NAXAL/ MAOISTS- 2009 - Indian Social Institute

days." Maoists shot dead two people - Karan Murmu and Lal Murmu - in West Midnapore districtSaturday night, claiming that they were working against the rebels. The killings took place in the Belpahariforest region. Both victims were supporters of a local political outfit, Jharkhand Party (Aditya), and wereinvolved in the anti-Maoist committee. According to sources, the top-rung Maoist leadership called twodayshutdown in the five states to demand release of two of its cadres - Anil and Kartick - who werearrested by Bihar Police somewhere near Patna Aug 19 while they were travelling in a train.(ExpressBuzz 24/8/09)Four killed as Naxals attack home in Jharkhand (12)Ranchi: Naxal rebels gunned down four people, including a woman and a 12-year-old girl, after raiding ahome on the outskirts of this Jharkhand capital early on Friday. A group of about 20 armed Naxalsattacked the home of Digambar Mahto in Bundu, about 45 km from here, at 1.30 a.m. Friday, police said.The hurled a bomb and then shot dead a woman and two students who were living in the house astenants. Mahto's 12-year-old daughter was also killed, while his younger daughter, 10, has been injured.The injured girl has been admitted to a local hospital and her condition is said to be out of danger. "Themode of operation indicates that Naxal rebels executed the killing," said Arun Mathew, ruralsuperintendent of police. The cause of the killing is yet to be ascertained. In the last five days, Naxalguerrillas have killed six people, including two security personnel. The rebels have also blown up railwaytracks at two places and have blasted three mobile phone towers in Jharkhand. Naxal guerrillas areactive in 18 of the 24 districts of Jharkhand. Nearly 1,500 people have been killed in Naxal-relatedviolence in the last eight years.(CNN IBN 28/8/09)Maoists eat food meant for school children (12)BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa government on Saturday asked Collectors of all the Maoist infesteddistricts to verify allegations regarding the red rebels eating foodstuff meant for inmates of several staterun schools and hostels for tribal girls located in remote areas, official sources said. "Letters have beensent to all the collectors to verify allegations that Maoists forcibly eat food meant for school chidren livingin hostels", ST and SC Development Department secretary Ashok Tripathy said. Acting upon mediareports that Maoists forcibly procure food from hostels, Tripathy said the department was not aware of theincident even as it runs about 2820 hostels, 142 residential schools, 1026 sevasharms, 19 specialeducation centres and 11 Ekalabya schools. As many as 3,24,000 students reside in those schools forwhich the state government is spending Rs 239 crore this year. "About Rs 130 crore is spent on food andclothes of children every year", said an official. The government spends about Rs 365 per student permonth, they said. According to reports, the red rebels who take shelter in forests used to come to thesehostels for food. The schools located in Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Nawrangpur, Deogarh and otherhighly Maoist infested districts, had been meeting the food requirement of red rebels, the allegation said.(Times of India 30/8/09)Maoists' mayhem in Jharkhand's Bundu area (12)Bundu (Jharkhand), Aug.29 (ANI): In a first of its kind revenge strike against the family of a farmersuspected to be a police informer, Maoists on Friday barged into a house and killed four persons,including a minor girl. The incident occurred near Bundu police station in Ranchi district of Jharkhandwhen a big group of Maoists barged into the house of Digambar Mahato, hurled a bomb and opened fire.The killing of four people including a woman and a girl child by Maoists has left local residents in Bundu,50 kilometres from Ranchi, the State capital of Jharkhand, flabbergasted. The killed includes Mahato'swife Bhudni Devi and college students Bijay Pramanik and Pradeep Kumar Mahato, staying at their houseas tenants. Maoists also shot dead Mahto's daughter Rita Kumari, 12, and injured her seven-year-oldsister Beauty Kumari. The incident has left the mother of the girl in a deep shock. "How it happened wedon't know. At night suddenly there was a lot of clatter. We were five families, and then our children andwe separated and hid somewhere. Then there was constant noise of explosions like bomb blasts. Westarted shivering and we almost lost our senses. We are very scared now," said Leela Devi, mother of thedeceased child. The attack is second in a row in the past few days. Maoists had earlier torched five truckson the Ranchi Jamshedpur highway. Ten days ago Maoists fired indiscriminately on the same highway inwhich a village girl was killed. Locals in the Bundu region say that such incidents have been increasing oflate. "Militant activities have increased here and due to that there is unemployment as well. Nobody feelssecure here and everyone thinks that it can be their own or someone else's turn next time," said a local