Here is a question for you. Communist Party secretary Anil Biswas called "X" as people who were opposed to development. Who can "X" be ?
If yor brain has gone into an infinite loop wondering who can be more against development than the Communists, then here is clue. The same "X" beat up some Communists recently.
And the answer is:
In another daring strike in the Naxalite hotbed of West Midnapore, CPM leaders were thrashed, forest bungalows blasted and vehicles used for building roads set on fire last night.??The rebels shouted slogans, distributed leaflets and pasted posters. Then they ordered those inside Banamali??s house to come out. A driver was asked to park the vehicles close to each other. They sprinkled diesel and set them on fire,? said the district police chief.
The labourers were then asked to leave. The CPM leaders and their supporters were identified. Some of them had to be dragged out from their hiding inside the house. Eight people, including Banamali and Kailash, were lined up and hit with rifle-butts, lathis and rods. The guerrillas also kicked them with their boots.
The attackers, identified as members of the CPI(Maoist) ?? formed by the merger of the People??s War Group and the Maoist Communist Centre ?? by their posters and leaflets, then visited two forest bungalows at the foot of a hill and one on top and burst bombs. The police said all the bungalows were heavily damaged. [Naxalites thrash CPM men on home turf]
Somehow I thought Naxalites and Communists were on the same side, but it looks like there are some nuances.
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Well, some of the most brutal clashes in history have been (continue to be: look at Pakistan) between sects or cults of the same faith. (And Marxism _is_ a belief system.) Internecine warfare can be as deadly as any sectarian fight.
Posted by RR | December 9, 2004 12:05 AM
Posted on December 9, 2004 00:05