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Maoists' weapons come from China: Home Secretary

TimePublished on Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 15:50, Updated on Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 20:19 in India section

ARMED AND DANGEROUS: Maoists show their strength in West Bengal's Nandigram. (file photo)

ARMED AND DANGEROUS: Maoists show their strength in West Bengal


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New Delhi: The senior most bureaucrat in charge of India’s internal security has for the first time claimed that Maoist rebels are getting arms from China.

"Chinese are big smugglers--suppliers of small arms. I am sure that the Maoists also get them," PTI quoted Home Secretary G K Pillai as saying in New Delhi.

Pillai said the government had no information if the Maoist’s links with China went beyond getting arms. "I do not think so, except getting arms," he told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.

Pillai, however, did not elaborate whether the Maoists were getting arms from Chinese arms smugglers or official agencies.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, in an interview to CNN-IBN in September, had said there is no evidence of China supporting the banned rebel group, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M).

“No, there is no evidence that China is supporting the CPI-Maoist,” he had said.

Asked where did Maoist get their arms from, Chidambaram said: “I don’t know where they are getting them from, but I know they are getting it via Myanmar and via Bangladesh.”

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