddapah district causing loss of property estimated to be Rupees 1.8 million. May 4: A police personnel is killed during an encounter with PWG Naxalites at Chitrakonda on the Andhra-Orissa border in Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh. Six Naxalites of the PWG, including an Area Committee Secretary (ACS) and a ‘commander’ of the Local Guerrilla Squad (LGS), surrender before the district police chief in Karimnagar. May 2: The central organizer of Talakonda dalam (squad), Chittoor district, of the PWG - Bhupathi alias Kishta, is killed in an encounter in the Batrapalli forest area of Talupula mandal (administrative unit), Anantpur district in Andhra Pradesh. PWG Naxalites kill two persons at Jalakallu village, Guntur district. April 29: PWG Naxalites set ablaze heavy machinery belonging to the Associated Cement Companies (ACC) at Sarvailoddi, Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh. The loss is estimated at approximately Rupees 20 million. April 26: PWG Naxalites two fair price shops and a Girijan Cooperative Corporation outlet and loot ration in Balmuru mandal, Mahboobnagar district, Andhra Pradesh A top leader of the PWG, carrying a reward of Rupees one million on his head, is killed in an encounter near Khansaipet forest under Manthani sub-division, Karimnagar district. In Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh, PWG Naxalites kill the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lingampet mandal president, Shiv Kumar. April 24: Three PWG Naxalites and two security force personnel are killed in an encounter in Takilod village, south Bastar district in the State of Chhattisgarh. April 23: PWG Naxalites blow up unmanned communication towers of private cellular phone companies near Batasingaram village, Cyberabad police commissionerate-limits in Andhra Pradesh. PWG Naxalites and sympathizers conduct a ‘famine raid’ and loot three houses in M Bandameedipalli village, Rapthadu mandal, Anantpur district, Andhra Pradesh. April 22: Eight PWG Naxalites and two security force personnel are killed in an encounter in Talikod area, south Bastar district, Chhattisgarh. April 20: Two PWG leaders, including Hyderabad ‘District Committee Secretary’ Ramana Reddy, are killed and a police personnel is injured during an encounter near the Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad suburbs. April 18: Suspected PWG Naxalites from Andhra Pradesh loot a jewel shop and kill a civilian in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. In Orissa, 17 PWG Naxalites, including three front ranking leaders, wanted for criminal offences such as blasts, arson and looting, are arrested in Kesada and Kedarpur forests, on the Andhra Pradesh-Orissa border. April 16: PWG Naxalites blow up the Nauhatta police station building, which was under construction in Rohtas district, Bihar. In Andhra Pradesh, 11 Naxalites of the PWG surrender to State police chief, P Ramulu, in Hyderabad. April 15: Naxalites of the PWG set ablaze a Road Transport Corporation bus and damage two more buses in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. April 13: Naxalites of the PWG kill four persons in Karpi police station area, Jehanabad district in Bihar. April 14: Angry passengers of a Road Transport Corporation bus lynch a PWG Naxalite when a group of Naxalites attempt to loot them and set ablaze the bus, between Gamalapadu and Sankarapur villages, Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. April 11: Naxalites of the PWG release three police personnel whom they had abducted in Prakasam district on April 2. April 9: PWG Naxalites kill two villagers in Karongha under the Kusmi police station-limits, Balrampur district, Chhattisgarh. In Andhra Pradesh, PWG Naxalites blast a ticketing counter at Gudipudi railway station, between Pedakurapadu and Sathenapalli, Guntur district. In the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, PWG Naxalites assault three local leaders of the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Parkal sub-division. April 6: In Andhra Pradesh, PWG Naxalites kill Telangana Rashtra Samiti leader Vosa Bakkanna at Mogilpet village, Karimnagar district. In Anantpur district, Andhra Pradesh police arrest three local-level leaders of the ruling Telugu Desam Party for allegedly passing over the weapons of their security guards to PWG Naxalites. PWG Naxalites destroy four cold drink shops at Tagarakunta village, Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh. April 3: Three PWG Naxalites are killed in an encounter near Tiganpalli village, Kostaram police station limits, Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh. In Andhra Pradesh, Naxalites of the PWG kill a former Naxalite and a leader of the TDP in separate incidents in Mahbubnagar and Khammam districts. April 2: Naxalites of the PWG abduct four police personnel from Peddaraveedu, in Nallamala forests, Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh. In protest against the killing of their leader Polam Sudarshan Reddy alias Ramakrishna alias RK in an encounter on March 25, PWG Naxalites attack a private company at Suddapally village, Dichpally mandal, and set ablaze 11 vehicles. April 1: In Bihar, Naxalites of the PWG blast the building of the Nadaul railway station, 37km away from Patna, on the Patna-Gaya section, Danapur division during the bandh (strike) called by the PWG and the MCC to protest the US-led military action in Iraq. In Andhra Pradesh, Naxalites of the PWG blow up a government building at Ykkala village, Eeturunagaram, Warangal March 31: Naxalites of the PWG storm a godown of soft drink multinational Pepsi at Piduguralla, Guntur district, and destroy approximately 200 cases of the soft drink. March 30: Three PWG Naxalites are killed in an encounter near Gudena village, Rayagada district in the State of Orissa March 27: Police unearth three arms dump belonging to the PWG and seize a huge quantity of explosives in Murtholi and Laharidaga villages, Chandili police stations-limits, Rayagada district in Orissa. March 26: Naxalites of the PWG attack a group of police personnel on guard duty and kill one, at a weekly market in Kolibeda village, Jagadalpur district in Chhattisgarh. March 25: Five Naxalites of the PWG, including senior leader and member of the North Telengana