(this post is aimed primarily at only those Indians who post nothing
but anti-US-pro-India propaganda and can see nothing good in the USA).
For others, it is an FYI, FWIW post.
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Business Week, May 19 issue, 2008, pages 44-47 (just came in the mail
yesterday).
"In India, Death To Global Business"
by Manjeet Kripalani
Big article on how the government of India does not have the whole
eastern 1/3 of India under control. Quoting a key sentence early in
the article:
"Today, they [the Naxalites] operate in 30% of India, up from 9% in
2002"
There is a graphic with red, yellow, and gray areas in India that are
under various levels of control by the Naxalite/Maoists.
----- see below for more, previously published articles from The
Economist 1-2 years ago about this-----
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:00:48 -0400
Subject: India: Armed revolt (update)
Financial Times, Tuesday, July 18, 2006, front page sidebar (left):
"20 massacred in India: More than 800 leftwing extremists killed 20
villagers in the Indian state of Chattisgarh, taking the death toll
from
the communist insurgency to nearly 500 this year"
for background on this, see below:
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More on the Naxalite revolt in India:
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(as quoted from _Financial Times_, Wed, April 19, 2006, p.12,
article title: "Maoism rises again-India must take vigorous
action to counter the threat")
"A quarter of India's 602 administrative districts are affected by
'Naxalites' -- named after a 1967 Maoist uprising in the West Bengal
village of Naxalbari--and the government blames the rebels for 157
deaths in
the first three months of this year. Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime
minister, last week described Maoism as the country's biggest-ever
internal security challenge."
"Democracy as actually practiced in India is highly immperfect,
riddled
with corruption and elitism in ways that make it hard for ordinary
Indians to exercise their democratic rights--especially in states
where
feudal attitudes and a lack of land reform, not to mention the caste
system, entrench the gap between rich and poor"
The article also talked about near government collapse in Nepal, just
to
the northeast of India, from Maoist insurgencies and pro-democracy
demonstrations.
more below from a separate article...
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Rebel armies in India! (revised file)
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(as quoted from _The Economist_, April 15,
2006, page 45)
"For almost 40 years, increasingly large areas of India's remote
rural
hinterland have been disrupted by Maoist-inspired rebel armies,
known as Naxalites, who oppose conventional government."
The article goes on to name and date the places and time at which
clashes
took place and how many people were killed.
"The number for the first three months of this year is nearly 40% up
on
the same period last year."
"The government admits that 76 of India's 602 districts are badly
affected, though the Asian Center for Human Rights says Naxalites have
influence in 165 districts,...."
Some Indians are not worrying, but it was re****ted that Singh himself
is
concerned.
"The impact on the economy and on foreign investment is likely to
grow."
The article said that lots of companies have avoided certain
industries (eg. mining, lumber)
"The Naxalites are a complex group. They take their name from
Naxalbari, a
West Bengal [actually located in the eastern tip of India] village
where
the movement was founded in 1967. They were wiped out by tough police
action, and next surfaced in the 1980s as the People's War
Group (PWG) in an independence-minded area of AP called Telugana.
Conflict
between the castes in Bihar led to the creation of the Maoist
Communist Centre in the mid-1980s. This then merged with the PWG and
started to build loose links with neighboring Nepal, where Maoist
rebels now control significant areas of the country, and with less
significant groups in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka."
The article explains that the origin is from tribal groups affraid of
loosing their land to development projects. The government is
attempting to initiate increased police activities "But the
Naxalities
[spelled differently than in the rest of the article] keep growing
stronger."
The map that accompanied the article showed close to 1/3 of all of
the
land of India (the easternmost 1/3, with region names as mentioned in
the
article) as under the control of the Naxalites (using the spelling of
the
other instances of the name).
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