Hatha Gone forever Placing Steps

The news of passing away of Sri Lankan prominent Artist Gamini Hathtettuwegama here RWI appear for as a respectation to him. His service as all rounded talented man though is one important thing, the most valuble thing is of his love for human man kind as revolutionary type person. Though there were some contraversial contraditions of his past activites, comparrision to the others he is a great man born in Sri Lankan Earth.

Mels

Here We apprer Comrade Loional Bopage's Message for considering its importance

By Lional Bopage

I was extremely sad to hear the news of the death of Comrade Haththotuwegama. Even though I have not been in regular contact with him for some time, I was more than aware of the significant role he and his group of open theatre artists have played in raising the consciousness of the ordinary people of Sri Lanka on important social issues.
He was a Sama- Samajist at the time I first met him at Richmond College in Galle. He taught me English. I remember him being an excellent orator and was extremely popular amongst us, the college students.
By the time I was released from prison in the late seventies, Comrade Gamini had already established/founded the Wayside and Open theatre Group. I had the pleasure of meeting him on numerous occasions. I also took part in one of his workshops, which helped me innumerably when I was running/a part of the Songs of Liberation.
I still have memories of the time when some of my fellow JVP comrades took part in some of his training techniques. Their mixture of enthusiasm, interest and impatience, as they gradually shed the shackles of their rigid acting styles, will always stay with me. This led us to conceive a new drama, Milana vu Malak Nove (Not a flower withered away). This drama was based on the true life story of the late comrade Premawathie Manamperi. His techniques allowed us in a 'natural' way to get to the heart of the social issues we wished to share with our audiences, without being didactic about it. Unfortunately it was banned by the ruling party of the day.
One of his enduring qualities was that he was always a straightforward and very hospitable human being who was always socially engaged with the issues of the day. Though we did not always see eye to eye on all political issues, I never doubted his sincerity and commitment to the betterment of all the human beings who lived in Sri Lanka.
His contribution in the field of culture and in particular the theatre and English Literature was immeasurable. He will leave a void in the cultural life of the island that will be hard to fill.
I will not only remember and respect his contribution to the betterment both cultural and political to the social life of the people of Sri Lanka, but on a more personal level I will never forget the warmth of his smile which not only radiated his genuine love and interest of the people around him but for all the people who inhabit Sri Lanka.
As a fellow traveler who shares his political vision, I take this opportunity to salute him and to extend my deepest sympathy to his bereaved family and friends.
Lionel Bopage

Sri Lankan Prez visit to Nepal is Contraversial

Sri Lankn president Mahinda Percy Rajapaksha has arrived for three day vist to Nepal and has met many leaders of ruling party of Nepal and UCPN(Maoist) Leader Prachanda. Rajapaksha promising to Broker Capitalist Nepal goverment to support for peace and for a political transition. What kind of support canhe be given to Nepal is the question We are asking. As a Indian agent and also a corrupted state post fudel king, he would be given advisive proposal for eliminating Nepal Maoist.

As very clever cunning jackel, he can do double side game showing his so called smile. Meeting Comrade Prachanda,he would be promisedto support for Maoist too. But This corrupted and genocided king is never not a friend of progressive poeple or for communism. Even though his meeting with Prchanda is diplomatic, we thouroughly concernhim as an enemy for Nepal Revolution.

Above article sent us by Srilankan Revolutionary is here published for Sri lankan Sinhala speaking readers and for out side readers.

Mels Macasche

Nepal Maoist leader Prachanda Fumes, Claims III Uprising Urgent

TGW
The Chairman of the Unified Maoists’ Party Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda has said that the objective of the third peoples’ uprising was to fulfill the “unfinished” wishes of the general people.
He also claimed that the new uprising will ensure completion of the Historic Revolt initiated by the Maoists’ Party.
“Final Revolt is necessary for securing Peace and Prosperity”, Dahal told his cadres.
Dahal was speaking at a Tea Party organized to celebrate Nepal Sambat 1130 in Kathmandu by the Maoists Party.
Dahal even claimed that bids were afoot to declare emergency and dissolve the Constituent Assembly.
He said “those who had awarded the Maoists’ Party with a Terrorist Tag and had put Price on the Head of the Maoists’ leadership have been conspiring once again to declare emergency and put price tag on the Maoists’ leadership once again”.
“They are once again preparing for mass repression and dissolve the constituent assembly as per the diktats of their foreign masters”, he claimed.
“The leaders who have been rejected by the people are pushing the country towards another civil war”, Dahal revealed.
He called the fresh remarks of the Defense Minister Mrs. Bidya Bhandari favoring amendment in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement as the signal of the lurking danger.
Minister Bhandari had favored amendment in the CPA to allow recruitment in the Nepal Army.
Prachanda was also of the opinion that the present government that houses those leaders even who were ministers in the King Gyanendra appointed Cabinet was not at all a people friendly government.
The Maoists’ leaders Barsaman Pun Ananta, Hisila Yami and some other senior leaders were also present at the Tea party reception.
Perhaps Prachanda means what he says. Symptoms of chaotic days ahead.2009-10-27 10:06:00