Special Zone Committee (NTSZC) Polam Sudharshan Reddy ‘Ramakrishna’, are killed in an encounter in Lakshmipur forest, Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh. March 23: Condemning the US attack on Iraq, Naxalites of the PWG blast a godown belonging to the multinational Pepsi soft drink company, on the outskirts of Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh. They also destroy a cold drink shop at Kondamallepally, Nalgonda district, and at many other places. In Mahbubnagar district, Naxalites of the PWG attack a forest resort and blast the restaurant, dormitory and other structures of the state-owned Andhra Pradesh Tourism Department at Farhabad, in the Nallamala forests, under Mannanur police station-limits. They also set ablaze buses belonging to Ushakiron Movies in the same area. March 21: Naxalites of the PWG conduct a karuvu dadi, famine raid and loot approximately 90 bags of rice from a fair price shop and the house of a village secretary, at Chintapatla village, Rangareddy district, on March 21. March 20: Naxalites of the PWG kill a former Naxalite at Akkannagudem village, Warangal district in Andhra Pradesh. March 17: Naxalites of the PWG stab to death a police constable 300 yards away from the police station, in Gollapalli village, Bijapur district, Chattisgarh. March 16: Naxalites of the PWG kill Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Gundala mandal (administrative unit) convenor Vagaboina Jaggaiah, in Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. March 15: Naxalites of the PWG kill a mandal (administrative unit) convenor of the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the Yerrapahad village of Karimnagar district Andhra Pradesh. March 13: Naxalites of the PWG blast a Forest Development Corporation shed in Adivikamalapur village of Bhupalpalli mandal (administrative unit), Warangal district in Andhra Pradesh. March 12: A Naxalite of the PWG is killed in an encounter near Banakacharla, Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh. March 8: Naxalites of the PWG blast the house of a local-level Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and set fire to a telephone exchange in Muthanakaluva village, under KV Palli police station-limits, Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh. March 5: Five Naxalites of the PWG surrender to the Guntur district police chief in Andhra Pradesh. March 1: Naxalites of the PWG blast a cinema in Cuddapah and attack a Mandal Parishad Territorial Council (MPTC) member and a sarpanch (village headman) in Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh. February 24: Naxalites of the PWG kill a person near Nimmagudem village, Karimnagar district, Andhra Pradesh branding him a police informer. February 23: Naxalites of the PWG fire at a Communist Party of India--Marxist-Leninist [CPI-ML] public meeting at Karso village, Palamu district, Jharkhand. A CPI-ML activist is killed in the incident. February 19: Naxalites of the PWG blast the house of a ruling TDP leader at Reddyvaripalle in Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh February 14: A Naxalite of the PWG is killed in an encounter at Pandikunta village, Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh. February 13: A PWG Naxalite of a group of eight is killed in an encounter at Varsalapalli, Chittoor district. February 12: Two Naxalites of the PWG are arrested from different locations in Jharkhand’s Daltonganj district. February 11: Naxalites of the PWG kill a local-level leader of the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) at Venkatapuram village, Adilabad district. February 9: A senior activist of the TDP is beaten to death by Naxalites of the PWG at Kambalapalli, Nalgonda district in Andhra Pradesh. February 8: Six Naxalites of the PWG surrender to the Guntur district police chief. February 7: An ‘area commander’ of the PWG is arrested from Komarada mandal, Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh. February 2: Four police personnel and five civilians are killed in an attack by PWG Naxalites on a private bus, near Basagura, Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. February 1: Approximately 40 Naxalites of the PWG surrender to the Superintendent of Police (SP) in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. January 31: Naxalites of the PWG loot Rs two lakh from the Bheemaram branch of State Bank of Hyderabad, in Adilabad district. January 29: Naxalites of the PWG abduct a Circle Inspector, a Sub-Inspector and a mandal (administrative unit) president near Siddapuram village, Atmakur mandal, Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh. January 25: Naxalites of the PWG blast a cinema and the house of a local-level TDP leader in separate incidents in Kurnool and Karimnagar districts. January 24: Naxalites of the PWG beat to death a local-level leader of the TDP in Akulavari Ganaparam village, Warangal district. January 21: Maharashtra police sources say two police personnel, including a Sub-Inspector, were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Naxalites of the PWG at Singhandoh, under Chichgarh police station-limits, Bhandara district in Vidarbha region, a few days ago. In Andhra Pradesh, Naxalites of the PWG kill a former colleague in Narsapuram forest, Warangal district, accusing him of being a police informer. January 20: Three Naxalites of the PWG are killed in an encounter in the dense forests near Manala village, under Kammarpalli police station-limits, Nizamabad district in Andhra Pradesh. In Warangal district, police unearth a huge arms dump of the PWG in Kukkamadugu forest, Kothuaguda mandal. January 18: Naxalites of the PWG blast a cinema belonging to a local-level TDP leader at Timmapuram village, Kurnool district, during the Statewide bandh (general strike) in Andhra Pradesh to protest alleged fake encounters. Separately, Naxalites blast the residence of a close associate of State Minister for Higher Education N Mahammed Farooq at Santajutur village, Bandi Atmakur mandal (administrative unit). January 17: Naxalites of the PWG blow up the newly constructed Polleru police post, Malkangiri district in Orissa. In Andhra Pradesh, Naxalites of the PWG set ablaze a private bus bound for Hyderabad from Guntur at Gamalapadu, Dachepalli mandal (administrative