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Luggu Hill becomes new Red bastion
Bokaro: The dense jungles and rough terrain of Luggu Hill have become a safe hideout for Maoists in Gomia block of the district. Security personnel are now keeping a strict vigil over Luggu Hill in order to conduct anti-Maoist search operations. Luggu Hill is situated close to Jhumra Hill range, which comprises dense jungles. There are natural bunkers and ravines where rebels hide their weapons and camouflage themselves. In March, police along with CRPF found a large stock of arms and ammunitions hidden away by rebels in the jungles of Luggu Hill.
In September, a police team found an improvised explosive device (IED) planted to target them at the foothills. On October 7, a joint team of police and CRPF arrested two hardcore Maoists, including a woman, from Tuti Jharna of Luggu Hill. Bermo DSP Neeraj Kumar, who led more than 12 search operations against Maoists in the past two months, said rebels are losing their stronghold over Jhumra as security personnel has been deployed in the area to thwart their plans.
According to sources, there are only 18 armed rebels in Jhumra Hill. “They have shifted base to Luggu Hill to take advantage of the rough terrain and dense jungles – a perfect hideout for them,” said Kumar. Kumar offers an explanation as to why Luggu Hill was chosen as the rebels’ new hideout. “Luggu and Jhumra Hill are situated close to each other and connected by a dense forest cover which extends to the foothills. When police intensified operations against rebels, they would find it easy to move from Jhumra to Luggu and vice-versa. We are now focused on intensifying operations in Luggu Hill to nab them,” said Kumar.
CRPF commandant Sanjay Kumar said frequent raids have been launched in the area to arrest the rebels. “Maoists would keep watch on us from hill. When a search operation is launched, Maoists would quickly escape through the forests. The Maoist squad in Luggu Hill is led by commander Santosh Mahto, who has charges pending against him,” said Kumar.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Luggu-Hill-becomes-new-Red-bastion/articleshow/49587894.cms
Maoists go on rampage in Chhattisgarh, kill two
Kill two persons, torch 30 vehicles in many districts
Many districts of Chhattisgarh witnessed intensified Maoist activity on Friday as the rebels killed two civilians and torched 30 vehicles at different locations. The Maoists killed Brujlal Tulavi (27) and Anil Kalko (30) of Kergatta village in Rajnandgoan district of the State and threw their bodies near Sawargaon village on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border. The rebels left a handwritten note near the bodies accusing Brujlal Tulavi and Anil Kalko of running a “secret network of police informers” in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.
“Brujlal and Anil have been punished for their anti-people activities. Both of them used to work as special police officers for the Chhattisgarh police and were running a network of police informers. They would inform the Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh police about the party’s movements,” said the note. In a separate incident, the Maoists torched 29 vehicles near Chargaon mines in Kanker district. According to some reports, a group of 60 to 70 Maoists trashed some drivers and cleaners of these vehicles resulting in injuries to many of them.
Bus torched
In another incident, the rebels set ablaze a passenger bus in Bhopalpatnam block of Bijapur district. No one was hurt in the incident as the Maoists asked the passenger to alight before setting it on fire. The incident took place on Dedheda-Gorella road of Bhopalpatnam and the ultras also left pamphlets appealing for ‘Bhopalpatnam Bandh’ in protest of the arrest of Maoist leader Bhima Singh.
Two Maoists arrested
On a day when, Bijapur, Rajnandgoan and Kanker police were battling Maoists, the Dantewada district police arrested two Maoists from Jhiraka area of the district. “Bhima alias Somaru Telami and Ayata alias Budhu Barasa were arrested by the District Reserve Guard (DRG) on Friday. Both the Maoists were active between Bhansi and Kamalur area of Dantewada,” said a press statement issued by Dantewada police.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/maoists-go-on-rampage-in-chhattisgarh-kill-two/article7824610.ece
Naxalites burned 29 vehicles in Chargaoon mines, Chattisgarh
Kanker, October 30: Naxalites burned down 29 vehicles in Chargaon mines, near Chattisgarh on Thursday night and attacked security forces as well. However there were unconfirmed reports about any severe injuries faced by the security forces. According to the officials reports the incident took place on Thursday night in Kanker district, Chattisgarh where a group of armed naxalites attacked the officials of Chargaon mines. The Chargaon police officials also fired several shots on the attackers but there was no casualties reported.
This year in April there were reports that five employees of a private mining company in the same region were kidnapped by Maoists from an iron ore reserve in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Kanker district, police said. However they were later released by the group. The incident occurred a day after when 50 bombs were recovered by the police in Latehar jungle, in the naxal hit Latehar district.
One naxalite was also killed during the operation carried out by police in the jungle on Wednesday. The combing operation was carried out by the police officials when they were tipped about the possible movement of naxalites in the region. Following the operation the security personnel recovered 50 bombs, four horses, a carbine. The cops are yet to ascertain the detail on Thursday incident which took place in Kanker district. There were no reported casualties in the incident.
http://www.india.com/news/india/naxalites-burned-29-vehicles-in-chargaoon-mines-chattisgarh-670535/
Two SPOs from Chhattisgarh killed by Naxals in Gadchiroli
Gadchiroli (Maha), Oct 30: Two Special Police Officers were killed allegedly by Naxals near a village on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border this morning. The deceased were identified as Brijlal Tulavi (27) and Anil Kalko (30). Both were residents of village Kergatta in Chhattisgarh, where they worked as SPOs, Gadchiroli district police said in a press release. A group of Maoists attacked the duo with sharp-edged weapons near Sawargaon village under Dhanora taluka on the Gadchiroli-Rajnandgaon inter-state highway, police sources said, adding that some Naxal pamphlets were found lying near their bodies.
An offence was registered with Dhanora Police Station in this regard and further investigations are on. Separately, police recovered about 20 kgs of explosives along with a bundle of wire and one detonator from roadside in Repanpalli forest area of the district, police said in another release.
http://www.oneindia.com/india/two-spos-from-chhattisgarh-killed-naxals-gadchiroli-1914428.html
BJP MP Giriraj Singh on Maoist radar
PATNA: Union minister Giriraj Singh is on the Maoist hit list, police sources said. The Union home ministry has sent an alert to the Bihar government that BJP MP from Nawada and minister of state for micro, small and medium enterprises is under the radar of the CPI (Maoist). IG special branch J S Gangwar said, “We received a letter from the IB a couple of days ago that Giriraj Singh is being targeted by the CPI (Maoist). However, the alert did not advise the upgradation of his security category. We have increased his security arrangement during his movement in the state.”
