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India's deadly Maoists
Police in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh say they have killed eight Maoist rebels, the latest deaths among hundreds in a long insurgency that now affects nearly a third of the country’s districts
|DELHI
“THE single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country,” is how Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, in April described its Maoist rebels, known as “Naxalites”. Many were taken aback: a violent insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir has claimed tens of thousands of lives; its north-eastern states are wracked by dozens of secessionist movements; and its cities have been subject to repeated terrorist atrocities—culminating in this month's bomb attacks in Mumbai, which killed nearly 200 people.