unit), Guntur district. January 15: Responding to the PWG’s offer of conditional talks with the Orissa government, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik says his government is not averse to talks, but the Naxal group should first stop violence. January 13: Naxalites of the PWG kill two police personnel in Nistoor village, Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh. In Andhra Pradesh, Naxalites of the PWG set fire to a telephone exchange in Dodleru village, Guntur district. January 11: A police personnel is killed in an encounter with Naxalites of the PWG near Lusam village, Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh. Separately, in Warangal district, the ‘commander’ of the PWG’s Champaka Hills Local Guerilla Squad (LGS) is killed in an encounter. January 10: Naxalites of the PWG kill a sarpanch (village headman), belonging to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and a relative of the then Union Minister of State for Home Ch Vidyasagar Rao, in Madimalla village, Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. In Warangal district, 21 Naxalites of various outfits––including three ‘commanders’ and two ‘deputy commanders’ of the PWG––surrendered to State police chief P Ramulu. January 8: In a statement issued in Bhubneshwar, the Andhra-Orissa Border Special Zone Committee of the PWG says it is prepared for talks with the Orissa government. However, the PWG demands withdrawal of police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel from the southern districts and the immediate release of arrested PWG activists and innocent people. January 7: Naxalites of the PWG blast a culvert between Pocharalapadu and Goruntla villages, Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. A division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court directs a group of experts to conduct postmortem on the bodies of six Naxalites of the PWG killed in two encounters on January 5 and 6, in Guntur district. In Anantpur district, Naxalites of the PWG blast a telephone exchange at Mamillapalli village. In Karimnagar district, a District Committee member of the CPI-ML (Janasakthi) is arrested in Korutla. January 6: Three Naxalites of the PWG are killed in a second encounter in a span of 24 hours in the forests near Remidicherla village, Guntur district. The encounter occurs during combing operation to track down the perpetrators of the January 5-landmine blast. In Maharashtra, Naxalites of the PWG kill a youth in Gadchiroli district. January 5: Three police personnel are killed in a landmine blast triggered by Naxalites of the PWG. Three Naxalites are killed in the subsequent encounter, in between Kothur and Dachepalli villages, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. January 3: Naxalites of the PWG blast a telephone exchange in Kakarpally village, Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh. January 2: On the opening day of the 10-day 18th Janmbhoomi (community development) programme, Naxalites kill Kathalapur mandal (local administration) Telugu Desam Party (TDP) convenor Katta Narayana, who was returning home from a village meeting, in Gambhirpur. In Guntur district, four government officials are abducted and later released. Naxalites blow up the house of Ganapuram Mandala Praja Parishad chief and TDP leader Yerrabelli Rameshwar Rao in Rangaraopally village, Warangal district. 2002 December 30: Naxalites of the PWG kill two persons in Kakaria village, Kalpa police station limits, Jehanabad district in Bihar. December 29: Two Naxalites of the PWG are killed by CPI-ML-Liberation activists, in Rasalpur village, Jehanabad district in Bihar. December 28: Naxalites of the PWG set-off a blast and extensively damage a forest guesthouse on Guvvalacheruvu road, Ramapuram mandal (administrative unit), near Cuddapa. December 27: Naxalites of the PWG blast Khanpur Mandal Parishad (administrative unit) Development Office (MDPO) in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh. In Orissa, police foil an attempt by the PWG to attack Pattangi police station in Koraput district. December 26: Naxalites of the PWG blast a telephone exchange in Madhapur village, Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. December 25: Seven persons, including three children, are killed by a breakaway group of the PWG at Baraichak, rural Patna in Bihar. In Andhra Pradesh, Naxalites of the PWG blast the house of a ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) local-level leader and Mulugu Agricultural Marketing Committee chairman, in Turimpeta village of Eturuagaram mandal (administrative unit) in Warangal district. December 24: Naxalites of the PWG blast the engines of a goods train at Pandurangapuram railway station, Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh. December 23: Naxalites of the PWG blow up the office-cum-residence of a range officer of the forest department at Mahuatand, Latehar district in Jharkhand. December 22: Naxalites of the PWG attack a passenger bus near Chanan river at Santoshinagar in Balrampur police district, Chhattisgarh, and kill a civilian. December 19: Naxalites of the PWG abduct two police constables attached to the Dachepally police station, Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. December 18: Naxalites of the PWG blow up a telephone exchange at Nirupalla village, Warangal district in Andhra Pradesh. Eight Naxalites of the PWG are arrested from different places in Karimnagar district. December 17: Khamman district police chief V V Srinivasa Rao says three persons have been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA <../document/actandordinances/POTA.htm>) for supplying arms to Naxalites. December 16: Naxalites of the PWG loot approximately 100 quintals of rice from a government godown (storehouse) in Malayaram village, Kalimela block, Malkangiri district in Orissa. December 15: Naxalites of the PWG blow up a telephone exchange in Guntur district and a railway engine in Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh. December 12: The Bijapur Superintendent of Police (SP) and Additional SP have a narrow escape when Naxalites of the PWG ambush their convoy between Nukanpal and Cheramungi, Bastar division in Chhattisgarh. In the subsequent combing operation, police arrest 31 