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SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
Weekly Assessments & Briefings
Volume 13, No. 6, August 11, 2014
Data and
assessments from SAIR can be freely published in any form
with credit to the South Asia Intelligence Review of the
South Asia Terrorism Portal
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Jharkhand: Red Retribution
Deepak Kumar Nayak
Research Assistant, Institute for Conflict Management
In the early hours
of August 9, 2014, 14 cadres of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC),
a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist),
were killed by CPI-Maoist cadres at Choti Kauriya village under
Vishrampur Police Station limits in Palamu District. Around 18 TPC
members had taken shelter in the house of Balram Sahu, a fellow
villager, when a huge squad of over 250 Maoists swooped down on
the village and took them by surprise at around midnight. The gun
battle lasted till 2:30 am. After the TPC rebels exhausted their
ammunition, 14 of them were killed while the remaining four managed
to escape.
Confirming the incident, R.K.
Dhan, Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Palamu Range, stated, “After
killing the TPC men, the CPI (Maoist) looted their arms and ammunition and
also left pamphlets on the spot.” Maoist ‘spokesperson’ Manas Ji later claimed
responsibility for the killings, declaring it was revenge for the Chatra attack
last year, when TPC had killed 10 CPI-Maoist cadres.
Palamu, located in north-west
Jharkhand, has an area of 5043.8 square kilometres, and a population of 1,939,869
(Census 2011). The District is bounded in the north by the river Son which
separates it from the Rohtas District in Bihar; in the east, by Aurangabad
and Gaya Chatra Districts of Bihar, and Chatra in Jharkhand; in the west,
by Garhwa District in Jharkhand; and in the south by Latehar District, Jharkhand.
On March 27, 2013,
heavily armed TPC cadres had shot dead 10 Maoists,
who were taken completely by surprise in Lakramanda village under
the Kunda Police Station limits in Chatra District. A group of 35
to 45 Maoists, led by Lalesh, were resting after taking lunch provided
by the villagers, when heavily armed TPC cadres suddenly surrounded
them. The Maoists later confirmed the killing of four leaders in
the attack: Lalesh Yadav alias Prashant, ‘secretary’ of the
Bihar Jharkhand North Chhattisgarh Special Area Committee (BJNCSAC);
Jaikumar Yadav, ‘platoon commander’; Dharmendra Yadav alias
Biru, ‘sub-zonal commander’ of Chatra Palamu; and Prafulla Yadav,
‘sub-zonal commander’ of the Koleswari area in Chatra District.
These are just the most recent
incidents of clashes between the CPI-Maoist and TPC in their turf war for
dominance in Jharkhand. Other reported significant incidents of killing through
2005-2014, in Maoists-TPC clashes in Jharkhand include:
August 1, 2013: Two CPI-Maoist
cadres were killed in a factional clash with TPC in the Pratappur forest of
Chatra District. A TPC poster found near the bodies warned CPI-Maoist cadres
of more such attacks in the future.
January 16, 2012: An armed
CPI-Maoist group shot dead a TPC cadre, identified as Avdhesh Yadav (45),
in Palamu District. The slain TPC cadre was a resident of Jhargada village
under the Hussainabad subdivision of the District.
June 7, 2011: Ramcharan Singh,
'area commander' of the CPI-Maoist, carrying a reward of INR 50,000 on his
head was shot dead by suspected TPC cadres in Kedli forest under Burmu Police
Station in Ranchi District. According to reports he had an ongoing conflict
with TPC regarding 'levy collection' and had escaped many earlier attempts
on his life.
July 15, 2011: A TPC cadre
was reportedly killed by a CPI-Maoist unit at Etko village in Palamu District.
August 29, 2010: CPI-Maoist
cadres attacked Sohban village in Chatra District, killing TPC ‘area commander’
Mohan Ganju and his associate Ramdeo Ganju, after which the attackers blew
up the house in which they were staying. Later, in retaliation, TPC cadres
killed the brother of CPI-Maoist ‘commander’ Charleji in Latehar District.
