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NAXALISM AND TERRORISM

OBJECTIVE: * To explore the origin of naxalites and terrorist. * To compare both of them.

HYPOTHESIS:
ARE NAXALITES TERRORIST?

INTODUCTION:
Our country INDIA has battled and is battling with so many ‘isms’ such as NAXALISM, TERRORISM, COMMUNALISM, CASTEISM, REGIONALISM. Such ‘isms’ has marked a place in the minds of people. But when the people hear about the terrorism and naxalism they are taken aback. We the people of India feel very much proud about our ‘unity in diversity’. It is quite true that India is only the country with such diversified caste population. And still we look forward to communal harmony and national integration. Since independence in 1947, India have fought dozens of campaigns against the insurgency, i.e. the terrorists and the Maoists.

LITERATURE REVIEW
“How did they dress?” “How they look?” “What they eat?”
These are the questions that comes in the mind of a child when he hear about the word terrorism and naxalism and it it quite obvious to have these thoughts as no one really knows about terrorists or the Maoists.
Definition of terrorism:
Terrorism is a global phenomenon. It is quite easy to recognize terrorism but very difficult to define it. Terrorism appears in the Bible's Old Testament. Many scholars had defined terrorism in their own ways. Some of them are texted below:
Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
—FBI Definition

Terrorism is the use or threatened use of force designed to bring about political change.
—Brian Jenkins
Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience. —Walter Laqueur
Terrorism is the premeditated, deliberate, systematic murder, mayhem, and threatening of the innocent to create fear and intimidation in order to gain a political or tactical advantage, usually to influence an audience.
—James M. Poland
Terrorism is the unlawful use or threat of violence against persons or property to further political or social objectives. It is usually intended to intimidate or coerce a government, individuals or groups, or to modify their behavior or politics.
—Vice-President's Task Force, 1986

