India also has a Maoist/communist terror problem

Financing a 'revolution' is not child's play. It is all the more tough when the organisation is proscribed and hence operates underground.

For the Indian Maoists, also known as Naxalites, the conditions are a little more unfavourable because they claim to be fighting for the deprived and neglected sections of society who are poor.

But still the Maoists are being able to collect and manage vast sums of money. According to a media report of April 9, 2008, the annual 'extortion' by the Maoists is a whopping Rs.1,000 crore.

India's Maoist insurgents kill 54 in raid on police outpost
Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times

New Delhi -- Communist rebels besieged a police outpost in eastern India on Thursday, killing 54 people and wounding nearly a dozen more before fleeing into the surrounding jungle under cover of darkness.

The early morning raid was one of the bloodiest attacks in years by the so-called Naxalites, Maoist insurgents who have waged an armed campaign against the Indian government for the past four decades. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the group the nation's No. 1 threat to public security.

India's rising Maoist rebellion
Experts, officials say Naxalite insurrection may be more dangerous than Kashmir separatists

The eastern Indian state of Orissa has outlawed membership in the militant Communist Party of India (Maoist) known as the Naxalites, escalating a 40-year-old conflict between the Indian government and Maoist rebels.

Two die in Chhattisgarh maoist attack
Daily News & Updates
India Defence Premium
Dated 6/2/2006

Jashpur: Communist Party of India (Maoist) cadres today attacked a police outpost here in Chhattisgarh, bordering Jharkhand, killing two policemen and injuring 12 others.

Preliminary reports said a group of armed naxalites stormed into the police outpost around 0300 hours and killed two security personnel on the spot while twelve others sustained injuries, including eight seriously.

NEW DELHI - India appears to be taking a big gamble with Maoist insurgents. Encouraged by the central government in Delhi, the ruling Congress-led coalition government in the state of Andhra Pradesh has removed a nine-year-old ban on the People's War Group (PWG), which was recently put on a terrorist watch list by the United States.

Maoist Organizations Unite in India
Revolutionary Worker #1200, May 25, 2003, posted at rwor.org

On January 15, the Maoist Communist Center and the Revolutionary Communist Center, India (Maoist), issued a communiqué "wholeheartedly declaring before the toiling people of India" that they have united to form a single group. "Our united organization will be based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and remain firmly committed to the long-cherished need of the great Indian people to carry forward and complete the New Democratic revolution," the statement said.

The united party, now called Maoist Communist Center (India), is a participant in the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM). The MCC was a participant before; the RCCI (M) was a candidate participant. The two formerly separate groups had been conducting struggles in different Indian states. The MCC had strongholds in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal in the northeast part of the country, and the RCCI (Maoist) in Punjab in the northwest. The people in all these states have a long history of heroic struggle going back to the armed peasant uprising that began in Naxalbari and spread throughout India in the 1960s and '70s, giving birth to India's Maoist movement. Forged in 1969, the MCC had a long history of struggle on the ideological and political fronts, even before its formation. Its founders had taken Maoist China's side in the debate against the revisionists led by Khrushchev, who restored capitalism in the USSR and tried to impose their betrayal of Marx and Lenin on the international communist movement. It upheld the path of protracted People's War and New Democratic Revolution in India and carried out armed struggle. Having undergone twists and turns in its political life and significant line struggles within the Party, it became a participating organization of RIM in 2002.

According to a media report of April 9, 2008, the annual 'extortion' by the Maoists is a whopping Rs.1,000 crore.

Odd...Here you have a bunch of terrorist determined to overthrow a gov't...a goal that probably has to maintain a certain level of secrecy. Yet, we now discover that there is a reporter who not only knows where and who these people are, he knows exactly how much cash they have in their bank account. If I were an Indian gov't official, I'd probably like to have a little face time with this guy. Alternatively, this is another MSM piece of crap where some snot-nosed reporter is trying to make a name for himself and just made it all up. After all, its been done before with everything from fake bombings to Dan Rather's bogus documents.

Five police killed in Maoist ambush in Jharkhand - December 5, 2008 - RANCHI, India (Reuters) - Five police were killed and two wounded by Maoist rebels in an ambush in Jharkhand on Friday, police said. The police were returning to their station after checking a bank said to be rebel target in the state capital Ranchi. More than 40 rebels ambushed the police jeep from a forest, a police spokesman said. The gunbattle took place in a Maoist hub where in May rebels stole 50 million rupees ($1,020,000) and 3 kilos of gold after hijacking a bank delivery van.

Maoist terror reigns along Jharkhand national highway - December 11, 2008 - Ranchi (IANS): Maoist rebels have struck fear in the hearts of people residing along the national highway linking Jharkhand capital Ranchi to steel city Jamshedpur by murdering at least 10 security personnel and a politician in the area in the last 10 months. The latest in a series of attacks along National Highway 33 by members of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was an ambush of five Special Task Force (STF) personnel near the Rahe police picket of Ranchi's Bundu block last week. On July 9, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) legislator Ramesh Singh Munda, along with four other people, was killed in a school in Bundu while he was speaking at a function. On June 30, five security personnel, including a deputy superintendent of police, were killed on the highway in the Tamar block. In May, Maoist rebels hijacked an ICICI bank delivery van and looted Rs.50 million near Tamar.

‘Maoist revenge’ kills rally leader - Midnapore, Dec. 11: A tribal leader who had played a leading role in an anti-Maoist protest in Belpahari two days ago was shot dead this evening. Sudhir Mandi was returning home with his wife on a cycle from the weekly haat (bazaar) when eight masked men armed with single-barrel guns and daggers pounced on him. They had apparently been waiting for him behind a clump of bush along the bumpy road lined with thick forest. “Two of them dragged Mandi’s wife away. The rest shot him and slit his throat. Mandi died on the spot,” a Belpahari police officer said. The residents of Jordanga — 250km from Calcutta — rushed in as Mandi’s wife raised the alarm. “A week ago, Maoists had asked Mandi to dissociate himself from the Bharat Jakat Majhi Marwa, which organised Tuesday’s meeting. Mandi refused to do so,” said a district leader of the Jharkhand Janmukti Morcha. Elected to the Binpur-II panchayat samiti as an Independent in May, Mandi, 46, had joined the Morcha, formed after a split in the Jharkhand Party (Naren). He was also an active member of the Majhi Marwa.

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