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India: Maoists Reverses In Maharashtra ? Analysis
 Maharashtra in India |
By SATP
July 15, 2013
By Fakir Mohan Pradhan
The uncertain gains that Maharashtra had secured in its campaigns against the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) through 2012 appear to have been further consolidated in the first half of 2013.
On July 7, 2013, Maharashtra Police?s C-60 Commandos, along with a section of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), shot dead six woman CPI-Maoist cadres, in an encounter near Mandri village in the Etapalli Division of Gadchiroli District. All the Maoists were in uniform. Police feel that the Maoists may have suffered a greater loss, but managed to drag bodies of some of their comrades into the jungles. A carbine, a .303 rifle, five 12-bore guns, 13 hand grenades and 20 rucksacks were recovered from the encounter site. Sources indicated that the Maoists were preparing for a meeting at Sawari village in the vicinity when their plans were leaked to the Police. The success of Security Forces (SFs) was reportedly engineered under difficult conditions, with odds stacked against them, as they had to cross a full flowing river and negotiate thick vegetation. The commandos also crawl some distance in the slush to avoid being spotted.
Since the beginning of 2013, Gadchiroli District in Maharashtra has witnessed several successful counter-insurgency operations, prominently including:
April 12: Four CPI-Maoist cadres and one C-60 Commando were killed in an encounter, in the forests near Sindesur village, Dhanora tehsil (revenue unit), Gadchiroli District. Two villagers were also killed in the crossfire. Several other Maoists were injured in the firing. Bodies of three women and one male rebel were recovered. The slain Maoists belonged to the Dhanora Local Organizational Squad (LOS) and Platoon 15. One SLR and a Bharmar (country made muzzle loading) rifle were also recovered from the encounter site. A month later, on May 12, SFs stumbled on the decomposed body of a woman inside the forest near the Sindesur village. One .303 rifle with 33 rounds, two backpacks and a pair of shoes were also found near the body. Police believe that the body may be of a Maoist killed in the April 12 encounter.
April 4: Seven Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter with Police near Bhatpar village in the Bhamragad Division of Gadchiroli. Police managed to recover five bodies. Police also recovered eight weapons, including one .303 gun, and seven Bharmars.
January 20: Six Maoists, including some senior cadres, were killed by SFs during an encounter near Jimulgatta, in Aheri tehsil of Gadchiroli District. The deceased Maoists included the ?secretary? of the CPI-Maoist Aheri Area Committee, Shankar aka Munneshwar Jaktu Lakada; Aheri dalam (armed squad) commander, Vinod aka Chandrayya Kodape; and ?deputy commander? of the Aheri dalam, Mohan Kowase.
Moreover, as a result of the growing strength of their intelligence network, the Gadchiroli Police were able to successfully execute a counter-ambush against a group of 50 to 60 Maoists, who were waiting to ambush Police search parties in Hetalkasa Forest under the Malewada Police Station in Gadchiroli on May 19. After the encounter, Police recovered the body of a Maoist and a small cache of arms and ammunition.
Common to these significant operational successes against the Maoists is the fact that the rebels were taken by complete surprise, a crucial departure from the experience of the past in Gadchiroli as well as most other theatres of Maoist violence. This point is driven further home by the fact that, in these operations, the Maoists did not even have the time and opportunity for orderly withdrawals, as evidenced by the high number of bodies recovered. Maoists generally do not leave behind the bodies of their fallen comrades. Moreover, SF casualties in these operations have been minimal, in sharp contrast to the ratio of fatalities in 2012.