HISTORY OF TERRORISM
Terrorism in the Pre-Modern World (1st Century-13th Century)
The SICARII were the first century Jewist who killed there enemies in there campaign to remove their Roman rulers from Judea. The English word is derived from the HASHHASHIN, who were a secretive Islamic sect from the 11th and 13th century. The contemporaries were terrified from the dramatic assassinations of the political figures Abbasid and Seljuk. However Zealots and assassins were not real terrorists in the todays sense. Terrorism is best thought of as a modern phenomenon. Its characteristics flow from the international system of nation-states. The success of terrorism depends wholly on the existence of a mass media to create an aura of terror among the minds of many persons.
The Origins of Modern Terrorism (1793)
The French revolution followed the Reign of Terror instigated by Maxmilien Robespierre in 1793. Robespierre, who was the head of the twelve state, had enemies of the revolution killed, and installed a dictatorship to stabilize the country. He proved his methods to be necessary in the transformation of the monarchy to a liberal democracy.
The sentiments of Robespierre's laid the foundations of modern terrorism, who believed that violence will usher in a better system. But the action of state faded with characterization of terrorism. The idea of terrorism as an attack against an existing political power became more prominent.
1950s: The Rise of Non-State Terrorism:
In the last half of the 20th century, the guerrilla tactics risen due to several factors.These includes the rise of ethnic nationalism such as the Irish, Basque, Zionist, anti-colonial sentiments in the vast British, French and other empires, and new ideologies such as communism.
In every part of the world ,terrorists groups with a nationalist agenda have formed. For example, the Irish Republican Army grew from the quest by Irish Catholics to form an independent republic, rather than being part of Great Britain.
Since the beginning of the 20th Century , the Kurds, a distinct ethnic and linguistic group in Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq, have sought national autonomy. In the 1970s , The Kurdistan Worker's Party(PKK) formed, uses terrorist tactics to announce its goal of a Kurdish state. Being the members of the ethnic Tamil minority, The Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam use suicide bombing and other lethal tactics to wage a battle for independence against the Sinhalese majority government.
1970s: Terrorism Turns International:
International terrorism became a prominent issue in the late 1960s, when hijacking became a favored tactic. In 1968, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked an an El Al Flight. Twenty years later, the bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, shocked the world.
The era also gave us our contemporary sense of terrorism as highly theatrical, symbolic acts of violence by organized groups with specific political grievances.
The bloody events at the 1972 Munich Olympics were politically motivated. Black September,a Palestinian group, kidnapped and killed Israeli athletes preparing to compete.Black September's political goal was negotiating the release of Palestinian prisoners. They used spectacular tactics to bring international attention to their national cause.
Munich radically changed the United States' handling of terrorism: "The terms counterterrorismand international terrorism formally entered the Washington political lexicon," according to counterterrorism expert Timothy Naftali.
Terrorists also took advantage of the black market in Soviet-produced light weaponry, such asAK-47 assault rifles created in the wake of the Soviet Union's 1989 collapse. Most terrorist groups justified violence with a deep belief in the necessity and justice of their cause.
Terrorism in the United States also emerged. Groups such as the Weathermen grew out of the non-violent group Students for a Democratic Society. They turned to violent tactics, from rioting to setting off bombs, to protest the Vietnam War.
1990s: The Twenty First Century: Religious Terrorism and Beyond
Today religiously motivated terrorism is consideredto be the most alarming terrorist threatto the whole world. Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah are the groups that justify their violence on Islamic grounds come to our mind first. In the view of religion scholar Karen Armstrong this turn represents terrorists' departure from any real religious precepts. Muhammad Atta, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, and "the Egyptian hijacker who was driving the first plane, was a near alcoholic and was drinking vodka before he boarded the aircraft." Alcohol would be strictly off limits for a highly observant Muslim.
Atta, and perhaps many others, are not simply orthodox believers turned violent, but rather violent extremists who manipulate religious concepts for their own purposes.
LIST OF TERRORIST GROUPS
MAJOR TERRORIST ATTACKS Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations | Date Designated | Name | 10/8/1997 | Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) | 10/8/1997 | Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) | 10/8/1997 | Aum Shinrikyo (AUM) | 10/8/1997 | Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) | 10/8/1997 | Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) (IG) | 10/8/1997 | HAMAS | 10/8/1997 | Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) | 10/8/1997 | Hizballah | 10/8/1997 | Kahane Chai (Kach) | 10/8/1997 | Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) (Kongra-Gel) | 10/8/1997 | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) | 10/8/1997 | National Liberation Army (ELN) | 10/8/1997 | Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) | 10/8/1997 | Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) | 10/8/1997 | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLF) | 10/8/1997 | PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC) | 10/8/1997 | Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) | 10/8/1997 | Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N) | 10/8/1997 | Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) | 10/8/1997 | Shining Path (SL) | 10/8/1999 | al-Qa’ida (AQ) | 9/25/2000 | Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) | 5/16/2001 | Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) | 9/10/2001 | United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) | 12/26/2001 | Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) | 12/26/2001 | Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LeT) | 3/27/2002 | Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AAMB) | 3/27/2002 | Asbat al-Ansar (AAA) | 3/27/2002 | al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) | 8/9/2002 | Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA) | 10/23/2002 | Jemaah Islamiya (JI) | 1/30/2003 | Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ) | 3/22/2004 | Ansar al-Islam (AAI) | 7/13/2004 | Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) | 12/17/2004 | Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) | 12/17/2004 | al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) | 6/17/2005 | Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) | 10/11/2005 | Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM) | 3/5/2008 | Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B) | 3/18/2008 | al-Shabaab | 5/18/2009 | Revolutionary Struggle (RS) | 7/2/2009 | Kata'ib Hizballah (KH) | 1/19/2010 | al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) | 8/6/2010 | Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HUJI) | 9/1/2010 | Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) | 11/4/2010 | Jundallah | 5/23/2011 | Army of Islam (AOI) | 9/19/2011 | Indian Mujahedeen (IM) | 3/13/2012 | Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT) | 5/30/2012 | Abdallah Azzam Brigades (AAB) | 9/19/2012 | Haqqani Network (HQN) | Delisted Foreign Terrorist Organizations | Date Removed | Name | Date Orginally Designated | 10/8/1999 | Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine -Hawatmeh Faction | 10/8/1997 | 10/8/1999 | Khmer Rouge | 10/8/1997 | 10/8/1999 | Manuel Modriguez Patriotic Front Dissidents | 10/8/1997 | 10/8/2001 | Japanese Red Army | 10/8/1997 | 10/8/2001 | Tupac Amaru Revolution Movement | 10/8/1997 | 5/18/2009 | Revolutionary Nuclei | 10/8/1997 | 10/15/2010 | Armed Islamic Group (GIA) | 10/8/1997 | 9/28/2012 | Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) | 10/8/1997 |

