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Post-crackdown, Maoists struggle to regroup Friday’s arrest of top Maoist members from its West Bengal State committee seems to have left the State’s guerillas a rudderless lot, sources in the Maoist-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities concede. Four State committee members of the organisation — including its secretary — were arrested late Friday evening when they were preparing to board a Jharkhand-bound night services bus. Among the arrested were State secretary Sudip Chongdar alias Kanchan, a media friendly leader, Anil Ghosh, Barun Sur and Kalpana Maity alias Anu — all State committee members. With senior leaders like Himadri Sen Roy alias Somen, the last State secretary already behind bars and Nirmalda the senior most party member dead the Friday’s arrest has given a massive jolt to the Maoist organisation already in the backfoot fighting the joint security forces in the Jangalmahal. The Bengal State committee understood to be one of the most efficient in formulating strategies comprised Kanchan, Ghosh, Sur, Nirmalda a veteran leader, Madhai Patra a Hooghly veteran — who is known to have played an important role in inciting the Singur movement — Dwijen Hembram. Subsequently Mansaram Hembram alias Bikash, Asim Mondal, Sasadhar Mahato the elder brother of Chhatradhar Mahato the arrested PCPA chief and Anu, the wife of Bikash were inducted into the committee. The State committee under Kanchan played an important role in striking alliances with a Manipur-based rebel outfit and also Ulfa which reportedly helped with logistics in the Shilda firing. Both Kanchan and Patra were instrumental in expanding base in and around Kolkata many of which were still being raided STF sources said on Monday. However the arrest five top leaders and death of one have hit the Maoist State committee hard. “We have been hit hard with the abrupt arrests,” said Akash adding the party would soon conduct a probe into who passed of the information to the police. In fact the leader who is himself a strong contender for the State secretary’s post escaped the police dragnet by a whisker on Friday by giving the sleuths a slip in the last moment. With high police vigil on the mobile network, Maoists have literally ceased using handsets and were using human courier to pass on information. This has slowed down their pace of operation and the arrest of so many State committee members have only added to the problem as “these members were mostly urban based and used parallel networks for communications.” In fact the police are looking for some student leaders who helped the Maoists as “mobile couriers” officials said. Meanwhile the Bengal Maoist leadership was buying time to form a new State committee and select a new State secretary. Sources inside the PCPA a Maoist frontal organisation said the party was not inclined to appoint any Jangalmahal leader who was involved in “armed operations.” (Pioneer, 7/12/2010) Naxals turn urban Regretting that they haven’t paid adequate attention to urban areas, the Naxals have identified some critical urban belts. Their mission: embark on creating both open and undercover urban militia that will supply cadre to strengthen “people’s war in rural areas” and help create “liberated zones”. A booklet seized during a raid on Naxal leaders Hemchandra Pandey and Azad, who were later killed, allegedly in an false encounter, clearly lists out urban priorities, saying that it was a blunder not to have looked at urban areas with the kind of seriousness it deserved and that without it the larger goal of real people’s revolution can’t be accomplished. The document titled Shahari kaam ke bare mein, published in 2008, identifies nine different belts for its urban action plan: Ahmedabad-Pune corridor, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore-Erode belt, Hyderabad, Kolkata, industrial cities of central India and cities on the Gangetic plains. “We have failed to understand the clash between the urban and rural agitations and we are guilty of utter neglect of urban work,” the document admits. “Along with a wider and deeper public support, we have failed to develop a strong and impactful undercover system (gupta pranali) to keep the party safe in urban areas. As a result, we are feeling a serious crunch of able and experienced cadres,” the document says. The document lays down what it calls “battle perspective”. “We must have an elaborate revolutionary struggle plan, both armed and otherwise, for urban areas which will be suitable for a long-term people’s war — that is first liberating rural areas and later taking control of urban areas,” it says. “With this long-term perspective, we must develop a strong undercover party, a revolutionary united front and urban guerrilla squads and militia,” it says, adding, “we must be able to send cadres to rural areas who could be sourced from workers recruited from unorganised sector.” It says, “Urban organisations will also help establish supply lines to our organisation in rural areas for many things such as arms and ammunition, machines and their parts and medicines.” It even advocates encouraging ghettos of the urban disadvantaged sections on the lines of Muslim ghettos. “The Muslim ghettos have been caused by increasing Hindu fascism. For the Muslims, it has become a necessity so that they can unitedly defend themselves. All the plans of our party must take the process of ghettoisation seriously.” Observing that the population scales are tilting towards urban areas, the document observes that the economy is no more centred around villages. “In 1950-51, 56 per cent of the GDP came from villages. Now it has gone down to 25 per cent,” it observes. The document critically looks at the nine urban areas it aims to target for its urban plan. “The Ahmedabad-Pune corridor is engineering, chemical, textile, auto,
