October 25, 2009 9:29 AM

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Naxals getting weapons through Bangladesh & Myanmar: PC

Homes Minister P. Chidambaram says, Maoists are acquiring weapons through Bangladesh, Myanmar. In an interview to a news agency, he said Naxalism remains the biggest internal security threat to India. Mr Chidambaram also said hit out at intellectuals who still try to romanticise the Naxalites. He said, though there is no evidence of any money flowing in from abroad to the Maoists, there is certainly evidence of weapons being smuggled from abroad through Myanmar or Bangladesh which reaches the Maoists. The Home Minister said the Maoists have to halt violence which means halt the wanton destruction of railway track, roads, telephone towers, school buildings, bridges, halt kidnapping and extortion. He said then with the help of well-meaning people, find a way can be found out in which the state governments primarily can talk to the groups in that state and the Central government will afford any assistance it can to facilitate such talks.<br/>

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