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(56,582 posts) Tue Mar 11, 2014, 09:35 AM Mar 2014

20 feared killed as Maoists attack CRPF team in Chhattisgarh

Source: The Times of India

Around 20 people are feared killed after Maoists attacked a CRPF search party in Chhattisgarh, according to Times Now.

The Maoists attacked a joint team of CRPF and police personnel in Jhiram Ghati on Tuesday morning, the reports say.

The attack took place at around 10.30am in the morning and the encounter is still on, according to Chhattisgarh Police.

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According to reports, the place is not far away from where the Congress leaders were attacked in the state.

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/20-feared-killed-as-Maoists-attack-CRPF-team-in-Chhattisgarh/articleshow/31835806.cms

NB: Chattisgarh is a state in the middle of India. CRPF is a sort of police force managed by the Indian Interior Department. There's been a low-grade insurgency by Maoists for a while but this is definitely an escalation.

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20 feared killed as Maoists attack CRPF team in Chhattisgarh (Original Post) Recursion Mar 2014 OP

India needs to purchase and deploy cosmicone Mar 2014 #1

What is CRPF? BanzaiBonnie Mar 2014 #2

Central Reserve Police Force hack89 Mar 2014 #4

^^^ That. A lot of central/south asian countries have a militarized police force like it Recursion Mar 2014 #6

The Naxalites are like India's Maoist energizer bunny. They just keep going. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2014 #3

The government is pushing the Nepal/Naxalite/LTTE nexus line Recursion Mar 2014 #5

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)

1. India needs to purchase and deploy

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 10:58 AM

Mar 2014

drones against the maoists who are funded and trained by Pakistan and China.

Drones are effective in such wooded and deep rural areas.

BanzaiBonnie

(3,621 posts)

2. What is CRPF?

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 11:46 AM

Mar 2014

I've followed links and nothing... nothing explains.

hack89

(39,171 posts)

4. Central Reserve Police Force

Reply to BanzaiBonnie (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 12:42 PM

Mar 2014

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

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

6. ^^^ That. A lot of central/south asian countries have a militarized police force like it

Reply to BanzaiBonnie (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:24 PM

Mar 2014

Generally run by the Interior Department, and intended more as a gendarmerie than what we would think of as "police" functions. (The old-time militias in the late 1700s are kind of comparable, I guess; think Washington suppressing the Whiskey Rebellion.)

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

3. The Naxalites are like India's Maoist energizer bunny. They just keep going.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 12:15 PM

Mar 2014

Recursion

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5. The government is pushing the Nepal/Naxalite/LTTE nexus line

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:21 PM

Mar 2014

On the one hand, it's a convenient way for them to say "it's Nepal and Sri Lanka who are the real problem, not us", but on the other hand there does seem to be some coordination.

It will be interesting to see, if the Andhra Pradesh partition goes through, what effect that will have on the insurgency.

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