communications and electronics hub. The working class here is most diverse since it comes from all parts of the country,” it says. “Delhi is basically dominated by North Indian workers, while Bengaluru is an IT hub,” it goes on while discussing the peculiarities of each zone. In the end, the document elaborately discusses how to go about building the movement in urban areas. “Creating a strong and undercover party by harnessing the struggle of the disadvantaged working class, creating a joint front of working class with other sections of the urban society such as the Dalits and women and undertaking military activities” are the three main tasks laid down in the document. While saying that the military activity in urban areas would mainly be of defence (atmarakshatmak), it, however, stresses the need to have “resistance squads” (pratirodh daste) for armed resistance to tackle “people’s enemies”. Identifying organised gangs, Hindu and social fascist organisations and their killer gangs, state-sponsored vigilante gangs and armed state forces as “enemy armies” aiding the ruling classes, the document says, “It will not be proper for us to go into a confrontationist mode with the ruling powers at this stage, nor are we going to do that, but we must create volunteer (self-defensive) and resistance organisations if the situation so demands.” The document envisages creation of volunteer squads out of trade unions and people’s organisations. They will act against strike-busters, goonda gangs, those dishonouring women, communal elements in riots and displacement of people due to so-called development projects. “Gymnasiums, martial arts centres, sports clubs are examples of such volunteer groups,” it says. It lays down basics for militia groups, “which would work in a hidden manner as part of guerrilla armies”. It also recommends quality arms training to the members of militia. (IE, 7/12/2010) Maoists kill 3 villagers in Sundargarh Even as the People’s Liberation of Guerilla Army (PLGA) Week being observed by Maoists entered the fifth day on Monday, Maoists killed three villagers from Topadihi near Rourkela under K Balang police station by slitting their throats here on the suspicion of being police informers. The deceased, including a ward member and a teacher, were abducted by the Maoists on the suspicion of being police informers before they were killed. Their bodies with throats slit were found near the rail tracks. Earlier in the morning, Daudh Munda was abducted by members of the outlawed group following which he was rescued from Saranda forests by more than a 150-strong mob after a clash. Later, a group of 60 to 70 heavily-armed Maoists barged into the village and kidnapped Daudh, Juan Munda and Nuan Munda. Later, their bodies were found half a kilometre from Topadihi railway station near the tracks. When contacted Rourkela SP Diptesh Patnaik said over the telephone “three bodies have been found near the Topadihi police station and we have launched an operation.” (Pioneer, 7/12/2010) Maoists kill 2 villagers in Sundargarh, 1 in Koraput Just a few days after three villagers were killed in Topadih village the Maoists again killed two villagers branding them as police informers in Nangalakata village under K Bolanga police station on Thursday morning. Within a span of four days five villagers have been killed. Police sources said in the morning about 200 armed Maoists barged into Nangalakata village bordering Saranda forest and forced six villagers to walk to a school building and killed two of them, Anup Singh and Bisra Singh, by slitting their throats. However, they set the others free. About 58 villagers of Topadihi village and its nearby areas had met Rourkela Superintendent of Police seeking protection from the Maoists and employment a month back. Though, they were assured all help but that assurance remained an assurance. Now it is an uphill task for the administration to win back the people to its fold after reports said the Maoist have set up camps in the adjacent areas and trying to wean away the tribal youth to join their fold. Meanwhile, in the undivided Koraput district during the PLGA week observed by the Maoist from December 2 to 8, no untoward incident was reported except for putting up of a number of banners and posters in different places of Koraput and Malkangiri district. On the last day of the PLGA week on Wednesday the Maoists killed a former CMAS member of Odiapentha village, three km from Narayanapatna after tying his hands behind the back. Accoring to information received at about 11.30 pm on Wednesday, around 50 armed Maoists including a woman in uniform reached Odiapentha village in Narayanapatna block, 80 kilometres from Koraput district headquarters. They knocked at the doors of Sombaru Huika (38) and asked him to come outside for a meeting. While Sombaru came outside they took him about 20 feet away and hit him on the head with a lathi following which Sombaru got injured and fell on the road. They then tied his hands behind his back and killed him by slitting his throat. Sources said that Sombaru was an active member of Chasi Mulia Adibasi Sangh (CMAS) and a few days back had surrendered himself before the Narayanapatna police. He was a tractor driver but leaving the work presently he used to earn his livelihood by cultivating his own land. After his surrender he was targeted by the Maoists and on the very
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