Naxalites. December 11: Naxalites of the PWG blow up the office-cum-residence of a forest ranger and the official residence of a forest official at Kundri village, Palamu district in Jharkhand. December 8: Naxalites of the PWG blast the office of the Block Development Officer (BDO), under Bishrampur police station-limits, Palamu district in Jharkhand. December 6: Naxalites of the PWG blast an abandoned police station in Veldurthi, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. December 5: An estimated 18 police personnel belonging to the Orissa Special Armed Police (OSAP) are injured in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG, under a culvert near Kolnara, on the Rayagada-Behrampur State highway, Orissa. Bihar police arrest a self-styled ‘area commander’ of the PWG. In Andhra Pradesh, Warangal district police arrest four Naxalites of the PWG and recover 300 gelatine sticks, 49 detonators and a bundle of electric wire. Two Naxalites of the PWG are killed in separate encounters in Dantewada and Bijapur police districts, Chhattisgarh. December 3: Andhra Pradesh police repulse an attempt by the PWG to attack Balmoor police station, Mahboobnagar district. In the same district, PWG Naxalites blast a telephone exchange in Velturu village. December 2: Police in the States of Orissa and Chhattisgarh foil an attempt by the PWG to attack four police stations in the two States. December 1: Naxalites of the PWG blast four private buildings in two separate incidents in Ranga Reddy and Nalgonda districts, Andhra Pradesh. November 28: Naxalites of the PWG kill a police personnel and injure another in Upper Sileru, Khammam district, Andhra Pradesh. November 27: Andhra Pradesh police arrest two Naxalites and seize approximately 1,000 gelatin sticks and 1,200 detonators during a vehicle inspection drive taken up following the bandh (general strike) call given by the PWG. November 26: Naxalites of the PWG kill the District Secretary of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Jajati Sahu, in Naira villageunder, Gunupur subdivision, Rayagada district, Orissa. In Andhra Pradesh, Naxalites of the PWG set afire a telephone exchange at Yerraguntapalli, Anantpur district. November 24: An ‘area commander’ of the PWG is killed by another ‘area commander’ of the same group at Tura village, Nauhatta police station-limits, Rohtas district, Bihar. According to media reports, both the ‘area commanders’ had differences over levy collection in the district. A suspected leader of the PWG is killed while a police personnel is injured in an encounter in Chinnakanakampatti, near Uthangkari, Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu. November 22: Jharkhand police arrest six Naxalites of the PWG in Magdgari village, Garwah district. PWG Naxalites blast a forest office-guest house at Mellavagu village, Bollapalli mandal (administrative unit), Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. November 20: Naxalites of the PWG kill eight security force personnel in a landmine blast near Lamarnaka, Latehar district,in Jharkhand. November 19: Naxalites of the PWG set-off an explosion at Tummalacheruvu railway station, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. November 21: Residents of Pedakodamagundla village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, foil an attempt by PWG Naxalites to blast the telephone exchange in the village. November 18: An estimated 20 persons are killed and 16 injured in a landmine explosion set-off by Naxalites of the PWG under a moving bus at Chintagudem village, in Andhra Pradesh’s Warangal district. November 17: Five Naxalites of the PGA, the armed wing of the PWG, are killed in an encounter in the jungles of Ilapuram village, in Andhra Pradesh’s Warangal district. Local residents of Nadikoda village, in Andhra Pradesh’s Karimnagar district, foil an attempt by Naxalites of the PWG to abduct village council headman (sarpanch) Rajender Reddy. November 12: Three Naxalites of the PWG are killed in an encounter in Chandrajupalem village, in Andhra Prtadesh’s Guntur district. November 11: Six Naxalites of the PWG surrender to the Nalagonda district police chief, in Andhra Pradesh. November 9: West Bengal police arrest two Naxalites of the PWG from their hideout in Contai, East Midnapore. November 4: Four persons are arrested with a huge consignment of arms and ammunition from Patiala district, Punjab. The consignment was reportedly being supplied to the PWG and Ranvir Sena. November 3: Two PWG Naxalites are killed and four others injured in an encounter in Bastar district, Chhattisgarh. November 1: The PWG calls a bandh (general strike) in Bastar and Dantwada districts, on the second anniversary of the formation of Chhattisgarh State. October 30: PWG Naxalites kill a former ‘commander’ of the Chityal Local Guerrilla Squad, who had surrendered several years ago, in Nainpak village, Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh. October 28: Naxalites of the PWG loot the Pentlavalli branch of the Andhra Bank, in Mehboobnagar district, Andhra Pradesh, and decamp with Rs 1.3 million in cash. Eight Naxalites of the PWG surrender in Visakhapatnam district. October 27: West Bengal police arrest three Naxalites of the PWG from Tulsihata village, Malda district October 21: Two women Naxalites of the PWG are killed in an encounter in Manglitanda village, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh October 20 Naxalites of the PWG kill three persons in Nadauli village, Patna district, in Bihar, on the suspicion of they being police informers. October 19: PWG Naxalites kill three activists of the CPI-ML (Liberation) in Sevnam village, Jehanabad district, Bihar. October 15: Naxalites of the PWG kill a leader of the ruling TDP in Adigoppula village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. October 14: Five police personnel are killed in a landmine blast triggered by suspected Naxalites of the PWG near Vemavaram village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. October 12: Three police personnel and a civilian are killed in a landmine blast triggered by PWG Naxals near Charpalli village, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh. October 9: Seven police personnel are killed and two more injured in a landmine blast triggered by suspected PWG