A secret Intelligence Bureau (IB) report suggests
that apart from the regular
weapons the cadres of Communist
Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoist) Maoists are normally associated with, they now have facilities
to manufacture parts for even
complex systems like grenade
and rocket launchers, reports
India Today. The IB report
also establishes that the Maoists
are aided in their efforts to
build modern weapons by the
Chinese intelligence.
Revelations of the supremely concealed Maoist
war factories were spelt out
in great detail by captured
Maoist mastermind Sadnala Ramakrishna,
who was apprehended on March
1 in Kolkata. The Maoist leader
has provided agencies details
of the weapon manufacturing
and maintenance industry the
Maoists have built up in the
forests.
The Maoists have seven such arms factories,
which they call Technical Research
Arms Manufacturing Unit (TRAM).
These units are manned by 15
scientists who oversee production
and supply of weapons and systems
to the Maoist cadres. From rocket
launchers to grenade launchers
and from assault rifles to mortars,
the Maoists have ramped up their
self-reliance making it less
necessary to seek weapons from
outside. The Maoists even have
bank accounts, fronted by aliases
and used with impunity to pay
hardware companies in Mumbai
and Kolkata for essential nuts
and bolts that cannot be made
in the jungles.
The secret report also indicates the spreading
of the movement to the North
East region, where assistance
from China has only helped
in the terror linkages.
The IB report establishes that Chinese intelligence
units have been training, arming
and funding the Maoists to help
them wage a violent and seemingly
inexorable war against India. It reveals
how Maoists have been training
in Nagaland, funded by the Chinese.
It shows how certain Maoist
units are now being given encrypted
wireless communication devices.
The report reveals that China has been organising
the Maoists and militant groups
from Jammu and Kashmir and the North East
region into a single war-fighting
machine to hit Indian states.
The report also makes specific
warnings pointing to how Chinese
intelligence agency has been
pushing Manipur-based militant
outfit People Liberation
Army (PLA)
which it funds into a cooperative
arrangement with Maoists and
Kashmiri terror groups.
The report also suggests that the country
should probably get used to
the abductions of VIPs by the
Naxals. | 
