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It has got to be recognised that tackling Maoism today is very different from gunning down Naxalites in Bengal in the 1970s, or beating back the Mizo and Naga insurgencies in the Northeast and the Khalistan movement in Punjab.
New Delhi said the Maoists were terrorists and should be destroyed. As the uprising grew more intense, India stepped in directly, arming the Nepal Army and Armed Police Force to combat the guerrillas.
Maoists blasted rail tracks in West Midnapore district of West Bengal in the wee hours today, derailing 13 coaches of a Mumbai-bound express train, five of which were hit by a goods train, leaving 65 dead and 104 others injured, the second attack on civilians by Naxals this month.
Pious intent seldom makes good policy. Butter-not-guns, too, is a dead-end idea. If rudimentary amenities such as healthcare and schooling are to reach backward areas, that need basic infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines and buildings are required to move ahead. The aim of the Maoists is to prevent the creation of these assets.
Why there are so few policemen in Naxalite districts despite the Prime Minister being acutely aware of the seriousness of the problem six years ago. Why men who are putting their lives on the line for India cannot get minimum facilities like clean water, decent food and comfortable, mosquito-free accommodation to sleep in at the end of the day. Why is Malaria endemic in the war zone?
Sources believe that four Central Committee members hailing from the State are behind the attack. They are: Katakam Sudarshan alias Anand, head of the Central Regional Bureau (CRB); Kadari Satyanarayan Reddy alias Kosa, secretary of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal committee (DKSZC); Thippiri Tirupathi alias Devuji, who guides the CRB in military issues, and Mallojula Venugopal alias Bhupati, a mem
In their deadliest attack on paramilitary forces yet, Maoist rebels killed 74 members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and two policemen from the Chhattisgarh police, and destroyed an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) in the early hours of Tuesday in Dantewada district.
Shibu Soren-led government in Jharkhand, one of the states worst affected by Naxal violence, has quietly halted operations, including long range patrols and raids directed at the extremists. And in one of the first fallouts, eight policemen were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Naxals in Gumla last Friday.
Maoists hope that, in time, they will prevail by the force of arms over the Indian State, thus to capture power in New Delhi much as their revered hero, Mao Zedong, had captured power in Beijing 60 years ago.
Then, there are the activists, who slam the security forces but look the other way when Maoist rebels indulge in widespread violence—they hack off the heads of police and civilians, shoot people in the head in execution-style point-blank killings and mutilate bodies.
The situation is also fair game for the punditry and the commentariat sitting safely in big cities. By their powers of persuasion, they markedly raise the costs of the state in countering Maoist violence.
Union home minister P. Chidambaram has agreed to attend a civil society-sponsored public hearing in Dantewada, a Maoist hotbed in Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar, sending out another crossed signal on the drive against the guerrillas.

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