DEFINITION OF NAXALISM
The Naxalites, also sometimes called the Naxals, is a loose term used to define groups waging a violent struggle on behalf of landless labourers and tribal people against landlords and others.
The Naxalites are an extremist Indian communist movement named after the town of Naxalbari, in west Bengal, where a peasant uprising was suppressed in 1967. The movement was founded by Charu Mazumdar.
General designation given to several Maoist-oriented and militant insurgent and separatist groups that have operated intermittently in India since the mid-1960s. More broadly, the term—often given as Naxalism or the Naxal movement—has been applied to the communist insurgency itself.
HISTORY OF NAXALISM

Origin and Rise
Inspired from the Chinese Peasant revolution, the movement can be traced from the Telangana movement in Andhra Pradesh (1948-1950 ) where deep rooted dissent against the government over inefficient land distribution rules had provided an apt laboratory for communist ideologues to put to test , the experiences and During the 4 years, some 2,500 villages in the telangana region were ‘liberated’, sharecropper’s debt cancelled , rent payments suspended and land chunks redistributed making this movement one of the major chapters in the history of peasnt struggles. The rise of the CPI(M) and CPI as political entities received another shot in the arm when they formed a democratically elected government in Kerala in 1957 under E.M.S. Namboodaripad, the first such deposition in the world. The Indo-china war soon after in 1962 caused a split in the CPI with the newly formed CPI(M) entity now toeing a more radical centrist line.
The naxalite movement traces its physical origins to the village of Naxalbari in West Bengal where a farmer by the name of Bimal Kissan was beaten up by henchmen of local landlords when he attempted to plough his land in contravention of a judicial order that allowed him the freedom to do so. This small incident fired up the sensibilities of the Santhal tribals in the region who retaliated ,in the process recapturing land that had been illegally occupied. Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal broke away as a more extremist group from the Communist Party of India(Maoist) and spearheaded the spread of the then popular movement which they considered to be the progenitor of a new national revolution. Despite brutal suppression by the West Bengal government, the support of sympathetic revolutionaries from across the country led to the formation of the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries(AICCR) in 1968 and the Communist Party of India(Marxist-Leninist) in 1969. This fragment of the erstwhile CPI(M) deviated from its predecessors in their basic manifesto which aimed at usurping political power by taking recourse to an armed uprising. The adoption of philosophy of violence differentiated the Naxalite movement from other trans-national movements who, though reactionary and extremist, believed in achieving social justice through legal and peaceful means. Under the Naxalite Guru, Charu Majumdar aided by kanu Sanyal and Jagat Santhal , the CPI(ML) movement peaked in 1971 when over 3,650 violent outbursts were reported in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and pockets of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Punjab , UP and Delhi. However, joint operations by the Police and Army leading to arrest and incarcerations of thousands of Naxal leaders, casualties and Majumdar’s death in 1972 led to a rapid decline of the movement’s intensity so much so that by the late seventies, the Naxal movement was given a final obituary in the pages of history. That the naxalites had had no formal training in Guerilla warfare and countered the Army’s .303 rifles and carbines with antique pipe guns, axes and sickles didn’t help their cause either.
K.P. Singh characterises this highly volatile and incendiary phase of movement in his article “The trajectory of the Movement1 ”. This period was fuelled by an ideologically sincere leadership and mid-level activists and thus appealed not only to the extreme left wing and deprived sections of the society but also a large chunk of sympathetic intellectuals and students in reputed colleges like Delhi University(remnants of which can be seen even now in the political commentaries of renowned individuals who were deeply influenced by the idea of a Robin-Hood like organisation giving the people back what was ‘rightfully’ theirs in the first place). China, locked in a bitter dispute over claims on Siachen and Ladhakh during that decade, saw the movement as its own extension and extolled its virtues at an international scale supporting it with financial aid and training.
The Revival
Post emergency, the now dormant movement got a fillip when it witnessed a revival primarily in Andhra Pradesh in form of the Anarchist People’s War Group(PWG) under Kondapalli Seetharamaiah , the Marxist Leninist CPI(ML) Liberation and in Bihar by the Maoist Communist Centre(MCC) along with a couple of other transient organisations like the Unity Organisation etc. The CPI(ML) Liberation functioned within the parliamentary democratic setup but did not rule out stepping in with an armed revolution in “a country where democratic institutions are essentially based on fragile and narrow foundations and where even small victories and partial reforms can only be achieved and maintained on the strength of mass militancy.” The PWG on the other hand initiated the line of thought that most naxals today relate to.At this point it would be enlightening to note an excerpt from the document Path of People’s War in India – Our Tasks!, a comprehensive PWG party document highlighting its aims, objectives and strategies and adopted in 1992.