Fatalities in Left-Wing Extremist Violence in Maharashtra: 2005-2013
| Years | Incidents | Civilians | SF personnel | LWE | Total |
| 2005 | 94 | 29 | 24 | 3 | 56 |
| 2006 | 98 | 39 | 3 | 19 | 61 |
| 2007 | 94 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 30 |
| 2008 | 68 | 17 | 5 | 9 | 31 |
| 2009 | 154 | 41 | 52 | 4 | 97 |
| 2010 | 94 | 35 | 10 | 3 | 48 |
| 2011 | 109 | 44 | 10 | 3 | 57 |
| 2012 | 134 | 27 | 14 | 4 | 45 |
| 2013* | - | 8 | 3 | 26** | 37 |
| Source: 2005-2012 Ministry of Home Affairs | |
| ** 23 bodies recovered in five encounters, in one case the claim was seven but five bodies were recovered and another killing was reported by Adilabad (Andhra Pradesh) Police, perhaps in an encounter with AP Police in Gadchiroli]. |
Maharashtra Police has lost three personnel to Maoist violence in 2013, with just one of these killed during an encounter. A second Policeman was killed while he was returning from a hospital with his wife and two children, and the third Police victim was a Police patil who was accompanying the Llyod?s Vice President and a subcontractor who were killed near Nender village in Etapalli tehsil in Gadchiroli on June 13. The Maoists carried out the last killing purportedly to protest against the attempt to start mining in Surajagad and Damkodvadavi Hills in the Gatta area despite ?popular sentiment? against mining in the area.
Out of the eight civilians killed in Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-related violence, two were killed in crossfire during an encounter and another two, by Maoists over the mining issue. Three persons were killed by the Maoists as suspected Police informers; one of the three was reported to be ?mentally deranged?. The eighth man, a shopkeeper, was killed by Maoists in Gondia District over some payment disputes with tribals.
All the incidents of killing in Maharashtra in 2013 have been reported from Gadchiroli District, with the exception of one civilian killing in Gondia District.
Fatality data alone makes it amply clear that the balance is gradually tilting in favour of the SFs in Maharashtra in 2013. Even, in the second-half of 2012, though the number of encounters with Maoists increased, the Maoists had failed to inflict any fatalities on the SFs.
Media reports in February 2013 cited a senior officer of the Aheri Police in Gadchiroli, stating that the Maoists used to deploy around 75 to 80 persons in their ?company? formations in the District. This strength has come down to around 55 to 60 at present. The officer was relying on interrogations of several Maoists in custody. Similarly, the platoon formations have also lost considerable manpower, with average strength declining from 25 to 30 members to 12 to 16 cadres, and even less in some cases. The dalam?s earlier strength was around 15, but it has come down to around 8-12.
The pressure on the Maoists is also visible in other patterns of Maoist violence. Just one incident of abduction (of three persons) and three incident of arson, have, thus far, been recorded in the State, all in Gadchiroli District, in 2013. On the other hand, at least four Maoists have been arrested and another 28 have surrendered in the District. Maoists belonging to different dalams in Gadchiroli and border areas of Chhattisgarh have surrendered before Gadchiroli Police as a result the ?Campaign Navjeevan? [Campaign New Life] initiative, under which senior Police officials visited the families of Maoist cadres and appealed to them to surrender, assuring them of fair treatment. The campaign was quietly launched in December 2012. It is significant that, in the past, surrendering Maoists generally preferred neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, which offers a better ?surrender package?.
Explaining the turnaround, Maharashtra Additional Director-General of Police (ADGP) (Special Operations), Prem Kisan Jain, told media, ?We have reorganised the setup within the Department, in which all anti-Naxal operations, including intelligence, training and action, have been brought under one chain of command.? Further, Jain claimed that increasing the duration of the stay of the forces in the forests to 3 to 5 days, instead of short durations, had helped them immensely in disrupting Maoist logistics: ?we have not only managed to confine Maoists in their areas, but have also been able to penetrate into hitherto impregnable areas, which has put them on the defensive.? Coordination among the State Police Force, the special force (C-60) and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), had also improved dramatically. Advanced training centres, manned by Army personnel, were set up and more specialised equipment has been provided to the counter-insurgency (CI) troops. The ?economical use of ammunition? has also helped the Police, with better firing skills and restraint in the use of ammunition during encounters. In the past, panicked and indiscriminate firing by SFs had often resulted in units running out of ammunition during an ambush or encounter.
