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Maoists getting arms from China: India

India for the first time has said that the Maoists are getting arms from China, which is a “big supplier” of small weapons.

“Chinese are big smugglers… suppliers of small arms. I am sure that the Maoists also get them,” Home Secretary G K Pillai said when asked if the Naxals were having links with China.

The home secretary said the government has no information that the Maoists have any links with China except getting arms. “I do not think so, except getting arms,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a function in New Delhi [ Images ].Pillai, however, did not elaborate whether the Maoists were getting arms from Chinese arms smugglers or official agencies.

Naxalite insurgency spreading like wildfire in Bharat. Hindustan's Maoist insurgency map. There are secessionist movements in almost every state in "India" encompasisng more than 200 districts. The Naxals have been supported by the Maoists in Nepal. With the Maoist victory in Nepal the Naxals and Maoists of Bharat are increasingly more assertive. There were a 1,591 incidents of Maoist violence resulting in 721 killings; this year until August there had been 1,405 incidents, resulting in 580 deaths spread over 11 states. The situation in the northeastern parts of the country, the prime minister warned, was far from comfortable. "In two of the states, Manipur and Assam, current levels of violence give us cause for concern. According to home minister P Chidambaram, they had presence in 17 states and were responsible for 90 percent of the violence in the country. Bharat Verma says New Delhi and the state capitals have almost ceded the governmental control over 40 % of the Union’s territory to the Naxalites.

Home Minister P Chidambaram had told PTI in an interview last month that the Maoists are acquiring weapons through Bangladesh, Myanmar and possibly Nepal.”We know now that the weapons are coming through Bangladesh and Myanmar and possibly Nepal. The Indo-Nepal border is a porous border.” he had said.

http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/08/maoists-getting-arms-from-china-says-india.htm