“The programme of our Party has declared that India is a vast ‘semi-colonial and semi-feudal country’, with about 80 per cent of our population residing in our villages. It is ruled by the big-bourgeois big landlord classes, subservient to imperialism. The contradiction between the alliance of imperialism, feudalism and comprador-bureaucrat- capitalism on the one hand and the broad masses of the people on the other is the principal contradiction in our country. Only a successful People’s democratic Revolution i.e. New Democratic Revolution and the establishment of People’s Democratic Dictatorship of the workers, peasants, the middle classes and national bourgeoisie under the leadership of the working class can lead to the liberation of our people from all exploitation and the dictatorship of the reactionary ruling classes and pave the way for building Socialism and Communism in our country, the ultimate aim of our Party. People’s War based on Armed Agrarian Revolution is the only path for achieving people’s democracy i.e. new democracy, in our country.”
The People’s War Group emerged out of the disillusionment of cadres in the CPI(ML) Liberation when they took to participating in democratic elections. This was thought to be a far cry from Charu Majumdar’s vision of a protracted people’s war against feudal armies and the resistance against state attacks and these legalist reformist policies were portrayed as a transition into “stooges of the ruling classes.” For the first few years of its existence, PWG was mainly confined to Andhra Pradesh while the CPI(ML) dominated in its stronghold in Bihar. However the birth of CPI(ML) Party Unity in 1982 from the merger of the erstwhile Unity Organisation and the Central Organising Committee gave rise to a bloody territorial battle between CPI(ML) Liberation and PU, decimating cadres on both sides. In August 1998, the PU and the PWG came together to form the United Party, with a joint release heralding the coming of “The Age of Revolutions.” Coupled with the steady decline of the Liberation party because of the shrinking vote base and inefficacy of reforms , the PWG thus outgrew the confines of Andhra Pradesh and spread its network into Bihar, Orissa, MP, UP ,Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh.
The Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) was formed as Dakshin Desh in 1969 with a central agenda of an armed uprising against state actors. It later metamorphosed into MCC-India in 2003. The MCC swears by Mao Tse Tung and his ideas of a protracted People’s War and “to establish a powerful people's army and people's militia and to establish dependable, strong and self-sufficient base areas in the countryside, to constantly consolidate and expand the people's army and the base areas, gradually to encircle the urban areas from the countryside by liberating the countryside, finally to capture the cities and ... by decisively destroying the state power of the reactionaries.”
The important thing to note here in the decades of frequent splits and mergers and parting of ways, the naxalite movement was continuously spreading its areas of influence and expanding extensively through aggressive recruitments. For any division led to shrinking of numbers on both sides and in a zealous effort to swell them up to past figures and go one up on the adversarial fragment, the two sides often went on recruitment drives that basically increased the reach of the movement as a whole. At the same time, a merger caused large scale escalation of the scale of the struggle and any weakening of ideology that would have followed a split was reaffirmed and strengthened thus continuing the rise of naxalism.
In 2004, the naxal movement took a huge step forward in its quest for forming a nation-wide revolutionary organisation when the People’s War and MCCI under the general secretaryship of Ganapathy and Kishen respectively, declared their merger into a monolithic Communist Party of India(Maoist) or the CPI(M). This was but a culmination of the long standing process of organisational politics that resulted from organisational conflict. As discussed below, the broad aims of the different parties, so different from one another on crucial points, gradually moved towards the boldly expansive aims and manifesto of the CPI(M). The movement has only seen the rise of a hardening of stands, first against the unjustified agrarian policies and land redistribution by the state and later on, against what they call the semi-colonial semi-feudal and comprador bureaucratic capitalistic system. The reformist line taken by the CPI(ML) was rejected by the people whose grievances it was supposed to redress and progressively more violent methods advocated by the PWG and the MCC were adopted as part of the armed agrarian revolutionary war started in 1969. The new line that was taken up by the CPI(M) after the merger was the intention of forming a Compact Revolutionary Zone (CRZ) that stretched from Nepal to Bihar down through Chhatisgarh to Andhra Pradesh , the so called red corridor that would split India into two separate halves and controlling some of the most well endowed regions(from the perspective of natural resources). Dr. Rajat Kujur in his profiling of the naxalite movement, concludes that though the focus, methods of operation ,fighting capabilities and character of the groups have continuously evolved over time, the core ideology of the leadership is unshaken and has remained consistent over the years. However, the CPI(M)’s aims of completing a New Democratic revolution through armed rebellion certainly raises eyebrows in the sense that the CPI(M) seems to be more interested and active in highlighting the violent nature of the revolution rather than its aims. Plans of what they reforms they will implement if placed in power is much less clear. Moreover, after the collapse of the Soviet Republic in the late nineties, collapse of socialism , India’s movement towards more globalised open markets have really had no impact in the shrill propaganda that the CPI(M) leadership advocates. Indeed, this can be considered as an indicator of ideological penury. Indeed, the motive factor of the large support base that the movement still enjoys cannot be said to be ideological. As we shall see later, the reasons for the same have changed drastically from the “high on Maoism” cadres that existed in the pre-independence era. As far as dealing with the naxal movement during these ‘unstable’ years is concerned, because of the multiply existing, sometimes incompatible, parallel organisations, successive state and national governments were unable to follow a uniform policy of tackling the menace before it grew unmanageable.

