Indian police: Separatist rebels shoot and kill 11 in insurgency-hit northeast

October 1st, 2009 Police: Indian rebels kill 16 villagersPATNA, India — Maoist rebels killed 16 people, including five children, in an early morning attack Friday on a rural village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, a police official said. Security forces were combing the villages and forests around the attacked village, Amosi Bharen, in search of the rebels, said Additional Director General of Police Neelmani, who uses only one name.

August 31st, 2009 Suspected rebels kill 2 Indian soldiers in KashmirSRINAGAR, India — Suspected Islamic insurgents fired at government forces and lobbed a hand grenade into a crowded shopping area in the Indian part of Kashmir on Monday, killing two paramilitary soldiers and wounding seven people. Two soldiers patrolling the downtown area of Lal Chowk in the main city of Srinagar were shot at point-blank range and died shortly after they were hospitalized with serious head injuries, said Prabhakar Tripathi, the spokesman for the Central Reserve Police Force.

August 26th, 2009 3 killed in shooting in PakistanQUETTA, Pakistan — Police say gunmen have opened fire on a group of men in a street in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, killing three. Officer Abdul Rahim said Wednesday's attack in Quetta was a "targeted killing" but did not elaborate.

August 13th, 2009 RAIPUR - India's worst Maoist insurgency hit state Chhattisgarh has been put on high alert after the Leftist rebels asked people to stay away from Independence Day celebrations Aug 15, the state police chief said here Thursday. "The entire state has been put on high alert in wake of possible Maoist attacks and their call for a boycott of Independence Day," Director General of Police (DGP) Vishwaranjan told IANS.

July 27th, 2009 Bus blast kills 6 paramilitary soldiers in IndiaNEW DELHI — Suspected Maoist rebels in eastern India blew up a bus with a roadside bomb, killing six paramilitary soldiers, police said Monday. Another three Central Reserve Police Force soldiers were wounded in Sunday's attack in Dantewada district of Chattisgarh state — a rebel stronghold about 350 miles (560 kilometers) south of the state capital, local police constable Yashwant Singh said.

June 30th, 2009 Suspected rebels kill family of 4 in IndiaGAUHATI, India — Suspected militants used automatic weapons and machetes to kill a family of four migrant workers Tuesday in India's insurgency-hit northeast. The attackers killed the family — a husband, wife and their two children — by opening fire then hacking them with machetes on the outskirts of Rangapahar, a town 95 miles (150 kilometers) north of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state, said Bhaskar Mahanta, a state inspector-general of police.

June 19th, 2009 Group: Muslim rebels kill 115 teachersBANGKOK — Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand must stop the "sickening trend" of attacking teachers, 115 of whom have been killed since the outbreak of the separatist rebellion five years ago, a human rights organization said Friday. As part of a general recent escalation of violence, five teachers have been killed since the beginning of the new school term in May, the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

June 18th, 2009 Thai security forces kill 4 suspected rebelsPATTANI, Thailand — Security forces killed four suspected Muslim militants Thursday in a gunbattle in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, a military spokesman said. Violence has escalated since a prayer-time massacre at a mosque last week.

June 18th, 2009 Police say suspected Maoist rebels kill 9 officersPIRAKATA, India — Suspected Maoist rebels killed nine policemen in a land mine attack in eastern India on Thursday, as hundreds of soldiers moved to confront the guerrillas in a neighboring state. The nine officers were traveling in a jeep near Narayan Patna village in Orissa state to clear roads that had been blocked by the rebels when the blast occurred, said local police Chief Sanjeev Panda.

June 8th, 2009 Gunmen kill 10 at mosque in southern ThailandPATTANI, Thailand — Gunmen opened fire on a mosque in southern Thailand during evening prayers Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding another 19 in the violence-plagued region, police said. The attack was one of the most deadly single incidents since an Islamic separatist insurgency was launched in Thailand's three southernmost provinces in early 2004.

May 31st, 2009 Sri Lanka says it's poised for economic takeoffSINGAPORE — Sri Lanka is poised for an "economic takeoff" now that its military has routed the Tamil Tiger rebels, the country's foreign minister said Sunday. Rohitha Bogollagama told a high-level security and defense conference that the government's priorities now are reconciliation with the Tamil minority in the Sinhalese-majority country, rehabilitation of Tamil civilians and holding free and fair elections.

May 1st, 2009 Filipino general: Maoist insurgency on last legsMANILA, Philippines — The new Philippine military chief said Friday he is confident the country will crush a 40-year-old communist insurgency next year — a deadline set by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. In his first day on the job as chief of staff, Lt.

April 25th, 2009 India says Pakistan helped Kashmir rebelsSRINAGAR, India — Pakistani troops helped 31 Islamic militants infiltrate the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir in recent weeks, the Indian army said Saturday. "The armed forces across (the border) have been giving them full support," Brig.

April 23rd, 2009 Indonesia shuts Red Cross office in Papua provinceJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's government ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross to shut its office in Papua province after staff members visited suspected rebels in jail, officials said Thursday. Four staff members were pulled from the regional capital, Jayapura, in mid-March, ICRC Indonesia delegation head Vincent Nicod said, adding that talks were being held to find a resolution.

April 22nd, 2009 Blast kills 5 in Indian KashmirSRINAGAR, India — A roadside bomb set off by suspected separatist rebels ripped through a bus in a remote village in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing at least five people and wounding eight others, police said Wednesday. K. Rajendra, a top state police officer, said the homemade bomb exploded Tuesday near Marah, a mountainous village 105 miles (170 kilometers) southwest of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir.