NAXAL/ MAOISTS- 2010 - Indian Social Institute

to come forward for talks, she said, "No. Not when there are 200,000 paramilitary forces closing in on the
villages." Both sides should first "unconditionally" declare a ceasefire, she suggested. Pitching for a
committee which could talk with the government, Roy said, "If you studied the peace talks process in
Andhra Pradesh, you see that this business of picking one person and announcing it to the media... both
sides have done it. Home minister P Chidambaram has arbitrarily picked Swami Agnivesh. Maoists
arbitrarily announced on the radio that they want this one or that one. That is not how it works." Asked
about the allegation that the government killed top Maoist leader Azad because he was beginning a
peace process, Roy said, "When one side sends an envoy and the other side kills them, what does it
mean? That one side (government) does not want peace." (TOI, 13/9/2010)
Maoist bandh claims eight lives
A two-day bandh called by Maoists in six States, demanding a probe into the death of one of their
leaders, began on a violent note on Monday. Maoists killed two policemen in Chhattisgarh, five CPI(M)
supporters in West Bengal and a chowkidar in Jharkhand. Maoists attacked the Bhejji police station in
Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh and shot dead two policemen, after an exchange of fire, police officials
said. At Nachupatina village in West Midnapore district of West Bengal, Maoists shot dead five CPI(M)
supporters. The five persons that included four of a family were dragged out from their homes and killed.
The mother of one of the victims was injured when she resisted the Maoists. In Jharkhand's Garhwa
district, Maoists shot dead chowkidar Rajeshar Paswan at Panchadumar, the police said. A note found
near the body claimed that Paswan was a police informant. Maoists blew up a stretch of rail track near
the Karmavad railway station in Giridih district of the State in the early hours of Monday. The blast
damaged the wheels of a goods train, Dhanbad Divisional Railway Manager A. Upadhaya said in Ranchi.
Maoists burnt an earth-cutting machine at Sahapur in Hazaribagh district, the police said. The bandh was
called in West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, besides Gadchiroli,
Bhandara and Chadrapur districts of Maharashtra and Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. Top Naxal
leader Cherakuri Rajkumar alias Azad was killed in a police encounter in July in Adilabad district of
Andhra Pradesh (The Hindu, 14/9/2010)
Maoists butcher 5 in front of family
JHARGRAM: A group of Maoists from the Bikash squad butchered four brothers and their uncle in front of
their shell-shocked families in a remote village in Jhargram early Monday morning simply because they
had taken part in a CPM rally. The siblings' mother and children, aged between two and eight, fell at their
feet and pleaded for mercy but the Maoists — three of whom were women — shot the brothers one by
one after hitting the 67-year-old woman in the head and kicking her aside. The incident happened in
Chhoto Patina village of Nayagram on the Orissa border. It is 18 km from the nearest police camp. Even
police fear to venture into this forest plateau. According to Jatindra Aguan, the siblings' father and the
only surviving adult male in the family, 17 attackers raided their hut at 5.30am when they were fast
asleep. "I had heard their footsteps and sensed trouble. They banged on the door. My son Prasanta
answered and went out to meet them. The leader of the team inquired about two local CPM leaders. We
said we did not know where they were. My wife realised what was about to happen and fell at their feet
and begged for her sons' lives. The marauders hit her on the head and she fell back, unconscious. They
then shot Prasanta in the chest. He died before my very eyes," the father said, choking on tears. Little did
Jatindra know that the horror was only beginning. While Prasanta lay bleeding to death, the Maoists
barged into the room in search of his brothers. Samaresh's eight-year-old son shivers while narrating his
father's death. "Our room was locked from outside. The attackers shot out the lock and barged in. They
dragged my father out even as I pleaded with them. They shot him in the courtyard. I could only look on,"
he said. Jatindra's youngest son Rahim was sleeping in a little room on the mud roof. The Maoists riddled
him with bullets from below. He tumbled on the courtyard dead. The butchery was not over yet. The other
brother Swapan, hiding in another room, tried to escape through the backdoor. But he was spotted and
gunned down. He bled for hours as villagers took him to a health centre in Gopiballavpur, West
Midnapore, and then to Topsia, where he died. Eight members of the Maoist team then raided the house
of Jatindra's brother Amrit who had participated in a CPM rally on Sunday. "They dragged him out and
killed him," said relative Alpana. (TOI, 14/9/2010)
Naxals want to capture power with gun: Pranab
Making it clear that the democratic system could not be overthrown by a “handful gun-toting persons”
(Maoists), Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said that Naxals consider themselves equal
to the Government and did not believe in democracy. “They think power comes from the barrel of the gun
but ultimately the democratic system would prevail,” said Mukherjee while addressing a seminar titled
‘Red Corridor and Development’, organised by Hindi daily NaiDunia and Sunday NaiDunia. He said the