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UN Mission in Nepal inspects Nepal Army barrack
www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-23 18:22:14

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KATHMANDU, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) along with the representatives of five member countries of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Friday inspected a Nepal Army barrack and the arsenal there in the capital Kathmandu.
According to NA Spokesperson Ramindra Chhetri, the team led by UNMIN Chief Karen Landgren visited the NA barrack at Chhauni and inspected the containers stored with the NA weapons Friday morning for half an hour.
The NA has deposited its weapons in the barrack as per the peace deal with the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M).
British and French Ambassadors to Nepal, deputy chiefs of mission of the American and Russian embassies in Kathmandu and first secretary at the Chinese Embassy were present during the inspection.
As the UN is going to hold a mid-term assessment of Nepal's peace process and UNMIN's work at the UNSC on Nov. 6, UNMIN is carrying out inspection of the NA barrack and UCPN-M's cantonments.
The UNMIN chief met with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Information and Communications Minister Shanker Pokharel on Thursday.
Landgren is leaving for the UN Headquarters on Oct. 26.
Editor: Xiong Tong

Maoist rebels in India reject laying down arms for talks

New Delhi - Maoist militants in India have rejected the government's demand that they surrender their arms before peace talks and slammed a major offensive targeting them, news reports said Friday.
In an interview with local news channels in the eastern state of West Bengal Thursday evening, top Maoist leader, Koteshwara Rao, rejected New Delhi's condition for talks and demanded that the government pull out forces from states where Maoists were active.
Asked in what situation the Maoists would sit down for talks with the government, Rao, alias Kishanji, said, 'The first and foremost condition is that they must withdraw all forces from our areas.'
Rao said there were about 250,000 government troops in areas dominated by the Maoists and said there was 'no scope for talks' unless 600 jailed Maoist rebels were released.
'Their [the government's] condition is that Maoists should surrender their arms,' he said. 'Surrendering arms is out of the agenda. We never accepted it as part of our agenda. So we are not ready for peace talks with the government. In the name of peace talks, they declared war.'
Rao, 51, is the deputy leader of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), which is spearheading the left-wing insurgency in 20 of India's 28 states.
The Maoists claim their armed rebellion is aimed at securing the rights of tribal people and the rural poor and usually targets security personnel and government installations.
Rao is the most wanted man in West Bengal and claimed in June to have 'liberated' Lalgarh, a main town in the state's Midnapore district.
He said he supports Islamic militancy in the belief that the Islamic upsurge is anti-United States and anti-imperialist in nature.
Reacting to the Maoist leader's comments, Federal Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram reiterated the government demand.
'The Maoists have to abjure violence, and then we can work out a process by which we will advise the state governments to talk to them,' he told reporters in New Delhi.
The Indian government has lately displayed a more muscular approach to tackling left-wing extremism, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently described as the greatest internal security threat for India.
At least 2,671 people - including civilians, security personnel and rebels - have been killed in incidents related to Maoist violence in India since 2006.
The Home Ministry is in the process of launching Operation Greenhunt, India's biggest-military offensive against the Maoists, across the country.
According to some media reports, the campaign, details of which are largely secret, has already been launched in a few states. The offensive is described by officials as a 'long, multiphase, strategic war' against Maoist rebels.
About 75,000 federal paramilitary officers along with personnel drawn from the state police were expected to carry out the offensive, the IANS news agency reported.
Six districts in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and Maharashtra, states that have been worst-hit by the Maoist insurgency, would be the initial focus of the operations.