In addition to operational improvement, there has been a visible transformation in the capacities and processes of intelligence gathering. While surrendered Maoists have provided crucial operational information, Police appear to have infiltrated Maoist ranks in Gadchiroli.
On a downside, an Assistant Sub-Inspector, Omprakash Singh Thakur, who was in charge of the Jungle Tactics and Survival Course, was arrested on July 4, 2013, after an investigating team found out that he had pilfered arms and ammunitions that were found in a well behind the Gadchiroli Police Headquarters. The Police are now investigating if the pilfered weapons were meant for the Maoists. Further, Gadchiroli Police have registered cases against Prime Minister?s Rural Development Fellow (PMRDF) Mahesh Raut and his friend Harshali Potdar from Mumbai after two arrested Maoists revealed that the pair were travelling with them to meet top Maoist leaders.
As things appear to change in Maharashtra, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is mulling a tactical shift in anti-Maoist operations, with greater emphasis on intensive intelligence gathering leading to the setting up village-level database at Police Stations in all affected Districts in the country. The proposed changes are reportedly to come up for discussion at a meeting called by the MHA in July-end. The meeting is to bring together Superintendents of Police of the 26 worst-affected Districts across seven States and officers of the CAPFs. The District Police Chiefs would be urged to take the initiative to collect information about each village, its residents, amenities and infrastructure available. The Andhra Pradesh Police had benefitted immensely from such village-level data bases in its effort to develop an effective intelligence network at the grassroots and to plan effective operations against the Maoists. The MHA, keen to go beyond the ?Greyhounds? model that it has been harping on for the past several years, and to replicate more nuanced elements of the success in Andhra Pradesh, now wants to ?go back to basics and revitalize Police Stations?.
Despite dramatic improvements in Gadchiroli, there is little scope for complacency. After killing 14 Maoists in 2006, the Police had claimed, in 2007, that the Maoist movement in most affected Gadchiroli and Gondia districts had ?weakened? with some of the dalams operating in the area virtually winding up due to a cadre crunch and no fresh recruitment. But the Maoists came back even stronger in subsequent years. The Maoist capacity for revival has been repeatedly underestimated in the past, and far greater consolidation is necessary before the present gains can be thought to be irreversible.
Fakir Mohan Pradhan
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
Source: http://www.eurasiareview.com/15072013-india-maoists-reverses-in-maharashtra-analysis/
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks added to losses in late morning trade on Tuesday, weighed by declines in the energy and utilities sectors.
The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> was down 32.42 points, or 0.21 percent, at 15,451.74. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.spx> was down 5.66 points, or 0.34 percent, at 1,676.84. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.ixic> was down 10.33 points, or 0.29 percent, at 3,597.16.
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James Armitage, Westminster City Council?s Food Safety Manager, Whacks Celebrity Chef of London?s Five-Star Berkeley Hotel
Chef cooked for the Queen on her 80th birthday and his withering judgments on aspiring chefs have made him the star of the BBC?s Great British Menu series.
And the Chef?s response:? ?Food safety, and the health of my team and customers, is not something I would knowingly jeopardize.?
I am glad that was one restaurant I missed in London.
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Cespedes steals show from All-Stars, wins HR Derby
NEW YORK (AP) ? Yoenis Cespedes certainly made his mark at the All-Star game ? and he's not even on the roster.
Actually, it was a dent.
Oakland's second-year slugger won baseball's Home Run Derby with a dazzling display of power Monday night, becoming the first player left out of the Midsummer Classic to take home the crown.
Cespedes beat Bryce Harper 9-8 in the final round at reconfigured Citi Field, hitting the decisive drive with five swings to spare. The outfielder from Cuba flipped his bat aside and raised his left arm in triumph when he sent his 32nd homer of the night some 455 feet to center field, where it caromed off the back wall of the black batter's eye.
He was swarmed by the American League All-Stars near the third base line.