October 10, 2008: Two persons,
including a TPC ‘commander’, identified as Nilesh alias Kariman
Ganju, were killed by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres at Kundu village
in the Chatra District. The other person killed was identified as
Deolal.
November 15, 2008: TPC cadres
killed two suspected Maoists near the Misan Roundabout under Balumath Police
Station of Latehar District. The TPC cadres left a pamphlet claiming responsibility
for the killing.
September 12, 2007: TPC cadres
abducted four CPI-Maoist supporters, identified as Amit Jaiswal, S. Sao, Raj
Kishore Pareiha and Mahesh Ram, and subsequently killed them in Barwadih village,
Latehar District.
May 28, 2007: CPI-Maoist cadres
abducted and subsequently killed four TPC cadres in Latehar District. Jharkhand
Director General of Police, J. B. Mahapatra, disclosed, "The killing
is the outcome of the fight for collection of levy from coal traders. Earlier
members of CPI-Maoist were abducted by the TPC over fight for levy collection.
And the killing is outcome of retaliation of CPI-Maoist".
The Tritiya Prastuti Committee
(TPC), literally, the Third Proposal Committee, was founded by Brajesh Ganju
alias Sardar ji, a former CPI-Maoist cadre in Lawalong area in Chatra
in 2001, and formally constituted in 2002, after a number of cadres of the
CPI-Maoist in Jharkhand walked out of the CPI-Maoist, complaining of the domination
of the Yadav caste in the decision-making process of the parent organisation.
TPC cadres were mostly from the Dalit (Scheduled Caste) Bhokta, Turi, Badai,
Oraon, and Ghanju castes. On July 6, 2007, TPC claimed that it had expanded
its organisation across Jharkhand. In an interview, the group’s ‘sub zonal
commander’ for Palamau District, Girij, claimed that the outfit had established
units in each of Jharkhand's 22 Districts, declaring, "Our main enemy
is not the Police machinery, but the CPI-Maoist. They have diverted from their
original principle and are involved in petty activities. And to successfully
wage armed struggle against the Maoists, there is an imperative need to strengthen
our own organisation. The results of our expansion would give us positive
results in near future."
TPC leaders accused the Maoists
of collecting levy for their own vested interest, and of bringing all development
work in the State to a grinding halt. Giriji conceded, “We, too, shall collect
levy from contractors, as we need funds for the organisation. But we shall
not demand hefty levy from (Government) contractors that could prevent them
from carrying on with the construction.”
Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF) Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Bhanu Pratap Singh, stationed in the
Palamau region, stated, on April 14, 2011, that 60 per cent of Naxalite [Left
Wing Extremist (LWE)] incidents in the State were reported from Palamau, Latehar,
Chatra and Garhwa Districts, adding, “The reason is that many splinter groups
are active in the area and they are fighting a battle of supremacy with each
other.” This trend continues and, according to partial data compile by SATP,
out of 131 killings, comprising of 57 militants, 48 civilians and 26 SFs,
through 2013, 49 (37 per cent) were reported from these four districts. Moreover,
of the 57 militants killed in 2013, 30 (52.63 per cent) were killed in these
Districts. Significantly, of 48 fatalities among the civilians, 26 were attributed
to the CPI-Maoist, 21 to People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI), one to
TPC. However, the CPI-Maoist was alone was responsible for all 26 fatalities
among the SFs. Also, among 57 LWEs killed, 39 belonged to the CPI-Maoist,
16 to the PLFI and two to the TPC.
Earlier, on May
19, 2014, the State's Chief Secretary Sajal Chakraborty, termed
Jharkhand’s LWE problem as a “threat blown out of proportion”, because
criminal acts committed by splinter groups without ideological moorings
simply inflated the number of violent incidents and fatalities.
