Return of the Beast: Maoist Insurgency Lives

摘要

Maoist insurgency is back. People's war. once thought to have ended with the demise of international communism, is alive and well in South Asia.rnLarge parts of India are effectively 'no-go" areas Bangladeshi officers cite Maoism as a greater threat than violent radical Islamists. Sri Lanka, having twice decimated the Maoist JVP at considerable human cost, now has them in the ruling coalition, where their often-bizarre positions are a faithful replication of India's own legal Maoist spectrum. And to the north, what was the world's only official Hindu kingdom finds itself at the mercy of the victorious Maoists who have emerged as the arbiters of power.rnIronically, New Delhi can look to its own intervention for the Maoist victory in Nepal. It was South Bloc which gave heed to the legal left and, in return for the swing votes which allowed the Congress Party to cling to power, effectively ceded control of Nepal; policy to its Marxist coa ition partners. Though a dramatic shift has just occurred, whereby Congress can rule on its own, this has come too late to save Kathmandu. The country is now a failed state, posing a far greater security threat than ever it did when it was convulsed by war.