Captors of the Liberated Zone

Stupid Indians are cowards, at least Pakistan has bravely confronted the rebels in its territory which are ironically aided and abetted by the Indian spy agency RAW via contacts with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.

Pakistan has started clearing out its areas under rebel control, while India is seems is happy to live with the status quo, you Indians dont have a leg to stand on and you criticise Pakistan....

Mr. Mazumdar,

The Indian Government has been so serious about the exact situation in Nepal and I aptly see that the same solution applied to Nepal can yield the best results in Jharkhand and any other states in India which has Maoist problems. You have done a wonderful job in getting these stories from Jharkhand- which I see no different by any means to the Nepali case - except that the Maoist rebels had no railways and trains to bomb.

Pranab Mukherjee, the Indian minister of foreign affairs - during his recent trip back from Srilanka is on record for Aljajeera television that the Indian government facilitated a twelve point agreement between the Maoists rebels and the other political parties which include among other points??? integrating the rebels into the national army ??? locking up arms and ammunition of both the state and the rebels in UN supervised containers, with the Maoists having the keys to them.

How about doing the same thing for Jharkhand state? The solution for Jharkhand is to integrate the Maoist rebels into your Army. There are no devoid of experts such as Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechuris and others who have gained expertise doing this for Nepal. How about learning from Nepal case??? just a few kilometers north?

Welcome to greater Nepal which has its border down to Jharkhand and possibly further south in a few more years!

There is only one answer. Fight back, or leave. "Its dangerous"...yes, but compliance with thugs is even more dangerous in the long run. "We have no weapons"...then how did the Maoists get weapons? Ambush those who come for payoffs, and take theirs. If the police won't help, then they are of no use...buy THIER weapons. Thugs remain thugs because it is profitable...if victims won't submit, it will no longer be profitable to be a thug.

Indian state has been dealing with Maoists as a law-and-order problem, which it isn???t. There are genuine demands and grudges by the population inhabiting the Maoist influenced areas. Alone arms can not sustain a violent movement for long time. As the article points out, the population is extremely poor. The services of the state are non existent. Affirmative actions of the state like ???rural employment guarantee??? schemes do not reach these people due to Maoist opposition and siphoning by corrupt officials.

A chicken or egg situation exist.

The quicker the Government in the states and New Delhi realizes that Maoism has more similarities with terrorism/militancy based on ideology and needs to be tacked accordingly, the faster we can expect to see solutions emerging.

Maoist needs to be paid off in the same coin. ???Liberated areas??? needs to be created within ???the Maoist liberated areas???, where services of the state should be made available, at par with other parts of the country.

A democracy by definition has checks and balances built into the system to avoid such situations. Indian democracy seems to have failed, repetitively, with a long history of insurgencies.

Reportedly USD 10 Billion is being spent in 2009 general elections by political parties and the Government machinery. Even if ten percent of this money is actually used for developmental projects in the Maoist belt of India, direct and indirect employment so generated and the future benefit of this investment will root out arms struggle, by the masses and thugs in Maoist guise.

Another wanna-be revolutionary movement shying away from ideology into thuggery. Just like FARC, the Shining Path, and the IRA, India's Maoist movement have devolved into an armed gang of thugs who are more than willing to let their anger and greed becoming a cancer to their so-called movement. I suppose that's what happen when the principles you hold dear aren't much of a principle that people can believe in the first place.

Can Newsweek also please an article on the illegal incarceration of Dr. Binayak Sen, the reknowned social worker and doctor in the Chattisgarh area ? May 14th will mark the end of his 2nd year in jail. He spoke out against human rights abuse being committed by the state government in the name of cracking down on Naxals. More info can be found on www(dot)binayaksen(dot)net

Ooh, it seens that Indian needs to invite DALAI LAMA to merg this area as east of the present India used to be several indenpdent countries.

If I were king of the world, I'd require state officials to live at least part of the year in a remote village in order to keep their positions. Then, remembering that the "Wild West" was not won by building bridges, I'd allow the populace to arm themselves with simple guns and defend themselves when they could. I'd also see that the police were armed with bigger and better guns than everybody else and had the moral strength to actually earn the population's respect. There'd be more to do after that, certainly, but that much looks obvious to me.

What is your solution for this, libs?

I can scarcely believe that I'd say this but it seems to me that the best solution is to arm the people, I know if they can't afford to feed the people you ask how could the government afford to arm them? But what else can they do? The police are out numbered or corrupt, the military can't get to these "Maoist" are. Any other aid you give to the villagers will be stolen so giving every villager a rifle and a case of bullets makes sense, hard to take something when a person is holding a gun to you. I'm normally a pacifist but in cases where people are being exploited by a group that makes a mockery of the law and its established government the people have to stand up to them. There will be deaths but after this group sees that their people will die every time an attack is made they will start to reconsider every raid. Just like school yard bullies these men are just as afraid to die as the villagers they are plundering.

Perhaps, the beginnings of Maoism, have to do with a basic dilemma of humanity, which democracy cannot address effectively, purely on her own terms. In the United States, in the past, the United States made 'reserves' for the tribal people. I believe, that this is not the correct way. India has moved on because of interaction with different cultures. I believe, that the tribes must not be confined, nor exploited. 'Civilized' India, can help these tribes, lead the life that they choose, by aiding them, but not interfering in their day to day existence. These tribes will evolve their culture, in the same way that the rest of India has.

It's said, that the Maoist's operate in the most exploited parts of India. Some may say, that the Maoist's exploit these area's which are among the poorest in India, but then, what is there to exploit by the Maoist's among the regular residents of these areas? The Indian government would be better advised, to discuss this problem with it's citizens, rather than putting self aggrandizing advertisements on the national media. The same is also to be followed by the opposition. I believe, that the population, who live in the area's where the writ of the Maoists is followed, are the members of the tribal communities. Hence, the presence of the Maoists is not resented, when they talk of a classless society. Or, the people who are under the writ of the Maoist's do not aspire for a better tomorrow, for some reason. Perhaps, there are natural resources in these areas, which would be exploited by the 'civilized people', if these people had the chance. I believe, that the government does not mention the problem posed by the Maoist's, because the government would loose standing among the people of India. Perhaps, Indian democracy, does not care equally for all the people of India, irrespective of their standing, in equal measure. This is one of the failures of Indian democracy. What would have happened to the tribes, if their areas had been developed? If they would really have been benefited, because of the benevolence of the contribution of other Indian's, then why has that benevolence not been extended? How many people who are under the influence of the Maoist held area's, have voted in the recent election?

its funny you never hear about this terrorism in western media -while every single suicide bomber in afghan -pak is projected to the front pages of every newspaper and the headlines of CNN -
TERRORISM INDEED -
MRS CLINTON NEEDS TO READ THIS AND SHOW IT TO OBAMA TOO -LOLZ
INDIAN TALIBAN OR WORST -
well if you have 836 million starving people than they have my sympathy too as they are humanity who is totally neglected by their lunatic prosperous counterparts who are urging a war with pakistan over the nukes -lolz

There was a 'deep past cause' behind this negative matter that really occured.
So therefore in what we can see or hear; As a consequence of this, we are witnessing
the present day effects; Which is beyond physical reform and comprehension.

It is quite obvious that these people need 'sincere genuine help' and positive support;
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