Justifying his claims he said, “For example, in 2011, CPI (Maoist)
presence and activities was 59 per cent [of total LWE activities]
that reduced to 35 per cent last year [2013]. In contrast, PLFI
(People's Liberation Front of India) grew from 15 per cent in 2011
to 37 per cent in 2013.” He advocated the 'denotification'
of Maoist splinter groups from the LWE group listing.
According to data
compiled by the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), with
66 fatalities [31 civilians, 8 Security Force (SF) personnel and
27 LWE extremists] in LWE-related incidents in 2014, Jharkhand closely
followed Chhattisgarh, which recorded the highest fatalities [70]
in LWE-related incidents in 2014, with 18 civilians 36 SF personnel
and 16 Maoists killed. However, the qualitative difference between
Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh is that that in Jharkhand the civilian
and extremist fatalities are much higher than SF fatalities, because
of the turf war between the many splinter groups in the State. This
process had, for an extended period of time, also been implicitly
supported by the State authorities, who felt that the internecine
clashes were working to the long-term detriment of the movement
LWE in Jharkhand. Indeed, reports indicated that the Police were,
at one stage, implicitly backing TPC in its fight against CPI-Maoist,
and that the group was even ‘allowed’ to take away a part of the
sophisticated weapons seized from the Maoists in SF operations.
R.K. Mallick, Inspector General, Jharkhand Police, tacitly
admitted this, stating, "If we know that a particular splinter
group is looking for the Maoists in a region, we may decide not
to venture out in the region for some time." However, some
reversal in this policy is now apparent, with the Jharkhand Police
declaring that the rising crimes of TPC would now be targeted
in intensifying SF operations.
Fatalities in Left-Wing Extremist Violence in Jharkhand: 2005-2014
Years
|
Civilians
|
SFs
|
Terrorists
|
Total
|
2005
|
49
|
27
|
20
|
96
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2006
|
18
|
47
|
29
|
94
|
2007
|
69
|
6
|
45
|
120
|
2008
|
74
|
39
|
50
|
163
|
2009
|
74
|
67
|
76
|
217
|
2010
|
71
|
27
|
49
|
147
|
2011
|
79
|
30
|
48
|
157
|
2012
|
48
|
24
|
26
|
98
|
2013
|
48
|
26
|
57
|
131
|
2014
|
31
|
8
|
27
|
66
|
Total*
|
561
|
301
|
427
|
1289
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*Data till August 10, 2014
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Jharkhand’s Police Population
ratio (Policemen per 100,000 population) was 174 as on December 31, 2013,
well above the national average of 141, but substantially below the level
required to tackle the complex problems of law and order administration and
security in the State. At least 22 battalions of CRPF are also currently deployed
in the State.
On August 10, 2014, DGP Rajiv
Kumar observed, "A major part of our focus has been on weeding out all
kinds of extremism from the State. I have personally led many operations in
deep Naxalite pockets, which were considered death traps. Now we have broken
the dominance of extremists in many areas and they have fled from their so
called strongholds." He asserted that resolute action against the extremists
would continue.
Despite SF efforts,
however, Jharkhand maintained the dubious distinction of recording
the highest number of total fatalities, as well as of civilian fatalities,
among Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected States for the second consecutive
year in 2013, even as the CPI-Maoist appeared to be losing
some momentum in the State. While the fratricidal competition
between the LWE groupings has certainly accrued to the advantage
of the state, the problem remains far from a satisfactory resolution.
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Misdirected
Stridency
S. Binodkumar Singh
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
Under growing international
pressure to deal with war crimes allegedly committed in the final
stages of the conflict between Sri Lankan Government Forces and
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
in 2009, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, on August 5, 2014, extended
the term of the Presidential Commission to Investigate into Complaints
Regarding Missing Persons (PCICMP) to February 15, 2015. PCICMP
had earlier been appointed
on August 14, 2013. Rajapaksa also announced that the Government
was in the process of bringing in another three international panelists,
expectedly from the Asian region, to expand the three-member International
Advisory Council (IAC) appointed on July 15, 2014. Sir Desmond de
Silva, a prominent British lawyer and former United Nation (UN)
Chief War Crimes Prosecutor in Sierra Leone; Sir Geoffrey Nice,
a British barrister and a law professor who has been involved with
the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; and
Professor David Crane, a law professor at Syracuse University in
the United States (US) were appointed to serve in the original IAC.
