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India Condemns Attack by Maoists That Killed 24 Police Officers

NYT, 16 February 2010

NEW DELHI — India’s top domestic security official strongly condemned on Tuesday a brazen attack by Maoist rebels in which gunmen on motorcycles and pickup trucks killed 24 police officers during a daylight ambush against a paramilitary camp in the state of West Bengal.The attack occurred on Monday afternoon and represented a serious setback in India’s mounting campaign against the Communist Party of India (Maoist), which has a presence in 20 of the country’s 28 states and exerts outright control over several isolated regions.“Their goal is to seize power,” the home affairs minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, said in a statement condemning the attack. “Their weapon is violence. No organization or group in a democratic republic has the right to take to violence to overpower the established legal authority.”


Source : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/world/asia/17india.html?ref=asia&pagewanted=print

 

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