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3961:(LeT) operative indicated that the LeT and the CPI (Maoist) had attempted to co-ordinate activities in Jharkhand state. But, Ganapathy has denied any links between CPI (Maoist) and LeT, stating that the allegations are "only mischievous, calculated propaganda by the police officials, bureaucrats and leaders of the reactionary political parties" to malign the Maoists' image with the aim of labeling them as terrorists in order to justify "their brutal terror campaign against Maoists and the people in the areas of armed agrarian struggle." Kishenji also criticised LeT for having "wrong" and "anti-people" policies; though he said that the Maoists may consider backing up a few of their demands, if LeT will halt its "terrorist acts". 3934:

accessories. It also ordered the government to investigate all instances of alleged criminal activities of Salwa Judum. But, the state government did not abide by the Supreme Court's decision. In August 2013, the Supreme Court of India asked the state government to explain that "why its failure to execute the July 2011 order of disbanding the SPOs not considered as contempt of court.". In March 2019, a municipal school teacher, Yogendra Meshram was killed by the Maoists in Korchi, which was vehemently protested by locals. The Maoist leadership later apologized for the killing stating it to be a mistake and that Meshram was innocent wrongly suspected to be a police informer.

3685:"In the field of health as well, the Maoists often fill in large gaps left by the state. Their mobile medical units cover large distances to offer primary health care to tribals.... Various training camps are held regularly on preventive measures against diseases such as diarrhoea or malaria. The grass-root doctors in the medical squads can administer vaccines, identify a number of diseases through symptoms, and treat injuries that are not severe. Some can even conduct simple blood tests to arrive at a diagnosis. This is a significant advantage in such areas." 1966: 330: 2995: 1902: 3652:(PLGA), and it is grouped into three sections — the Basic, the Secondary and the Main squad. All the PLGA members are volunteers and they do not receive any wages. During his stay in the guerrilla zones, Jan Myrdal noted that the female cadres of CPI (Maoist) constituted about 40% of its PLGA, and held numerous "command positions"; but currently, the female members comprises 60% of the Maoist cadres, and women commanders heads 20 of the 27 divisions of the guerrilla zones. 282: 3830:

claims that "only when the government forces come to attack us carrying guns do we attack them in self-defence." In Jharkhand, the police have also seized posters from various places which read, "Policemen keep away from the green hunt and try to be friends of poor. Police jawan, do not obey orders of the senior officials, instead join the people's army."

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establish area wise power by mobilising people politically into the protracted people's war, building the people's army (in the form of guerrilla army) and destroying the state machinery of the enemy–ruling classes. It is a part of this revolutionary process that it is establishing Janathana Sarkars in Dandakaranya.

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On 6 April 2010, the Maoists ambushed and killed 76 paramilitary personnel who fell into a trap laid by the lurking Maoists. The CPI (Maoist) described the incident as a "direct consequence" of the Operation Green Hunt stating that "We have been surrounded by paramilitary battalions. They are setting

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empowered with the official title "special police officer" (SPO). However, on 5 July 2011, the Supreme Court of India declared the Salwa Judum as illegal and unconstitutional. The court directed the Chhattisgarh government to recover all the firearms given to the militia along with the ammunition and

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In their efforts to intimidate their political adversaries and consolidate control, the Maoists tax local villagers, extort businesses, abduct and kill "class enemies" such as government officials and police officers, and regulate the flow of aid and goods. To help fill their ranks, the Maoists force

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Comrade Shamsher Singh Sheri, alias comrade Sher Shing Sheri, alias com. K.S., a Central Committee and Polit Bureau member of Communist Party of India (Maoist), has passed away from us by dangerous diseases Cerebral Malaria-Jaundice. He attained martyrdom on Oct.30, 2005. It is not only a great loss

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On January 16 2024, the CPI (Maoist) claimed to have conducted an "unprecedented" attack on the Dharmavaran CRPF camp in Pamed area, Chhattisgarh. According to the statement, which was cited in Telugu outlets, 35 CRPF paramilitaries were killed, and 40 seriously injured in the 3,5 hour raid. Central

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Central Technical Committee (CTC) is given the responsibility of fabricating weapons and explosives. The Technical Committee consists of few selected members having special knowledge on science and research and works under the direct supervision of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Party.