According to sources, the letter which was issued on October 24 by the IB said a CPI (Maoist) outfit plans to target Giriraj Singh for allegedly pursuing an anti-Dalit and anti-minority agenda in Bihar and elsewhere in the country. The IB input expressed the possibility of Giriraj Singh being targeted during the ensuing poll rallies during the ongoing Assembly elections in state. Giriraj Singh in his Twitter account posted the letter sent to the state police headquarters and tweeted, “Nitish is not looking serious about anyone’s security…be it me or people of Bihar…his govt can plot my killing.”
Despite the Maoists having boycotted the Bihar Assembly elections, not a single incident of Naxal violence was reported in the two-phase polls in all the red-hit districts. A senior Maoist leader had earlier told TOI that going by the people’s choice and mood of voting in the election, they are not likely to create any violence in this election. A source of security forces said, “Most of the Maoist cadres especially in Bihar belong to the lower castes, or a particular community. So they are apparently inclined to the Mahagathbandhan and are targeting the BJP functionaries.”
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/BJP-MPGiriraj-Singh-on-Maoist-radar/articleshow/49595388.cms
Chargesheet filed against Maoist leader Roopesh, others
Coimbatore: Tamil Nadu Q branch police on Friday filed a charge sheet against five Maoists, arrested in May from the city outskirts, before the Principal District Court here. The 4,700-page charge sheet has 626 documents and 186 witnesses. The copies of the charge sheet are likely to be given to the Maoists on November 2, when they are scheduled to be produced before Principal District Judge Pongiappan, police said. The Maoists, Roopesh and his wife Shyna, Kannan, Eswaran and Anoop were arrested from a bakery in Arumathampatti on May five by Andhra Pradesh Police after a joint operation by Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Police. About 20 cases were also pending against Roopesh in Kerala.
http://english.manoramaonline.com/news/just-in/chargesheet-against-maoist-roopesh-shyna-tamil-nadu.html
Maoist posters create flutter
Police intensify combing in rural areas, forests abutting tribal hamlets.
In view of these posters and reported ongoing recruitment into Maoist party, the police launched full scale operations. Wall posters that appeared near AP Rayons Factory in Kamalapur of Mangapet mandal caused commotion among people and police here. The posters were spotted in the wee hours of Thursday and they were issued in the name of Khammam-Karimnagar-Warangal (KKW) committee secretary Damodar. They featured a threat issued to Minister A. Chandulal, and TRS leader Umesh Reddy, holding them responsible for recent encounter in which Sruthi and Vidyasagar Reddy were killed by the police. They threatened to kill all those responsible for the encounter.
The naxals, through the posters, demanded that efforts be made to reopen BILT factory. They accused the TRS leaders of making a lot of promises but delivering nothing. The leaders should not venture into rural areas without addressing the issues facing people, else they would be shot dead, the naxals said. Meanwhile, the police dismissed them as fake posters but reportedly summoned surrendered naxals and are inquiring. Combing in rural areas and forests abutting the tribal hamlets were also intensified by policemen.
After a long gap, the posters by naxals are appearing in several parts of the district since one year. They appeared in Parkal and Mogullapalli mandals in which the naxals threatened the local contractors and politicians against encroachment of government land and illegal mining. In view of these posters and reported ongoing recruitment into Maoist party, the police launched full scale operations, both inside and outside forest areas.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/maoist-posters-create-flutter/article7820648.ece
Maoists in Western Ghats: part-II:
‘Wanted’ Thane man key Maoist operative in state
Investigations have revealed that Sanjay Deepak Rao (52) of Ambernath in Thane is leading the operations of the Western Ghats Special Zonal Committee (WGSPZ) of CPI-Maoists in Maharashtra. Rao’s name cropped up during the interrogation of top Maoist leader Konath Murlidharan alias Ajith alias Thomas Joseph (61) and his “courier” Ismail Hamza alias Jamesh Mathew (25), who were arrested by the Maharashtra ATS from Talegaon Dabhade in Pune on May 8, 2015. Rao has been named as a wanted accused in the chargesheet filed recently by the ATS.
http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/maoists-in-western-ghats-part-ii-wanted-thane-man-key-maoist-operative-in-state/
Naxal posters in Warangal threaten revenge for encounters
Wall posters that appeared near A.P. Rayons Factory in Kamalapur of Mangapet mandal caused commotion among people and police here in Warangal District. The posters were spotted in the wee hours of Thursday and they were issued in the name of Khammam – Karimnagar – Warangal (KKW) committee secretary of Maoist party Damodar. They featured a threat issued to Minister A. Chandulal and TRS leader Umesh Reddy holding them responsible for recent encounter in which Sruthi and Vidyasagar Reddy were killed by the police. They threatened to kill all those responsible for the encounter. The Naxals in the posters demanded that the efforts be made to reopen the BILT factory.
They accused the TRS leaders of making a lot of promises but delivered nothing so far. The leaders should not venture into rural areas without addressing the issues facing people else they would be shot dead, the naxals said. Meanwhile, the police dismissed them as fake posters but reportedly summoned the former naxals and are inquiring. The combing in rural areas and forests abutting the tribal hamlets were also intensified by armed policemen.
After a long gap, the posters by naxals are appearing in several parts of the district for the past one year. They appeared in Parkal and Mogullapalli mandals in which the naxals threatened the local contractors and politicians against encroachment of government land and illegal mining. In view of these posters and reported ongoing recruitment into Maoist party, the police launched full scale operations both inside and outside forest areas.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/naxal-posters-in-warangal-threaten-revenge-for-encounters/article7818783.ece
Security personnel on Red radar
BOKARO: The officials of district police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) are on alert following inputs that naxalites are keeping vigil on their movements and family probably with a plan to target them. Police have information that in past few days, Maoists have done reiki of two senior officers including ASP (operation), Sanjay Kumar and assistant commandant, CRPF, Siddarth Gautam. Besides there could be few other cops. However they have been alerted. Gautam is posted in Rehawan CRPF camp in Gomia while Kumar is leading naxal operations in that area.
The two officials are engaged in anti-naxal search operations launched in jungles of Jhumra, Luggu and other areas of Gomia and Nawadih blocks. Cops believe that such move of Maoists is in retaliation to the jolt faced by them with arrest of many naxals in police raids in past couple of months. District police jointly with CRPF have arrested about one and half dozen Maoists in past two months span in Gomia and neighbouring areas. Commandant of 26, Battalion, CRPF, Dr Sanjay Kumar confirmed that naxal are keeping eye on few officers who are leading raids against Maoists. “We have alerted the officials while intensified raids against the naxals in jungles and their hideouts in villages.
Maoists are panicky with continuous arresting of their sympathizers and squad members. 10 naxals are arrested in past 28 days,” said Commandant. According to a police officer, Maoists have lost their dominion in the area. There are only 18-20 Maoists left in the area, which are led by area commander, Santosh Mahto and sub-zonal commander, Duryodhan Mahto alias Mithlesh Singh. At present Duryodhan has exit the area and is now in Saranda. Santosh is leading naxal activities. Police have information, that Santosh hold a meeting with squad members recently at Simrabeda village of Jhumra. In the meeting he has formed a naxal team, who is dealt with a task to keep vigil on the movements of police officers.
