People’s War News, 24-25 Dec

46719Armed Maoists, including women, blow up government building in Odisha

Armed Maoists blew up a block office building at Padia in Odisha’s Malkangiri district early on Wednesday using powerful explosives. A group of armed ultras, including women, stormed into Padia, about 70 km from Malkangiri, in the early hours and entered the block office building after breaking the lock, Malkangiri Superintendent of Police Akhileswar Singh said. The red rebels set the building on fire before triggering a powerful blast, causing extensive damage to the structure, he said, adding no one was harmed in the attack. Four of the five rooms in the building with asbestos roof were completely destroyed in the blast which damaged volumes of documents and important records, gram panchayat officer Basant Behera said.

The SP said the attack was a desperate attempt by the Maoists to counter stepped up anti-Naxal operations mounted by the security forces in the region. A poster found from the site stated that the attack was in protest against an encounter with security forces in September this year in which around 13 Maoists had been killed, police said, adding the poster also sought a halt to anti-Naxal operation and withdrawal of BSF from the region. Maoists had blown up the new building of Padia block office in September, 2010, following which work was being done from the old building which now got destroyed in the pre-dawn attack, sources said.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/armed-maoists-including-women-blow-up-government-building-in-odisha/1211548/

46677Maoists raid construction firm camp in Laxmipur

Maoists raided worksite camp of a construction firm involved in road construction in Laxmipur area in Koraput district and torched two vehicles on Sunday night. The construction firm was involved in construction of road under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). Its worksite camp was located near Karligaon under Laxmipur police station limits. The road this firm was constructing would connect Karligaon with the Rayagada-Laxmipur main road.

The Maoists torched an excavator and a tipper that were parked at the campsite. But according to sources they did not harm any one there. Following the incident intense combing operation has been launched in the area to track down the Maoists involved in the incident. It was suspected to be handwork of ultras of Koraput-Srikakulam division of CPI (Maoist). Recently Maoists have started targeting soft targets like campsites of construction firms in remote areas as well passenger buses travelling to Maoist-hit areas.

On December 20 night, a group of armed Maoists had torched three vehicles of a private construction firm near Sunabali village under Muniguda police station limits in Rayagada district. The vehicles that were burnt down included two tractors and an excavator. The construction firm was involved in construction of a road near Niyamgiri hills. In the past, Maoists have opposed construction of roads in remote areas inhabited by them.

They allege that these roads are meant for increasing penetration of anti-Maoist operations rather than benefiting the inhabitants living in remote areas. But according to police sources, Maoists mostly resort to such activity with the motive of extortion and to create panic among people living in the area. It is Maoists to resort to such acts of violence as these campsites of construction firms are located in extreme remote areas without any security.

Apart from it, the Maoists have in recent past torched two passenger buses in Malkangiri district Though they did not harm any passenger yet these acts of arson seemed to be aimed at terrorising the inhabitants living in remote areas as well as the transport operators plying buses to Maoist-hit areas. On December 12, Maoists torched a private passenger bus near Bhejangwada in Malkangiri district.. Another passenger bus had been torched by them near Telarai square on Motu-Kalimela road in Malkangiri district on Dec 11. The reason provided by the ultras for the burning of two passenger buses in Malkangiri district in the recent past was that these buses used to transport food materials to the BSF camps.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/maoists-raid-construction-firm-camp-in-laxmipur/article5497316.ece

Maoists set three vehicles on fire

KORAPUT: After almost a year, Maoists struck in Rayagada district by raiding a camp of a construction company and setting fire to three vehicles used in road work on Friday night. The last Red offensive in the district was reported on December 27, 2012 when a SOG jawan was injured in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists near Parsali village under Kalyansinghpur police limits. In the latest incident, sources said, a group of 20 armed Maoists, including three women cadres, swooped down on the worksite camp of a contractor near Pajibali village under Muniguda police limits around 9 pm and set at least two tractors and one JVC vehicle ablaze.

The vehicles were used in road construction under PMGSY from Panimunda to Patraguda Chowk situated on the foothills of Niyamgiri hills. “The Maoists took away our cellphones and asked for diesel. They took the supervisor few metres away from the camp. Before leaving the area, they handed over our cellphones to the supervisor. They did not assault any labourer in the camp,” said one of the labourer. Handwritten Maoist letters spotted at the crime spot reveal that Maoists were opposed to road construction work believing that it could be used by Vedanta Alumina Limited to transport bauxite.

Also, rebels through the letters have demanded equal wages of Rs 200 a day for both male and female labourers and less use of machines in construction work. SP (Rayagada) Rajesh Pandit, who rushed to the crime spot in the wee hours of Saturday, took stock of the situation. He said, “The Niyamgiri-Kashipur division of Maoists led by rebel leader Indu executed the offensive. From preliminary inquiry, it is found that there were around four to five armed cadres in the group supported by their local militia members.” Police said as Maoists are on the backfoot due to anti-Maoist operations in the district, the rebels are now executing crimes to terrorize people. “Our counter-insurgency operations have given a jolt to the Maoist organization. On September 11, a woman Maoist leader was killed in an encounter near Kadrakabandili forest. Cops had killed three Maoists in Kashipur-Doragada area on July 19,” the SP added.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-12-22/bhubaneswar/45472876_1_three-maoists-the-maoists-20-armed-maoists

Naxalites eye educated but unemployed Dalits

NAGPUR: State Anti-Naxal Operations (ANO) cell has issued a confidential message to all the police units, including Mumbai and rest of western Maharashtra, across the state alerting them regarding a massive countrywide plan of the rebels to revive their movement with the help of Dalit, especially targeting the educated but unemployed youths in their community. ANO, referring to Naxal’s ‘Strategy and Tactics of Indian Revolution’, underlined the rebels’ ultimate goal of destroying country’s existing political, economic and cultural fabric to replace with system embodying their ideology.

The ANO alert, a copy of which is in possession of TOI, states that Naxalites are aiming at rebuilding their strengths and form bases across cities like their jungle strongholds following the setbacks they suffered in the recent times from the aggressive operations of the central and state forces. The Naxalites have expressed concern over their receding manpower owing to recruitment crunch and government strategies.

The Naxalites, in their ninth unity congress, have urged their cadres to use the Dalit base to boost the movement across country in order to achieve their party’s ultimate goal – to overthrow central government. The ANO alert quotes several decisions undertaken at the rebels’ secret conference held at Abujmarh in 2007. The Naxal strategists have urged their cadres to exploit the incidents of atrocities on Dalits to fuel sentiments using it as a trigger to form frontal organizations at various levels of the society, ANO has alerted police units.

The director of the Maharashtra Police Academy at Nashik and principals of Regional Police Training Schools (RPTS) of Marol in Mumbai, Khandala, Nanviz, Solapur, Jalna, Akola and Nagpur too have been alerted by ANO. ANO stressed on the fact that Naxalites have started seeking various avenues to rope in displeased segment of the Dalits especially their educated-but-unemployed youths from cities and suburbs.

The Naxal strategists have also asked their cadres to induct supporters from across the society to agitate on the issues of Dalit exploitations. The alert message, which includes names of several Naxalites over ground cadres including ones from Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune and other places, highlighted how the rebels are planning to exploit the sacrifices of likes of Bhagat Singh, philosophies of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and such personalities to attract the sentiments of the youths.

ANO has cited several instances of the past where frontal organizations have tried to provoke the Dalits by highlighting the atrocities on Dalits in the incidents like that of Khairlanji killings in Bhandara district, firing at Mumbai’s Ramabai Ambedkar slum and such places by distributing inflammatory literature, delivering speeches and making such propaganda through documentary films and cultural programmes. ANO has urged the police units across the state to send its feedback on the programmes organized by such frontal organizations involving labour union, youth organizations, rights bodies comprising literary persons, journalists, advocates and such intellectual groups pro-actively spreading Naxal ideology.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-12-22/nagpur/45473154_1_naxalites-dalits-cadres

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