MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Siddharth Srivastava, Asia Times Online, January 28, 2011
NEW DELHI - Maoist violence, India's biggest internal security challenge, shows no sign of abating, with 2010 the worst year on record in terms of human casualties, and even more worrying a steep rise in the number of civilians killed.
....1,169 people died last year, the most since the armed rebellion began nearly four-and-a-half decades ago, and far more than terror and insurgency related deaths across the country, and in the troubled northeastern state of Jammu and Kashmir....