Red Corridor.

This is coolbert:

Here with continuing coverage of the Maoist forest guerrillas of India and what is called the "Red Corridor". Thanks for the lead-in from the television channel of the local community college.

"The Red Corridor is a term used to describe the region in the east of India that experiences considerable Naxalite maoist militant activity"

That area of India most susceptible to the insurgency of the Maoists - - communists seeking to overthrow the democratic, legal government of India.

Maoists having some degree of success, even frighteningly so!

"More recent figures put the strength of the movement at 15,000, and claim the guerrillas control an estimated one fifth of India's forests, as well as being active in 180 of the country's 630 administrative districts"

Active primarily in the eastern part of India, that area and lands bordering the Bay of Bengal. Active for a very long period of time now [the Naxalite movement began in the early 1970's], the guerrilla movement NOW expanding in an unanticipated manner, worrisome.




These "Red Corridor" Maoist forest guerrillas of India appear to be well organized, having a standard uniform, battle kit, carrying a range of communist-bloc light weaponry, those weapons obtained from where exactly?

This "Red Corridor" must be very troublesome and worrisome both to the Indian government. India is on the verge of becoming a major world power, economically and militarily. And yet there is also present this threat, almost an anachronism, of the forest guerrilla, adherents to the philosophies of Mao, threatening the very wholeness of India in an unexpected way. Resources diverted to combat the guerrillas are not forthcoming either? The paramilitary police of the various Indian states are sorely pressed and lack the wherewithal to deal with the Maoists?

These Maoists are a nuisance now, but a real problem for the future? I think so!

coolbert.