Maoist leader kishenji biography of donald
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The Phantom Who Fell
The legend of Kishenji and what his death means to India’s Maoist movement
In , an extraordinary thing happened in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district. A thin, feeble- voiced man, head covered with a coarse red towel, an AK rifle slung upside down on his shoulder, started making frequent appearances in front of television cameras. From his demeanour, the man looked like a university professor. And yet, the man who always had his back to the camera had, a few months ago, almost managed to kill the then West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. On the evening of 2 November , an IED (improvised explosive device) set up under his supervision narrowly missed Bhattacharjee’s convoy. What happened afterwards was something the man and his comrades used fully to their advantage. The police came down heavily on the Adivasi population in the area, which led to a surge of violent protests. Within weeks, led by this man, the whole area turned
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Top Maoist leader Kishenji killed
Kishenji, alias Malojula Koteswar Rao, the Maoist top gun who headed the rebels' eastern India operations, ran out of luck while facing death for the third time in recent months. His trademark AK rifle was found beside him.
Kishenji, 55, who had foxed the governments of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa and Bihar for nearly a decade, was killed on Thursday after a minute gunfight in Burisole forests of West Midnapore district, 10 km from the Bengal-Jharkhand border.
Kishenji’s body was found at a spot in the jungles about 10 km away from the Bengal-Jharkhand border. Kishenji’s is the most prized head scalped by the West Bengal government since the second innings of ultra-Left insurgency surfaced in the state in
Late in the evening police took surrendered Maoist Soma Mandi and former Sankrail police station OC Atindranath Dutta (who was taken hostage on October 21, ) to identify the body.
Officials of West Midnapore police and state intelligen
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Cruel killer? Not me, says Maoist leader Kishenji
Born Koteswar Rao in an Andhra by, Kishenji has spent 34 years of his life in hiding, waging a relentless, bloody war against the state. Giving an interview to TOI — his first in Bengal — he had claimed to have killed 93 that was a year ago. He is the mastermind of Monday’s massaker at Silda as well. But in a soft-spoken, almost feminin voice, he would tell you that he isn't a cruel killer.
He describes han själv as a “soft-hearted individ, willing to forgive”. “I don’t kill easily,” he tells reporters. It sounds strange coming from someone who has an AK slung across his shoulders 24x7 and doesn't blink when pulling the trigger. It’s stranger still when you know that he is the son of a freedom fighter.
The rebel went underground a year after t