It was half past eight in the morning when we landed at Laxmipur, a small town in the Koraput district of south Odisha. Laxmipur is about 22 km from Narayanpatna, home to one of India's fierce tribal movements led by the Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS).
Stories by Basudev Mahapatra, a journalist from the eastern India, on Environment, Polity and Sustainability.
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Showing posts with label Maoist Movement. Show all posts
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March 07, 2014
In maoist land: A story of deprivation and victimisation
July 04, 2012
Maoist hostage crisis in India: government indifference makes Maoists give up on mediation
Mediation has been successful at bringing down levels of violence and
bringing popular welfare and social justice demands onto the political
agenda. These gains are under threat as the government fails to take the
process seriously.
Banned
since 2009 as a terrorist organisation Communist Party of India (Maoist) armed
cadres now have a presence in more than half of India’s 29 States. Maoists have
adopted the tactics of abduction of civil servants and lawmakers since the
1980s. In the last 15 months, Maoists have made three abductions in Odisha and
one in Chhattisgarh. However, while the earlier abductions were aimed at a
prisoner swap, the recent abductions have raised the possibility of
establishing peace by minimising violence and establishing dialogue.

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