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India's Maoist challenge

India's long-running Maoist insurgency has increased in intensity in recent months. In April, 76 paramilitary police were killed by Naxalite guerrillas in a brutal hit-and-run ambush near Chintalnar in Dantewada district in the central state of Chhattisgarh – the largest Naxalite strike in the group's 43-year history. There were further attacks in May and June, including the ambush of a patrol killing 27 policemen, and suspected involvement in a train crash that killed 147. This followed an outbreak of violence in West Bengal in 2009. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the rebellion as ‘India's gravest security threat’. His government, under strong pressure to act decisively against the Maoists, has pledged that ‘the problem of left-wing extremism [will] be overcome in the next three years’. However, this is an ambitious goal.