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Indian Maoist leader threatens 'tornado of violence'
(AFP) – 23 hours ago
NEW DELHI — India's Maoist rebel leader has vowed to unleash a "tornado" of violence if the government goes ahead with a planned large-scale offensive against his insurgent forces.
In an interview published in the weekly magazine Open, Mupalla Laxman Rao, better known as Ganapathi, said any offensive might secure some early gains but insisted that the rebels would eventually triumph.
"Although the enemy may achieve a few successes in the initial phase, we shall certainly overcome and defeat the government offensive," Ganapathi was quoted as saying in the magazine's latest edition.
Open said the interview was conducted at an undisclosed jungle location in eastern India, part of a vast, Maoist-affected region known as the "red corridor".
The corridor includes areas of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal states, and runs south through Orissa, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
The states' police and paramilitary forces will be in the frontline of the planned anti-rebel offensive, which official sources say is likely to begin in November and involve hundreds of thousands of security personnel.
Ganapathi, a 59-year-old former school teacher, said the operation would provoke a mass response.
"People will rise up like a tornado under our party's leadership to wipe out the reactionary blood-sucking vampires ruling our country," he said, branding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram "terrorists".
Singh has described the Maoist insurgency, which began as a peasant uprising in 1967, as the single greatest threat to India's internal security.
The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of the rural poor and local tribes, but officials accuse them of using intimidation and extortion to collect money and to control impoverished villagers.
"This region is the wealthiest as well as the most underdeveloped part of our country," said Ganapathi, who is one of the most wanted men in India and is known to change his location frequently.
"These (government) sharks want to loot the wealth and drive the tribal people of the region to further impoverishment," he said.
Maoist-linked violence has already claimed more than 600 lives this year with rebels staging a series of raids against police targets, despite some successes by security forces in arresting or killing a number of senior cadres.
"It is true that our party has suffered some serious leadership losses, but we were able to inflict serious losses on the enemy too," the rebel leader said.
"Overall, our party's influence has grown stronger and it has now come to be recognised as the only genuine alternative before the people," he added.
Last month, the prime minister rebuked regional police chiefs for failing to stem the insurgency, but analysts say the real problem has been the lack of a cohesive strategy.
Although the federal government has ruled out the use of the military in the anti-Maoist offensive, it has made it clear that the operation will be coordinated from New Delhi.
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Arundhati Roy urges Centre to drop armed action against Maoist
by ANI on October 19, 2009

New Delhi, Oct 19 (ANI): Noted Human Rights activist and Booker prize winner, Arundhati Roy, on Monday accused the Union Government for harbouring vested interests behind its armed offensive against the Maoists.


Addressing media in the national capital, Roy urged the government not to take armed action against the red ultras.
“They want to clear these forests and they want to open it up for the companies. They have signed hundreds of MoU’S and in places like Jharkhand, not one of them is being actualised. So, there is this kind of desperation that’s what’s going on, you know. Otherwise, why should it be that after 60 years you point a gun at the tribal’s head and say I have to give you development,” said Roy.

She also accused the Government of suppressing the voice against it, by labelling it as Maoist.
Roy further said that the Government is exaggerating the threat as an excuse to deal with everybody in an undemocratic manner.
“They actually would like to exaggerate the threat in order to define everybody with the same brush and then deal with everybody in a totally undemocratic military way. So, this is what’s happening and obviously people are taking positions along these lines,” she said.
The insurgents, who say they are waging war on behalf of the poor and the landless against the state, have taken effective control of large swathes of the countryside, scaring off potential investors while in control of land rich in minerals.
Hundreds are killed in Maoist violence each year, as forces clash with rebels and civilians get caught in the crossfire. They also extort money from businesses and industry, and have opposed construction of a steel plant in West Bengal. (ANI)

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Nepal Maoist-Chinese officials discuss South Asia situation


TGW
The all powerful Unified Maoists’ Party delegation led by none less than the Party Chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal in China is busy meeting representatives of the Chinese government and leaders of the Communist Party of China, reports reveal.
On Monday, the delegation held a discussion on situation prevailing in South Asia at the Foreign Affairs bureau of the Communist Party of China.
Dr. Wang Jiarui, the Head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee of China had greeted the Maoists’ Party delegation.
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Dr. Jiarui had organized a luncheon in the honour of the visiting team.
Similarly, Xinhua agency reports that China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin also met the Maoists’ delegation and vowed to boost ties with Nepal.
“Your visit to China will have a positive and far-reaching impact on relations between the two countries as well as relations between the two parties," said Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the Xinhua adds.2009-10-13 08:24:40

