Lực lượng Maoist xây dựng Hành lang Đỏ mới

Maoists creating new Red corridor

Aloke Tikku, Hindustan Times
Bastar, January 27, 2011

Maoist guerrillas are now trying to create a new Red corridor through Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand and West Bengal, as they had come under "some pressure" from security forces during the past year. Intelligence inputs indicate the rebels are trying to create the corridor from the area between south Bastar and south Orissa right up to Jharkhand and West Bengal, state police chief Vishwaranjan told HT. 

 

The corridor, through dense jungles, will make it easier for the rebels to move fast and unnoticed from one state to another if they can build a strong presence among people.

"They are trying to build this corridor through north Sambalpur in Orissa, Jharkhand and West Bengal," said a police officer.

The Maoists' handbook, Strategies and tactics of the Indian Revolution, written in 2004, said, "We will be able to build these areas into a contiguous area of armed struggle, with each area influencing the other."

But to create a corridor for safe movement, the rebels will need supporters on both sides of the states' borders - people who will tip them off well in time if the police venture into the jungles.

"This is important because a corridor is like a chicken neck. It can be blocked if they don't know when the police are moving in," Vishwaranjan said.

Officers leading anti-Maoist operations insisted the pressure would grow this year as central forces had regained their confidence that took a beating last April when 76 policemen were massacred in Dantewada.

With Jharkhand, Orissa and Bihar also taking steps to raise the tempo of the offensive, officers said the corridor could be used to supplement local formations if the pressure suddenly increased in some part.

"For example, if there is too much pressure in Jharkhand, they can send additional companies from here," said a state intelligence officer.

In Bastar - the Maoists have deployed half their military strength here and consider it their main battleground - police officers noticed the bulge when reports on heightened guerrilla activities came in from new areas.

In last few months, similar activities and incidents have been reported from other districts bordering Orissa.

Officers said they anticipated and noticed the "bulge effect" of the police operations being conducted in Bastar division. 

 

Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Maoists-creating-new-Red-corridor/H1-Article3-655091.aspx

2010 là năm đẫm máu nhất ở Hành lang Đỏ

2010 was the bloodiest year in red zone

Aloke Tikku, Hindustan Times
Dantewada, January 24, 2011

Armed Maoists killed nearly 1,000 people last year, making 2010 the bloodiest year in the history of the movement that began 44 years ago with a peasant uprising in the West Bengal village of Naxalbari in 1967. Maoists killed 998 people across nine states last year, almost five times the total number of lives lost in terrorist acts in Jammu & Kashmir and the Northeast.

In 2009, Maoists killed 908 people and in 1971, 849 civilians and policemen were done to death. Last year, they killed 285 policemen and more than over 700 civilians, mostly impoverished tribals and villagers who had either challenged the guerrillas or were branded as police informers.

The increase in violence comes in the backdrop of the first combined action by central and state security forces launched a year ago to wrest thousands of square kilometres — the bulk of India’s mineral wealth that lies beneath — from the Maoists.

The presence of central paramilitary personnel in the nine Maoist-affected states was raised from 35 battalions (each battalion has a sanctioned strength of 1,050 personnel) to 60.

But barely four months into the operations, Maoists ambushed 75 CRPF personnel in the Mukrana jungles of south Dantewada in April last year. “All of us were obviously shaken,” a jawan posted in Bijapur said.

In his December report, home minister P Chidambaram — who had pushed the offensive plan past the cabinet committee on security — conceded that the left-wing extremism continued to “remain a matter of grave concern.”

Over the past fortnight, he has held meetings with chiefs of central and state police forces to review their plans for the operations and nudge them to be aggressive. CRPF officers said they are still trying to motivate their men to come out of the crisis with their confidence intact. “I tell them they have much superior weapons, training and facilities.

Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/2010-was-the-bloodiest-year-in-red-zone/H1-Article1-653927.aspx

Chính phủ Ấn Độ chi 6 tỉ Rupee để chống lại lực lượng Maoist

Government to pump in Rs 6 billion to fight Maoists

Hindustantimes
New Delhi, January 13, 2011

CRPF personnel patrol at their camp site in West Midnapore on Thursday, June 25, 2009.

The government is pumping in Rs 580 crore (Rs 5.8 billion) under a special security scheme which would include strengthening road connectivity and recruiting 12,000 more special police officers (SPO) to boost its fighting power against Maoists in mineral-rich central and eastern India. The central government is increasing its money and muscle power to rein in the armed leftist rebels who claim to be fighting for the rights of the tribes in the forest belt across nine Indian states, official sources said.

The home ministry has allocated Rs 580 crore ($130 million) for the current fiscal under the non-plan security-related expenditure scheme (SRE) for the Maoist-affected districts in the nine Maoist-hit states, the sources said.

The government has decided to raise the number of its focus districts to 60 from the current 35.

The new focus districts, according to the sources, are in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh.

The original allocation was Rs 80 crore, but the SRE scheme, which is over and above the planned expenditure, allows the government to raise the spending in order to supplement the efforts of the states to deal with the Leftist insurgency problem.

"Over Rs 200 crore has already been released under SRE," an official familiar with developments told IANS. He said that over Rs 320 crore would be released before March.

SRE would include expenditure on logistic details and camp facilities for security forces, hiring of vehicles, helicopters, weapons or communication equipment, building road connectivity and bridges.

It also includes the ex-gratia grant paid to families of the victims of Maoist violence, special training given to police personnel and provision of insurance for police personnel involved in anti-Maoist operations.

The sources said the government was also contemplating recruiting 12,000 more SPOs. The salary of these security personnel -- whose services are not considered a regular employment for any legal purposes -- will also be raised substantially from Rs 1,500.

SPOs are key in fighting the Leftist rebels as they are mostly tribal youths and have local geographical knowledge that helps security forces conduct their operations.

Home minister P Chidambaram at a review meeting with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) earlier this week had hinted at honing the central government's anti-Maoist strategy.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has repeatedly described Maoist rebels living in the jungles and tribal areas of eastern and central area as the country's "biggest internal security threat".

According to home ministry data, nearly 1,000 people were killed in violence linked to the rebels last year. They included over 575 civilians.

The nine states where Maoists have influence cut a wide swathe across India and include parts of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh.


Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Government-to-pump-in-Rs-6-billion-to-fight-Maoists/H1-Article1-649858.aspx