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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>What Maoists Want </b>
Ajai Sahni
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"<b>Revolutionary warfare</b> is never confined within the bounds of military action. Because <b>its purpose is to destroy an existing society and its institutions and to replace them with a completely new structure</b>, any revolutionary war is a unity of which the constituent parts, in varying importance, are military, political, economic, social and psychological."
Mao Tse-Tung on âGuerilla Warfare'<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The âRed Corridorâ, extending from âTirupati to Pashupatiâ (Andhra Pradesh to Nepal), has long been passé in the Indian Maoistsâ (Naxalitesâ) conception. Maoist ambitions in India now extend to the farthest reaches of the country, and this is not just a fantasy or an aspiration, but a strategy, a projection, a plan and a programme under implementation. A multiplicity of Maoist documents testify to the meticulous detail in which the contours of the current and protracted conflict have been envisaged, in order to "Intensify the peoplesâ war throughout the country". These documents reflect a comprehensive strategy, coordinating all the instrumentalities of revolution â military, political, economic, cultural and psychological â harnessed through the "three magic weapons Comrade Mao spoke about": the Party, the Peopleâs Army, and the United Front.
After a great deal of dissembling and vacillation, Indiaâs security establishment, both at the Centre and in the âaffectedâ States, appears to have conceded, finally, that the Maoist threat is, in Prime Minister Manmohan Singhâs words, the countryâs "single biggest internal security challenge." But the threat is still restrictively envisaged as afflicting only parts of those States where Naxalite violence is visible, and is assumed to follow the erratic trajectory of incidents and fatalities from year to year. However, as the Chhattisgarh Director General of Police, O.P. Rathor, recently observed at a Conference in Raipur,<b> "Statistics of incidents never give a real picture of the ground. Whatever is visible is only the mere tip of the iceberg. Unless caution is exercised, volcanoes can erupt." </b><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Sonia and MMS caught with their pants down. Communist violence being there for all to see, even communist-supporting-party Congress has to now admit to it. When SIMI has done enough damage, Congress will turn around and decide it's time to admit they're a supreme threat too. Until then, they're all buddies.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is necessary to recognize, crucially, that the phase of violence, which is ordinarily the point at which the state takes cognizance of the problem, comes at the tail end of the process of mass mobilization, and at a stage where neutralizing the threat requires considerable, if not massive, use of force. Within this context it is, consequently, useful to notice not merely the current expanse of visible Maoist mobilisation and militancy, but the extent of their current intentions, ambitions and agenda.
<b>Significantly, the CPI-Maoist has established Regional Bureaus across a mass of nearly two-thirds of the countryâs territory (Map 1), and these regions are further sub-divided into state, special zonal and special area committee jurisdictions (Map 2), where the processes of mobilisation have been defined and allocated to local leaders.</b> As these maps indicate, there are at least five regional bureaus, thirteen State committees, two Special Area Committees and three Special Zonal Committees in the country. This structure of organisation substantially reflects current Maoist organisational consolidation, but does not exhaust their perspectives or ambitions.
There is further evidence of preliminary activity for the extension of operations to new areas including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Meghalaya, beyond what is reflected in the scope of the regional, zonal and state committees. A âLeading teamâ recently visited Jammu & Kashmir to assess the potential of creating a permanent Party structure in the form of a State Committee to take the Maoist agenda forward in the State.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Communists consider islamic ideology as heresy (Kashmir) and christo ideology too (Meghalaya). Just like christianity and islam consider each other heresy and communism too.
There's 4 pages of this. See link and the map.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>What Maoists Want </b>
Ajai Sahni
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"<b>Revolutionary warfare</b> is never confined within the bounds of military action. Because <b>its purpose is to destroy an existing society and its institutions and to replace them with a completely new structure</b>, any revolutionary war is a unity of which the constituent parts, in varying importance, are military, political, economic, social and psychological."
Mao Tse-Tung on âGuerilla Warfare'<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The âRed Corridorâ, extending from âTirupati to Pashupatiâ (Andhra Pradesh to Nepal), has long been passé in the Indian Maoistsâ (Naxalitesâ) conception. Maoist ambitions in India now extend to the farthest reaches of the country, and this is not just a fantasy or an aspiration, but a strategy, a projection, a plan and a programme under implementation. A multiplicity of Maoist documents testify to the meticulous detail in which the contours of the current and protracted conflict have been envisaged, in order to "Intensify the peoplesâ war throughout the country". These documents reflect a comprehensive strategy, coordinating all the instrumentalities of revolution â military, political, economic, cultural and psychological â harnessed through the "three magic weapons Comrade Mao spoke about": the Party, the Peopleâs Army, and the United Front.
After a great deal of dissembling and vacillation, Indiaâs security establishment, both at the Centre and in the âaffectedâ States, appears to have conceded, finally, that the Maoist threat is, in Prime Minister Manmohan Singhâs words, the countryâs "single biggest internal security challenge." But the threat is still restrictively envisaged as afflicting only parts of those States where Naxalite violence is visible, and is assumed to follow the erratic trajectory of incidents and fatalities from year to year. However, as the Chhattisgarh Director General of Police, O.P. Rathor, recently observed at a Conference in Raipur,<b> "Statistics of incidents never give a real picture of the ground. Whatever is visible is only the mere tip of the iceberg. Unless caution is exercised, volcanoes can erupt." </b><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Sonia and MMS caught with their pants down. Communist violence being there for all to see, even communist-supporting-party Congress has to now admit to it. When SIMI has done enough damage, Congress will turn around and decide it's time to admit they're a supreme threat too. Until then, they're all buddies.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is necessary to recognize, crucially, that the phase of violence, which is ordinarily the point at which the state takes cognizance of the problem, comes at the tail end of the process of mass mobilization, and at a stage where neutralizing the threat requires considerable, if not massive, use of force. Within this context it is, consequently, useful to notice not merely the current expanse of visible Maoist mobilisation and militancy, but the extent of their current intentions, ambitions and agenda.
<b>Significantly, the CPI-Maoist has established Regional Bureaus across a mass of nearly two-thirds of the countryâs territory (Map 1), and these regions are further sub-divided into state, special zonal and special area committee jurisdictions (Map 2), where the processes of mobilisation have been defined and allocated to local leaders.</b> As these maps indicate, there are at least five regional bureaus, thirteen State committees, two Special Area Committees and three Special Zonal Committees in the country. This structure of organisation substantially reflects current Maoist organisational consolidation, but does not exhaust their perspectives or ambitions.
There is further evidence of preliminary activity for the extension of operations to new areas including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Meghalaya, beyond what is reflected in the scope of the regional, zonal and state committees. A âLeading teamâ recently visited Jammu & Kashmir to assess the potential of creating a permanent Party structure in the form of a State Committee to take the Maoist agenda forward in the State.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Communists consider islamic ideology as heresy (Kashmir) and christo ideology too (Meghalaya). Just like christianity and islam consider each other heresy and communism too.
There's 4 pages of this. See link and the map.