Nepal Maoist Chief likely to visit Delhi after Beijing: Media reports

TGW
Obviously Prachanda has not forgotten those good old days when he was the guest of honour of the Indian establishment somewhere in New Delhi suburbs, NOIDA to be precise, while his cadres were exploding bombs, carrying our explosions and were involved in bloody battle with the State in Nepal.
The Rajdhani Daily dated October 12, 2009, reveals that Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda’s trusted emissary had visited New Delhi recently to assure the New Delhi restive regime that his current visit to China was not at all aimed against India.
The trusted emissary of Prachanda is a controversial figure who was a former parliamentarian representing the Nepali Congress Party.
The NC had picked up this unknown figure after the signing of the most infamous New Delhi engineered 12 point agreement in its party’s fold.
Though Rajdhani does not reveal the name of the controversial figure, our own sources have informed us that the special emissary is none less than Mr. Amresh Kumar Singh.
Mr. Singh is presumed to be a key man of the South Block who has been told to collect information of the Nepali political events.
Mr. Singh was awarded scholarship by the Indian embassy in Nepal and pursued his studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
Prachanda had himself visited the private apartment of Mr. Singh located in Buddhanagar and requested him to convey his message to the Indian regime, Rajdhani reveals. Mr. Singh immediately left for New Delhi.
To add, Indian ambassador Rakesh Sood secretly sneaked into Prachanda’s private residence located in Nayabazzar. The meeting took place some four days back, adds Rajdhani daily.
During the meeting, Prachanda expressed his inner desire to visit India after Beijing trip.
This does mean that he has not forgotten New Delhi hospitality.2009-10-12 09:41:21

Indian police, not army, to tackle Maoists: PM
(AFP) – 17 hours ago
MUMBAI — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Sunday he would use civilian security forces, not the military, to take on Maoist rebels who pose a growing threat to the country's security.
Singh vowed to quell the Naxalites -- as they are known in India -- after 17 policemen were gunned down last week in a forest village in Maharashtra state, near the border with Chhattisgarh state where the rebels have their stronghold.
"We are not in favour of using India's armed forces for this purpose as there are plenty of other instruments like the police and the paramilitary forces and they are adequate to tackle this problem," he said.
The Maoist movement, which has claimed more than 600 lives this year, has spread to 15 of India's 29 states since it began as a peasant uprising in 1967.
The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of the rural poor, but officials accuse them of using intimidation and extortion to collect money and to control impoverished villagers.
"No group of individuals has the right to take the law into their own hands and so we will take effective measures to counter that," Singh said while campaigning in Mumbai ahead of local elections in Maharashtra.
The prime minister reiterated his belief that the Maoists "are the single biggest internal security threat to India."
Little is known about the movement's leaders or its strength, though it is said to number between 10,000 and 20,000 followers.
In June, the government formally banned on the left-wing rebels and officially designated them terrorists.

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'India follows Sri Lanka in waging civil war'

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TamilNet, Thursday, 08 October 2009, 05:01 GMT]India, in consultation with US counter-insurgency forces, is planning an unprecedented military offensive against ultra-Marxist rebels that is going to hit mainly the Adivasi (indigenous) peoples of India in the states of Andra Predesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and Maharashtra, warns a protest document drafted by Arundhati Roy and a group of progressive intellectuals. India plans to deploy its paramilitary forces, anti-rebel militias organized and funded by government agencies and possibly Indian Armed Forces including the Air Force in this war, the stated objective of which is to ‘liberate’ areas under the influence of Maoist rebels, but the real aim is to exploit land and resources of the deprived people, the document points out. In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister of India, the group of eminent persons said, “Such a military campaign will endanger the lives and livelihoods of millions of the poorest people living in those areas, resulting in massive displacement, destitution and human rights violation of ordinary citizens.”“The geographical terrain, where the government's military offensive is planned to be carried out, is very rich in natural resources like minerals, forest wealth and water, and has been the target of large scale appropriation by several corporations.” The government's offensive is an attempt to crush popular resistances in order to facilitate the entry and operation of these corporations and to pave the way for unbridled exploitation of the natural resources and the people of these regions, the letter pointed out.“Instead of addressing the source of the problem, the Indian state has decided to launch a military offensive to deal with this problem: kill the poor and not the poverty, seems to be the implicit slogan of the Indian government,” accuses the letter, adding that “it would deliver a crippling blow to Indian democracy if the government tries to subjugate its own people militarily without addressing their grievances.”Alleging that the government responses have already created civil war like situation in parts of Chhattisgargh and West Bengal, the group of intellectuals asked the government to immediately withdraw military operations as it has the “potential for triggering a civil war.” In a separate background note, the document emphasized three dimensions of the crisis: (a) the development failure of the post-colonial Indian state, (b) the continued existence and often exacerbation of the structural violence faced by the poor and marginalized, and (c) the full-scale assault on the meagre resource base of the peasantry and the tribal (indigenous people) in the name of "development".The document brought out some of the statistics of development failure: 80 percent of households have no access to safe drinking water. 77 percent spend less than 20 rupees a day. Only 42 percent houses have electricity. 93 percent of the work force (58 percent in agricultural sector) is of informal workers, lacking any employment security, work security and social security. Close to 60 percent of rural households are effectively landless. Between 1997 and 2007, 182,936 farmers committed suicide."Poor and vulnerable" increased from 811 million in 1999-00 to 836 million in 2004-05. The millionaire population in India grew in 2007 by 22.6 per cent from the previous year, which is higher than in any other country in the world.Further analysis culled out from the document:In this sea of poverty and misery, there are two sections of the population that are much worse off than the rest: the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) population. There are two dimensions of structural violence against them: (a) oppression, humiliation and discrimination along the lines of caste and ethnicity and (b) regular harassment, violence and torture by arms of the State.For the SC and ST population, therefore, the violence of poverty, hunger and abysmal living conditions has been complemented and worsened by the structural violence that they encounter daily.While the SC and ST population together account for close to a quarter of the Indian population, they are the overwhelming majority in the areas where the Indian government proposes to carry out its military offensive against alleged Maoist rebels. This, then, is the social background of the current conflict.Third comes the unprecedented attack on the access of the marginalized and poor to common property resources.Whatever little access the poor had to forests, land, rivers, common pastures, village tanks and other common property resources to cushion their inevitable slide into poverty and immiserization has come under increasing attack by the Indian state in the guise of so-called development projects.Despite numerous protests from people and warnings from academics, the Indian State has gone ahead with the establishment of 531 Special Economic Zones (SEZs).They require a large and compact tract of land, and thus inevitably mean the loss of land, and thus livelihood, by the peasantry.Around 60 million people have faced displacement between 1947 and 2004; this process of displacement has involved about 25 million hectares of land, which includes 7 million hectares of forests and 6 million hectares of other common property resources. How many of these displaced people have been resettled? Only one in every three. Thus, there is every reason for people not to believe the government's claims that those displaced from their land will be, in any meaningful sense, resettled. This is one of the most basic reasons for the opposition to displacement and dispossession.In almost all cases the affected people try to ventilate their grievances using peaceful means of protest; they take our processions, they sit on demonstrations, they submit petitions. The response of the State is remarkably consistent in all these cases: it cracks down on the peaceful protestors, sends in armed goons to attack the people, slaps false charges against the leaders and arrests them and often also resorts to police firing and violence to terrorize the people.It is, thus, the action of the State that blocks-off all forms of democratic protest and forces the poor and dispossessed to take up arms to defend their rights, the document said.However, the Indian Establishment is inspired by the experience of the war it abetted against Eezham Tamils in Sri Lanka, points out academic circles in Bangalore, citing how the Establishment was able to engineer media, politicians and naïve intellectuals and was able to ignore public uprising in Tamil Nadu.

'India follows Sri Lanka in waging civil war'[TamilNet, Thursday, 08 October 2009, 05:01 GMT]India, in consultation with US counter-insurgency forces, is planning an unprecedented military offensive against ultra-Marxist rebels that is going to hit mainly the Adivasi (indigenous) peoples of India in the states of Andra Predesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and Maharashtra, warns a protest document drafted by Arundhati Roy and a group of progressive intellectuals. India plans to deploy its paramilitary forces, anti-rebel militias organized and funded by government agencies and possibly Indian Armed Forces including the Air Force in this war, the stated objective of which is to ‘liberate’ areas under the influence of Maoist rebels, but the real aim is to exploit land and resources of the deprived people, the document points out. In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister of India, the group of eminent persons said, “Such a military campaign will endanger the lives and livelihoods of millions of the poorest people living in those areas, resulting in massive displacement, destitution and human rights violation of ordinary citizens.”“The geographical terrain, where the government's military offensive is planned to be carried out, is very rich in natural resources like minerals, forest wealth and water, and has been the target of large scale appropriation by several corporations.” The government's offensive is an attempt to crush popular resistances in order to facilitate the entry and operation of these corporations and to pave the way for unbridled exploitation of the natural resources and the people of these regions, the letter pointed out.“Instead of addressing the source of the problem, the Indian state has decided to launch a military offensive to deal with this problem: kill the poor and not the poverty, seems to be the implicit slogan of the Indian government,” accuses the letter, adding that “it would deliver a crippling blow to Indian democracy if the government tries to subjugate its own people militarily without addressing their grievances.”Alleging that the government responses have already created civil war like situation in parts of Chhattisgargh and West Bengal, the group of intellectuals asked the government to immediately withdraw military operations as it has the “potential for triggering a civil war.” In a separate background note, the document emphasized three dimensions of the crisis: (a) the development failure of the post-colonial Indian state, (b) the continued existence and often exacerbation of the structural violence faced by the poor and marginalized, and (c) the full-scale assault on the meagre resource base of the peasantry and the tribal (indigenous people) in the name of "development".The document brought out some of the statistics of development failure: 80 percent of households have no access to safe drinking water. 77 percent spend less than 20 rupees a day. Only 42 percent houses have electricity. 93 percent of the work force (58 percent in agricultural sector) is of informal workers, lacking any employment security, work security and social security. Close to 60 percent of rural households are effectively landless. Between 1997 and 2007, 182,936 farmers committed suicide."Poor and vulnerable" increased from 811 million in 1999-00 to 836 million in 2004-05. The millionaire population in India grew in 2007 by 22.6 per cent from the previous year, which is higher than in any other country in the world.Further analysis culled out from the document:In this sea of poverty and misery, there are two sections of the population that are much worse off than the rest: the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) population. There are two dimensions of structural violence against them: (a) oppression, humiliation and discrimination along the lines of caste and ethnicity and (b) regular harassment, violence and torture by arms of the State.For the SC and ST population, therefore, the violence of poverty, hunger and abysmal living conditions has been complemented and worsened by the structural violence that they encounter daily.While the SC and ST population together account for close to a quarter of the Indian population, they are the overwhelming majority in the areas where the Indian government proposes to carry out its military offensive against alleged Maoist rebels. This, then, is the social background of the current conflict.Third comes the unprecedented attack on the access of the marginalized and poor to common property resources.Whatever little access the poor had to forests, land, rivers, common pastures, village tanks and other common property resources to cushion their inevitable slide into poverty and immiserization has come under increasing attack by the Indian state in the guise of so-called development projects.Despite numerous protests from people and warnings from academics, the Indian State has gone ahead with the establishment of 531 Special Economic Zones (SEZs).They require a large and compact tract of land, and thus inevitably mean the loss of land, and thus livelihood, by the peasantry.Around 60 million people have faced displacement between 1947 and 2004; this process of displacement has involved about 25 million hectares of land, which includes 7 million hectares of forests and 6 million hectares of other common property resources. How many of these displaced people have been resettled? Only one in every three. Thus, there is every reason for people not to believe the government's claims that those displaced from their land will be, in any meaningful sense, resettled. This is one of the most basic reasons for the opposition to displacement and dispossession.In almost all cases the affected people try to ventilate their grievances using peaceful means of protest; they take our processions, they sit on demonstrations, they submit petitions. The response of the State is remarkably consistent in all these cases: it cracks down on the peaceful protestors, sends in armed goons to attack the people, slaps false charges against the leaders and arrests them and often also resorts to police firing and violence to terrorize the people.It is, thus, the action of the State that blocks-off all forms of democratic protest and forces the poor and dispossessed to take up arms to defend their rights, the document said.However, the Indian Establishment is inspired by the experience of the war it abetted against Eezham Tamils in Sri Lanka, points out academic circles in Bangalore, citing how the Establishment was able to engineer media, politicians and naïve intellectuals and was able to ignore public uprising in Tamil Nadu.


