Someone was justifying that poverty and oppression were the cause of naxalism. But according to this article their aim is, ""stopping development in these areas to keep their stranglehold on the population in these backward districts,""
Ultimately all revolutions are about power. Poverty, struggle, oppression are just excuses given by these violent movements to fool the people and come to power. Seized Naxal laptop shows Bihar strike part of plot http://www.indianexpress.com/story/296968.html Nitin Mahajan Posted online: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 0042 hrs Print Email NEW DELHI, APRIL 14: The Naxal raid on the Jhajha railway station in Bihar which left six persons dead on Sunday is part of a wider plan by the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) to target government infrastructure across the country, including railways, dams, roads and national highways. This, the Maoist leadership believes, will not only unsettle the state but fast track their own plans for a "people's revolution". Sources in security agencies today said they learnt of the Maoist plans after they managed to crack the hard disk code of a laptop recovered from Malti alias K S Priya, wife of senior Maoist leader and Dandakaranya special zonal committee spokesperson Vijay Reddy alias Gudsa Usendi. Malti was arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police in January this year. Sources said that the Maoist plans, also disclosed by several arrested cadres, have been documented in detail on the hard disk. "The data analysed from the disk includes details of railway infrastructure, national highways, bridges, dams, mining operations and plans of private and public sector industries in the tribal dominated areas of Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand (the stretch of the Red Corridor where the Maoists dominate) and how these sites can be attacked effectively to cause maximum damage. This aims at stopping development in these areas to keep their stranglehold on the population in these backward districts," the sources said. Security agencies have been able to unlock the 81 GB hard disk and are presently analysing the data. Sources said they hope to make a major breakthrough in unravelling the Maoist network in the next few months because the laptop recovered from Malti has several "incriminating details and sensitive information". Confirming that the hard disk was currently being analysed by security agencies, Chhattisgarh Director General of Police Vishwaranjan said the information being gathered from the hard disk was expected to help security agencies in their fight against Maoist extremists. "The hard disk has several important revelations which can lead to a major crackdown on the Maoist leadership and supply routes of the extremists as well," he said. To break the code, security agencies had earlier approached the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. But IISc experts said that a super computer was needed to break the code and the entire data on the computer was in the PDG format. "We were told that such a code can be broken by the super computer by trying combinations of 1,000 passwords per second. But since a super computer wasn't available, we were forced to try and break the code manually. We tried several combinations and the 501st combination worked, revealing operational plans of Maoists across the country," Vishwaranjan said, declining to divulge details. Sources said that the police tried various combinations of names of people close to Usendi to break the code. "We tried the names of family members, top Maoist leadership, places where the CPI (Maoist) holds sway and were able to break the code within two days," sources said. A security expert said that PDG formatting is essentially a data compression method based on symbols. "The use of PDG formatting clearly reveals that we are facing a group of highly trained and expert extremist cadres and not just gun-toting tribals roaming the forests," sources said. The decoding of the hard disk is being viewed as a major breakthrough in the fight against the Maoists. Malti was arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police on January 22 from Durg along with Prafull Jha, a former journalist, and Meena Chaudhary whose husband the police say is a top extremist leader. Apart from a laptop, the police claimed to have recovered nine 9 mm pistols, five country-made pistols, Rs 5.11 lakh in cash, a wireless set from Malti's house in Bhilai. Sources said that Malti, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, had been living in Durg district of Chhattisgarh for the past several years. Malti, Jha and Chaudhary are currently in judicial custody at the Raipur Central Prison.
