Some Maoist cadres got training from Communist Party of Philippines: Govt tells parliament

A new dimension to the country’s Left Wing Extremism emerged on Tuesday with government telling parliament that some cadres of banned CPI Maoists received training from the Communist Party of Philippines. Replying to a question about foreign funding to Naxal groups in India, minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju said there was no specific intelligence input to indicate that Maoists or Naxalites were getting external or foreign assistance. ‘However, the CPI (Maoists) party have close links with foreign Maoist organisations in the Philippines and Turkey. The outfit is also a member of the Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and organisations of South Aisa. The so-called People’s war being waged by CPI (Maoists) against the Indian state has also drawn support from several fringe Maoist organisations located in Germany, France, Holland, Turkey and Italy’, the reply said. He said the recovery of arms and ammunitions of foreign origin from LWE in different encounters is an indication of the fact that they are procuring weapons from different sources.