MAOISTS-PILLAI 2LST

The Home Secretary said the Maoists were a very highly
motivated and well trained force like any armed force of any
country and they could be help by some ex-army personnel.

"They are very highly motivated, highly trained. I am
quite certain that there are some, may be some ex-army or some
people who have been with them," he said.
Giving reason for this conclusion, Pillai said after
launching any attack, the Naxals conduct a post-mortem and
analyse the whole operation.
"After every attack, they do a post-mortem and
analysis. The analysis is as good as armed forces of any
country does," he said.
The Home Secretary said 908 people have lost their
lives last year, the highest since 1971, in Naxal violence and
it may go up in this year and next year become coming down.
"It is quite like that the violence will go up in 2010
or 2011 before the tide is begin to turn," he said.
According to Pillai, even though the joint anti-Naxal
operations were going on, the Naxals have not suffered any
significant reverses so far and the government would need
seven to eight years to have full control over the areas which
were lost to the Maoists.
"The operations have not hit even five per cent of
hardcore militants. The real armed cadres are yet to come
out," he said, adding unless they feel the heat they will not
come for talks and whatever statement they were making about
peace were not serious. PTI ACB
KAB


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