Midnapore, Mar. 20 (ANI): Security forces have raided a Maoist hideout in West Bengal's Midnapore District and seized arms and ammunition.
The movement, which started as a peasant revolt in West Bengal in 1967, operates across a "red corridor" stretching from the Nepal border to West Bengal and through central India into the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
The rebels are armed with automatic rifles, shoulder-fired rockets, explosives and mines and they now number an estimated 22,000 combatants approximately.
The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of the poor and the weaker sections of the society; however India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the insurgency as the biggest internal security challenge. (ANI)
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