Naxalites in Kanda Ghati, Palamu district, Jharkhand. Naxalites of the PWG set ablaze a Road Transport Corporation bus at Medipalli village, Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh. October 6: Suspected PWG Naxalites loot approximately nine tonnes of explosives being transported in a truck from Uttar Pradesh's Lalitpur to a copper project in Malajkhand, near Laungur Udghati, Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh. October 3: Naxalites of the PWG blow-up the building housing the Mandal Revenue Office (MRO) in Addavedu village, Prakasham district, Andhra Pradesh. October 1-2: An estimated 70 members of the 'peoples militia' of the PWG surrender at the G K Veedhi police station in the agency area of Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh. September 30: Five Naxalites of the PWG, involved in blasting the Anakapalle police station, Visakhapatnam district, on August 23, 2002, are arrested near the Mallikarjunaswami temple, Koyyuru village, Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh. September 29: PWG Naxals blast a forest department guesthouse on the Hyderabad-Srisailam road, Mahbubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh. September 28: Naxalites of the PWG kill a local leader of the ruling TDP, Y Ravindra Reddy, between Etigattu Rachapalle and Pedda Balijepalle villages, near Rayachoti, Cuddapah district, Andhra Pradesh. September 26: PWG Naxalites beat to death an activist of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in Malyamkunda village, Orissa. September 25: An unidentified Naxalite of the PWG is killed and some arms and ammunition recovered after an encounter in Dammannapet and Gandi Gopalpur forests, Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh. Naxalites of the PWG kill a contractor and also set ablaze his lorry near Manamkunda village, Motu police station-limits, Malkangiri district, Orissa. September 23: Four Naxalites of the PWG are killed by allegedly activists of the Ranvir Sena (private army of landowners) in Majidpur village, Kinjer police station-limits, Jehanabad district, Bihar. Three Naxalites of the PWG surrender to Andhra Pradesh police chief P Ramulu, in the State capital Hyderabad. September 20: Naxalites of the PWG attack the house of Janga Krishna Murthy, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Gurazala, in Gamalapadu vilage, Dachepalli mandal (administrative unit), Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. September 19: Two excise head constables and a private jeep driver killed in a landmine explosion triggered by Naxalites of the PWG in the forest area between Buchchaiahgaripalli and Siddarampuram villages of Bukkapatnam mandal (administrative unit), Anantpur district, Andhra Pradesh. September 18: Five police personnel are injured in a landmine blast triggered by PWG Naxalites at Koti, near Bhamgarh, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra. Three police personnel are injured in an encounter with PWG Naxals in the Uparturia forests, Senah police station-limits, Loherdaga district, Jharkhand. Naxalites of the PWG kill a supporter of the Communist Party of India--Marxist-Leninist [CPI-ML] (Liberation) in Bahadurganj village, under Singauri police station limits, Patna district, Bihar. September 17: Naxalites of the PWG kill three local-level leaders of the ruling TDP in two separate incidents in Prakasam and Kurnool districts, Andhra Pradesh. September 12: Andhra Pradesh police arrest 10 Naxalites of the PWG at Kulwakurthi, Mahboobnagar district. September 4: Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh, police arrest six Naxalites of the PWG responsible for blasting the Hanamkonda police station on December 24, 2001. August 29: PWG Naxalites kill the Anantagiri mandal (local unit of governance) unit president of the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP), at his house in Anantagiri, Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh. August 27: Naxalites of the PWG kill a police personnel of the Gudipalli police station, at Chitrala village, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh. August 25: PWG release three of the four police personnel and a Home Guard, abducted earlier on August 23, in Visakhapatnam district. August 23: Naxalites of the PWG blast two police stations in Vishakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh --one at Ankapalle and another at Chodavaram, and the treasury office in Chodavaram, besides abducting four police personnel. August 18: Seven PWG Naxalites surrender to Warangal district police chief Nalin Prabhat. August 13: Naxalites of the PWG kill a former Naxalite cadre who had joined the Home Guards after his surrender in Guralagondi village, Vishakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh. August 12: PWG Naxalites kill a farmer and seriously injure two others in Vemavaram village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. August 11: Seven security force personnel killed and five more injured in a landmine blast set off by PWG Naxalites near a culvert in the Gunupur sub-division, Rayagada district in Orissa. In Bihar, Naxalites of the MCC kill three police personnel and a government employee in Lohradih village, Rohtas district. August 10: Naxalites of the PWG kill a fair price shop dealer in Gundaram village, Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh. August 8: Andhra Pradesh police unearth 10 landmines in Ghanapur area, Warangal district, and say they suspect Naxalites of the PWG planted them. They also say those could have been planted to target Major Irrigation Minister Kadyam Srihari who represents the Station Ghanapur Assembly constituency. August 7: Naxalites of the PWG kill a person at Chelpur, Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh. August 6: Naxalites of the PWG kill a police personnel in Mannanur, Mahboobnagar district, Andhra Pradesh. August 5: Naxalites of the PWG kill a local-level leader of the ruling Telugu Desam party (TDP)--also a former Sarpanch (village headman), at his residence in Bellamkonda mandal, Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh, branding him as police informer. Police arrest 45 sympathiser of the PWG in Guntur district. August 4: In a statement issued in Kolkata, the PWG says it is willing to hold