Earlier, on March
21, 2014, President Rajapaksa amended
the time period of the PCICMP to cover the period from January 1,
1983, to May 19, 2009, from the earlier notified time frame - June
10, 1990 to May 19, 2009.
The PCICMP, meanwhile, held
public sittings in Kilinochchi, Jaffna, Batticaloa and Mullaitivu Districts
from January to June 2014, in which the Commission received a large number
of complaints, to date, at 19,284, including 14,284 from civilians and 5,000
from Security Forces personnel.
On March 27, 2014,
the 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), by a
vote of 23 states in favour, 12 against and 12 abstentions, adopted
a resolution
for launching an inquiry into war crimes allegedly committed by
both Sri Lankan Forces and LTTE rebels during the last phases of
the civil war as, according to them, the Sri Lankan Government had
failed to investigate the issue properly. Consequently, on June
12, 2014, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Navi Pillay, established the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights (OHCHR) Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL), an investigative
team comprising 12 members, including two forensic experts, a legal
analyst, a gender specialist and investigators as mandated by the
UNHRC to conduct its operations for a 10-month period, beginning
in mid-June 2014 and ending in mid-April 2015. On August 4, 2014,
Sinhala daily The Divaina reported that OISL had obtained
testimonies of about 30 witnesses in the country, via Skype. The
report further asserted that the panel had collected evidence to
produce an oral report at the 27th session of the UNHRC,
scheduled to be held in September 2014 in Geneva.
Unsurprisingly, on the day
of the UNHRC resolution - March 27, 2014 - President Rajapaksa, rejected the
resolution, declaring, "We reject this. This resolution only hurts our
reconciliation efforts. It does not help. But I am not discouraged. We will
continue with the reconciliation process I have started." Reiterating
the Government’s stance on the UN investigation, Government spokesman and
Media Minister, Keheliya Rambukwella, speaking at the weekly Cabinet briefing
held in Colombo on July 3, 2014, observed, “Sri Lanka is ready to hold discussions
at acceptable conditions but the Government which has been ascended to power
(sic) by the people is not ready to be made equal with a terrorist
organization.”
Significantly, the
Government is continuing the implementation of the recommendations
of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) Report
through the National Action Plan (NAP) approved by the Cabinet on
July 26, 2012. As of June 3, 2014, out of the 144 recommendations
of the NAP, 45 recommendations have achieved their objectives, while
the implementation of 89 recommendations has 'progressed to a substantial
extent' with long-term time-frames, and initial steps are being
taken for the implementation of 10 recommendations. Regarding resettlement
of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), nearly 766,307 IDPs
(226,239 families) have been resettled from 2009 to April 2014 in
the Northern and Eastern Provinces. According to the Joint Study
by Ministry of Resettlement, Presidential Task Force (PTF) and United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as of May 31, 2014,
30,007 persons (9,073 families) remain to be resettled, including
22,453 persons (6,766 families) from the North and 7,554 persons
(2,307 families) from the East.
Highlighting the Governments
steps on rehabilitation of former LTTE cadres, Major General Jagath Wijetilleke,
Commissioner General of the Bureau of Commissioner General of Rehabilitation
(BCGR) disclosed, on June 4, 2014, that Sri Lanka has almost completed the
rehabilitation of nearly 12,000 former cadres of the LTTE, and only 132 former
LTTE members were currently undergoing the one-year rehabilitation program
at the Poonthottam Rehabilitation Center in Vavuniya District.