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On 3 April 2021, twenty-two soldiers were killed in a Maoist ambush on the border of Bijapur and Sukma districts in southern Chhattisgarh. Those killed included 14 Chhattisgarh policemen and seven jawans of the CRPF, including six members of its elite CoBRA unit, specially trained to take on Maoist

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saying, "We have not started it (violence) and we will not stop it first. Let us see whether the central government is honest about a solution and we will definitely co–operate.... This is the answer to Chidambaram's 'Operation Green Hunt' and unless the Centre stop this inhuman military operation,

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The Indian Maoists deny operational links with foreign groups, such as the Nepalese Maoists, but do claim comradeship. Some members of the Indian government accept this, while others argue that operational links do exist, with training coming from Sri-Lankan Maoists and small arms from China. China

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will use its murderous might in India to trample down any threat to its power as it has in so many other countries these last centuries is clear. Of-course, I hope that the Communist Party of India (Maoist) will be able to survive this onslaught. The statements of the General Secretary and what I

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into ten divisions, each comprising three area committees; and every Area Committee is composed of several Janatana Sarkars (people's governments). The party says that a Janatana Sarkar is established by the election procedure involving a group of villages, and has nine departments — agriculture,

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P.V. Ramana, of the Observer Research Foundation in Delhi, estimates the Naxilities' current strength at 9,000–10,000 armed fighters, with access to about 6,500 firearms. The analyses, as of September 2013, suggested that the estimated number of PLGA members has decreased from 10,000 − 12,000 to

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The CPI (Maoist)'s General Secretary says that they keep on appealing to the "lower-level personnel" in the paramilitary and police forces not to attack them, but rather "join hands with the masses" and "consciously" point their guns towards whom the Maoists view as "real enemies." They further

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The merger was first declared in a "Unity Commune" formed with extensive cultural programmes and security precautions which went on from early September to early October. Following that, the founding of the unified party was finally announced to the public on 14 October of the same year. In the

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The Dandakaranya Janathana Circars of today are the basis for the Indian People's Democratic Federal Republic of tomorrow.... In any social revolution, including the Indian New Democratic Revolution, the most crucial, central and main question is that of (state) power. Our party is striving to

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In 2011, the Indian Army while denying its direct role in the offensive operations accepted that it has been training the paramilitary personnel to fight against the Maoists, however, the Maoists have objected to the Army's stationing in the Red corridor. On 30 May 2013, the Indian Air Force's

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alleges is "government backed", an allegation rejected by the Indian government has come under criticism for "perpetrating atrocities and abuse against women", using child soldiers, burning people alive, and the looting of property and destruction of homes. These allegations were rejected by a

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Some sources claim that the funding for the Maoists comes from abductions, extortion and by setting up unofficial administrations to collect taxes in rural areas where official government appears absent. Poppy cultivation is another suspected source of funding for Maoists in the Ghagra area of

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of the CPI (Maoist) takes command from the Politburo and passes on the information to its members, and has 32 members. During an interview in 2010, Anand told media personnels that out of the 45 members of the Central Committee of CPI (Maoist), 8 has been arrested and 22 has been killed by the

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referred to the Maoists as "the single biggest internal security challenge" for India, and said that the "deprived and alienated sections of the population" form the backbone of the Maoist movement in India. The government officials have declared that, in 2013, 76 districts in the country were

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Furthermore, the CPI (Maoist)'s medical services squads also move from village to village and provides "basic medical training" to selected young tribal people which enables them to identify frequently occurring diseases through their presages so that they can also distribute vaccines to the

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The Party is regarded as a serious security threat by the Indian government. It says it will combine improved policing with socio-economic measures to defuse grievances that fuel the Maoist cause. In 2005, Chhattisgarh State sponsored an anti-Maoist movement called the

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denies any suggestion that it supports foreign Maoist rebels, citing improvements in relations between India and China, including movement towards resolving their border disputes. Maoists in Nepal, India, and the Philippines are less reticent about their shared goals.

