They're getting ambitious
Over 165 Maoist cadres are being trained in Bhutan at present, as Bhutan has been included in the future Maoist country, ‘Dandkaranya Desam’. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) are imparting the training. A senior leader of the Standing Committee of a Maoist outfit confirmed this to the South Asia Tribune. The next meeting of the Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organizations of South Asia (CCOMPOSA) is likely to be held in Bangladesh by the end of this year to chalk out the future strategy. Bhutan has been included in ‘Dandkaranya Desam’, a Maoist El Dorado in South Asia. Maoists in Bhutan have already formed Bhutan Communist Party against the imperative rule of King Jigme Singye Vancgchuk. A meeting between KLO Chief Sunil Biswas and the Maoist source of the South Asia Tribune was held somewhere in the Jalpaiguri region a few months ago for the training of the Maoist recruits in Bhutan. According to the sources, 3-4 days training capsules are being provided to the Maoist recruits in guerilla warfare, bomb-manufacturing techniques and arms training. The militiamen of the ULFA and KLO are imparting the training.
Maoist sources say that the combined strength of the Indian and Nepali Maoists is gradually increasing, and they are trying to raise armies in Bangladesh and Bhutan. At present there are about 16,000 Combatants, 32,000 Militia, 14,000 Cadres, 70,000 hardcore followers and 600,000 Sympathizers. They have also united more than a dozen ethnic and regional classes, such as Bhutanese of Nepali origins (refugees in Nepal), dalits, majhis, kols, etc. These are the classes that work as informers. India, particularly the Northeastern region, has become the hotbed of insurgency. The Maoist forces of Bhutan, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh held a meeting with the communist leaders of Nepal and Bangladesh during the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) that took place in April 2005 at New Delhi. Indian Maoist sources told the South Asia Tribune that the Maoist leaders met some of the world communist leaders for their support and help. Though these leaders do not reconcile with the extremist approach of the ultras, yet they have sympathies with ultra outfits as both of them have the same goal of ‘salvation of the masses’. |