Further, on the recruitment
of more Kilinochchi youth to the Army as vocational tradesmen, Major General
Sudantha Ranasinghe, Commander of Security Force Headquarters - Kilinochchi
(SFHQ-KLN), on July 5, 2014, stated that the recruitment of 125 women soldiers
from the Kilinochchi area as vocational tradesmen had been completed under
Phase 1. Under Phase 2, the Army expects to recruit as many as 500 young tradesmen,
vocationally skilled in driving, clerical work, bakery, store-keeping, cookery,
welding, agriculture, carpentry, masonry, fire extinguishing, cultural performances,
electric work, general duties, etc.
On the other hand, on June
19, 2014, the Parliament gave approval to extend by another six months the
time limit granted to the Parliament Select Committee (PSC) appointed on November
23, 2013, to formulate a political solution to the country's ethnic issue.
Accordingly, the term of the PSC, which was earlier set to conclude on June
22, 2014, has also been extended to December 21, 2014.
Meanwhile, the Tamil
National Alliance (TNA), the largest Tamil party in the country
and considered as the political inheritor of the LTTE, on July 15,
2014, stated that Sri Lanka is a unitary State and has agreed to
denounce separatism and accepted a united Sri Lanka for all communities.
TNA had contested the Provincial Council elections
on September 21, 2013, with an election manifesto
calling for self-determination in the Tamil-dominated North under
a federal structure. The TNA also agreed to submit an affidavit
to the Supreme Court in this regard. Earlier, six petitions had
been filed by representatives of Sinhala majority nationalist organizations
alleging that the political objective of the TNA was to form a separate
Government in Sri Lanka. The petitioners had also claimed that the
TNA manifesto violated the Sixth Amendment of the Sri Lankan Constitution,
which declared that no political party or other association or organization
shall have as one of its aims or objects the establishment of a
separate State within the territory of Sri Lanka.
While receiving the Prime Minister
of Portugal, Pedro Passos Coelho on July 20, 2014, President Mahinda Rajapaksa
noted, "It would take time to heal the wounds of war because a lot of
young people died from the south and the north." He further observed
that he wished to see more foreign leaders visiting his country to experience
the island's post-conflict progress and said that the war-devastated north
had recorded over 20 per cent growth, highlighting the Government's development
work in rebuilding infrastructure. According to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka,
the Northern Province had the highest rate of economic growth in 2011, with
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 27.8 per cent in 2011 (as compared
to national average of 16.8 per cent) and 25.9 percent in 2012 (as compared
to national average of 15.9 per cent).
The Sri Lankan Government continues to struggle
against mounting pressure from prejudiced elements within the international
community and surviving clusters of LTTE sympathizers in the Tamil Diaspora,
even as domestic politics reflects some signs of greater ethnic accommodation.
Indeed, the exceptional stridency of the international community on investigations
in Sri Lanka has gone a great distance in feeding communal polarization and
extremist trends in the country at a time when Colombo appears to be working
to overcome the legacy of ethnic violence and past confrontation. The UNHRC's
ill-conceived initiatives can only harm the cause, both of enduring peace
and of securing justice in this long-tormented island nation.
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Weekly Fatalities: Major
Conflicts in South Asia
August 4-10,
, 2014
|
Civilians
|
Security
Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
BANGLADESH
|
|
Left-wing
Extremism
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
INDIA
|
|
Assam
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
4
|
Jammu and
Kashmir
|
0
|
1
|
4
|
5
|
Meghalaya
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
Left-wing
Extremism
|
|
Chhattisgarh
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
3
|
Jharkhand
|
0
|
1
|
15
|
16
|
Total (INDIA)
|
0
|
5
|
24
|
29
|
PAKISTAN
|
|
Balochistan
|
4
|
5
|
7
|
16
|
FATA
|
1
|
2
|
45
|
48
|
KP
|
8
|
0
|
5
|
13
|
Sindh
|
9
|
3
|
2
|
14
|
Total (PAKISTAN)
|
|
|
|
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Provisional
data compiled from English language media sources.
