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| Maoists kill 11 Indian villagers in raid |
| 2010-02-19 |
| [Dawn] At least 11 villagers were killed and a dozen abducted by Maoist insurgents in eastern India's Bihar state on Thursday in a latest attack highlighting poor security in insurgency-hit states. Thursday's raid comes three days after the militants killed 24 police in the neighbouring state of West Bengal. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the militants the biggest threat to India's internal security. Police said the raid by the Maoists in south Bihar's Jamui district, about 175 km south of state capital Patna, took the locals and police by surprise. "So far we have recovered 11 bodies," Uday Shankar Dutta, a senior police officer, told Reuters on Thursday. At least 20 villagers were wounded. The militants also set fire to 35 houses and some villagers could have burned alive, Dutta said. "We are looking for more bodies." "The Maoists probably wanted to avenge the deaths of eight cadres who were lynched by the villagers recently," another local police officer said. The Maoist revolt started in May 1967 as a peasant-based uprising in West Bengal's Naxalbari town, but has now spread to large swathes of countryside in more than 20 out of 28 states, especially around mineral-rich eastern and central India. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 NEWS KERALA : CHIDAMBARAN: GOVT. NEEDS TO REGAIN CONTROL OF MAOIST AREAS FIRST [before proceeding wid any local development plans-schemas] | CPI-MAOISTS/MAOISTS CANNOT BE TRUSTED [among other, espec as per their Manifesto strongly suppor ARMED STRUGGLE]. * SAME > INDIAN DEFENCE MINISTER ANTONY: PAKISTAN NOT DISMANTLING TERROR BASES [claims MilTerr infiltration on the rise in J-n-K despite PAK mil offensives]. * SAME > TOP OFFICIALS: INDIA'S YOUTHS TO OUTNUMBER CHINIA'S IN SIX YEARS [5-6 Years = 2015-2016.INDJUH's youth popul forecasted to number 800MILYUHN to CHINA'S 600MILYUHN, wid AVG AGE of 29 Years]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-02-19 23:43 |