List of Extremist Groups in India
Total number of groups: 51
NORTH INDIA
Jammu & Kashmir
1. Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
2. All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC)
3. Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM)
5. Harkat-ul-Ansar (HuA, now known as Harkat-ul-Mujahideen)
6. Laskar-e-Toiba (LeT)
7. Jaish-e-Mohammad Mujahideen E-Tanzeem (Army of the
Prophet, Mohammed) (JeM)
8. Harkat-ul Mujahideen (HuM, previously known as Harkatul-Ansar)
9. Al Badr
10. Al Umar Mujahideen
Punjab
1. Babbar Khalsa International (BKI)
2. Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF)
3. International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF)
4. Khalistan Commando Force (KCF)
NORTHEAST INDIA
Assam
1. United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
2. National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)74 Terrorism in india
3. United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS). (The Karbi
National Volunteers [KNV] and the Karbi People’s Front
[KPF] merged to form UPDS in March 1999. In 2002, the
UPDS split into two factons. One faction was interested in talks with the Union government; the other was against talks. The UPDS [anti-talks] rechristened itself as the Karbi
Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front [KLNLF]; its armed wing was named Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills
Resistance Force [KNPR]. The pro-talks faction continues as UPDS.)
4. Bodo Liberation Tiger Force (BLTF)
Manipur
1. United National Liberation Front (UNLF)
2. People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
3. People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK)
4. Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF). The UNLF,
PLA and PREPAK now operate as a unified organization,
MPLF.
5. Hmar People’s Convention (HPC)
Meghalaya
1. Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC)
2. Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC)
3. People’s Liberation Front of Meghalaya (PLF-M)
4. Hajong United Liberation Army (HULA)
Mizoram
1. Bru National Liberation Front
2. Hmar People’s Convention-Democracy (HPC-D)
Nagaland
1. National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah)
(NSCN [IM])
2. National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Khaplang)
(NSCN [K])
3. Naga National Council (Adino) (NNC [Adino])
Tripura
1. National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT)
2. All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF)Terrorism in india 75
3. Tripura Liberation Organization Front (TLOF)
4. United Bengali Liberation Front (UBLF)
EAST INDIA
Bihar
1. Ranvir Sena
West Bengal
1. Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF)
2. Asif Reza Commando Force (along the Indo-Bangladesh border) 3. Maoist Communist Centre (MCC)
SOUTH INDIA
Karnataka
1. Deendar Anjuman
Tamil Nadu
1. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
2. Al-Umma
3. Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT)
4. Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA)
5. Tamil Nadu Liberation Front (TNLF)