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The military wings of the founding organisations, the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (the military wing of the MCCI) and the People's Guerrilla Army (the military wing of the PWG), also underwent a merger. The name of the unified military organisation is the

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Regional Bureau Secretary Pratap described the attack as a "befitting reply to the recently launched ‘Operation Kagaar-Surya Shakti’ by the Brahmanical Hindutva fascist rulers to eradicate the Maoist movement and to the ongoing onslaught on adivasis".

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The Central Military Commission (CMC) is the main armed body of the CPI (Maoist), and it is constructed by its Central Committee. In addition to the CMC, the party has also raised state military commissions. The CMC is headed by Nambala Keshava Rao

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experienced "influence" of "Left Wing Extremism"; while claiming that armed activity by the "Left Wing" extremists was noticed in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal.

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and a supply platoon in 2013 as compared to 8 companies and 13 platoons of 2008. The People's Militia which is armed with bows, arrows, and machetes is and is believed to logistically assist the PLGA is estimated to be around 38,000.

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of Indian society, followed up by "the determination of the main blow" of the CPI (Maoist)'s forces at its given stage, as well as the forms of struggle and organisation the Maoists see as appropriate for achieving their aim of

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helicopters, the Indian Force has decided to induce a unit of MI-17V5 helicopters to "provide full support to anti-Naxal operations." In August 2014, the Ministry of Home Affairs had stated that 2,000 personnel from the

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of CPI (Maoist) but also a great loss of the whole proletarian's revolution. The untimely demise of comrade Karam Singh has caused a serious loss to the ongoing revolutionary struggles in India and the world as well.

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Karam Singh, who died of Cerebral Malaria-Jaundice on 30 October 2005, was also the party's Politburo member. Between 2005 and 2011, the State captured several Politburo members of the party, which includes –

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are another two members of the organisation's CMC. Anuj Thakur is an arrested member of the CMC of the party. Kishenji and Chandramouli were also the members of the CPI (Maoist)'s CMC.

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is the youngest Central Committee member of the party. As of 22 September 2011, nine of the Central Committee members were jailed, which includes – Moti Lal Soren, Vishnu,

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The party is regarded as a "left-wing extremist entity" and a terrorist outfit by the Indian government. Several of their members have been arrested under the now-defunct

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officially approved the deployment of another 10,000 troops from the paramilitary forces to fight against the Maoists in Chhattisgarh. The count of personnel from

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of Jharkhand. Nayak escaped but the Maoists slit the throat of his two bodyguards, snatched their AK-47 rifles and fled. The two bodyguards died in the incident.

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died due to Covid. Another CC member B.G. Krishnamoorthy alias BGK, Vijay was arrested in 2021 November along with another PLGA Savithri by Kerala ATS.

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at Silda in West Bengal. The attack was reportedly directed by Kishenji, and after the Maoist raid at the paramilitary camp, Kishenji addressed the

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In 2024, the party faced a major setback when the government increased their counterinsurgency operations in states affected by the insurgency.

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Young women represent about 40 percent of the Guerrilla Army of the People's Liberation. Many of them have command positions. Photo: Jan Myrdal

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attack by Maoists in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh. The forces were attacked while returning from counterinsurgency operations in the area.

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On 15 February 2010, several of the guerrilla commanders of CPI (Maoist), all of whom are believed to be female, killed 24 personnel of the

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as its "ideological basis guiding its thinking in all spheres of its activities." Included in this ideology is a commitment to "protracted

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in the subjects of mathematics, social science, politics, and Hindi, in the "camp schools" using the textbooks published by the party in

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jurisdiction. They have also demolished railroad tracks and school buildings that are often used as temporary camps by security forces.

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live, the heart of the Maoist-affected region in Maharashtra. Recently, the Indian government has claimed that in 2013, Andhra Pradesh,

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political party and militant organization in India which aims to overthrow the "semi-colonial and semi-feudal Indian state" through

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Since the start of the operation: 2,266 Maoist militants have been killed, 10,181 have been arrested and 9,714 have surrendered.

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fire to the forests and making adivasis (tribals) flee. In this situation, we have no other alternative (but to stage attacks)."

