(AFP) Maoist rebels kill 50 police in India: official

[Eugene]

Maoist rebels kill 50 police in India: official

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RAIPUR, India (AFP) - Maoist rebels killed fifty policemen in an attack
on a jungle security post in central India, an official said Thursday.

A large group of rebels hurled grenades, petrol bombs and fired
indiscriminately at the post in Rani Bodli village in Chhattisgarh
state, the official said.

The attack ranks among the worst carried out by the insurgents,
who control 10 of the state's 16 impoverished districts and have
been labelled as the single biggest threat to the nation's internal
security.

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Officials have said India's Maoist insurgency, which dates back
over four decades, now threatens huge swathes of India's centre,
east and south.

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[David__77]

1. The Indian state is waging a horrible, brutal counterinsurgency.

They employ a death squad they call "Salwa Judum" ("Peace March"), which forces tribals off their land and into Vietnam War-style concentration camps ("strategic hamlets"), because they support the rebels.

The caste oppression is so deeply rooted and pernicious that the poor have little choice but to support revolution. The Maoists, the Indian state acknowledges, have very broad support among the Dalits ("untouchables") and other oppressed castes and classes in the countryside.