Maoist revolt in India picks up steam

It was long ago that India was trying to help the government of Nepal smash a Maoist uprising by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). Now civil war has spread to India itself and that government is now dealing with a rising Maoist insurgency called The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist (Naxalbar).

According to Anuj Chopra, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor ULGARA, INDIA :”A sprawling, yet largely hidden, war is raging in India's rural countryside, and after years of ignoring it, Delhi is signalling a military counteroffensive.India's Maoist insurgents, also called Naxalites, have expanded their area of operations from just four states 10 years ago to half of India's 28 states today. In 165 districts, they claim to run parallel "People's" governments. This year alone, fighting between rebel and government forces has claimed more than 500lives - many civilian.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh turned heads recently by calling the Naxalites, "The single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country."

The Maoist of India have ties to the Maoist in Nepal. Add to that the possibility of Maoist taking up arms in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Maoist already taking up arms in Turkey, there now is a movement sweeping over Asia and part of Europe to rival the Islamic fundamentalists.