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The Maoists had structured "medical units" in the villages of Bastar, and the CPI (Maoist) operates "mobile medical units."

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noted that the CPI (Maoist) also organises events like "The Leadership Training Programme" to endure the forces of the

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On 3 January 2013, government issued a statement that it is deploying 10,000 more central paramilitary personnel in

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course of the merger, a provisional central committee was constituted, with the erstwhile People's War Group leader

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Red Star Over India: As the Wretched of the Earth are Rising: Impressions, Reflections, and Preliminary Inferences

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Red Star Over India: As the Wretched of the Earth are Rising: Impressions, Reflections, and Preliminary Inferences

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Red Star Over India: As the Wretched of the Earth are Rising: Impressions, Reflections, and Preliminary Inferences

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Red Star Over India: As the Wretched of the Earth are Rising: Impressions, Reflections, and Preliminary Inferences

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Red Star Over India: As the Wretched of the Earth are Rising: Impressions, Reflections, and Preliminary Inferences

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Studies & Comments 9 – Security in South Asia: Conventional and Unconventional Factors of Destabilization

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districts in Bihar where security forces claim that opium fields are hidden among maize crops. Reports from

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each family under their domain to supply one family member, and threaten those who resist with violence.

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The CPI (Maoist) has a "publication division". Besides volunteering as a Politburo member of the party,

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The ideology of the party is contained in a "Party Programme." In the document, the Maoists denounce

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An exclusive interview to The Hindu by Azad, spokesperson of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)

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The Communist Party of India (Maoist) was founded on 21 September 2004, through the merger of the

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On April 26 2023, 10 policemen and their driver belonging to the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of

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in Odisha indicate that the Maoists also support hemp cultivation to help fund their activities.

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As per the communist party policies the highest decision making body of the CPI (Maoist) is the

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On 4 January 2022, CPI (Maoist) attacked former BJP MLA of Manoharpur Gurucharan Nayak in

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The military hardware used by Maoists, as indicated through a number of seizures, include

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has suggested that the PLGA has strengthened over the past few years, and has mustered 12

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CPI(Maoist) currently operates in the forest belt around central India in the states of

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Krishna Das, R.; Makkar, Sahil; Basak, Probal; Satapathy, Dillip (27 September 2013).

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member died in heart attack on 21, March 2018. Among those killed, Cherukuri Rajkumar

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The French journalist, Vanessa's conversation with Narmada and several other Comrades

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as a form of social oppression. The CPI (Maoist) claim that they are conducting a "

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In September 2009, an all-out offensive was launched by the Government of India's

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The organisation has been holding "Public Courts", which have been described as

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and Anuj Thakur are another two of the arrested Politburo members of the party.

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Indian 'Republic Killing Its Own Children' – Kishenji Fought for a Better World

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Basavaraj. He was appointed after Muppala Lakshmana Rao, who uses the alias "

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Hearing plea against Salwa Judum, SC says State cannot arm civilians to kill

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The CPI (Maoist) rejects "engagement" with what it terms as the "prevailing

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machinery and establish the Indian People's Democratic Federative Republic"

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Organisations designated as terrorist organisations by Government of India

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and the state's police forces against the CPI (Maoist) is termed by the

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Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia

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from which to advance the people's war in other parts of India. A 2005

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Interview With Comrade Ganapathy, General Secretary (GS), CPI (Maoist)

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The "organising principles" of the Maoists are sketched out from the

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Anand, are the two most prominent Politburo members of CPI (Maoist).

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Indian Government's paramilitary offensive against the CPI (Maoist)

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Interview With Communist Party of India (Maoist) Spokesperson Azad

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the CPI (Maoist) ambushed a convoy of the Indian National Congress

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who were killed by armed forces. Another Central Committee member

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stance, while the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI) took a

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Top Maoist Leader Ganapathi Admits To Leadership Crisis In Party

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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to educate the children in the streams of science and history.

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Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement

4625:"Most extremists in India are not Muslim – they are Hindu" 4005:, Odisha and some parts of Jharkhand. On 8 June 2014, the 7926:

International Campaign Against War on the People in India

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