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2010-04-06 India-Pakistan

Some element of failure in Naxal operations, admits Home Secretary

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Posted by john frum 2010-04-06 11:54|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 John, is this a failure of the Indian government / state governments to take the Maoists seriously enough, or a failure of strategy?

Posted by Steve White 2010-04-06 12:25|| 2010-04-06 12:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Both.

Sections of the media/intelligentsia romanticize the Maoists. Last week the author Arundhati Roy wrote a series of articles from one of their camps very sympathetic to their cause. The newspaper columnist Praful Bidwai has just said that dozens of tribals die every week so 70 policemen dead is no big thing.

Photographs of the police patrols tell the sad story: pot-bellied cops with assault rifles wandering the forest. No bulletproof vests, no tactical radios, no backup of any kind.

The Indian government will not send in the army or airforce. The last time IAF aircraft bombed Indians was during British rule. They will not use airpower or heavy artillery.

KPS Gill (the badass Sikh policeman who crushed the Khalastanis) is very critical of the entire operation. They need someone like him in charge. Only local police, well trained and equipped, can deal with the maoists. Only they will have the local contacts and the sheer ruthlessness to eradicate the maoists and their aboveground supporters.

Gill was a real SOB in his time. When the terrorists abducted the families of his men, the families of the Sikh terrorists disappeared. Only police can fight this sort of dirty war.

Posted by john frum 2010-04-06 12:56|| 2010-04-06 12:56|| Front Page Top

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