Not surprisingly, India starts the use of drones against its own citizens

Naxalite movement has spread to over 230 districts of India, from Andhra Pradesh to Nepal border 
Swedish author & columnist Jan Myrdal has arrived in India to launch his book ‘Red Star over India’

Title inspired by ‘Red Star over China’ which predicted the victory of the poorly armed rural Red Chinese rebel movement, and the 1949 rise of Communist China

Washington D.C. Wednesday February 8, 2012 According to ‘doctored’ reports published in the Indian media, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or armed drones are being used in the Visakha agency, and the border districts of Andhra Pradesh state, against the Naxalites rebels ‘to help in intelligence gathering on a real-time basis’. An unmanned aerial vehicle base has been set up at Madurapuddi, near Rajahmundry, says a Times of India report, headlined, ‘Drones set to assist cops in Naxal operations’, published last Monday.
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The UAV helps capture images even in dense forest areas and relays them in real-time to the base for security forces to be speedily mobilized. However, our sources report that Israeli-built drones, armed with missiles, acquired by the Indian government, have been deployed for sometime now, which have fired many times in ‘anger’ killing scores of Naxalites and their innocent families living in their jungle hideouts.

A senior official of Special Intelligence Branch (SIB), an elite anti-Maoist wing, was quoted as telling the Times of India, that drones were being used on an experimental basis in Andhra Pradesh and neighboring state of Chhattisgarh and the results were positive enough for the drones to be introduced in anti-Maoist operations. Over the last few months, Maoists have stepped up their activities in the Visakha agency and in Vizianagaram. Already, the UAV has been tested in Warangal and certain districts of Chhattisgarh. The UAV, sponsored by the Union Ministry of Home affairs (MHA) and procured at a cost of Rs. 30 crore each, will be used in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Chhattisgarh but will have their base in Madurapuddi. Their role will be mainly to provide infrastructure for the setting up of the UAV base in Madurapuddi. However, Andhra Pradesh police claims it has no direct role in the operation of the UAV since states which want to use it have to put in a request to the Ministry of Home Affairs in Delhi. In any case observers feel it is a major escalation, by the central government against the decades old Naxalite rural movement which wants land reforms not missiles.

In a related development 85 years old Swedish author and columnist Jan Myrdal – known for his close interaction with Indian Maoists (Naxalites) since the ’80s, is in India for the launch of his latest book, titled, “Red Star over India”, which is an account of his visit to the Red zone in Bastar and includes his analysis of the situation. Jan Myrdal, (born1927; is the son of the famous Nobel laureates Alva and Gunnar Myrdal) has penned over 80 books, including fiction and plays. Jan Myrdal admits, according to a report in the Times of India headlined, “Maoist movement may end up as a bloody civil war’, ( httptimesofindia.indiatimes.comindiaMaoist-movement-may-end-up-as-a-bloody-civil-wararticleshow 11761495.cmsintenttarget=no ) that he is unable to gauge where the radical Left movement, led by CPI (Maoist) chief Ganapathy, is headed. He is quoted as saying that, “There is even a negative possibility…it could even end as a bloody civil war in which they (the Maoists) may not survive…” Yet the ‘positive’ title of his above mentioned latest book, “Red Star over India” is inspired by the positive title of the 1937 classic, “Red Star over China” written by American author and journalist, Edgar P. Snow (B.1905-D.1972) who was the only writer journalist to correctly predict the rise of China, way back in 1937, when no one gave a chance to the rag tag rural revolutionaries led by the Chinese Communist party under Chairman Mao Zedong and Chou En Lai, of ever succeeding against the American-backed Chiang Kai Shek’s Koumingtang government entrenched in the then Chinese capital of China, Nanking.
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Jan Myrdal (85) who had traveled to Bastar’s core area two years ago, and interacted extensively with cadres and leaders, (including party general secretary Ganapathy) is quoted as saying in his Times of India interview that, “There is even a negative possibility…it could even end as a bloody civil war in which they (the Maoists) may not survive…” While giving an insightful account of his experience to Times of India on Saturday, Myrdal’s face fell for a moment as he blamed himself to some extent for the killing of Maoist leader Azad. “I have a bad feeling… partly responsible for the killing of Azad. “We had mentioned what Ganapathy said about the ceasefire… Azad took it up and it is possible that the situation was used to trap him,” Myrdal was reported to have said in retrospect. Myrdal stresses that he quit the Communist party since he felt that it has taken a wrong direction, but does not consider himself to be a ‘renegade.’ When asked if he, “was a chronicler of the Maoist movement or a sympathizer He retorted that, “I follow my father” who insisted that a social scientist or writer cannot be unbiased. ‘I am not an unbiased observer’, is his common refrain. Myrdal points out a potential area of tension between the atheist Maoist leadership and their constituency tribals and non-tribal farmers and rural folks, who are entrenched in religious and cultural rituals and customs. No wonder, he says, the Red ultras are “very careful about religious shrines etc and on account of hurting local sentiments they are trying to address the issue. “But, this could develop into an area of conflict in spreading the movement,” he warns. When asked what does he perceive to be the way forward for the movement He replies that, “The support of urban middle class is sorely lacked”. He has three tips for the Naxalites to woo the middle class. They are “highlight human rights violations committed by security forces, inclusive development in rural areas and persist with social struggle in urban pockets”.

Jan Myrdal (born 19 July 1927 in Bromma, Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish author, leftist-political writer and columnist. He is an honorary doctor of literature at Upsala College in New Jersey, USA, and a Ph.D. at Nankai University in Tianjin, in China. He has lived at various times in the United States, Afghanistan, Iran and India. He is the son of the Social Democrats and Nobel Laureates Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal; he broke completely with both, at an early age for personal reasons, while keeping them in esteem for their public achievements. Myrdal strongly opposed the Vietnam War. In Asian Drama, Myrdal predicted that land reform and pacification would fail in Vietnam and urged the United States to begin negotiations with North Vietnam. After returning to Sweden, he headed the Swedish Vietnam Committee and became co-chair of International Commission of Inquiry into U.S. War Crimes in Indochina. He also presided over the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, an international watch-dog for the international arms trade.

In the final analysis, the positive title of his latest book, “Red Star over India,” says a ‘book’ about where India’s Naxalite movement of ‘unwashed’ Indians is headed, (in the world’s largest caste-ridden demoNcracy – INDIA) in the considered opinion of Jan Myrdal, the 85 year old Swedish scholar.


Not surprisingly, India starts the use of drones against its own citizens
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