Category
Private Militias
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Black Economy, Naxalite, Private Militias
The Naxal Keystone
02.24.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsSheena Roy passionately argues for a separate Talangana state, taking great pains to distance herself from the Naxals that she claims the opposition has been smearing her movement as a part of: The Seema Andhra leaders today are trying to term Telangana people as naxalites, trying to create a fear in the Center and suppress [...]
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Controlled Chaos, Federalism, Governance, Private Militias
Chhattisgarh: Legitimacy of Force
“It is a question of law and order. You (state government) cannot give arms to somebody (a civilian) and allow him to kill.” – Supreme Court’s Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan. A key component of nation-state legitimacy is a monopoly on violence. Chhattisgarh’s Salwa Judum militia is a response to an inability of its state [...]
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Controlled Chaos, Naxalite, Private Militias, Smart Reporting
Telangana: Proliferating Private Militias
Fear Vikas, Green Tigers, Nalladandu, Red Tigers, Tirumala Tigers, Palnadu Tigers, Kakatiya Cobras, Narsa Cobras, Nallamalla Nallatrachu (Cobras) and Kranthi Sena are some of the gangs. The gangs have fiery logos featuring cobras, tigers and guns. Hyderabad based journalist Sudhakar Reddy Udumula outlines the rapid growth of very granular private armies in the troubled area [...]
India’s Naxalite Rage
Shlok Vaidya analyzes the far-flung implications of a shifting Indian security environment with a focus on the globally-connected Naxalite insurgency.recent entries
- Firing Los Federales
- Estimated Cost per Naxal? ~$5,000
- Indicator: Madhya Pradesh’s Missing Explosives Convoy
- The Business of Terrorism
- India’s Hidden Innovation Engine and its $35 Tablet
recent comments
- Shlok Vaidya: Hmm. I’ll check my huge backlog of files to see if I can pull anything up. I had read a couple...
- Eric Randolph: I very much agree with this view, reliant as the Naxals are on the willing participation of...
- neil: Atleast they are helping the poor people God will bless them, were in india all politicians making money.
- siman: Dear Friends, Please Share your basic view regarding the naxlite increasing in india,bcoz we all know the...
- Zuo Qing: Thanks. It wasn’t really apparent in the article itself.