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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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