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BANGLADESH
Trial
of
War
Crimes
suspect
organizations
was
inevitable,
asserts
Law
Minister
Anisul
Huq:
Law
Minister
Anisul
Huq
on
August
7
asserted
that
the
trial
of
War
Crimes
suspect
organizations
was
inevitable.
The
Law
Ministry
sources
further
said
that
the
Law
Ministry
has
prepared
a
draft
to
amend
the
International
Crimes
(Tribunal)
Act
-1973
so
that
organizations
could
be
tried
under
the
law
for
War
Crimes.
It
has
the
provision
for
banning
a
convicted
organization
from
the
political
arena.
The
draft
proposal
for
amending
the
law
would
be
placed
before
the
Prime
Minister
and
the
cabinet
for
approval.
Daily
Star,
August
8,
2014.
INDIA
United
States
puts
HuM
in
its
terror
list,
says
report:
The
United
States
(US)
put
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
(HuM)
and
all
its
affiliates
on
a
list
of
"foreign
terrorist
organisations"
and
"specially
designated
terrorists".
In
a
statement
issued
in
Washington,
the
US
Treasury
Department
said
that
after
international
sanctions,
HuM
continued
to
work
under
various
names.
Dawn,
August
8,
2014.
Over
130
civilians
killed
in
Naxal
violence
so
far
in
2014,
Union
Minister
of
State
for
Home
Affairs
Kiren
Rijiju
informs
Rajya
Sabha:
Over
130
civilians
and
61
Security
Force
(SF)
personnel
have
been
killed
by
the
Naxals-[Left-Wing
Extremists
(LWEs)]
between
January
and
July
15,
2014,
Minister
of
State
for
Home
Affairs
Kiren
Rijiju
informed
the
Rajya
Sabha
(Upper
House
of
Indian
Parliament)
on
August
6.
38
LWEs
were
also
killed
during
the
same
period,
while
a
total
of
630
Maoist-related
violent
incidents
were
reported
across
the
affected
states.
A
total
of
809
Maoists
were
also
arrested
during
the
same
period,
the
Minister
added.
Post
Jagran,
August
7,
2014.
49
Army
personnel
killed
in
counter
insurgency
operations
in
the
last
three
years
in
J&K,
says
Union
Defence
Minister
Arun
Jaitley:
Union
Defence
Minister
Arun
Jaitley
on
August
5
informed
the
Rajya
Sabha
(Upper
House
of
Parliament)
that
49
Army
personnel
were
martyred
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir
(J&K)
during
counter
insurgency
operations
in
the
last
three
years.
Economic
Times,
August
6,
2014.
Women
Maoist
cadres
sexually
exploited,
informs
Union
Minister
of
State
for
Home
Affairs
Kiren
Rijiju:
Instances
of
sexual
exploitation
of
tribal
women
cadres
by
senior
Communist
Party
of
India-Maoist
(CPI-Maoist)
leaders
have
been
reported
in
various
Naxal-[Left-Wing
Extremism
(LWE)]-affected
states,
Union
Minister
of
State
for
Home
Affairs
Kiren
Rijiju
informed
the
Lok
Sabha
(Lower
House
of
Indian
Parliament).
He
further
said,
"This
has
been
widely
reported
in
the
media
also
from
time
to
time.
Such
instances
of
sexual
exploitation
include
rape,
forced
marriage
and
molestation
by
senior
male
CPI
(Maoist)
cadres.
Times
of
India,
August
6,
2014.
North
East
violence
on
the
wane
states,
Union
Minister
of
State
for
Home
Affairs
Kiren
Rijiju:
Union
Minister
of
State
for
Home
Affairs
Kiren
Rijiju
informed
the
Rajya
Sabha
(Upper
House
of
Indian
Parliament)
that
violence
in
North
East
is
on
the
wane.
