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Troops sent to tackle violence in West Bengal

6 CPI-M workers killed

AFP, Kolkata
India deployed troops to West Bengal yesterday to tackle an upsurge in Maoist violence after days of clashes between tribal villagers and police.
India's home minister said more than 1,100 central forces had been sent to the eastern state over the last few days, with more on standby to quell attacks against the state's ruling Communists, six of whose workers have been killed since Sunday.
"Central paramilitary forces are available in adequate numbers and thev will aid and assist the state police," P Chidambaram said.
Thousands of villagers in Lalgarh, 130 kilometres (80 miles) from the state capital Kolkata, ransacked and torched police camps and houses belonging to communist leaders and stopped troops from entering the area.
"Villagers dug out roads and blocked the roads with wooden trunks," said police Inspector General Raj Kanojia.
The villagers accuse authorities in the state of committing atrocities against them and neglecting development in the region.
Police say Maoist guerrillas are aiding tribal villagers who dominate Lalgarh and surroundingareas.
Earlier Wednesday, suspected Maoist rebels shot dead three Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) activists at a tea shop in the village of Jhargram, 178 kilometres (110 miles) southwest of the state capital Kolkata, said Kanojia.
The rebels are also suspected of gunning down another three CPM workers on Sunday mom -ing. A Maoist insurgency, which grew out of a peasant uprising in 1967, has hit more than half of India’s 29 states. The guerrillas say they are fighting for the rights of neglected tribespeople and landless farmers.
Estimates of the rebel army size nationwide range between 10,000 and 20,000 but little is known about their shadowy leadership - which does not court the media and seldom issues statements.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2006 described the Maoists -- known in India as "Naxalites" — as a 'virus’ and has ranked them along with Islamic militants as the most serious threat to the country's internal security.
Home Minister Chidambaram said it was the West Bengal government's responsibility to tackle the ’deteriorating" secunty situation in the state.
"They must move the forces to the affected areas and must reclaim that area which is now dominated by the Maoists,’ he said, adding that central forces were only meant to reinforce state police.
"In my talks with the chief minister, I told him that in our view the state police must be given a clear mandate and clear instructions."