Maoists getting arms from China: Home Secretary

The government for the first time on Sunday said that the Maoists are getting arms from China,which is a "big supplier" of small weapons.

The government for the first time on Sunday said that the Maoists are getting arms from China,which is a “big supplier” of small weapons.

“Chinese are big smugglers… suppliers of small arms. I am sure that the Maoists also get them,” Home Secretary G K Pillai said when asked if the Naxals were having links with China.

The Home Secretary said the government has no information that the Maoists have any links with China except getting arms. “I do not think so,except getting arms,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.

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Pillai,however,did not elaborate whether the Maoists were getting arms from Chinese arms smugglers or official agencies.

Home Minister P Chidambaram had said in an interview last month that the Maoists are acquiring weapons through Bangladesh,Myanmar and possibly Nepal.

“We know now that the weapons are coming through Bangladesh and Myanmar and possibly Nepal. The border is very porous. The Indo-Nepal border is a very porous border.” he had said.

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