Four Questions for Naxal problem

Q.1- Does every person who has been wronged, pick up the gun and kill, kill and kill?

Then if the State and Central Government are trying hard to implement development projects in Naxal areas- why are such projects being targeted? Why are schools, health care centres, bridges and roads blown up regularly by the Maoists?

Here are some cases. There are many many more!

• Jharkhand- Bank closes after Naxals threaten it for refusing loans to buy weapons.

• Chattisgarh (Bastar)- Naxals stop work on 300 roads. The government has announced a lot of developmental schemes, like construction of roads, building of schools, colleges, water supply but the Maoists are putting hurdles in implementing these projects.

Naxal elements do not want the area to be developed as it impinges on their area of activity. Senior Political Scientist Mahendra Karna pointed out “They (Naxals) have destroyed health, education, drinking water facilities in the region.”

• Orissa (Balimela )- Power disrupted as Naxals attack Hydro Power Station.

• NH75 in Shambles due to Naxal Fear- it passes through the naxal infested but mining rich Chaibasa and Chakradharpur belt in West Singhbhum to the borders of Orrisa.

• Jharkhand- Maoists have all but stopped CIL from carrying supplies, choking off plants, says the firm’s chairman

Bhubaneswar: Maoists blew up four school buildings and a primary health centre.

UNESCO report focuses on school attacks by Maoists

A UNESCO global report has equated the CPI (Maoist)'s attacks on schools in Naxalite-dominated states with the systematic targeting of educational institutions by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The report says attacks on schools and teachers are "well publicized and the perpetrators" have "made public their intention to attack schools via published threats and orders". The report says 300 schools were blown up by extremists between 2006 and 2009. There was also an "increase" in the recruitment of children by Maoists between 2005 and 2007. 14 and 15-year-olds were recruited into armed squads in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.

Answer. 1- Naxals do what suits them. Too much development means satisfied & happy people & also means the constant presence of Govt machinery, which impedes the growth and collection drives of the Naxals. Hence better to stop development in practice but unleash a propaganda that govt does nothing for the poor! The Propaganda & plan would make Goebbels (Nazi Propaganda Minister) proud!


Q.2 Naxalism: A Rs 1500 crore red corridor empire

Naxalism, which started off as a people's movement, has now become an ideology less Rs 1500 crore organised extortion business in the form of 'levy'of 5 to 10%, in the Red Corridor states.
CPI (Maoist) and especially its splinter groups, which extort the money hardly pump it back for running the movement but instead use it to maintain luxurious lifestyles for their masters, the officials said. The chiefs lead a luxurious life with all modern facilities. Though, they forcibly recruit children in their cadre, their own kids study in good public schools.

The Naxal literature and documents seized have revealed details of "levy" extorted by groups which run in several hundred crores every year.

Interestingly, it is not just the Naxals who approach contractors for money but in some cases even the contractors approach the Naxals with money.
In certain incidents, contractors have themselves approached the Naxals to blow up the roads built by them because they had used inferior material at first place. As the roads are blown away, no quality inspection takes place.

The Naxals also encourage local villagers to undertake opium cultivation, just like insurgents in Northeast states.

Of the total 1.07 lakh kg of ganja or marijuana seized in the country in 2007, heavy quantity of it was from Nagaland (15,489 kg), Madhya Pradesh (14,815 kg), Maharashtra (12,551 kg), Chhattisgarh (7,470 kg) and Andhra Pradesh (7,059 kg).

West Midnapore police have claimed that the PCPA forcibly collected at least Rs 80 lakh a month from Lalgarh and Binpur residents after quizzing a treasurer of the outfit.

“Forests mean minerals, minerals mean money, money means guns, and guns mean power,”

Q. 3 Do Naxals exploit women and children?

Naxals forcibly recruit and train children for combat. At least 300 children were trained in the dense forests of Dhanbad and Giridih in Jharkhand under a crash course in the use of small arms.

Similar reports also come from Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh . Some years ago, the security forces rescued a group of girls from a camp of the erstwhile Maoist Communist Centre.

Amnesty International noted that the erstwhile PWG had recruited children between the ages of eight and 15 “believing that they could train children more effectively than women to resist police interrogation”.

Both boys and girls operate in rebel ranks. They have been utilized to gather intelligence, carry food and weapons, and to serve extortion notes. The children, being in an impressionable age, are susceptible to indoctrination.
Nevertheless, to prevent children from associating with left-wing extremists, security officials periodically visit hostels and counsel the students about the difficulties they could face if they join Naxalite groups.

Yes, it is a fact that Naxals have created specialized units consisting of minors. The children are more prone to brain wash than grown-ups and that is the primary reason why minors are targeted.
We were sexually exploited by comrades: Maoist women

Maoists who shout from the roof-top for taking up the cause of the poor are reported to have sexually exploited their women cadres.

Girls between 14 and 18 years of age were abducted by the ultras at gun-point from interior tribal villages and forced to have sex with them. Besides sex, they were utilized for cooking food for the ultras, making bombs and other errands.

The startling revelation was made by a local TV news channel in Orissa and also by surrendered women cadres in Bihar. Quoting Sabita Munda, the 20-year-old tribal girl who was holding the rank of an “area commander” who surrendered with a young male cadre, OTV news report said Maoist women cadres who raise their voice against were instructed by senior leaders to remain silent.
Abuse rampant

Two arrested hardcore Naxalites, Geeta Murmu and Anju Murmu, said they were also sexually exploited in the rebel camps.

“Twice I had to undergo abortion. On protest, I was told to keep shut or else I would be shot dead,” said Geeta, who was the “mistress” of sub-zonal naxal commander Chirag Da for two years.

Geeta gave graphic details of how they (a group of 200 woman Naxalites) were exploited in the dense forest areas of Belhar, which is considered to be a citadel of Maoists. “Some time back, my sister Anju Murmu too joined the naxal group. One night, she was on duty manning the borders of Banka and Jamui forest, when another Naxalite Battu gagged and raped her."

Q.4-Naxals say they do not kill / humiliate civilians. A Big Lie!

Here are a few cases:

• Maoists Kill Villager in AP Branding Him Police Informer

• Maoists insult school teachers -PCPA in Satpati village in West Bengal’s Midnapore district. publicly humiliated three school teachers for allegedly hiring incompetent staff. By holding a kangaroo court, pronouncing the 3 teachers guilty of hiring incompetent person and then garlanded with shoes and paraded in the village

• Maoists behead 2 people on Holi in Bihar’s Munger .

• Munger/Bankura - Cops beheaded like Francis Induwar.

• 8 of family burnt alive by naxals -Eight persons of a family, including women and children, were burnt alive by naxals at Koylibeda village in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on 13 Aug 2009.They had declined to obey the Maoists’ decision on a land dispute.

• In a shocking incident in Orissa, a maoist leader and his people killed a villager in a gruesome manner and then ate his flesh in front of the horrified villagers in an act of Cannibalism.

• Read Interview of Marshall (Former close aide of Kishenji), on Maoist terror against tribals:

“I want to ask Kishenji a simple question. Why do his men collect a levy of Rs 20 and 3 kg rice from every such poor and deprived tribal household at gun point in that case ? I know thousands of poor tribal families who are not in a position to meet Kishenji’s demands, but have to cough up the money out of sheer fright.”

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5684004.cms?prtpage=1

Answer 4- They kill, torture, behead, burn to death villagers who do not cooperate or who are informers according to them. So any one who raises a voice against them will be killed? Also See the casualties table above and read on: