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muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts) Sat May 25, 2013, 06:24 PM May 2013

'Maoist rebels' kill 17 in India

Source: BBC

At least 17 people, including a local leader of India's governing Congress party, have been killed in an attack by suspected Maoist rebels in the central state of Chhattisgarh.
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The attackers reportedly blocked the road by felling trees. They then detonated the mine and started spraying the convoy with bullets.

The Congress party leader killed in the attack was named as Mahendra Karma. A former home minister in Chhattisgarh, he was instrumental in setting up a vigilante group to fight the Maoists.

The current party leader in the state, Nandkumar Patel, and his son are believed to have been abducted in the attack which happened as the Congress politicians were returning from a campaign rally.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22667020

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'Maoist rebels' kill 17 in India (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler May 2013 OP

Tragic. What's a "Maoist rebel"? Faygo Kid May 2013 #1

lucky for you dlwickham May 2013 #3

Well, thanks. I've heard of Google. Faygo Kid May 2013 #4

In India sulphurdunn May 2013 #6

sounds like a bunch of communist thugs from the article dlwickham May 2013 #8

There aren't any communists sulphurdunn May 2013 #9

my pleasure dlwickham May 2013 #7

Best comeback secondvariety May 2013 #12

A good read and video on the Maoist rebels can be found at this link...... rdharma May 2013 #2

You might want to take a look.... ReRe May 2013 #5

The Naxalites strike again. Comrade Grumpy May 2013 #10

Update: 24 dead, including the abducted politician and his son muriel_volestrangler May 2013 #11

Faygo Kid

(21,478 posts)

1. Tragic. What's a "Maoist rebel"?

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2013, 06:56 PM

May 2013

i honestly don't know. Mao is an old historic figure. What's this all about?

dlwickham

(3,316 posts)

3. lucky for you

Reply to Faygo Kid (Reply #1)

Sat May 25, 2013, 07:05 PM

May 2013

google is easy to use

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism

http://www.answers.com/topic/maoism

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/363444/Maoism

http://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/02cul/c04s07.html

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/a.htm

http://web.mit.edu/people/fjk/essays/maoism.html

http://socyberty.com/politics/what-is-maoism/

lots of places to start

Faygo Kid

(21,478 posts)

4. Well, thanks. I've heard of Google.

Reply to dlwickham (Reply #3)

Sat May 25, 2013, 07:08 PM

May 2013

Was hoping that DUers could let me know with their own perspective, but gosh, uneducated rubes like me need all the help we can get. Thanks for being so condescending.

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)

6. In India

Reply to Faygo Kid (Reply #4)

Sat May 25, 2013, 07:41 PM

May 2013

Maoist Rebels are the reaction against expropriating the future of hundreds of millions of people to make rich people richer through the exploitation of transnational corporations.

dlwickham

(3,316 posts)

8. sounds like a bunch of communist thugs from the article

Reply to sulphurdunn (Reply #6)

Sat May 25, 2013, 07:49 PM

May 2013

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)

9. There aren't any communists

Reply to dlwickham (Reply #8)

Sat May 25, 2013, 07:58 PM

May 2013

anymore. Remember? They went into the dust bin of history. These must be disgruntled investors.

dlwickham

(3,316 posts)

7. my pleasure

Reply to Faygo Kid (Reply #4)

Sat May 25, 2013, 07:48 PM

May 2013

secondvariety

(1,245 posts)

12. Best comeback

Reply to Faygo Kid (Reply #4)

Sun May 26, 2013, 07:13 AM

May 2013

I've heard in a while. Thanks for the laugh.

rdharma

(6,057 posts)

2. A good read and video on the Maoist rebels can be found at this link......

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2013, 06:59 PM

May 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12637562

ReRe

(10,597 posts)

5. You might want to take a look....

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2013, 07:27 PM

May 2013

.... at this OP by HiPointDem yesterday. It's a essay by Arundhati Roy which mentions "Maoist gorillas" in India. The whole essay is unbelievable but true, and as for her mention of these "Maoist gorillas", see #2:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022894592

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

10. The Naxalites strike again.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2013, 03:26 AM

May 2013

They have a presence in large parts of eastern India.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)

11. Update: 24 dead, including the abducted politician and his son

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2013, 07:03 AM

May 2013

The main target of the attack is believed to have been Nandkumar Patel, who witnesses said jumped into a ditch with his son, Dinesh, to take shelter before they were abducted. Their bodies were later found nearby; the Congress chief was reportedly mutilated.
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Former federal minister Vidya Charan Shukla was among the 32 people wounded in the ambush, many of them seriously, police said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22671514

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