talks with the West Bengal government, provided police action against all PWG activists is stopped and all police and paramilitary forces are withdrawn from the PWG's areas of influence. August 3: Naxalites of the PWG killed two killed two of the 10 activists of the CPI-ML (Liberation) abducted by them in Jehanabad district on August 3, in retaliation to the killing of their four supporters by the CPI-ML (Liberation) on August 2. August 2: Four Naxalites of the PWG killed by the cadres of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) [CPI-ML] [Liberation], in Mahuagoan village, Jehanabad district, Bihar. In retaliation the PWG Naxalites abduct 10 activists of the CPI-ML (Liberation). July 30: PWG conduit arrested in Midnapore, West Bengal. July 29: PWG Naxalites blows up the police station in Sauna village, Bhojpur district, Bihar. July 28: A PWG Naxalite is killed in an encounter in the hillocks near Chandra Rajupalem village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. July 27: Eight Naxalites of the PWG, including two ‘commanders’ and a ‘deputy commander’, surrender before Andhra Pradesh police chief P Ramulu in Hyderabad,. July 26: PWG Naxals kill a Telugu Desam activist in Birsaipet village, Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh. July 26: Five PWG Naxalites, including three women, are killed in an encounter with Police in Dameru village, Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh. July 25: Three PWG men are arrested in Birbhum district, West Bengal. Andhra Pradesh government extends ban on PWG and its affiliates and declares it as an unlawful association for a further period of one year with effect from July 23. A ‘military platoon commander’ of PWG is killed in an encounter in Maharashtra. July 23: PWG Naxals kill four police personnel and injure eight more by setting-off a landmine blast between Karampudi and Adigoppula villages, Guntur district. July 24: The West Bengal unit of the ruling Communist Party of India–Marxist (CPI-M), rules out any conditional talks with PWG. July 22: PWG makes an abortive attempt on the life of a local leader of the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) near Mutyalampadu village in Khammam district, Andhra Pradesh. July 22: PWG Naxal surrenders in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. July 20: PWG kills a former ‘dalam (squad) commander’ of the Communist Party of India–– Marxist-Leninist [CPI-ML (Janasakthi)] at Lakkepur village, Manthani mandal, Karimnagar district, alleging that he is a police informer. July 19: PWG withdraws from peace talks with the Andhra Pradesh government, accusing the State government of being insincere. Two Naxalites of the PWG surrender in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh. July 17: A PWG Naxalite surrenders in Sangareddy, Medak district, Andhra Pradesh. A ‘zonal commander’ of PWG, surrenders before a court in Bhagalpur, Bihar, in connection with a murder. July 15: Andhra Pradesh State Cabinet decides to further extend the ban on the PWG by another year. The ban, originally imposed in May 1992 would have expired on July 22. July 11: The two-day Andhra Pradesh bandh (general strike) called by PWG begins. July 10: At least five PWG Naxals and a policeman are killed in an encounter in Maranpur village, Bhojpur district in Bihar. July 9: Naxalites of the PWG kill a Communist Party of India--Marxist (CPI-M) local-level leader and his bodyguard near Bolanpur, Midnapore district in West Bengal. July 7: A State technical committee member of the PWG, Sudhakar alias Raghu, killed in an encounter in Guntur district. July 6: PWG emissaries-Gaddar and Vara Vara Rao-withdraw from the ongoing peace talks with Andhra Pradesh government. PWG protests 'fake encounters' and 'police repression'. July 4: PWG Gudur Local Guerrilla Squad (LGS) commander killed in an encounter in Warangal district. July 2: Peace talks in Andhra Pradesh suffer a jolt as four PWG Naxalites, including a woman cadre, are killed in an encounter at Narella village, Karimnagar district. Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu says the police cannot keep quiet if PWG cadres went about visiting villages armed with guns. June 27: Mallaiah, the 'Khammam district military services activities in-charge' of the PWG arrested in Krishnasagar village, Andhra Pradesh. June 24: Two women Naxalites of the PWG killed in an encounter in the Aswapuram Reserve Forest area, Paloncha mandal, Khammam district, in Andhra Pradesh. Five PWG Naxalites arrested in North 24 Parganas and West Midnapore districts in West Bengal. June 20: At the end of the third round of discussions between PWG emissaries and Andhra Pradesh government, the PWG express readiness to hold direct talks with the government. June 17: PWG Naxals blast the house of ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) politburo member and Narsarampet Legislator R Prakash Reddy in Kesavapur, Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh June 11: A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and his colleague are killed while five more are injured in a landmine blast set-off by PWG Naxalites, near Kalapahar, Palamu district, Jharkhand. June 5: Nine Naxalites of the PWG surrender to the police in Hyderabad. Andhra Pradesh government and PWG emissaries hold first round of talks in Hyderabad. They ecide to meet again on June 9 to discuss the modalities of direct talks. At the meeting, the PWG representatives submit a note asking de-proscription of the PWG. May 31: PWG nominates two persons-Vara Vara Rao and Gaddar, as representatives at the talks to determine the modalities of holding direct talks with Andhra Pradesh government and suggests that the Committee of Concerned Citizens (CCC) should function as an observer at the talks. May 27: Four Naxalites of the PWG, including a 'sub-zonal commander', are killed in an encounter near Gatiarwa village, Palamu district in Jharkhand. Madhya Pradesh government bans PWG and its six front organisations. They include the Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sangh (AKMS), the Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sanghathan (KAMS), the Krantikari Kisan Mazdoor Sangh (KKMS), the Krantikari Balak Sangh (KBS), the Gram Raksha Dal (GRD) and the Gram Rajya Samiti (GRS). May 