CRPF officers have assessed that Maoists are avoiding encounters with police in jungles as they are very few in numbers. Naxals are keeping watch on police officers probably with a strategy to target them outside jungles. “Police have strengthened its intelligence network in the area. Based on information provided by our sources the arrests of so many naxals become possible. Our reliable sources have confirmed about the reiki of police officers being done by naxals,” said an officer. ASP, Operation, Sanjay Kumar said that he is alert following information. “I have discussed with my senior officials after sensing that naxals are keeping watch on me and my family. There are few other police and CRPF officers on whom Maoists are keeping watch”.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Security-personnel-on-Red-radar/articleshow/49578948.cms
Maoist threat to Giriraj Singh, Mukul Roy; MHA warns West Bengal govt
The MHA has warned that BJP MP Giriraj Singh and rebel TMC MP Mukul Roy may be under the radar of CPI(Maoists), as per India Today report. The ministry is said to have alerted the West Bengal government of the same.
http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/maoist-threat-to-giriraj-singh-mukul-roy-mha-warns-west-bengal-govt_1816018.html
Centre myopic on threat from left wing extremism in MP
The Narendra Modi government seems content to pursue its predecessor’s policy in dealing with the Maoists. Two steps forward and one backward was the UPA policy to deal with the Left Wing Extremists (LEW) for years now. While it prepares to launch a concerted offensive it is leaving enough loopholes for them to escape.
One sample is how it has dealt with them by cutting funds provided to Madhya Pradesh to fight the Maoist menace. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been demanding inclusion of at least five more districts in its list of Maoist-affected region while the Centre wants to delist even Balaghat, the only district it recognises as Maoist-affected after Chhattisgarh was carved out of the State 15 years ago. The decision obviously flows from the perception that no active violence has been seen in Balaghat district over the past few years.
http://www.abplive.in/blog/centre-myopic-on-threat-from-left-wing-extremism-in-mp
50 bombs found, cops exchange fire with Naxalites
LATEHAR: Around 50 bombs were recovered following an encounter between the police and Naxalites in Latu jungle of Naxal-hit Latehar district today, an official said.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/50-bombs-found-cops-exchange-fire-with-naxalites/articleshow/49572332.cms
Police bust arms factory in Bokaro, arrest 2 Maoist sympathizers
Bokaro, Oct 29 (ANI): Police in Bokaro city of Jharkhand busted a mini arms factory and arrested two Maoist sympathizers running it. A joint operation was conducted by police along with paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) after they got information about Maoist rebels planning to disrupt the ongoing elections for local village council in the state and attacking police patrol parties. This mini arms factory was also a workshop where the two accused, identified as Kullo Prajapati and Talo Manjhi, also carried out repair work for Maoist weapons.
Superintendent of Police (SP), YS Ramesh, said the two had a record of carrying out blasts in neighbouring Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. The two men were running the factory from the premises of their home itself. The joint team of police and CRPF seized three muzzle loading weapons and a wide variety of tools used for manufacturing arms and weapons.
http://www.aninews.in/videogallery2/44790-police-bust-arms-factory-in-bokaro-arrest-2-maoist-sympathizers.html
Combing intensified
Forest and police personnel intensified their combing operations in the Thirunelly forest area under the North Wayanad forest division on Wednesday in search of a group that reportedly distributed pamphlets on Maoist ideals at Gundikapparambu, near Thirunelly, on Tuesday night. Police sources said a seven-member group, including two women, came to Gundikapparambu around 7.15 p.m., shouted slogans and distributed printed pamphlets in a tribal colony and nearby shops, urging the people to boycott the local body elections.
They pasted posters on the walls decrying the elections. The group left the site after purchasing provisions such as rice and tomato from a shop. Later, a member of the group came to a private homestay in the area around 11 p.m., demanding cigarettes from the owner, sources added.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/combing-intensified/article7816661.ece
Three CRPF personnel injured in IED blast in Chhattisgarh
Three Constables of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were injured in an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) blast in Sukma District on October 28, reports The Hindu. Commenting on the matter Santosh Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Operations, Sukma said “A pressure IED, planted by the Maoists, exploded near Burkapal CRPF camp of Sukma when a team of CRPF’s 74th battalion was out as a road opening party. Three CRPF men suffered injuries in the incident.” The explosion took place when one trooper accidentally put his foot on the pressure IED.
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=10/29/2015&id=7#7
The young communists who were the target of the Suruç massacre made a call to join them to oppose the macabre plans of AKP-DAESH. “We refuse this system” say armed communist youth, calling on the youth of Turkey and Kurdistan to cross borders and fight together to strengthen the struggle for freedom.
Etkin Haber Ajansi – Saturday, October 24, 2015, 4:49 p.m.
Kandil – After declaring “We refuse this system and all its institutions,” the young communists burned their identity papers and entered the liberated areas, with a call to join the front. The declaration of the Communist Youth Organization (KGO) calls on the young men and women to strengthen the struggles against every persecution, oppression due to war, fascism, sexism and inequality.
We are the rebellious soul of youth killed in Suruç and Gezi
“We are the youth murdered in Pirsus (Suruç). We are the children of the mother Meryem whose white turban was mixed with the blood in Ankara, we are the comrades of twelve years old Veysel. We are the rebellious soul of Gezi. We are the bridge between the past and the future, the united voice of the Turkish and Kurdish youth, the consciousness of oppressed youth. ” This statement was made by activists of the Communist Youth Organisation (KGO) Roza Peyman in Turkish and Erdal Cebo in Kurdish.
