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| Maoists slit throats, kill six people in India |
| 2006-03-24 |
| RAIPUR, India - Maoist rebels slit the throats of four members of an anti-Maoist group and shot dead two policemen in separate attacks in two Indian states, police said on Friday, in rising violence by the leftist radicals. In the central Chhattisgarh state, Maoists rebels attacked tribal members of the Salwa Judum (March for Peace), a government-backed anti-rebel group. “This triggered panic among the local tribal population in the area,” S.K. Paswan, a senior police officer, said. The killings took place overnight in the Bastar region of the state, more than 300 km (200 miles) south of Raipur, the state capital. Maoist rebels, who claim to fight for India’s landless labourers and poor peasants including impoverished tribes, have been striking frequently in the past year, killing government sympathisers as well as policemen. Over 50 members of Salwa Judum were killed when rebels set off a landmine under a truck in Chhattisgarh on Feb. 28. In the neighbouring state of Orissa on Friday, dozens of Maoist rebels stormed a police station and a bank, killing two policemen after a brief firefight and kidnapping two others, as well as a revenue official. The group also broke into the local jail in R. Udayagiri town, 250 km (150 miles) south of Bhubaneswar, the state capital, and released 40 prisoners including three rebels. Police say there are more than 20,000 armed Maoists backed by hundreds of thousands of supporters, operating in 15 out of India’s 29 states. Maoist violence claimed nearly 1,000 lives last year. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 It's been a long time since the Thugee cult had a revival in India. They are past due. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-03-24 09:26 |