Writing in TIME magazine issue of March 13, 2006, noted analyst Alex Perry says that three days before US President Bush arrived in Hyderabad "to praise everything that is right about India", Naxalites (Marxists who take their name from the 1967 villagers' revolt in Naxalbari) killed 30 government followers in a landmine attack a short distance away. An estimated 10000 Naxalite guerillas control hundreds of square miles in the central hinterland. Taking over an entire town in November 2005 for a few hours, Naxalites freed 400 prisoners from the district jail. The Naxal movement claimed 892 lives in 2005, up from the 653 killed in 2004.
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