This is not the first time that the Andhra police recovered rocket launchers, but the sheer volume of the recent recoveries is overwhelming. Meanwhile, official skullduggery and apathy continues apace.
The LTTE might have suffered a setback or, in its own language, have 'tactically withdrawn' from some areas, but its lethality cannot be ignored. 2006 is already the bloodiest year since the now 'defunct' Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) was signed in Febru
'...we will refine and develop our tactics to rebuild, consolidate and expand the revolutionary movement in the vast plains of India, to advance the People's War to drown the enemy in the great ocean of the class struggles of the vast masses'
The clarity that attends the Maoist approach to negotiations in the tactical peace process is in sharp contrast to the confusion that tends to guide other parties to the process, both the SPA and international players, including the UN.
The catastrophic terrorist attacks in Mumbai and a series of grenade attacks on tourists in Srinagar have pushed to the background another round of farcical elections in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Despite the enormous optimism that has swept across Nepal in the wake of the 'people's victory' and the restoration of Parliament, the equation of power within the country remains immensely unstable.
But only out of the borders of the state into adjoining ones - or underground. The Maoists may have sustained reverses, but the red menace is far from dead. But it shows how an apolitical decision changes performance of the police
The Maoists couldn't have wished the script to unfold any better, with the king, as if, playing the part of a willing accomplice, with no coherent plan to bring the SPA back into the political process through an offer of meaningful concessions. <a hr
For the LTTE, it is profitable to keep the pot boiling without letting it flow over. A range of front organizations, both in Sri Lanka and among the Lankan Tamil Diaspora, play a crucial role in keeping its fundraising lifeline intact.
Despite the Chairman King's glowing rhetoric, the elections prove that any resolution of the conflict in Nepal will now substantially be dictated and engineered by the Maoists.
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