CHIDAMBARAM 2

To a question whether there is any Pakistan angle to it,
Chidambaram said they were not sure where the weapons are
originating from.

"We know now that the weapons are coming through
Bangladesh and Myanamr and possibly Nepal. The border is very
porous. The Indo-Nepal border is a very porous border." He
said police has not found any weapons with Pakistani marking.
The Maoists had looted "our own armouries" and they had
said that the objective of the attack on the Sankhrail police
station in West Bengal was weapons and money.
"Even after this statement, if people romanticise the
naxalities, all I can say that only God can help them," he
said.
Asked if there are any groups from abroad backing the
Maoists, the Minister said "I don't know. It is possible that
they get some intellectual support. I hear voices of some
human rights group from abroad which say that we have
unleashed a war on the Maoists. That is the intellectual
support I am referring to."
Asked if there is any evidence of external help to
Maoists, Chidambaram said it may be at the level of
intellectual or ideological level.
Queried about the Maoist leader Kishenji's statement that
they would not surrender arms and that forces should be
withdrawn from the entire naxal-affected areas along with the
release of the cadre and their supporters, he said "I am not
not going to respond to Kishenji." (More) PTI VSC
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