Date: May 25th, 2013 2:43 PM
Author: Floppy Deer Antler
there have also been numerous incidents this year where they set off IEDs and explode 5-10 india cops at a time. nonetheless, the past 18 months have been considered something of a "lull" for the maoists/naxalites, since at least some of their senior leaders seem to be getting paid off in order for them to pull back from gigantic attacks like they staged in the past, killing dozens at a time.
but, as this shows, they're capable of getting frisky whenever they wish:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Maoists-kill-senior-Congress-leaders-VC-Shukla-critically-injured/articleshow/20264983.cms
Maoists kill senior Congress leaders, VC Shukla critically injured
RAIPUR: Senior Congress leader Mahendra Karma has been killed when a group of Naxalites ambushed a convoy of senior Congress leaders at Darbha Ghat section on Jagdalpur-Sukma highway in tribal Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. Preliminary reports said a local Congress leader Gopi Madwani was also killed.
Senior Congress leader and former Union minister VC Shukla, Sukma's Congress legislator Kawasai Lakma were among the critically injured. Reports from the spot said Shukla was taken to a hospital at Jagdalpur, the divisional headquarters of Bastar, by road. His condition is stated to be critical.
State Congress president Nandkumar Patel and his newly-married son Dinesh Patel went missing after the incident and it is suspected that they were abducted.
While the state government neither confirmed nor denied reports about heavy causalities of senior Congress leaders in the attack, close family members of Karma confirmed his death but said "we don't have any more details".
"Karmaji is no more. We don't have any more details", Karma's close family members told TOI over telephone. However, police and other officials neither confirmed nor denied reports about heavy causalities in the Maoist ambush.
Naresh Mishra, a correspondent of state private television channel IBC 24, reported from the spot that he saw bullet ridden bodies of Mahendra Karma and former legislator Uday Mudaliyar and about 10 others at the spot of ambush.
The Congress leaders were on their way to Keshloor from Sukma after attending a Parivartan Yatra meeting at Sukma when a group of about 150 heavily-armed Maoists started indiscriminate firing and triggered a powerful blast targeting their convoy.
Unconfirmed reports said Karma, who was prominently known as Bastar tiger, was initially kidnapped for identification and then they pumped 20 bullets after beating him on his head with the gun's butt.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2265426&forum_id=2#23267521)