Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram has said that Indian Maoists might be getting weapons through Nepal.

"There is no evidence of any money flowing in from abroad to the (Indian) Maoists. But we know now that the weapons are coming through Bangladesh and Myanmar and possibly Nepal. The Indo-Nepal border is very porous," Chidambaram told PTI in New Delhi.

He said police have not found any weapons with Pakistani marking. The Indian Home Minister said Naxalims still remains the biggest danger to India in terms of the threat to security from internal sources.

Indian Maoists are also called Naxalites, a name they acquired from the West Bengal village of Naxalbari where the Maoist movement first started in India back in 60s.

Asked whether there is any Pakistani angle, Chidambaram said they were not sure where the weapons are originating from. "Even after this statement, if people romanticize the Naxalites, all I can say is that only God can help them."

Asked if there are any groups from abroad backing the Maoists, the minister said, "I don't know. It is possible that they get some intellectual support. I hear voices of some human rights groups from abroad which say we have unleashed a war on the Maoists. That is the intellectual support I am referring to."

The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) says they support their Indian counterparts at the ideological level but have no "working relationship" with them. nepalnews.com

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