Or set a local bandit to defeat a Maoist insurgency. Ram Bachchan Yadav, also known as Pehalwanji, a reformed bandit who leads a volunteer militia of some 30-35 men armed with rifles and double-barreled shotguns, has been steadily driving Maoist rebels out of the Kaimur-Rohtas plateau of India's Uttar Pradesh village. The rebels claim to be "fighting an armed insurrection on behalf of rural landless labourers and the poor" — but the final straw for Yadav was when the Maoists issued an edict banning the collection of wood in the forests and the grazing of milk cattle, then abducted seventeen villagers.
Yeah, that's sure going to help "landless laborers and the poor", isn't it? It seldom seems to take all that long for communist/Maoist-inspired revolutionary groups to show their true colors. They're very rarely actually the champions of the poor that they claim themselves to be (though there have been exceptions). The "oppressed poor" are usually just their route to power.
Kudos to Pehalwanji.