India under siege

Published 04 December 2008

India under siege

01.01.2008 Seven police and one civilian killed in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh (UP). The attackers are suspected members of the HuJI, Sunni fundamentalists who aim to impose Taliban-style government on Bangladesh.

10.02.2008 Six alleged Islamic extremists are arrested in UP on suspicion of planning to attack the Bombay Stock Exchange. Suspects linked to Lashkar-e-Toiba, the same group thought to be behind the recent attacks.

13.02.2008 In Mumbai, the politician Raj Thackeray is arrested for inciting violence, after supporters attack northern Indians throughout the city.

13.05.08 Eight bomb blasts in Jaipur, Rajasthan, kill at least 60 people. A previously unknown group, the Indian Mujahedin, claims responsibility.

25.07.08 Nine bombs hit Bangalore, Karnataka, killing two and injuring 20. The attack is later linked to Indian Mujahedin.

26.07.08 In Ahmedabad, which has a history of violent clashes between the Hindu and Muslim populations, 45 are killed and 161 injured when at least 16 bombs, attributed to the Indian Mujahedin, explode around the city.

25.08.08 Violent clashes in Kashmir are sparked by plans to donate land to a Hindu shrine in a Muslim-dominated area of the disputed province. Five are killed and a strict curfew imposed.

13.09.08 Five bombs rip through Delhi's shopping districts almost simultaneously, killing at least 20 people and injuring about 90; four more bombs are defused. The Indian Mujahedin again claims responsibility.

27.09.08 A bomb in the market district of Mehrauli in south Delhi, kills three. No group claims responsibility.

29.09.08 The day before a major Gujarat festival starts, a low-intensity bomb goes off at an Ahmedabad market. Police report finding a cache of 17 crude bombs.

30.09.08 Two bombs explode in Malegaon, Maharashtra, killing five and injuring 30. After the blast, a mob forms, pelting police with stones. Hindu Jagran Manch, an Indore-based extremist group, is blamed.

01.10.08 A triple bomb blast in Agartala, Tripura, is blamed on HuJI. At least two are killed and 100 wounded.

20.10.08 Chhattisgarh police are attacked and 15 killed by Naxalites, a Maoist group described by the PM, Manmohan Singh, as "the biggest single internal challenge ever faced" by India.

30.10.08 At least 18 blasts attributed to HuJI kill around 64 and injure 300 in Guwahati, Assam.

14.11.08 Gun battles between Maoists and police erupt around Chhattisgarh during the state's elections. At least two members of the security forces are killed.

23.11.08 Security forces clash with anti-election protesters around Rajouri in the run-up to Kashmir's elections, a day after paramilitaries kill two youths at an anti-India demonstration.

Nick Stokeld

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2 comments from readers

Riaz Ahmad
05 December 2008 at 20:58

If the uprising in Kashmir took place in central Asia, America and her European cronies will call it an orange, pink, valvet, silk or some cotton revolution. Make your own judgement?

Gideon Polya
07 December 2008 at 23:00

Muslim-origin, Hindu-origin and other non-state terrorism is undoubtedly utterly evil and should be stopped but "India under siege" over-states the situation in relation to hundreds of such of violent causes of death in India annually (population 1,100 million) as compared to the US (population 300 million) where there are about 30,000 gun-related deaths annually.

The US is clearly by far the number one in the world for state terrorism - thus it is estimated from UN Population Division data that violent and non-violent avoidable deaths (excess deaths, deaths that should not have happened) associated with the 1990-2008 Bush Wars now total 9-11 million (see "9-11 excuse for global genocide. The real 9-11 atrocity: Millions Dead 99-11 million) in Bush Wars": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/25184/42/ ).

In contrast to the circa 10 million avoidable deaths associated with UK, US and Israeli state terrorism over the last 2 decades, undoubtedly evil Muslim-origin non-state terrorism has killed 7,000 Western civilians in the last 4 decades - the annual probability for a Westerner getting killed by a Muslim-origin non-state terrorist is about 1 in 1,000,000 as compared to a 10 times greater probability of death each year at the hands of an acquaintance or family member.

Indeed one can estimate that the “annual risk of avoidable death” is 890-1,190 per 100,000 (Occupied Iraq) and 2,100-4,200 per 100,000 (Occupied Afghanistan) – (see "The Big lie": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/20850/42/ ).

In India each year about 3.7 million people die avoidably from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease (see "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950", G.M. Polya, Melbourne: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ).

For very detailed and documented discussion on who might have been responsible for the appalling 2008 Mumbai atrocity see: "2008 Mumbai atrocity. US, UK, Israeli, Muslim or Hindu crime?": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/27084/42/ .