He
told
that
the
number
of
violent
incidents
has
come
down
to
412
from
1489
in
2007
and
killing
of
innocent
civilians
have
come
down
to
102
from
498
during
the
same
year.
Assam
Tribune,
August
7,
2014.
NEPAL
Internal
differences
will
not
affect
constitution-making
process,
says
UCPN-M
Chairman
Prachanda:
On
August
8,
Unified
Communist
Party
of
Nepal-Maoist
(UCPN-M)
Chairman
Pushpa
Kamal
Dahal
aka
Prachanda
said
that
internal
rift
within
the
UCPN-M
will
not
get
in
the
way
of
the
constitution-making
process.
He
said
there
was
no
possibility
of
a
split
in
the
party.
Nepal
News,
August
9,
2014.
PAKISTAN
45
militants
and
two
SFs
among
48
persons
killed
during
the
week
in
FATA:
At
least
six
suspected
militants
were
killed
and
two
others
were
injured
when
a
drone
fired
two
missiles
in
a
house
in
a
village
in
Dattakhel
area
of
North
Waziristan
Agency
(NWA)
in
Federally
Administered
Tribal
Areas
(FATA)
on
August
6,
2014.
Three
persons,
including
two
Lashkar-e-Islam
(LI)
militants
and
one
Tauheed-ul-Islam
(TI)
militia
member,
were
killed
as
the
two
group
clashed
in
Zakhakhel
area
of
Tirah
Valley
in
Khyber
Agency
on
August
6.
At
least
30
militants
were
killed
in
airstrikes
carried
out
by
fighter
jets
in
Dattakhel,
Marsikhel
and
Kamsham
areas
of
NWA
on
August
5.
Seven
Uzbek
militants
and
two
soldiers
were
killed
during
the
ongoing
Operation
Zarb-e-Azb
in
Data
Khel
area
of
NWA
on
August
4.
Daily
Times;
Dawn;
The
News;
Tribune;
Central
Asia
Online;
The
Nation;
The
Frontier
Post;
Pakistan
Today;
Pakistan
Observer,
August
5-12,
2014.
Security
tightened
in
Punjab:
Four
companies
of
Pakistan
Rangers
(Punjab)
were
deployed
at
vital
security
points
of
the
city
on
August
8
after
the
Provincial
Government
requisitioned
it
to
cope
with
law
and
order
situation
in
the
provincial
capital
Lahore.
A
Police
source
said
that
up
to
four
companies
comprising
160
personnel
took
their
positions
at
sensitive
government
buildings
and
establishments.
He
said
the
Rangers
had
been
put
at
the
disposal
of
Lahore
Police
for
future
line
of
action.
Dawn,
August
9,
2014.
TTP
declares
'war
on
media'
in
a
message
sent
to
media
groups
across
the
world:
Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan
(TTP)
in
a
message
titled,
"The
global
war
of
ideologies
and
the
behaviour
of
media",
sent
to
media
advocacy
groups
across
the
world,
including
to
the
"heads
and
members
of
organisations
working
for
the
rights
of
media
members
around
the
world,"
warned
the
Pakistani
media
that
if
they
did
not
stop
criticising
the
mujahedeen
(holy
warriors),
they
will
be
attacked
and
"no
crying
and
sobbing"
will
prevent
the
holy
warriors
from
punishing
journalists.
Dawn,
August
6,
2014.
SRI
LANKA
OISL
begins
investigation
on
Sri
Lanka:
Office
of
the
United
Nations
High
Commissioner
for
Human
Rights
(OHCHR)
Investigation
on
Sri
Lanka
(OISL)
has
begun
its
investigation
on
alleged
war
crimes
during
the
final
phases
of
civil
war
in
Sri
Lanka
in
2009.
It
has
requested
the
High
Commissioner
to
present
an
oral
update
on
the
investigation
at
its
27th
session
and
a
comprehensive
report
on
the
investigations
at
its
28th
session.
Colombo
Page,
August
5,
2014.
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