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Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur continue attacks almost with impunity despite heightened security operations, when 22 CRPF jawans were massacred in another deadly ambush on April 3 and sending shockwaves across the nation. According to media reports, the security men appeared to have fallen into a well laid trap while conducting a massive combing operation jointly by the elite CoBRA unit of the Central Reserve Police Force, Special Task Force, District Reserve Guard, and District Force of Chhattisgarh Police to attack and capture Madvi Hidma(55), the commander of the lethal Battalion 1 of the Maoists. Madvi Hidma (55), the Maoist commander is believed to have led the ambush Saturday, while the security personnel were carrying out the last leg of an area domination exercise at the Tekulagudem hillock. Hidma took over after the death of Ravula Srinivas alias Ramanna, who was accused of killing more than 150 security personnel between 1989 and 2015 in Bastar. The ambush on Saturday has led to serious concerns over prior intelligence inputs before the planned counter-insurgency operations. The usual questions of intelligence failures, forces making tactical mistakes, and not following up standard operating procedures etc have again been raised by experts and analysts. The irony is that a massacre of this scale happened at a juncture when the security forces have acquired better combat experience and are in a dominant position compared to the Maoists. The ambush also comes against the backdrop of weakening of the once-formidable Maoist movement which has been dispirited and experiencing deep fissures within. According to media reports, the top Maoist leadership is also getting thinner every day. The security forces have succeeded in capturing more than 8,000 active cadres in the last four years, while an equal number of Maoists have surrendered before authorities. Media reports often describe the armed outfits either as Maoists or Naxalites; though both are two sides of the same coin. Both believe in armed uprising of the peasantry against the state, inspired from the Chinese-Maoist ideology. Maoists are spread over 60 districts in Odisha (5 affected districts), Jharkhand (14 affected districts), Bihar (5 affected districts), Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh (10 affected districts), Madhya Pradesh (8 affected districts), Maharashtra (2 affected districts) and West Bengal (8). In some states, another offshoot of the Maoist-Naxalite, the People’s War Group (PWG) is involved in the “armed struggle” against the state. As per records, since 1996 till date, over 3500 security personnel have died in Maoist- Naxal attacks in several states. The strategy against Maoists requires further calibration as security operations alone has not solved the problem. The Maoist thrive on disenchantment of the deprived peasants across the country where the movement has considerable support. The vow to crush the Maoists has not made any impact as it involves mainly the carrot-and-stick policy. Another point that needs to be addressed is the make up and training of the central police to undertake such operations. The central police force is not exactly highly rated in fighting counter-insurgency warfare as the psychological make up of personnel is more fashioned to policing job. At the end of the day, the problem is backwardness and deprivation and therefore, the most appropriate strategy would be to open the channels for political dialogues as solution cannot be found in a security approach alone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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