Peyman and Cebo remembered that the youth who were murdered in Suruç (Pirsus) wanted to support the Rojava revolution by participating in the reconstruction of Kobane, and continued by saying “The workers and laborers gathered in Ankara were there for asking peace and brotherhood against those who committed the massacres, from Kizildere to Madimak, and of Roboski. We know the identity of those who murdered children on the streets of Cizre, Silopi or Gever. We will not forget any of them, we will not forgive and we will hold them to account. ”
For a new life, let’s go beyond the limits of the system
Peyman and Cebo said the system was forcing young people to surrender, to accept a life without honor or future, and that young people who do not accept it are murdered … It’s because they do not accept this system that young communists joined the liberated areas. In the statement read by Peyman and Cebo, they made a call to the youth to “go beyond their limits”:
“We go outside those limits to build a new life of struggle and reject the State, which is responsible for the massacres from Suruç to Ankara, from Gever to Cizre. We want to strengthen the flame of the revolution and the red flag that we received from Mahir, Deniz, Ibrahim and Mazlum. Neighborhoods with university campuses, cafes, workplaces, it’s time to go beyond our limits. We have many options to become like Ali, like Suphi, like Ivana and to crush the rulers in their own system. To build a world where the oppressed will hold power, let us turn to the land of the revolution, the streets, the barricades, the mountains, let’s turn to the liberated areas. ”
Calling all young people: “Join our ranks”
Peyman and Cebo reminded the youth that they have a choice, and particularly to young Muslims “Muslim brothers and sisters, the AKP and DAESH play with your deepest feelings, despise you and dishonor you. You should not join them. Join our ranks to fight a honorable and fair struggle”. They recalled the importance of the fight for the unity of the youth of Turkey and Kurdistan “Poor people from Anatolia, rebels from the Black Sea, rebel Kurdish children, young Alevis walking on the path of Pir Sultan Abdal, come all to hoist the flag of our struggle, to strengthen our struggle for freedom. ”
We have the strength to change this social order which destroys the woman
Roza Peyman appealed to women: “We have the strength to change this social order which destroys woman, which demeans the spirit of woman which rejects the will of the woman. Come to demolish this life and be reborn from the ashes. Come to take back our stolen freedom. With our strength, let’s walk to victory through the path of the war. Let us become Yasemin, or Arin, or Sarya. Come strengthen women’s revolution. And for that’s, let’s put us more forward, let’s us become leaders and commanders. ”
Strengthen our fight, join the KGO
In the declaration, a call was made by the Communist Youth, to the youth of all sections of society “to accomplish the songs and dreams of the peace ambassadors in Anakara, of the 33 in Suruç, of Berkin and Ali Ismail in Gezi “.
The declaration is directed to students, workers, unemployed, Turkish, Kurdish, Laz, Arabic, Circassian, Armenian, young women and men, LGBT, young peasants and says “Come support the rage and rebellion of the oppressed; give strength to our struggle, join the Organization of the Communist Youth. Fight in the ranks of MLKP for equality, freedom and justice. Come lets unite for the victory of the revolution and socialism. Let’s crush them under their dirty order, blood and crimes. Let’s make their fortresses of state prosecution into their graveyards ” Peyman and Cebo finally declared : “Revolt! Revolt! Revolt! Till Victory!” Young Communists ended their statement by gunfire.
Via New Turkey
A statement by the Progressive Palestinian Youth Union and the Progressive Student Labor Front on imprisoned Arab internationalist freedom fighter Georges Abdallah
The French state persists in its imprisonment of Arab struggler, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, in its jails for over 30 years, refusing to release him despite a prior decision of French courts to do so. The Palestinian Progressive Youth Union and the Progressive Student Labor Front consider the continued imprisonment of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah as a disgrace on the French state, revealing the ugly face of imperialism to the world as a permanent partner of Zionism, continuing to commit crimes against the Palestinian people and the people of the region with a full sanction, green light and absolute support from world imperialist powers.
Despite the cruelty and the development of events and conditions inside our occupied homeland, the bleeding wounds of Palestine, this will not prevent us from continuing our support with the imprisoned Arab and internationalist struggler Georges Abdallah, and organizing events and actions to pressure France for his release, as a fighter for freedom and justice and for the liberation of peoples and the end of occupation and oppression. His case is inseparable from the cause of the Palestinian people. In this context, we, in the Palestinian Progressive Youth Union and the Progressive Student Labor Front, emphasize the following:
1. We are continuing our preparations for solidarity actions with the struggler Georges Abdallah, with the particular goal to change the name of Charles De Gaulle Street in Gaza City, to Georges Abdallah Street, in order to send a message to the French state that the struggler Georges Abdallah is a symbol of Arab and international struggle, who deserves to have his name on the streets and squares of Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip.
2. We emphasize the inherent value of the imprisoned radical revolutionary struggler Georges Ibrahim Abdallah’s consistent support for the resistance of our people against the Zionist entity. The struggle against imperialism and Zionism is one and indivisible.
3. We direct our salutes to the international solidarity campaigns to free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Ahmad Sa’adat and Khalida Jarrar, and also to Coup Pour Coup 31, the anti-imperialist collective in France which is playing a leading role in organizing events in France to free Georges Abdallah, as well as the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, and the Handala Center of Prisoners and Released Prisoners, and all of the comrades, solidarity groups, popular organizations and activists around the world who are taking up these campaigns.
4. We reaffirm the unity and cohesion of the struggle against imperialism, including the issue of the imprisoned freedom fighter Georges Abdallah, and the struggle of the Palestinian people against Zionism.
Progressive Student Labor Front
Palestinian Progressive Youth Union
Gaza Strip
Top Maoist held in Pune spills beans on ‘expansion’ plan
Interrogations of top Maoist leader Konath Murlidharan alias Ajith (61) and his “courier” Ismail Hamza (25), arrested by the Maharashtra ATS from Talegaon Dabhade in Pune on May 8, 2015, has revealed details of merger of Communist Party of India-CPI (ML) Naxalbari and the CPI (Maoist), considered as an “important” development in the left-wing extremist (LWE) movement in the country. A native of Ernakulam in Kerala and son of a former diplomat, Ajith was the national secretary of the CPI (ML) Naxalbari.
The merger took place after his meeting with Ganapathy, the general of CPI (Maoists), for 10 days in November-December 2013, at an undisclosed location. After the merger, Ajith was appointed as central committee member of CPI-Maoists and given the task of publication of People’s March Magazine, propaganda material, integration of cadres of CPI-ML Naxalbari with the Western Ghat Special Zonal Committee (WGSPC) of CPI-Maoists and carrying out party work in urban areas, including Pune and Mumbai. Apparently, Ajith started staying in Pune with Ismail, but was arrested. Assistant commissioner of police (ATS) Bhanupratap Barge confirmed that a chargesheet was filed in connection with the case in a special court on October 14. Ajith and Ganpathy held meet for 10 days
Different Maoist outfits in the country merged to form the CPI-Maoist in September 2004. But the CPI (ML) Naxalbari was away from it as its leaders had ideological differences over interpretation of Maoism, the manner of armed struggle and international connections. CPI (ML) Naxalbari had four state committees, in Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashta. But after suffering setbacks in all states, the outfit decided to merge with CPI-Maoists. Accordingly, they sent a letter to Ganpathy through the Kerala state committee of CPI-Maoists.
Around June 2013, Ganpathy replied to it. The CPI (ML) Naxalbari leaders, including Ajith and Sanjay Deepak Rao of Maharashtra, held a meeting at Thrissur in Kerala in August 2013, where they decided to merge with CPI-Maoist and join the armed struggle. According to the chargesheet filed against Ajith, he went to Howrah in November-December 2013 and from there to Jharkand by bus. He was received by about 10 armed Maoists in uniform near a Jain temple in Giridh district.