"You come for a show in New York. He put on a show," said Detroit Tigers pitcher Max Scherzer, set to start for the AL on Tuesday night.
The final addition to the field, Cespedes was the fourth player not selected for the All-Star game to compete in the event.
Right off the bat, he proved he belonged. With family in the stands, Cespedes hit a whopping 17 home runs in the first round ? more than any other player managed in their first two trips to the plate.
"I felt that I was getting into a very good rhythm, and that as long as the ball was right over the plate, I felt like I was in a good groove," he said through a translator. "That was the key."
Baseball's big boppers took aim at two trucks parked beside the home run apple behind the center-field fence, a popular staple at Mets games dating to their days in Shea Stadium.
With a shiny prize to shoot for, Cespedes dinged the hood on one and elicited a rousing cheer.
Cuban reliever Aroldis Chapman of the Cincinnati Reds brought Cespedes water and a towel during the first round, and 2010 champion David Ortiz strolled over to offer encouragement and advice.
The Rockettes danced atop the dugouts and did their famous kickline between first-round batters.
"It's far different from in Cuba," Cespedes said. "There might be two people at our games. There's only one photographer, and this is completely different and foreign to me. But I'm very happy to be here."
His first-round outburst was enough to send him straight into the finals, though he added six long balls in round two for good measure. Some of his drives were especially impressive, too.
Cespedes hit about a half-dozen balls into the upper deck in left, never reached by anyone in a game, and banged another couple of shots off the restaurant windows in the corner just below.
The 27-year-old Cespedes has struggled as a sophomore, batting .225 with 15 home runs, but hardly anyone in the game doubts his ability.
"This trophy will motivate me so that things continue to go well for me, and I just want to thank the people that believed in me, that thought I could play at this level," he said.
The 20-year-old Harper, wearing shiny gold spikes as his father pitched to him, hammered eight homers in all three rounds. But the Washington Nationals phenom couldn't keep up with Cespedes.
"He's incredible," Harper said. "He's an absolute machine."
Colorado outfielder Michael Cuddyer and Baltimore first baseman Chris Davis, who leads the majors with 37 homers, were eliminated in the second round. Davis tied Reggie Jackson (1969) for the AL record before the All-Star break.
"I had a little blister come up second round. It's just one of those things," Davis said. "I usually get one once a year and it just happened to be tonight. It actually popped during a swing. My main concern is obviously not to hurt myself and to hang onto the bat.
"It's something that I've dealt with in my career since I can remember. You've just got to kind of wear it for a couple of days and then it hardens up and you're good to go."
Citi Field opened in 2009 with a cavernous outfield and yielded the fewest home runs in the majors over its first three seasons, according to STATS. But the Mets erected a new fence in front of the old one, dubbed the Great Wall of Flushing, before last season. That trimmed dimensions by up to 12 feet and lowered the height of the wall from as high as 16 feet to 8 all around.
Since then, the ballpark has ranked closer to the middle of the pack in home runs, 18th out of 30. But it's still no hitter's haven. In fact, hometown favorite David Wright had joked he would take his Derby swings from second base.
Cespedes, however, and most of the other sluggers had little trouble clearing the old wall. When they got good wood, it was long gone.
"This stadium may be very difficult, but it's not as difficult as Oakland. And if I can do it in Oakland, I thought, why can't I do it here?" Cespedes said.
Wright and another hometown darling, Pirates slugger Pedro Alvarez, were both eliminated in the first round. Alvarez went to high school in New York City and grew up in the same Manhattan neighborhood as Manny Ramirez.
Wright managed five home runs as the sellout crowd of 43,558 chanted "Let's Go Mets!"
"I ran out of gas," he said.
Also knocked out early were defending champion Prince Fielder, the only player besides Ken Griffey Jr. to win multiple times, and American League captain Robinson Cano of the New York Yankees, who made Cespedes his final pick.
