Uh-oh...... Nepalese Maoists 'entering India'

[Character Assassin]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3313523.stm

Indian police say that Nepalese rebels are entering India to take shelter and seek medical treatment.

A recent police report noted 128 cases of injured rebels being treated at hospitals in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, the AP news agency says.

Three suspected rebels were arrested on Monday while trying to take a comrade to hospital in Uttar Pradesh's capital, Lucknow, police said.

Nepal's Maoists have been fighting for a communist republic since 1996.

As if India or Nepal needed any more headaches....

[goodhue]

1. police action

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3313523.stm

Indian police often raid hospitals and border villages to flush out Maoist rebels hiding in the state.

"This is an open and overt activity by the police in the districts," a top intelligence official told BBC News Online on condition of anonymity.

[htuttle]

2. I think there's been a low-level communist rebellion going on in India...

... since '68 or so.

The Naxalites seem to be fairly widespread in the north-central portion of India, and have been more or less rebelling since 1968. If I'm understanding what I've read correctly, they were/are loosely connected, peasant-based Maoist groups.

However, all the government-line material I've read about them sounds like the Indian government also uses them as a 'boogey man', much as Italy likes to do with so-called 'Red Brigade' activity that pops up from time to most politically convenient time...

Like al Queda, they seem to be everywhere, and nowhere at all times.....

[sujan]

3. It's an open border