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<date>2006-05-22</date>
<time>08:48:52</time>
<author>News Service</author>
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Better training, more recruitment for forces to counter extremists
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<cats>India</cats>
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<b>New Delhi, May 22 </b> With insurgents being better equipped and using newer techniques of attack, India's police and paramilitary forces are being forced to go in for superior training and mass recruitment to counter the growing challenge from extremists, be they Maoists or Kashmiri militants.
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'The nature of attacks has changed. The element of surprise is much greater,' a senior officer of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), that is at the forefront of the fight against insurgents, told IANS.
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'Thus, we have decided to train the police forces (in Maoist-affected states) to counter such attacks. These men would be trained in counter insurgency and jungle warfare techniques along with the CRPF personnel,' the officer added.
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This apart, the government has also decided to raise nine more India Reserve Battalions and deploy them in the 14 states infested with Maoists. A special effort is also being made to recruit personnel in Jammu and Kashmir for deployment on counter-insurgency operations.
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'We are recruiting around 4,000 people from Kashmir,' the officer said.
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During the past year, Maoists carried out 1,596 attacks in the country, killing over 1,000 security personnel, apart from a large number of civilians.
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The CRPF officer said that while the Maoists had earlier relied largely on ambushes, they were now resorting to a variety of techniques.
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For instance, in a recent incident in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, Maoists placed improvised explosive devices (IEDs) beneath the bodies of three villagers they had hacked to death.
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'The local police was looking for these three villagers. When they got information that three bodies had been thrown on the highway, they reached the spot and tried to remove the bodies but the IEDs exploded, killing some of them,' the officer said.
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In another incident, the extremists had carried out simultaneous attacks at seven different places in Dantewada district.
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'They were waiting outside places like the district administration headquarters, police stations and other places and started firing,' the officer said.
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'This was meant to create panic within the security forces and among the people of the area,' the officer pointed out, adding the attacks were one of the most well-coordinated in the area.
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Then, there was an attack on a police station in which Maoists looted arms and ammunition.
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'In this attack, the Naxals (Maoists) came in the garb of a marriage party to the police station, which was located close to the highway,' the officer said.
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'They came in a bus and suddenly opened fire. The policemen were caught unawares as they never expected such an attack in broad daylight,' he added.
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New Delhi, May 22  With insurgents being better equipped and using newer techniques of attack, India's police and paramilitary forces are being forced to go in for superior training and mass recruitment to counter the growing challenge from extremists, be they Maoists or Kashmiri militants.
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<copyright>News Service</copyright>
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