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17 Indian police die in Maoist attack

(AFP) – 14 hours ago
MUMBAI — Maoist rebels on Thursday gunned down 17 policemen in western India in a firefight, authorities said, the latest in a series of deadly assaults in an increasingly lethal insurgency.
At least 150 Maoists attacked the policemen in a village in a forest area of Maharashtra state near the border of Chhattisgarh, where the rebels have their stronghold, police said.
"One senior officer and 16 constables have died," police inspector S.D. Mundhe told AFP by telephone.
"The rebels have fled to the Chhattisgarh (state) border," Mundhe said. "We cannot search for them in the dark."
The violent exchange in Gadchiroli district lasted more than two hours, Mundhe said, and began around midday.
The Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported that at least 15 guerrillas had been killed in the battle. Police spokesman N.S. Jagtap told AFP that there had been Maoist deaths but said the number was as yet uncertain.
The news agency quoted Home Secretary G.K. Pillai as saying the central government had sent additional paramilitary forces to the area.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said India was facing a "war-like situation," according to PTI, adding the state would do "whatever is required" to deal with the threat posed by the Maoists.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently described the Maoist insurgency as the greatest threat to India's internal security.
Maharashtra is home to India's financial capital Mumbai and is due to hold legislative assembly elections next week.
On Wednesday India's Home Minister P. Chidambaram warned the Maoists to abandon violence or face a major assault by security forces following the beheading of a policeman kidnapped last week by the guerrillas.
India's Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of the rural poor who have missed out on the country's economic boom.
But officials accuse them of using intimidation and extortion to collect money and to control impoverished villagers.
The rebel movement, which started as a peasant uprising in 1967, is active in more than half of the country's 29 states.
Little is known about the Maoist movement's shadowy leadership or its strength. It is said to number at least 10,000 to 20,000 followers.
PTI quoted Superintendent of Police S. Jaya Kumar as saying the attack took place about two kilometres (1.6 miles) from a police station.
He said police were on a routine patrol when they encountered the Maoists, known as Naxalites in India after the town of Naxalbari in the poverty-hit eastern state of West Bengal where the movement was born.
"Combing operations have been undertaken. We do not have much communication and transport," Kumar told PTI, adding efforts were under way to airlift the unspecified number of injured.
In June, the government slapped a formal ban on the rebels, officially designating them terrorists, and last month began a graphic newspaper advertising campaign to counter the propaganda of the Maoist insurgents.
The government printed photographs of the bodies of people killed by the extremists in national newspapers with the tagline: "These are innocent people -- victims of Naxal (Maoist) violence."
Federal and state authorities have been struggling to come up with a strategy to battle the guerrillas.
Some officials have called for a massive and coordinated security operation of the kind used to battle insurgents in Indian Kashmir.
Others say the focus needs to be placed on improving living conditions in India's impoverished hinterland.
"We have to reach out to the poor people. We can't rely on force," one senior government bureaucrat told AFP on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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Bhattarai Claims only Maoist can lead government in Nepal

KATHMANDU - Unified CPN (Maoist) Vice Chairman Dr. Baburam Bhattarai on Monday said Nepal cannot get rid of problems unless the new government is formed under the Maoist leadership.


Speaking at a press meet here, Bhattarai said, “The country cannot get rid of problems unless the government is formed under Maoists and for that the President’s move must be rectified and civilian supremacy must be established.

“The basic conditions for this are rectification of the President’s move to reinstate the then army chief sacked, establishment of civilian supremacy, and its mention in the Constitution, Kantipur quoted him as, saying.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, Maoist chairman Prachanda, UML chairman Jhalanath Khanal and Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala met at the tea reception organized by CPN-UML at their party office.

Talking to reporters, chiefs of the Unified CPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress and CPN (UML) said they were hopeful of a breakthrough, ending the deadlock in the Parliament, before the Dashain recess is over.

Koirala said the deadlock would be resolved before the next session of the Legislature-Parliament by forming a high-level political mechanism.

Admitting that differences and factionalism have gripped all the parties, Koirala claimed that the high-level political mechanism would resolve the current political complexity.

Informing that a joint meeting of the senior leaders of three major parties will try to resolve the protracted political impasse, Koirala expressed his hope that the House deadlock will end.

Prachanda said that an agreement to form a high-level mechanism has been forged in principle and that only its implementation is yet to be done.

