"Bodies of the slain policemen of Rupsha police station were recovered from the Atharobaki river yesterday. Sub-Inspector (SI) Shamsul Huq and Havildar Abu Baker were gunned down by the cadres of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) at Bamandanga Bazar at around 10:30 am on Thursday."
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"With the Thursday killing, 17 policemen have been killed and 28 injured in armed attacks by outlaws in the Khulna division since July 2002."
Philippines: Senator seeks lifting of arrest warrants vs. MILF, NDF leaders "The road to peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the resumption of the stalled negotiations with the National Democratic Front (NDF) appeared beset by obstacles on the ground that makes both rebel groups hesitate to commit."
Philippines: War against MILF left military weak in Luzon, Visayas "Late last year, then-Armed Forces chief of staff, Gen. Dionisio Santiago, announced the military leadership’s plan to transfer some troops from Mindanao in areas in Luzon and Visayas identified as hotbeds of the communist group New People’s Army (NPA). At that time, the 10,000-strong NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), had just been declared a foreign terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union. This plan was put on hold, according to military insiders, in anticipation of retaliatory attacks from the secessionist group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) resulting from the military’s successful offensive on their camp in the Buliok Complex in Pikit, North Cotabato, on February 11."
India: Panic grips Jharkand judiciary "Panic grips the judiciary in Jharkand after the Maoist Communist Centre – MCC, has threatened to kill an additional judge. The judge had sentenced death to three of its activists. The MCC has also given a state-wide bandh call on the 10th of this month in protest against the judgement."
News from Nepal Maoists still sceptical of peace talks "Local commanders of the CPN-Maoist are too sceptical of the ongoing peace process and have shifted significantly in their policy in recent days, the area commander of the rebel outfit Comrade Bikram said. "We have given up contacting the local administration and security personnel in recent weeks," he said. Talking to The Kathmandu Post, Bikram said the changes in their strategy followed the resumption of security operations to harass the Maoist cadres in the district. "We’ve been forced to go underground after an interaction programme organised by local journalists and an NGO a few weeks ago," he said. "Some of our supporters present at the programme have been interrogated unofficially."
Arms supply to Maoists seized "Bangladesh security agencies have seized 180 kilograms of explosives and 93,192 bullets allegedly meant for Nepal's Maoists in different parts of the country over the past few days, The Kathmandu Post reported Thursday quoting Daily Star News."
Maoist leader on hunger strike "Maoist central committee member Rabindra Shrestha has gone on hunger strike since Monday at jail in Lalitpur demanding increased allowances, rebel sources said. His health condition is deteriorating.
Rebels have demanded the release of three central committee members, including Shrestha, as a pre-condition to start the third round of stalled peace talks."
Controversy over talks’ output The government will not be able to enforce “controversial” agreements signed with the Maoists, a talks-committee-member and Communication Minister Kamal Thapa reiterated Friday. “Except ambiguous and controversial decisions, the government is ready to implement all other decisions,” Thapa said in a press meet Friday.
Philippines: Resumption of talks to depend on gov't: Sison "PEACE negotiations between the Macapagal administration and the communist rebels could start soon although this would depend on the government's "draft statement" that would pave the way for the resumption of the talks, exiled rebel leader Jose Ma. Sison told INQ7.net Friday. "Bebot Bello (Silvestre Bello III) promised to make a new draft statement and to continue communications with (NDF panel chair) Luis Jalandoni for the purpose of working out a mutually satisfactory statement," Sison said in response to an e-mail query."
TIKKO attack Turkish army "A soldier was killed and two others injured in northern Turkey yesterday when rebels from an underground Maoist group opened fire on an army unit, local officials told Anatolia news agency. The shooting occurred in a rural area in the province of Tokat when militants belonging to the far-left Maoist Turkish Workers' and Peasants' Liberation Army (TIKKO) attacked troops who were preparing to launch a security sweep in the area. (AFP)"
Hunt for Left-wing extremists in Bangladesh"Bangladesh police on Friday launched a hunt for left-wing extremists believed to be behind the fatal shooting of two policemen in a trouble-prone district on Thursday, officials said.
[...]The region is plagued by violence among faction-ridden extremist groups such as the Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP).
In Thursday's incident, PBCP gunmen reportedly entered a bazaar teashop, shot dead the two off-duty policemen, shouted slogans and then went off with the bodies as panicked residents fled the scene. "
Philippines: Gov't has 'understanding' to reopen talks with Reds "Government negotiators have reached a "mutual understanding" with communist insurgents to resume peace talks possibly in a month, an aide of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Friday. But Macapagal and her security advisers also stressed that these talks were still in their initial stages and that military operations against the communists' armed wing, the New People's Army (NPA), would continue. Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said a government negotiator, Silvestre Bello, had informal talks with the communist leadership in Europe "and the bottomline is ... they have a mutual understanding to resume the negotiations within a month."