18: Naxalites of the PWG kill a local-level leader of the Congress party in Kothapullareddipuram, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. May 17: Bihar Police arrest 12 Naxalites of the PWG from Paliganj and Dulhinbazar areas in Patna district and seize firearms from their possession. May 12: Elders of 18 tribal villages under Asifabad police station limits, Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh, pass a resolution banning the entry of the PWG into the villages. May 8: PWG Naxals kill five Rajasthani dalits (downtrodden) in Bhadaura village, Patna district in Bihar. May 7: On the second day of the two-day economic blockade in Jharkhand, PWG and MCC Naxals set-off a land-mine blast killing some 15 police personnel in Mathadih village, Koderma district. PWG declare unilateral, one month-long cease-fire beginning May 10 in Andhra Pradesh. May 6: The PWG and the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) jointly call a two-day economic blockade in Jharkhand to protest the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). May 5: Police arrest 16 Naxalites of the PWG Lathar district in Jharkhand. May 3: A 'Special Guerrilla Squad commander' and Adilabad district 'action team leader' of the PWG killed in an encounter in the forest area near Mandamarri, Adilabad district. May 1: PWG 'Zonal Commander' killed in an encounter in Nagauli village, Patna district, Bihar. April 30: Five PWG Naxals, including a 'squad commander', surrender in Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh. April 25: Naxalites of the PWG strike at the Hindalco's bauxite open caste mine near Raipur in Chhattisgarh and set fire to property worth Rs one crore. The PWG Naxalites attack the Hindalco bauxite open cast mine near Raipur and set fire to eight dumpers of the company. April 12: Founder of the PWG Kondapalli Seetharamaiah died in his grand daughter’s house at Vijaywada on April 12. March 22: PWG calls for general strike in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa to protest against the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO). March 21: 22 Naxalites of the PWG surrender before the State Director General of Police in Hyderabad. Reports from West Bengal said that more than 100 PWG Naxalites had been arrested over the weeks from the border areas of Bankura and Midnapore. March 18: A PWG Naxalite killed and three police personnel injured in an encounter in Paralakhemundi, Gajapati district in Orissa. The East Divisional Committee of the PWG calls for Orissa bandh on March 22 to protest the proposed Prevention of Terrorism Act. In Andhra Pradesh, the PWG Naxalites blast the Tirumala Engineering College building in Karimnagar district. March 15: A Deputy Superintendent of Police, two other police personnel and the driver of the vehicle seriously injured in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG in Ghanasar village, Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh. The PWG rejects the offer of talks by the Andhra Pradesh State government. In a statement released in Warangal, State PWG secretary Ramakrishna, Andhra-Orissa Border Special Zone Committee secretary Balakrishna and North Telangana Special Zone Committee secretary Jampanna declares that they would resort to guerrilla warfare in retaliation to ‘bloody encounters’. The PWG also gives a call for a Statewide bandh (general strike) in protest against the killing of 11 Naxalites in the March 11-encounter in Warangal district. The Bihar-Jharkhand State Committee of the PWG calls for a protest day in Bihar against the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) decision to conduct symbolic worship in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. March 11: Eleven PWG Naxalites and police personnel killed in an encounter near Tupakulapalli village, Warangal district in Andhra Pradesh. The police also recover 10 weapons, including a light machine gun, three self-loading rifles (SLRs), a .9 mm carbine, a .303 rifle and four double-bore guns from the encounter site. February 24: Naxalites belonging to the Peddapalli Local Guerrilla Squad of the PWG blast a police station under construction at Potkapalli village, Karminagar district in Andhra Pradesh. February 11: The PWG Naxalites kill the district president of the Congress party at Bhamragarh, Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra. In Andhra Pradesh, the PWG Naxalites blow up the engine of a goods train and a building of the railway station in the forests in Nallamala range, Kurnool district. January 27: Eleven persons, including nine Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP) personnel, killed in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG in the Chainpur police station limits in Gumla district, Jharkhand. January 17: 28 sympathisers of the PWG surrender before the police in Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh. January 11: Eight PWG Naxalites surrender before the police in Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh. January 10: Six Naxalites of the PWG arrested in combing operation in Midnapore district West Bengal. 2001 December 29: PWG Naxalites kill a Congress Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), D Raghya Naik, near Maddimadugula village, Mahboobnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. December 25: Four Naxalites of the PWG, killed in an encounter near Padmakshigutta in Hamumakonda town, Warangal district in Andhra Pradesh. December 10: 15 Naxalites of the PWG and the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist (Janasakthi), CPI-ML (Janasakthi) group surrenders before the police in Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh. December 8: The PWG Naxalites blast a guest house of the Singareni Collieries on the banks of Kinnerasani river, near Palvancha in Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh. December 7: Nine PWG Naxalites arrested in Garhwa district in Jharkhand. December 5: Union government bans PWG under the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO). December 1: To commemorate the first anniversary of the People’s Guerrilla Army (PGA), the PWG unleash a fresh wave of violence. They attack the Koyyuru police station, telephone exchange, house of a MLA and office of the Mandal Revenue