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BHOPAL: Bullets know no gender, say officers of Madhya Pradesh police, having shot five suspected women Maoists since 2012, three of them in the last six weeks.
Maoists Shobha and Savitri were gunned down in an encounter in Balaghat on December 12 and Sharda was shot dead on November 6 this year. MP Police have killed seven Maoists in the last eight years, with women making up 70% of the body count.
Three women were natives of Chhattisgarh and two of Maharashtra. Six more women Maoists were killed in neighboring Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in just one week.
The Maoist’s Central Military Commission (CMC) recently said that 839 women cadres have been killed in the past two decades.