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Insurgency                                                                     Module - VI

                                                                                                  Insurgency and
                     buildings, buses  etc. An example of successful guerilla warfare tactics was by
                                                                                                    Terrorism
                     Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam against the US army. US Army was forced to withdraw
                     from Vietnam. Guerrilla warfare is also referred to as Irregular Warfare.

                    Naxalites/Maoists Naxalites/Maoists are a group of radical communists,
                     supportive of Maoist political sentiment and ideology. The origins of the word
                     Naxal comes from the village of Naxalbari, near Siliguri in West Bengal where
                                                                                                Note
                     the movement first originated. The origins of all naxalite groups come from the
                     CPI (ML), the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist. The Communist

                     Party of India (Maoist) is a Maoist communist party in India which aims to
                     overthrow the government of India through people's war as they do not believe
                     in the present form of democracy.

                    The photo shows how Spanish people revolted against Napolean when he invaded
                     Spain. Napolean was an outsider and the people of Spain did not want to be
                     ruled by an outsider.


















































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