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There is a very good Indian national security think tank, the Institute for
Conflict Management, with an anti-terrorist website called South Asia Terrorism
Portal (http://satp.org/). I have been reading articles on it off and on for
the past few years. They keep track of terrorist activity in India and its
neighbors on a month to month basis, and provide an estimate of the fatalities
directly attributable to terrorism and violent left-wing extremism each year.
The 2008 estimates have just come out. I have calculated the total number of
fatalities among civilians and security force personnel as a direct result of
terrorism and violent left-wing extremism. The top ten Indian states with such
fatalities are as follows:
DEATHS OF CIVILIANS AND SECURITY FORCE PERSONNEL
Assam ----------- 240 (directly due to terrorism)
Maharashtra ----- 198 (directly due to terrorism and left-wing extremism)
Jammu & Kashmir - 159 (directly due to terrorism)
Manipur --------- 144 (directly due to terrorism)
Jharkhand ------- 113 (directly due to left-wing extremism)
Chhattisgarh ---- 102 (directly due to left-wing extremism)
Orissa ---------- 100 (directly due to left-wing extremism)
Rajasthan -------- 80 (directly due to terrorism)
Gujarat ---------- 57 (directly due to terrorism)
Bihar ------------ 56 (directly due to left-wing extremism)
The raw data from which these numbers were obtained are located at:
Fatalities from terrorism - http://tinyurl.com/7dcbkh
Fatalities from violent left-wing extremism - http://tinyurl.com/vlwext
Cheers,
Santosh
P.S. Please independently corroborate the numbers I have provided from
other neutral sources.
