 RAIPUR, India - At least 17 Maoist rebels were killed in a shootout with police in a remote central Indian jungle on Tuesday, a senior officer said. A special force formed to fight the Maoists surrounded the rebels at a hideout in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Monday night, preventing them from escaping, Ankit Garg, a top police officer, told Reuters.
| Not a Saoodi-style surrounding, either. |
The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless labourers, and often attack police patrols and destroy government property.
| That's what they'll say up to the moment they get power, if they ever do ... |
Thousands of people have been killed in the insurgency, which began in the late 1960s and stretches through the countryside across a swathe of eastern and central India. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the insurgency as the gravest threat to IndiaÂ’s internal security.
| There's an insult to the Paks ... |
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