HammerHead
New Member
Hey fellas,
Low intensity conflicts have always intriuged me, civil wars and insurrection always had a cloak of mystic surrounding them, probably because they dont get much coverage in mainstream media.
In keeping line with this the maoist insurrection in Nepal is one of the newest and growing conflict in the asian region if not the world. Ive been trying to keep tabs on that flashpoint for years now, but the level it has been growing is alarming.
When the Maoists burst on the scene after the assasination of the royal family they looked like actors from a spaghetti western minus the hats, they all were dressed in civilian attire with commercial packs and seemed to be armed with double barreled shotties with a few .303 lee enfields. Then a few months later and a few police station raids later, they were dressed in cams which look Indian, and seemed to be increasingly armed with .303s with a sprinkle of a few M1 Garands (which army from the subcontinent was armed with M1 Garands?) . They kept on raiding police stations and gradually moved up to army out posts. After that the SLR was prominent amongst the frontliners with the rear still fielding .303s, M1s and shotties. Then there was the political coup and the ceasefire. Shortly after the hostilities began again but the Maoists seem to have changed their stratergy of laying seiges to army out posts and raiding police stations, instead they stepped up the ambushes. A recent article on the BBC website had a few pics on the Maoists which i tried to retrieve but only managed to get 1. according to these pics the Maoists have AK's, M16A2's (one bloke even had a M16/203 combo)and another rifle which could either be a Galil ARM or INSAS which i couldn't identify because it was in the back ground. they appear to be more well dressed than before and definately armed.
How did these guys get their hands on M16A2's and Galil/Insas? Aks i can understand but M16A2's and Galil/Insas????
Where are they getting these from?
BTW i know that the nepali army are armed with surplus Indian weapons like SLRs, Sterlings and a few Insas, but didn't know that the maoist pipeline is that well oiled.
I know there are a lot of readers here from the indian subcontinet who may know more about this particular issue than readers from the west. I would appreciate to hear from anyone who knows about the maoist tactics and kit.
Low intensity conflicts have always intriuged me, civil wars and insurrection always had a cloak of mystic surrounding them, probably because they dont get much coverage in mainstream media.
In keeping line with this the maoist insurrection in Nepal is one of the newest and growing conflict in the asian region if not the world. Ive been trying to keep tabs on that flashpoint for years now, but the level it has been growing is alarming.
When the Maoists burst on the scene after the assasination of the royal family they looked like actors from a spaghetti western minus the hats, they all were dressed in civilian attire with commercial packs and seemed to be armed with double barreled shotties with a few .303 lee enfields. Then a few months later and a few police station raids later, they were dressed in cams which look Indian, and seemed to be increasingly armed with .303s with a sprinkle of a few M1 Garands (which army from the subcontinent was armed with M1 Garands?) . They kept on raiding police stations and gradually moved up to army out posts. After that the SLR was prominent amongst the frontliners with the rear still fielding .303s, M1s and shotties. Then there was the political coup and the ceasefire. Shortly after the hostilities began again but the Maoists seem to have changed their stratergy of laying seiges to army out posts and raiding police stations, instead they stepped up the ambushes. A recent article on the BBC website had a few pics on the Maoists which i tried to retrieve but only managed to get 1. according to these pics the Maoists have AK's, M16A2's (one bloke even had a M16/203 combo)and another rifle which could either be a Galil ARM or INSAS which i couldn't identify because it was in the back ground. they appear to be more well dressed than before and definately armed.
How did these guys get their hands on M16A2's and Galil/Insas? Aks i can understand but M16A2's and Galil/Insas????
Where are they getting these from?
BTW i know that the nepali army are armed with surplus Indian weapons like SLRs, Sterlings and a few Insas, but didn't know that the maoist pipeline is that well oiled.
I know there are a lot of readers here from the indian subcontinet who may know more about this particular issue than readers from the west. I would appreciate to hear from anyone who knows about the maoist tactics and kit.