After walking on foot for two days, they reached a place where about 75 cadres welcomed Ajith with revolutionary songs and Maoist slogans. Here, Ganpathy came forward to greet Ajith. They had tea together in a tent. The two leaders then held discussions on merger agenda, future actions and other issues for the next 10 days. Interrogation revealed that Ajith and Ganpathy discussed several ideological, political and operational issues, including the situation of PLGA forces and armed struggle, loss of leadership in urban areas. During a meeting, Ganpathy said that technical team of CPI-Maoists had capabilities of manufacturing rocket launchers.
Ganpathi also criticised the tactics followed by Communist Party of Nepal (CPN-Maoist) led by Prachanda. He doubted Prachanda’s links with India’s R&AW. Ajith and Ganpathy also talked about the possibility of BJP coming to power and growth of RSS. They also discussed the draft of their merger declaration, which was signed by both and then released on May 1, 2014. Ajith shifts to Pune Probe revealed that Ajith underwent a bypass surgery at the Usha Cullappade hospital in Hyderabad in October 2012 in the fake name of Rajendra. Due to health problems, he decided to stay in an urban area. After interaction with Kuppuswamy, in-charge of the Maoist operations in Western Ghats, he shifted to Maharashtra with the help of Sanjay Rao.
A “dedicated” Maoist cadre Ismail, who is also a suspect in attacks carried out by WGSPC on KFC and McDonald’s outlets in Kerala in December 2014, joined Ajithj as “courier.” Ajith and Ismail operated with fake names of Thomas Joseph and James Mathew respectively. They managed to get fake Aadhaar card, PAN card and other documents. Rao helped them get a flat on rent in Lotus villa, Talegaon Dabhade. The duo regularly got money from the Maoist party. From Pune, Ajith travelled to Mumbai, Kerala and other areas for medical check-ups and party meetings. He also looked for potential recruits. ATS probe has revealed that Ajith and Sanjay Rao tried to indoctrinate Sameer Sane, a government employee from Thane, and a businessman Ketan Kamat. The duo allegedly provided SIM card and Internet dongle in their names to Ajith. His history-sheet and international links Ajith’s father retired from the Indian Foreign Service in 1971.
Ajith did his schooling in China, Romania and Denmark during his father’s posting to these countries. He completed SSC from an Ernakulam school and took admission in the regional engineering college (REC), Kozhikode, but left the college in final semester to join the underground naxal movement with K Venu in 1975. He was arrested by Kerala police in a few cases of violence and was also lodged in Kannur jail between March 1976 to June 1978. In 1998, he married V C Jenny, who later left him. His son Nachiketas is a software engineer in Kochi. Ajith had lived with his wife at Vilas Sonawane’s residence in Dombivili in Mumbai when he was introduced to Sameer Sane. He had meetings with Kobad Ghandy, Kishesnji and other top Maoist leaders at different locations.
He and K Venu participated in the revolutionary international movement conference in Paris in 1984, where he went on fake passport obtained from Bangalore. He also attended a meeting of Maoists in Nepal in 2011. Ajith’s writings like “Against Avakainism” are popular among Maoist supporters in foreign countries. After his arrest, a few international groups supporting Maoist movement in India started an online campaign demanding his release.
http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/top-maoist-held-in-pune-spills-beans-on-expansion-plan/
Maoists urge people to boycott election in Wayanad
Thirunelli (Wayanad): A group of armed persons, suspected to be Maoists, allegedly distributed a set leaflets, carrying a call to boycott the upcoming local body elections, among local people at Government Ashram School junction, near here, on Tuesday night. According to the police, the seven-member gang including two women arrived at the village on the foothills of the Brahmagiri mountain range around 7.30 pm on Tuesday. After taking out a procession carrying firearms, they shouted slogans and handed over copies of the handwritten pamphlets to the local residents. At the time of the incident, there were around 20 local people at the spot, the police said. The group also pasted posters on the walls in the area.
The black-and-white posters alleged that ‘Thirunelli has become a hub of illegal activities due to the ill-conceived policies of the authorities’. The gang also told the locals that they would not allow new resorts to come up in the area. Later, they disappeared in the forest after purchasing rice and vegetables from a local grocery store, the police said. Though the Kerala Thunderbolt, the elite paramilitary commando unit of the Kerala Police, launched combing operations in the dense forest immediately after the incident, the search has so far failed to yield any results. The police have taken a serious note of the incident which took place after the arrest of Roopesh, who was accused of coordinating the activities of the banned outfit in the state.
http://english.manoramaonline.com/in-depth/kerala-lsg-elections-live-latest-news/pro-maoist-posters-boycott-election-thirunelli-wayanad.html
Villagers Attack Police Team, SAP Jawan Killed
BEGUSARAI: A SAP jawan was beaten to death and six other policemen, including a SHO, were injured when villagers attacked a police team which had gone to arrest a Maoist operative in Kushmahat village of Nima Chandpura police station limits of Bihar’s Begusarai district. Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar said on a tip-off that a Maoist operative Bauna Sada was hiding in Kushmahat village, a police team led by SHO Amit Kumar raided the village and arrested him.
However, the villagers started hurling stones at the police team and freed the Maoist, the SP said adding, the police opened fire in its defence. One SAP jawan Surendra Kumar Jaiswal, a resident of Purnea district, was caught by the villagers who beat him to death, Kumar said. All six injured policemen, including the SHO, have been admitted to Sadar hospital for treatment, the SP said. Kumar said the police have launched a combing operation to nab the Maoists and have taken a dozen persons in custody for their alleged involved in the incident.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Villagers-Attack-Police-Team-SAP-Jawan-Killed/2015/10/27/article3100503.ece
Away in Rajbari, police arrested a regional leader of an outlawed party and recovered five firearms and ammunition from Pachuria in Sadar upazila on Monday afternoon, reports our Kushtia correspondent. The arrestee is Akram Hossain, 44, a regional leader of outlawed Maoist Bolshevik Organisation Movement, police said. Acting on a tip, a team from Detective Branch (DB) of police in Rajbari raided a mahogany orchard at Pachuria village where cadres of the outlawed party were holding a clandestine meeting at about 3:30pm, Rajbari Superintendent of Police Zihadul Kabir told a press briefing at his office yesterday. Police arrested Akram, while his accomplices managed to flee.
http://www.thedailystar.net/country/gang-member-held-after-gunfight-sundarbans-163243
Ten years have passed since Bouna and Zied, two youths aged 17 and 15 years, found the death in an electrical transformer, as police hunted them. 10 years ago the banlieues flared at the news of this new murder police. Throughout France, in popular neighborhoods, young people rebelled for almost a month and a half against the police and the bourgeois state. A new specter appeared to the bourgeoisie and its state and for all the European imperialist bourgeoisie who saw new uprisings, from Stockholm to London and also in Ferguson for the imperialist bourgeoisie of the United States.