Shining Path raids seen posing new threat in Peru "Raids by Shining Path guerrillas in remote areas of Peru are posing a renewed threat in this Andean nation traumatized by two decades of violence by the rebel group, analysts and politicians said on Thursday.
"The terrorism of the Shining Path ... is reappearing once again as the most serious threat to our democracy," former President Alan Garcia told reporters on Thursday after meeting with the new prime minister, Beatriz Merino."
Philippines: Reds unfazed by gov't threat, vow more attacks "Communist insurgents were unfazed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's threat of 'political, diplomatic, and military' counterattacks, a rebel spokesman said Thursday, as he ordered the New People's Army to step up offensives against the government.
'The revolutionary movement is not at all fazed by the military's counterattacks,' Gregorio 'Ka Roger' Rosal, spokesman for the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said in a statement sent to INQ7.net. "
Philippines: Gov't, Reds agree to resume peace talks end of July "Formal peace negotiations with the communist National Democratic Front (NDF) would resume by the end of this month in Oslo, Norway, chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III said Thursday. Bello said this was 'mutually agreed' upon during talks between the panels in The Hague, Netherlands from June 26 to July 3. "
India: MCC ultras set afire police station, kill three cops in Bihar "Militants of the banned Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) set afire a police station before killing three policemen, one of them being burnt alive, and injuring seven others at Paraiya police station in Bihar's extremist-hit Gaya district late Wednesday night."
Nepal: Maoists, Govt. agree to hold informal talks "Maoist rebels have agreed to hold informal talks with the Nepalese Government to sort out differences and prepare the ground for the third round of dialogue."
Philippines: Reds face counterattacks; immunity pact to be reviewed"Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday ordered 'optimum' military, political and diplomatic counterattacks to the new spate of attacks by the New People's Army that led to the death of scores of government troops in Eastern Samar and Compostela Valley. She said the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front must be held accountable for the 'terrorist acts of the NPA,' and hinted that the government might reconsider the implementation of an existing agreement on safety and immunity guarantees for NDF leaders forged for the peace talks. "
Philippines: Ten soldiers dead, 10 hurt in ComVal rebel attack "Ten soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded in a fierce gunbattle Monday with communist guerrillas in the southern Philippines Monday, the military said. An army unit patrolling near the town of New Bataan in Compostela Valley province ran into a group of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, triggering a firefight, military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Lucero told AFP."
Philippines: 6 soldiers wounded in clash with NPA "Six Army soldiers were wounded in a two-hour clash with at least 100 New People's Army rebels in the vicinity of Sitio Kinasakitan, Barangay Canaway in the town of General Nakar, Quezon province on Saturday."
Iran: KADEK Kills 8 Iranian Soldiers "Reports indicate that the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK-KADEK), which has been trying to build a base in Iran for a while, has raided a police station in the Iranian city of Shinava, killing 8 soldiers."
Two leftist militants killed, one injured in central Turkey "Two leftist militants were killed and another injured in a clash with Turkish soldiers in central Turkey, an official said Friday. Paramilitary police on Thursday encountered the militants near the central Anatolian city of Tokat, some 400 kilometers east of Ankara, and demanded their surrender, but the militants opened fire, a paramilitary police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Anatolia news agency carried a similar report and said the militants were affiliated with the outlawed Turkish Workers Peasants Liberation Army, or TKP-ML TIKKO, which has carried out past attacks. The injured militant was being treated in a local hospital, Anatolia added."
Posters: MCC tests Delhi waters "Banned all over India under POTA, the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) is showing its presence in Delhi. At least through a poster campaign. Posters of the outfit, which was banned in 2001, can be spotted at the Panchsheel bus stop near IIT flyover. There may be many other stops and junctions where people are noticing and reading these. The posters have a picture of Mao Tse Tung and ask everyone to join a ‘‘revolutionary’’ and ‘‘armed’’ struggle to fight ‘‘imperialist’’ and ‘‘class’’ powers. There is no contact number. The MCC, it seems, is trying to expand its base among the students — South Delhi is a hub of student activity with the IIT, Jawaharlal Nehru University and South Campus of Delhi University. The authorities don’t have an inkling of it."
Philippines: NPAs attack village in Quezon, wounding 3 Army soldiers "At least three soldiers were reportedly wounded in an encounter with New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in a remote village in Quezon, on Saturday, according to initial reports reaching Camp Aguinaldo. The report said troops from the 59th Infantry Battalion were patrolling the area when they chanced upon some 100 heavily armed NPA rebels around 8:30 a.m., on the outskirts of Canaway village in General Nakar, Quezon, a known bailiwick of the communist group."
India: MCC threatens Jharkhand judge "The outlawed Maoist Communist Centre has threatened to kill a Jharkhand judge who has sentenced three MCC cadets to death. The MCC has pasted more than a hundred posters carrying death threats against local judge Ashok Kumar Chand for sentencing three of its cadres to death in Jharkhand's Satey Chatra district."
