Posted on 05/16/2008 2:31:21 AM PDT by Flavius
On the night of Apr 24, a group of 300 men and women, armed with bows and arrows and sickles and led by gun-wielding commanders, emerged swiftly and silently from the dense forest in India's Chhattisgarh state. The guerrillas descended on an iron ore processing plant owned by Essar Steel [Get Quote], one of India's biggest companies. There the attackers torched the heavy machinery on the site, plus 53 buses and trucks. Press reports say they also left a note: Stop shipping local resources out of the state - or else.
The assault on the Essar facility was the work of Naxalites - Maoist insurgents who seek the violent overthrow of the state and who despise India's landowning and business classes. The Naxalites have been slowly but steadily spreading through the countryside for decades.
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If the Naxalites don’t like to send local resources out of the area, why did they import a foreign belief system into their own heads? It doesn’t get more local than that.
The Naxalites are mostly Maoists and get active financial and military support from the ChiComs.
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