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CPI (MAOIST) | The ‘armed struggle’ that goes nowhere
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April 10, 2021 23:12 IST
Maoist insurgents, despite facing desertions and counter-attacks, stick to armed struggle, continuing to target security personnel
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Maoist insurgents, despite facing desertions and counter-attacks, stick to armed struggle, continuing to target security personnel
Hurt by incarcerations and “encounter” killings of senior leaders, facing desertions due to surrenders by cadres to security forces in various States, unable to build a workable organisation in new areas, and hemmed into what seems to be their last stronghold South Bastar such has been the status of the Indian Maoists lately. But this did not deter the insurgent group’s audacious ambush and killing of more than 20 paramilitary personnel in the Tarrem area in the Bijapur-Sukma district border in southern Chhattisgarh in early April, suggesting that the Communist Party of India (Maoist) might b
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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.