On Tuesday 06 April, Maoist guerrillas Tuesday carried out the worst ever massacre of security personnel by trapping and slaughtering 75 men of the CRPF in the dense forests of Chattisgarh. Over the last 3 months the Maoists have shown a remarkable improvement in their battle tactics, inflicting massive damage on the security forces of India. This cannot be attributed to either a large number of Maoists forces attacking smaller numbers of security personnel or to the sudden high level of efficiency in the Maoist cadres. The finger of suspicion points unwavering to the other “Mao forces” namely elements of the People’s Republican Army (PLA) of China. Over the last 18 months, Chinese companies invested into projects in India. Some of these projects are in the mining sector in Central India regions. Based on this contract the Chinese companies brought into India 100,000 Chinese laborers and strangely enough the Indian Government allowed this to happen. Nobody in the Government of India even thought about the fact that maybe, just MAYBE these 100,000 young Chinese laborers could be members of the PLA. Can the Indian Intelligence services track down the locations of these 100,000 laborers? Is there any system in India that can track the movement of foreigners in India? The real answer is a big ‘NO’. It is my opinion that today we our forces and our nation are suffering from the consequences of inefficient bureaucracy compounded by wide scale corruption in our society. Till June 2008 attacks by Maoists usually resulted in casualties in single digits. It’s only after June 2008 till date that the efficiency of the Maoists has suddenly shot up that they are planning and executing operations on a battlefield combat level with Indian security forces sustaining climbing number of casualties in every incident. Our police are not combating half starving bands of guerillas; but a disciplined and well trained army. And that can only be the PLA of China. Our politicians and our bureaucracy may or may not admit this fact but, India today is in a ‘State of War’. Our enemies are as yet undefined, but are well trained, well equipped, strongly financed and highly motivated. And the finger of suspicion points towards China. Recent violent activities by Maoists • April 6, 2010: At least 73 CRPF and district force personnel were killed when a large group of Naxals ambushed them in the Mukrana forests of Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district. • February 20, 2010: Maoists killed a village guard by slitting his throat. • February 18, 2010: Twelve villagers were killed and 9 injured in indiscriminate firing by the Maoists in Jamui district of Bihar. The dead included three women and one child. Twenty five village houses were also burned down by the Maoists. • February 16, 2010 : Silda camp attack • October 8, 2009 : About 150 Maoist ambushed a Police patrol and killed 17 Policemen in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra • October 6, 2009 : Police inspector Francis Induwar was beheaded by Maoists in Jharkhand. The action has been compared to the tactics of the Islamist Taliban of Pakistan-Afghanistan • April 13, 2009: 10 paramilitary troops are killed in eastern Orissa. • February 23, 2009: Maoists kill a contractor, sets fire in police post at Govindpalli of Malkangiri. • July 16, 2008: A landmine hit a police van in Malkangiri district, killing 21 policemen. • June 29, 2008: CPI forces attacked a boat on the Chitrakonda reservoir in Orissa carrying members of an anti-Naxalite police force. The boat sunk, killing 33 policemen, while 28 survived. • In November 2007 reports emerged that the anti-SEZ movement in Nandigram in West Bengal had been infiltrated by Naxalites since February; the reports quoted unnamed intelligence sources. Recently, police found weapons belonging to Maoists near Nandigram. • In 2008, The Hindu newspaper reported that a Maoist killed a man and publicly cannibalized him in Malkangiri district of Orissa to terrorize villagers. The alleged incident occurred in Bandiguda on August 14, 2007. • On March 15, 2007 an attack happened in the rebel stronghold area of Dantewada, in Chhattisgarh state. Fifty-four persons, including 15 personnel of the Chhattishgarh Armed Force, were killed in an offensive by 300 to 350 CPI (Maoist) cadres on a police base camp in the Bastar region in the early hours of Thursday. The remaining victims were tribal youths of Salwa Judum, designated as Special Police Officers (SPOs) and roped in to combat the Maoists. Eleven person were injured. The attack, which lasted nearly two-and-a-half hours, was spearheaded by the "State Military Commission (Maoist)", consisting of about 100 armed naxalites. • On March 6, 2007 the CPI (Maoist) reportedly claimed responsibility for the Mahato assassination, but JMM members of the Jharkhand state cabinet, including the Chief Minister, subsequently announced that a state police investigation is under way into the authenticity of this claim. Police reportedly believe that political rivals of Mahato, including organized criminal groups, may have been behind the assassination. • On March 5, 2007 Maoist shot dead a local Congress leader (Prakash, a member of the local Mandal Praja Parishad (MPP)) in Andhra Pradesh while he was inspecting a road construction project in Mahabubnagar district. • On March 4, 2007 Maoist shot dead a member of the parliament (Sunil Mahato) of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) party from Jharkhand state. • On December 2, 2006 the BBC reported that at least 14 Indian policemen had been killed by Maoists in a landmine ambush near the town of Bokaro, 80 miles from Ranchi, the capital of the State of Jharkhand. • On October 18, 2006 women belonging to the Maoist guerrilla forces blasted four government buildings in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. On the day before, over a dozen armed cadres of the group, with support from male colleagues, blocked traffic on the Antagarh-Koylibera Road in the Kanker district, near the city of Raipur. They also detonated explosives inside four buildings, including two schools, in Kanker. This incident occurred two days after a major leader of the party's operations in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, Kone Kedandam, surrendered to authorities in the town of Srikakulam. • On July 16, 2006 the Maoists attacked a relief camp in the Dantewada district where several villagers were kidnapped. The death toll was 29. • On February 28, 2006 the Maoists attacked several anti-Maoist protesters in Erraboru village in Chhattisgarh using landmines, killing 25 people. • On 13 November 2005 CPI (Maoist) fighters stunned authorities by attacking Jehanabad in Bihar, freeing 250 captured comrades and taking twenty imprisoned right wing paramilitaries captive, executing their leader. They also detonated several bombs in the town. A prison guard was also reported killed. • In August 2005 Maoists kidnapped from the Dantewada district of the state of Chhattisgarh.This follows violent incidents in 2004 in the same region when 50 policemen and about 300 villagers were killed in the Dantewada district and over 50,000 villagers were staying in relief camps out of fear from Maoists. • In February 2005 the CPI (Maoist) killed 7 policemen, a civilian and injured many more during a mass attack on a school building in Venkatammanahalli village, Pavgada, Tumkur, Karnataka. On August 17, 2005, the government of Andhra Pradesh outlawed the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and various mass organizations close to it, and began to arrest suspected members and sympathizers days afterwards. The arrested included former emissaries at the peace talks of 2004.
