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This is the War India wants no one to know about
Came accross this during research on a paper on India. What do you guys think of it?
Predictably theres not much media attention but situation's serious!
Interesting articless:\
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/world/asia/01maoist.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1810169,00.html
One of the major problems being faced currently by India is the security threat posed by the Maoist freedom fighters. Theseare termed as rebels by the Indian state and are locally known as the Naxalites and are fighting for a free land where they can escape the oppression from the Indian state. The rebels were fighting for land reforms and gained support amongst the impoverished rural populations of states in central and eastern India. There Naxalite presence in one-third of the India,which is 16 of India’s 28 states. Manmohan Singh termed the freedom fighters as ‘the single largest internal security threat’ that the country has ever faced.
In 2009, rebels gained control of Lalgarh district in West Bengal and termed it as India’s first ‘liberated zone.’ . In in April 2010, 76 Indian soldiers were killed in the jungles of Chhattisgarh in the worst ever by th freedom fighters on Indian forces. Over the years the Naxalites have established control over vast forests stretching across the Indian mailand
Came accross this during research on a paper on India. What do you guys think of it?
Predictably theres not much media attention but situation's serious!
Interesting articless:\
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/world/asia/01maoist.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1810169,00.html
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