Wikileaks - India

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11. © The GOI does not focus on Naxalite or Northeast terrorism with the intensity it devotes to jihadi terrorists, probably for a combination of the following reasons:



-- Attacks by Naxalites and Northeast groups remain confined to rural areas far from New Delhi.



-- The Naxals generally target security forces vice civilians.



-- The Naxals lack external support, which makes them a purely Indian problem, something the GOI cannot blame on other countries; the GOI blames Pakistan and Bangladesh as instigators/supporters of jihadi terrorism, and Bangladesh for also allowing Northeast terrorists support or, at minimum, safe haven. The GOI can and does exploit these links to attract international sympathy (and partial absolution) for its own domestic governance and border security short-comings.



-- Because Naxalites and Northeast groups are treated as domestic issues, they are largely handled by the individual states in which these groups operate. The GOI over the past year has tried to tie together the anti-Naxal efforts of the “Naxal-affected states,” but to no discernible effect thus far, and the states lack the capacity to mount an effective response to the problem.



-- The most likely solutions to the problems posed by the Naxal and Northeast groups involve improving local/state governance and economic opportunity, a difficult and long-term solution for New Delhi and the affected states to effect.





http://cablesearch.org/cable/view.php?id=06NEWDELHI2587

Intriguing how the known western-sponsored missionary groups in the NE are treated as India's domestic problem both by GOI and the western govt., and Naxals are seen as a strictly equivalent case.