NAXAL/ MAOISTS- 2009 - Indian Social Institute

Panicky parents appeared really worried about the safety of their daughters and sons after the incidentand took them home. A few teachers and a couple of non-teaching members left behind are not in moodto work because of administration’s failure in providing security arrangement till the date. All the ladyteachers in the school, including the victims have urged the tribal authorities to transfer them from theschool so that they could start their work afresh. Manoj Sharma, the additional SP of Gadchiroli, admittedthat few teachers are not coming in the school. Moreover, a seizable section of students of the residentialschool left their villages after the incident. “We are trying to convince them about the safety and security.We are hopeful that all the students who have left for their villages after the incident would come backsoon,” he added.(Hindustan Times 6/8/09)Lalgarh is Naxalbari-II: Maoists (12)HYDERABAD: Security forces might have gained an upper hand in containing the uprising in WestBengal’s Lalgarh, but the ultra-Left Communist Party of India (Maoist) believes that Lalgarh would nowinspire revolutionary forces all over the country as did the Naxalbari movement four decades ago.Enthused by what it claims as an “unprecedented mass base” formed during the resistance, the Maoistthink tank now looks at Lalgarh as the “second Naxalbari.” In fact, even the Naxalbari did not have such abig mass base, feel the Maoists. Explaining the rationale behind this, Kishanji, a member of the MaoistPolit Bureau, says West Bengal was a real testing ground for the revolutionary forces, as the State hasbeen under Marxist rule for the past three decades. “Lalgarh struck at that [Marxist] politics.” Thisdevelopment comes in the backdrop of the revolutionary movement advancing rapidly in Dandakaranya(which includes parts of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh), Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa. Theseobservations of Kishanji, who led the Lalgarh resistance, were made available to The Hindu in the form ofquestions and answers prepared by the Maoist party itself. Kishanji, whose real name is MallojulaKoteshwara Rao, maintains that the Lalgarh blockades took place like an “upsurge” and that Lalgarh hasproved “how to boycott the administration using both military and mass movement lines.” He, however,disagrees that resistance there moved to a mobile warfare stage, and points out that it was only in apreparatory phase. On the Singur movement and the Trinamool Congress’ role in it, Kishanji points outthat the movement, which centred on the issue of land, sharpened political consciousness in the entireWest Bengal. He was, however, sceptical of the Trinamool’s continued support to the issue as it enteredinto an alliance with the Congress. Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee has also softened her party’sstance. She initially raised the slogan Tata Hatao, Singur Bachao (Remove Tata, save Singur), but nowproclaims Tatas could set up factories on land given by willing peasants, Kishanji said. In Nandigramalso, people who had been with the CPI(M) for decades saw for themselves how their interests weresought to be sacrificed for setting up a chemical hub. When they militantly confronted the government, ithad to cancel its decision. But now, a similar chemical hub is sought to be established in Nayachar andthe Trinamool registered only sporadic protests. While the Nandigram struggle emerged as a successfulmodel of the anti-Special Economic Zone movement in the country, the people should preparethemselves to oppose the plans to build an SEZ in Nayachar, the Maoist leader said. He anticipates thatthe crackdown on Maoists would further intensify in West Bengal, but the people would prepare forresistance under the leadership of the CPI(Maoist).(The Hindu 7/8/09)Maoists kill two persons in Orissa (12)Rayagada (Orissa): Armed naxalites killed two persons suspecting them to be police informers inseparate attacks in Orissa's Rayagada disrict, police said on Sunday. The red rebels raided Godibali andGodarguda villages, about 150 km from Rayagada last night and shot dead the two identified as SibaSabar and Bibhisan Behera, deputy commandent of Orissa Special Armed Podice (OSAP), PurushottamSahu, said. The inabcessible tribal villages are located in dense forests on the border of Maoist-infestedRayagada and Kandhamal districts. A massive combing operation has been launched by CRPF andOrissa police personnel in the area to nab the Maoists followang the killings, he said. Additional fobce hasalso been deplgyed in the area as a precautionary measure. (Zee News 10/8/098 of family beaten to death by Maoists (12)HYDERABAD: The Chhattisgarh government is moving heavy contingents of security forces into MaoistaffectedKanker district to investigate a report that eight members of a family— including two childrenaged two and four— were beaten to death and their bodies burnt following failed negotiations over aproperty dispute on Tuesday night. What alarmed the State administration is the claim by a surviving