NOTES: Cespedes' home run total matched Ortiz (2010) and Cano (2011) for the third-highest behind Bobby Abreu (41 in 2005) and Josh Hamilton (35 in 2008). ... Davis was credited with the longest drive of the night at 502 feet. ... Oakland third base coach Mike Gallego pitched to Cespedes, who averaged 405 feet on his home runs. He became the first A's player to participate in the Derby since Jason Giambi in 2001 and joined Mark McGwire (1992) as the team's only winners. "Before I left, they asked me to bring home the trophy," Cespedes said. ... The American League topped the NL 53-50. ... Cano showed up at the afternoon news conference in a snappy suit. Harper was in a T-shirt, mesh shorts, sneakers and his spiky mohawk. At least he was dressed in blue and orange, Mets colors. ... By hitting 103 home runs in all, the sluggers raised $529,000 for charity.
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Talking Tech While Merging Identities in Munich (Video) - Ina Fried ...
One of the refreshing things about DLDwomen is that it is a technology-and-women?s conference that is not afraid to stretch beyond those confines.
DLDwomen (Digital-Life-Design) is the kind of place that welcomes multiple identities rather than forcing one to check all but the relevant one at the door.
Last year, I had the chance to do an onstage interview with the head of Telefonica?s German operations. But I also got to hear talks from Alanis Morissette and the granddaughter of Columbian artist Fernando Botero.
At this year?s event, which kicks off on Monday, I will be talking with a top executive from Deutsche Telekom about the challenges and opportunities for both European companies and telecom operators. It?s a topic that is clearly front-of-mind for me, as I?m covering an ever more global mobile industry.
But I am also taking part in a small discussion on LGBT families on Tuesday, joining a pair of filmmakers and Carl Djerassi, the 91-year-old inventor of the birth-control pill. As the recent new mom of a six-month-old, that?s also a subject that is never far from my mind.
I spent Sunday in Munich getting in touch with all of my identities. Fortunately, that was easy.
In the morning, I paid homage to my family?s heritage, visiting the small but powerful Jewish Museum. A particularly poignant temporary exhibit spoke to an often overlooked element of the Holocaust, the widespread sexual abuse of women and men at the hands of the Nazis.
Sobered, and looking for more uplifting enlightenment, I went to the Deutsches Museum ? an amazing venue that chronicles the history of technology and mechanics dating from the Middle Ages through the present day.
There I got to walk inside one of those room-size 1960s IBM mainframes that I have often heard about but haven?t seen. The Museum is home to a number of pieces of early computer history, including an impressive Univac 1 (seen here) and some less-well-known German computers of similar size.
The museum also pasy tribute to the early minicomputers of my youth, from the IBM PC and Commodore PET to the iconic orange-and-yellow Speak & Spell (For all you young rsquo;uns, that was the LeapPad of its age).
One floor down, an exhibit traced photography from the earliest cameras to the present. In addition to the legions of early film cameras, there was a small tribute to the dawn of the digital age, with a Palm Pilot camera attachment, a Kodak MP3 player/camera, and one of the early Nokia camera phones.
Other collections traced the history of musical instruments, textile equipment and industrial machines. One of the most popular areas was the aviation section, which houses an impressive array of airplanes ? from a Wright Brothers craft to modern jets ? as well as helicopters, gliders and spacecraft.
On the way back from the Deutsches Museum, I managed to bump into Munich?s Pride festival, which happened to be wrapping up. There wasn?t too much tech there to speak of, although I did spot a woman in a Google shirt featuring two Android mascots and a rainbow flag.
After such an eventful day ? as well as the DLDwomen kick-off dinner ? I am even more excited for the conference. On Monday, I will be interviewing Claudia Nemat, Deutsche Telekom?s head of European operations.
Also speaking at the event are women from venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners, as well as Juliana Rotich, the Ushahidi founder who spoke at our D: Dive Into Mobile conference in April.
Here?s a bit of video from the day:
Check back later on Monday and Tuesday for more coverage from DLDwomen.
Source: http://allthingsd.com/20130715/talking-tech-and-merging-identities-in-munich/
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