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Colombian rebels release hostage after 12 years

April 1, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A Colombian soldier captured as a teenager by the country’s left-wing FARC rebels has been released after more than 12 years as a hostage.

Sergeant Pablo Moncayo was 19 when he was captured. He was a corporal at the time but was promoted while in captivity.

The Red Cross coordinated the handover that took place at a remote jungle location in the south of the country.

Sergeant Moncayo’s plight has received international media attention largely due to his father’s lobbying efforts in which he would wear chains to symbolise his son’s captivity.

But the rebels say no more hostages will be released until Colombian president Alvaro Uribe agrees to negotiate a prisoner exchange.

Mr Uribe has a hardline policy against the rebels, but says an exchange is possible if freed guerillas do not rejoin the FARC.

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Five Naxal affected states put on alert

June 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi June 22 (ANI): The Union Home Ministry has issued an alert to Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa and Chattisgarh in the wake of two day bandh call given by the Maoists starting from today.

The CPI (Maoist) called for a two day shut down in five eastern states to protest the re capturing of Lalgarh in West Bengal by security forces.

Additional Secretary (Naxal Management) in Home Ministry DRS Chaudhary said the intelligence agencies reported, “demonstrative acts of violence” by the guerillas and the same inputs has been shared with the respective states and asked to take precautionary and pre-emptive measures.

Intelligence agencies reported that the left extremists might target the economic infrastructure such as trains, buses, railway, bus stations and other places where people are likely to gather in significant numbers.

Meanwhile, after recapturing Lalgarh police station, troops consisting of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF) and West Bengal policemen are advancing towards Ramgarh, sanitizing road and other connecting routes, and took control of 17 more villages held by Maoists.

According to police sources the forces are focusing on to wrest the Barapelia, Chotopelia and Dalilpurchak in West Midnapore district where top Maoist leaders, including Koteshwar Rao, were said to be holed up.

Barapelia is the heaquarters of Maoist-backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocity (PCPA) and hometown of its chief Chatradhar Mahato.

In a statement Union Home Minster P Chidambaram described the situation in Lalgarh as tense and asked politicians, people and the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to keep away from the conflict area.

Chidambaram also said every effort will be made to maintain law and order and to ensure security of people, but the people should also remain vigilant and cooperate with the police and other security personnel. (ANI)

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Army claims DNA match in ID’ing body believed to be rebel leader’s

May 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Colombo – DNA tests carried out on the bodies believed to be of Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and his son have matched, a military spokesman said Thursday.

Army medical experts carried out the tests on the bodies of the two men killed last week in north-eastern Sri Lanka, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.

They died as the government wrapped up its military offensive against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and announced it had defeated the guerillas after a more than 25-year conflict.

The tests were carried out amid claims of the rebel leader’s death and counterclaims of his continuing existence.

However, the LTTE’s international affairs spokesman, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, confirmed Prabhakaran’s death after his body was found by the army on May 18.

It was not clear whether the army would invite an independent group to carry out further DNA tests.

The bodies believed to be of Prabhkaran and his son Charles Anthony have been cremated, but the government said samples had been retained for testing.

In a related development, Prabhkaran’s parents were located in a refugee camp Thursday in northern Sri Lanka. They had escaped along with civilians during the final days of fighting between the government and LTTE, which had been struggling for an independent homeland for minority Tamils. (dpa)

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Pak among five least popular countries in world: BBC Poll

March 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Mar. 30 (ANI): According to the annual BBC’s World Service Survey, Pakistan stands among the five least popular countries, which have the most negative influence on world affairs.

Eighteen countries have mainly negative views of Pakistan’s influence, according to the survey conducted after the Mumbai terror attack, widely believed to have been carried out by Pakistani-based guerillas.

Israel, Iran, North Korea and the US were widely seen as exerting the most negative influence on world affairs, The Dawn reports.

Views of the United States remained predominantly negative despite the victory of Barack Obama in the November 2008 presidential elections.

“Though BBC polls have shown that most people around the world are hopeful that Barack Obama will improve US relations with the world, it is clear that his election alone is not enough to turn the tide,” said Steven Kull, director of the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes, which helped conduct the survey.

The survey, which questioned some 13,500 respondents in 21 countries around the world, found that perceptions of Russian and Chinese influence also became considerably more negative during 2008.

Respondents also included citizens from China, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, and Australia in the greater Asian region. Polling also took place in Egypt, Ghana, and Nigeria.

Respondents were given a list of 15 nations and asked whether they thought those countries exercised a ‘mainly positive’ or ‘mainly negative’ influence on the world. They could also volunteer that they were neutral or didn’t know or care to express a clear opinion.

As in last year’s survey, Germany topped the favorable list, with an average of 61 per cent of respondents describing its influence as ‘mainly positive’ and only 15 per cent who said it was ‘mainly negative’.

At the other end of the scale, the most negatively viewed country was Iran with an average of 55 per cent of respondents describing its influence as mainly negative and 17 per cent as mainly positive. (ANI)

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Jharkhand Maoists call poll boycott

March 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Latehar/Chatra (Jharkhand), Mar 16 (ANI): Maoists in Jharkhand call for boycott of the general elections, which is scheduled to be held next month.

In Latehar and Chatra district of Jharkhand, the Maoists have painted the walls with writings, threatening villagers from casting votes and with dire consequences if they take part in the polls.

“We are living in constant fear. The Maoists threaten us not to cast vote. We really can’t say now whether we would be able to cast votes or not,” said Anil Kumar, a resident.

Officials say that security would be provided to the villagers during the polls and asked people to come forward and exercise their right without any fear.

“We appeal to the people not to get scared. Security arrangements are being made and forces would be deployed near polling booths. They can cast their votes without fear,” Anil Kumar Singh, Sub Divisional Officer (SDO), Latehar.

Meanwhile, a victim of Maoists’ atrocities of Chatra district recalls the horror when his thumb was chopped by the guerillas for taking part in the polls.

“They (Maoists) blamed us that we cast votes and also encouraged others to cast votes They then beat us one by one and then chopped one of my friends’s hand and my right hand thumb,” said Mahadev Yadav, a victim.

In impoverished Jharkhand, where insurgents say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless labourers, over 1,350 people have been killed in Maoist-related violence over the last seven years. (ANI)

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