Posted on 02/15/2010 3:11:02 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
KOLKATA, India, Feb 15 (Reuters) - About 100 Maoist rebels, many riding motorcycles, stormed a police camp in eastern India on Monday and killed at least 15 policemen as they fired indiscriminately and set fire to the site.
Police said the ambush was on a camp in the state of West Bengal, 200 km (125 miles) west of the state capital Kolkata, in the same area where a major anti-Maoist offensive was launched last year.
"No less than 15 security personnel were killed," senior police official Surajit Kar Purakayastha told Reuters in Kolkata.
In June last year, police pushed back the rebels to regain control of Lalgarh, a cluster of 150 villages in the same West Midnapore area.
West Bengal Director General of Police Bhupinder Singh said the rebels took away a huge cache of weapons in the latest assault.
A rebel group leader, who calls himself as Kishenji, telephoned a Kolkata-based news channel to claim responsibility for the attack.
"(It was) carried out to retaliate against the combined operation of West Bengal police and central paramilitary forces against the Maoists," he told the news channel.
(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...
Was Obama’s friend (can’t remember her name) involved?
The only good Maoist ...
It’s time for India to have a lot more good Maoists.
RIP.
Of all the Naxal infested states West Bengal has shown the maximum laxity, inefficiency and incompetence when it comes to handling the menace. EFR men largely drawn from West Bengal are near devoid of morale and courage. The state has just commenced the training of a specialized anti naxal commando force when other states already have had it for nearly half a decade.
Resolute action from Central Paramilitary forces, CoBRA and Greyhounds has made it impossible for the naxals to raise their heads elsewhere. With zero determination and pusillanimity Bengal is sitting ducks.
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