...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft....that the incidents of Left-Wing extremism (LWE) were down by 47 per cent between 2015 and 2020 when compared to the incidents in the preceding six years from 2009 to 2014.
The geographic spread of the naxal
...India’s Revolutionary Maoist militants, funded primarily by the illegal drugs trade and protection money from the mining industry. This means China doesn’t have to pay to spread the Maoist gospel they’ve outgrown, while enjoying the weakening of Indian society. India also has several communist political parties...
violence had been contained to 53 districts across nine states in 2020 when compared to 76 districts across 10 states.As India’s economy becomes somewhat more free, violent overthrow and the establishment of communist totalitarian rule appears to be less attractive...
"The incidents of LWE violence have reduced by 70% from all-time high of 2,258 in 2009 to 665 in 2020. Similarly deaths (civilians + forces) have reduced by 80% from all time high of 1,005 in 2010 to 183 in 2020. The spread has been constricted and only 9 states reported LWE related violence as compared to 10 states in 2013," Union Home Minister for State, G Kishan Reddy said in a written reply.NIA seizes huge cache of arms meant to be used by naxals against security forces
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has recovered high grade explosives and cordtex wire during searches in Jharkhand.
The NIA team conducted saerches in the dense forest of Korangburu hillock, at Jilingkel in Khunti district and recovered Cordtex wire (100 mtrs) and 126 Gelatin sticks (15 kgs ), a high grade explosive.
The recoveries were made following the arrest of a naxalite, Birsa Munda. He is an armed cadre of the proscribed organization CPI (Maoist).
The case pertains to attack on a police party by the cadres of CPI (Maoist), at around in June 2019 at Kukru Haat. 5 police men were martyred and their arms and ammunition were looted by the naxalites.
The Jharkhand Police had arrested 11 accused and filed two charge-sheets against them. The NIA re-registered the case and arrested 5 more accused, who are armed cadres of CPI (Maoist).
During the examination of accused, Munda, it was revealed that explosives procured by the cadres of CPI(Maoist) were hidden at the Korangburu hillock, in Jilingkel, District Khunti.
NIA team, with the help of local police and SSB, conducted searches during the wee hours and recovered cordtex wire and 126 Gelatin sticks. The explosives were to be used against the security forces by CPI (Maoist).