Faced with this revolt, the bourgeoisie had to declare a state of emergency, which had not been declared since the war in Algeria. From right to left and extreme left too, convictions accumulated against this righteous anger and a mobilization of this magnitude. The so-called ‘revolutionaries’ showed their true face siding with the bourgeoisie and not with the popular masses in struggle. Since the beginning of the revolt, the Maoists have said that this was fully legitimate and that the role of the revolutionaries was to be at the side of the rebels against the police. “It’s right to rebel!” that’s what we hammered in front of all those who have found every excuse imaginable and possible to discredit the just struggle of young people from popular banlieues.
The Maoists have been among the only political forces to be on the field at the very center of the places of the uprising to support it. 10 years later the situation has only worsened. The bourgeoisie discharges the economic crisis on the backs of proletarians, and this reflects even more in popular areas where they almost exclusively proletarians live. Unemployment is 2.5 times higher than the rest of the territory, reaching 45% among young people; the proportion of precarious employment contracts is greater; the poverty rate is three times higher; immigrants or people of immigrant origin are more numerous, suffering, in addition, the oppression of racism; there are more single-parent families, which means more women (90% of single-parent families) in difficult situations (unemployed 50%); housing conditions are more difficult than elsewhere.
In a situation where the state racism is evident, where unemployment is on the rise and working conditions are becoming tougher, the popular quarters are at the forefront in the offensive of the bourgeoisie against the working class. And the police continue to maim, countless are eyes lost because of the fired rubber bullets, and killing, from Wissam El- Yamni to Amine Bentousi the list is long, every year the police kills more than ten people in our neighborhoods… and we see the same thing in all the imperialist countries. The revolt of the banlieues is proof that the proletarian youth cannot crushed and is able to react in France as in all the imperialist countries. Even today, we continue to say that it is right to rebel! Today we must say that it is right to answer to the violence of the bourgeois state through revolutionary violence. So as it is right to support all the struggles that develop outside the rules of the bourgeois state – as at Air France, etc.
The Bloc Rouge (unification of the Maoists) and the Maoist Communist Party – Italy, organize an international meeting in occasion of the 10 years of the revolt in the banlieues, as we did in 2006. Because it is necessary – before and now – to reflect and find a guide to action so that the riots become part of the march of the proletarian revolution in the imperialist countries. We invite all communist forces, revolutionary and progressive at international level to attend this meeting and to contribute in all possible forms.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance!
Against the imperialist bourgeoisie and all reactionaries, it is right to rebel!
Dare to struggle, dare to win!
Bloc Rouge (unification of the Maoists) – France blocrouge@gmail.com
Maoist Communist Party – Italy pcro.red@gmail.com
Kiren Rijiju on IAF deployment in October 25th interview
ASHUTOSH BHARDWAJ: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has been operating its choppers in Bastar for several years now, but they have never opened fire on Naxals. But a few days ago, it conducted exercises with the Chhattisgarh Police and it has now changed its strategy and will open fire on Naxals from aircraft. How was this new strategy decided, and do you think this will change the course of the anti-Naxal operations?
[Kiren Rijiju]Involving the Indian Army, Navy or Air Force is the ultimate step. When the defence forces are called in, it means that the situation is very, very grim and there is a need to be decisive. So there is a good reason for the IAF providing aid and support to the conventional agencies that have been conducting the operations already. When the IAF is involved, it will be decisive. I cannot discuss the nitty-gritty of the operations, but these will be effective.
http://www.financialexpress.com/article/miscellaneous/we-must-respect-sentiments-of-all-sections-of-society-that-is-why-we-cant-generalise/156426/
Simply put: Why raining fire on Maoist rebels could singe the state too
Commandos have practised strafing in Chhattisgarh — though IAF has said it won’t undertake offensive strikes on Maoists.
SUSHANT SINGH explains the issues
Is firing of small arms from helicopters the same as carrying out airstrikes?
No. Commandos firing small arms from helicopters is not even the same as using an attack helicopter in gunship mode. In gunship mode, the medium machine gun fitted in the helicopter’s nose pod fires. A helicopter in gunship mode is at a much lower spectrum of airpower usage than airstrikes by fighter or bomber aircraft.
What is India’s policy on using airpower against domestic insurgencies?
Jawaharlal Nehru turned down the Army’s request for use of airpower against Naga insurgents in the mid-1950s, provoking some officers to complain that they were being forced to fight with a hand tied behind their backs. But the Army accepted the limits imposed on the use of heavy force — artillery or airpower — and this has been the standing principle ever since. At its heart also is the understanding that domestic insurgencies need political solutions, that have only limited use for military power.
So, has India never used airpower against domestic insurgents?
Yes, it has — in Mizoram. On February 28, 1966, Mizo National Front rebels captured the government treasury at Aizawl and besieged the 1st Assam Rifles headquarters in the town, along with the posts at Champai, Darngaon, Vaphai, Lungleh and Demagiri, which housed both the troops and their families. Indira Gandhi ordered out Hunter and Toofani aircraft which used guns and air-to-ground rockets to break the rebel siege. On March 4, 1966, Hunter and Toofani formations attacked predesignated targets in Aizawl.
Has it ever contemplated the use of helicopter gunships against insurgents?
Following the success of armed helicopters in the Kargil War, it was decided, in 2000, to use helicopter gunships against terrorists in the Kashmir Valley. Two Mi-35s were prepared for the role — but after a couple of failed attempts at coordinating with the Army officer who could not be accommodated in the cockpit, a decision was taken to use the bigger Mi-17s instead. An Mi-17 crew did, on one occasion, fire at militants on the ground, but the results could not be ascertained.
In Kargil, the Pakistanis were on snow-bound terrain with no vegetation, far from inhabited areas. During Valley missions, on the other hand, helicopters had to operate close to populated areas with vegetation that was dense at places — providing terrorists cover, and making it very difficult to distinguish friend from foe from the air. The experiment was quickly abandoned.
What is the argument for not using helicopter gunships in Chhattisgarh?
If the conflict has not been found severe enough for the Army to be called out, it follows that there is little rationale for using the IAF either. Induction of the IAF could appear as an admission of the Maoists’ strength, reinforce the air of invincibility about them, and have a negative psychological impact on the population. If the Maoists succeed in downing a helicopter, the pressure to retaliate could lead to the deployment of fighter aircraft — an escalation that must be avoided.
Again, given the thickly forested terrain of Chhattisgarh, and the manner in which Maoists often operate — mixing with the rural population — it will be difficult to distinguish innocents from insurgents. The US air force has made mistakes in Afghanistan, and the level of technology at which Indian forces operate is far lower. Any killing of innocents will be counterproductive in counterinsurgency ops, which are about controlling the terrain and winning over the population. Also, breaching the principle of no use of heavy force in counterinsurgency will establish a new threshold for using airpower internally. Security forces could start expecting its use more frequently in disturbed areas.