Officer in Visakhapatnam district. The PWG attack Y Ramavaram police station in East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh. In Orissa, the Naxalites blast the house of State Cooperation Minister at Poteru Market in Malkangiri district. In Chhattisgarh, the Naxalites attack two police stations in Dantewada district. November 29: The PWG blasted a milk processing plant owned by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s wife, on the Tirupati-Pileru road in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh. November 21: Six persons including five personnel of the Bihar Military Police (BMP) were killed in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG in Koiribigha Harijan Tolla, Gaya district in Bihar. October 21: The PWG Naxalites blew up Coca Cola bottling plant in at Atmakaru in Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. October 19: Seven persons including six police personnel were killed in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG in Jagpura village, Patna district in Bihar. October 17: Four persons including two police personnel were killed in a PWG landmine blast in Gorkhagaon village, Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh. September 9: Five personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed in a PWG ambush at Sunnampalli, East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh August 20: Ten police personnel were killed in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG in Remidicherla village, Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. August 9: Six police personnel were killed and an estimated 22 seriously injured when the PWG launched simultaneous attacks on Kalimela and Motu police stations in Malkangiri district in Orissa. Two Naxalites were also killed in the incident. The Naxalites also took away huge quantity of arms and ammunition. July 9: The PWG sent a threatening letter to the Tribal Development Minister of Maharashtra demanding that all government schools, teachers who are not from Gadchiroli district should be replaced with local educated youths by July 20, 2001. The letter threatened that if the State government fails to agree to its demand, it will trigger large scale arson in the district. June 14: An estimated nine personnel of the Andhra Pradesh Special Police (APSP) were seriously injured when the PWG Naxalites attacked the Yerragondapalem police station, Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh. April 19: Four police personnel were killed and three more seriously injured in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG in Chintakarrapalem village, East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh. April 9: The PWG Naxalites attacked and destroyed the Hindalco mine office in Sarguja district, Chhattisgarh. March 22: In two separate incidents, the Naxalites of the PWG raid and blast two police stations at Srisailam, Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh and looted some weapons and communication equipment. February 12: The District Collector of Warangal and his driver injured in an attack by Naxalites of the PWG in an unspecified location in Warrangal distrtict. May 27: The PWG blow up the house of former Union Minister and Congress leader Jaipal Reddy in Mahboobnagar district, in Andhra Pradesh. May 25: The PWG Naxalites blast the house of Andhra Pradesh Minister for Higher Education in Medak district. March 7: Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Minister A Madhav Reddy was killed in a landmine blast set-off by the PWG Naxalites on the outskirts of Hyderabad. February 20: Twenty two police personnel, including an Additional Superintendent of Police killed in a landmine blast triggered by the PWG Naxalites in Bastar district, Chhattisgarh. February 19: Seven police personnel were killed in an attack by the PWG Naxalites near Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. 1999 December 16: The PWG Naxalites killed Madhya Pradesh State Transport Minister Likhiram Kavre in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. September 13: The PWG Naxalites PWG blew up police station and kill five police personnel in Medak district in Andhra Pradesh. September 4: The PWG Naxalites killed Assistant Inspector General of Andhra Pradesh Police, Umesh Chandra in Hyderabad 1998 October: The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Party Unity), CPI-ML-PU merged with the People’s War Group (PWG). After the merger, the new party was named the CPI (ML) (People’s War). 1997 January 10: The PWG Naxalites storm a police station in Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh killing 16 police personnel. 1993 November 28: Ten personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed by the PWG Naxalites in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. November 14: Nine police personnel including a Superintendent of Police, were killed by the PWG in a landmine blast in Mahboobnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. January 27: Deputy Inspector General of Police, K. S. Vyas, who had earlier led the Grey Hounds, anti-Naxal elite police force in Andhra Pradesh , killed the PWG Naxalites in Hyderabad. 1992 September 24: The PWG Naxalites killed 13 personnel of the Border Security Force (BSF) in Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh. 1991 November 10: Ten personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed and 13 others injured in a landmine blast in Etapalli tehsil of Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra. May 11: P. Sudhir Kumar, Andhra Pradesh State youth Congress (I) president and son of former Union External Affairs Minister P. Shivshankar, abducted by the PWG, from his residence. 1989 February 1: Seven police personnel were killed in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh, by the PWG 1987 December 27: Six Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, including Principal Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh government abducted by the PWG in the Agency area in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. July 29: Six police personnel killed by the PWG on the border of East Godavari and Vishakhapattanam districts in Andhra Pradesh. Chronology of Massacres in Central Bihar (1977-2001) RELATED LINKS