India: CPI (ML) PW running parallel gov't in Chhattisgarh "A dry run for the claymore mine blast on chief minister Chandrababu Naidu's convoy in Tirumala last week was indeed conducted several weeks ago by the People's War (PW) in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, sources in the Maoist guerrilla group have confirmed."
Philippines: Norway hosting GRP-NDFP talks "The Philippine government and communist rebels will sit down in Norway this week to try to restart talks aimed at ending a three-decade insurgency, House of Representatives Speaker Jose de Venecia said on Wednesday."
Philippines: "Surprise" awaits Bush, NDF-Mindanao warns "The New People’s Army, the armed wing of the National Democratic Front (NDF) has threatened to launch tactical offensives against government forces in the run-up to the Philippine visit of US President George Bush this month."
Philippines: 2 Army soldiers now with the NPA, denounce abuses in the military "Escorted by communist guerrillas, two Army soldiers who reportedly raided their detachment’s armory and turned over firearms to the New People’s Army (NPA) in San Luis, Agusan del Sur last August, faced the media here Sunday where they denounced alleged abuses."
India: Red alert in Andhra Pradesh "The abortive assassination attempt on Chandrababu Naidu, the chief minister of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, by the left-extremist People's War (PW), signals that the PW is not a spent force - it is able and willing to strike targets of its choice. "
Nepal Maoist fears for life, HC cancels his extradition "The Madras High Court has ordered notice on a writ plea from a Nepalese — arrested while attempting to travel out of India to London with a forged passport — to restrain the Home Secretaries of the state and the Centre from deporting him to Nepal."