And what is the argument for using helicopter gunships in Chhattisgarh?
A helicopter is most vulnerable while coming in to land and, if shot at, the immediate reaction of the pilot is to raise the “collective” and fly out of the danger bubble. It follows, therefore, that there is a case for sanitising the landing area by offensive fire from the air prior to the helicopter sitting down. The IAF could also have another helicopter hovering in perch, looking out for hostile activity from the ground, and answering it with machinegun fire.
During the Algerian insurgency, the French mastered the art of clearing the landing ground of insurgents by offensive action, and timing the arrival of helicopters just after such actions. The troop-carrying helicopters would also be similarly covered from the air. Attack helicopters could also be used to neutralise Maoist camps from the air, and troops could then be used for mopping-up operations.
http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/simply-put-why-raining-fire-on-maoist-rebels-could-singe-the-state-too/
Jharkhand Police to Get Custody of Maoist Leader
KOCHI: A team of Jharkhand Police arrived here on Monday to take custody of Maoist leader Jitendra Oraon who was arrested in Angamaly on October 9 by the Ernakulam Rural Police. Oraon will be taken into custody in connection with cases registered against him for Maoist activities in Jharkhand. Speaking to Express, DySP P P Shams, who is in charge of the investigation, said Oraon was sent back to judicial custody on Monday upon expiry of his 12-day police custody.
“The Jharkhand Police are expected to approach the local court in the coming days to obtain transit warrant for taking him to Jharkhand,” said police officials. According to them, Oraon is a notorious fugitive in Jharkhand and that it was under his leadership the Maoists attacked a CRPF camp at Lawar Picket Post in Jharkhand in 2011, killing 11 police personnel and abducting many along with SLR and AK-47 guns. “He is wanted in several ambush cases also, including an attack on policemen in the Makhanpur forests in 2010. He was also part of a Maoist attack on CRPF personnel in 2008,” said the police.
“In 2005, another guerrilla squad led by Oraon attacked the Dabri CRPF camp in Sarju Village, leaving several CRPF personnel injured. Oraon, who was declared a fugitive, become an integral part of the outlawed organisation in 2002 after he murdered a resident in his home village Sarju. He also underwent training on usage of weapons, including AK-47, 303 riffles, self-loading rifles and double-barrel guns, in the Choraha, Banduva, Karchu, Chachu and Godang villages in Jharkhand,” stated the police in an official release.
Oraon had been staying in Angamaly for the past three years. He was working in an electric-wire manufacturing firm when the police took him into custody, based on an intelligence tip-off. He had procured a lot of mobile SIM cards from Kerala, and had sent them to Jharkhand for coordinating Maoist operations.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/Jharkhand-Police-to-Get-Custody-of-Maoist-Leader/2015/10/27/article3099058.ece
Spurt in Maoist violence triggers fear
A sense of fear has gripped the far-flung areas in Dummugudem mandal bordering Chhattisgarh following the spurt in Maoist violence in the strife-ridden Sukma district of the neighbouring State. The incident in which Maoists allegedly killed a CRPF constable and injured another jawan in an ambush on a CRPF team at Maraiguda in Chhattisgarh on Sunday night triggered fear in the remote villages in Dummugudem mandal along the volatile Telangana-Chhattisgarh border.
The Bhadrachalam sub-division police stepped up vigil in interior villages including Kothapalli, Cherupalli and Ramachandrunipeta in Dummugudem mandal on Monday in the aftermath of the stepped up violence by the rebels in the trouble-torn areas of neighbouring Chhattisgarh. Meanwhile, the CRPF constable Sudheer, who sustained an ankle injury in the ambush by the rebels in Sukma district on Sunday night, is recovering at the government area hospital in Bhadrachalam. His condition was stated to be out of danger. He was brought to the hospital on Sunday night.
A post-mortem was performed on the body of CRPF jawan Ashok Kumar, who was killed in the same incident in Chhattisgarh, at the government hospital in Bhadrachalam on Monday. His body was sent to his native place in Rajasthan later in the day.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/spurt-in-maoist-violence-triggers-fear/article7807671.ece
Police Step Up Vigil in Border Areas
KHAMMAM: Police have intensified combing operations in Telangana-Chhattisgarh border following burning of vehicles by Maoists near Telangana border on Saturday night. Large police force including grey hounds, CRPF and special party police have been deployed in border areas. The development is creating fear among tribals residing in border villages as they are worried about exchange of fire between police and Maoists. It is said that top police officials have instructed district level officials to take serious steps to curb Maoists’ activity in the state.
Maoists had burnt more than 30 vehicles of road work in border villages in Chhattishgarh, spreading panic among border area people. It is said that they did this to make their presence felt strongly as they had suffered a set back following surrender of Khammam party district secretary Kiran alias Siva Reddy and some other dalam members. According to intelligence reports, Maoists are planning something big to create sensation among public and police. A senior police officer said that Maoists are also recruiting tribal youth in a big way to strengthen the party in both states. “The burning of vehicles was aimed at creating panic among people and police,” he added. A divisional level police officer also said that they had alerted all 11 police stations which are located in border areas to keep a close watch on Maoist movements.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/telangana/Police-Step-Up-Vigil-in-Border-Areas/2015/10/27/article3099504.ece
Maoists set ablaze two battery vehicles in Andhra Pradesh
The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres torched two battery vehicles between Kamaluru-Bansi railway stations of the Kothavalasa-Kirandul (KK) line on October 26, reports The New Indian Express. Sources said that though the staff in the battery cars escaped safely, the Maoists reportedly took their mobile phones and walkie-talkies.
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=10/27/2015&id=5#5
Information Center: Yeni Demokrat Genclik (YDG) made a statement on the TIKKO guerrilla fighters who died in Dersim, retracing the events of recent months in Turkey and Kurdistan. All of these fighters for the people used to belong to YDG, and the youth movement honors those martyrs » Cengiz, Hakan and Özgüç … These comrades, with whom we have campaigned side by side, have long fought to expand the movement Yeni Demokrat Gençlik among young people and become a major force fighting against fascism. These comrades, by martyrdom without surrender and by fighting, honored and praised the struggle of youth ! Their struggle is our struggle !
The People’s Fighters are Immortal ! Your struggle is our struggle !
3 TIKKO guerrilla fighters died in a clash during a operation of the fascist Turkish state in Dersim / Ovacık (Pulur) on the night of 21-22 October. Three fighters of the people, Cengiz İçli (Ünal), Hakan Çakır (Yurdal) Özgüç Yalçın (Sefkan), who devoted their lives to the liberation and independence of the people, have fallen as martyrs during an operation, supported by aviation, who started around 23 o’clock near the village of Şahverdi in Ovacık. Beginning with the Suruç Massacre, the fascist state of Turkish Republic launched a violent and total offense against the patriotic forces (PKK) and the revolutionary forces under the guise of « struggle against terrorism ».
