Nepal: CPN (Maoist) to add paramilitary force to post-PW “revolt” plan?

CPN-Maoist leaders seek paramilitary force formation

KATHMANDU, JULY 02  2013

CPN-Maoist leaders gathered for the ongoing Central Committee (CC) meeting in Pokhara have stressed the need for forming a paramilitary force comprising the former People’s Liberation Army fighters, youths, workers and students.

Commenting on the party leadership’s proposal to start a fresh people’s revolt, around 110 leaders have suggested the party leadership that the revolt cannot be accomplished without such a force.

The leaders on Monday emphasised launching an urban-centric ‘people’s revolt’. The speakers, who constitute both the Politburo and the CC members, suggested the party leadership that ‘classical revolution’ used during the Maoist insurgency could not work now. “Most of the speakers asked the party to focus on a new form of revolution terming the classical Russian model and the Chinese model as outdated,” said a CC member who attended the meeting.

“Comrade Bees” swarm India paramilitary troops in Chhattisgarh

[An interesting, though sketchy, news report.  Other media reported that the injured troops “were out on ‘area domination patrol’, clearing mines.”  There was no explanation for the swarm of bee’s attack—-whether it was the result of skilled work by local beekeepers or others knowledgable in forest conditions, or if it resulted from reckless behavior of the troops themselves which disturbed the hives.  —  Frontlines ed.]

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By Salman Ravi,  BBC Hindi, Raipur, 7 May 2012

Operations against Maoist rebels have been stepped up recently

At least 19 Indian paramilitary troops were swarmed and badly stung by bees while on a counter-insurgency operation against Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh state.

The troops were clearing landmines in the dense forests of Narayanpur district when they were attacked.

Four of the soldiers were in “a real bad state” with serious swelling on their faces and hands, police said.

The men have been admitted to a local government hospital.

The paramilitary personnel from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were deployed in the Farasgaon area of Bastar region.

The area contains dense forests and has been the scene of a bitter Maoist insurgency, police and local officials told the BBC.

Officials said that on Sunday afternoon a storm in the area is believed to have knocked a tree or a branch onto a bee hive while the paramilitary police were combing the area for landmines.

Insects and reptiles pose a major problem for the security forces deployed against the Maoists in the forests of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orissa.

According to rough estimates, malaria and insects kill as many security personnel as die in combat against Maoist rebels.

The Maoists are active in more than a third of India’s 600-odd districts. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described them as the biggest internal security challenge facing India.

The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of indigenous tribes people and the rural poor, who they say have been neglected by governments for decades.

India has deployed tens of thousands of federal paramilitary troops and policemen to fight the rebels.

India: In Bengal, discouragement grows in India’s war on the people–50 paramilitary soldiers on hunger strike

NDTV Correspondent

September 22, 2011

Midnapore:  It may be the season for fasts, but for these jawans, a hunger strike they say was their last resort. Posted in one of the most challenging and even hostile places in the country, the maoist dominated west Midnapore district of Bengal, they now say enough is enough.

Fed up of years of working in the Maoist infested West Midnapore district of West Bengal, 50 odd jawans of the India Reserve Battalion have gone on a hunger strike from today.

The jawans say their living conditions are very bad and that many of them haven’t met their families in years. Now, the jawans say they will not call off their strike unless there is intervention from Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee.