Posted on 04/22/2010 5:21:07 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Early one morning last October police forces surrounded the residents of Gompad, a remote village in the state of Chhattisgarh in eastern India, and attacked. Sixteen people were killed, including an older couple and their 25-year-old daughter, who was stabbed in the head with a knife and had her breasts sliced off. Her 2-year-old son survived, but three of his fingers were chopped off. A neighbor who witnessed the massacre was shot in the leg as she tried to escape. What prompted the rampage? The cops suspected the villagers of sympathizing with Maoist insurgents, believing that some were informants. A criminal case has been filed by the survivors against the state.
Business as usual in this part of the world. The Indian government is trying to exterminate Maoists known as Naxalites and since 2004 have killed 1,300 of them; trapped in the crossfire, 2,900 villagers have also died.
The Naxalites have claimed their share of victims, too. ....In the bloodiest attack yet, 80 or more paramilitary troops were killed in early April....
This is India's dirty war: a brutal struggle over valuable real estate that pits the Naxalites against some of the nation's most powerful commercial interests. What began 43 years ago as a small but violent peasant insurrection in Naxalbari, a West Bengal village, is now a full-fledged conflict led by the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) across 20 of the country's 28 states (see map below), affecting 223 districts. The fight is over land, much of it in the interior, that has rich deposits of coal and bauxite. On one side of the struggle are the rebels--perhaps 10,000 of them armed and out in the field every day, and a militia of 100,000 who can be called up on short notice. ....
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Thanks for the Post. Interesting article.
I was unaware of this type violence in India.
I know of Tata as the largest “body shop” for importing H-1B’s and L-1’s to replace Americans in IT, as well as the largest off-shoring consultancy in the world. In the US it has a well deserved rep as being ‘unscrupulous’.
>.In the US it has a well deserved rep as being ‘unscrupulous’.
LOL! When did Americans turn into such whiners.
Tata is competitive and aggressive.
The Naxals have been disavowed by India’s communist parties, but many intellectual types, like Arundhati Roy, have penned sympathetic articles that overlook their “shortcomings” or ruthless, bloody tactics - like slaughtering villagers.
And just as an aside, much violence against Christians has been instigated by these Maoists, often dressed in drag as religious Hindus.
This was admitted a while ago by the Naxals themselves.
Since when did Americans define “not restrained by ideas of right and wrong; unprincipled” as competitive and aggressive?
Oh that’s right, since globalists defined “free Trade” as putting American companies and workers (burdened with onerous levels of taxation and regulation) in an untenable competition with global corporations and workers ,
That’s your opinion, bucko, unprincipled and all.
They compete as per the rules established by the US.
If IBM is in India, why not TATA in America?
You can go on about globalism, but it’s been going on for a long time now.
To repeat, when did America turn into such whiners.
When America was pushing globalism and American companies were dominant and ascendant, it was OK.
Now it’s not.
No one forced Americans to buy clothes, cars and appliances made overseas. They did because of price and or quality.
Whatever, keep tilting at windmills.
ROFL,
I think you forgot a few “talking points” from your Globalism for Dummies manual, and possibly your chill pill. :-!
Hey, bud, it’s you who took a thread about Maoists and turned it into your personal diatribe, albeit brief against a corporation.
Now, you go take your suppository, perhaps that’ll make you shut up. In fact, take two.
Globalism is bad, yea, where’s your computer made, where are your clothes made, where’s all your home appliances made.......
tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk,
I see you don’t know how to define diatribe either.
Whatever. Enjoy your stupidity.
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