While the state was exposed during this massacre, employing the barbaric activists of DAESH, it launched the offensive against progressive forces, shamelessly trying to blame the patriots and revolutionaries for it. In these operations, more than 3,000 people were arrested and more than 1,000 were imprisoned. In parallel, the fascist Turkish state has stepped up military operations and bombings, inside and outside it borders. Bombarding the villages of Zergele to Kandil, the state massacred the people living there. Likewise, using snipers,a massacres policy began when martial law was declared from Muş to Amed, in the four corners of Turkish Kurdistan.
With the same savagery that Israel demonstrates against the Palestinian people, the vicinity of Şırnak and Cizre was declared a Special Security Area and the army occupied the city and implemented a curfew for 10 days. Dozens of people, including children and old people were massacred. In addition, by desecrating the naked body of Ekin Wan, who fell a martyr in a clash in the town of Varto in Muş, the state has shown once again how much it is afraid of women’s resistance.
More than 100 people died, and several hundred were injured, when the state, still using its puppets in DAESH, caused the massacre in front of the Ankara station on 10 October. The State, with the AKP at its head, has shown us all the savagery which it can use against the people, and continues to show it ! While in the west, it attacks every protest and kill revolutionary activists in there homes, in the east, the state is bombing martyr’s graves. Everywhere in Turkish Kurdistan, military operations are carried out in order to destroy and neutralize the guerrillas. It is in this context that three women from the PKK guerrilla fell martyrs after the bombing operations on the martyr cemetery of Pülümür in Dersim.
All these actions, arrests, martial law and massacres, bombings or specific operations against the guerrillas have one goal: that the oppressed, our working class, give up the fight ! But in vain ! You cannot do it ! Neither arrests nor imprisonment, nor massacres will stop the legitimate struggle and resistance of our people ! The three guerrilla fighters of the TKP/ML TIKKO who fall in Ovacık are, like the other fighters of the people who died in martyrdom, seeds sown on the earth. The red flag that they waved on top of those mountains didn’t fall and will never fall. They opened the wings of immortality on the way to freedom and salvation of the working class. They fought for the liberation of Kurdish people whose language, culture, politics are ignored, cut into pieces by assimilation, destruction and denial.
They were fighting for the oppressed of each people and each oppressed belief, for every culture and prohibited creed. They resisted for the liberation of women, victims of domestic and marital violence who die every day at the hands of men. They fought against oppression, violence and terror by which neoliberal attacks rob the youth of the people. Now each of them took an honorable place in history as a symbol of resistance. Each paid his tribute and was on each field of the struggles of youths, and now these have become immortal comrade by becoming an example for others. Cengiz, Hakan and Özgüç … These comrades, with whom we have campaigned side by side, have long fought to make the movement Yeni Demokrat Gençlik organizing every young people and become a major force fighting against fascism. Our comrades were the developers and animators of our countryside, of our conferences and of our village activities. These comrades, by martyrdom without surrendering and by fighting, honored and praised the struggle of youth ! Their struggle is our struggle !We will raise on the highest mountains the flag that they gave us !
Revolutionary Martyrs are immortal !
The People’s Fighters are Immortal !
Yeni Demokrat Gençlik
Via New Turkey
Naxals set road construction machines on fire, threaten labourers
Naxals sets ablaze 37 vehicles and road construction machines in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, near the Telangana border, Saturday night. However, while labourers working on the road were threatened, they were not attacked, said senior police officials. Trucks, tippers, tractors and mixing machines belonging to three private firms were damaged in the arson. An operation is on to arrest the culprits, an officer said. Superintendent of Police (Bijapur) KL Dhruv said, “Armed Naxals simultaneously stormed three locations on the Bhopalpatnam-Bhadrakali-Tarlaguda road that leads to the state of Telangana, and torched 37 construction vehicles and machines on Saturday night.”
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/naxals-set-road-construction-machines-on-fire-threaten-labourers/
Maoists’ ‘levy collector’ arrested in Bokaro
BOKARO: District police in a joint operation with CRPF arrested a Maoist and recovered cash Rs 50,000 and pistol from his possession at Tilya village under Mahuataad police station of Gomia Block here on Sunday. The arrested Maoist has been identified as Jaleshwar Mahto alias Jale a resident of a village Chutte situated in foothills of Gomia Block. The cash which was recovered from his possession was a levy that he collected from a contractor. Police finds arrest of Mahto as an achievement because he used to work as levy collection agent for the red outfit in the area.
He has joined the banned Maoists outfit seven years ago. “During police interrogation Mahto revealed vital information about the people from whom Maoists used to collect levy. Maho confessed that he collected the cash as levy from a contractor and was carrying to deliver it to Maoist commander Santosh Mahto, when police nabbed him,” said Neeraj Kumar, DSP, Bermo. Mahto earlier two times has gone to jail in naxal cases.Once in connection of blasting a school building in Tiskopi and another setting an earthmover on fire at road construction site few years ago.
He is said to have strong connection with Maoists leaders of the area. DSP said that on a tip off, a police-CRPF team who was conducting search operation in foothills of Jhumra was sent to nab Mahto in Tilya village. The police team nabbed him at a spot outside the village. “We recovered a pistol from his possession that he was carrying with cash. He was involved in naxal activities from past several years,” said DSP. District police have intensified anti-naxal search operations in Maoists prone Gomia and Nawadih Blocks of the district.
In past 25 days span, police team led by DSP, Neeraj Kumar have nabbed five Maoists sympathizers including a deputy Mukhiya and two Maoists from Gomia Block. DSP said the police team on direction of SP, Bokaro, Y S Ramesh have launched search against Maoists who are active in the area. The arresting have been done under a strategy to eradicate extremism from the area.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Maoists-levy-collector-arrested-in-Bokaro/articleshow/49534870.cms
1 CRPF personnel killed, 1 injured in gunbattle with Naxals
Raipur: A CRPF personnel was killed and another injured in a gun battle with naxals in Chhattisgarh’s worst insurgency-hit Sukma district on Sunday. The skirmish took place in the forests under Maraguda police station limits during an anti-naxal operation in the region by the paramilitary forces, Sukam Additional Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh said. A squad of the 217th battalion of Central Reserve Paramilitary Force launched an operation late on Sunday evening after getting an information about digging of a road by ultras near the force’s Maraiguda camp, located around 450 kms away from the state capital, Singh said.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/1-crpf-personnel-killed-1-injured-in-gunbattle-with-naxals-1156364.html
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