“We are also in favour of setting up a high level mechanism. But the formation is delayed because we don’t want to see it plunged into crisis immediately after its formation,” he added.

“We want the current differences among parties be addressed through a new understanding and the mechanism would be formed after the stalemate is resolved,” he said

However, Madhav Kumar Nepal said that the misunderstandings among parties should be ended.

“We should not create any delay in the statute drafting,” he added. (ANI)

Extremists of the country unite!

MoU signed between Maoists & MANIPUR Militants Statesman News ServiceKOLKATA, 5 OCT: In what appears to be a well calculated move to strengthen the supply line of arms and ammunition in the wake of a nationwide crackdown on Maoist terror modules by the Centre, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has signed a "Memorandum of Understanding” with Manipur-based militant outfit Revolutionary Peoples’ Front recently. Speaking to The Statesman over phone, a politburo member of the CPI (Maoist), Kishenji, said both the parties have “agreed in principle” to extend "revolutionary, political and moral support" to each other to "overthrow common enemy" and fight against the capitalist design of development as well as "state oppression on the people". The top leaders of two parties ~ both declared as terrorist organisations by the Centre ~ met at an undisclosed location in Manipur in October last year to discuss "mutual understanding and friendship" between them. Following a two-day long discussion, a joint declaration was issued in which it was announced that both parties would lend "revolutionary support" to each other to strengthen liberation struggle. Demanding a separate country, the Revolutionary People's Front is unleashing an armed campaign in Manipur in protest against the Merger agreement of Manipur with the Dominion of India, Kishenji said adding that both parties have decided to give moral as well as political support to each other. Though the Maoist leader refused to describe the development as a tactical move to strengthen armoury of the both groups, security agencies consider the joint declaration to be a well thought-out move of both groups to increase their stock of arms. At a time when the Centre has launched a massive crackdown on terror modules across the country, the extremist outfits are constantly changing tactics to increase their armoury. Security agencies think that Maoists are also trying to come close to other north-east militant groups to spread their tentacles in these states as well as to remove blockade in the way of bringing in arms from neighbouring countries like Nepal and Bhutan.

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Free Sinhala Tigers in jail more than two years without any charges

A group of leftists in Sri Lanka has been abducted abd detained by the present government and they were branded as "Sinhala Tigers". Alleging to LTTE and almost two and half years they are in Sri Lankan Prison. Recently a few of them were released but still the government wants to detain them because if they all release, it would be a bad mistake done by intelligent groups and socalled pare military groups of defense.

RWI demand tha government to release them soon.

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Free Ghandy for release of abducted Jharkhand officials: Maoist

RANCHI - Maoist guerrillas have demanded release of their senior leaders, including Kobad Ghandy, as a condition for freeing an abducted Jharkhand intelligence official, local media reports said Sunday.
Samarji, claiming to be secretary of South Chhotanagpur Committee of Jharkhand, called local Hindi newspapers late Saturday and informed them about the condition. The rebel said the Jharkhand intelligence official would be freed if the police release Ghandy, Chhatradhar Mahto and Chandra Bhushan Yadav.
“The abducted police official of the intelligence department is in our custody. He is safe. He will be released after the arrested leaders - Kobad Ghandy, Chhatradhar Mahto and Chandra Bhushan Yadav - are released,” the local Hindi newspapers quoted Samarji as saying.
“Do not torture relatives of Kundan Pahan and other people otherwise we will abduct family members of government officials,” he added.
Police suspect the role of the Kundan Pahan group - active in the border areas of Ranchi, Khuti and Jamshedpur districts - in the abduction of the Jharkhand intelligence official.
Francis Indwar, the intelligence official, was abducted from Hembrum market under Arki police station of Khuti district, around 65 km from state capital Ranchi, Wednesday. He had gone to the market to collect information about Maoist rebels.
“We are verifying the authenticity of the calls. How can Jharkhand rebels put such conditions when Kobad Ghandy and Mahto are not with us. In the past, a man impersonating as a Maoist rebel had threatened Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Congress president Sonia Gandhi,” Jharkhand Police spokesperson S.N. Pradhan told IANS.
The 63-year-old London-educated Kobad Ghandy, a senior leader of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), was arrested in New Delhi Sep 21, though his party says he was picked up by police four days earlier on Sep 17. He is in judicial custody till Oct 6.

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