Maoist rebels kills 49 police in the biggest attack of the year

New Delhi, 15 March 2007. - The Maoist guerrillas in India today ended the lives of 49 policemen in a violent assault against a detachment in the central region of Chatisgarh, which is the biggest rebel attack on what this year.
The attack took place at 02.15 am local time (20.45 GMT Wednesday) about 525 kilometers from the capital of the region, Raipur, ranked Rani Bodli, where there were 24 troops from the Army Corps of the region and other 55 members of the Special Police, who are actually villagers in support tasks.
A total of 15 members of the Army Corps and 34 Special Police officers were killed and 12 personnel of security forces were wounded, as reported in the regional parliament Chatisgarh Governor, Ram Vichar.
The position of the security forces were in a jungle area of difficult access within a district, Dantewada, badly beaten by the Maoists, known in India as "Naxalites" because they rely on the student movement "Naxalbari", the 70's.
"About 500 armed Naxalites attacked the police station with grenades and molotov cocktails, and opened fire indiscriminately," Efe reported by telephone the inspector general of police in the area of Bastar, RK Vij.
After going around the place and kill its defenders advantage that most of them slept, guerrillas seized their weapons and undermined the surrounding area, which has hampered the rescue of the bodies.
"There were about 80 policemen on the job, and 13 of them have been taken to hospital," said Vij.
Dantewada district in the south, has become the epicenter of violence by the guerrillas since the regional government contributed to the establishment of anti-Maoist movement called "Campaign for Peace" (Salwa Judum), which enrolled about 50,000 villagers.
In fact, speaking of the "Special Police Officers", in reality the authorities refer to the local tribal youth, including girls, who receive a monthly salary of 1,500 rupees (25 euros) as payment for help security forces in operations against the rebels.
Although the Maoist guerrillas often operates in twelve Indian regions, their attacks usually take place on a small scale, as evidenced by the murder last March 5, national deputy Sunil Mahato along with two of his bodyguards in neighboring Jharkhand.
In Chatisgarh, the Naxalites have been committed in the past two years 1,187 acts of violence, but only the attack committed on 17 July 2006 against Errabore refugee camp, which killed 60 people, had the entity of attack Today, India PTI news agency reported.
The region of Chatisgarh, undeveloped, poverty has one of the reasons why many young people in rural areas embrace guerrilla activity, whose origins are linked but the university movement.
Initially, the Maoist guerrilla movement had a powerfully with students of the Indian state of Bengal, and only later developed in rural and impoverished areas of the states of central and eastern India, where about 6,000 people have died due to violence.
The guerrillas, grouped in the Communist Party of India (Maoist), took its name from the Bengali village "Naxalbari", where in 1967 there was a violent rebellion based on the ideas of Mao.
Considered by the Indian state as "terrorists", the Naxalite guerrillas maintain an ideology that runs from the struggle to establish an independent Maoist state in the east and center of the country, to an alleged collaboration with international armed movements and the secret services of Pakistan.
"The notion that a Naxalite hates his country is idiotic. He is someone who loves his country more than the rest of us, so it feels more annoying than others when it is corrupted. Not a bad citizen who commits crimes. It is a good citizen driven to despair, "says Abhay Naxalite in his blog.

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