Naxal/Naxalite:
(plural: ‘Naxals/Naxalites‘; for the right pronunciation of ‘Naxalite’, please click here)
Naxals at a conference
a revolutionary communist who is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) who takes up weapons and fights against the present government for radical changes in the society and politics, and banned by the government of India;
a Maoist,
Naxalites under training
It is estimated that about a thousand police officers, senior and junior officers, have been killed by Naxals for the past ten years in India.
Naxalites were first born in a place called Naxalbari in the Sate of Kolkatta (Calcutta) in India.
The biggest internal security threat in countries like India and Nepal is the Naxals or Maoists who resort to extreme violence to prove their presence.
