Indians vote despite rebel threats
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Indians cast ballots Thursday on the biggest day of voting in the country's weeks long general election, streaming into polling stations even in areas where rebels threatened violence over the plight of India's marginalized and poor. The state of Chhattisgarh itself was formed only in 2000, carved from its western neighbor Madhya Pradesh based on its large tribal population.
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Apr 19, 2014 12:26pm
Any one who reads the history will know its not an insurgency, it is an outright a freedom movement for independence from India, one of many not given coverage by International media.
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Apr 20, 2014 03:42am
@zak: Freedom movement not covered by the international media?
And,pray,what are your sources to decide what you have decided it to be?
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Apr 20, 2014 06:21pm
@zak:
Maoist rebels' agenda is to give land rights to native tribals and establish a Maoist style communist Government in the country. Where did you get this idea of 'independence', when Maoists have never given any direct or indirect hint about any such aspiration? Even if, just for your satisfaction, we assume that they want 'independence', they being concentrated in small jungle-pockets in central India (like an island), how can they achieve independence while surrounded on all four sides by India?
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