New Delhi, November 08: Government today indicated that China may be a source of arms for Maoists with whom it is willing to have a dialogue but they should abjure violence.
“Chinese are big smugglers… suppliers of small arms. I am sure that the Maoists also get them,” Pillai said when asked if the Naxals were having links with China.
This is for the first time that someone high in the government has said that the Maoists are getting arms from China.
He, however, said the government 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.
Pillai did not elaborate on the source of the Chinese arms.
–PTI