COMPARISION BETWEEN NAXALISM AND TERRORISM
We could saw a growing unification in between the naxal groups and Islamic terrorists recently. They shared same stage also, by publicly revealing this tie-up. What is the reason behind this? What is the interest make them closer? We should examine. Definitely they both are the enemies of Indian state and Democratic system.But the formation of these two groups are from entirely different circumstances. Naxalites are grown in the amidst poverty and the exploitation by the corporate sector.Most of them are the Tribes and living in the forest areas. They are fighting for their existence. They had been living in their forest without interfering the mainstream society in a long period. But since the greedy eyes of Indian corporate sector looked into the resource rich Indian forests, they smelled danger.Multi-national companies started to mine Bauxite, Iron, Coal,etc from there both legally and illegally. Tribal peoples are their major obstacles from the exploitation of the environment.To Tribal, this exploitation of the mother earth is unacceptable in any circumstances. The mother earth gave all which they want to live from their birth.Food, Shelter, Fuel, Weapons… all. They do not need money to run their life.So they took bow and arrows to fight against the foreigners(since they are not the part of India, and not receiving any benefits from the Government of India. Indians are foreigners to them). This situation gives an opportunity to the enemies of India, like China, and Pakistan. They supplied modern war equipments like Light Machine Gun(LMG), Self Loading Rifle(SLR), Insas and even the AK47. The Naxalite groups are not feel any ethical problem to accept their assistance. Naxalites have no religious interests.Their problem related with the economic system. They want the freedom to access the resources.

But irrespective of these groups India’s another problem is the terrorist groups working in and out of our territory.Pakistan helping them a lot by giving financial power and man power. I can’t understand why the Pakistani govt do not forecast the problems coming out of their activities. Once’ they will turn against the govt of Pakistan.Nowadays these groups are spreads across the Pakistan and started to destabilize their own govt. In India their growth is in the name of defense to the majority threats.The Hindu terrorist groups like Bajrangdal, V.H.P, AbhinavBharath, Shiv sena, Sreeram sena, etc are helped them a lot to pave the seeds of uncertainty into the Muslim society of India.We can see a major growth of these terror groups which happened in the time after the demolition of Babri Masjid only.Gujarat riot also fueled in this process.
In the ancient time, Religions and fear of god are emerged from the human being’s fear of natural wonders.But now these groups are emerging from human’s fear of other human’s who are living with them. I am dreaming about a society which have no religious barriers. But i don’t know in which way i can go to fulfill my dream.
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